U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Illinois (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 Illinois.

*** Trading Technologies International Assigned Patent for System and Method for Coalescing Market Data at a Network Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Trading Technologies International, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,352,344) developed by Jens-Uwe Schluetter, Evanston, Ill., and Stephen A. Schwartz, Chicago, for a "system and method for coalescing market data at a network device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network device coalesces data received from an exchange, and provides a user with the opportunity to receive fewer, but up-to-date, data updates from an exchange when duplicate prices become available or a large volume of prices becomes available suddenly. Accordingly, the trader can be assured of receiving non-duplicated prices that are fed at a rate that is cohesive with that trader's connection speed. The present invention is designed to conserve on bandwidth thereby increasing the likelihood that bandwidth will be available to receive desirable market information." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2012 (13/527,425). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,352,344&OS=8,352,344&RS=8,352,344 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Trading Technologies International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Trading Technologies International, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,352,356) developed by Simon Tam, Evanston, Ill., for a "system and method for quick quote configuration." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system are described for providing a trader with the ability to quickly configure the quoting side of a trading tool, without experiencing the normal delays associated with conventional methods of quoting. In spread trading, an automated spread trading tool may automatically work an order to buy or sell a tradeable object. A user may configure the trading tool to work an order in a certain tradeable object first. The system allows the user to essentially on-the-fly configure the trading tool to work a second order in another tradeable object, and in response to the change, the system can take specific actions such as deleting the order in the first tradeable object and automatically entering the second order in the other tradeable object. This allows the trader to trade quickly and efficiently." The patent application was filed on April 26, 2012 (13/457,344). 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=8,352,356&OS=8,352,356&RS=8,352,356 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** RealTick Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- RealTick, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,352,353) developed by Bevan Brookfield, Evanston, Ill., and Derek Gover, Glencoe, Ill., for a "method and system for maintaining trading accounts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Orders relating to a sale or purchase of securities are staged into an execution management system that includes a processor programmed to perform securities trading activities. Data describing the orders is stored in a database, which includes a neutral account. After the orders are staged into the execution management system, one or more of the orders, or portions thereof, are associated with one or more brokers for execution." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2009 (12/566,844). 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=8,352,353&OS=8,352,353&RS=8,352,353 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** General Instrument Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- General Instrument, Horsham, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,352,371) developed by Lee Proctor, Cary, Ill., for "limiting access to shared media content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The method shown in FIG. 4 continues with the iterative play cycles of the game, such as alternating moves between each player in the game. Player A operates a user interface on the game device 110A to select one of the content media items owned by Player A 236 to play during a move in the game (step 465). The user interface displays the selected content media item on the game device 110A which Player A operates (step 470) and sends a request to the game device 110B which Player B operates to reveal the selected content media item (step 475). The game device 110B which Player B operates receives the request (step 480) and reveals the selected content media item stored in the shared content media, such as in the shared content media items 238 shown in FIG. 2 (step 485)." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2008 (12/112,747). 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=8,352,371&OS=8,352,371&RS=8,352,371 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Xilinx Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,352,659) developed by four co-inventors for a "segmentation and reassembly of a data value communicated via interrupt transactions." The co-inventors are Henry E. Styles, Menlo Park, Calif., Richard S. Ballantyne, Stittsville, Calif., Mark Paluszkiewicz, Schaumburg, Ill., and Ralph D. Wittig, Menlo Park, Calif.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Approaches for communicating data from a source device to a target device. In one approach, a communicated data value is segmented into a plurality of data chunks at the source device. A sequence of interrupt transactions is transmitted from the source device to a system bus. The transmitting of each interrupt transaction in the sequence includes transmitting a target identifier on an address bus of the system bus, and the target identifier of each interrupt transaction in the sequence includes a respective one of the data chunks. The sequence of interrupt transactions from the system bus is received at the target device. The communicated data value is reassembled at the target device from the data chunks in the target identifier of the interrupt transactions in the sequence." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2009 (12/609,338). 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=8,352,659&OS=8,352,659&RS=8,352,659 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for System and Method of Monitoring Blackout Events ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,352,997) developed by five co-inventors for "system and method of monitoring blackout events." The co-inventors are Kenneth Ospalik, Plainfield, Ill., Daniel Malee, Wheaton, Ill., John Mathew, Mount Prospect, Ill., Marisa Earnshaw, Naugatuck, Conn., and Giya Tektumanidze, Riverwoods, Ill.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods of monitoring blackout events are provided. A particular method includes receiving a server blackout event associated with a scheduled blackout of a first media service. The method also includes receiving at least one client blackout event from at least one set top box (STB) affected by the scheduled blackout. For example, the server blackout event and the client blackout event(s) may be received at a subscriber event transmission interface (SETI). The method further includes storing the server blackout event and the client blackout event(s) at a data warehouse." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2008 (12/271,345). 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=8,352,997&OS=8,352,997&RS=8,352,997 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Citrix Systems Assigned Patent for System for and Method of Streaming Data to a Computer in a Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Citrix Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,352,624) developed by six co-inventors for a "system for and method of streaming data to a computer in a network." The co-inventors are Myron Zimmerman, Needham, Mass., Robert Lusinsky, Anaheim Hills, Calif., Gint Burokas, Orland Park, Ill., Mike Garelick, Oceanside, Calif., Marc Sandusky, Aliso Viejo, Calif., and Kenny Bunch, Chesapeake, Va.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for and method of rapidly streaming data to one or more client devices, such as personal computers (PC's) from a server employing virtual disk emulation and broadcasting or multicasting of data residing on a network server. In some embodiments, the streamed data includes files necessary to boot and configure the one or more client devices, the data including hibernation, O/S and application files." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2007 (11/957,929). 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=8,352,624&OS=8,352,624&RS=8,352,624 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Allvoices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Allvoices, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,352,455) developed by five co-inventors for a "processing a content item with regard to an event and a location." The co-inventors are Amra Q. Tareen, San Francisco, Sanjay C. Sood, Claremont, Calif., Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Evanston, Ill., Kristian J. Hammond, Chicago, and Erik Sundelof, Palo Alto, Calif.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention described herein can be implemented in numerous ways, including as a process; an apparatus; a system; a composition of matter; a computer program; a product embodied on a computer readable storage medium, e.g., RAM, ROM, and other hardware storage devices; and/or a processor, such as a processor configured to execute instructions stored on and/or provided by a memory coupled to the processor. In this specification, these implementations, or any other form that the invention may take, may be referred to as techniques. In general, the order of the steps of disclosed processes may be altered within the scope of the invention. Unless stated otherwise, a component such as a processor or a memory described as being configured to perform a task may be implemented as a general component that is temporarily configured to perform the task at a given time or a specific component that is manufactured to perform the task. As used herein, the term `processor` refers to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores configured to process data, such as computer program instructions." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/215,716). 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=83,52,455.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,455&RS=PN/83,52,455 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Travelport Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Travelport Development, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,352,454) developed by David Alan Falk, Evanston, Ill., Kevin Richard Bess, Wheaton, Ill., and Gregory Douglas Fast, Des Plaines, Ill., for a "system and method for performing data searches using multiple data search providers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided for performing data searches in response to a user request. The system has an application server that is configured to receive user requests, to send search requests based on the user requests, and to communicate with a plurality of search provider systems. The search provider systems each have searchable data and are configured to receive the search requests from the application server and generate search results in response to the search request. A rules manager resides on the application server and is configured to identify a set of search provider systems to send the search request to based on the user request. The method includes the steps of: receiving a user request; determining a set of search providers based on the user request; sending a search request to the set of search providers; receiving search results from at least one of the search providers; merging the search results received from the set of search providers; and sending the merged search results to the user." The patent application was filed on April 11, 2007 (11/734,077). 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=83,52,454.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,454&RS=PN/83,52,454 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,352,801) developed by Jacobus Van Der Merwe, New Providence, N.J., Matthew Chapman Caesar, Urbana, Ill., and Chia-Chi Lin, Urbana, Ill., for "systems, methods, and apparatus to debug a network application by utilizing a cloned network and an interactive debugging technique." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes instantiating a cloned network that includes a second set of virtual service nodes. The second set of virtual service nodes includes at least one cloned virtual service node that is a clone of a corresponding virtual service node in a first set of virtual service nodes. The at least one cloned virtual service node has access to a history of events that occurred at the corresponding virtual service node in the first set of virtual service nodes. The method includes initiating an interactive debugging session that includes step by step processing of the events of the history of events." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2012 (13/542,329). 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=8,352,801.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,801&RS=PN/8,352,801 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,352,853) developed by eight co-inventors for a "composer circuit and method for encoding device independent multi-modal content." The co-inventors are Angela Chang, Cambridge, Mass., Michael E. Caine, Needham, Mass., Edward A. Hirsch, Roxbury, Mass., Conor P. O'Sullivan, Chicago, Joonwoo Park, Chicago, Roberto Tagliabue, Beaverton, Ore., Tadeo T. Toulis, Boston, and Lisa Y. Yong, San Francisco.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided for encoding device independent multi-modal content including an arrangement comprising one or more of a plurality of tokens, where each token corresponds to a standard predefined effect. The method includes defining a token for one or more standard predefined effects, wherein the token is adapted for being mapped to one or more effect producing elements in a target device. One or more tokens are then composed for playback together as an arrangement." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2005 (11/171,075). 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=8,352,853.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,853&RS=PN/8,352,853 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Compressed Replay Buffer ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,786) developed by four co-inventors for a compressed replay buffer. The co-inventors are Herman L. Blackmon, Moline, Ill., Ryan S. Haraden, Rochester, Minn., Joseph A. Kirscht, Rochester, Minn., and Elizabeth A. McGlone, Rochester, Minn.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A compressed replay buffer in a first electronic unit of an electronic system holds commands in a table. As commands are transmitted from the first electronic unit to a second electronic unit, the command, along with associated data, command type, and the like are stored in a row in the table. No rows in the table contain "dead cycles" to indicate that no command was sent on a particular cycle on a bus over which the commands were transmitted. The second electronic unit may request that the first electronic unit replay some number of commands. In response, the first electronic unit uses commands in the compressed replay buffer, along with required timings stored on the first electronic unit, to replay the number of commands requested." The patent application was filed on July 20, 2010 (12/839,870). 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=8,352,786.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,786&RS=PN/8,352,786 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Cleversafe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Cleversafe, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,352,782) developed by five co-inventors for a "range based rebuilder for use with a dispersed data storage network." The co-inventors are Vance T. Thornton, Chicago, Jamie Bellanca, Chicago, Dustin M. Hendrickson, Biggsville, Ill., Zachary J. Mark, Chicago, and Ilya Volvovski, Chicago.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A message is generated by a computer operating on a dispersed data storage network indicating the inaccessibility of a plurality of data slices. A rebuilder application operates on the dispersed data storage grid and rebuilds inaccessible data slices, including those identified by the message." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2009 (12/648,691). 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=8,352,782.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,782&RS=PN/8,352,782 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Cleversafe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Cleversafe, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,352,831) developed by six co-inventors for a "digital content distribution utilizing dispersed storage." The co-inventors are S. Christopher Gladwin, Chicago, Kumar Abhijeet, Chicago, Greg Dhuse, Chicago, Jason K. Resch, Chicago, Gary W. Grube, Barrington Hills, Ill., and Timothy W. Markison, Mesa, Ariz.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method begins by a processing module determining whether to error encode broadcast data. The method continues with the processing module encoding a portion of the broadcast data using an error coding storage dispersal function to produce a set of encoded broadcast data slices, determining whether to compress the set of encoded broadcast data slices for the set of encoded broadcast data slices, and when the set of encoded broadcast data slices is to be compressed, selecting a subset of encoded broadcast data slices of the set of encoded broadcast data slices, when the broadcast data is to be error encoded." The patent application was filed on Oct. 13, 2010 (12/903,781). 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=8,352,831.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,831&RS=PN/8,352,831 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Cleversafe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Cleversafe, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,352,719) developed by Gary W. Grube, Barrington Hills, Ill., and Timothy W. Markison, Mesa, Ariz., for a "computing device booting utilizing dispersed storage." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computing device boot-up method begins by a processing module detecting a boot-up of the computing device. The method continues with the processing module addressing a distributed basic input/output system (BIOS) memory to retrieve a plurality of error coded BIOS data slices. The method continues with the processing module reconstructing BIOS data from the plurality of error coded BIOS data slices using an error coding dispersal function. The method continues with the computing device booting up in accordance with the BIOS data." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2010 (12/755,200). 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=8,352,719.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,719&RS=PN/8,352,719 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Data Processing System Memory Allocation ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,702) developed by four co-inventors for a "data processing system memory allocation." The co-inventors are Orlando O'Neill, Evanston, Ill., Brian Paul Sobocinski, Austin, Texas, Victor Anthony Garibay, Leander, Texas, and Natalie Ann Hawes, Round Rock, Texas.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a data processing system with multiple logical partitions that isolate memory resources for applications contained in the logical partitions. A method is provided for moving a specific memory quantity between two logical partitions by first computing a threshold amount. Then, if the specific memory quantity to be transferred is less than the threshold amount, removing the threshold amount from memory assigned in the first partition and adding the threshold amount to memory assigned in the second partition. However, if the specific memory quantity is greater than the threshold amount, the method provides for removing an amount equal to the threshold from memory assigned in the first partition and adding that threshold amount to memory assigned in the second partition and repeating the removing and adding steps until the specific memory quantity has been transferred." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2009 (12/640,233). 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=8,352,702.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,702&RS=PN/8,352,702 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Providing Autonomic Management of a Networked System for Using an Action-centric Approach ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,593) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for providing autonomic management of a networked system for using an action-centric approach." The co-inventors are Sandeep Madhav Uttamchandani, San Jose, Calif., Kaladhar Voruganti, San Jose, Calif., Sudarshan M. Srinivasan, Champaign, Ill., and David Allan Pease, Redwood Estates, Calif.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to the present invention, there is provided a SAN management system to provide autonomic management of a storage system using an action-centric approach. The SAN management system includes a policy specification logic block to maintain a policy specification associated with the managed system. In addition, the SAN management system includes a reasoning logic block to provide for the determining of action rules using a combination of logic and information obtained from the policy specification. Also, the SAN management system includes a learning logic block to couple the policy specification logic block with the reasoning logic block to improve an understanding of a managed system. The learning is continuous and provides for autonomic evolvement of the system in which reliance on manual input from a user is lessened." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2010 (12/764,865). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,352,593&OS=8,352,593&RS=8,352,593 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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