U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Arizona (Feb. 20)

(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Arizona.

*** Vital Source Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- Vital Source Technologies, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,380,715) developed by William M. Abrams, Searcy, Ark., and Ricky Lee Johnson, Scottsdale, Ariz., for a "system, method and computer program product for managing and organizing pieces of content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for managing and organizing content includes a source capable of operating at least one application (i.e., content manager, taxonomy manager, etc.). The application(s) are capable of providing a plurality of pieces of content and a plurality of master taxonomies, each master taxonomy including at least one piece of content placed at one or more locations. After providing the pieces of content and the master taxonomies, the application(s) can identify a subset of the pieces of content and at least one master taxonomy, where the subset includes at least one piece of content. The application(s) can then generate at least one client taxonomy based upon the identified subset and the master taxonom(ies) such that the subset of the pieces of content can thereafter be organized in the client taxonom(ies). The system can also include a client capable of organizing the subset in the client taxonom(ies)." The patent application was filed on June 4, 2004 (10/860,994). 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=83,80,715.PN.&OS=PN/83,80,715&RS=PN/83,80,715 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for First Data Capture through Generic Message Monitoring ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,380,729) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for first data capture through generic message monitoring." The co-inventors are Arthur J. Bariska Jr., Tucson, Ariz., Marc A. Martin, Tucson, Ariz., David C. Reed, Tucson, Ariz., Max D. Smith, Tucson, Ariz., and Thaiese N. Trader, Tucson, Ariz.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a method for handling an error message includes interrogating an error message issued by a computing system to determine that the error message includes more than an alarm message, determining a message identifier relating to the error message, comparing the message identifier to entries in a database to determine an entry in the database that includes the message identifier, and outputting a set of documentation referenced by the entry in the database which includes the message identifier. In another embodiment, the database includes a plurality of searchable entries, each entry including: a message identifier, a product identifier, a set of documentation, and a set of actions. The set of documentation includes documents for the computing system to output and the set of actions includes actions for the computing system to perform. Other methods, systems, and computer program products are also described according to various embodiments." The patent application was filed on June 4, 2010 (12/794,631). 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=83,80,729.PN.&OS=PN/83,80,729&RS=PN/83,80,729 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Transferring Data from a Primary Data Replication Appliance in a Primary Data Facility to a Secondary Data Replication Appliance in a Secondary Data Facility ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,380,686) developed by five co-inventors for "transferring data from a primary data replication appliance in a primary data facility to a secondary data replication appliance in a secondary data facility." The co-inventors are John J. Wolfgang, Winston-Salem, N.C., Kenneth F. Day III, Tucson, Ariz., Philip M. Doatmas, Tucson, Ariz., Henry E. Butterworth, Eastleigh, United Kingdom, and Carlos F. Fuente, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus are provided for copying data from a primary storage facility to a secondary storage facility which reduce the workload on the storage controller in the primary facility and minimize bandwidth usage. The primary storage facility includes a primary data replication appliance which transfers data to a secondary replication appliance. Updated data from a host is both stored through a storage controller in the primary facility and also received by the primary replication appliance. Logic in the primary replication appliance determines whether the immediately previous version of the data is in a buffer from a previous storage operation. If so, the current (updated) version of the data is compared with the previous version and the difference, such as calculated through a bit-wise exclusive-OR operation, is transferred to the secondary replication appliance. The process is reversed in the secondary replication appliance and the recreated updated version of the data stored in the secondary facility." The patent application was filed on March 14, 2005 (11/080,871). 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=83,80,686.PN.&OS=PN/83,80,686&RS=PN/83,80,686 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Data Migration to High Speed Storage in Accordance with I/O Activity Over Time ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,380,891) developed by Joseph Smith Hyde II, Tucson, Ariz., and Bruce McNutt, Tucson, Ariz., for a "data migration to high speed storage in accordance with I/O activity over time." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, controllers for data storage, data storage systems, and computer program products are directed to migrating data after the initial placement of the data in data storage entities having higher speed and in other data storage. Steps of a method to migrate data to the higher speed data storage are (1) identifying at least one group of data having had at least one I/O activity in each of a plurality of intervals of time, occurring over a string of multiple intervals of time, wherein the I/O activity is with respect to the other data storage from which data is to be migrated. The time for each of the multiple intervals is selected such that bursts of the I/O activity are likely to be contained in one interval. (2) The identified group of data is classified to the higher speed data storage and migrated." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2012 (13/421,715). 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=8,380,891&OS=8,380,891&RS=8,380,891 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Fan Chiang Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- Fan Chiang Holdings, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,380,862) developed by eight co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for user-specific website claiming." The co-inventors are Dean Hiller, Shrub Oak, N.Y., James McCrossin, San Jose, Calif., Steven J. Marks, San Jose, Calif., Peter K. Petterson, San Jose, Calif., Karen Janowski, Los Altos, Calif., Raymond J. Holland, Scottsdale, Ariz., Mor Hezi, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Byron Stephen Lee, San Jose, Calif.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for claiming a user-specific website associated to a user's telephone number is disclosed. The present invention provides for user identity verification through telephone number detection. The user-specific website requested is associated to the telephone number of the requesting user. This prevents the potential for anonymity, which is found in present methods. Potential users must "authenticate" that they have access to the phone number of the website that they are attempting to claim. Website claiming can be done by first requesting a user-specific website online and then accessing the system's telephone service for phone number verification. In the alternative, website claiming can be performed by first calling the system phone number for phone verification, followed by online website claim completion." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2000 (09/728,107). 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=8,380,862&OS=8,380,862&RS=8,380,862 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Limelight Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- Limelight Networks, Tempe, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,380,851) developed by five co-inventors for a "domain name resolution resource allocation." The co-inventors are Nils H. McCarthy, Phoenix, Brad B. Harvell, Chandler, Ariz., Lee A. Stafford, Phoenix, Gary S. Baldus, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Michael M. Gordon, Paradise Valley, Ariz.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content delivery network (CDN) for delivering content over the Internet is disclosed in one embodiment. The CDN includes a domain resolution service (DNS) server, caching servers and an Internet interface. The caching servers correspond to a plurality of addresses. The DNS server receives two domain resolution requests corresponding to a same domain and produces two different DNS solutions, each corresponding to a subset of caching servers. The interface receives domain resolution requests, including the two domain resolution requests, and transmits DNS solutions, including the two DNS solutions. The processing power is generally matched between the two DNS solutions." The patent application was filed on May 3, 2012 (13/462,899). 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=8,380,851&OS=8,380,851&RS=8,380,851 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Assigned Patent for Computer-implemented Multi-resource Shared Lock ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- International Business, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,381,308) developed by Larry Juarez, Tucson, Ariz., Kenny Nian Gan Qiu, Tucson, Ariz., and David Victorino Valverde, Tucson, Ariz., for a "computer-implemented multi-resource shared lock." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment of a computer-implemented system, comprising a plurality of computer entities and multiple resources, one of the computer entities may request a multi-resource lock to one of the multiple resources; the one resource determines whether a resource lock is available at the one resource and, if so, the one resource communicates with all peer resources to determine whether a resource lock is available; if the peer resources indicate a resource lock is available, lock all of the resources to the requesting computer entity, and the one resource communicates the lock of the resources to the requesting computer entity; and if any the resource indicates contention for the multi-resource lock, the one resource communicates the contention to the requesting computer entity, and the requesting computer entity backs off the multi-resource lock request and, after a random time interval, repeats the request." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2009 (12/473,215). 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=8,381,308&OS=8,381,308&RS=8,381,308 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Cleversafe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- Cleversafe, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,381,025) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for dispersed storage memory device selection." The co-inventors are Steven Mark Hoffman, 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 when a dispersed storage (DS) processing unit of a DS unit has at least one of DS unit operational data and DS unit operating system algorithm to store. The method continues with the DS processing unit encoding at least a portion of the at least one of DS unit operational data and DS unit operating system algorithm in accordance with an error coding dispersal storage function to produce a plurality of data slices. The method continues with the DS processing unit storing at least some of the plurality of data slices in memory devices of the DS unit in accordance with the error coding dispersal storage function." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2010 (12/778,663). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,381,025.PN.&OS=PN/8,381,025&RS=PN/8,381,025 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Apparatus, System, and Method for Dynamic Module Flow Analysis ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,381,185) developed by four co-inventors for an "apparatus, system, and method for dynamic module flow analysis." The co-inventors are Neil Everett Bohling, Tucson, Ariz., Douglas Lee Lehr, Tucson, Ariz., David Charles Reed, Tucson, Ariz., and Max Douglas Smith, Tucson, Ariz.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for analyzing code paths. In one embodiment, a starting point for one or more code paths within a listing of code is specified. The starting point may include code from which one or more code paths flow. An ending point is also specified for one or more code paths within the code, wherein the ending point includes code that is reachable via one or more of the code paths flowing from the starting point. Each code path flowing from the starting point to the ending point is determined by analyzing the listing of code without execution of the code. Information about the determined code paths is provided to a user." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2009 (12/415,713). 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=8,381,185&OS=8,381,185&RS=8,381,185 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Apparatus, System, and Method for Specifying Intermediate CRC Locations in a Data Stream ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,381,067) developed by Roger G. Hathorn, Tucson, Ariz., Matthew J. Kalos, Tucson, Ariz., and Louis W. Ricci, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for an "apparatus, system, and method for specifying intermediate CRC locations in a data stream." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for determining the location of intermediate CRC in a data stream sent from a channel subsystem to a control unit of an I/O processing system. A CRC locating module determines the location of at least one intermediate CRC in a transport data information unit. A CRC offset module determines a CRC offset of the at least one intermediate CRC. The CRC offset is a value identifying the difference between the location of the at least one intermediate CRC and the location of the first byte of user data in the transport data information unit. An offset block creation module creates a CRC offset block which includes a CRC offset value for each of the at least one intermediate CRC within the transport data information unit and a transmission module transmits the COB to a control unit in the I/O processing system." The patent application was filed on Jan. 29, 2010 (12/697,025). 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=8,381,067.PN.&OS=PN/8,381,067&RS=PN/8,381,067 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,381,065) developed by Ivan B. Djordjevic, Tucson, Ariz., Lei Xu, Princeton Junction, N.J., and Ting Wang, Princeton, N.J., for a "modified progressive edge-growth LDPC codes for ultra-high-speed serial optical transport." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods enabling ultra-high-speed optical transport The systems and methods include receiving a modulated, encoded input stream. Channel impairments are removed using MAP equalization. Symbols are detected in the input stream to produce a stream of encoded data. The stream of encoded data is decoded with one or more low density parity check (LDPC) decoders that use an LDPC code built by modified progressive edge growth. The LDPC code is built by iteratively expanding trees from each variable node until all check nodes are connected to the respective variable node, while controlling both the local girth and the global girth of the code." The patent application was filed on Oct. 1, 2010 (12/896,524). 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=8,381,065.PN.&OS=PN/8,381,065&RS=PN/8,381,065 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Apparatus, System, and Method for Visual Log Analysis ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,381,193) developed by Ezequiel Cervantes, Tucson, Ariz., for an "apparatus, system, and method for visual log analysis." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for visual log analysis. The apparatus for visual log analysis is provided with a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of retrieving log entries from a plurality of devices on a network, parsing the log entries to determine an execution flow of commands executed of the network, and displaying a graphical representation of such execution on the network. These modules in the described embodiments include a log consolidation module, a parsing module, and a display module." The patent application was filed on Sept. 6, 2007 (11/851,257). 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=8,381,193&OS=8,381,193&RS=8,381,193 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

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