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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (Jan. 23)
[January 23, 2013]

U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (Jan. 23)


(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Dynamic Creation of Privileges to Secure System Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,635) developed by Saurabh Desai, Austin, Texas, and Murali Vaddagiri, Karnataka, India, for a "system and method for dynamic creation of privileges to secure system services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and program product is provided that allows new privileges to be dynamically added to an operating system. Entities are assigned roles and these roles are associated with various authorizations. Authorizations are associated with privileges, including the new privilege. A request is received to dynamically add the new privilege to the operating system. The operating system then dynamically adds the new privilege to the system. A software service is installed that requires the new privilege. A request to execute the installed software service is received from an entity that is running on the operating system. The operating system allows the entity to execute the installed software service in response to determining that the entity has been granted the privilege. However, if the entity has not been granted the new privilege, then the operating system inhibits execution of the software service by the entity." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2008 (12/036,318). 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=8,359,635&OS=8,359,635&RS=8,359,635 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.



*** United States Automobile Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- United States Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,359,639) developed by Arthur Quentin Smith, Fredericksburg, Texas, and Ronnie Allen Eichler, San Antonio, for "systems and methods for increased security during logging in to web site." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A user at a computing device interacts with a networked site so that the user can log in thereto. The site receives a selection to log in and in response downloads at least one replacing driver for bypassing a corresponding driver operating on the computing device that may possibly copy log-in data including authentication credentials as entered by the user. Each replacing driver is loaded into an operating system of the computing device so as to bypass the corresponding possibly copying driver and be employed in the operating system rather than such corresponding bypassed driver. The site then delivers a log-in screen to a presentation application of the computing device after each replacing driver has been loaded. The presentation application displays the log-in screen and the user enters the log-in data thereinto. Accordingly, each non-trusted and bypassed driver is unable to copy the entered log-in data." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2011 (13/310,363). 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=8,359,639&OS=8,359,639&RS=8,359,639 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Managing Set Top Boxes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,359,625) developed by four co-inventors for an "apparatus and method for managing set top boxes." The co-inventors are Scott White, Austin, Texas, James Cansler, Pflugerville, Texas, Gerard Edwards, Lansing, N.Y., and Loraine Sanchez, San Antonio.


The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box having a controller to eliminate a scheduled recording of a targeted media program, where the scheduled recording is a redundant recording of the targeted media program that is determined based upon monitoring of recordings of media programs by a group of set top boxes in communication with each other over a network, where another set top box of the group of set top boxes is designated as a host set top box to record the targeted media program, and where the controller is provided access to the targeted media program by the host set top box. Other embodiments are disclosed." The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2007 (11/855,677). 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=8,359,625&OS=8,359,625&RS=8,359,625 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Round Rock Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Round Rock Research, Mt. Kisco, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (RE43,940) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for RFID communication." The co-inventors are Mark E. Tuttle, Boise, Idaho, Rickie C. Lake, Meridian, Idaho, Steven F. Schicht, Austin, Texas, and John R. Tuttle, Longmont, Colo.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "[.A plurality of battery-operated transceivers encapsulated by lamination to form a sheet of independent transceivers is tested in a two piece fixture that forms an enclosure surrounding each in-sheet transceiver. Each enclosure has an antenna for transmitting a command signal to the transceiver at a known power level and for receiving a reply message from the transceiver containing a power level measurement made by the transceiver. Test methods using the fixture of the present invention are also described..]. .Iadd.An RFID tag and interrogator may each include a transmitter and a receiver. The tag and interrogator may communicate with each other at different frequency bands and may communicate in accordance with a wireless communication protocol..Iaddend." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2007 (11/864,715). 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=RE43,940&OS=RE43,940&RS=RE43,940 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Technical Support Routing among Members of a Technical Support Group ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,220) developed by four co-inventors for a "technical support routing among members of a technical support group." The co-inventors are Paul A. Boothe, Austin, Texas, Mioses Cases, Austin, Texas, Bhyrav M. Mutnury, Austin, Texas, and William G. Pagan, Durham, N.C.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Computer-implemented methods, apparatus and products for technical support routing among members of a technical support group, including maintaining, by a configuration manager, a system configuration history of a user's computer system, the system configuration history including historical records of changes in configuration of the user's computer system; receiving, by a technical support module, a support request identifying a current error that occurred during operation of the user's computer system including receiving information describing the error and the system configuration history of the user's computer system; and routing, by the technical support module automatically without human intervention, the support request to one or more particular members of the technical support group in dependence upon the information describing the error and the system configuration history." The patent application was filed on May 21, 2008 (12/124,772). 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=83,59,220.PN.&OS=PN/83,59,220&RS=PN/83,59,220 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Helper Thread for Pre-fetching Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,589) developed by Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Juan C. Rubio, Austin, Texas, and Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for a "helper thread for pre-fetching data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A set of helper thread binaries is created to retrieve data used by a set of main thread binaries. If executing a portion of the set of helper thread binaries results in the retrieval of data needed by the set of main thread binaries, then that retrieved data is utilized by the set of main thread binaries." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2008 (12/024,191). 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=8,359,589&OS=8,359,589&RS=8,359,589 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Ecova Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Ecova, Portland, Ore., has been assigned a patent (8,359,215) developed by Michael S. Robbins, Dallas, and Robert L. Hart Jr., Olympia, Wash., for a "system and method for managing utility resources based on normalized utility usage." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system comprises a memory that stores weather data associated with a site. The system further comprises a processor that determines a balance point of the site based at least in part on the weather data. The processor may determine an amount of utility usage at the site during a particular time period. The processor may normalize the amount of utility usage based at least in part on the balance point and the weather data. The processor may generate a graphical user interface that displays the balance point and the normalized amount of utility usage." The patent application was filed on July 11, 2008 (12/171,885). 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=83,59,215.PN.&OS=PN/83,59,215&RS=PN/83,59,215 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** DT Labs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- DT Labs, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,271) developed by Douglas Peckover, Addison, Texas, for an "apparatus for customer authentication of an item." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus is provided for authentication of an item or a label by storing unique random serial numbers or codes in a remote secure storage that can be used to authenticate the item or the label, generating a pointer to each stored unique random serial number/code and storing the generated pointer(s) in a client data storage. During or prior to a production run of the item(s) or label(s): the generated pointer(s) are sent from the client data storage to one or more media devices, the generated pointer(s) are obtained from the media device using a post-content manager, the unique random serial number(s)/code(s) are obtained from the server via the post-content manager using the generated pointer(s), the obtained unique random serial number(s)/code(s) are sent to the media device, and the received unique random serial number(s)/code(s) are imprinted on the item(s) or the label(s) using the media device." The patent application was filed on March 1, 2011 (13/038,304). 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=83,59,271.PN.&OS=PN/83,59,271&RS=PN/83,59,271 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Horizon Digital Finance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Horizon Digital Finance, Irving, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,264) developed by Dale Lowell Peterson, Keller, Texas, Gregory Todd Thibodeau, Roanoke, Texas, and John South, Grapevine, Texas, for a "system and method for matching loan consumers and lenders." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for matching a loan consumer with lenders via the Internet includes receiving loan consumer application information. The application information is stored in a database. An internally specified filter is applied to the information to determine if the loan consumer meets a set of loan criteria. A subset of the information is submitted to a credit bureau. A credit report is generated based on the subset of information. A lender database is searched to match the customer information and credit report to ranked lenders. A query is transmitted to one of the lenders. A response is generated and received based on the query. Subsequent query and response steps are repeated only after receipt of the previous response, until all lenders have been queried. Only lenders who responded with an approval are presented for review by the customer." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2011 (13/329,972). 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=83,59,264.PN.&OS=PN/83,59,264&RS=PN/83,59,264 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Adaptive Scripting Tool ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,570) developed by four co-inventors for an adaptive scripting tool. The co-inventors are Qinhua Wang, Austin, Texas, Lavena Chan, Austin, Texas, John Y. Chang, Austin, Texas, and Matt M. Ranjbar, Austin, Texas.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A meta-data driven adaptive scripting tool which employs a framework across clients and servers to achieve dynamic binding for user defined commands at runtime and support different scripting languages residing in a heterogeneous distributed network. In a preferred embodiment the Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) defines the unified extension mechanism used, the meta-data associated with commands is in XML format, and the adaptive scripting tool is written in Java." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2008 (12/056,160). 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=8,359,570&OS=8,359,570&RS=8,359,570 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Barnard Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Chas G. Barnard, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,256) developed by Chas G. Barnard, for a short sale information.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and computer program product are provided for short sale information. Short sale information, including short interest in a security, from at least one source is stored in a database. Short sale volumes of shares are calculated for the security by summing a volume of shares associated with each short sale for each time unit during a time period. A graph is generated by plotting each short sale volume of shares associated with a time unit on a horizontal axis, plotting volume of shares on one vertical axis, and plotting a closing price for the security for each time unit on another vertical axis. A report that includes the graph is output via a user interface to an investor, prompting the investor to purchase security shares based on the graph depicting an increase in the short sale volume of shares and a corresponding decrease in the closing price." The patent application was filed on March 11, 2010 (12/722,098). 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=83,59,256.PN.&OS=PN/83,59,256&RS=PN/83,59,256 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Resolving Double Patterning Conflicts ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,556) developed by Rani S. Abou Ghaida, Mount Kisco, N.Y., and Kanak B. Agarwal, Austin, Texas, for "resolving double patterning conflicts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism is provided for resolving patterning conflicts. The mechanism performs decomposition with stitches at all candidate locations to find the solution with the minimum number of conflicts. The mechanism then defines interactions between a layout of a first mask and a layout of a second mask through design rules, as well as interactions of mask1/mask2 with top and bottom layers (i.e., contacts, vial, etc.). The mechanism then gives the decomposed layout and design rule definition to any existing design rule fixing or layout compaction tool to solve native conflicts. The modified design rules are that same-layer spacing equals spacing of single patterning, different-layer spacing equals spacing of final layout, and layer overlap equals minimum overlap length." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2011 (13/171,530). 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=8,359,556&OS=8,359,556&RS=8,359,556 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Q2 Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Q2 Software, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,266) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for an inter-financial institution transactional network." The co-inventors are Robert Henry Seale III, Dripping Springs, Texas, Anthony M. Flagg, Austin, Texas, James C. Clay, Cedar Park, Texas, and Adam D. Anderson, Austin, Texas.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for conducting transactions across financial institutions are presented. More specifically, in one embodiment a financial transaction center may be provided such that transactions may be coordinated and controlled utilizing the financial transaction center. The financial transaction center may determine a financial institution associated received requests and issue requests to financial institutions. By coordinating the fulfillment of transactions between financial institutions through the financial transaction center a level of abstraction may be introduced whereby transactions may be conducted across financial intuitions without knowledge of host systems at the financial institutions or overly compromising the privacy or security of these host systems." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2010 (12/754,876). 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=83,59,266.PN.&OS=PN/83,59,266&RS=PN/83,59,266 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Sychron Advanced Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Sychron Advanced Technologies, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,594) developed by Thomas James Davidson, Austin, Texas, Jonathan Mark Harper Nash, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, and Vasil Petrov Vasilev, London, for an "automated rapid virtual machine provisioning system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments disclosed herein utilize Habitats to perform incremental updates on virtual machines (VMs) over time. A VM Habitat comprises a collection of VMs and a specification shared between these VMs. Each Habitat specification may define an image name, processing power, etc. A Habitat specification may exist across a cluster of servers. In some embodiments, to dynamically update a Habitat specification, only "spare" VMs in the Habitat are updated, subject to some scheduling parameters and server concurrency limit. As spare VMs are updated, they move towards the new Habitat specification. Eventually, all VMs reach this goal over time, given sufficient spare VM resources. This approach can allow the service provided by the VMs to remain operational, thus maintaining the service level required for its users. This automated process can also eliminate or otherwise reduce human error either in the server removal/insertion from/to the cluster or in the VM update itself." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2010 (12/789,196). 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=8,359,594&OS=8,359,594&RS=8,359,594 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** National Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- National Instruments, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,567) developed by four co-inventors for "timing wires in a graphical program." The co-inventors are Jacob Kornerup, Austin, Texas, Jeffrey L. Kodosky, Austin, Texas, Hugo A. Andrade, Austin, Texas, Biren Shah, Austin, Texas, Aljosa Vrancic, Austin, Texas, and Michael L. Santori, Austin, Texas.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for specifying timing relationships among nodes in a graphical program. User input specifying desired timing of a first node with respect to timing of a second node may be received. In various embodiments, any kind of timing relationship or timing constraint between the first node and the second node may be specified. Timing information may be displayed on the display to visually indicate the timing of the first node with respect to timing of the second node. In one embodiment, displaying the timing information may comprise displaying a timing wire between the first node and the second node. The graphical program may be executed in such a way that the visually indicated timing of the first node with respect to timing of the second node is satisfied." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2007 (11/742,528). 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=8,359,567&OS=8,359,567&RS=8,359,567 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,415) developed by four co-inventors for a "multi-root I/O virtualization using separate management facilities of multiple logical partitions." The co-inventors are Aaron C. Brown, Austin, Texas, Douglas M. Freimuth, New York, Renato J. Recio, Austin, Texas, and Steven M. Thurber, Austin, Texas.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Mechanisms are provided for implementing a multi-root PCI manager (MR-PCIM) in a multi-root I/O virtualization management partition (MR-IMP) to control the shared functionality of an multi-root I/O virtualization (IOV) enabled switch fabric and multi-root IOV enabled I/O adapter (IOA) through the base functions (BF) of the switches and IOAs. A hypervisor provides device-independent facilities to the code running in the I/O Virtualization Management Partition (IMP), Multi-Root (MR)-IMP and client partitions. The MR-IMP may include device specific code without the hypervisor needing to sacrifice its size, robustness, and upgradeability. The hypervisor provides the virtual intermediary functionally for the sharing and control of the switch and IOA's control functions." The patent application was filed on May 5, 2008 (12/114,989). 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=8,359,415&OS=8,359,415&RS=8,359,415 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,359,398) developed by Saul J. Edwards, San Francisco, Shirish Rai, Austin, Texas, and Christine Tomlinson, Austin, Texas, for an "efficient proxying of messages." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Efficiently processing messages at a proxy without intermediary copying increases a proxy's capabilities since fewer resources are expended on operations, such as intermediary copying. A proxy determines which data of a message received into memory will be maintained. The proxy indicates, in an ordered encoding, locations of the determined data and of update data. The update data may be a new message segment, session identifier, etc. The ordered encoding, which indicates the data in order as they will occur in the forwarded message, is used to forward the message with the maintained data and the update data." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2004 (10/760,747). 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=8,359,398&OS=8,359,398&RS=8,359,398 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,386) developed by Vaden A. Mohrmann, Round Rock, Texas, and Madhusudhan Rangarajan, Round Rock, Texas, for a "system and method of migrating virtualized environments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method migrating virtualized environments is disclosed. According to an aspect of the disclosure, the information handling system can include a migration monitor configured to initiate migration of a remote virtualized environment operating on a first remote system. The information handling system can also include a trusted platform module including a local memory storing a plurality of access keys configured to enable use of a plurality of virtualized environments. According to an aspect, the plurality of access keys can include a first access key configured to be used with a first remote system. The information handling system can also include a secure communication channel configured to enable a mapping of the first access key to a second remote system upon the migration monitoring determining the second remote system is capable of satisfying an operating characteristic of the remote virtualized environment." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2009 (12/425,094). 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=8,359,386&OS=8,359,386&RS=8,359,386 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,366) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for providing a desktop image to an information handling system." The co-inventors are Fahd Pirzada, Austin, Texas, Gaurav Chawla, Austin, Texas, Stephen Gouze Luning, Austin, Texas, and Yuan-Chang Lo, Austin, Texas.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An information handling system (IHS) is provided in the context of providing a desktop image. The IHS may include a storage device and a client device. The IHS may also include a management server configured to establish communication between the storage device and the client device. In addition, the client device may be configured to boot directly from the storage device and wherein the data communication occurs only between the storage device and the client device." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2009 (12/564,123). 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=8,359,366&OS=8,359,366&RS=8,359,366 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Presenting Calendar Events with Presence Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,359,356) developed by Steven M. Belz, Cedar Park, Texas, Marc Sullivan, Austin, Texas, and James Pratt, Round Rock, Texas, for "presenting calendar events with presence information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a presence system having a controller to transmit to a calendar system presence information of a subscriber of the presence system for recording said presence information in a calendar event. Other embodiments are disclosed." The patent application was filed on June 20, 2008 (12/143,178). 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=8,359,356&OS=8,359,356&RS=8,359,356 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Texas A&M University System Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,522) developed by Kiran K. Gunnam, San Jose, Calif., and Gwan S. Choi, College Station, Texas, for a "low density parity check decoder for regular LDPC codes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for decoding low density parity check ("LDPC") codes. An LDPC decoder includes an R select unit, a Q message first-in first-out ("FIFO") memory, and a cyclic shifter. The R select unit provides an R message by selecting from a plurality of possible R message values. The Q message memory stores a Q message until an R message is generated by a CNU, the Q message and the R message are combined to provide a P message. The cyclic shifter shifts the P message." The patent application was filed on May 1, 2008 (12/113,729). 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=8,359,522.PN.&OS=PN/8,359,522&RS=PN/8,359,522 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Visa USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Visa USA, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,359,474) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for secure authentication." The co-inventors are Robert W. Seaton Jr., Austin, Texas, Terence Spielman, Austin, Texas, Penny Cornwell, Austin, Texas, Neal Blackwood, Austin, Texas, and Michael T. Clay, Austin, Texas.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method configured to provide secure Personal Identification Number (PIN) based authentication is disclosed. A passcode or PIN associated with a customer value card can be securely authenticated by an issuer prior to authorizing payment. An Access Control Server (ACS) can receive the PIN or passcode from a customer via a secure connection over a public network. The ACS can generate an encrypted PIN and can communicate the encrypted PIN to a remote issuer for authentication. The ACS can use one or more hardware security modules to generate the encrypted PIN. The hardware security modules can be emulated in software or implemented in hardware. The system can be configured such that the PIN is not exposed in an unencrypted form in a communication link or in hardware other than the originating customer terminal." The patent application was filed on March 1, 2010 (12/715,327). 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=8,359,474.PN.&OS=PN/8,359,474&RS=PN/8,359,474 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,359,542) developed by David M. Dingeman, Cedar Hill, Texas, and Dave G. Parsons, Forth Worth, Texas, for "machines, program products, and computer-implemented methods for interactive aircraft performance substantiation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An interactive aircraft performance substantiation is provided by determining maneuvers for a user-selected aircraft, determining operation and performance variables for a user-selected maneuver, displaying a scale graphic representation of the user-selected aircraft according to aircraft dimensions, displaying load selection fields according to aircraft dimensions and load-sites dimensions, interactively updating the scale graphic representation of the user-selected aircraft to include an oriented graphic representation of a user-selected load according to the aircraft dimensions, load dimensions, and load-site dimensions, interactively determining mass properties of the user-selected aircraft according to the aircraft dimensions, the load dimensions, and the load-site dimensions; receiving operation properties for the user-selected maneuver corresponding to the operation variables; and displaying an aircraft performance substantiation responsive to determining performance properties of the user-selected aircraft according to the mass properties thereof and the operation properties thereof, the performance properties corresponding to the performance variables." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2010 (12/856,318). 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=8,359,542.PN.&OS=PN/8,359,542&RS=PN/8,359,542 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Optimization of Software Instruction Cache by Line Re-ordering ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,435) developed by six co-inventors for an "optimization of software instruction cache by line re-ordering." The co-inventors are Revital Erez, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Brian Flachs, Georgetown, Texas, Mark Richard Nutter, Austin, Texas, John Kevin Patrick O'Brien, South Salem, N.Y., Ulrich Weigand, Holzgerlingen, Germany, and Ayal Zaks, Misgav, Israel.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for computing includes executing a program, including multiple cacheable lines of executable code, on a processor having a software-managed cache. A run-time cache management routine running on the processor is used to assemble a profile of inter-line jumps occurring in the software-managed cache while executing the program. Based on the profile, an optimized layout of the lines in the code is computed, and the lines of the program are re-ordered in accordance with the optimized layout while continuing to execute the program." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2009 (12/639,010). 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=8,359,435.PN.&OS=PN/8,359,435&RS=PN/8,359,435 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Prioritizing Virtual Real Memory Paging Based on Disk Capabilities ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,449) developed by Mathew Accapadi, Austin, Texas, Dirk Michel, Austin, Texas, and Bret Ronald Olszewski, Austin, Texas, for "prioritizing virtual real memory paging based on disk capabilities." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method manages memory paging operations. Responsive to a request to page out a memory page from a shared memory pool, the method identifies whether a physical space within one of a number of paging space devices has been allocated for the memory page. If physical space within the paging space device has not been allocated for the memory page, a page priority indicator for the memory page is identified. The memory page is then allocated to one of a number of memory pools within one of the number of paging space devices. The memory page is allocated one of the memory pools according to the page priority indicator of the memory page. The memory page is then written to the allocated memory pools." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2009 (12/640,733). 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=8,359,449.PN.&OS=PN/8,359,449&RS=PN/8,359,449 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Nvidia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Nvidia, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,359,454) developed by David B. Glasco, Austin, Texas, and John S. Montrym, Los Altos Hills, Calif., for a "memory access techniques providing for override of page table attributes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory access technique, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, includes selectively overriding attributes contained in a translation lookaside buffer or page table data structure with attributes contained in a context specifier." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2006 (11/586,825). 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=8,359,454.PN.&OS=PN/8,359,454&RS=PN/8,359,454 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Text Type-ahead ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,532) developed by five co-inventors for a text type-ahead. The co-inventors are Yen-Fu Chen, Austin, Texas, Fabian F. Morgan, Austin, Texas, Brian M. O'Connell, Cary, N.C., Keith R. Walker, Austin, Texas, and Sarah V. White Eagle, Austin, Texas.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and arrangements of text entry are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to index segments of text from multiple sources and receive segments of text being entered into text-entry applications in a floating application. The embodiments may also involve matching the segments of text to indexed segments of text and entering completions of the received segments of text into the text-entry applications. The completions may be based upon the matching, and the completion of a segment may be entered into the text-entry application from which it was received." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2008 (12/111,191). 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=8,359,532.PN.&OS=PN/8,359,532&RS=PN/8,359,532 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,502) developed by Gary L. Swoboda, Sugar Land, Texas, and Robert A. McGowan, Sugar Land, Texas, for a "TDI multiplexer gating controlled by override selection logic." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system comprises a plurality of components, scan chain selection logic coupled to the components, and override selection logic coupled to the scan chain selection logic. The scan chain selection logic selects various of the components to be members of a scan chain under the direction of a host computer. The override selection logic detects a change in the scan chain and, as a result, blocks the entire scan chain from progressing." The patent application was filed on Aug. 1, 2012 (13/564,339). 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=8,359,502.PN.&OS=PN/8,359,502&RS=PN/8,359,502 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Scheduling Method and System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,353) developed by Randy Scott Johnson, O Fallon, Mo., Tedrick Neal Northway, Wood River, Ill., and William Alexander Smith, Austin, Texas, for "scheduling method and system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A scheduling method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system first data and second data associated with a user. The first data comprises user identification associated, an activity selection for an activity, and first scheduling information. The second data comprises geographical preference data. The computing system determines facilities associated with the activity. The facilities are located within boundaries specified by the geographical preference data. The computing system generates tentative reservations for the user at each facility. The computing system presents the tentative reservations data to the user. The computing system receives verification data from the user. The computing system posts the tentative reservations data in a social networking environment. The computing system stores the tentative reservations data." The patent application was filed on Feb. 11, 2009 (12/369,073). 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=8,359,353&OS=8,359,353&RS=8,359,353 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Freescale Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,359,346) developed by Brian C. Grayson, Austin, Texas, Leick D. Robinson, Round Rock, Texas, and Benjamin M. Menchaca, Pflugerville, Texas, for a "hash function for hardware implementations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A logic block is presented that generates avalanche criterion hash values using minimal logic. The logic block includes a first exclusive-OR function, a second exclusive-OR function, and an OR function. The first exclusive-OR function receives two input bits from a data packet and generates a linear output value based upon exclusive disjunction between the two input bits. The OR function receives two different input bits from the data packet and generates a first nonlinear output value based upon logical disjunction between the two different input bits. The second exclusive-OR function receives the linear output value and the first nonlinear output value, and generates a second nonlinear output value based upon exclusive disjunction between the linear output value and the first nonlinear output value. In turn, the second nonlinear output value is utilized to generate a hash value for the data packet." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2009 (12/612,757). 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=8,359,346&OS=8,359,346&RS=8,359,346 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,359,343) developed by James T. McConnell, North Richland Hills, Texas, for a "system and method for identifying threat locations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for identifying threat locations including a receiver to receive threat data identifying a threat, one or more processors configured to retrieve location data from one or more databases based on the threat data, and an output to provide floor plan information identifying threat location based on the location data at a display." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2007 (11/954,801). 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=8,359,343&OS=8,359,343&RS=8,359,343 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Graphical User Interface for Configuration of an Algorithm for the Matching of Data Records ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,359,339) developed by five co-inventors for a "graphical user interface for configuration of an algorithm for the matching of data records." The co-inventors are Norm Adams, Cave Creek, Ariz., Scott Schumacher, Northridge, Calif., Doug Spelce, Austin, Texas, Jason Woods, Round Rock, Texas, and Brad S. Jacobs, Stone Mountain, Ga.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for an interface for the configuration of a system for the association of data records are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide a graphical interface for manipulating a representation of an algorithm for the configuration of such a system, including the configuration of how a system transforms data records from their native format to a standard data format, selects set of candidates and associates data records." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2007 (11/702,410). 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=8,359,339&OS=8,359,339&RS=8,359,339 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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