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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (March 14)
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts.
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Visible Measures Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Visible Measures, Boston, has been assigned a patent (8,135,827) developed by Andrew S. Wilson, Manchester, N.H., Brian J. Shin, Boston, and David Angel, Mechanicsville, Va., for "distributed capture and aggregation of dynamic application usage information."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A web-based hosted solution through which application developers create, manage and monitor application usage analytics in an online manner. Preferably, an application under test is one of: application software, a script-enabled web application, or a rich Internet application (RIA). During the development process, a usage monitoring API is integrated into the application and the application is deployed. As users interact with the application, a log file is generated, typically in one of two ways. If the application is able to write to a local file system (in the user's machine), usage information is gathered in a log file local to the deployed application and then dispatched to an upload server for processing in a batch manner. If the application is not able to write to the user machine's local file system, the usage information is sent to a remote logging server, preferably on a just-in-time basis, and then the log file is generated on the logging server. In either case, preferably the usage information that is tracked comprises "features," "faults" and "failures" of the application, independent of platform, location, and number of deployed application instances."
The patent application was filed on April 7, 2008 (12/098,579). 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=8,135,827.PN.&OS=PN/8,135,827&RS=PN/8,135,827
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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Intel Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,135,869) developed by four co-inventors for a "task scheduling to devices with same connection address." The co-inventors are Naichih Chang, Shrewsbury, Mass., Victor Lau, Marlboro, Mass., Pak-lung Seto, Shrewsbury, Mass., and William Halleck, Lancaster, Mass.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods of scheduling tasks in computer systems architectures are disclosed. In one aspect, a method may include comparing a connection address of a first node with a connection address of a second node, determining that the connection address of the first node matches the connection address of the second node, and scheduling tasks to the first and second nodes based, at least in part, on the determination. Apparatus to implement task scheduling, and systems including the apparatus are also disclosed."
The patent application was filed on June 30, 2005 (11/172,776). 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=8,135,869.PN.&OS=PN/8,135,869&RS=PN/8,135,869
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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EMC Assigned Patent for Information Classification
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,135,685) developed by four co-inventors for an information classification. The co-inventors are Manoj Nair, Cary, N.C., Stephen R. Perrin, Chapel Hill, N.C., Iva Blazina Vukelja, Everett, Mass., Alex Rankov, Danville, Calif., and Mark Weng Soon Wah, Cary, N.C.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Providing information classification in a computer system for use in an information management system. Information management provides services such as data protection, backup, retention, compliance, etc., by classifying the objects and/or environment of an entity according to its value to the entity. Initially a series of rules are identified relating to information management services. Using these rules, information is classified into categories by using a series of plugins that relate to specific characteristics of information within data. Often, classification includes the collection and/or generation of metadata. After the data is classified, service level objectives can be identified and mapped to service levels. After service levels are selected, the corresponding actions can be orchestrated such that the objects of the entity received the selected services in the service level."
The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2006 (11/528,772). 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=8,135,685.PN.&OS=PN/8,135,685&RS=PN/8,135,685
Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand.
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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Data Redundancy Elimination at the Block Level
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,135,683) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for data redundancy elimination at the block level." The co-inventors are Frederick Douglis, Basking Ridge, N.J., Purushottam Kulkarni, Amherst, Mass., Jason D. LaVoie, Mahopac, N.Y., and John Michael Tracey, Scarsdale, N.Y.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A redundancy elimination mechanism is provided, which applies aspects of duplicate block elimination and delta encoding at the block level. The redundancy elimination mechanism divides file objects into content-defined blocks or "chunks." Identical chunks are suppressed. The redundancy elimination mechanism also performs resemblance detection on remaining chunks to identify chunks with sufficient redundancy to benefit from delta encoding of individual chunks. Any remaining chunks that do not benefit from delta encoding are compressed. Resemblance detection is optimized by merging groups of fingerprints into super fingerprints. This merging can be constructed to ensure that if two objects have a single super fingerprint in common, they are extremely likely to be substantially similar."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2003 (10/737,213). 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=8,135,683.PN.&OS=PN/8,135,683&RS=PN/8,135,683
Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand.
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NVIDIA Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,135,885) developed by four co-inventors for a "data packer for packing and aligning write data." The co-inventors are Raymond Hoi Man Wong, Santa Clara, Calif., Samuel Hammond Duncan, Arlington, Mass., Lukito Muliadi, San Jose, Calif., and Madhukiran V. Swarna, Portland, Ore.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data packer of an input/output hub of a computer system packs and formats write data that is supplied to it before the write data is written into a memory unit of the computer system. More particularly, the data packer accumulates write data received from lower bandwidth clients for delivery to a high bandwidth memory interface. Also, the data packer aligns the write data, so that when the write data is read out from the write data packer, no further alignment is needed."
The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2008 (12/262,138). 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=8,135,885.PN.&OS=PN/8,135,885&RS=PN/8,135,885
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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Crossbeam Systems Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Crossbeam Systems, Boxborough, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,135,657) developed by ten co-inventors for "systems and methods for processing data flows." The co-inventors are Harsh Kapoor, Boxborough, Mass., Moisey Akerman, Upton, Mass., Stephen D. Justus, Portland, Ore., John C. Ferguson, Harvard, Mass., Yevgeny Korsunsky, Waban, Mass., Paul S. Gallo, Newton, Mass., Charles Ching Lee, Ashland, Mass., Timothy M. Martin, Westford, Mass., Chunsheng Fu, Amesbury, Mass., and Weidong Xu, Westford, Mass.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A flow processing facility, which uses a set of artificial neurons for pattern recognition, such as a self-organizing map, in order to provide security and protection to a computer or computer system supports unified threat management based at least in part on patterns relevant to a variety of types of threats that relate to computer systems, including computer networks. Flow processing for switching, security, and other network applications, including a facility that processes a data flow to address patterns relevant to a variety of conditions are directed at internal network security, virtualization, and web connection security. A flow processing facility for inspecting payloads of network traffic packets detects security threats and intrusions across accessible layers of the IP-stack by applying content matching and behavioral anomaly detection techniques based on regular expression matching and self-organizing maps. Exposing threats and intrusions within packet payload at or near real-time rates enhances network security from both external and internal sources while ensuring security policy is rigorously applied to data and system resources. Intrusion Detection and Protection (IDP) is provided by a flow processing facility that processes a data flow to address patterns relevant to a variety of types of network and data integrity threats that relate to computer systems, including computer networks."
The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2011 (13/216,739). 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=8,135,657.PN.&OS=PN/8,135,657&RS=PN/8,135,657
Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand.
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AT&T Mobility II Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- AT&T Mobility II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,135,687) developed by Ronald Samuel Barchi, Maple Valley, Wash., and Jeffrey P. Carter, North Dighton, Mass., for a "rule validator of an attribute rule enforcer for a directory."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An attribute rule enforcer evaluates the attributes of a call to add, modify, or delete information in a directory, such as a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) directory. The attribute rule enforcer determines if the attributes of the call comply with predetermined rules governing the directory's content. The directory attribute rule enforcer may be located at the front end of the directory's access server, and intercepts calls to the directory access server. If the directory attribute rule enforcer determines that the attributes of a call complies with the rules governing the content of the directory, it will forward the call to the directory's access server for action. If, on the other hand, the directory attribute rule enforcer determines that the attributes of a call do not comply with the rules governing the content of the directory, the attribute rule enforcer will reject the call. Further, it may forward an appropriate error message to the source of the call."
The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2010 (12/956,026). 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=8,135,687.PN.&OS=PN/8,135,687&RS=PN/8,135,687
Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand.
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Akamai Technologies Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,135,855) developed by Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Cambridge, Mass., for a "method and system for enhancing live stream delivery quality using prebursting."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The subject matter herein relates to a method to "accelerate" the delivery of a portion of a data stream across nodes of a stream transport network. A portion of a live stream is forwarded from a first node to a second node in a transport network at a high bitrate as compared to the stream's encoded bitrate, and thereafter, the stream continues to be forwarded from the first node to the second node at or near the encoded bitrate. The disclosed technique of forwarding a portion of a stream at a high bitrate as compared to the encoded bitrate of the stream is sometimes referred to as "prebursting" the stream. This technique provides significant advantages in that it reduces stream startup time, reduces unrecoverable stream packet loss, and reduces stream rebuffers as the stream is viewed by a requesting end user that has been mapped to a media server in a distributed computer network such as a content delivery network."
The patent application was filed on Jan. 17, 2011 (13/007,696). 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=8,135,855.PN.&OS=PN/8,135,855&RS=PN/8,135,855
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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Compete Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Compete, Boston, has been assigned a patent (8,135,833) developed by David Cancel, Amesbury, Mass., Lauren S. Moores, Hull, Mass., and Laura Currea, Cambridge, Mass., for a "computer program product and method for estimating internet traffic."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Site metrics are presented in association with search results. The site metrics are derived from site analytics that uses clickstream data collected from a panel of internet users to generate and present internet activity metrics. Data collected from a community of internet users may be augmented by clickstream data store content, third party content, search results, and other sources to form estimates of internet activity, such as traffic, that is structured and analyzed to produce metrics of nearly any internet web site or domain. The data may be further augmented with ratings, such as web site trust ratings, retail deals, and analysis of web site content to form a comprehensive set of data that is mined to formulate various metrics of internet activity about web sites. Metrics of internet activity, a.k.a. site analytics, provides analysis that represents aspects of internet user access to a web site. Such aspects may include activity related to visitors, engagement, growth, trust, deals, and the like."
The patent application was filed on June 1, 2011 (13/150,370). 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=8,135,833.PN.&OS=PN/8,135,833&RS=PN/8,135,833
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Deleting Leaves in Tree Table Structures
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,135,752) developed by eight co-inventors for "deleting leaves in tree table structures." The co-inventors are Claude Basso, Raleigh, N.C., Jean L. Calvignac, Cary, N.C., Gordon T. Davis, Chapel Hill, N.C., Marco Heddes, Lawrence, Mass., Piyush C. Patel, Cary, N.C., Steven R. Perrin, Raleigh, N.C., Grayson W. Randall, Cary, N.C., and Sonia K. Rovner, Chapel Hill, N.C.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques and articles of manufacture are provided comprising computer readable programs that, when executed on the computer, cause the computer to delete a leaf from a patricia tree having leaf keys and pattern search control blocks containing a prefix and either an end-of-trail leaf or a pointer to another of the pattern search control blocks, by placing each of the prefixes in a tree prefix table; searching for a key in the tree; searching for the key in the prefix table if the tree searching does not find the key in the tree; confirming that the key is deleted if the key is not found in the prefix table; deleting the key from one of the pattern search control blocks; and collapsing the patricia tree by eliminating the left most pattern search control block from the patricia tree if the patricia tree searching finds the key."
The patent application was filed on Jan. 8, 2009 (12/350,493). 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=8,135,752&OS=8,135,752&RS=8,135,752
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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EMC Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Maintaining a File System Index
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,135,763) developed by six co-inventors for an "apparatus and method for maintaining a file system index." The co-inventors are James T. Compton, Durham, N.C., Surrendranath R. Doohkan, Franklin, Mass., Stephen A. Fridella, Belmont, Mass., Uday K. Gupta, Westford, Mass., Nikolay Popov, Wayland, Mass., and Stephen A. Rago, Warren, N.J.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An improved policy enforcement architecture includes several components that improve the performance of policy enforcement in a hierarchical storage environment. A File System Query instruction permits a richer set of queries to be expressed by a policy engine, thereby permitting more complex policies to be implemented with ease. The File System result is generated at the file server, and only files of interest are forwarded to the policy engine. The file system query advantageously may be applied against a pre-generated index having one more characterizing attributes to further reduce the processing required to retrieve policy data. An Index Build instruction, added to a programming interface, allows a policy engine generate the characterizing indices in advance of use. Index maintenance techniques maintain consistency between the index and the file system to ensure that the policy can be enforced using accurate file information."
The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2005 (11/241,054). 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=8,135,763&OS=8,135,763&RS=8,135,763
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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EMC Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,135,760) developed by Stephen Todd, Shrewsbury, Mass., and John D. Hushon Jr., Medfield, Mass., for "determining the lineage of a content unit on an object addressable storage system."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention relate to determining the lineage of a content unit stored on an object addressable storage (OAS) system. When a content unit that is derived from at least one other content unit is stored on an OAS system, metadata that identifies the source content unit(s) from which the at least one content unit was derived may be stored. This metadata may be subsequently used to determine the lineage of the content unit."
The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2007 (11/933,686). 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=8,135,760&OS=8,135,760&RS=8,135,760
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Over-the-air Device Services and Management
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,135,798) developed by four co-inventors for an "over-the-air device services and management." The co-inventors are Bharat Welingkar, Los Altos, Calif., Srikiran Prasad, Santa Clara, Calif., William Eisner, Boston, and Kevin T. Wu, Fremont, Calif.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An over-the-air device services and management system includes a web applications server for providing a software download service, an account management server for providing an account maintenance service, and a synchronization server for providing a data management service. The suite of services offered by these servers may be wirelessly accessed from a client device."
The patent application was filed on Nov. 15, 2006 (11/560,040). 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=8,135,798&OS=8,135,798&RS=8,135,798
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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