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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (Dec. 26)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** Target Brands Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Target Brands, Minneapolis, has been assigned a patent (8,341,025) developed by Gerald L. Storch, Wayne, N.J., and Gregg A. Kromrey, Hudson, Wis., for an "e-mail based gift delivery." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A retail system enabling a first party to purchase a gift and to deliver the gift to a second party comprises a retailer computer and a communication network enabling a user device to communicate with the retailer computer. The retailer computer is programmed to provide a gift website accessible by the first party via the user device and includes a merchandise module and a delivery module. The merchandise module enables the first party to purchase a gift. The delivery module is adapted to receive an e-mail address or pseudonym of the second party from the first party, to procure shipping addresses associated with the e-mail address or pseudonym, to enable the first party to select one of the shipping addresses, and to cause the gift to be shipped to the selected shipping address without revealing the selected shipping address to the first party. Other systems and methods are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2009 (12/562,323). 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=8,341,025&OS=8,341,025&RS=8,341,025 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,341,182) developed by Marcus S. Muller, Tinton Falls, N.J., Parag Gokhale, Ocean, N.J., and Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Marlboro, N.J., for "systems and methods of media management, such as management of media to and from a media storage library." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be exported, determines the media component is in the media library for a specific process, and exports the media component after the process is completed." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2008 (12/060,181). 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=83,41,182.PN.&OS=PN/83,41,182&RS=PN/83,41,182 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** BGC Partners Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- BGC Partners, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,341,071) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for providing latency protection for trading orders." The co-inventors are Peter Bartko, Warwick, N.Y., John Robert Capuano, Chatham, N.J., Joseph C. Noviello, Summit, N.J., and Brian Alexander Weston, Katonah, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store an order associated with a first price. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to identify a latency value. The processor is further operable to receive a counterorder and to identify a potential trade associated with the order and the counterorder, the potential trade based at least in part on the first price. If the latency value satisfies a configurable condition, the processor is further operable to initiate a configurable period of time. If the potential trade is not valid upon expiration of the configurable period, the processor is further operable to prevent the execution of the potential trade." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2011 (13/169,690). 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=83,41,071.PN.&OS=PN/83,41,071&RS=PN/83,41,071 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Face Recognition Using Social Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,341,145) developed by four co-inventors for a "face recognition using social data." The co-inventors are Bradley Dodson, Seattle, David Nichols, Redmond, Wash., Chung Webster, Seattle, and Joel Scaria, Union, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Faces may be indexed and identified using visual and social criteria. In one example, the visual features of a face are quantified, and the quantification of the features is represented in a vector. Aspects of the vector are then represented in the form of text strings. Social context surrounding the face is also represented in the form of text strings. The text strings--both the visual-based strings and/or the social-based strings--are associated with the face, and are stored in an index. The association of these strings with the face then may make the face text-searchable on both its visual and social features. Searches on these visual and/or social features may be used to help to assist in identifying new images of faces, or to propose tags for users to apply to photos." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2010 (12/973,881). 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=83,41,145.PN.&OS=PN/83,41,145&RS=PN/83,41,145 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Stevens Institute of Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,341,068) developed by Peter Koen, Hillsborough, N.J., and Gerrit Kamp, New York, for a "method and apparatus for generating and evaluating ideas in an organization." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for generating and evaluating ideas within an organization through an idea market. It includes an automatic price-setting mechanism that modifies the share-price at the same instant that a trade is made, yet without the assistance of a market maker or a queue of orders. The instant price-setting is achieved by assuming a pre-defined relationship between the quantity of shares in the order and the average share price for that order. This relationship is the price-quantity function. The present invention also includes a mechanism of weighted parameters to modify the share-price in addition to pure supply and demand. The parameters can be adjusted over time in a neural network to optimize the relationship between the share price and the prediction of the actual idea value." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2008 (12/335,041). 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=83,41,068.PN.&OS=PN/83,41,068&RS=PN/83,41,068 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NYSE MKT Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- NYSE MKT, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,341,070) developed by Gary L. Gastineau, Short Hills, N.J., and Clifford Weber, Denville, N.J., for an "exchange trading of mutual funds or other portfolio basket products." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for determining a basket of financial instruments for hedging investment risk in actively managed exchange traded funds is described. The system uses a trusted computer system and includes a computer storage medium storing a computer program product. The product determines the basket of hedging instruments by extracting factor information from a portfolio of the actively managed exchange traded fund and determining factors that affect the price of the exchange traded fund. The program can select a portfolio of instruments with similar behavior with respect to the determined factors to produce a hedging portfolio that tracks the price of the exchange traded fund." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2011 (13/167,457). 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=83,41,070.PN.&OS=PN/83,41,070&RS=PN/83,41,070 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,341,100) developed by Matthew L. Miller, Princeton, N.J., and Christopher Malon, Plainsboro, N.J., for an "epithelial layer detector and related methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An epithelial detector and method for automatically identifying epithelial portions of a tissue sample, includes: staining the tissue sample with at least two dyes; applying a color transformation to a color image of the tissue sample to obtain one or more color channels; and applying a trained convolutional neural network to the color channels to obtain a decision for position in the tissue as to whether it is inside or outside an epithelial layer. Also, a method for training the convolutional neural network." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2009 (12/496,802). 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=83,41,100.PN.&OS=PN/83,41,100&RS=PN/83,41,100 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent for Supervised Semantic Indexing and its Extensions ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,341,095) developed by four co-inventors for a "supervised semantic indexing and its extensions." The co-inventors are Bing Bai, Plainsboro, N.J., Jason Weston, New York, Ronan Collobert, Princeton, N.J., and David Grangier, Princeton, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for determining a similarity between a document and a query includes building a weight vector for each of a plurality of documents in a corpus of documents stored in memory and building a weight vector for a query input into a document retrieval system. A weight matrix is generated which distinguishes between relevant documents and lower ranked documents by comparing document/query tuples using a gradient step approach. A similarity score is determined between weight vectors of the query and documents in a corpus by determining a product of a document weight vector, a query weight vector and the weight matrix." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2009 (12/562,802). 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=83,41,095.PN.&OS=PN/83,41,095&RS=PN/83,41,095 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for System and Method for Identifying Erroneous Business Listings ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,341,156) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for identifying erroneous business listings." The co-inventors are Diane Barram Westgate, Mountain View, Calif., Nicholas Lee, Bothell, Wash., Ethan G. Russell, Jersey City, N.J., Paul Eastlund, Mamaroneck, N.Y., Alex Lorbeer, Hoboken, N.J., and Todd Gardner, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method is provided that detect a business listing having erroneous geospatial data. In one aspect, it is determined whether a first location and a second location are at least partially situated within a cell, the cell representing a geographic region having a predetermined area. If the first location and the second location are at least partially situated within the cell, it is determined whether a geospatial coordinate of the first location is within a predetermined radius of the second location. If it is determined that the geospatial coordinate of the first location is within a predetermined radius of the second location, the first location is flagged for inspection." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2011 (13/079,416). 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=83,41,156.PN.&OS=PN/83,41,156&RS=PN/83,41,156 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,341,096) developed by Kathleen Fisher, Los Altos, Calif., David Walker, Princeton, N.J., and Kenny Zhu, Shanghai, China, for a "system, method and computer program product for incremental learning of system log formats." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer program is disclosed including but not limited to instructions to input an initial description of a data format and a batch of data comprising data in a new data format not covered by the initial description, instructions to use the first description to parse the records in the data source, instructions to discard records in the input data that parse successfully, instructions to collect records that fail to parse, instructions to accumulate a quantity, M of records that fail to parse, instructions to return a modified description that extends the initial description to cover the new data, instructions to transform the first description, D into a second description D' to accommodate differences between the input data format and the first description D by introducing options where a piece of data was missing in the input data and introducing unions where a new type of data was found in the input data; and instructions to use a non-incremental format inference system such as LEARNPADS to infer descriptions for the aggregated portions of input data that did not parse using the first description D." The patent application was filed on Nov. 27, 2009 (12/626,761). 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=83,41,096.PN.&OS=PN/83,41,096&RS=PN/83,41,096 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,341,166) developed by four co-inventors for an "infrastructure and architecture for development and execution of predictive models." The co-inventors are Narasimha Murthy, East Windsor, N.J., Mickey S. Oralevich, Great Neck, N.Y., Sandeep Sacheti, Edison, N.J., and Deep Thomas, E. Brunswick, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system that enables development and execution of predictive models comprises a centralized data management system, a data extraction tool a model validation tool and a model execution tool. In embodiments, a data management system includes a data management server that can be accessed via a web browser that stores data in the form of a flat file. An extraction tool extracts data. A model validation tool validates a model by scoring an analytical environment data set and a production environment data set. A model execution tool allows a user to select when and how often a model is scored." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2008 (12/100,219). 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=83,41,166.PN.&OS=PN/83,41,166&RS=PN/83,41,166 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Centocor Ortho Biotech Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Centocor Ortho Biotech, Horsham, Pa., has been assigned a patent (RE43,876) developed by Alireza Rezania, Belle Mead, N.J., for "cells expressing pluripotency markers and expressing markers characteristic of the definitive endoderm." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is directed to pluripotent cells that can be readily expanded in culture on tissue culture substrate that is not pre-treated with protein or an extracellular matrix, and do not require a feeder cell line. The present invention also provides methods to derive the pluripotent cell line from human embryonic stem cells." The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2012 (13/372,641). 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=RE43,876&OS=RE43,876&RS=RE43,876 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cellco Partnership Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,341,650) developed by Dharmaveera Veerabhadraiah, Dayton, N.J., for a "high thread count analyzer for web application server environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Thread count analyzer programming enables automated monitoring of open process thread counts for a middleware web service, for example, in the context of Communication Enterprise Services (CCES) for providing customer account related notifications to customers/users of a mobile communications network. Web server thread counts are compared to first thresholds. In response to a high web server thread count, an impacted application server is identified, for example, by comparing application server thread counts to second thresholds. The procedure initiates a thread dump with regard to the impacted application server and provides notification to a support person together with information enabling access to a page of thread dump data. The exemplary thread count analysis can automatically detect a high thread count problem before there is an outage or any impact to the customer, accumulate relevant thread data, store such data in an accessible form, and provide automatic notice(s) for support personnel." The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2010 (12/698,619). 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=8,341,650&OS=8,341,650&RS=8,341,650 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Delta Vidyo Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Delta Vidyo, Hackensack, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,341,672) developed by Mehmet Reha Civanlar, Istanbul, Turkey, Ofer Shapiro, Fair Lawn, N.J., and Tal Shalom, Fair Lawn, N.J., for "systems, methods and computer readable media for instant multi-channel video content browsing in digital video distribution systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are a method, apparatus, system, and computer readable media containing instructions for preparing and displaying a plurality of audio-visual signals in a digital video distribution system (e.g., IPTV), which enables fast channel switching between channels. The system includes a server which sends a plurality of audio-visual signals coded in a base layer and enhancement layer format to an endpoint. The endpoint receives and decodes the base layer of a first channel, at least one second base layer of a second channel, and at least one enhancement layer of the first channel, and displays them on a video display." The patent application was filed on April 22, 2010 (12/765,767). 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=8,341,672&OS=8,341,672&RS=8,341,672 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Morgan Stanley Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Morgan Stanley, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,341,645) developed by eight co-inventors for a "workflow and exception system." The co-inventors are David Oxenstierna, Greenwich, Conn., Denise Sommerville, Marlboro, N.J, William Vaughan, Madison, N.J., Peter Zope, Brooklyn, N.Y., Alfred Short, Port Chester, N.Y., John Hendy, Berkeley Heights, N.J., Raju Patel, Purley, United Kingdom, and Lawrence Beck, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exception management system comprising a centralized exception engine for processing exception messages from a plurality of source systems across a firm (or enterprise) and for generating workflow items where needed from the exception messages. The centralized exception engine may comprise an exception backbone that receives the exception messages from the source systems and processes the exception messages based on business rules. The exception messages may adhere to an exception message definition format. Users may access the exception information via a user interface. The exception engine may send alerts to certain users in certain circumstances based on the business rules. A flow manager of the exception backbone may process the exception messages by: (i) enriching the exception messages with additional information; (ii) prioritizing the exception messages; (iii) routing the exception messages to one or more users; and/or (iv) persisting exception information extracted from the exception messages in a persistent store. A workflow engine may communicate workflow messages to the source systems or directly with the exception backbone when workflow is required for one of the exception messages." The patent application was filed on May 24, 2007 (11/805,593). 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=8,341,645&OS=8,341,645&RS=8,341,645 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,341,488) developed by Andrew J. Blanksby, Neptune, N.J., and Alvin Lai Lin, Londonderry, United Kingdom, for "accumulating LDPC (low density parity check) decoder." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Accumulating LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) decoder. The accumulating decoding architecture described herein is applicable to LDPC codes operating on a parity check matrix, H, consisting of CSI (Cyclic Shifted Identity) sub-matrices (or matrix sub-blocks) or permuted identity sub-matrices (or matrix sub-blocks). In such a structure, the entire LDPC matrix is broken into square sub-matrices such that each sub-matrix consists of either a CSI sub-matrix or a permuted identity sub-matrix, or a null matrix. The iterative decoding process operates by updating of APP (a posteriori probability) or gamma (.gamma.) values and check edge message (.lamda.) values, and this by updating one or more individual rows within a number of sub-matrix rows (or all sub-matrix or sub-block rows) are processed in parallel. The amount of parallelism is specified by the designer and is typically an integer divisor of the sub-matrix (or sub-block) size." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2009 (12/512,490). 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=8,341,488.PN.&OS=PN/8,341,488&RS=PN/8,341,488 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Low Complexity Communication Device Employing In-place Constructed LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) Code ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,341,487) developed by Andrew J. Blanksby, Neptune, N.J., Ba-Zhong Shen, Irvine, Calif., and Jason A. Trachewsky, Menlo Park, Calif., for a "low complexity communication device employing in-place constructed LDPC (low density parity check) code." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Low complexity communication device employing in-place constructed LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) code. Intelligent design of LDPC codes having similar characteristics there between allows for a very efficient hardware implementation of a communication device that is operative to perform decoding of more than one type of LDPC coded signals. A common basis of decoder hardware (e.g., decoder circuitry) is employed when decoding all of the various types of LDPC coded signals that such a communication device can decode. However, all of the decoder hardware is only employed to decode signals corresponding to the lowest code rate LDPC code supported by the communication device. A first subset of the decoder hardware is employed to decode signals corresponding to the second to lowest code rate LDPC code, a second subset (being less than the first subset) is employed to decode signals corresponding to the third to lowest code rate LDPC code, etc." The patent application was filed on April 29, 2010 (12/769,818). 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=8,341,487.PN.&OS=PN/8,341,487&RS=PN/8,341,487 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Permuted Accelerated LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) Decoder ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,341,489) developed by Alvin Lai Lin, Londonderry, United Kingdom, and Andrew J. Blanksby, Neptune, N.J., for a "permuted accelerated LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) decoder." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Permuted accelerated LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) decoder. This decoding approach operates by processing, in parallel, selected rows for multiple individual LDPC matrix rows from various sub-matrix rows (e.g., first group of rows from a first sub-matrix row, second group of rows from a second sub-matrix row, etc.). A memory structure of daisy chains is employed for memory management of APP (a posteriori probability) values and also for check edge messages/intrinsic information (.lamda.) values. A first group of daisy chains may be employed for memory management of the APP values, and a second group of daisy chains may be employed for memory management of the check edge messages. These daisy chains operate to effectuate the proper alignment of APP (or gamma(.gamma.)) values and check edge message/intrinsic information (.lamda.) values for their respective updating in successive decoding iterations." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2009 (12/512,820). 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=8,341,489.PN.&OS=PN/8,341,489&RS=PN/8,341,489 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,341,467) developed by Guosen Yue, Plainsboro, N.J., and Xiaodong Wang, New York, for a "system and method for wireless transmission using hybrid ARQ based on average mutual information per bit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for packet transmission in a hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) system. A modulation and a block length for a transmission are determined based on the average mutual information per bit. The average mutual information per bit is computed based on a current channel signal-to-noise ratio and a plurality of previous transmissions, each being transmitted with a respective coded block length, modulation form, and signal-to-noise ratio. A block error rate is computed for the potential block lengths and modulations based on the average mutual information per bit, and a throughput of the current transmission is determined based on the block error rate. The modulation form and the block length of the transmission are determined based on an analysis of the throughput. If the receiver cannot decode the current transmission, the transmitter repeats the computation to determine the modulation and the block length for retransmission." The patent application was filed on July 6, 2009 (12/498,042). 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=8,341,467.PN.&OS=PN/8,341,467&RS=PN/8,341,467 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Toshiba, Telcordia Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- Toshiba, Tokyo, and Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, N.J., have been assigned a patent (8,341,395) developed by Subir Das, Belle Mead, N.J., Yoshihiro Oba, Kawasaki, Japan, and Ashutosh Dutta, Bridgewater, N.J., for a "media independent handover protocol security." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus for providing security to media independent handover service includes a point of service for providing the media independent handover services including an independent authenticator. The independent authenticator authenticates candidate access networks prior to the handover of the mobile devices from serving access networks to the candidate access networks, where each of the serving access networks and the candidate access networks belong to a plurality of heterogeneous access networks having the specific serving media. An access controller applies an access control through an access authentication with the point of service providing the media independent handover services through an authentication server, in which when the access authentication is established between the point of service and the authentication server, the mobile devices are authorized to access the media independent handover services through the point of service for the mobile devices attached between heterogeneous media." The patent application was filed on May 3, 2010 (12/772,646). 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=8,341,395.PN.&OS=PN/8,341,395&RS=PN/8,341,395 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** InterDigital Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 -- InterDigital Technology, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,341,408) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for providing variable security level in a wireless communication system." The co-inventors are Akinlolu Oloruntosi Kumoluyi, Summerfield, N.C., Alexander Reznik, Titusville, N.J., Guodong Zhang, Farmingdale, N.Y., Prabhakar R. Chitrapu, Blue Bell, Pa., Sung-Hyuk Shin, Northvale, N.J., and Yingming Tsai, Boonton, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing variable security levels in a wireless communication network. The present invention optimizes the often conflicting demands of highly secure wireless communications and high speed wireless communications. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, various security sensors are scanned to determine the likely presence of an intruder within a predetermined trust zone. If an intruder is likely present, the security level is changed to the highest setting, and consequently a lower data rate, while the intruder is identified. If the identified intruder is in fact a trusted node, the security level is returned to a lower setting. If the identified intruder is not a trusted node, the security level is maintained at an elevated state while the intruder is within the trust zone." The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2012 (13/365,126). 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=8,341,408.PN.&OS=PN/8,341,408&RS=PN/8,341,408 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1109279 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service |