U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Oregon (Nov. 8)

(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Oregon.

*** Tim Simon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- Tim Simon, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,306,669) developed by Blaine M. Smith, Portland, Ore., and Matthew T. Fisher, Reno, Nev., for a "method for operating a thermostatically controlled heater/cooler with fresh air intake." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A thermostat-controlled heater/cooler is used to condition air in a temperature-controlled region. A target temperature is obtained and compared to the temperature of the region to determine if heating/cooling is required. If yes, then outside air is directed into the region without operating heater/cooler and updated temperatures of the region are measured. The directing and measuring are continued until (1) the measured temperature equals the target temperature, at which time control returns to the obtaining a target temperature step, or (2) the updated measured temperature differs from the target temperature by a chosen amount, and in some examples, if the updated temperature does not reach the target temperature within a chosen length of time, or the target temperature changes, or the program segment ends, at which time directing outside air into the temperature-controlled region is stopped and the heater/cooler is operated under control of the thermostat." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2009 (12/610,076). 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=8,306,669&OS=8,306,669&RS=8,306,669 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Intel Assigned Patent for Sleep Optimization for Mobile Devices in a Wireless Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,306,581) developed by Shantidev Mohanty, Hillsboro, Ore., and Muthaiah Venkatachalam, Beaverton, Ore., for a "sleep optimization for mobile devices in a wireless network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a subscriber station in sleep mode is capable of sending and/or receiving traffic during sleep mode without violating the delay requirements of best effort traffic. Moreover, a subscriber station is capable of remaining in sleep and may optionally only be awaken in the event there is data to be transmitted from the base station to the subscriber station and/or from the subscriber station to the base station. By implementing an always sleep and need based wake up arrangement, the power consumption of the subscriber station can be reduced." The patent application was filed on Nov. 29, 2010 (12/955,060). 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=8,306,581&OS=8,306,581&RS=8,306,581 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Intel Assigned Patent for Minimizing Power Consumption in a Network Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,305,947) developed by Ren Wang, Portland, Ore., and Sanjay Rungta, Phoenix, for a "minimizing power consumption in a network device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network interface device (NID) may determine whether the received data units of a computer system are to be compressed before transmitting the data units. The NID may determine the compression energy value consumed to compress the first K1 data units and a second transmission energy value to transmit the compressed first K1 data units. The NID may then estimate a first transmission energy value that may be consumed by the NID to transmit uncompressed first K1 data units using the second transmission energy value. The NID may then use the first and second transmission energy value and the compression energy value to determine if the remaining (N-K1) data units of the first data stream should be compressed." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2010 (12/704,773). 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=83,05,947.PN.&OS=PN/83,05,947&RS=PN/83,05,947 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,306,010) developed by Michelle X. Gong, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Robert Stacey, Portland, Ore., for "systems and methods for uplink multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU MIMO) medium access and error recovery." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of systems and methods for uplink multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU MIMO) medium access and error recovery are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2010 (12/769,410). 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=83,06,010.PN.&OS=PN/83,06,010&RS=PN/83,06,010 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Method for Signal Adjustment through Latency Control ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,305,914) developed by Jeffrey Thielman, Corvallis, Ore., and Mark Gorzynski, Corvallis, Ore., for a "method for signal adjustment through latency control." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for adjusting latency in a video conference signal originating from a video conference camera and encoder is described herein. Latency in a video conference connection between more than two video conference sites is measured. The latency between each of the more than two video conference sites is compared with a latency threshold. Parameters of the video conference camera and encoder associated with each video conference site are adjusted by a video controller to modify the image quality of the video signal if the measured latency of a respective video conference connection is below the threshold." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2007 (11/799,265). 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=83,05,914.PN.&OS=PN/83,05,914&RS=PN/83,05,914 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for High Performance Real-time Read-copy Update ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,307,173) developed by Paul E. McKenney, Beaverton, Ore., for a "high performance real-time read-copy update." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for reducing reader overhead when referencing a shared data element while facilitating realtime-safe detection of a grace period for deferring destruction of the shared data element. The grace period is determined by a condition in which all readers that are capable of referencing the shared data element have reached a quiescent state subsequent to a request for a quiescent state. Common case local quiescent state tracking may be performed using only local per-reader state information for all readers that have not blocked while in a read-side critical section in which the data element is referenced. Uncommon case non-local quiescent state tracking may be performed using non-local multi-reader state information for all readers that have blocked while in their read-side critical section. The common case local quiescent state tracking requires less processing overhead than the uncommon case non-local quiescent state tracking." The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2012 (13/371,551). 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=8,307,173.PN.&OS=PN/8,307,173&RS=PN/8,307,173 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,307,175) developed by four co-inventors for a "data recovery and overwrite independent of operating system." The co-inventors are Hormuzd M. Khosravi, Portland, Ore., Mojtaba Mojy Mirashrafi, Portland, Ore., Duncan Glendinning, Chandler, Ariz., and Gyan Prakash, Beaverton, Ore.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems to access data in a computer system independent of an operating environment of the computer system, including to recover data to a remote system, to overwrite data, and to copy data to a hidden partition. A management system may directly access a storage device of the computer system and communicate with the remote system over a data channel that is secure from an operating environment of the computer system. The management system may access the storage device on a block basis, using a device driver associated with a storage device controller, and may include a virtualization engine to access the storage device. The remote system may include logic to request meta-data, to identify disk blocks corresponding to files of interest from the meta-data, and to construct the files of interest from the disk blocks." The patent application was filed on June 26, 2009 (12/492,964). 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=8,307,175.PN.&OS=PN/8,307,175&RS=PN/8,307,175 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Intel Assigned Patent for Message Communication Techniques ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,307,105) developed by eight co-inventors for a "message communication techniques." The co-inventors are Steven King, Portland, Ore., Ram Huggahalli, Phoenix, Xia Zhu, Hillsboro, Ore., Mazhar Memon, Austin, Texas, Frank Berry, North Plains, Ore., Nitin Bhardwaj, Hillsboro, Ore., Amit Kumar, Hillsboro, Ore., and Theodore Willke II, Tacoma, Wash.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network protocol unit interface is described that uses a message engine to transfer contents of received network protocol units in message segments to a destination message engine. The network protocol unit interface uses a message engine to receive messages whose content is to be transmitted in network protocol units. A message engine transmits message segments to a destination message engine without the message engine transmitter and receiver sharing memory space. In addition, the transmitter message engine can transmit message segments to a receiver message engine by use of a virtual address associated with the receiver message and a queue identifier, as opposed to a memory address." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2011 (13/173,459). 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=8,307,105.PN.&OS=PN/8,307,105&RS=PN/8,307,105 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Intel Assigned Patent for Use of Completer Knowledge of Memory Region Ordering Requirements to Modify Transaction Attributes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,307,144) developed by David Harriman, Portland, Ore., for a "use of completer knowledge of memory region ordering requirements to modify transaction attributes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system of relaxing the ordering of a read completion by setting an ordering attribute in the read completion. The relaxed ordering allows the read completion to bypass pending writes." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2011 (13/335,345). 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=8,307,144.PN.&OS=PN/8,307,144&RS=PN/8,307,144 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Intel Assigned Patent for Method and System for Improving Wireless Link Robustness Using Spatial Diversity ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,306,483) developed by Minyoung Park, Portland, Ore., for a "method and system for improving wireless link robustness using spatial diversity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for using spatial diversity for improving link quality, particularly wireless link communication. A plurality of propagation paths are used simultaneously for a wireless link, and a plurality of strong propagation paths are selected from among available propagation paths. Propagation path measurements are made to determine strong signal propagation paths. An array antenna at a transmitter and at a receiver are controlled to communicate over a plurality of simultaneous signal propagation paths." The patent application was filed on Dec. 24, 2009 (12/647,233). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,306,483.PN.&OS=PN/8,306,483&RS=PN/8,306,483 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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