U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in North Carolina (Feb. 1)

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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in North Carolina.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,528) developed by Doris L. Jones, Somerville, Mass., Ruthie D. Lyle, Durham, N.C., and Corinne M. Ryan, Westford, Mass., for a "system and method for verifying the identity of a chat partner during an instant messaging session."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for verifying the identity of a chat partner during an instant messaging session. The identity of an instant messaging partner can be verified at any given moment during an instant messaging session. The status of the verification is displayed in the current session, and is contained into any subsequently saved session history file. Prior to the beginning of communication, a participant has the ability to challenge one or more other participants to verify that they are really the people assigned to the corresponding instant messaging identifiers. During the instant messaging session, participants are further allowed to challenge any other participant before going further with the session (e.g. prior to discussing confidential information or accepting files). The system addresses the problem of an unauthorized user gaining access to another user's instant messaging identifier."

The patent application was filed on July 11, 2007 (11/775,990). 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=8,108,528&OS=8,108,528&RS=8,108,528

Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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QUALCOMM Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,108,563) developed by Richard Gerard Hofmann, Cary, N.C., and Terence J. Lohman, Cary, N.C., for an "auxiliary writes over address channel."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A processing system and method for communicating in a processing system over a bus is disclosed. The processing system includes a receiving device, a bus having first, second and third channels, and a sending device configured to address the receiving device on the first channel, and read a payload from the receiving device on the second channel, the sending device being further configured to select between the first and third channels to write a payload to the receiving device."

The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2006 (11/468,933). 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=8,108,563&OS=8,108,563&RS=8,108,563

Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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Quiro Holdings Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — Quiro Holdings, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,108,535) developed by Thomas A. Roberts, Fuquay-Varina, N.C., and Gregory Morgan Evans, Raleigh, N.C., for "methods, systems, and products for selecting images."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for selecting images from media. As a media stream is processed for display, thumbnail images are extracted at a periodic rate from the media stream. The media stream and the thumbnail images are concurrently processed for display."

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2006 (11/479,059). 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=8,108,535&OS=8,108,535&RS=8,108,535

Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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NVIDIA Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,108,610) developed by six co-inventors for a "cache-based control of atomic operations in conjunction with an external ALU block." The co-inventors are David B. Glasco, Austin, Texas, Peter B. Holmqvist, Cary, N.C., George R. Lynch, Raleigh, N.C., Patrick R. Marchand, Apex, N.C., Karan Mehra, Cary, N.C., and James Roberts, Austin, Texas.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for efficiently processing atomic operations transmitted from multiple general processing clusters to an L2 cache. A tag look-up unit tracks the availability of each cache line in the L2 cache, reserves the necessary cache lines for the atomic operations and transmits the atomic operations to an ALU for processing. The tag look-up unit also increments a reference counter associated with a reserved cache line each time an atomic operation associated with that cache line is received. This feature allows multiple atomic operations associated with the same cache line to be pipelined to the ALU. A ROP unit that includes the ALU may request additional data necessary to process an atomic operation from the L2 cache. Result data is stored in the L2 cache and may also be returned to the general processing clusters."

The patent application was filed on Oct. 21, 2008 (12/255,595). 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=8,108,610&OS=8,108,610&RS=8,108,610

Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Load Balancing Between Chassis in a Blade Center

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,503) developed by Eric Richard Kern, Chapel Hill, N.C., and William Gabriel Pagan, Durham, N.C., for a "dynamic load balancing between chassis in a blade center."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for load balancing between different blade chassis within a blade center are presented. Each blade chassis is monitored for total data traffic to and from that blade chassis. If a first blade chassis within the blade center is overworked, then a most overtaxed blade within that first blade chassis is disabled. A less utilized second blade chassis within the blade center is then identified, and a least taxed blade within the second blade chassis is assigned to take over the workload of the disabled blade from the first blade chassis."

The patent application was filed on Jan. 14, 2009 (12/353,534). 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=81,08,503.PN.&OS=PN/81,08,503&RS=PN/81,08,503

Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand.

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Cisco Technology Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,108,673) developed by five co-inventors for "configuring interfaces of a switch using templates." The co-inventors are Jason D. Frazier, Raleigh, N.C., Ramesh V.N. Ponnapalli, Bangalore, India, Shyam Kaluve, Bangalore, India, Rajasekhar Manam, Bangalore, India, and Jacob F. Jensen, Mountain View, Calif.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Configuring an interface of a switch includes sending an authentication request requesting authentication for an endpoint from a switch to an authentication server. The switch comprises interfaces and is operable to access templates, where a template is operable to generate one or more interface commands for an interface. An instruction is received from the authentication server. The instruction instructs the switch to apply an identified template to an interface, where the identified template is identified by the authentication server as associated with the endpoint. The identified template is applied to configure the interface according to the instruction."

The patent application was filed on April 29, 2005 (11/119,244). 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=8,108,673&OS=8,108,673&RS=8,108,673

Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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Rockstar Bidco Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — Rockstar Bidco, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,108,444) developed by John H. Yoakum, Cary, N.C., and Philip Edholm, Pleasanton, Calif., for a "buddy lists for information vehicles."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention creates a buddy list in association with an information vehicle, such as a word processing document, presentation document, or email. The buddy list is created from contacts associated with the information vehicle, and includes communication information such as directory numbers or communication addresses, which are sufficient to establish communications with the contacts. Accordingly, the buddy list may be displayed to a user, and upon the selection of one or more contacts, communication sessions may be established with the selected contact or contacts. Presence information bearing on the relative availability of the contacts may be supported in the buddy list, such that the user can readily determine whether a particular contact is available or determine the best way in which to communicate with the particular contact by viewing the buddy list. The presence information may be periodically updated or may be updated when a particular contact is selected."

The patent application was filed on June 12, 2004 (10/866,482). 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=81,08,444.PN.&OS=PN/81,08,444&RS=PN/81,08,444

Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Maintaining and Replicating Chat Histories

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,445) developed by Erik John Burckart, Raleigh, N.C., Steve Russell Campbell, Lillington, N.C., and Andrew Ivory, Wake Forest, N.C., for a "maintaining and replicating chat histories."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A consolidated instant messaging message history is maintained at a selected point of presence. Non-selected instant messaging points of presence include instant messaging messages that were transmitted during one or more instant messaging sessions conducted between the non-selected instant messaging points of presence and one or more instant messaging participants. The selected instant messaging point of presence retrieves instant messaging messages included at the non-selected instant messaging points of presence. The retrieved messages are stored on a storage device accessible to the selected instant messaging point of presence in a consolidated instant messaging chat history."

The patent application was filed on Jan. 21, 2009 (12/357,226). 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=81,08,445.PN.&OS=PN/81,08,445&RS=PN/81,08,445

Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for External Registration for Function Configuration within a Client Platform Application

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,851) developed by Adam M. Hoover, Wake Forest, N.C., and Gregg W. Miller, Apex, N.C., for an "external registration for function configuration within a client platform application."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program and method for modifying functionality of a computer program. In one embodiment, configuration files include configuration directives for removing and replacing computer executable codes. The configuration directives include code identifiers pointing to the computer executable codes for execution by the computer program. A lookup module is configured to recursively search for configuration files within plug-in packages. A control module is configured to modify the program flow of the computer program in accordance with the configuration directives."

The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2006 (11/343,140). 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=8,108,851&OS=8,108,851&RS=8,108,851

Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Calculating a Password Strength Score Based Upon Character Proximity and Relative Position upon an Input Device

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,932) developed by Kevin D. Himberger, Durham, N.C., and Benjamin M. Parees, Durham, N.C., for a "calculating a password strength score based upon character proximity and relative position upon an input device."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A solution for computing password strength based upon layout positions of input mechanisms of an input device that entered a password. A password including an ordered sequence of at least two characters can be identified. A position of each of the characters of the sequence can be determined relative to a layout of an input device used for password entry. Each position can correspond to an input region (key) of the input device (keyboard). A proximity algorithm can generate a proximately score for the determined positions based upon a pattern produced by the positions given the layout of the input device. A password strength score can be computed based at least in part upon the proximity score."

The patent application was filed on June 12, 2008 (12/137,645). 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=8,108,932&OS=8,108,932&RS=8,108,932

Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Adaptive Run-time Reconfiguration for a Reconfigurable Instruction Set Co-processor Architecture

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,838) developed by Sameh W. Asaad, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., and Richard Gerard Hofmann, Cary, N.C., for a "system and method for adaptive run-time reconfiguration for a reconfigurable instruction set co-processor architecture."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for adaptive runtime reconfiguration of a co-processor instruction set, in a computer system with at least a main processor communicatively connected to at least one reconfigurable co-processor, includes the steps of configuring the co-processor to implement an instruction set comprising one or more co-processor instructions, issuing a co-processor instruction to the co-processor, and determining whether the instruction is implemented in the co-processor. For an instruction not implemented in the co-processor instruction set, raising a stall signal to delay the main processor, determining whether there is enough space in the co-processor for the non-implemented instruction, and if there is enough space for said instruction, reconfiguring the instruction set of the co-processor by adding the non-implemented instruction to the co-processor instruction set. The stall signal is cleared and the instruction is executed."

The patent application was filed on May 15, 2008 (12/121,542). 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=8,108,838&OS=8,108,838&RS=8,108,838

Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

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Red Hat Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods For Management of Secure Data In Cloud-based Network

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,108,912) developed by James Michael Ferris, Cary, N.C., for "systems and methods for management of secure data in cloud-based network."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments relate to systems and methods for the management of secure data in a cloud-based network. A secure data store can store sensitive or confidential data, such as account numbers, social security numbers, medical or other information in an on-premise data facility. Regulatory and/or operational requirements may prohibit the migration or unprotected transmission of the secure data to the cloud. An operator can instantiate a set of virtual machines to access and process the secure data, for example to process online purchase transactions. To prevent unauthorized disclosure of the secure data, the secure data store can receive data access requests via a translation module that translates the secure data. The secure data store can retrieve and transmit the secure data using a protection mechanism such as a masking and/or encryption mechanism, avoiding the unprotected transport or exposure of that data to the cloud."

The patent application was filed on May 29, 2008 (12/129,341). 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=8,108,912&OS=8,108,912&RS=8,108,912

Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for User Engagement During Large File Uploads

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,403) developed by Ramajeyam Gopalraj, Morrisville, N.C., and David Mark Wendt, Cary, N.C., for a "user engagement during large file uploads."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content server receives metadata describing content that is to be uploaded from a client computer to the content server. A prediction is made as to how long it will take to upload and/or process the content. Based on this predication, an appropriate-length user engagement content is transmitted to the client computer for a user to view while the content is being uploaded and/or processed."

The patent application was filed on April 3, 2009 (12/418,042). 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=8,108,403.PN.&OS=PN/8,108,403&RS=PN/8,108,403

Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand.

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Cisco Technology Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,108,713) developed by Bryan C. Turner, Apex, N.C., John Toebes, Cary, N.C., and Douglas Jay Walker, Raleigh, N.C., for an "arrangement for recovery of data by network nodes based on retrieval of encoded data distributed among the network nodes."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Distributed data, having been stored in a distributed storage system as a collection of distributed data elements, is recovered based on connection of multiple user nodes, each user node having stored selected distributed data elements as a corresponding portion of the distributed data during replication of the distributed data elements throughout the distributed storage system. Each distributed data element is identifiable by a corresponding unique object identifier (OID). Each user node includes a discovery resource for discovering reachable user nodes, a local cache configured for identifying at least the corresponding portion of the distributed data based on the respective OIDs, and an identification service module configured for resolving a data object to a corresponding OID, via the corresponding local cache, or based on sending a query to the reachable user nodes. Hence, user nodes can recover distributed data based on exchanging resolution information and OID information."

The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2010 (12/891,690). 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=8108713.PN.&OS=PN/8108713&RS=PN/8108713

Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Presenting Multimodal Web Page Content on Sequential Multimode Devices

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,769) developed by five co-inventors for a "presenting multimodal web page content on sequential multimode devices." The co-inventors are Chang Yan Chi, Beijing, James J. Sliwa, Raleigh, N.C., Hui Su, Beijing, Leslie R. Wilson, Boca Raton, Fla., and Shi Wan Zhao, Beijing.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of accessing an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language Plus Voice Web page can include the step of receiving a request for an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language Plus Voice Web page from a source that lacks the ability to directly render the Web page. The Web page can be segmented into a multitude of fragments, where each fragment can consist of a single interface category, such as a graphical user interface category or a voice category. These fragments can be used to provide the requesting source with information from the Web page."

The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2008 (12/188,539). 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=8,108,769.PN.&OS=PN/8,108,769&RS=PN/8,108,769

Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Power Supply Identification Using a Modified Power Good Signal

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,700) developed by four co-inventors for a "power supply identification using a modified power good signal." The co-inventors are Paul M. Wilson, Cary, N.C., John D. Landers Jr., Raleigh, N.C., David John Steiner, Raleigh, N.C., and Kimberly A. Wood, Raleigh, N.C.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method, system and apparatus enabling a computing system to automatically identify the capabilities of a power supply coupled to the computing system. The power supply includes a controller that sends an identification code to a computing system prior to sending a power good signal to the computing system. The identification code and the power good signal are preferably sent over a single conductor, such as a power supply connector pin. The computing system receives the identification code for cross-referencing against a list of power supply identification codes and associated capabilities. Optionally, instructions from the computer system to an output device may be controlled as a function of the identified power supply capabilities."

The patent application was filed on March 10, 2009 (12/400,864). 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=8108700.PN.&OS=PN/8108700&RS=PN/8108700

Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Host Screen Transformation for Mobile Devices having a Reduced Display Size

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,801) developed by four co-inventors for a "host screen transformation for mobile devices having a reduced display size." The co-inventors are Ronald E. Craig, Pittsboro, N.C., Gerald L. Mitchell, Durham, N.C., Lori M. Ruffing, Deerfield Beach, Fla., and Masaaki Takamiya, Cary, N.C.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for improved display of host terminal applications on data processing systems having a small display size. In one embodiment, a host application translator reads characters stored in a character buffer and character attributes stored in an attribute buffer of a computer host terminal application that is displayed to a user as lines of characters. The host application translator performs component recognition on the characters and the character attributes to identify essential characters. Essential characters are characters that are required to be displayed to a user for the user to be able to interact with the computer host terminal application. The host application translator generates hypertext markup language code (HTML) for reconfiguring the characters for display on a portable data processing system having a small display size."

The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2008 (12/188,741). 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=8,108,801&OS=8,108,801&RS=8,108,801

Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Power Management Server for Managing Power Consumption

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,108,703) developed by four co-inventors for a "power management server for managing power consumption." The co-inventors are Sumanta K. Bahali, Cary, N.C., Warren D. Bailey, Pittsboro, N.C., Jimmy G. Foster, Morrisville, N.C., and Gregory D. Sellman, Morrisville, N.C.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A power management server and method for managing power consumption is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a power management server data processing system is provided, where the power management server data processing system comprises a power management communication port to communicatively couple the power management server data processing system to a power-managed server data processing system and a system management processor coupled to the power management communication port. In the described embodiment, the system management processor comprises power management logic configured to receive power management data from the power-managed server data processing system, to generate a power management command utilizing the power management data, and to transmit the power management command to the power-managed server data processing system utilizing the power management communication port. Moreover, the power management data of the described embodiment comprises power management capability data."

The patent application was filed on Aug. 1, 2008 (12/184,280). 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=8108703.PN.&OS=PN/8108703&RS=PN/8108703

Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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Bank of America Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1 — Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,108,726) developed by four co-inventors for an "adaptive diagnostics for implementation of an automated teller machine ("ATM") thin-client mode." The co-inventors are William H. McGraw IV, Charlotte, N.C., Nathan Dent, Charlotte, N.C., Timothy B. Vannatter, Charlotte, N.C., and Matthew K. Bryant, Gastonia, N.C.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Thus, methods and apparatus for providing adaptive diagnostics for ATM fault conditions are provided. Such methods and apparatus may include one or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a processor on a computer system, perform a method for diagnosing an electronic self-service device fault condition. The method may include receiving an input from a self-service device. The input may include information regarding a fault-related event. The method may also include assessing a plurality of system-level ramifications of the fault-related event. In response to the assessing, the method may further include determining continued viability of a plurality of ATM services. The method may also include electronically providing a notification of a list of remaining viable self-service device services."

The patent application was filed on March 18, 2010 (12/726,385). 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=8,108,726&OS=8,108,726&RS=8,108,726

Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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