Patents Represented by Attorney Cantor Colburn

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  • Semantic matching of federation intents and services capabilities in a planning system for automatic service federation
    Patent number: 8250185
    Abstract: A method, device, and computer program product are provided for automatically generating connectivity configuration between domains by a device. A rule is received by the device. The rule is read by the device to determine a first domain invoking a service, a second domain having the service, and connectivity requirements for the first and second domains. A first proxy and a second proxy are automatically determined to fulfill the rule by the device. The first proxy is automatically assigned to the first domain and the second proxy is automatically assigned to the second domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Bauer, Kristijan Dragicevic, Luis Garces-Erice, Minkyong Kim, Hui Lei, Hao Yang
  • Drill bit with weight and torque sensors and method of making a drill bit
    Patent number: 8245792
    Abstract: A drill bit made according to one embodiment includes at least one of a weight sensor and a torque sensor configured to provide signals representative of the weight and torque on the drill bit when the drill bit is used for cutting into a formation. A circuit may be configured to process signals from the weight and torque sensors to provide an estimate of the weight and torque on the bit when the drill bit is used for cutting into the formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Tu Tien Trinh, Eric Sullivan, Daryl Pritchard
  • Method for growing thin film
    Patent number: 8247031
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for growing a thin film, which includes modifying a surface grain size and surface roughness on a thin film to improve the mobility of a carrier and a light scattering effect. The method for growing a thin film includes: forming nuclei of grains having various grain orientations on a substrate; causing first grains having a first specific grain orientation to grow predominantly among the grains having various grain orientations, thereby forming a first preferred texture comprised of the predominantly grown first grains; and then causing second grains having a second grain orientation to grow predominantly, thereby forming a second preferred texture comprised of the predominantly grown second grains, wherein the surface grain size of each of the second grains forming the second texture is larger than that of each of the first grains forming the first texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Young Joon Baik, Won Mok Kim, Kyeong Seok Lee, Jong-Keuk Park, Jeung-hyun Jeong, Suyoun Lee, Taek Sung Lee
  • Method to efficiently locate meta-data structures on a flash-based storage device
    Patent number: 8250324
    Abstract: A method for facilitating fast reconstruction of metadata structures on a memory storage device includes writing a plurality of checkpoints holding a root of metadata structures in an increasing order of timestamps to a plurality of blocks respectively on the memory storage device utilizing a memory controller, where each checkpoint is associated with a timestamp, and wherein the last-written checkpoint contains a root to the latest metadata information from where metadata structures are reconstructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Haas, Xiao-Yu Hu, Roman A. Pletka
  • Constant velocity joint
    Patent number: 8246475
    Abstract: A boot assembly and constant velocity joint utilizing the boot assembly is provided. The constant velocity joint and boot assembly includes a first shaft, the first shaft having an axle portion extending between a first end and a second end, at least one of the first end and the second end having an enlarged joint portion. It also includes a hollow boot disposed on the first shaft having a joint end and a shaft end, the joint end disposed proximate the enlarged joint portion and the shaft end disposed proximate the axle portion. The constant velocity joint also includes a spacer, the spacer having an inner surface disposed on the axle portion and an outer surface having the shaft end of the boot disposed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Keith A. Kozlowski, Brian J. Kleinfeld, Matthew A. Berube
  • Firearm having a direct gas impingement operating system
    Patent number: 8245626
    Abstract: A direct gas impingement operating system for an automatic or semi-automatic rifle. The direct gas impingement operating system has a gas block fitted to a barrel having a bore, the gas block in communication with the bore. A gas sleeve is located in the gas block, the gas sleeve in communication with the bore through the gas block. A bolt assembly having an impingement cylinder and a gas line is fitted to the sleeve in communication with the bore through the sleeve and the gas block, the gas line further in fluid communication with the impingement cylinder. Gas discharged from a fired cartridge displaces the impingement cylinder displacing the bolt assembly. The sleeve and the gas line are removable from the gas block without removal of the gas block from the firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Colt Defense LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Langevin
  • Structure with reduced fringe capacitance
    Patent number: 8247877
    Abstract: A structure includes a substrate and a gate stack disposed on the substrate. The structure also includes a nitride encapsulation layer disposed on a side wall of the gate stack and which has been exposed to a plasma source. The structure also includes at least one other element contacting the nitride encapsulation layer in a region where the nitride encapsulation layer contacts the side wall of the gate stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Leland Chang, Isaac Lauer, Renee T. Mo, Jeffrey Sleight
  • Method, system and computer program product for storing external device result data
    Patent number: 8250336
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for storing result data from an external device. The method includes receiving the result data from the external device, the receiving at a system. The result data is stored into a store data buffer. The store data buffer is utilized by the system to contain store data normally generated by the system. A special store instruction is executed to store the result data into a memory on the system. The special store instruction includes a store address. The executing includes performing an address calculation of the store address based on provided instruction information, and updating a memory location at the store address with contents of the store data buffer utilizing a data path utilized by the system to store data normally generated by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chung-Lung Kevin Shum, Brian D. Barrick, Thomas Koehler, Aaron Tsai
  • Method and apparatus for the design and development of service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions
    Patent number: 8250521
    Abstract: A method is provided for designing and developing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) solution that comprises implementing a business process layer having a first set of architectural building blocks (ABBs) and configured to perform service composition and service decomposition; implementing a service component layer having a second set of ABBs and configured to perform service integration and service invocation; implementing a service layer having a third set of ABBs and configured to perform service discovery; and service aggregation; integrating the business process layer, the service component layer, and the service layer; and specifying a set of characteristics of the first, second, and third sets of ABBs to be reconfigurable based upon extensible rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Liang-Jie Zhang, Jia Zhang
  • Communication control
    Patent number: 8250206
    Abstract: A server including a storage unit for storing a history of activities that each character in a virtual world has performed; a search unit for searching the storage unit to retrieve a history of activities in which a first character that performs an activity on a first client has changed the states of a second client that performs an activity on a second client; a calculation unit for calculating, on the basis of the retrieved history, a score indicating the extent to which the first character has changed the state of the second character; and a transmission control unit for controlling the frequency with which the states of the first character are changed according to an operation performed by a user on the first client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Toshihiro Takahashi
  • Cellular-core structure for an acoustic panel
    Patent number: 8245815
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cellular-core structure (10) that can be used in an acoustic panel for a turbojet nacelle, comprising at least one cellular unit (12; 14), each cellular unit (12; 14) comprising two end sheets (18; 20), the end sheets (18; 20) being joined together by joining elements (24) that are placed so as to form cellular cells (32). The subject of the invention is also a method of producing such a structure, an acoustic panel comprising such a structure, and a nacelle comprising such an acoustic panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Laurent Valleroy, Emmanuel Drevon
  • Mobile ad hoc network configured as a virtual internet protocol network
    Patent number: 8249101
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for facilitating communication of a MANET is provided. A MANET may include a plurality of nodes configured as a virtual IP network. The virtual IP network may comprise a plurality of physical paths of the MANET. The physical paths may couple an IP network to an IP node. Each physical path may traverse a distinct set of nodes of the MANET. The physical paths may be represented to the IP network as a logical path comprising one or more virtual IP nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Gary W. Crain, Jr., Michael L. Mullins, Theodore B. Wesson
  • Thin film transistor, and display apparatus having the same
    Patent number: 8247815
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a thin film transistor includes forming a gate electrode on a substrate, forming a semiconductor layer on the gate electrode, forming a source electrode on the semiconductor layer, forming a drain electrode on the semiconductor layer spaced apart from the source electrode, forming a copper layer pattern on the source electrode and the drain electrode, exposing the copper layer pattern on the source electrode and the drain electrode to a fluorine-containing process gas to form a copper fluoride layer pattern thereon, and patterning the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-Il Choi, Sang-Gab Kim, Hong-Kee Chin, Min-Seok Oh, Yu-Gwang Jeong, Seung-Ha Choi
  • Switched capacitor voltage converters
    Patent number: 8248152
    Abstract: An on-chip voltage conversion apparatus for integrated circuits includes a first capacitor; a first NFET device configured to selectively couple a first electrode of the first capacitor to a low side voltage rail of a first voltage domain; a first PFET device configured to selectively couple the first electrode of the first capacitor to a high side voltage rail of the first voltage domain; a second NFET device configured to selectively couple a second electrode of the first capacitor to a low side voltage rail of a second voltage domain, wherein the low side voltage rail of the second voltage domain corresponds to the high side voltage rail of the first voltage domain; and a second PFET device configured to selectively couple the second electrode of the first capacitor to a high side voltage rail of the second voltage domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert H. Dennard, Brian L. Ji, Robert K. Montoye
  • Bidirectional telemetry apparatus and methods for wellbore operations
    Patent number: 8248266
    Abstract: A system and method for communicating data between a downhole tool and a surface controller is provided that comprises a rotating drill string extending in a borehole and having a downhole telemetry module disposed proximate a bottom end thereof and transmitting a first signal across a telemetry channel. A surface telemetry module is disposed proximate a top end of the rotating drill string and is adapted to receive the first signal transmitted by the downhole telemetry module across the transmission channel. The surface telemetry module has a radio frequency transmitter disposed therein for transmitting a second signal related to the first signal. A stationary communication module has a radio frequency receiver adapted to receive the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: John D. Macpherson, Frank W. Shepard, Ralf Zaeper, Volker Krueger
  • Methods, systems and computer products for user-managed multi-path performance in balanced or unbalanced fabric configurations
    Patent number: 8250256
    Abstract: Methods, system and computer products for user-managed multi-path performance in balanced or unbalanced fabric configurations. Exemplary embodiments include a path priority selection method, including selecting a first I/O data path to be a highest priority path in a storage area network system, selecting a second I/O data path to be a low priority path, selecting an I/O threshold value, the I/O threshold value indicating that I/O data load is excessive, directing the load balance of I/O traffic to the first I/O data path, thereby placing the second I/O data path in a standby state, monitoring the first I/O data path, determining if the first I/O data path has reached the threshold value and performing a controlled failover of the first I/O data path to the second I/O data path when an I/O data load on the first data path has reached the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vishal V. Ghosalkar, Che Lui Shum, Stanley Y. Wu
  • Self-assembly of block copolymers on topographically patterned polymeric substrates
    Patent number: 8247033
    Abstract: Highly-ordered block copolymer films are prepared by a method that includes forming a polymeric replica of a topographically patterned crystalline surface, forming a block copolymer film on the topographically patterned surface of the polymeric replica, and annealing the block copolymer film. The resulting structures can be used in a variety of different applications, including the fabrication of high density data storage media. The ability to use flexible polymers to form the polymeric replica facilitates industrial-scale processes utilizing the highly-ordered block copolymer films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: The University of Massachusetts, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Thomas P. Russell, Soojin Park, Dong Hyun Lee, Ting Xu
  • Method for reducing current and torque ripple in a brushed electric motor and motor employing the same
    Patent number: 8247944
    Abstract: A method for reducing current and torque ripple in a brushed electric motor is disclosed. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a brush housing having a plurality of circumferentially spaced brushes disposed about a commutator, each brush having a contact face that is in electrical contact with the commutator, an opposed bias face and a peripheral wall, each brush disposed in a brush pocket having a pocket wall, a base and a bias spring that is configured to apply a contact force to the bias face, thereby urging the contact face into electrical contact with the commutator. The method includes inserting a damper between each pocket wall or respective base and the respective brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Abraham G. Gebregergis, Jeffrey Beyerlein, Christian Ross, Troy P. Strieter
  • Chair
    Patent number: D665589
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Topstar GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Wagner
  • Seat back
    Patent number: D665604
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Topstar GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Wagner