Patents Represented by Attorney Novak Druce & Quigg
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Patent number: 8346799Abstract: A search facility may optimize search result ranking by applying inverted decay transformations to history-dependent ranking components. Ranking scores for content in a content collection may be based on a set of ranking components including history-dependent ranking components. History-dependent ranking components may be based on historical behavioral data such as historical searches, actions taken with respect to content such as viewing content and content-related purchases. Content recently added to the content collection may be disadvantaged relative to content with an established history. Inverted decay transformations may correspond to simulations of additional historical behavioral data.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: A9.com, Inc.Inventors: François Huet, Anil A. Sewani, Daniel E. Rose
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Patent number: 8346072Abstract: Methods and devices for implementing a camera restriction on a wireless handheld communication device. As more handheld devices incorporate camera functionalities, organizations and individuals with privacy concerns are more vulnerable to unauthorized disclosure. The camera restriction prevents a user from taking a picture of a subject if the device has not been steadily focused on the subject in question for a predetermined period of time. In short, this process extends the normal camera-taking procedure and thus requires the camera user to take pictures in a conspicuous manner—the rationale being that a camera user would be less likely to take unauthorized pictures if such actions could be easily recognized. The camera restriction can be communicated to the device via a wireless communication network. Additionally, the restrictions and boundaries can be communicated to the device as part of an IT security policy.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventor: Archer Chi Kwong Wun
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Patent number: 8347302Abstract: Technology is provided to manage requests for physical resources in computing systems using system-aware scheduling techniques. Transactions having two or more dependent requests for a physical resource are identified by the computing system. Information identifying the requests as part of a dependent transaction is passed with the requests for the physical resource. In at least one mode of operation, a scheduler corresponding to the physical resource allocates submission of the requests to the physical resource using the dependent transaction information.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Pradeep Vincent, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian
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Patent number: 8346901Abstract: Methods and arrangements for selecting a content source from a plurality of potential content sources based on program information are described. A network resource maintains a mapping between itself and a static URL to be accessed by an application when updating content used in the application. The network resource can receive, over an electronic network, a configuration request providing the static URL and program information that at least identifies the application and version of the application. Based on the received information that is specific to the identified application version and from which content specific for that application version can be obtained, the network resource determines a second URL and provides the second URL to the application in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Tony F. Kinnis
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Patent number: 8347316Abstract: A system and method provide for synchronous operation of linked command objects in a general purpose software application. The software application provides a user with a variety of operations that manipulate available data objects. The software application manages the data objects in a number of contexts. Each context manages the existence and execution of a number of command objects. Each command object operates on one or more data objects in its context. To support synchronous operations that affect the state of data objects in more than one context, command objects are linked to each other. When one command object is executed, the context of the command object identifies a command object linked to the executed command object and initiates the execution of the linked command object via the context that manages that command object. This synchronization allows for synchronous undo and redone operations. The delete states of the command objects are also synchronized.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gregory S. Friedman, Thomas W. Becker
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Patent number: 8343226Abstract: A humeral prosthesis, for the articulation of a humerus in a scapula of a shoulder having a glenoid cavity, includes an articulation device able to be associated both with an articulation element mounted on the glenoid cavity, and also at the top of said humerus by an attachment element. The articulation device comprises a first element able to articulate with the articulation element and a second element associated with the attachment element, the first element and the second element being pivoted to each other around a pivoting axis to allow a free relative rotation thereof around the pivoting axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: LIMA-LTO SpAInventors: Livio Nogarin, Roberto Rotini, Paolo Dalla Pria
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Patent number: 8339990Abstract: A system and method uses a communication request and/or historical data collected by one or more devices to identify whether to fulfill the request using ad hoc networking or access points. If an access point is determined to be used, the system and method attempts to identify those access points that can best fulfill the request and then attempts to use such access points to fulfill the request.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Dash Navigation, Inc.Inventor: Assimakis Tzamaloukas
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Patent number: 8341146Abstract: A method for displaying a search history for a user is shown. The method includes generating a search history for a user including one or more listings of search results, displaying a first search result listing on a web page, and displaying at least a second search result listing on the web page, the second search result listing having a relationship to the first search result listing within the search history.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: A9.com, Inc.Inventors: Colin D. Bleckner, Colin M. Saunders
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Patent number: 8336747Abstract: A bicycle rack includes at least one arm and a cradle installed on the arm for receiving a bicycle thereon. The cradle has a body including a through-hole extending through the longitudinal length of the body. The through-hole is sized to be received by the arm of a bicycle rack. A saddle extending along a length of the longitudinal body is positioned above the through-hole and has a top surface for receiving a tube of a bicycle. The saddle is oriented cross-ways to the longitudinal axis of the through-hole. The top surface of the saddle can increase in dimension on one side of a vertical axis of the through-hole and decreases in dimension on the other side of the vertical axis as the saddle extends toward each end of the longitudinal body. A latch is positioned on opposite sides of the vertical axis at either end of the saddle.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Thule Sweden ABInventors: Kevin Bogoslofski, John R. Laverack
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Patent number: 8339385Abstract: A self calibrating imaging display system and machine-readable storage for such systems are provided, which perform various steps. The steps include forwarding a display test pattern, where the display test pattern including a measurement field comprising approximately 10% of a total number of pixels displayed by a screen and where the measurement field can be placed at different regions of the screen. The steps also include causing the measurement field to be stepped through a sequence of values. The steps further include receiving luminance and color values from photosensors to detect distinct luminance and color levels at the different regions of the screen. The steps also include determining luminance and color correction factors by comparing the detected luminance and color values to reference luminance and color data. The steps additionally include applying the determined luminance and color correction factors to the different regions of the screen.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sussan S. Coley, Victor S. Moore, Robert M. Szabo
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Patent number: 8340225Abstract: An IQ-imbalance of a complex receiver can be corrected by compensating the in-phase signal component and the quadrature-phase signal component produced by the complex receiver for an IQ-imbalance estimated by analyzing the in-phase signal component and the quadrature-phase signal component. A carrier signal can be received at the complex receiver. An in-phase signal component and a quadrature-phase signal component can be generated from the carrier signal. The generated in-phase signal component and the generated quadrature-phase signal component can be analyzed to estimate an IQ-imbalance. Based on the estimated IQ-imbalance, the in-phase signal component and quadrature-phase signal component can be compensated to correct the IQ-imbalance.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: SiTune CorporationInventors: Mahdi Khoshgard, Vahid Toosi, Marzieh Veyseh
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Patent number: 8340735Abstract: A circuit board in a mobile electronic device has a microphone and related amplifier and signal conditioning circuitry mounted thereon. A radio frequency (RF) shield surrounds and isolates the microphone from electromagnetic interference (EMI). The RF shield together with the circuit board forms an acoustic chamber surrounding the microphone. A hole in the RF shield permits acoustic energy to enter the acoustic chamber and reach the microphone.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventor: Wolfgang Edeler
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Patent number: 8340151Abstract: A system and method for addition of broad-area semiconductor laser diode arrays are described. The system can include an array of laser diodes, a V-shaped external cavity, and grating systems to provide feedback for phase-locking of the laser diode array. A V-shaped mirror used to couple the laser diode emissions along two optical paths can be a V-shaped prism mirror, a V-shaped stepped mirror or include multiple V-shaped micro-mirrors. The V-shaped external cavity can be a ring cavity. The system can include an external injection laser to further improve coherence and phase-locking.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLCInventors: Bo Liu, Yun Liu, Yehuda Y. Braiman
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Patent number: 8341143Abstract: Methods and apparatus for rendering search results are described. In one aspect of the invention, a search request is received from a computerized client. A search is performed based on the search request in at least two different categories of information to obtain search results in the searched categories. Selected search results are returned to the client to facilitate rendering the search results at the client. Search results from different search categories are returned in a manner configured to be presented in different panes of a graphical user interface rendered on the client. In another aspect, what searches to perform can be determined based at least in part upon search results display settings associated with the client, such that searches are performed only in categories of information that are associated with a pane that is in an open state on the client.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2004Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: A9.com, Inc.Inventors: Jason Karls, Ruben E. Ortega, Udi Manber
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Patent number: 8340840Abstract: A method and device for reducing on an aircraft lateral effects of a turbulence. The device (1) includes means (2, 3, 5, 7, A1, A2) for calculating and applying a roll control command and a yaw control command enabling the side effects generated by a turbulence event to be attenuated on the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)Inventor: Stéphane Puig
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Patent number: 8340898Abstract: A system and method splices into, or replaces routes identified based on road geometry with routes taken by the same user or other users to create alternate routes that may be selected by a user to display, for example, on a map or for which driving directions can be displayed. Communication of routes traveled by different devices may be received from a server or from another device. A naming convention for road segments and ordered paths of road segments is described.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Dash Navigation, Inc.Inventors: Robert Eldredge Currie, Assimakis Tzamaloukas
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Patent number: 8339472Abstract: An apparatus and method for capturing an image on a mobile device having a flash comprising a red light source and a white light source is presented herein. A detection of a color spectrum of ambient light is made using image data sensed by an image sensor. Additionally, a determination of an intensity of red light when combined with an associated intensity of white light results in a color spectrum that substantially matches the color spectrum of the ambient light. The flash emits white light from the white light source of the flash and red light from the red light source of the flash. An image from a camera module is recorded during the emission of the white and red light.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Yochanan Cliel Manoach Gilbert-Schachter, Marc Drader
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Patent number: 8335500Abstract: A communication device includes a display screen upon which information is displayed. A microprocessor configured to execute at least one notification program is provided that displays a notification descriptive of an access control request on the display screen. The at least one notification program is programmed to receive data indicative of an access control request and to receive data descriptive of the access control request. Additionally, the at least one notification program is further programmed to display a notification indicative of the access control request and comprising an explanation of the access control request based on the received descriptive data.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Christopher Lyle Bender, Michael Grant Kirkup, Michael Kenneth Brown, Radu Alexandru Manea, Brian Alexander Zubert
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Patent number: 8335765Abstract: A replicated database instance can be provisioned that provides primary and secondary replicas that can be provisioned in different data zones or geographical locations. The database can be installed on the primary replica, and both the primary and secondary replica can have installed a block level replication mechanism that allows any I/O operation to be replicated by between the primary and secondary replicas. Any failure or outage of the primary replica can be addressed by performing a failover operation to the secondary replica. A DNS name or other such approach can be used such that the name can be aliased to the secondary replica during a failover, such that there is no action needed on the part of the customer to utilize the “new” primary replica. The creation of the database and provisioning of the replicated instance can be initiated using a Web service call to a control environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister
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Patent number: 8335790Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for transmitting to a user system (3) geographical data that is stored, using a unit-surface sorting, in the database (4) of a provider system (2).Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)Inventors: Thomas Sauvalle, Eric Peyrucain, André Bourdais