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The United States Department of Justice announced that CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and EMC, will be allowed to acquire patents from Novell Inc. in a two-stage transaction, provided that changes are made to address competition concerns. The deal, which would have originally harmed the ability
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Researchers at International Business Machines (IBM) have successfully developed an innovative filtering technique to enhance web service security measures. A team of four co-inventors, led by Hyen-Vui Chung, has been granted a patent for their web service message filtering technique, designed to analyze and process security protocols within web service
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IBM has been assigned a patent developed by six co-inventors for an "adapting command line interface messaging in a virtual operating system environment." The patent, assigned patent number 7,934,222, was developed by Ray W. Anderson, Neal R. Marion, Alexander Medvedev, David Nevarez, George F. Ramsay III,
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International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent developed by ten co-inventors for a "selective implementation of barrier layers to achieve threshold voltage control in CMOS device fabrication with high-k dielectrics." The patent, assigned the number 7,928,514, was developed by Nestor A. Bojarczuk
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International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,928,571) developed by four co-inventors for a "device having dual etch stop liner and reformed silicide layer and related methods." The co-inventors are Dureseti Chidambarrao, Weston, Conn., Ying Li, Newburgh, N.Y., Rajeev Malik, Pleasantville,
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Intel, a renowned technology giant, has been assigned a patent (7,924,809) developed by Hujun Yin, Roshni Srinivasan, and Sassan Ahmadi for techniques to provide a channel quality indicator in wireless networks. The patent abstract states that techniques are described to allocate distributed and/or contiguous basic resource blocks
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Freescale Semiconductor has been granted a patent for its innovative method of anti-stiction dimple formation under Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). The patent, developed by Woo Tae Park and Hemant D. Desai, addresses the challenge of reducing stiction between MEMS structures and their substrates. By creating a method to form dished portions
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IBM has been assigned a patent for a "system on chip IC with subsystem of multiple processing cores switch coupled to network protocol device and bus bridge to local system bus." The patent, developed by Christos J. Georgiou, Victor L. Gregurick, and Valentina Salapura, describes a System-on-Chip (SoC)
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International Business Machines (IBM) has been assigned a patent for a "distributed filesystem network security extension" developed by five co-inventors. The security protocol dynamically implements enhanced mount security of a filesystem when access to sensitive files on a networked filesystem is requested. The system ensures that authorized users
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Microsoft has been assigned a patent for "optical storage media with embedded security device" (US Patent 7,916,616). The patent, developed by Mark Benedikt and Timothy A. Rosemore, describes an optical disk with an embedded security device to prevent counterfeiting. The security device includes features that enable
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Microsoft has been assigned a patent for a system and method for detecting malware in an executable code module according to the code module's exhibited behavior. The patent, developed by Daniel M. Bodorin and Adrian M. Marinescu, utilizes a behavior evaluation module to execute the code module and
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International Business Machines has been assigned a patent for ultra-thin SOI vertical bipolar transistors with an inversion collector on thin-buried oxide (BOX) for low substrate-bias operation and methods. Developed by six co-inventors, the patent (7,911,024) aims to simplify the integration scheme and reduce manufacturing costs. The invention provides
