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02/20/07

7,181,498 Community-based green list for antispam
  Issued: February 20, 2007
  Filed: March 1, 2004
  U.S. Class: 709/206
Abstract:  
A community-based "green list" (CGL) message filter for mail service providers. The CGL filtering enables trusted messages to be delivered directly into a user's inbox folder and other messages to be delivered to other folders associated with the user. The CGL filtering indicates which messages are sent from those message addresses listed as friends in the user's personal address book. Also, the scope of CGL filtering includes more than those message addresses that the user interacts with directly (one degree of separation). For example, the CGL filtering also evaluates message addresses that are connected more remotely to the user through other nodes (users) in the online community that are located multiple degrees of separation away from the user.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:34:33 pm into the following categories: Patents of the Day


02/20/07

7,180,418 Active threat detection and elimination while in transit
  Issued: February 20, 2007
  Filed: December 27, 2004
  U.S. Class: 340/568.1
Abstract:  
A method of active detection of at least one threat to the homeland security. Each such threat is either hidden inside at least one cargo container before transit, or is placed inside at least one cargo container while in transit; each such threat while interacting with its surrounding generates a unique threat signature. The method comprises the following steps: (A) substantially continuously probing each cargo container; (B) detecting at least one threat signature; (C) processing each detected threat signature to determine a likelihood of at least one threat to become a threat to the homeland security; (D) identifying at least one container that includes such threat to the homeland security; and (E) eliminating such threat to the homeland security.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:33:58 pm into the following categories: Patents of the Day


02/20/07

7,179,980 Automatic extraction of musical portions of an audio stream
  Issued: February 20, 2007
  Filed: December 12, 2003
  U.S. Class: 84/600
Abstract:  
Music and non-music portions in an audio stream are identified. The audio stream is digitized and segmented into frames. Selected frames are passed through a filter bank which includes filters having bandwidths approximately proportional to their center frequencies. The spectral flux for each selected frame is calculated and smoothed. Frames having a smoothed spectral flux below a threshold value are associated with music, and frames having a smoothed spectral flux above a threshold value are associated with non-music.

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02/20/07

California software company VirnetX Inc. has files suit against Microsoft Corporation, alleging the software giant's VPN technologies infringe on two VirnetX patents, one of which describes a method for establishing a secure communications link, and the other describes transparently creating a virtual private network. VirnetX's suit seeks both injunctive relief and damages; the suit was filed in the patent holder-friendly United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:27:19 am into the following categories: In The News


02/20/07

Genencor International Inc.’s parent Danisco A/S is liable to pay damages of $8.2 million in a patent infringement case related to an enzyme product, according to a Delaware court ruling in favor of Novozymes A/S. The Danish firm said that, under the ruling, the damages would be paid in the form of royalty, plus interest and a share of the opposing party’s legal fees. The parties have 10 days to agree on a form of the judgment reflecting the decision, and either party may appeal 30 days after the final judgment. Danisco officials said it will assess the legal reasoning of the decisions with regard to liability and damages.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:26:19 am into the following categories: In The News


02/20/07

Reunion.com, Inc., its subsidiary GoodContacts, Ltd. and Plaxo, Inc. today announced that they have reached an agreement to resolve their current legal dispute. The companies are dismissing all claims and counterclaims in their pending lawsuit and releasing each other from claims related to the suit. The companies have agreed to cross-license patented technology. Other terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 01:25:02 am into the following categories: In The News


02/20/07

Newport Beach’s Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth won a not-so generic trial earlier this month. The law firm defended generic drug maker Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Rancho Cucamonga in a patent infringement suit brought by France’s Sanofi-Aventis. A federal judge invalidated Sanofi’s patent for Lovenox, a blood thinner used to fight blood clotting and heart attacks. Sanofi committed “inequitable conduct” to get its patent, the judge said. Lovenox does about $2 billion in U.S. sales a year and an additional $750 million abroad. Its patent was set to expire in 2012. Sanofi plans to appeal.

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