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Date/App#	List of recent Fragmentation-related patents
12/05/13 20130326186	Avoiding physical fragmentation in a virtualized storage environment A virtualized storage stack includes logical layers above the physical storage layer. Each logical layer allocates data blocks, and the data block allocation is propagated down to the physical storage layer.
12/05/13 20130325419	Reservoir simulation with scalable grid computing Larger, expandable high performance computing (hpc) clusters which are of different generations and performance speeds are provided for reservoir simulation. This provides scalability and flexibility for running computation-intensive reservoir simulation jobs on hpc machines.
11/28/13 20130318526	Cloud defragmentation In an embodiment, a method includes identifying, in a defragmentation scheduling logic of a first system of a data center, a first virtual machine (vm) of a first server of the data center to select for migration based on a cost determined according to a source algorithm, identifying a second server of the data center to select for receipt of the first vm based on a cost determined according to a destination algorithm, where the second server has available free space to receive the first vm and the available free space has been scrubbed prior to the identification, and migrating a substantial plurality of vms between servers of the data center based on cost according to the source and destination algorithms, to defragment the data center.. .
11/28/13 20130316920	Nucleic acid analysis by random mixtures of non-overlapping fragments The invention provides methods and kits for ordering sequence information derived from one or more target polynucleotides. In one aspect, one or more tiers or levels of fragmentation and aliquoting are generated, after which sequence information is obtained from fragments in a final level or tier.
11/28/13 20130316307	Dental compositions comprising ethylenically unsaturated addition-fragmentation agent Dental compositions are described comprising an addition-fragmentation agent comprising at least one ethylenically unsaturated terminal group and a backbone unit comprising an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl; at least one monomer comprising at least two ethylenically unsaturated group; and inorganic oxide filler. The addition-fragmentation agent is preferably free-radically cleavable.
11/28/13 20130313100	Method of treating waste items (h) repeating steps (b) and (c) to effect fragmentation of said waste product item or combination of waste product items.. .
11/21/13 20130310264	Nucleic acid analysis by random mixtures of non-overlapping fragments The invention provides methods and kits for ordering sequence information derived from one or more target polynucleotides. In one aspect, one or more tiers or levels of fragmentation and aliquoting are generated, after which sequence information is obtained from fragments in a final level or tier.
11/21/13 20130306853	Analyzing target analytes in a sample using mass spectroscopy A method for determining an amount of an analyte in a sample by mass spectrometry can include the steps of (i) ionizing an analyte from the sample and a deuterated analog of the analyte, to produce an analyte ion and a deuterated analog ion, where the deuterated analog undergoes fragmentation and deuterium scattering during mass spectrometry; (ii) measuring an analyte ion signal and a deuterated analog ion signal by mass spectrometry, where the deuterated analog ion signal is measured using a mass transition resulting from fragmentation and deuterium scattering; and (iii) determining an amount of analyte in the sample using the analyte ion signal and the deuterated analog ion signal. Corresponding kits can include instructions for carrying out the method, together with a deuterated analog of the analyte selected to undergo fragmentation and deuterium scattering during mass spectrometry and exhibit a mass transition resulting from fragmentation and deuterium scattering..
11/14/13 20130302033	Dynamic assignment of wavelengths in agile photonic networks In an automatically switched optical network, the wavelengths are assigned to optical path based on their intrinsic physical performance and on the current network operating parameters. The wavelength performance information is organized in binning tables, based primarily on the wavelength reach capabilities.
10/31/13 20130291114	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for combining ip fragmentation evasion techniques Methods, systems, and computer readable media for combining ip fragmentation evasion techniques are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for combining ip fragmentation evasion techniques.
10/31/13 20130289398	Medical imaging contrast devices, methods, and systems Systems, methods, and devices for generating and using size-selected lanthanide-coated microbubbles for controlling an imaging signal via microbubble fragmentation and for magnetic resonance imaging guided focused ultrasound therapy.. .
10/31/13 20130284495	Additives for grain fragmentation in pb-free sn-based solder In one embodiment of the present invention, inert nano-sized particles having dimensions from 1 nm to 1,000 nm are added into a solder ball. The inert nano-sized particles may comprise metal oxides, metal nitrides, metal carbides, metal borides, etc.
10/24/13 20130282955	System and method for limiting fragmentation A method and system are disclosed for controlling the storage of data in a storage device to reduce fragmentation. The method may include a controller of a storage device receiving data for storage in non-volatile memory, proactively preventing fragmentation by only writing an amount of sequentially addressed logical groups of data into a main storage area of the storage device, such as multi-level cell (mlc) flash memory, and reactively defragmenting data previously written into the mlc memory when a trigger event is reached.
10/24/13 20130281733	Molybdenum-containing acidic catalysts to convert cellulosic biomass to glycolic acid Embodiments of the present invention include methods and compositions related to catabolic conversion of cellulosic biomass to glycolic acid using molybdenum-containing acidic catalysts. The invention includes the use of heteropoly and isopoly acids and salts as the molybdenum-containing multi-functional catalysts for biomass conversion.
10/24/13 20130279464	Ip fragmentation in gtp tunnel The present invention relates to a method for improving ip fragmentation and transmission of user payload between a user equipment, ue (10), and a peer node, pn (14). The payload is transmitted through a transmission path enabled by at least a first (17,18) and a second (17,18) established tunnel, said tunnels connecting a first (11), (13) and a second (11, 13) node in a packet core network, pcn.
10/24/13 20130278016	Magnesium-composite structures with enhanced design A segmented tube formed of a magnesium-based alloy and wrapped or jacketed with a reinforcement to apply a restraining force on the external surface of the tube for resisting fragmentation of the tube by the compressive force applied to the end of the tube serves as a structural member for receiving a compressive stress applied to an end of the tube and acting along the axis of the tube toward the opposing end of the tube. The magnesium alloy tube is comparatively light, and the segmented and wrapped or jacketed tube has an increased capacity to absorb compressive forces.
10/24/13 20130277570	Method and device for gas-phase ion fragmentation The invention relates to a device for performing electron capture dissociation on multiply charged cations. Provided is an electron emitter which, upon triggering, emits a plurality of low energy electrons suitable for efficient electron capture reactions to occur.
10/24/13 20130277548	Method of mass spectrometry and a mass spectrometer The present invention relates to a method of mass spectrometry, an apparatus adapted to perform the method and a mass spectrometer. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to a method of mass spectrometry comprising the step of associating parent and fragmentation ions from a sample by measuring the parent and fragmentation ions from two or more different areas of the sample and identifying changes in the number of parent ions between the areas in the sample, and corresponding changes in the number of fragmentation ions between the two areas..
10/17/13 20130275308	System for verifying electronic transactions The invention is an electronic payment system designed to capture payments from customers in an ecommerce environment, including on-line via a browser, a mobile browser or a mobile application, which can support any card payment method but can also integrate with e wallets such as pay pal and google checkout, and which enhances security for all parties using two factor two channel authentication and card fragmentation solutions, and which simplifies and enhances the payment process for shoppers and consumers.. .
10/17/13 20130274157	Lubricating composition and method for the preparation thereof The resultant lubricating composition not only aids in reducing loads on friction surfaces, but also is capable of performing the function of strengthening friction surfaces as a result of the plastic deformation of the metal in nanovolumes and the surface layer being brought into an active nanostructured state, said surface layer thus being strengthened. At the same time, the grains of the metal undergo intensive fragmentation, the density of the grain boundaries is increased, and the conditions for the diffusion of carbon deep into the surface (vertically) and into the grains (horizontally) are improved..
10/17/13 20130273343	Protective undergarment An insert for a protective garment, the insert having a fabric having at least 45 percent by weight of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene fibers, the fabric having a 2-grain v-50 fragmentation resistance of at least 700 feet per second and a fast-2 bending rigidity of less than 40 micronewtonmeters.. .
10/17/13 20130272710	Defragmentation of optical networks According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of spectrum defragmentation in an optical network may include assigning an optical signal within an optical network to a first frequency slot that spans a first portion of an optical spectrum of the optical network. The method may also include constructing a frequency slot dependency map based on the assignation of the optical signal to the frequency slot.
10/17/13 20130272318	Communication link bandwidth fragmentation avoidance A method and system for routing a connection on a communication network. A first bandwidth pool is classified as a long lived bandwidth pool and a second bandwidth pool is classified as a short lived bandwidth pool.
09/26/13 20130254509	Consideration of adjacent track interference and wide area adjacent track erasure during disk defragmentation Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product for defragmenting files on a hard disk drive. A computer system identifies a plurality of movable blocks on a hard disk drive.
09/26/13 20130248704	Mass spectrometer arranged to perform ms/ms/ms A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising an ion trap and a fragmentation device. Ions are fragmented in the ion trap to form first generation fragment ions.
09/19/13 20130240723	Systems and methods for rapidly screening samples by mass spectrometry Systems and methods are used to rapidly screening samples. A fast sample introduction device that is non-chromatographic is instructed to supply each sample of a plurality samples to a tandem mass spectrometer using a processor.
09/05/13 20130230059	Fragmentation for long packets in a low-speed wireless network A method includes creating a plurality of data fragments from a single data unit. The method also includes transmitting the plurality of data fragments to a receiver and receiving an acknowledgement from the receiver after transmitting a last data fragment of the plurality of data fragments.
09/05/13 20130228678	Ms/ms data processing A method of identifying precursor ion species from their fragments comprises obtaining mass spectra of a plurality of precursor ion species and their fragments to high mass accuracy. The fragment mass spectrum, obtained from fragmentation of multiple precursor ion species, is then scanned it identify pairs of fragments whose combined mass matches the mass of one of the precursor ion species.
08/29/13 20130227234	Temporary vtoc locking during defragmentation Various embodiments for defragmentation of a storage volume in a computing storage environment by a processor device are provided. A volume table of contents (vtoc) is serialized for a volume scan operation.
08/29/13 20130226881	Fragmentation control for performing deduplication operations The techniques introduced here provide for enabling deduplication operations for a file system without significantly affecting read performance of the file system due to fragmentation of the data sets in the file system. The techniques include determining, by a storage server that hosts the file system, a level of fragmentation that would be introduced to a data set stored in the file system as a result of performing a deduplication operation on the data set.
08/29/13 20130225431	Assessment of cellular fragmentation dynamics for detection of human embryonic aneuploidy Methods of evaluating the developmental potential of human embryos are disclosed. In particular, the invention relates to methods of detecting embryonic aneuploidy by assessment of cellular fragmentation dynamics in individual blastomeres of embryos up to the 4-cell stage.
08/29/13 20130224509	Aqueous oligomer / polymer emulsion with cationic functionality An aqueous emulsion comprising at least a covalently bound vinyl oligomer and vinyl polymer, wherein said vinyl oligomer comprises 5 to 85 mol % of vinyl monomers bearing quaternary ammonium ion functional groups or quaternisable amine functional groups and is obtained by a controlled radical polymerisation of at least one vinyl monomer via a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer mechanism in solution in the presence of a control agent and a source of free radicals; wherein said vinyl polymer is obtained by emulsion polymerisation of vinyl monomers in the presence of the vinyl oligomer; wherein the weight % ratio of vinyl oligomer to vinyl polymer is in the range of from 0.5:99.5 to 65:35.. .
08/29/13 20130221233	Fragmentation methods for mass spectrometry Apparatus and methods are provided that enable the interaction of low-energy electrons and positrons with sample ions to facilitate electron capture dissociation (ecd) and positron capture dissociation (pcd), respectively, within multipole ion guide structures. It has recently been discovered that fragmentation of protonated ions of many biomolecules via ecd often proceeds along fragmentation pathways not accessed by other dissociation methods, leading to molecular structure information not otherwise easily obtainable.
08/22/13 20130216835	Chromium catalysed ethylene copolymer powder The present invention relates to a chromium catalysed ethylene copolymer powder exhibiting a superior fragmentation coefficient.. .
08/15/13 20130212327	Composite solid state drive identification and optimization technologies Technologies for an operating system identifying ssd and cssd devices based on a corresponding descriptor, and for optimizing operating system functionalities with respect to the ssd/cssd device. Optimizations include disabling non-ssd/cssd functionalities, such as hdd defragmentation, and by enabling ssd/cssd specific functionalities, such as write optimization storage functionalities..
08/08/13 20130202512	Gas separation process A process for the separation of carbon dioxide from gas mixtures is disclosed in which a metal oxide sorbent, which is used to capture and release carbon dioxide, is recycled. The process incorporates the regeneration of the carbon dioxide capture capacity of the metal oxide to maintain a high capture capacity over many cycles.
08/01/13 20130198401	System and method for data stream fragmentation with scalability A method of data conditioning is disclosed that in one aspect can include the steps of receiving a data stream, encoding a time code in the data stream to identify a portion of the data stream corresponding to a content fragment, and separating the identified portion of the data stream to define the content fragment, wherein the content fragment comprises the encoded time code.. .
08/01/13 20130195203	System and method for data stream fragmentation A method of data conditioning is disclosed that in one aspect includes receiving a data stream and encoding into the data stream information representing a boundary of a content fragment, wherein the boundary is independent of a group of pictures structure of the data stream.. .
07/25/13 20130189519	Drug and imaging agent delivery compositions and methods A multi-arm, star-shaped polymer composition can be configured for drug delivery and imaging applications in vivo. The star polymer architecture can be synthesized using living radical polymerization techniques, including reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer and macromolecular design via the interchange of xanthates with a broad range of reaction conditions and functional groups.
07/25/13 20130189257	Use of pkc-iota inhibitors for the treatment of breast cancer The subject invention pertains to uses of pkc-iota inhibitors for treatment of breast cancer. In one embodiment, the subject invention provides novel uses of 1h-imidazole-4-carboxamide, 5-amino-1-[2,3 -dihydroxy-4-[(phosphonooxy) methyl]cyclopentyl]-,[1r-(1α, 2β, 3β, 4α)] (ica-1) and related compounds for treatment of breast cancer.
07/25/13 20130188968	Visible light communication method using dmx-512 network and apparatuses for the same Disclosed herein are a visual light communication (vlc) method and apparatus using a dmx-512 network. The vlc apparatus includes a dmx signal generation unit and a dmx signal transmission unit.
07/25/13 20130188654	Frame transmission system A frame transmission system includes a frame transmitter and a frame receiver. The frame transmitter includes a frame fragmentation unit and a reproduction header appending unit.

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