| 29th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
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| 20100186057 | WEB-BASED PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER (PVR)-TYPE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE - A web-based subscription service PVR system. An Internet server maintains, for each subscriber, the subscriber's aggregated content including digital rights management (DRM) rules for each piece of content as defined by the content provider. Pointers to requested content are provided. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186058 | Method of processing non-real time service and broadcast receiver - A method of receiving and processing a Non-Real Time (NRT) service and a broadcast receiver are disclosed herein. A method of processing a Non-Real Time (NRT) service in a broadcast receiver includes receiving a first signaling information table including signaling information of the NRT service and a second signaling information table including announcement information of the NRT service, detecting a duplicate of the signaling information included in the first signaling information table and a duplicate of the announcement information included in the second signaling information table, acquiring the signaling information after processing the first signaling information table if the signaling information included in the first signaling information table is not a duplicate and acquiring the announcement information after processing the second signaling information table if the announcement information included in the second signaling information table is not a duplicate, and receiving and processing NRT service data based on the acquired signaling information and announcement information. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186059 | Method of processing non-real time service and broadcast receiver - A method of receiving and processing a Non-Real Time (NRT) service and a broadcast receiver are disclosed herein. A method of processing an NRT service in a broadcast receiver includes receiving and processing a signaling information table including detail information of each content in the NRT service and indication information indicating whether the content is available on internet, acquiring internet access information of each file belonging to content available on the internet through File Delivery Table (FDT) of File Delivery over Unidirection Transport (FLUTE) based on the indication information, and downloading files belonging to the content by accessing the internet based on the acquired internet access information. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186060 | UPLINK SIGNALING FOR GLOBAL DECODER CONTROL - Uplink signaling for controlling a plurality of decoders at a remote site. An uplink has a control server for controlling a storage system of the decoders at the remote site. The control server of the uplink controls the storage system by injecting at least one global control stream multiplexed with a transport stream. The transport multiplexed with the global control stream is formed at the uplink for controlling the decoders simultaneously. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186061 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING FOR INTERACTIVE VIDEO - Processing interactive software supporting video, including a first computer configured to execute an interactive process and display a video stream response, where the interactive process responds to an external input by generating a control signal and sending the control signal, a remote console configured to receive the control signal and send the video stream response where the video stream response is computed by the remote console, and a hardware interface configured to convert the control signal from a first format to a second format and to convert the video stream response from the second format to the first format where the first computer sends the control signal and receives the video stream response in the first format and where the remote console receives the control signal and sends the video stream response in the second format. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186062 | PROTECTING CONTENT FROM THIRD PARTY USING CLIENT-SIDE SECURITY PROTECTION - Architecture that employs encryption and storage of encryption keys to protect trusted client message content from an untrusted third-party hosted service. Each trusted user machine is configured to optionally apply security to messages. Rules determine when automatic protection is applied and the level of protection to apply. The trusted client automatically downloads the rules (or rules policies) from a trusted rules service and caches the rules locally. During composition, the rules analyze the message and automatically apply security template(s) to the message. The security template(s) encrypt the body of the message, but not the headers or subject. The untrusted message service processes the header and delivers the message to the correct recipient. The hosted service cannot view the contents of the message body, and only intended recipients of the protected message can view the message body. Offline protection is supported, and the user can override protection by the rules. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186063 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SETTING SECURITY CONFIGURATION TO A DEVICE - A method of accessing an image forming apparatus (IFA) or a multifunction printer (MFP) using a management device (MD) via a network, transmitting security information from the MD to the IFA, updating an original security configuration of the IFA with a new security configuration using the security information, using the new security configuration by the IFA, and confirming the new security configuration with the MD. After confirming, it is preferable the security information is deleted. Also, an IFA including a confirmation unit and a write protection unit for use with the method. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186064 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OBTAINING CAPABILITIES OF POLICY AND CHARGING ENFORCEMENT FUNCTION - A method for obtaining capabilities of a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) includes these steps: a Policy Control and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) obtains capability information of the PCEF; and the PCRF performs processing according to the capability information. A PCRF is also disclosed. With the present disclosure, the PCEF reports its capabilities in advance so that the PCRF makes policy decisions for a service or subscribes to appropriate application events from the PCEF when it knows the capabilities of the PCEF. This avoids possible subscription errors and decision failures arising when the PCRF is unable to know the capabilities of the PCEF. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186065 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING CONTENTS, METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENTS AND DEVICE BASED ON SECURITY LEVEL - A method for using contents, a method for sharing contents, and a device based on security level are disclosed. A method for using contents based on security level creates a device security level according to the number of device identification elements, receives contents, and if the device security level is found to be a minimum allowed device security level for using the contents, uses the contents. Therefore, a device that does not satisfy the conditions required for using contents cannot use the contents, whereby security is reinforced. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186066 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING PERSONAL DATA PROPAGATION - Methods and systems for facilitating the propagation of personal data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Personal Data Propagation Environment (“PDP environment”), which facilitates the propagation of personal data items between secure personal data stores and various consumers of the personal data items. In one embodiment, the PDP environment includes a personal data manager and a personal data subscriber. The personal data manager manages personal data items on a secure data store associated with a user computing device. The personal data manager provides access to personal data items stored on the secure data store in accordance with a personal data subscription associated with the personal data subscriber. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186067 | Methods for Secure Data Distribution - A method for secure distribution of data in an interchange network, comprises having a network in which data records stored on at least one computer; and including an authorization service, where the authorization service grants a contractor access to at least a portion of the data records; and a watermarking module that adds one or more artificial records to said portion. The artificial records cannot be distinguished from the data records by the contractor and are valid for processing in the same way as the data records. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186068 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When a process ( | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186069 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION CHECKING ON LBS IN WIMAX NETWORK - A device for performing authentication and authorization checking on Location-based service (LBS) in Wimax network comprises a location assessment module (LA) adapted to performing location assessment, a location coordination and control module (LC) adapted to initiate LBS assessment, location calculation; a memory included in AAA and adapted to store LBS subscription information; an authentication processing module included in AAA and responsible for LBS authentication; an authorization list memory included in LS; and an authorization checking module included in LS and responsible for authorization checking on MO MS. Present invention provides a method for authentication and authorization checking on LBS in Wimax network. This strengthens security for LBS in Wimax network, protects privacy right of subscribers to LBS, and fills up the blankness in the current Wimax standards. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186070 | System, device and method for secure provision of key credential information - A system for secure provision of key credential information is provided. The system comprises secure logic circuitry for being disposed in a host computer. The secure logic circuitry detects a message received from a remote computer connected to the host computer and indicative of a request for provision of the key credential information; generates a message for prompting a user for provision of the key credential information; receives the key credential information; and provides the key credential information to the remote computer absent processing using circuitry of the host computer. The system further comprises a secure user interface cormected to the secure logic circuitry for receiving the key credential information from the user and providing the same to the secure logic circuitry. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186071 | NETWORK AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A network authentication system and method are provided. When an authentication request is initiated by a user of a computer device through a network, a display interface displaying an identifier, an authentication (matching) result corresponding to the identifier and one or more non-authentication (bogus) results unrelated to the identifier are transmitted to the computer device. The user then chooses among the authentication result and the non-authentication results with the goal of choosing the result that is associated with displayed identifier. If a non-authentication result is chosen, the user is given an opportunity to repeat the authentication. The identifier includes advertising information, thereby predictably producing a desired advertising effect. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186072 | Distributed secure telework - The invention provides a method and system for providing distributed secure telework by a plurality of teleworkers. The method includes using non-biometric information to authenticate the plurality of teleworkers, establishing a virtual private network for displaying non-privileged data, providing biometric recognition for displaying privileged data to one or more of a plurality of teleworkers, providing real-time identity validation for the plurality of teleworkers, and facilitating interaction and providing telework capability between an information source and the one or more of the plurality of teleworkers. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186073 | Multi-media remote data access terminals and system - In a public internet access terminal, the combination comprising an access station, and computer apparatus at the station and including a user keyboard and data display means, and a user credit card reader at the station, and the computer apparatus including circuit means operatively connected to the card reader to be responsive to reading of user credit card data to enable user access to the internet via the computer apparatus at the access station. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186074 | Authentication Using Graphical Passwords - An authenticator may include graphical passwords. An authenticator may include a password image, which may include one or more clickable areas, and/or a key image, which may include click point data. An authenticator may include a mobile computing resource, a terminal computing resource and/or a challenger, which may be configured to communicate with each other. A mobile computing resource may be configured to receive and/or display a key image, such that click point data may be presented, determined, and/or input to a password image. A challenger may be configured to compare input click point data and a key image. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186075 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING DEVICES IN A SECURE MANNER - The present disclosure is concerned with a secure and trustable way of accessing devices in an embedded device environment with no network connectivity to outside service. This type of access to access-critical embedded devices by a user or service technician is controlled by way of a mobile memory or access-ticket storage i.e., such as a physical token. The token can, for example, be a smartcard or USB stick with appropriate memory for storing a user credential(s) or user identification such as a password or fingerprint. In an exemplary embodiment, a user can acquire an electronic access ticket with a suitable expiration period from a centralized ticket or access authorization server before travelling to the access-critical device, or to a location communicatively connected to the latter. The access ticket can contain access rights of the user with respect to one or several access-critical devices, and can be stored on the mobile memory. The access rights can be evaluated by the access-critical devices upon authentication of the identity of the user, based on the user credential(s), by an authenticating device to which the mobile memory can be coupled. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186076 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING SECURITY SERVICES USING A SECURE DEVICE - A secure portable electronic device for providing secure services when used in conjunction with a host computer. The secure portable device includes a read-only memory partition, a read/write memory partition, and a secure memory partition. The secure portable device includes instructions stored in the read-only partition including a host agent containing instructions executable by the host computer. The secure portable device also includes instructions stored in the secure memory partition. These instructions include a card agent containing instructions executable by central processing units secure portable electronic device, and includes a card agent communications module for communicating with the host agent; and a security module for accessing private information stored in the secure memory partition. The host agent includes a host agent communications module for communicating with the card agent and at least one function requiring use of private information stored in the secure memory partition of the portable device and operable to transmit a request to the card agent to perform a corresponding function requiring the use of private information stored on the portable device. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186077 | SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, AND METHOD THEREOF FOR TRANSMITTING DATA STREAM - A system, a controller, and a method thereof for transmitting data stream from a host to a peripheral device with a chip are provided. At least a part of a data stream is transmitted from the host to the peripheral device. Then, the host inerrably receives a response message generated by the chip by executing a plurality of read commands. The data stream and the response message have corresponding write tokens, and the write token of the data stream is compared with the write token of the response message to verify the accuracy of the response message. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186078 | Personal Portable Secured Network Access System - Authenticating a customer for access to a content server. The customer is biometrically authenticated to a secure terminal based on information stored in a secure personal storage device belonging to the customer. The customer is allowed access to the secure terminal after a successful authentication. The customer is authenticated to the content server based on account credentials stored on the secure personal storage device issued by the content server. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186079 | REMOTE ACCESS TO PRIVATE NETWORK RESOURCES FROM OUTSIDE THE NETWORK - In some embodiments of the invention, techniques may make private identifiers for private network resources usable to establish connections to those private network resources from computing devices connected to an outside network. For example, when a computing device is connected to an outside network and attempting to contact a private network resource, DNS may be used to resolve a domain name for the private network resource to an IP address for an edge resource of the private network. Communications may be passed between the computing device and the edge resource according to protocols which embed the identifier originally used to identify the private network resource. The edge resource of the private network may analyze communications over the connection to determine this identifier, and use it to pass the communication to the desired private network resource. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186080 | PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREIN - A system comprises one or more slave elements operably coupled to a plurality of master devices. A central protection function is operably coupled to a first communication bus and configured to control data flow between the one or more slave elements and the plurality of master devices via the communication bus. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186081 | Portable Communication Terminal and Use-Enabled/Disabled Control Method - To provide a mobile communication terminal which can improve security. A mobile telephone device ( | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186082 | Web Management Authorization and Delegation Framework - Described is a technology in which a non-administrator computer/web user is allowed to perform an administrative-level task within a certain context and/or scope. An authorization store is queried based on information (e.g., a provider, a username, and a path) provided with an authorization request, e.g., from an application via an API. The information in the authorization store, set up by an administrator, determines the administrative action is allowed. If so, a credential store provides credentials that allow the action to be runs before reverting the user to the prior set of credentials. Also described is a pluggable provider model through which the authorization store and/or delegation store are accessed, whereby the data maintained therein can be any format and/or at any location known to the associated provider. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186083 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING USER - A user authenticating apparatus stores user information where identification information to identify each of a plurality of users and biological information of each user are associated with each other, acquires identification information of the user, when the user starts to use a predetermined target, authenticates each user using the acquired identification information and the stored user information, as first authentication, stores the identification information of the user whose first authentication is succeeded as success information, acquires the biological information of the user, and authenticates each user using the acquired biological information and the biological information corresponding to the identification information of the users stored as the success information among the stored biological information, as second authentication. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186084 | REMOVABLE MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE AUTHENTICATION PROCESSES - A method comprises providing first user authentication data of a user and comparing the first user authentication data to first stored template data. When the comparison is indicative of a match, a first session is provided, which supports one of user access for retrieving first data that are stored within a peripheral memory storage device and user access for modifying a data content of the peripheral memory storage device. The first session does not support the other one of user access for retrieving first data that are stored within the peripheral memory storage device and user access for modifying a data content of the peripheral memory storage device. During the first session, second user authentication data of the same user is provided and compared to second stored template data. When the comparison is indicative of a match, a second session is provided, which does support the other one of user access for retrieving first data that are stored within the peripheral memory storage device and user access for modifying the data content of the peripheral memory storage device. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186085 | Method and System to Support Dynamic Rights and Resources Sharing - The invention relates to method for deriving a sub-right from a right, the right comprising a plurality of components, each of which specifies an aspect of the right. A component may be, for example, a principal, an action, a resource, and a condition. The invention also relates to a method for integrating a first right with a second right. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method of sharing rights by deriving a sub-right from a right, allowing use of the sub-right, and integrating the sub-right with the right. In addition, the invention relates to a system to support rights sharing by enabling the derivation of a sub-right from a right, the right comprising plural components each of which specifies an aspect of the right, the system comprising a receiving module for receiving a sub-right, the sub-right comprising plural components each of which specifies an aspect of the sub-right, and a confirmation module for confirming that the values of the components of the sub-right can be derived from the values of the corresponding components of the right. The invention further relates to a method for deriving a sub-right from a pool of rights granted by a grantor to a grantee for controlling use of resources within a computing environment, the computing environment having a mechanism for enforcing rights within the environment to control use of resources in accordance with the rights. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186086 | METHODS FOR INSPECTING SECURITY CERTIFICATES BY NETWORK SECURITY DEVICES TO DETECT AND PREVENT THE USE OF INVALID CERTIFICATES - Disclosed are methods and media for inspecting security certificates. Methods include the steps of: scanning, by a network security device, messages of a security protocol between a server and a client system; detecting the messages having a security certificate; detecting suspicious security certificates from the messages; and aborting particular sessions of the security protocol associated with the suspicious certificates. Preferably, the step of scanning is performed only on messages of server certificate records. Preferably, the method further includes the step of: sending an invalid-certificate notice to the server and the client system. Preferably, the step of detecting the suspicious certificates includes detecting a use of an incorrectly-generated private key for the certificates. Preferably, the step of detecting the suspicious certificates includes detecting an unavailability of revocation information for the certificates. Preferably, the step of detecting the suspicious certificates includes detecting a use of an invalid cryptographic algorithm for the certificates. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186087 | PROCESSING PACKET STREAMS - Systems and methods are disclosed that includes a data-bus, system memory, a first processor arranged to receive an input stream, and a second processor programmed to apply one or more security algorithms to secure packets of the input stream to generate at least partially security-processed packets. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186088 | AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF PHISHING, PHONY AND MALICIOUS WEB SITES - A method and system for automated identification of phishing, phony, and malicious web sites are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method, comprises receiving a first input, the first input including a universal resource locator (URL) for a webpage. A second input is received, the second input including feedback information related to the webpage, the feedback information including an indication designating the webpage as safe or unsafe. A third input is received from a database, the third input including reputation information related to the webpage. Data is extracted from the webpage. A safety status is determined for the webpage, including whether the webpage is hazardous by using a threat score for the webpage and the second input, wherein calculating the threat score includes analyzing the extracted data from the webpage. The safety status for the webpage is reported. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186089 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROTECTING CROSS-DOMAIN INTERACTION OF A WEB APPLICATION ON AN UNMODIFIED BROWSER - A system and method for protecting cross-domain interaction of a web application on an unmodified browser. The system includes: a security framework, which is created by a browser. The security framework further includes: a component creator for creating components from a plurality of sources; and supervision module for supervising and controlling scripts/codes executed during the creation of components and invocation and interaction operations performed by various components after the creation of components. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186090 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR A CONTENT PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR PROTECTING PERSONAL CONTENT - An apparatus for providing a content protection system for protecting personal content may include a processor configured to receive an indication of personal content submitted for inclusion in a content protection system, and determine admissibility of the personal content to the content protection system based at least in part on indicia associated with a source device from which the personal content originated. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186091 | Methods to dynamically establish overall national security or sensitivity classification for information contained in electronic documents; to provide control for electronic document/information access and cross domain document movement; to establish virtual security perimeters within or among computer networks for electronic documents/information; to enforce physical security perimeters for electronic documents between or among networks by means of a perimeter breach alert system - The invention is an a document classification and marking engine/method that functions in a real-time compatible mode with off-the-shelf word processors, e-mail programs and presentation or other document development software applications. The software engine is used for the security classification of sensitive or national security classified information in electronic format and is enhanced by methods and processes that ensure that the software classification engine considers all document informational elements regardless of attributes assigned to the text that may hide text from the user. The software engine provides a complete and reliable document classification determination interface method based on user selections and uniquely codes the full text classification determination in a persistent manner within the electronic shell of the document in real-time and dynamically displays the text based full classification determination in the banner of the host document development application. The unique codes of the full classification embedded in the electronic shell of the document enable effective and reliable software processes and methods that establish controls for access, movement, storage etc. for electronic documents, as well as virtual electronic security perimeters, on a computer, networks of computers and/or among computer networks and domains of networks. The full or complete and persistent classification codes embedded in the document shell also enables reliable software processes and methods that immediately warn or alert security personnel of a beach of a physical security perimeter between or among computers networks or domains of networks established to protect the information contained in electronic document format. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186092 | NETWORK AUDIO-VIDEO CONTENTS PLAYBACK TERMINAL, SERVER, AND SYSTEM - Methods to set a viewing and/or listening term are classified into two types, which are a fixed-time-length type to limit time length and a fixed-expiration-time type to limit expiration time. And the timings of license acquisition are classified into two types which are an immediate-acquisition type and a point-of-use type. The type of the timing of license acquisition is written to a meta data which is to be sent to a terminal before initiating download. The terminal determines the timing of license acquisition according to the meta data. When contents are point-of-use type, the terminal doesn't acquire a key and an expiration time information until a time of initiating playback. On the other hand, when contents are immediate-acquisition type, the terminal acquires the key and the expiration time information at any point of time. Since the key is acquired at the early timing such as download completion timing, a reaction velocity in response to a playback instruction can be heighten. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186093 | PORTABLE MASS STORAGE DEVICE WITH HOOKING PROCESS - The invention relates to a portable mass storage device ( | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186094 | EMBEDDED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND METHOD THEREFOR - An administration system for use within a server system is provided. The server system having a server that provides host management functions and the server system being able to accept computer cards inserted therein. The administration system comprises a computing system that is inserted in the server system, the computing system having a controller that assumes control over the communications bus. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186095 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GAP BASED ANTI-PIRACY - In order to achieve a more robust level of piracy protection, a gap protection scheme is utilized. This protection scheme may utilize the notion of a gap, which may comprise any entity or component that is withheld from a distribution that is required in order to run or execute a software title or is required in order to play and enjoy any other type of protected asset. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186096 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an alteration unit and a control unit. The alteration unit alters a first image file stored in a removable storage medium in order to generate a second image file. The control unit controls to store the second image file in the storage medium without deleting the first image file from the storage medium, if the first image file includes authentication data that is used to authenticate whether the first image file has been altered. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186097 | CELL-BASED RNA INTERFERENCE AND RELATED METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS - The invention provides, among other things, methods for performing RNA interference in stem cells and methods for using the stem cells in vivo. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186098 | TRANSGENIC ANIMAL MODELS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE - The present invention provides transgenic animal models of Parkinson's disease. More specifically, the present invention provides a transgenic rodent animal containing a nucleic acid molecule which encodes a mutant human LRRK2 protein. The transgenic animal of the present invention recapitulates cardinal Parkinson's disease symptoms and characteristics. The present invention also provides methods of screening for a therapeutic agent useful for treating Parkinson's disease by utilizing such transgenic rodent animal. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186099 | Production of Human Glycosylated Proteins in Silk Worm - A transgenic silkworm system for recombinant glycoprotein production is provided. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186100 | ANTIBODIES AND PEPTIDE ANTIGENS FOR PRODUCING ANTIBODIES HAVING A SELECTIVE BINDING SPECIFICITY TO BIOACTIVE INTACT PARATHYROID HORMONE (PTH) 1-84 - Peptide antigens corresponding to amino acid residues 2-12, 1-12, 2-15 and 1-15 of parathyroid hormone (PTH), antibodies having an affinity to such peptide antigens and methods of producing the same. Such antigens, antibodies and methods producing the same according to the present invention are useful in determining bioactive intact PTH levels in serum, plasma, and/or cell culture media. Such antibodies further possess a high degree of species cross-reactivity, but substantially mitigated cross-reactivity to non-whole PTH peptide fragments and little to no recognition of the first amino acid residue of PTH. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186101 | DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF FERTILITY CONDITIONS USING A SERINE PROTEASE - The invention relates to the use of a serine protease, which is specifically expressed in association with embryo implantation and placentation in pregnant uterus in the evaluation of fertility and monitoring of early pregnancy, placental development and function, fetal development, parturition, and conditions such as pre-eclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, early abortion, abnormal uterine bleeding, endometriosis, and cancers. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186102 | Methods and compositions for post-transcriptional gene silencing - An isolated double stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) molecule that inhibits the expression of a target gene, the dsRNA comprising two strands of nucleotides wherein a first strand has a length of from 19 to 28 consecutive nucleotides and is substantially identical to a sequence in the target gene and wherein a second strand is substantially complementary to the first strand, and a binding moiety that binds a 3′ end of the first strand to a 5′ end of the second strand. An isolated double stranded ribonucleic acid molecule comprising a first strand of nucleotides that is substantially identical to SEQ ID NO: 3 and a second strand that is substantially complementary to the first. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186103 | Isolation Of Novel AAV'S And Uses Thereof - The invention in some aspects relates to isolated nucleic acids, compositions, and kits useful for identifying adeno-associated viruses in cells. In some aspects, the invention provides kits and methods for producing somatic transgenic animal models using recombinant AAV (rAAV) to an animal having at least one transgene that expresses a small interfering nucleic acid or at least one binding site for a miRNA. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186104 | Heat-Tolerant Cotton Plant Containing Multiple Transgenes - The present invention provides methods to genetically transform cotton plant, | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186105 | YIELD AND STRESS TOLERANCE IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS III - Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer increased yield, greater height, greater early season growth, greater canopy coverage, greater stem diameter, greater late season vigor, increased secondary rooting, more rapid germination, greater cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, reduced stomatal conductance, altered C/N sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, increased low phosphorus tolerance, or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to the control plant as compared to a control plant. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186106 | YIELD AND STRESS TOLERANCE IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS IV - Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer increased yield, greater height, greater early season growth, greater canopy coverage, greater stem diameter, greater late season vigor, increased secondary rooting, more rapid germination, greater cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, reduced stomatal conductance, altered C/N sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, increased low phosphorus tolerance, or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to the control plant as compared to a control plant. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186107 | METHODS OF PRODUCING IMPROVED FRAGRANT PLANTS - Methods of producing fragrant plants with improved crop performance wherein the fragrant plant has or retains at least some fragrance are provided. Typically, the methods include selecting for or conferring at least partial tolerance to one or more abiotic stress factors. The methods of the invention may be useful to confer at least partial tolerance to salt. The methods of the invention produce fragrant plants that exhibit an improvement in the ability to perform as a crop. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186108 | Improving Cold- and Salt-tolerant Performance of Plants with Transcription Factor Gene SNAC2 from Rice - The present invention relates to clone isolation, function confirmation and use of the SNAC2 gene from rice associated with the plant tolerance to cold and salt stress. Said gene comprises (a) a DNA sequence as shown in position 112-1023 of SEQ ID NO:1, or (b) a DNA sequence that encodes the same protein as that encoded by (a). The present invention also relates to use of said gene in increasing the tolerance of plants to drought and salt stress. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186109 | GENES OF ENZYMES PARTICIPATING IN VITAMIN E BIOSYNTHESIS IN PARA RUBBER TREE - It is a subject of this invention to isolate a gene group of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of vitamin E of Para rubber tree, and to determine the base sequence of each gene. According to this invention, genes encoding enzymes involved in the vitamin E biosynthesis were isolated from Para rubber tree and the base sequences of these genes were determined. Since vitamin E is an antioxidant existing in nature, it is expected that transformation of a plant by using the genes obtained in the invention would result in an increase in the vitamin E content of the plant and, in its turn, contribute to the prevention of rubber from aging. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186110 | YIELD ENHANCEMENT IN PLANTS BY MODULATION OF GARP TRANSCRIPTON FACTOR ZMRR10_P - Compositions and methods for modulating flower organ development, leaf formation, phototropism, apical dominance, fruit development, initiation of roots, and for increasing yield in a plant are provided. The compositions include a ZmRR10_p sequence. Compositions of the invention comprise amino acid sequences and nucleotide sequences selected from SEQ ID NO: 2 as well as variants and fragments thereof. Nucleotide sequences encoding the ZmRR10_p are provided in DNA constructs for expression in a plant of interest are provided for modulating the level of a ZmRR10_p sequence in a plant or a plant part are provided. The methods comprise introducing into a plant or plant part a heterologous polynucleotide comprising a ZmRR10_p sequence of the invention. The level of the ZmRR10_p polypeptide can be increased or decreased. Such method can be used to increase the yield in plants; in one embodiment, the method is used to increase grain yield in cereals. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186111 | GENE CLUSTER OF PRENYL TRANSFERASE FROM HEVEA BRASILIENSIS - According to the present invention, a gene cluster encoding various kinds of prenyl transferase of | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186112 | Novel Environmental Stress Resistance Transcription Factor and Method For Enhancing Environmental Stress Resistance of Plants Using the Same - The present invention relates to a novel environmental stress-resistant transcription factor and a method for enhancing the environmental stress resistance of plants using the same. More particularly, the invention relates to an environmental stress-resistant transcription factor isolated from barley and a method for enhancing the environmental stress resistance of plants by introducing a vector comprising the transcription factor into the plants. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186113 | Root-Tip Preferred Promoter from Maize - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a root tip-preferred promoter from maize. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stabling incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the root-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186114 | Modification of Plant Flavonoid Metabolism - The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the protein involved in flavonoid biosynthesis is selected from the group consisting of: MADS box factor, WRKY box factor, MYC factor, TT1, HLH factor, MYB factor, FMT, UG3E, GST, OMT, RT, CYTb5, laccase, and ABC transporter proteins, and functionally active fragments and variants thereof. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186115 | Maize Tissue-Preferred Promoter - The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a tissue-preferred maize promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the tissue-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186116 | Maize Tissue-Preferred Promoter - The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a tissue-preferred maize promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the tissue-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186117 | PRODUCTION OF MODIFIED FATTY ACIDS IN PLANTS - The present invention relates to transgenic plants comprising a plurality of nucleic acids heterologous to said plant, each of said nucleic acid comprising a coding sequence operably linked to one or more regulatory elements for directing expression of said coding sequence in said plant, said nucleic acid being stably integrated at or adjacent to rDNA sequences, or a seed, organ, tissue, part or cell thereof, or a descendant of said plant, seed, organ, tissue, part or cell; methods of producing the transgenic plants; and methods of producing oil using the transgenic plants. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186118 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR REGULATING POLYSACCHARIDES OF A PLANT CELL - Novel plant polysaccharide synthesis genes and polypeptides encoded by such genes are provided. These genes and polynucleotide sequences are useful regulating polysaccharide synthesis and plant phenotype. Moreover, these genes are useful for expression profiling of plant polysaccharide synthesis genes. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186119 | Highly Active Soybean Promoters and Uses Thereof - Soybean ubiquitin promoters and processes for expressing nucleic acids in transgenic plants under the control of a soybean ubiquitin promoter are described. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186120 | ORGANIC COMPOUNDS - Method for heterologous protein production in plant cell plastids comprising introducing into plant cells nucleic acid components that encode heterologous proteins under the control of promoters operative in plastids, vectors, host cells, plants and uses thereof. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186121 | Transgenic Plants with Enhanced Growth Characteristics - The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express both glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) and glutamine synthetase (GS) are provided. The GPT+GS double-transgenic plants of the invention consistently exhibit enhanced growth characteristics, with T0 generation lines showing an increase in biomass over wild type counterparts of between 50% and 300%. Generations that result from sexual crosses and/or selfing typically perform even better, with some of the double-transgenic plants achieving an astounding four-fold biomass increase over wild type plants. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186122 | AUXOTROPHIC AGROBACTERIUM FOR PLANT TRANSFORMATION AND METHODS THEREOF - Auxotrophic | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186123 | Suppression of Resistance in Insects to Bacillus Thuringiensis Cry Toxins, Using Toxins that do not Require the Cadherin Receptor - The present invention provides a method to obtain DNA constructs that encode 3-domain Cry toxins (also called Cry toxins, Bt toxins, or β-endotoxins) lacking helix α-1. These DNA constructs have been modified to encode proteins that kill insects that are resistant to the corresponding unmodified Cry toxins. The DNA constructs encoding the Modified 3-Domain Cry Toxins and the encoded Modified 3-Domain Cry Toxins are provided together with the molecular vectors and the host cell comprising said constructs and the recombinant methods to produce the Modified 3-Domain Cry Toxins. Additionally, compositions comprising the Modified 3-Domain Cry Toxins are disclosed. The resistance of the insects to unmodified Cry toxins is due to reduced toxin binding to the insects' midgut receptors. The invention further provides methods to overcome resistance in crop pests. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186124 | TARGETED NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE WITH LNA MODIFIED OLIGONUCLEOTIDES - A method and oligonucleotides for targeted nucleotide exchange of a duplex DNA sequence, wherein the donor oligonucleotide contains at least one modified nucleotide which is a LNA having a higher binding affinity compared to naturally occurring A, C, T or G and/or binds stronger to a nucleotide in an opposite position in the first DNA sequence as compared to a naturally occurring nucleotide complementary to the nucleotide in the opposite position in the first DNA sequence. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186125 | SELECTION METHOD - The invention relates to a method for producing a transformed plant cell. More particularly, the method involves the transformation of a plant cell with a Transformation Cassette which is targeted to plant plastids and which comprises a selection gene, for example isopentenyl transferase (IPT), and a transgene. After selection for transformed plastids, expression of a recombinase is induced in the plant cell, which leads to the excision of the selection gene from the plastid and the expression of the transgene in the plastid. The invention also provides cells and plants comprising the Transformation Cassette. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186126 | EXPRESSION OF PLASMINOGEN AND MICROPLASMINOGEN IN DUCKWEED - The present invention provides methods and compositions for the production of recombinant plasminogen, microplasminogen, and fragments thereof in a duckweed expression system. It is the novel finding of the present invention that a duckweed expression system may be used to produce high levels of plasminogen and microplasminogen. The duckweed-produced plasminogen and microplasminogen can be activated to produce a polypeptide having protease activity. Thus, the invention encompasses methods for the expression of plasminogen, microplasminogen, and fragments thereof in duckweed, duckweed plants that are transformed with expression cassettes for the expression of plasminogen, microplasminogen, and fragments thereof, and nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding plasminogen, microplasminogen, and fragments thereof, where these nucleotide sequences are modified to enhance their expression in duckweed. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186127 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES AND OTHER MOLECULES ASSOCIATED WITH PLANTS - Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from soybean are disclosed. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The disclosed ESTs have utility in the development of new strategies for understanding critical plant developmental and metabolic pathways. The disclosed ESTs have particular utility in isolating genes and promoters, identifying and mapping the genes involved in developmental and metabolic pathways, and determining gene function. Sequence homology analyses using the ESTs provided in the present invention, will result in more efficient gene screening for desirable agronomic traits. An expanding database of these select pieces of the plant genomics puzzle will quickly expand the knowledge necessary for subsequent functional validation, a key limitation in current plant biotechnology efforts. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186128 | Nucleic Acid Molecules and Other Molecules Associated with Plants - Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from wheat are disclosed. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The disclosed ESTs have utility in the development of new strategies for understanding critical plant developmental and metabolic pathways. The disclosed ESTs have particular utility in isolating genes and promoters, identifying and mapping the genes involved in developmental and metabolic pathways, and determining gene function. Sequence homology analyses using the ESTs provided in the present invention, will result in more efficient gene screening for desirable agronomic traits. An expanding database of these select pieces of the plant genomics puzzle will quickly expand the knowledge necessary for subsequent functional validation, a key limitation in current plant biotechnology efforts. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186129 | NEMATODE RESISTANT TRANSGENIC PLANTS - Compositions and methods for providing nematode resistance are provided. One aspect provides transgenic plants or cells comprising an inhibitory nucleic acid specific for one or more nematode esophageal polypeptides. Other aspects provide transgenic plants or cells resistant to at least two different root-knot nematode species. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186130 | Broccoli type adapted for ease of harvest - A broccoli plant characterized in having an exerted head having a crown higher than the leaf canopy and a harvestable head of at least about 200 grams when planted at a density of 40,000 plants per hectare, where the harvestable head comprises the top 25 centimeters of said stalk. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186131 | MOLECULAR MARKERS LINKED TO PPO INHIBITOR TOLERANCE IN SOYBEANS - This invention relates generally to the detection of genetic differences among soybeans. More particularly, the invention relates to soybean quantitative trait loci (QTL) for tolerance to protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors, to soybean plants possessing these QTLs, which map to a novel chromosomal region, and to genetic markers that are indicative of phenotypes associated with protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor tolerance. Methods and compositions for use of these markers in genotyping of soybean and selection are also disclosed. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186132 | PROBE ASSEMBLY FOR A SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE - A probe assembly is for use in a scanning probe microscope. The probe assembly includes a carrier having a plurality of at least three substantially identical probes, each probe having a tip that is located on a plane that is common to the plurality of probe tips and that is movable from this plane. The assembly also includes addressing means adapted to select one of the plurality of probes for relative movement with respect to a majority of the remainder of the probes. Such an assembly, with its potential to facilitate rapid, perhaps automated, replacement of a used probe, lends itself to use in high-speed scanning apparatus. | 2010-07-22 |
| 20100186133 | Phalaenopsis Plant Named 'The Pride Of Taiwan' - A new and distinct cultivar of | 2010-07-22 |
