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Patent granted in India to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (publ)

September 4, 2021

Patent number 375519 has been granted to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (publ) which is titled A SYSTEM AND METHOD HANDLING COMMUNICATION. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that if the present invention provides a technical solution to a technical problem and has a technical effect then the same cannot be considered to fall under the category of algorithm or computer program per se. In light of such observation, the technical problem of avoiding additional processing at the PCRF for configuring a list of IP addresses related to emergency APNs, solved by the present invention by providing a mechanism to prevent fraudulent use of emergency registrations in a communication network. The claimed technical solution prevents fraudulent use of an emergency registration by contacting the PCRF each time a user terminal attempts to establish a communication session. This patent falls under the category of Communication. Overall, this patent covers a method and apparatus for handling a communication session in a communications network. The method wherein a request to register the user terminal in the communication network is received at an Application Function Mode and sends a request message to a Policy and Charging Register Function. The request message includes an Access Point Name that identifies an Access Point used by the user terminal. A response message is received from the Policy and Charging Register Function that includes an indicator that further Emergency-Access Point.

Patent granted in India to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY

August 31, 2021

Patent number 375256 has been granted to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY which is titled EMPLOYING REFERENCE SIGNALS IN COMMUNICATIONS. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that the amended claims of the present invention consist of hardware elements to perform the functionality, such as receiver, correlator, processor, decoder and the like. Therefore, the claims of the present invention do not fall within the scope of Section 3(k) of the Act. This patent falls under the category of Computer Science. Overall, this patent covers a method for employing reference signal in communication that includes receiving signal on a communication channels via receiver and correlating the received signal and a first reference signal by a correlator wherein the correlation is performed over at least a fraction of symbols in the first reference signal to determine the correspondence between the first reference signal and received signal.

Patent granted in India to Quikproto Research Labs Private Limited

Patent number 375066 has been granted to Quikproto Research Labs Private Limited which is titled A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTION AGAINST MALWARE BY IMPLEMENTATION OF HARDWARE ENFORCED SECURITY. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that if the present invention provides a technical solution to a technical problem and has a technical effect then the same cannot be considered to fall under the category of algorithm or computer program per se. This patent falls under the category of Computer Science. Overall, this patent covers a system and method for protecting an operating system of a computing device against malware threat by implementation of hardware enforced security. The computing device includes one or more processors coupled with a memory.

Patent granted in India to COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES LIMITED

August 23, 2021

Patent number 373926 has been granted to COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES LIMITED which is titled CLUSTER COMPUTING. The primary independent claim of this patent states A method for arranging a plurality of nodes in a cluster, said method comprising the following steps: quantifying the number of nodes in the cluster ‘N’ by computing the summation of N using the formula N=n2+n+1, where n = p r and p is a prime number and r is a positive integer other than zero; Characterized in that: assigning sequentially unique positive integers to each of said nodes of said cluster ‘N’ between 0,1,…N-1; selecting a Singer Difference set ‘D’ comprising n+1 elements forming the set D = {d0, d1, …,dk ,.., dn} where k is a positive integer having values from 0,1,…n+1; and the number dk are one of the above mentioned positive integers between 0 to N-1, and connecting each node i of said cluster to at most n+1 other nodes satisfying the formula j = (C – i + dk ) mod N where dk is an element of the said Singer difference set and i, j are positive integers numbers which can have values in the range of 0, 1, 2, .. , N-1 and C is a fixed constant for a particular network and has values in the range of 0,1, 2, …, N-1. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that the present invention is of technical nature and provides technical advancement over the cited prior art. This patent falls under the category of Electronics. Overall, this patent covers a method for arrangement of nodes in a cluster. The invention proposes a scheme for creation of a cluster having an optimum number of connections and with a diameter of two, meaning any two nodes are at most two edges away from each other.

Patent granted in India to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON

August 21, 2021

Patent number 374151 has been granted to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON which is titled DATA DISTRIBUTION/RETRIEVAL USING MULTI DIMENSIONAL INDEX. The primary independent claim of this patent states a method of data distribution in a distributed data storage system that stores a set of data items across physically distinct computers. Each physically distinct computer manages a subset of the data items by defining at least one metric space associated with the distributed data storage system and within the one metric space a number of hyper-spheres are defined wherein each of the defined hyper-spheres have a center and radius, data points representing corresponding data items, and an association with one or more of the physically distinct computers. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that if the present invention provides a technical solution to a technical problem and has a technical effect then the same cannot be considered to fall under the category of algorithm or computer program per se. This patent falls under the category of Computer Science. Overall, this patent covers a distributed data storage system that uses a data distribution and location algorithm based on distance functions and hyper-spheres in a multi-dimensional space.

Patent granted in India to INTEL CORPORATION

August 18, 2021

Patent number 373405 has been granted to INTEL CORPORATION, which is titled CONTROLLED ACCESS TO FUNCTIONALITY OF A WIRELESS DEVICE. The primary independent claim of this patent states an apparatus, having electronic devices including a processor, a memory, and a camera. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that the claims have been amended as directed and therefore, the subject matter is directed to an apparatus to perform biometric authentication and not to computer programs per se. This patent falls under the category of Computer Science. Overall, this patent covers the process to verify that a person being authorized by biometric techniques to use a device is a living person and not some form of recording intended to spoof the system.

Patent granted in India to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD

Patent number 373403 has been granted to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD which is titled DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CHANGING SCREEN MODE USING THE SAME. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that the present invention is of technical nature and provides technical advancement over the cited prior art. Moreover, the amended claims disclose various structural components such as “display unit”, “sensing unit”, “controller”, that work in consonance with each other to achieve the desired technical result. This patent falls under the category of Computer Science. Overall, this patent covers a display apparatus and a method of changing the screen mode using the display apparatus including a display unit, a sensing unit and a controller which changes a screen mode of an object displayed on the display unit according to the bending direction.

Patent granted in India to HITACHI LTD

August 7, 2021

Patent number 372440 has been granted to HITACHI LTD. that is titled COMPUTER SYSTEM DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM. The primary independent claim of this patent states a system wherein multiple nodes are coupled via a communication network, further one node from among the multiple nodes becomes a leader node while the other nodes besides the leader node become follower nodes. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that the present invention is not a computer program per se and also provides a technical effect which is technically advanced over the known arts. This patent falls under the category of Computer Science. Overall, this patent covers a computer system for synchronously executing multiple tasks on multiple computers.

Patent granted in India to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION

Patent number 372411 has been granted to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION, which is titled DATA CENTER CONTROL. The primary independent claim of this patent states a computer implemented system and method for data center control that identifies parameters of one or more data centers. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that the present invention is not a computer program per se and also provides a technical effect which is technically advanced over the known arts. This patent falls under the category of Communication. Overall, this patent covers systems and methods for data center control that identify parameters of one or more data centers.

Patent granted in India to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

July 31, 2021

Patent number 372121 has been granted to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC that is titled MAINTAINING UNDO AND REDO CAPABILITY ACROSS METADATA MERGES. The primary independent claim of this patent states a method for preservation of metadata during an undo operation at a client computer that includes modification of a first section and second section of a document on a word processing application on the client computer that includes performing user action in the first and second section of a document and receiving metadata. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that as per the CRI Guidelines of June 2017, to pass the test of patentability under section 3(k), an invention should be judged from the substance of the claim as a whole and the technical advancement or technical effect also needs to be assessed. This patent falls under the category of Computer Science. Overall, this patent covers a method for preservation of metadata during an undo operation at a client computer that includes modification of a first section and second section of a document on a word processing application on the client computer that includes performing user action in the first and second section of a document and receiving metadata.

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