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US09253935B2	Micro-inverter solar panel mounting Processes, systems, devices, and articles of manufacture are provided. Each may include adapting micro-inverters initially configured for frame-mounting to mounting on a frameless solar panel. This securement may include using an adaptive clamp or several adaptive clamps secured to a micro-inverter or its components, and using compressive forces applied directly to the solar panel to secure the adaptive clamp and the components to the solar panel. The clamps can also include compressive spacers and safeties for managing the compressive forces exerted on the solar panels. Friction zones may also be used for managing slipping between the clamp and the solar panel during or after installation. Adjustments to the clamps may be carried out through various means and by changing the physical size of the clamps themselves.
US09253930B2	Method to route airflow through dynamically changing ducts The invention generally relates to ventilation methods, and more particularly to selectively configurable climate control method for use in data centers and the like. A method includes a first structural element and a second structural element spaced apart from first structural element to define a space between the first and second structural elements. The method also includes a plurality of partitions moveable into the space between the first and second structural elements and a controller arranged to control movement of the plurality of partitions.
US09253928B2	Cooling module with parallel blowers A cooling system for an electronics chassis includes a plurality of centrifugal blowers arranged to motivate cooling air through the electronics chassis. The centrifugal blowers are arranged in one or more sets, each having blowers oriented with respective inlets in mutual facing relationship. The orientation, positioning, and alignment of the centrifugal blowers facilitates a compact arrangement of the plurality of blowers that achieves increased aerodynamic efficiencies to reduce noise output and energy consumption.
US09253922B2	Electronic component and electronic apparatus A package includes a base body to which an electronic device is fixed, a lid body that faces the electronic device, and a frame body that encloses at least one of a space between the electronic device and the lid body, and the electronic device. The frame body has a first portion located at a side of an inner edge of the frame body with respect to an outer edge of the base body, and a second portion located at a side of an outer edge of the frame body with respect to the outer edge of the base body, in an X direction from the inner edge of the frame body toward the outer edge of the frame body.
US09253918B2	Rack intended to equip an aeronautical platform A rack for an aeronautical platform comprising two parallel shelves positioned between a front face and a rear face of the platform, the rack being inserted into the platform by translation from the front face to the rear face the rack containing electronic equipment extending primarily in a plane, the electronic equipment being positioned in a useful compartment of the rack and cooled by forced convection. The electronic equipment is positioned in such a way that its main plane is parallel to the shelves. The rack comprises means for guiding an air flow used for the cooling of the electronic equipment item, the air flow penetrating into the useful compartment parallel to the plane of the electronic equipment item and at right angles to the direction of insertion of the rack into the platform.
US09253916B2	Cable backplane system having a cable tray guide and support system A cable backplane system includes a backplane and a chassis supporting the backplane. A cable rack is coupled to the chassis and backplane. The cable rack includes upper trays and lower trays each having a frame and cable connector assemblies held by the corresponding frame. The upper trays have upper tray guides configured to interact with corresponding upper chassis guides on the upper support for supporting the upper trays relative to the backplane. The lower trays have lower tray guides configured to interact with corresponding lower chassis guides on the lower support for aligning the lower trays to the backplane. The upper trays have upper hanging guides and the lower trays have lower hanging guides coupled to corresponding upper hanging guides to support the lower trays with the corresponding upper trays relative to the backplane.
US09253911B2	Anisotropic conductive material and method for manufacturing same The present invention provides an anisotropic conductive material in which lower continuity resistance and higher adhesive strength are obtained, and a method for manufacturing the same. When a glass substrate and a metal wiring material are thermally compressed and bonded, in an interface between the glass substrate and an anisotropic conductive material, Si on a surface of the glass substrate reacts on an alkoxyl group (OR) at an end of disulfide silane modified by hydrophobic silica, and chemically binds thereto. Furthermore, at an interface between the metal wiring material and the anisotropic conductive material, a part of S—S bonds (disulfide bonds) in disulfide silane dissociates due to the heat at the time of thermocompression bonding, and the dissociated sulfide silane chemically binds to metal Me.
US09253904B2	Protective locking mechanism for device enclosure Mechanisms to prevent access to electronic components in an electronic device when the electronic device is receiving power. On example may provide an electronic device including a receptacle, the receptacle including a button. The button may be configured to be depressed by a user, and otherwise to be in a normal state. When the button is depressed, it may act through a locking mechanism to unlock, open, or eject a door covering one or more sockets or electronic components. When the door is closed, the locking mechanism may either prevent the door from being opened, or may maintain the door in a closed state, unless the button is depressed. When a power plug is inserted in the receptacle, the power plug may prevent access to the button. Accordingly, when the power plug is inserted, the button may not be accessible to be depressed, and the door may remain closed.
US09253902B2	Electronic device A slide cover has a engaged portion formed thereon. A rotatable member includes a stopper portion which is abutted against the engaged portion so as to restrict a relative movement of the engaged portion of the slide cover when the slide cover is arranged at a closed position. The stopper portion is positioned away from a rotation center of the rotatable member, and the rotatable member rotates to allow the relative movement of the engaged portion when the stopper portion is pushed by the engaged portion. This makes it possible to increase an angle between an stopper surface formed on the stopper portion and a movement direction (right-left direction) of the engaged portion. As a result, the cover is stably held at the closed position.
US09253901B2	Electronic device with cable collecting function An electronic device includes a main body including a printed circuit board (PCB) and a sliding portion, a seat portion slideably engaging with the sliding portion and a connecting cable including a first connector, a second connector and a cable portion connected between the first connector and the second connector. The seat portion includes a winding post and a through hole extending into the winding post and communicating to the main body. The winding post defines a gap communicating the through hole to periphery of the winding post. The first connector is inserted into the main body to engage with the PCB. The second connector is exposed outside of the seat portion. The cable portion is received in the through hole and the gap and enabled to be wound around the winding post.
US09253897B2	Wiring substrate and method for manufacturing the same A wiring substrate includes an insulating layer, a first pad, and a solder resist layer. The first pad is embedded in the insulating layer. The solder resist layer is provided on an upper surface of the insulating layer. The solder resist layer is formed with an opening portion through which the recess portion is exposed. An adjacent portion of the solder resist layer adjacent to a peripheral portion of the opening portion covers a peripheral portion of the upper surface of the first pad and protrudes from the peripheral portion of the upper surface of the first pad toward the center portion of the first pad so as to cover above the recess portion. Surfaces of the first pad being in contact with the insulating layer are smaller in roughness than the upper surface of the insulating layer and the peripheral portion of the upper surface of the first pad.
US09253895B2	Electrical assembly An electrical assembly includes a first lead, a second lead, and an electrical component extending from a first end to a second end. A first non-electrically conductive adhesive member mechanically connects the first lead to the first end of the electrical component. A second non-electrically conductive adhesive member mechanically connects the second lead to the second end of the electrical component. A first electrically conductive adhesive member electrically connects the first lead to the first end of the electrical component. A second electrically conductive adhesive member electrically connects the second lead to the second end of the electrical component.
US09253894B2	Electronic assembly with detachable components An electronic assembly including a substrate, an electronic component, a fixture, and a housing. The substrate includes a first contact array. The electronic component includes a second contact array. The fixture includes an opening adapted to position the electronic component on the substrate and to connect the second contact array to the first contact array when the fixture is aligned at a first position on the substrate. The housing is adapted to hold the substrate populated with the electronic component. The housing includes a first conductive pathway adapted to connect from an external surface at the housing to the substrate in a serial continuous conductive path when the fixture is aligned at the first position on the substrate. The electronic assembly includes a sensing device connected to the continuous conductive path to detect the integrity of the electronic assembly.
US09253884B2	Electronic fabric with incorporated chip and interconnect A system comprises an article comprising one or more fabric layers, a plurality of electronic devices, each being incorporated into or onto one of the one or more fabric layers, and one or more communication links between two or more of the plurality of electronic devices. Each of the plurality of electronic devices can comprise a flexible substrate coupled to the fabric layer, one or more metallization layers deposited on the flexible substrate, and one or more electronic components electrically coupled to the one or more metallization layers.
US09253882B2	Electronic component built-in multi-layer wiring board and method of manufacturing the same An electronic component built-in multi-layer wiring board that comprises collectively stacked therein a plurality of first printed wiring boards by thermal compression bonding, and that comprises an electronic component package built in thereto, wherein the electronic component package comprises a first electronic component built in thereto and a plurality of second printed wiring boards stacked to have electrodes on an outermost surface of the package at a pitch that is wider than the electrode pitch of the first electronic component and that is matched to the wiring pitch of the first printed wiring boards, the electronic component built-in multi-layer wiring board includes a second electronic component having a thickness which is greater than that of the first electronic component, and the electronic component package having a thickness which is 80% to 125% of the thickness of the second electronic component.
US09253881B2	Multilayer flexible substrate A multilayer flexible substrate includes a first structural layer including at least one resin sheet including an insulating layer, a wiring conductor provided on a principal surface of the insulating layer, and filled vias disposed in the insulating layer; and a second structural layer provided on a principal surface of a portion of the first structural layer and including at least one resin sheet including an insulating layer, a wiring conductor provided on a principal surface of the insulating layer, and a filled via provided in the insulating layer. The multilayer flexible substrate includes rigid regions and a flexible region that is more flexible than the rigid regions. In the multilayer flexible substrate, the filled via disposed in the flexible region has a higher porosity than the filled via disposed in the second structural layer.
US09253878B2	Conductive composition and conductive film Provided is a conductive composition that has a high conductivity and from which a coating can be formed easily. Also provided is a conductive film that has a high conductivity and in which electric resistance is less likely to increase even during expansion. A conductive composition is prepared by including an elastomer component, a fibrous carbon material having a graphite structure and a fiber diameter of not less than 30 nm, and a conductive carbon black having a structure. A conductive film formed from the conductive composition. The viscosity of the conductive composition formed into a coating with a solid content concentration of not less than 20% by mass, which is measured with a B-type viscometer with an H7 rotor under the conditions of a temperature of 25° C. and a rotation speed of 20 rpm, is not more than 200 Pa·s.
US09253876B2	Systems and methods for breakaway RFID tags A breakaway RFID tag is configured such that it comprises part of a Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCB). Thus, the breakaway RFID tag can be used to track the PCB as it migrates through a manufacturing process. In one embodiment, the RFID tag can be assembled first and then used to track the PCB as it is populated with components and installed into larger assemblies and ultimately into the end device. Once the PCB is installed into a larger assembly or the end device, the breakaway RFID tag is configured such that it can be broken off and attached to the outside of the larger assembly or end device.
US09253875B2	Isolating differential transmission lines An apparatus includes a first differential transmission line and a second differential transmission line. The second differential transmission line is parallel to the first differential transmission line through an overlap region. The first differential transmission line includes a first line and a second line. The first differential transmission line includes N crossovers along the first differential transmission line through the overlap region at which the first line and the second line switch lanes with each other. N is equal to 1+INT {L/(λ/C)}, where L is a length of the overlap region, λ is a wavelength of a differential signal carried by the first or second differential transmission line, C is a constant, and INT {L/(λ/C)} is {L/(λ/C)} rounded down to the nearest integer.
US09253874B2	Printed circuit board having DC blocking dielectric waveguide vias A printed circuit board is disclosed. The printed circuit board includes a first signal transmission layer, a via and a second signal transmission layer. The via connects the first signal transmission layer to the second signal transmission layer. The via includes a first region made of a first dielectric material having a first dielectric constant, and a second region made of a second dielectric material having a second dielectric constant lower than the first dielectric constant. The via allows AC Component of an electromagnetic signal to be transmitted from the first signal transmission layer to the second signal transmission layer while blocking any DC component of the electromagnetic signal.
US09253873B2	Printed circuit board and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed herein are a printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same. The printed circuit board includes: a core layer having a first circuit wiring layer formed on one surface or both surfaces thereof; an insulating layer laminated, as at least one layer, on one surface or both surfaces of the core layer; and a second circuit wiring layer formed on one surface of the insulating layer, wherein a conductive core is included in upper and lower insulating layers contacting the second circuit wiring layer requiring an electromagnetic wave shielding, or the conductive core is included in the insulating layer or the core layer contacting the first circuit wiring layer requiring the electromagnetic wave shielding.
US09253872B2	Inductor assembly and circuit assembly An inductor assembly includes an inductor body including an inductor core and a mounting bracket that includes a first leg, a second leg, and a third leg. A portion of the mounting bracket passes through the inductor body, at least one of the first leg and the second leg of the mounting bracket is arranged to be mounted on a substrate, and the third leg of the mounting bracket is arranged to be mounted on an electrical component mounted on the substrate.
US09253871B2	Circuit card assembly and method of fabricating the same A circuit card assembly is provided. The circuit card assembly includes a printed circuit board, at least one electronic component mounted on the printed circuit board, and a frame coupled to the printed circuit board such that the electronic component is disposed between the printed circuit board and the frame. The circuit card assembly also includes a heat transfer device coupled to the frame. The heat transfer device has a heat pipe disposed at least in part between the frame and the printed circuit board. The circuit card assembly further includes a pivotable brace biasing the heat pipe toward the electronic component to facilitate cooling the electronic component.
US09253866B2	Gas lock device and extreme ultraviolet light generation apparatus A gas lock device may include a chamber having a passage section and a connection hole that connects a surface to the passage section, an optical element that is attached to the chamber and seals the passage section, a gas supply apparatus, and a pipe that is attached at one end to the gas supply apparatus and attached at the other end to the chamber, and may define a flow channel communicating with the connection hole.
US09253864B2	Apparatus and methods to control an electron beam of an X-ray tube Apparatus and methods to control an electron beam of an x-ray tube are provided. One apparatus includes at least one of (i) a first switching unit having a voltage source and a pair of switches connected in series and configured to switch between open and closed positions to change an output voltage to engage or bypass the voltage source or (ii) a second switching unit connected to a voltage source and having a first pair of switches connected in series and a second pair of switches connected in series, wherein the first and second pair of switches are connected in parallel, and wherein the first and second pairs of switches are configured to switch between open and closed position to change an output voltage generated from the voltage source. The first and second switching units are connected in series and a third switching unit provided that is amplitude controllable.
US09253861B2	Circuit arrangement and method for operating at least one discharge lamp Various embodiments may relate to a circuit arrangement for operating at least one discharge lamp having a commutation device and a control device which is coupled to the commutation device. A first measuring device is used to determine in each case first measurement values, which represent a measure of the magnitude of electrode peaks of the discharge lamp, within a test operating phase in which the first electrode and the second electrode are supplied with energy in an asymmetrical manner. A second measuring device is used to determine a second measurement value which is correlated with the current through the discharge lamp at least during the test operating phase. The control device is designed to actuate the commutation device at least as a function of the determined first measurement values and second measurement values. Various embodiments further relate to a corresponding method for operating at least one discharge lamp.
US09253860B2	Commissioning of lighting systems A lighting system that includes luminaires (1,2,3,4,5) installed at individual locations (R1-5) in premises, is commissioned by placing auxiliary commissioning devices (6) in the premises at spaced apart locations and forming them into a wireless local network. The auxiliary commissioning devices each include a sensor (13) to detect light from the luminaires, establishing the locations of the auxiliary commissioning devices in relation to the premises, for example by using ranging on the basis of signal strengths of the devices (6) in the local network, and detecting light emitted from the luminaires individually with the sensors (13) of the auxiliary commissioning devices such as to associate the luminaires with individual ones of the commissioning devices.
US09253858B2	Lighting network control apparatus and method Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for controlling a lighting network. The apparatus for controlling lighting network includes a control device and a plurality of control gears. The control device generates and transfers commands to control lighting. The plurality of control gears receives the commands from the control device and control lighting. The control device assigns a right to use a lighting network to the control gears, and the control gears send information about a change in a lighting state or error details to the control device using the right to use a lighting network.
US09253856B2	Lighting device and apparatus with standardized interface for processing one or more sensed external conditions A lighting device or an apparatus for use with a light source has one or more sensors, intelligence in the form of programmed processors and communication capabilities. Each sensor is configured to monitor one or more conditions external to a lighting device not directly related to operational performance of the respective lighting device. Programming provides a standardized interface to enable processing of sensed conditions from sensors of different types.
US09253854B2	Flicker compensation in lighting devices A circuit (400) is described herein for controlling dimming of a lamp (112), the circuit comprising a switching circuit (422) configured to provide a chopped portion of an input AC power signal, a resettable inverting integrator circuit (426) configured to integrate the chopped portion of the input AC power signal such that a rise time of an output of the resettable inverting integrator circuit is proportional to a positive amplitude of the chopped portion of the input AC power signal and a fall time of the output of the resettable integrator is proportional to a negative amplitude of the chopped portion, such that an energy provided to the lamp based on the output of the resettable inverting integrator circuit is substantially equivalent from cycle-to-cycle of said input AC power signal regardless of a change in amplitude of the input AC power signal from cycle-to-cycle.
US09253848B2	Lighting system and method to control a lighting system An LED lighting system is disclosed, which generally consists of an enclosure, one or more LED modules, one or more transformers, and one or more drivers. A lamp assembly is disclosed, which generally consists of one or more vertically oriented LED chips, thermally conductive shells, and a thermally dissipating means positioned at the back of the LED chips. An LED module is disclosed, which generally consists of a lamp assembly, one or more reflectors and modules caps. A method of controlling light intensities is disclosed, which generally consists of method of decreasing light intensities in areas with little occupancy while minimizing user annoyance resulting from drastic light intensity fluctuations. A universal mounting bracket is disclosed, which generally consists of a fixture plate, mounting plate, and an adjustable means.
US09253844B2	Reduction of harmonic distortion for LED loads Apparatus and associated methods reduce harmonic distortion of a excitation current by diverting the excitation current substantially away from a number of LEDs arranged in a series circuit until the current or its associated periodic excitation voltage reaches a predetermined threshold level, and ceasing the current diversion while the excitation current or voltage is substantially above the predetermined threshold level. In an illustrative embodiment, a rectifier may receive an AC (e.g., sinusoidal) voltage and deliver unidirectional current to a string of series-connected LEDs. An effective turn-on threshold voltage of the diode string may be reduced by diverting current around at least one of the diodes in the string while the AC voltage is below a predetermined level. In various examples, selective current diversion within the LED string may extend the input current conduction angle and thereby substantially reduce harmonic distortion for AC LED lighting systems.
US09253843B2	Driving circuit with dimming controller for driving light sources A driving circuit includes a power converter, a dimming controller and a current path coupled to the dimming controller. The power converter receives input power from a rectifier and provides output power to a light source. A power switch transfers power from an AC power source to the rectifier when the power switch is on. The dimming controller receives a switch monitoring signal indicative of the state of the power switch. An average current flowing through the light source has a first value if the power switch is on. The dimming controller is operable for adjusting the average current based on the switch monitoring signal. A current flows from the AC power source through the current path to ground when the power switch is off.
US09253841B2	LED backlight driving circuit and method for driving the LED backlight driving circuit A light emitting diode (LED) backlight driving circuit includes a power assembly, a control assembly, and at least two LED lamps. The control assembly generates a power control signal according to a working state of the LED lamp, and the power assembly outputs a power corresponding to an on-LED lamp according to the power control signal.
US09253840B2	Lighting display A display where lights may be programmed to randomly flash is described. The randomness may be changed by changing the mode of flashing. The lights may extend along strings that are powered by a power supply that may itself be plugged into a socket that had previously served as a light socket. The display may be added to existing displays to enhance existing visual effects. The display may be submerged and the lights may remain upright because of their buoyancy.
US09253839B2	LED driver circuit and method A driver circuit for driving at least one LED includes a data input for receiving set point data at a first data rate and at a first bit resolution, an LED output for driving the at least one LED with LED driving values at a second data rate and at a second bit resolution, and a processing device arranged for determining from the set point data by interpolation at least part of the LED driving values. The second data rate is higher than the first data rate, the processing device being arranged to interpolate in time.
US09253838B2	LED backlight driving circuit and method for driving the LED backlight driving circuit A light emitting diode (LED) backlight driving circuit includes a power supply, at least two connected-in-parallel LED lightbars coupled to an output end of the power supply, a power feedback assembly coupled to each of the LED lightbars, and an adjusting-power block coupled to the power feedback assembly. A reference end of the power feedback assembly receives a reference power, and the power feedback assembly receives an output power of each of the LED lightbars. The power feedback assembly obtains a difference value of the reference power compared with the output power of the LED lightbar, and the adjusting-power block adjusts the output power of a corresponding LED lightbar according to the difference value until the difference value is less than a preset threshold value.
US09253837B1	Apparatus for driving light emitting diode (LED) and illumination system including the same An LED driving apparatus controls a light emitting unit including first to k-th LED arrays, a rectifier for rectifying an AC signal, and first to (k−1)-th driving units respectively corresponding to the first to (k−1)-th LED arrays. Each driving unit includes an input terminal connected to a first terminal of the LED array, a sensing terminal connected to a second terminal of the LED array, an output terminal connected to a next driving unit, a transistor between the input terminal and the sensing terminal, and a sensing resistor between the sensing terminal and the output terminal. The rectified signal or voltage is applied to the first driving unit.
US09253836B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes a power module, a first light-emitting module, a second light-emitting module, a third light-emitting module, and a control module. The power module is configured to rectify an AC voltage for providing a periodic driving voltage. The first, second, third light-emitting modules are connected in series. The control module is configured to make the first, second, third light-emitting modules being driven by the driving voltage in response to different driving stages in a cycle period of a driving voltage. An average-diode-junction-area of the first light-emitting module is different from an average-diode-junction-area of the second light-emitting module or an average-diode-junction-area of the third light-emitting module.
US09253835B2	LED dimming module The present invention proposes an LED dimming module (10) comprising two LED strings (1,2), the first LED string (1) comprising at least one color converted blue or UV LED (1a) and the second LED string (2) comprising at least one amber light emitting LED (2a), the LED module further comprising control means (3) connected to the first and second LED string (1,2), said control means (3) being designed to selectively vary a current provided to the first LED string (1) such that a non-linear dimming curve (13b) of the resulting emitted light is obtained, said dimming curve (13b) approaching the planckian curve (9) on the CIE chromaticity diagram.
US09253831B2	Driver device and driving method for driving a load, in particular an led unit A driver device for driving a load, in particular an LED unit having one or more LEDs. The driver device includes input terminals for receiving an input voltage from an external power source and a polarity-dependent unit for connecting the input terminals to each other and for providing a current path dependent on the polarity of the input voltage. The polarity-dependent unit includes a first current path for connecting the input terminals in a first current direction and a second current path for connecting the input terminals in a second current direction opposite to the first current direction. The first and the second current path each comprise a current control unit for controlling a bleeding current in the respective current path and diodes for blocking the bleeding current in the respective current path in a reverse direction opposite to the respective current direction.
US09253830B2	LED fluorescent lamp A light-emitting diode (LED) lamp which can replace a typical fluorescent lamp is provided. The LED lamp comprises external connection pins connected to terminals of an electronic or magnetic fluorescent lamp ballast, capacitors connected to each of the external connection pins, diodes connected to each of the capacitors and a LED array connected between the diodes, wherein an first external connection pin, a first capacitor, a first diode, an LED array, a second diode, a second capacitor and a second external connection pin are connected in series. The LED lamp also further comprises a diode connected in anti-parallel with a series circuit of the second diode and the LED array, and another diode connected in anti-parallel with a series circuit of the first diode and the LED array.
US09253828B2	Circuit arrangement and method for operating light-emitting diodes A circuit arrangement (11) for driving light-emitting diodes comprises a number N of current regulators (14, 15), which each comprise a control input (17, 19) and a load terminal (18, 20) for providing a load current (IL1, IL2) to an electrical load (12, 13) which can be coupled, in each case having a light-emitting diode (12′, 13′). Furthermore, the circuit arrangement (11) comprises a compensation circuit (16), which is coupled to the control inputs (17, 19) of the number N of current regulators (14, 15) and is designed to adjust the respective load current (IL1, IL2) in a load-dependent manner.
US09253824B2	Steam generator A small steam generator uses a cylindrical steam generation vessel having a steam generation portion formed to store an amount of water for generating steam and a steam passage portion formed on the upper end of the steam generation portion for spouting steam generated in the steam generation portion. A heater element is disposed within the steam generation vessel, and an induction heating coil is wound around the periphery of the steam generation vessel for energizing the heater element. The heater element is energized by supply of electric power to the heating coil so that steam generated by boiling of the water in the steam generation portion spouts upward from the steam passage. In the steam generator, a steam discharge duct is mounted on the upper end of the steam passage for receiving the steam spouting upward from the steam passage and to discharge it in a lateral direction such that drops of hot water adhered to a ceiling surface of the discharge duct fall and re-circulate back into the steam generation part.
US09253823B2	Metal matrix composite used as a heating element A structural substrate for an aircraft structure and methods are presented. A multi-layer hybrid composite material comprises an outermost layer, an intermediate layer, and an innermost layer. The outermost layer comprises an electrically conductive metal matrix composite that conducts electricity to provide electric heating. The intermediate layer comprises an electrical insulator coupled to the outermost layer. The innermost layer comprises a composite coupled to the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer electrically insulates the outermost layer from the innermost layer.
US09253821B2	Low-voltage direct electrical heating LVDEH flexible pipes risers A system for electrical heating of risers or pipes has at least two concentric layers of metal wires adapted to be used for low-voltage direct electric heating (LV-DEH), each pair being provided to heat a specific segment of a riser or a pipe. The system can be used for both the pipeline and the riser up to a top side.
US09253819B2	Communication device A communication device may receive first information from a terminal device in a case where a first communication link is established via a first type of interface between the communication device and the terminal device. The communication device may determine whether a communication via a second type of interface between the communication device and the terminal device is performable, establish a second communication link via the first type of interface between the communication device and the terminal device, and perform a two-way communication of second information with the terminal device by using the second communication link in a case where it is determined that the communication via the second type of interface is performable. The communication device may not perform the two-way communication of the second information with the terminal device in a case where it is determined that the communication is not performable.
US09253815B2	Session suspend and resume using a transient binding option messaging The present invention uses a message with a suspend/resume flag setting sent to the local mobility anchor from the foreign agent that was supporting downlink transmissions to the mobile node. Namely, a transient binding option is proposed for creating a transient BCE state at the home agent/local mobility anchor during an inter-MAG handover, which will suspend down-link traffic from the home agent/local mobility anchor until the transient BCE (suspend) state is cleared by the foreign agent previously supporting downlink transmissions. After the transient BCE (suspend) state is cleared, the downlink traffic from the home agent/local mobility anchor can resume with forwarding of downlink traffic to the mobile node through the foreign agent. The present invention can be implemented using a new protocol application or modified messages from prior registration applications.
US09253806B2	Three-dimension (3D) glasses and method for controlling power and pairing thereof 3D glasses and a method of controlling power and pairing thereof are provided. The method of controlling power and pairing includes: restricting supply of a specific power of 3D glasses; performing, by the 3D glasses, pairing with a display apparatus; and if it is determined that the pairing is performed, lifting the restriction on the supply of the specific power. Therefore, a user may perform pairing between the 3D glasses and the 3D display apparatus easily and prevent power of the 3D glasses from being unnecessarily wasted.
US09253805B2	Wireless device, network and methods Apparatus, methods, and computer programs are disclosed that include sending an update message to a core network by a voice centric user equipment coupled to a legacy access network supporting circuit switched voice service, receiving an updating accept message containing a status report of possible enhanced network capabilities of a non-legacy access network, and, in response to receiving the status report of possible enhanced network capabilities, determining whether to enable the non-legacy access network.
US09253804B2	Systems and methods for enabling recipient control of communications Disclosed herein are methods and systems for enabling recipient control of communications. According to an aspect, a method may include receiving a communication request identifying a proposed timing of a communication and/or a proposed communication channel for the communication. The method may also include receiving selection of an actual timing and/or an actual communication channel for the communication. Further, the method may include initiating the communication based on the selection.
US09253803B2	Managing short range wireless data transmissions An apparatus and method for relaying short range communication data between electronic devices. In one example, a first and second short range wireless communication link is established with a first and second wireless communication device, respectively. The first wireless communication device maintains a wireless connection to a wireless telecommunications network. A first and second set of data is received from the first and second wireless communication devices over the first and second links, respectively. At least one of the first set of data and the second set of data is relayed to at least one of the second wireless communication device and the first wireless communication device, respectively, over the second and first links, respectively. The relaying forms a multi-party connection with the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device to the wireless telecommunications network.
US09253799B2	Method and apparatus for performing communication in wireless communication system A method for performing communication by a cellular base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes performing channel contention for occupying a channel of an unlicensed band, if the channel of the unlicensed band is occupied, the cellular base station transmits a first message including information about a time period in which the channel of the unlicensed band is usable, to at least one first User Equipment (UE) that performs communication in the channel of the unlicensed band using a first communication scheme, and communicating with a second UE using a second communication scheme different from the first communication scheme in the channel of the unlicensed band during a time period corresponding to the time period information. The second communication scheme corresponds to a cellular communication scheme, and the first message is transmitted to the at least one first UE based on the first communication scheme.
US09253798B2	Method and apparatus for optimizing uplink random access channel transmission Method and apparatus are disclosed for optimizing Random Access Channel (RACH) transmissions from wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) for multiple transmissions. A WTRU may initiate uplink transmission for a random access procedure using a configured time resource such that the uplink resources may be time shared by a plurality of WTRUs. The transmission time may be calculated on an absolute or relative basis. A backoff time may be applied before starting the uplink transmission. The backoff time may be WTRU-specific, WTRU group-specific, specified per access class and may be determined based on a priority basis. A scaling factor may be applied to the backoff time. A contention free allocation method may be used to determine the appropriate resource. The data may be transmitted with and without a preamble. The WTRUs may include machine type communication devices and may be grouped in accordance with a number of factors or characteristics.
US09253787B2	Apparatus and method for mitigating inter-cell interference in cellular communication system A method for mitigating inter-cell interference by a base station in a cellular communication system. The base station determines cells to which same frequency resources are allocated, and which cause interference to each other, and determines a starting time slot, at which resource allocation to each cell starts, as a different time slot for each cell, taking into account a number of the cells and time slots constituting time resources. In response to receiving a call setup request from a terminal, the base station selects a time slot taking into account interference information of each of the time slots, and allocates a resource based on the selected time slot to the terminal.
US09253783B2	Management of uplink resources in multi-carrier CDMA system The method an apparatus described herein manages uplink resources to increase spectral efficiency and system capacity. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a base station may be assigned two or more downlink carriers for downlink transmission and two or more corresponding uplink carriers. In a multi-carrier mode, the base station may transmit signals on two or more downlink carriers to the same mobile terminal, and receive signals from the mobile terminal on one of the paired uplink terminals. The uplink carriers can be operated at different interference levels and the uplink traffic can be divided between the available uplink carriers based on the type of traffic and/or data transmission parameters. The mobile terminals may also be allowed to switch between the uplink carriers to improve overall efficiency.
US09253780B2	Collaborative measurements in un-synchronized wireless networks A method for assessing the channel coefficients or the interference impact on a user equipment of a specific base station includes causing an interfering transmitter in the network to transmit data at substantially different power levels for each of at least two predefined frequency-resources each consisting of at least a part of a respective frequency channel, instructing the user equipment to measure and report to the serving base station at least one parameter associated with reception of the downlink signals that is indicative of channel coefficients or of an effect of the interfering signals and processing the results in order to assess the channel coefficients or the effect of the interfering signals.
US09253774B2	Scheduling method in a short distance wireless personal area network The present invention relates to a method of allocating a transmission band to a terminal in a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). The method includes: determining an allocation period of a transmission band on the basis of characteristic information that a terminal has; transmitting a transmission band request to a WPAN coordinator; and receiving information relating to the transmission band allocation from the WPAN coordinator. The transmission band request includes the allocation period of the transmission band determined by the terminal; and the transmission band allocation is determined based on the transmission band allocation period determined by the terminal.
US09253773B2	Method and apparatus for wirelessly transacting simultaneous voice and data on adjacent timeslots A wireless method, apparatus, and system provide simultaneous transacting of voice and data on adjacent timeslots through a combination of channel access rules and sacrificing small audio portions when required. This includes wirelessly operating on at least two timeslots which are adjacent to one another, operating voice on a first timeslot of the at least two timeslots and monitoring a second timeslot of the at least two timeslots for data, and, responsive to a data transmission request and receiving voice on the first timeslot, discarding a portion of the voice in the first timeslot to provide a larger guard time for programming between the first timeslot and the second timeslot and transmitting data in the second timeslot based on the data transmission request.
US09253771B2	User equipment-designed demodulation reference signal pattern book A user equipment (UE) is capable of dynamically designing and signaling to an evolved node b (eNB) a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern book defining a set of DMRS patterns associated with a downlink channel of a long term evolution (LTE) wireless network.
US09253770B2	Method for allocating a control channel and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method in which a terminal performs a process for determining a control channel allocation for a control channel, and to an apparatus for the method. The method comprises the steps of: monitoring, on a specific carrier, a common search space including a control channel candidate set for the control channel; and monitoring, on the specific carrier, a terminal-specific search space including the control channel candidate set for the control channel. In cases where the terminal is set to monitor a plurality of control channel candidates having the same radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), same information size, same first control channel resource, and same control channel resource aggregation level in the common search space and the terminal-specific search space, the control channel candidate that satisfies the above conditions is received only in the common search space.
US09253755B2	High performance mobility network with autoconfiguration A high performance wireless mesh architecture which has been optimized for mobile end points is described. The mesh architecture is intended for Navy applications, where the wireless mesh network extends between mobile ships and includes ship-to-shore links, but it is equally applicable to other mobile elements on, in, or under land, air, sea, or space.
US09253753B2	Vehicle-to-vehicle safety transceiver using time slots A transceiver in a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and safety system that regularly broadcasts safety messages, comprising location, heading and speed, of a subject vehicle, that are free of MAC and IP addresses. The V2V system uses the location of the subject vehicle for vehicle identification, in place of a pre-assigned vehicle ID. Some embodiments broadcast safety message in self-assigned time slots in a synchronized TDMA broadcast architecture, with unusually short inter-message gaps and unusually short messages. The TDMA frame is partitioned into three prioritized time interval classes with differing priorities and dynamically changing sizes based on demand of higher-priority messages. Time slot selection uses weighted algorithms. Selected time slots are held until either a message collision or a timeout occurs. A transceiver equipped vehicle may proxy a different subject vehicle. Embodiments include optimized traffic flow and signal timing.
US09253750B2	Location model updating apparatus and location estimating method A location model updating apparatus updates a location model based on data uploaded from a mobile terminal. A certainty of data observed at a location having a location name designated by a user is computed based on a previous histogram, for each most recent check-in data uploaded during a time from previous to current histogram updating, and a most recent histogram is generated based on the certainty. The location is detected using the previous histogram, based on a received signal strength included in each most recent check-in data, in order to judge whether the check-in data is correct, depending on whether a location name of the detected location matches the location name designated by the user and included in each most recent check-in data.
US09253747B1	Automatic pre-registration in response to earlier release and redirect Disclosed is a method and corresponding system for managing CSFB pre-registration. A first network serving a UE releases the UE from being served by the first network and redirects the UE to transition from being served by the first network to being served by a second network. The first network then detects that the UE has returned to be served by the first network. In response to detecting the return of the UE, and based on the previous releasing and redirecting of the UE, the first network then initiates a pre-registration of the UE with the second network to inform the second network that the UE is now reachable via the first network.
US09253744B2	Method for transmitting information to synchronize a use between a mobile telephone and a receiver A method for transmitting information between a mobile telephone having an internal device time, and a recipient having an internal time standard, includes: A) telephone transmits a query signal to recipient, B) recipient reads out the internal time standard and sends to telephone, C) a time difference delta-t1 between the internal device time and the received time data is calculated/stored, D) apply time is set to the value of the internal device time minus delta-t1, E) data stream is sent to the recipient, including apply time at time of pressing a key, F) apply time of E) is read-out from the stream and compared with predetermined maximum time, G) if apply time is earlier/simultaneous with the maximum time, further processing of data stream is carried out; if apply time is later than the maximum time, a warning signal is generated/assigned to the data stream of E) and stored.
US09253743B2	Systems and methods for reduced latency and improved beacon reception in devices capable of providing multiple wireless interfaces via a single radio Systems and methods are described for reducing latency and improving beacon reception by a device capable of providing multiple wireless interfaces via a single radio (a “multi-interface device”). The multi-interface device utilizes the single radio to communicate with a first device over a first wireless channel and to communicate with a second device over a second wireless channel. The multi-interface device determines that a difference in time between a transmission of a first beacon by the first device over the first wireless channel and a transmission of a second beacon by the second device over the second wireless channel is less than a predetermined amount of time. In response to determining that the difference in time is less than the predetermined amount of time, the multi-interface device sends a request to either the first or the second device to shift the transmission of future beacons by a requested offset time.
US09253741B2	Wireless communication system, terminal device, and base station device It is provided a wireless communication system, which secondarily uses the same frequency as a primary system using, the wireless communication system comprising a mobile terminal and a base station. The mobile terminal detects a signal having the frequency; and requests, in a case where a broadcast signal transmitted from the base station is undetectable, the base station to increase a transmission power to a range that a signal does not reach a service area of the primary system, based on a location of a wireless transmitter of the primary system, a location of the base station of the wireless communication system, and a location of the mobile terminal of the wireless communication system. The base station increases the transmission power to the range that the signal does not reach the service area of the primary system in case of receiving the request to increase the transmission power.
US09253739B2	Methods and arrangements for controlling transmit power in a radio base station A method for controlling transmit power in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method comprises determining a first transmit power of at least a first type of subframe which is higher than a maximum allowed average output power of the radio base station, and a second transmit power of at least a second type of subframe which is lower than the maximum allowed average output power. An average transmit power by which the radio base station transmitted an amount of subframes during a preceding time period is determined. Moreover, a maximum allowed power for a subsequent subframe based on the determined average transmit power and the maximum allowed average output power is determined. Finally, at least one type of subframe to be allowed for the subsequent subframe based on the determined maximum allowed power for the subsequent subframe and at least the first and second transmit power is determined.
US09253738B2	Method and apparatus for radio link control in cellular radio communication system supporting carrier aggregation The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining radio link failure between the UE and the eNB in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining radio link failure efficiently in such a way that the UE measures the radio link quality of the anchor carrier, the radio link qualities of the aggregated carriers, and the radio link quality of neighbor cells in order, and determines whether the radio link quality fulfills a predetermined condition.
US09253735B2	Determining maximum power reduction (MPR) for multi-cluster wireless transmissions A method of wireless communication includes determining spectral positions of intermodulation distortion products for a multi-cluster transmission. The method also includes mapping the spectral positions to corresponding spectral regions. The method further includes determining a maximum power reduction value of the multi-cluster transmission based on the corresponding spectral regions.
US09253733B1	Proximity sensor algorithms to control transmit power of a user device Methods and systems are described for determining whether any one of three or more proximity test conditions is met using measurements from a plurality of proximity electrodes located relative to an antenna of a user device and reducing a transmit power level to be used by the antenna when any one of the three or more proximity test conditions is met. A user device obtains measurements from the proximity electrodes, checks the three or more proximity test conditions, and instructs a transmit power manager to reduce a transmit power level to transmit data when any one of the three or more proximity test conditions is met.
US09253732B2	Mobile device and method for improving call performance of the mobile device In a method for improving call performance of a mobile device, the strength of received signals is sent to a base station when the mobile device receives signals from the base station. The method obtains a path balance value sent by the base station, and determines whether the path balance value is greater than a predefined threshold value. The path balance value is obtained according to the strength of the received signals of the mobile device and an emission intensity of the mobile device. When the path balance value is greater than the predefined threshold value, the method obtains a transmitting power of the mobile device, and increases the transmitting power of the mobile device according to the path balance value to improve call performance of the mobile device.
US09253731B2	User equipment and a method therein for transmission power control of uplink transmissions A UE and a method therein for transmission power control of uplink transmissions are provided. The method comprises receiving, through signalling a configuration indicating at least one reference signal, RS, and a reference transmission power level for each indicated RS. The method further comprises measuring received power of the indicated at least one RS, and for each measured received power, determining a pathloss, PL, based on the measured received power and the reference transmission power level for each measured received power. The method further comprises determining an uplink transmission power based on at least one determined PL.
US09253725B2	Communication terminal, communication method, and computer readable medium According to some embodiments, there is provided a communication terminal, including: a communication device, a connection processing unit, a device power managing unit and a device power managing unit. The communication device communicates with a network. The connection processing unit establishes a connection with a first communication terminal on the network. The communication managing unit detects a start and an end of a session on the connection. The device power managing unit controls feeding of power to the communication device in accordance with a detected result by the communication managing unit.
US09253722B2	Network interface for reduced host sleep interruption Systems and techniques for reduced host sleep interruption are described herein. A first packet received via a receive chain may be placed into a buffer. The first packet may be of a first preliminary type. The first packet may be processed from the buffer without communication with the host machine. The first packet may also be of a first secondary type. Processing the first packet may include an operation chosen from the group of dropping the packet and responding to the packet. A second packet received via the receive chain may be placed into the buffer. The second packet may be of a first preliminary type and a second secondary type. The second packet may be communicated from the buffer to the machine. A third packet received via the receive chain may be communicated to the machine. The third packet may be of a second preliminary type.
US09253720B2	Energy-efficient on-the-fly Wi-Fi hotspot using mobile devices One or more mobile devices and a cloud server computing device are utilized to provide Internet access to one or more client computing devices. One of the clients is designated as a Wi-Fi access point. The Wi-Fi access point implements a reverse-infrastructure Wi-Fi mode which tethers available mobile devices and other clients to the access point. The cloud server periodically computes an optimal number of the mobile devices to be used for data striping, and transmits a webpage to a requesting client by striping data associated with the webpage across the optimal number of the mobile devices.
US09253719B2	Association through green energy and latency awareness in wireless networks Technologies are generally described to provide a distributed scheme that enables a Green-energy Aware and the Latency Aware (GALA) user-base station (BS) associations in wireless networks, whose BSs are powered by both on-grid energy and green energy. According to some examples, the GALA approach may consider traffic delivery latency and green energy generation rate in BSs to determine the user-BS association. The GALA approach may converge to a particular solution, which may reduce the summation of the weighted latency ratios of BSs, while enabling a trade-off between the on-grid power consumption and the average traffic delivery latency.
US09253714B2	Scheduling prioritized network searches for a multi-mode communication device A multi-mode communication device having a scan optimizer capable of prioritizing scan frequencies for different radio access technologies (RATs) during a network search. The scan frequency prioritization may be based on various network coverage considerations associated with RAT availability, RAT density within a region, geographic location, historic attachment for the multi-mode device, an operation mode of the multi-mode device, etc. The multimode device can utilize its scan optimizer to generate an optimized scan schedule to be employed for a limited duration during a network search to improve its likelihood of success in detecting and/or attaching to a network associated with a prioritized RAT. A default scan schedule having equal scan frequency prioritization can be employed by the multi-mode device at a time when the limited duration of the optimized scan schedule expires and no networks associated with a prioritized RAT have been acquired.
US09253708B2	Mobile communication method, relay node, and wireless base station To reduce interference to an own receiver of a relay node due to concurrent transmission/reception processing in a Un radio bearer and in a Uu radio bearer when the relay node RN is handed over from a radio base station DeNB#1 to a radio base station DeNB#2. A mobile communication method includes a process A, in the handover procedure, of notifying the radio base station DeNB#2, by the relay node RN, of “Un subframe pattern #1” indicating a pattern of a Un subframe #1 and “RN subframe config req” indicating whether it is necessary to set a Un subframe #2 in a radio bearer #2 between the radio base station DeNB#2 and the relay node RN.
US09253706B2	Method, apparatus, and system for local routing authorization A method includes: respectively initiating a local routing authorization request to a first local routing policy entity and a second local routing policy entity according to service flow information of a first mobile station, so as to enable the first local routing policy entity to perform local routing authorization for the first mobile station and enable the second local routing policy entity to perform local routing authorization for the second mobile station; and when a local routing authorization result of the first mobile station and a local routing authorization result of the second mobile station are both success, transmitting, through local routing, a service flow corresponding to the service flow information of the first mobile station and a service flow corresponding to the service flow information of the second mobile station.
US09253705B1	Resolving handover in presence of coverage area identifier conflict A method and system for resolving handover in the presence of coverage area identifier conflict is disclosed. In a market area in which an LTE RAN and CDMA RAN operate, a base station receives a PCI that indicates a particular one of the LTE coverage areas detected by a mobile terminal. The base station determines that at least two of the LTE coverage areas have the particular PCI. Thereafter, the base station determines which one of the LTE coverage areas is the particular LTE coverage area that was indicated by the particular PCI based at least in part on a particular PN offset that indicates a particular CDMA coverage area of the CDMA RAN. The base station then arranges for handover to the particular LTE coverage area.
US09253704B1	Intelligence in handover assessment for LTE/VoLTE calls to improve retainability A system and method to sustain an on-going voice call or other service during a handover, HO, by preventing the handover to a target cell that fails to admit all the mandatory Radio Access Bearers, RABs, as part of supporting one or more Quality of Service Class Identifiers, QCIs, associated with the ongoing service. When the source evolved Node B, eNB, prevents the HO to the best target cell, it may attempt the HO to the next best target cell. If the next best cell fails to admit all the mandatory RABs and if there are no other intra-LTE or inter-LTE cells available for HO, the source eNB may perform an inter-Radio Access Technology, RAT, HO using the Single Radio Voice Call Continuity, SRVCC, procedure. By preventing “partial” handovers, the retainability of an ongoing service is significantly improved. The target cells causing failure of particular RABs can be tracked using new counters.
US09253699B2	Method and apparatus for controlling and supporting a dynamic cell on/off in wireless access system The present invention relates to a wireless access system and provides methods and apparatuses for controlling and supporting dynamic cell on or off. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method for supporting on or off of a second cell at a first cell in a wireless access system includes receiving a cell on/off state indicator message indicating on or off of the second cell from the second cell, adjusting a handover offset of the second cell, taking into account interference caused by the on or off of the second cell, and transmitting handover offset information about the adjusted handover offset to at least one of the second cell and a first User Equipment (UE).
US09253697B2	Inter-rat reselection in mobile communication systems A method includes, in a mobile communication terminal that is camped on a serving cell, evaluating signals of one or more neighbor cells, and permitting the terminal to switch to a neighbor cell when a signal of the neighbor cell meets a reselection criterion for at least a predefined reselection interval. Acquisition of one or more configuration parameters of the neighbor cell is initiated at least partly in parallel with the reselection interval of the neighbor cell. Following the reselection interval, a switch is made to camp on the neighbor cell using the acquired configuration parameters.
US09253690B2	Method and apparatus for controlling cell reselection Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for controlling cell reselection, which relate to the field of communication terminal technologies. The method includes: when the signal strength of a current serving cell of a terminal is lower than a set value and the duration of which exceeds a first time period, acquiring signal strengths of the current serving cell and a neighboring cell within a second time period; determining signal stability of the current serving cell according to the signal strength of the current serving cell, and determining signal stability of the neighboring cell according to a signal strength of the neighboring cell; and keep the current serving cell when the signal stability of the neighboring cell is not better than the signal stability of the current serving cell. The embodiments of the present application are mainly applied to a cell reselection process.
US09253689B2	Method and apparatus for regaining service by selecting a detected cell not included in a neighbor cell list (NCL) The present disclosure presents a method and apparatus for regaining service at a user equipment. For example, the disclosure presents a method for receiving a neighbor cell list from a serving cell, and scanning to identify target cells by the user equipment, wherein the target cells include neighbor cells included in the neighbor cell list and detected cells not included in the neighbor cell list. In addition, such an example method may include determining that the user equipment cannot successfully camp on any one of the neighbor cells, and attempting to camp on one of the detected cells. As such, an improved method and apparatus for regaining service at a user equipment may be achieved.
US09253682B2	Congestion control in an HSPA system A method for use in a Transport Network, TN, in a Radio Access Network, RAN, in an HSPA enabled cellular system. The method includes inspecting and/or queuing data frames which are sent over at least part of the TN between a Radio Network Controller, RNC, and a NodeB in the cellular system, and using the inspected and queued data frames to identify flows in at least part of the TN and to detect congestion in at least part of the TN. The method further comprises taking a congestion control action using identified flows and/or detected congestion in at least part of the TN.
US09253676B2	Apparatus and method of reporting measurement result in wireless communication system A method and apparatus of reporting a measurement result in a wireless communication system are provided. A user equipment receives a measurement configuration for a serving cell and performs a measurement in accordance with the measurement configuration to acquire an actual measurement result. The user equipment determines whether the serving cell is deactivated and transmits a measurement result including a pre-defined value if the serving cell is deactivated.
US09253673B2	Systems, methods, and devices having databases and automated reports for electronic spectrum management Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for automated identification of signals and devices in a wireless communications spectrum, by identifying sources of signal emission in the spectrum by automatically detecting signals, analyzing signals, comparing signal data to historical and reference data, creating corresponding signal profiles, and automatically identifying signals and devices, comparing and storing data from a multiplicity of units and automatically generating reports for a wireless communications spectrum in near real time.
US09253670B2	Method and apparatus for performing communication in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for performing communication in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving Measurement Gap (MG) configuration information related to the measurement gap, determining a subframe number specifying a starting point of the measurement gap based on the measurement gap configuration information, starting the measurement gap at an end of a subframe immediately before a subframe of the determined subframe number, performing a predetermined measurement operation during the measurement gap, and performing a predetermined operation in a subframe immediately after the measurement gap based on a duplexing mode of a User Equipment (UE) and a type of the subframe immediately before the measurement gap.
US09253651B2	Transmission and detection of overhead channels and signals in a wireless network Techniques for transmitting and detecting for overhead channels and signals in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, a base station may blank (i.e., not transmit) at least one overhead transmission on certain resources in order to detect for the at least one overhead transmission of another base station. In one design, the base station may (i) send the overhead transmission(s) on a first subset of designated resources and (ii) blank the overhead transmission(s) on a second subset of the designated resources. The designated resources may be resources on which the overhead transmission(s) are sent by macro base stations. The base station may detect for the overhead transmission(s) from at least one other base station on the second subset of the designated resources. In another aspect, the base station may transmit the overhead transmission(s) on additional resources different from the designated resources.
US09253647B2	Mobile device for a smart relay network A wireless relay node network includes a plurality of relay devices wherein each relay device is configured to receive a first wireless signal in a first frequency band, and transmit a second wireless signal derived from the first wireless signal using a first set of network use parameters. The plurality of relay devices includes at least a first relay device and a second relay device. The first relay device is configured to select the first set of network use parameters from network resources available for communicating over the wireless relay node network based, at least in part, on a control signal received from the second relay device. The second control signal identifies a second set of network use parameters used by the second relay device.
US09253646B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic station enablement procedure in a wireless local area network system A method of dynamic station enablement procedure in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. A method of performing an enablement procedure by a first station in a regulatory domain where a licensed device and an unlicensed device are permitted to operate together in a wireless local area network (WLAN) comprises receiving, from a second station, an enabling signal including advertisement protocol element with an advertisement protocol identification (ID) field which indicates an advertisement protocol the second station supports; and exchanging DSE (dynamic station enablement) related messages with the second station using a GAS (generic advertisement service) protocol.
US09253645B2	Method and apparatus for scheduling dedicated transmissions in response to interference levels at neighboring base stations A network apparatus for use in a wireless time division duplex (TDD) code division multiple access communication system includes a processor configured to allocate a time slot in a frame for a plurality of cells for transmission of data over a forward access channel (FACH). Each of the plurality of cells is allocated a different time slot in the frame for transmission of the data over the FACH.
US09253644B2	Pushing secure notifications to mobile computing devices Techniques are provided for pushing secure notifications to a mobile computing device. For example, a method for pushing secure notifications includes a push service platform receiving a push notification message request from an entity registered with the push service platform, processing the push notification message request to generate a secure push notification message, and sending the secure push notification message to a target mobile computing device through a native third-party push service associated with the target mobile computing device. The secure push notification message includes a message ID (identifier) that corresponds to message content associated with the push notification message request. The method further includes the push service platform receiving a pull message request from the target mobile computing device, the pull message request requesting the message content associated with the push notification message corresponding to the message ID, and sending the requested message content associated with the push notification message to the mobile computing device.
US09253641B2	Apparatus and method for sharing output data in portable terminal An apparatus and method for limiting sharing of reproduction information of a data authorized for only a specific user when a video and audio reproduced from a portable terminal are shared with a peripheral second terminal. The apparatus preferably includes an application analyzer, and a sharing information generator. Sharing information of the reproduced data is replaced with non-shared information when it is verified that the data which is not authorized to be shared is reproduced. A controller transmits the sharing information or the sharing information replaced with the non-shared information to the peripheral second terminal. The sharing information includes picture information and voice information of the reproduced data and wherein the non-shared information is replacement information for limiting viewing of the voice and audio information.
US09253640B2	In-store reading system A system and method for providing digital data content to a wireless device. Although a fee is typically charged for access to the digital data content, e.g., electronic books, the system and the method provides controlled access to this content for free while the wireless device is accessing the content in a specified location, e.g., a retail location. A content control server receives a request from the wireless device requesting access to the digital data content. The request is received over a secure connection, preferably a virtual private network (VPN). The content control server monitors how much of the digital data content has been provided to the wireless device, and/or an amount of time the wireless device has been accessing the digital data content. This content control server uses this monitored data to control, throttle, the provision of the digital data content to the wireless device.
US09253638B2	Single card multi-mode multi-operator authentication method and device Provided are a single-card multi-mode multi-operator authentication method and device. An MAML in an AP receives an authentication request from a user, and authenticates hybrid networks found by a UE. Under the condition of determining that the authentication on each network in the hybrid networks is passed, the MAML receives terminal position information sent by the UE, and determines whether the terminal position information is the same as operator area information registered by the UE in advance, if so, the MAML acquires signal strength of each network and determines whether the signal strength of each network falls within a signal strength range covered by a base station under the network, if so, determines that all the networks in the hybrid networks are authenticated successfully, otherwise, determines that the authentication fails. The security in using an SIM card by a valid user and secure network service are ensured.
US09253633B2	Method and mobile device for generating a data authentication key The invention relates to a method for generating a data authentication key for allowing data communication over a wireless channel between a first mobile device and a second mobile device, comprising: associating said mobile devices to each other by means of said key. The invention comprises: allowing a shared physical or mechanical condition to be applied generally simultaneously upon said devices; detecting, in said first mobile device, said condition; defining, in said first mobile device, said authentication key based on the detected condition; and transmitting said key to said second mobile device. The invention also relates to a mobile device configured for generating a data authentication key for allowing data communication over a wireless channel to a further mobile device.
US09253632B2	Portable bridge device A portable bridge device and methods for transmitting application data from the portable bridge device to one or more local devices of varying types, platforms and operating systems are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises establishing communication channels between the portable bridge device and first and second local devices, determining a platform or operating system of the local devices, and formatting, based on the determined platform or operating system, application data and transmitting the formatted application data to a portable bridge device interface module of the local devices via the communication channels. The portable bridge device may also establish a long-range communication channel to a remote computing device, and may operate as a gateway to a remote source of applications or resources. Operation of locally connected devices with the portable bridge device is not impacted by a temporary loss of connectivity between the portable bridge device and remote sources.
US09253631B1	Location based functionality Various approaches provide for the delivery of information on a portable computing device in response to being at or near a particular geographic location. In addition, optional functionality associated with the information can also be provided. In various embodiments, one or more applications are available to a user for download. The applications could come prepackaged with the device. It can be beneficial to monitor the user of the portable computing device to learn a user's habits. Understanding a user's habits, along with their stated preferences, allows a service to provide a user with timely and relevant information that is not only relevant to the user, but also relevant to the user's current location.
US09253630B2	Identity management for mobile devices A method of managing identities for use in a mobile telecommunications device in a telecommunications network has the following features. The identity management process is triggered and one or more parameters of a currently available mobile telecommunications network detected. An identity database is searched—each record in the identity database comprises an identity and additional identity information for each identity. The additional identity information includes the one or more parameters. The identity management process involves selecting an identity when a first record comprising the one or more parameters detected is found in said searching and modifying an active identity of the mobile telecommunications device to be the selected identity when the active identity is not already the selected identity. This process can be carried out by a subscriber information module of a mobile telecommunications device.
US09253629B2	Method of handling mobile station identifiers In an embodiment of the method of handling mobile station identifiers, at least one network element that used entire mobile station identifiers in performing packet data session handling functions is programmed to use less than the entire mobile station identifiers.
US09253628B2	Method of exchanging data between two electronic entities A method of exchanging data between a first electronic entity and a second electronic entity includes the following steps: initiating (E400) communication between the first electronic entity and the second electronic entity subsequently to bringing the first and second electronic entities closer together; in consequence of the initiation, transmitting (E415) an application from the second electronic entity to the first electronic entity; storing (E416) the application in the first electronic entity.
US09253626B2	Method and system for optimizing performance of applications on a wireless communication device A system and method for optimizing performance of an application are provided. The system includes an application processor including a logic section, multiple peripherals coupled to the application processor, and an antenna system coupled to some of the peripherals, where the antenna system includes multiple antennas including one or more modal antennas. Each of the one or more modal antennas has multiple modes corresponding to multiple radiation patterns, respectively. The logic section controls the antenna system to have a configuration that optimizes gain associated with networks and performance of the application selected for a time period.
US09253620B2	Methods, apparatuses, and devices for wireless transceiver discovery using re-allocated scan times Methods, apparatuses, and devices are disclosed that may be used re-allocate active scan times of available frequency channels used by wireless transceivers within range of a mobile device. Re-allocation of active scan times may comprise increasing and/or decreasing active time scans based, at least in part, on a number of wireless transceivers discovered transmitting on one or more of the available frequency channels.
US09253619B2	Apparatus and method of data communications in millimeter wave network The method and apparatus of data communications for a transmitter in a millimeter wave network are provided. The method includes: generating a control physical layer (CPHY) preamble; generating a header, wherein the header includes a mode indicator; modulating and encoding a payload according to the mode indicator; generating a packet according to the control physical layer (CPHY) preamble, the header and the payload; and transmitting the packet.
US09253617B2	Methods and systems for carrier activation using information from an existing profile A platform included in a device can be configured to execute instructions to operate the device. The platform can be configured to setup connectivity to a network provided by a data service provider by having an activated account with the data service provider. To activate the account, the platform can be configured to determine that subscription information requested by the data service provider is included in an existing profile associated with the device. Responsive to the determination the subscription information is included in the profile, the platform can be configured to provide information from the profile as the subscription information to activate the account with the data service provider and receive subscriber-level connectivity to the network.
US09253613B2	Apparatus and method for providing conference call in mobile communication An apparatus and a method for providing a conference call service in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit for sending and receiving an IDentifier (ID) of a participant to take part in a conference call, schedule information of the participant, and conference call reservation information by communicating with a conference server, a display unit for outputting the ID, the schedule information, and the conference call reservation information, an input unit for generating input data for selecting the ID, and response data of a conference call connection request, a reservation information generator for identifying a participant to take part in the conference call by detecting the input data for the ID, sending participant information to the conference server, and generating the conference call reservation information including an available conference call schedule by receiving the participant schedule information from the conference server.
US09253611B2	Method of handling a short message service re-delivery A method of handling a short message re-delivery for a network entity of a wireless communication system includes receiving a request corresponding to a transmission failure of a short message transmitted to a communication device without a Mobile Subscriber Integrated Services Digital Network Number (MSISDN); generating a first correlation identification (ID) according to the request; and storing the first correlation ID with a short message service center (SMSC) address corresponding to the short message.
US09253610B2	Systems and methods of networking enhancements using location based services A location based service and method configured to provide a mechanism for information to a subscribing user. The method is implemented on a computing infrastructure and includes querying one or more databases for matching information of a third party that is associated with one or more mobile devices that pass within a predefined location at one or more predefined intervals. The method further includes providing location information to a subscribing user of the one or more mobile devices that have the matching information and pass within the predefined location.
US09253609B2	Online systems and methods for advancing information organization sharing and collective action Methods and systems and mobile device interfaces for creating, joining, organizing and managing via mobile devices affinity groups in a cloud computing environment for social and business purposes.
US09253598B2	Method for measuring location of terminal in wireless network and device therefor A method for measuring, by a terminal, the location of a terminal in a wireless network according to the present invention includes the steps of: determining based on a received signal whether the number of access points (APs) that transmit the signal is three or more; storing location information on a first AP obtained based on the received signal and distance information between the terminal and the first AP at a point receiving the signal if the number of the APs is less than three; measuring a travel distance and a travel direction according to the movement of the terminal from the point receiving the signal; obtaining, based on the signals received from a second and a third AP, location information on the second and third APs and distance information between the terminal and each of the second and third APs at the current point, if it is determined that the number of the APs that transmit signals from the current point according to the movement to the terminal is three or more; and calculating the location of the current point of the terminal based on the distance information between the terminal and each of the second and third APs at the current point, distance information between the terminal and the first AP, and the measured travel distance and the measured travel direction.
US09253596B2	Method and apparatus for detecting location changes and monitoring assistance data via scanning Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for detecting location changes and monitoring assistance data via scanning for use in or with a mobile device. Briefly, in accordance with at least one implementation, a method may include obtaining, at a mobile device, a rough estimate of a location of the mobile device; identifying a plurality of transmitters within a signal acquisition range of the roughly estimated location; transmitting probe requests addressed to at least some of the transmitters; and selectively initiating a passive scan at a receiver of the mobile device if a number of responses to the probe requests received from the transmitters is less than a threshold number.
US09253593B2	Method, device and system for transmitting wireless data A method, device and system for transmitting wireless data are disclosed. In the present disclosure, a local mobile terminal not only may exchange information with a base station, but also may exchange information with other mobile terminals by using a short distance transmission system of the mobile terminals, and transmit, by combining Local Area Network (LAN) communication and Wide Area Network (WAN) communication are combined, data simultaneously via an LAN and a WAN. A target mobile terminal may also receive and send data via the LAN and the WAN. The present disclosure can implement multi-channel transmission of wireless data, thus relieving network load greatly and improving the efficiency of data transmission.
US09253590B2	Near field communicator implementing switched circuit states for demodulation A near field RF communicator has an inductive coupler to couple inductively to an H field of an RF signal from another near field RF communicator in near field range to provide a received signal, a demodulator coupled to extract any modulation from a source signal representing a received RF signal to provide an extracted modulation signal; and a controller coupled to receive an extracted modulation signal from the demodulator. The demodulator has a sampler to sample the source signal in sampling periods and to compare signal samples with at least one of other signal samples and a clock or reference signal to remove or reject the carrier of the received RF signal and to extract the modulation.
US09253586B2	Devices, methods and computer program products for controlling loudness A method by an electronic device for controlling a frequency response of audio output includes: receiving an audio signal at the device; estimating a sound pressure level of the audio signal based on one or more attributes or settings of the electronic device and/or the audio signal; generating values of an adaptive loudness control curve along a range of frequencies, wherein the adaptive loudness control curve is generated based on a difference between values of an equal loudness curve at the estimated sound pressure level along and values of an equal loudness curve at a reference sound pressure level; filtering the audio signal using values of the adaptive loudness control curve; and controlling output of the filtered audio signal as an audio output having substantially the same loudness along the range of frequencies.
US09253585B2	Speaker apparatus A speaker apparatus includes speaker units, a first inputting section to which one channel audio signal is supplied, a second inputting section to which at least L-channel and R-channel audio signals are supplied, an acoustic effect imparting section that performs a first signal processing on the audio signal supplied to the first inputting section to output L channel and R channel audio signals, an outputting section that outputs the audio signal supplied to the first inputting section to at least one of the speaker units, and a widening effect imparting section that performs a second signal processing for imparting a sound image widening effect on both the L-channel and R-channel audio signals and the at least L-channel and R-channel audio signals and supplies processed audio signals to speaker units for corresponding channels respectively.
US09253583B2	Automated fitting of hearing devices Fitting a sound processing device for an individual is automated using a computer. Fitting and customization is carried out using natural sounds without specialized audiometric equipment or audiological expertise. Software for this purpose is downloaded from an internet portal. The computer plays back acoustic signals, and obtains user input reflecting the user's perceptions of the acoustic signals, from which a hearing map is derived, representing the user's hearing. An algorithm updates the device fitting based on the hearing map. Also provided is pre-sale virtual device fitting, whereby a virtual signal processing path is established in the computer, reflecting a signal processing function of a sound processing device of interest to the user. An algorithm updates parameters of the virtual processing path, based on the hearing map. Audio signals passed through the virtual processing path are played back to the user, giving the user an acoustic indication of future device performance.
US09253580B2	Replaceable receiver for in-the-ear hearing instrument A hearing instrument has a shell, a bottom faceplate attached to the shell, and a replaceable receiver. The receiver is replaceable through the bottom plate without removing the bottom plate from the shell. The receiver is locked in its mounting position by a mechanism that can be unlocked.
US09253579B2	Package for a MEMS sensor and manufacturing process thereof A packaged MEMS device, wherein at least two support structures are stacked on each other and are formed both by a support layer and a wall layer coupled to each other and delimiting a respective chamber. The chamber of the first support structure is upwardly delimited by the support layer of the second support structure. A first and a second dice are accommodated in a respective chamber, carried by the respective support layer of the first support structure. The support layer of the second support structure has a through hole allowing wire connections to directly couple the first and the second dice. A lid substrate, coupled to the second support structure, closes the chamber of the second support structure.
US09253576B2	Suspension for acoustic device An apparatus includes a suspension element coupling a first rigid element to a second rigid element such that the first rigid element is movable in a reciprocating manner relative to the second rigid element. The suspension element includes radial features, some of which may have radial segments of opposite concavity. The segments with opposite concavity provide added stiffness in the primary axis of vibration and may contribute to a more symmetrical force-deflection relationship.
US09253574B2	Direct-diffuse decomposition There is disclosed methods and apparatus for decomposing a signal having a plurality of channels into direct and diffuse components. The correlation coefficient between each pair of signals from the plurality of signals may be estimated. A linear system of equations relating the estimated correlation coefficients and direct energy fractions of each of the plurality of channels may be constructed. The linear system may be solved to estimate the direct energy fractions. A direct component output signal and a diffuse component output signal may be generated based in part on the direct energy fractions.
US09253569B2	System and method for a cancelation circuit In accordance with an embodiment, a cancelation circuit includes a current mirror and a low pass filter. The current mirror includes an input terminal configured to accept an input current comprising a first noise signal, a first mirrored output and a second mirrored output. The low pass filter includes an input coupled to the first mirrored output and an output coupled to the second mirrored output. A sum of a current from the second mirrored output and a current of from the output of the low pass filter includes a phase-inverted version of the first noise signal.
US09253565B2	System and characterization of noise sources using acoustic phased arrays and time series correlations A method for detecting the presence of a noise signal within a noise measurement field, where the noise measurement field includes a noise signal emanating from a noise source, and where the noise signal is mixed with extraneous noise existing within the noise measurement field. The method involves using a plurality of acoustic transducers arranged in a plurality of arrays to monitor the noise measurement field at a plurality of spatially separated locations. Outputs of the transducers are sampled to generate time series data. The time series data is processed to identify whether the noise signal is present.
US09253564B2	Noise-canceling headphone depletion-mode switch This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods including a depletion-mode switch configured to pass an audio signal from an input to an output in a low-impedance state when a power source is below a threshold and to isolate the input from the output in a high-impedance state when the power source is above the threshold and a noise-cancelation circuit configured to receive the audio signal from the input and to provide a modulated audio signal at the output when the power source is above the threshold.
US09253563B2	Bone conduction speaker unit Problem: To provide a bone conduction speaker unit which can sufficiently prevent generation of sound leakage at the time of non-calling, and can be easily incorporated in a main body casing of mobile phones, and the like.Solution: A bone conduction speaker unit, being configured by incorporating a bone conduction speaker main body 2 in a housing 1, wherein an elastic plate 21 is fixed on a top face of a plate yoke 17 of the bone conduction speaker main body 2; an elastic base 22 is disposed on a rear face of a yoke 11; and an elastic cover 3 for holding a contact 5 which, upon a pressing force having been applied thereto in use, is abutted against the plate yoke 17 through the elastic plate 21 is loaded on the housing 1 with a gap “a” being held between a bottom face of the contact 5 and a top face of the elastic plate 21.
US09253560B2	Sound library and method At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a website configured to collect sound signatures from around the world and beyond. A communication device automatically stores acoustic information received by a microphone of the communication device. The acoustic information is analyzed for a trigger event. The trigger event stores the acoustic information, attaches metadata, creates a Gaussian Mixture Model, and measures sound pressure level. The communication device automatically sends the sound signature to a database when a communication path is opened to communication device. Each sound signature has associated metadata including a time stamp and geocode. Automatically collecting sounds using a communication device adapted for the process enables a database that captures sounds globally on a continuous basis.
US09253559B1	Audio input detection Methods, systems, and apparatus, for detecting that a component of a mobile device other than a card reader connected to the audio jack is a source of an input signal, including detecting that a card reader is connected to a mobile device via an audio jack of the mobile device. The actions include invoking an application to read captured card information sent from the card reader in response to a swipe of a transaction card. The actions include determining that the mobile device is not processing the captured card information sent from the card reader. The actions include determining that the mobile device is reading an input signal from the microphone source rather than the audio jack when the card reader is connected to the mobile device via the audio jack. The actions include changing the mobile device to processing the captured card information sent from the card reader.
US09253558B2	Headphone The utility model provides a headphone, comprising a headband, left and right two ear pads and a holder. Two ends of the headband are separately provided with a fixing component, the fixing component includes a conductor block; the holder is made of the conductive material, of which one end is respectively connected with the left and right two ear pads fixedly and the other end is respectively connected with the fixing components in a sliding way, and the conductor block is pressed against the holder; in the ear pads, the first group of signal wires is connected to the holder electrically; in the fixing components, the second group of signal wires is connected with the conductor block electrically. The headphone provided in the utility model replaces the exposed lead with the conductive holder which is used as the medium for the audio signal transfer between the left and right two ear pads, thus eliminating the exposed lead on the headphone, simplifying the structure and avoiding the risk of broken circuit due to the damage of the exposed lead in use previously.
US09253552B2	System, method, and computer-readable medium for implementing intelligent network service functionality in a network A system, method and computer-readable medium for simulating intelligent network triggers in a network system are provided. A mobile terminal is configured with an intelligent network Simulator adapted to detect call events and originate simulated intelligent network triggers in response to the call events. Call progressions implemented according to the simulated intelligent network triggers may be managed or coordinated by at least one of a carrier-gateway server and an Enterprise-gateway server. Call progressions implemented by simulated intelligent network triggers may be specified according to Enterprise member policies or general Enterprise behaviors. Advantageously, if a carrier network does not support a trigger infrastructure that has capabilities of originating triggers and terminating triggers, or if a roaming agreement is not in place that allows transfer of triggers between carriers, the use of an intelligent network Simulator provides an alternative mechanism for providing IN service functionality without network support for intelligent network triggers.
US09253551B1	Methods, systems, and media for providing personalized notifications to video viewers Methods, systems, and media for providing personalized notifications to video viewers are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving, using a hardware processor, one or more prompts to be presented in association with a video from a user account associated with the video; receiving, from the user account associated with the video, one or more notifications, wherein each of the one or more prompts is associated with one of the one or more notifications; causing the one or more prompts to be presented in association with presentation of the video to a user; receiving an indication that a first prompt of the one or more of the prompts was selected by the user; causing a notification associated with the first prompt to be presented to the user in response to receiving the indication.
US09253546B2	Method for receiving a broadcast signal A method of receiving a broadcast signal including a Non-Real-Time (NRT) service and a broadcast receiver are disclosed herein. A method of receiving a broadcast signal including a Non-Real-Time (NRT) service, the method comprises receiving a broadcast signal including an NRT content and NRT service guide information, the NRT service guide information including a content fragment, identifying a File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (FLUTE) session delivering the NRT content from the broadcast signal, detecting a first content identification information from a File Description Table (FDT) of the FLUTE session, and detecting a second content identification information of the content fragment matched with the first content identification information.
US09253543B2	Remote control video modulator A video modulator is presented. The modulator includes a video input interface, a video modulation circuit, a video output interface, a communication interface, and control circuitry. The video input interface is configured to receive a video signal to be modulated, the video modulation circuit is configured to modulate the video signal, and the video output interface is configured to transmit the modulated video signal. The communication interface is configured to receive a command via a communication link to control the video modulator. The control circuitry is configured to receive the command from the communication interface and to control at least one of the video input interface, the video modulation circuit, and the video output interface based on the command.
US09253541B2	Method for one-click subscribing to multiple channels of information on a single topic A subscription to multiple channels of information on a single topic is performed. A topic of interest is received via a user interface. A user interface element is presented via the user interface to facilitate a user subscription to a plurality of channels associated with the topic of interest without having to subscribe separately to each channel. A user selection of the user interface element is received and a user is subscribed to the plurality of channels in response to the received user selection.
US09253539B2	Systems and methods for settings management across multiple titles Systems and associated methods for managing application settings across titles are described. A settings management application allows for setting, saving and accessing preferences for one or more applications. Users can manage their application settings as desired and once saved, these application settings can be accessed repeatedly, even upon loading of a new title/disc into the media player.
US09253538B2	Display apparatus, apparatus for providing content video and control methods thereof A display apparatus includes a display unit which displays a content video thereon; a communication unit which communicates with an external server providing a social networking service (SNS); and a controller which receives from the external server feedback information of a part of a playing section of the content video based on feedback information of a plurality of users with respect to the content video, the feedback information being collected through the SNS, and provides feedback information of a user regarding the part of the playing section while the content video is played.
US09253537B2	Apparatus and methods for controlling digital video recorders A DVR controller in network communication with a digital video recorder receives an instruction from a user directing the digital video recorder to perform a function among a set of available functions. The set of available functions comprises a record function operative to cause the digital video recorder to record content and store that content on the digital video recorder, and a playback function operative to cause the digital video recorder to play back content stored on the digital video recorder. Subsequently, at least in part in response to the instructions from the user, the DVR controller issues a command to the digital video recorder to perform the function. The digital video recorder is operative to present content on a presentation device controlled by the user. The DVR controller, in turn, is remotely disposed from the digital video recorder in a facility of a content provider.
US09253531B2	Methods and systems for managing media content sessions Exemplary methods and systems for managing media content sessions are disclosed herein. As described in more detail below, a media content access device may detect a media content session associated with the media content access device, communicate with one or more other media content access devices by way of a local area network to detect one or more other media content sessions associated with the one or more other media content access devices, and present a graphical user interface configured to facilitate user management of the media content session and the one or more other media content sessions. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US09253530B2	Stream data management program, method and system A stream data management method includes: storing in a sequence header of the top original moving image information a terminal ID indicating a terminal which generated original moving image information and date-and-time information which is guaranteed by a third party, storing in a sequence header of the next original moving image information a characteristic value of the last partial information of the preceding original moving image information, generating signature-related information of the original moving image information, generating cutout moving image information to which a sequence header is added, generating signature-related information of the cutout moving image information, and verifying originality and actual time of cutout stream data based on the cutout moving image information, the signature-related information of the cutout moving image information, and the signature-related information of the original moving image information.
US09253529B2	Digital television signal, digital television receiver, and method of processing digital television signal A method of processing a digital television (DTV) signal in a DTV receiver, the method includes receiving a digital television signal including a plurality of extended text table (ETT) instances that appear in transport stream packets with common PID values, the ETT instances having common table ID values, each ETT instance comprising a section header and a message body, the section header containing a table identification (ID) extension field that serves to establish uniqueness of each ETT instance, the message body containing an extended text message (ETM) which provides detailed descriptions of a virtual channel or an event associated with each ETT instance, wherein the section header further contains a protocol version field indicating a protocol version and a section length field indicating a section length, demodulating the digital television signal and identifying at least one pertinent ETT instance from the plurality of ETT instances.
US09253527B2	Social multi-camera interactive live engagement system A social multi-camera interactive live engagement (SMILE) system including video and audio processing arrays performs an audio-video processing method. The method includes receiving multiple video streams from distinct sources and preparing multiple distinct composited video streams from the multiple video streams. Each of the distinct composited video streams configures video images from a different selected one of the multiple video streams in a primary region and video images from remaining ones of the multiple video streams in respective secondary regions adjacent to the primary region. The method include streaming the multiple distinct composited video streams configured for presentation in a user interface to a client device, at different times determined in response to user selection input from the client device, and more detailed aspects, supporting a novel user interface design.
US09253522B2	Method for controlling data flow of mirror link system Flow of data is controlled in a mirror link system in which an AVN system included in a vehicle is interlinked with a wireless terminal. It is determined whether the vehicle is driven or not. Upon determining that the vehicle is not being driven (e.g., the vehicle is parked), the AVN system is interlinked with the wireless terminal through a first streaming protocol and a first control protocol. In contrast, upon determining that the vehicle is being driven, the AVN system is interlinked with the wireless terminal through a second streaming protocol and a second control protocol different from the first streaming protocol and the first control protocol. The first streaming protocol transmits video images and sounds associated with a video from the wireless terminal to the AVN system, while the second streaming protocol transmits only the sounds associated with a video from the wireless terminal to the AVN system.
US09253518B2	On-demand access to scheduled content A method is provided for a reception apparatus to access content. The method includes outputting a distribution schedule for a plurality of content and receiving a selection of one of the plurality of content for which distribution started before or starts after a current time. At least one processor of the reception apparatus determines whether on-demand access is requested for the selected content. When on-demand access is determined to be requested for the selected content, a request for the selected content is sent over a first communication medium and the selected content is received via a second communication medium.
US09253515B2	Channel bonding synchronization Different data communication architectures deliver a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, to consumers. The architectures employ channel bonding to deliver more bandwidth than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, the communication architectures distribute data streams to bonded channels that are clocked independently. A system is provided for synchronizing the bonded channels.
US09253508B2	Differential pulse code modulation intra prediction for high efficiency video coding A video codec comprising a processor configured to compute a reconstructed pixel based on a residual pixel and a first prediction pixel and compute a second prediction pixel in a directional intra prediction mode based on the reconstructed pixel, wherein the first and second prediction pixels are located in a same block of a video frame. A method for intra prediction comprising computing a prediction pixel adaptively based on a plurality of reconstructed neighboring pixels, wherein a distance between the prediction pixel and each of the plurality of reconstructed neighboring pixels is one.
US09253507B2	Method and device for interpolating images by using a smoothing interpolation filter Provided are a method of interpolating an image by determining interpolation filter coefficients, and an apparatus for performing the same. The method includes: differently selecting an interpolation filter, from among interpolation filters for generating at least one sub-pel-unit pixel value located between integer-pel-unit pixels, based on a sub-pel-unit interpolation location and a smoothness; and generating the at least one sub-pel-unit pixel value by interpolating, using the selected interpolation filter, pixel values of the integer-pel-unit pixels.
US09253503B2	Computationally efficient motion estimation with learning capabilities for video compression in transportation and regularized environments The method facilitates efficient motion estimation for video sequences captured with a stationary camera with respect to an object. For video captured with this type of camera, a main cause of changes between adjacent frames corresponds to object motion. In this setting the output from the motion compensation stage is the block matching algorithm describing the way pixel blocks move between adjacent frames. For video captured with cameras mounted on moving vehicles (e.g. school buses, public transportation vehicles and police cars), the motion of the vehicle itself is the largest source of apparent motion in the captured video. In both cases, the encoded set of motion vectors is a good descriptor of apparent motion of objects within the field of view of the camera.
US09253499B2	Method for inducing a merge candidate block and device using same The present invention relates to a method for inducing a merge candidate block and a device using same. An image decoding method involves decoding motion estimation region (MER) related information; determining whether or not a predicted target block and a spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER; and determining the spatial merge candidate block to be an unavailable merge candidate block when the predicted target block and the spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER. Accordingly, by parallely performing the method for inducing a merge candidate, parallel processing is enabled and the computation amount and implementation complexity are reduced.
US09253498B2	Method for inducing a merge candidate block and device using same The present invention relates to a method for inducing a merge candidate block and a device using same. An image decoding method involves decoding motion estimation region (MER) related information; determining whether or not a predicted target block and a spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER; and determining the spatial merge candidate block to be an unavailable merge candidate block when the predicted target block and the spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER. Accordingly, by parallely performing the method for inducing a merge candidate, parallel processing is enabled and the computation amount and implementation complexity are reduced.
US09253495B2	Methods and apparatus for improved chroma transforms for inter frames in video encoding and decoding Methods and apparatus are provided for improved chroma transforms for inter frames in video encoding and decoding. The apparatus and method encode at least a portion of a picture using inter-coding, wherein a transform is adaptively selected, from among a plurality of transforms, to apply to chroma components of the portion responsive to at least one selection criterion.
US09253489B2	Image information encoding and decoding method The present invention relates to an image information encoding and decoding method and a device for same. One embodiment of an image information encoding method according to the present invention, as an image information encoding method according to another embodiment of the present invention, includes the steps of: generating a restore block; applying a deblocking filter on the restore block; applying a Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) on the restore block having the deblocking filter applied thereon; and transmitting information on the SAO application. During the applying of the SAO, the SAO is applied to chroma pixels, and during the transmitting of the information, in addition to information on whether the SAO is applied on the chroma pixels, at least one of area information, division information on the SAO coverage area, SAO type information, and SAO offset information is transmitted.
US09253487B2	Reference index for enhancement layer in scalable video coding An apparatus for coding video information according to certain aspects includes a memory unit and a processor in communication with the memory unit. The memory unit stores video information of a base, or reference, layer and an enhancement layer. The processor determines whether a base layer reference index is valid for the enhancement layer, and resolves mismatches between base layer and enhancement layer reference indices and reference frame picture order counts. Resolving mismatches may comprise deriving valid reference information from the base layer, using spatial motion information of video data associated with the reference information of the base and/or enhancement layers.
US09253486B2	Method and system for motion field backward warping using neighboring blocks in videos Videos of a scene are processed for view synthesis. The videos are acquired by corresponding cameras arranged so that a view of each camera overlaps with the view of at least one other camera. For each current block, disparity vectors are obtained from neighboring blocks. A depth block is based on a corresponding reference depth image and the disparity vectors. A prediction block is generated based on the depth block using backward warping of a motion field. Then, predictive coding for the current block using the prediction block. Backward mapping can also be performed in the spatial domain.
US09253485B2	Video watermarking A method of watermarking a video signal includes encoding the video signal using at least one encoding parameter that is time-varied according to a watermarking pattern. The parameter affects information lost while encoding the signal. The parameter may be a quantization factor corresponding to a particular coefficient of an encoding transform. The parameter may be an element of a quantization matrix corresponding to a particular coefficient in a block DCT transform. The method may be implemented in devices with limited processing resources by means of a software update. The method enables the devices to imprint an encoded signal with a robust watermark, which may survive subsequent decompression and recompression. Alternatively, a video signal may be watermarked by modifying a magnitude of a non-dc spatial frequency component in a manner which varies with time according to a watermarking pattern. Corresponding watermark detection methods and watermarking devices also are disclosed.
US09253484B2	Key frame aligned transcoding using statistics file Systems and methods are provided for transcoding a set of key frame aligned output files from a source file. A statistics file is generated while transcoding a first output file of the set. Subsequent output files having the same frame size but different bitrates of the set may be created non-sequentially and in parallel using the statistics file.
US09253477B2	Display apparatus and method for processing image thereof A display apparatus and method for processing an image in a display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit, a receiving unit which receives a frame image including a first image and a second image and sync information of the frame image, a determination unit which determines whether the frame image is consistent with a reference pattern using the sync information, and an image processing unit which, if the frame image is inconsistent with the reference pattern, adjusts the frame image based on a level of inconsistency, and a controlling unit which controls the display unit to display the adjusted frame image.
US09253475B2	Display device A display device that displays an image, includes: a light source; an aperture stop array including a plurality of aperture stops; a lens array including a plurality of lenses which are disposed corresponding to the plurality of aperture stops respectively, and focus the light transmitted through the plurality of aperture stops respectively; a deflecting unit deflecting a travelling direction of the focused light respectively; a spatial light modulator that is illuminated by the deflected light, and modulates the illumination light; a detector that detects an observer; and a controller that calculates a position of a pupil of the observer based on a detection result by the detector, calculates a relative position of the display device and the pupil of the observer based on the calculation result, and controls an aperture amount of the plurality of aperture stops and a deflecting amount of the deflecting unit based on this calculation result.
US09253471B2	Depth camera, multi-depth camera system and method of synchronizing the same A depth camera includes a sensor unit receiving a reflected light and in response thereto outputting an electrical sensing signal; and a synchronization information calculation unit calculating a performance index with reference to the sensing signal, and with reference to the performance index, generating synchronization information for synchronizing a demodulation clock for sensing the received reflected light. The sensor unit adjusts the frequency and/or phase of the demodulation clock with reference to the synchronization information.
US09253469B2	Method for displaying 3D caption and 3D display apparatus for implementing the same A 3D caption display method for harmoniously merging and displaying closed caption with 3D image in a 3D display apparatus, and a 3D display apparatus suitable for implementing the method. When the 3D display apparatus receives image signals of first and second images for implementing 3D image in a stereoscopic scheme, the 3D display apparatus receives closed caption data only for a base view determined from the first and second images. Then, the display apparatus determines the position of a closed caption for an extended view based on the closed caption data for the base view and a certain 3D caption information, and formats caption graphic data for the base view and the extended view to output 3D closed caption in a stereoscopic format.
US09253465B2	Method of displaying recorded material and display device using the same A method of displaying a recorded material and display device using the same facilitates user recognition of the content of selected recorded material prior to its reproduction. The display device includes a personal video recorder for storing content of at least one recording item of a recording item list; a PVR controller (104) for extracting a plurality of thumbnails corresponding to each stored recorded item, each thumbnails being extracted in correspondence to a prescribed time interval; and a display module (106) for displaying the recording item list in response to a recording item list request and for simultaneously displaying, in response to a user selection of a specific recording item, the extracted thumbnails corresponding to the selected recording item via a corresponding plurality of preview windows. A specific preview window is designated, and the selected recording item is reproduced from a recording position corresponding to the thumbnail of the designated window.
US09253464B2	Method and system for manipulation of audio or video signals A method and system for manipulation of audio or video signals.
US09253462B2	Recording extension of delayed media content Presented herein is a method of extending a recording in a media content receiver of a media event that is delayed. In the method, a recording of media content is begun at an expected start time for the media event based on a recording timer, wherein the recording timer indicates the expected start time and an expected end time for the media event. After beginning the recording, the media content being recorded is analyzed to determine an actual start time for the media event. The actual start time is then compared with the expected start time. If the difference between the actual start time and the expected start time exceeds some predetermined value, the expected end time is adjusted to extend the recording. The recording is then ended at the adjusted end time.
US09253456B2	Solid-state imaging device, method of manufacturing solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus A solid-state imaging device includes pixels each having a photoelectric conversion element for converting incident light to an electric signal, color filters associated with the pixels and having a plurality of color filter components, microlenses converging the incident light through the color filters to the photoelectric conversion elements, a light shielding film disposed between the color filter components of the color filters, and a nonplanarized adhesive film provided between the color filters and the light shielding film.
US09253452B2	Computer program, method, and system for managing multiple data recording devices A multiple recording device management system including an intermediate multiple recording device managing apparatus, a vehicle recording device mounted in a police vehicle and synced to the managing apparatus, and a personal recording device carried by a police officer and wirelessly synced to the managing apparatus. The managing apparatus is operable to detect when the vehicle recording device, personal recording device, or any other synced device in range has begun recording and to transmit a communication signal to any synced recording device in range indicating that the recording device should begin recording and to further transmit a time stamp to synced recording devices for corroborating recorded data.
US09253449B2	Mosaic picture generation A stability and, thus, also a quality of mosaic generation is improved by exploiting the advantages of global optimization while giving up performing the optimization fully on the basis of mutual alignment of the image information alone, i.e. on the basis of the result of a search for similarities, but when, additionally, information about error statistics of the capturing device, which took over portion-by-portion capturing of the object plane, is instead also taken into account in the positioning of the subimages in that a secondary constraint (secondary constraint) is set up for the capturing position variables in the optimization problem.
US09253443B1	Filtering video for video telephony and video conferencing In an approach to video filtering, a computer receives a first video frame of a presenter from a video feed that includes an audio feed. The computer extracts a face of the presenter and a background from the first video frame. The computer receives a second video frame. The computer determines whether a difference between the first video frame and the second video frame exceeds a pre-defined threshold. The computer converts the audio feed from speech to text. The computer determines whether the difference between the first video frame and the second video frame is expected, based, at least in part, on the converted audio feeds. The computer discards video data associated with the difference between the first video frame and the second video frame. The computer creates a third video frame, based, at least in part, on non-discarded video data.
US09253442B1	Holopresence system Systems and methods are disclosed for a holopresence conferencing system using off-the-shelf videoconferencing systems. The holopresence conferencing system uses one high-definition stereoscopic camera per remote participant and discards all but a center portion of the right image and a center portion of the left image generated by the camera. The system concatenates the center portion of the right and the left image into a composite image and transmits the composite image via an off-the-shelf videoconferencing system. At the viewing location, the composite image is divided in half, recovering the right center portion and the left center portion. The right center portion and left center portion may be placed on a background and stereoscopically projected in high-definition on a semi-circular life-size screen. Viewing participants may wear glasses that allow the viewer to see the remote participant in three-dimensions.
US09253441B2	Conference system, program and conference method There is provided a conference system which performs a remote conference by communicating conference data between a transmission terminal and a reception terminal. The transmission terminal receives input of the conference data including audio data, selects a real time mode of sequentially performing transmission of the input audio data and a package mode of performing transmission of the input audio data for each input of a predetermined unit amount, records the input audio data in the predetermined unit amount to generate audio record data when the package mode is selected, and transmits the input audio data to the reception terminal when the real time mode is selected and transmits the audio record data to the reception terminal when the package mode is selected. The reception terminal outputs the received input audio data preferentially over the received audio record data.
US09253436B2	Video playback device, video playback method, non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon video playback program, video playback control device, video playback control method and non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon video playback control program A video playback device includes a sound-attached video storage unit, a text storage unit, a text list display control unit, a text specification unit and a sound-attached video portion playback control unit. In the sound-attached video storage unit, a sound-attached video is stored. In the text storage unit, texts for sounds of sound-attached video portions of the sound-attached video are stored in such a way as to be correlated with the respective sound-attached video portions. The text list display control unit controls to display the texts as a list. The text specification unit specifies a text in the displayed list as a specific text on the basis of a user operation. The sound-attached video portion playback control unit controls to hide the list and play a sound-attached video portion for the specific text.
US09253431B2	Projection video display apparatus A projection video display apparatus includes: a converter that converts an input video signal having a first number of pixels and a first frame rate into a conversion video signal having a second number of pixels and a second frame rate, the second number of pixels being smaller than the first number of pixels, and the second frame rate being an n-th multiple (n is an integer of 2 or greater) of the first frame rate; an optical element that displaces an optical axis of the video light beam; an optical element driving unit that drives the optical element at a frequency F being a natural-number multiple of the first frame rate; and a rotating body that rotates at a rotation speed R. The rotation speed R is set so as to become a value within a predetermined range corresponding to the frequency F.
US09253430B2	Systems and methods to control viewed content Systems and methods to allow a user to control viewed content. A particular method includes receiving at least one selected video stream of multiple video streams associated with a particular event. The method includes forming an output stream from the at least one selected video stream based on a user modifiable template. The method also includes sending the output stream to a display device for playback as indicated by the user modifiable template. The user modifiable template indicates a display region location where the at least one selected video stream is to be displayed.
US09253422B2	Solid-state imaging element having image signal overflow path Since the great number of elements constituting a unit pixel having an amplification function would hinder reduction of pixel size, unit pixel n,m arranged in a matrix form is comprised of a photodiode, a transfer switch for transferring charges stored in the photodiode, a floating diffusion for storing charges transferred by the transfer switch, a reset switch for resetting the floating diffusion, and an amplifying transistor for outputting a signal in accordance with the potential of the floating diffusion to a vertical signal line, and by affording vertical selection pulse φVn to the drain of the reset switch to control a reset potential thereof, pixels are selected in units of rows.
US09253420B2	Hyperspectral single pixel imager with fabry perot filter A method is provided for using a single-pixel imager in order to spatially reconstruct an image of a scene. The method can comprise the following: configuring a light filtering device including an array of imaging elements to a spatially varying optical filtering process of incoming light according to a series of spatial patterns corresponding to sampling functions. The light filtering device can be a transmissive filter including a first membrane, a second membrane, and a variable gap therebetween. The method further comprises tuning a controller for manipulating a variable dimension of the gap; and, measuring, using a photodetector of the single-pixel imager, a magnitude of an intensity of the filtered light across pixel locations in the series of spatial patterns. The magnitude of the intensity can be equivalent to an integral value of the scene across the pixel locations.
US09253417B2	Remote video production The present invention relates to a system for remote video and/or audio production, which system comprises a first part related to the control room for the video production and a second part on the site of an event to be recorded, and where the first and second part communicate with each other by means of a data stream. It is proposed that the data stream is adapted to be sent between the first and second part by means of a wide area network.
US09253415B2	Simulating tracking shots from image sequences A simulated tracking shot is generated from an image sequence in which a foreground feature moves relative to a background during capturing of the image sequence. The background is artificially blurred in the simulated tracking shot in a spatially-invariant manner corresponding to foreground motion relative to the background during a time span of the image sequence. The foreground feature can be substantially unblurred relative to a reference image selected from the image sequence. A system to generate the simulated tracking shot can be configured to derive spatially invariant blur kernels for a background portion by reconstructing or estimating a 3-D space of the captured scene, placing virtual cameras along a foreground trajectory in the 3-D space, and projecting 3-D background points on to the virtual cameras.
US09253413B2	WDR pixel array, WDR imaging apparatus including the same and method for operating the same Disclosed is a WDR pixel array having high sensitivity under the middle intensity of illumination and high intensity of illumination by using the 4T pixel structure representing high sensitivity under the low intensity of illumination. According to the embodiment, the overflow charges generated under the very high intensity of illumination are not discarded or partially stored, but read through the 3T pixel operation, so that the WDR pixel array having high sensitivity under the middle intensity of illumination and high intensity of illumination can be obtained based on the 4T pixel structure without additionally providing a transistor or a photodiode for the high intensity of illumination in the WDR pixel array.
US09253409B2	Imaging processing system and method and management apparatus An imaging processing system includes one or more image capturing apparatuses, a reading unit configured to read biometric information from an authentication object person, a similarity calculation unit configured to calculate similarity based on a result of comparing biometric information read by the reading unit with true biometric information of the authentication object person, an authentication unit configured to perform authentication based on a comparison between the similarity calculated by the similarity calculation unit and a preliminarily set threshold, and a control unit configured to control, if the authentication performed by the authentication unit is successful, imaging processing, which is performed by the image capturing apparatus, based on the similarity calculated by the similarity calculation unit.
US09253405B2	Image photographing device and control method thereof An image photographing device displays a preview panoramic image and data regarding moving velocity and direction of the image photographing device during panorama photographing in real time. The image photographing device includes a photographing unit to photograph a plurality of images, an image processing unit to convert the images photographed by the photographing unit into preview image data and to generate preview panorama data using the preview image data, and a display unit to simultaneously output a screen to display the preview image data, a screen to display a process of synthesizing the preview panorama data, a moving direction display screen indicating a relative difference between the moving direction of the image photographing device and a predetermined reference direction, and a moving velocity display screen indicating a relative difference between the moving velocity of the image photographing device and a predetermined reference velocity.
US09253398B2	Imaging apparatus for generating composite image using directional indicator image, and method and recording medium with program recorded therein for the same An imaging apparatus include a display section, a capturing section which captures an image at a first viewing angle, a capturing control section which performs a plurality of capturing operations by the capturing section, a generation section which generates a composite image reproducing an image captured at a second viewing angle that is wider than the first viewing angle by combining a plurality of images acquired by the plurality of capturing operations by the capturing control section, and a display control section which displays the composite image generated by the generation section on the display section.
US09253395B2	Automatic focus detection apparatus, control method for the same, and image pickup apparatus In the case where a predetermined subject can be detected from an image with a first detection method but cannot be detected with a second detection method, an in-focus direction of a subject detected with the first detection method is determined during a focusing operation. In the case where, when the predetermined subject becomes detectable with the second detection method, the in-focus direction of the predetermined subject detected with the second detection method has been determined by a determination unit, the focus-detecting operation is started using the determined in-focus direction. Speeding up of the focus-detecting operation that utilizes subject detection results is thereby realized, while suppressing any drop in the image quality of recorded images.
US09253391B2	Image capture apparatus and control method for tracking of focus position Provided is an image capture apparatus that can perform focus detection based on a focus evaluation value indicating contrast of a subject image included in a focus detection area using an image signal output from an image sensor. In accordance with the extent of a blur amount of the subject image, the image capture apparatus determines how to use a method for performing focus detection through a reciprocating motion of a focus lens and a method for performing focus detection by moving the focus lens in a direction toward which the focus evaluation value increases. Focus detection is performed based on the determination.
US09253388B2	Image processing device and method, and program The present invention relates to an image processing device and method, and a program whereby a subject can be imaged in a simpler manner with a desired imaging range.A size ratio calculating unit 553 calculates a size ratio between a region of interest that is a region of a subject of interest, and a partial region that is the region of a portion of the subject included in the region of interest with an imaged image that has been imaged, and a lens driving control unit 556 controls the zoom power of an imaged image according to a zoom operation by a user so that the size ratio calculated by the size ratio calculating unit 553, and a predetermined value match or generally match. The present invention may be applied to an imaging apparatus.
US09253387B2	Camera module and camera apparatus and parallel link mechanism for reciprocating an image pickup device There is provided a camera module including: a lens; an image pickup device arranged on an optical axis of the lens; and an actuator section configured to reciprocate the image pickup device in an optical axis direction of the lens, wherein the actuator section includes a movable joint section on which the image pickup device is fixed, a parallel link mechanism section having a movable end section attached to the movable joint section and a mounting end section, and a movable element that is configured to perform displacement motion by a displacement amount depending on a level of a voltage to be applied and that is coupled to a coupling region between the movable joint section and the movable end section of the parallel link mechanism section in such a manner that the displacement motion is transmittable.
US09253384B2	Imaging apparatus In an accessory shoe member placed on top of a base member, a pair of engagement portions is formed in a first direction perpendicular to an attachment direction of an external accessory device, and a plurality of fastening holes is formed side by side in the first direction. A plurality of fastening members is inserted into the plurality of fastening holes with the accessory shoe member placed on top of the base member, thereby fastening the base member and the accessory shoe member to an imaging apparatus. In the accessory shoe member, a joining portion joining the pair of engagement portions is formed. The accessory shoe member is formed by bending a plate metal material into a loop shape so that a joint is located between the plurality of fastening holes.
US09253383B2	Phone adapter for optical devices An adapter that optically couples a camera on a mobile device to an eye piece of an optical device. The adapter includes a base plate configured to retain the mobile device without obstructing a display screen on the mobile device. The base plate includes an optical interface configured to attach to the eye piece of the optical device. A mounting structure is configured to secure the optical interface to the eye piece of the optical device. The mounting structure includes a high friction interface that prevents rotation of the adapter relative to the eye piece. An adjustment system with threaded micro-adjust mechanisms is configured to move the base plate relative to the optical interface in at least two degrees of freedom to optically couple the camera on the mobile device with an optical axis of the eye piece. Images captured by the optical device are displayed on a viewing screen of the mobile device.
US09253379B2	Modular electronic device system with a detachable display Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device, such as a notebook computer or laptop, that includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which includes any type of components, elements, circuitry, etc.). One particular example implementation of the electronic device may include means for establishing a first electrical connection between a first base and a lid portion; and means for establishing a second electrical connection between a second base and the lid portion. The lid portion is removably coupled to a selected one of the first base and the second base.
US09253374B2	Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same for obtaining and applying gamma characteristics to reduce a difference between light and dark areas of an image An image processing apparatus capable of obtaining a gamma characteristic (non-linear conversion characteristic) giving consideration to a difference between light and dark parts in a subject region is provided along with a method for controlling the same. A value indicating the difference between light and dark parts in the subject region is calculated based on image data. Then, by interpolating multiple basic gamma characteristics using the value indicating the difference between light and dark parts, a gamma characteristic depending on the difference between light and dark parts is generated and applied to the image data.
US09253373B2	Flare detection and mitigation in panoramic images Lens flare mitigation techniques determine which pixels in images of a sequence of images are likely to be pixels affected by lens flare. Once the lens flare areas of the images are determined, unwanted lens flare effects may be mitigated by various approaches, including reducing border artifacts along a seam between successive images, discarding entire images of the sequence that contain lens flare areas, and using tone-mapping to reduce the visibility of lens flare.
US09253371B2	Press color state estimator A system can comprise a memory to store machine readable instructions and a processing unit to access the memory and execute the machine readable instructions. The machine readable instructions can comprise a press color state (PCS) estimator to calculate an optical density for each of four single separation solid colors based on a color measurement provided by a scanner. The color measurement can characterize material printed on a substrate and scanned by a scanner. The PCS estimator can also provide an updated LUT for each of the four single separation colors based on the color measurement provided by the scanner. The machine readable instructions can comprise a print controller to provide the optical density for each of the four single separation solid colors and the updated LUT to a printer to facilitate color calibration of the printer.
US09253370B2	Normalization method for a value of an equivalent lightness and a value of a degree of vividness of an arbitrary color, tone type identification method, munsell value calculating method, image formation method and interface screen display device [Problem] To provide a technique for calculating the psychophysical value of a color corresponding to an arbitrarily defined tone by modeling a tone concept defined in the PCCS (Practical Color Co-ordinate System).[Solution] A method for, regarding multiple types of tones defined in the PCCS, generating a definitional equation for each saturation to which each of the tones belongs, wherein a computer acquires the Munsell values of colors belonging to respective multiple tones belonging to the same saturation among the multiple types of tones defined in the PCCS, the computer stores the acquired multiple Munsell values in a predetermined storage device, the computer converts each of the multiple Munsell values stored in the storage device into a value in a predetermined color space composed of two axes of values representing lightness and values representing vividness, and the computer performs a predetermined regression calculation on a point group projected to the predetermined color space to find a regression equation passing through the origin of the predetermined color space.
US09253368B2	Image processing device setting binary value without using dither matrix when prescribed condition is satisfied An image processing device includes a controller. The controller specifies an edge pixel based on image data, and sets a target pixel and a reference pixel from among a plurality of pixels. The target pixel is located between the edge pixel and the reference pixel. The controller determines whether a determination condition is satisfied for the target pixel. The determination condition indicates that a pixel value of the edge pixel, a pixel value of the target pixel, and a pixel value of the reference pixel monotonically increase in said order. The controller sets a binary value of the target pixel to a first value without using a dither matrix when the determination condition is satisfied, and sets the binary value of the target pixel to one of the first value and a second value by using the dither matrix when the determination condition is not satisfied.
US09253367B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a charging device that uniformly charges the image carrying member, an exposure device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the image carrying member, a development device that applies a development bias voltage to form a visible image in which toner is adhered to the electrostatic latent image, a control portion that controls an exposure amount in the exposure device and the development bias voltage and a storage portion that stores an exposure condition and a development condition. The resolution of image data can be switched to at least two types, a standard resolution and a high resolution higher than the standard resolution, and when the resolution of the image data is set at the high resolution, the control portion controls the exposure amount in the exposure device to perform thinning processing on the image.
US09253364B2	Display apparatus, display method, and computer program product A display apparatus that displays a preview of print data includes an input unit that receives input of a sheet handling method of a sheet on which the print data is printed from a user, a generating unit that dynamically generates a three-dimensional image representing a behavior, which is a continuous change in a form of the sheet on which the print data is printed, according to the input sheet handling method, and a display unit that displays, as a moving image, the three-dimensional image that is dynamically generated.
US09253348B2	Display control device and electronic apparatus A display control device includes a display unit that displays one or a plurality of instruction images to be pressed to input operating instructions, a key press detection unit that detects a press on the instruction image, a key press duration detection unit that detects a duration of the time the key press detection unit continuously detects that the instruction image is being pressed, and a vibration drive unit that starts applying vibration to the display unit in response to a press on the instruction image detected by the key press detection unit and adjusts the amplitude of the vibration based on the type of the instruction image detected as being pressed and the key press duration.
US09253344B2	Job processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium A job processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays a job setting screen for receiving a job setting, an obtaining unit for obtaining information indicating a configuration of the job processing apparatus after the job processing apparatus is started, and a display control unit that causes the display unit to display a first job setting screen before the obtaining unit obtains the information indicating the configuration of the job processing apparatus. The display control unit causes, after the obtaining unit obtains the information indicating the configuration after the job processing apparatus is started, the display unit to display a second job setting screen based on the obtained information indicating the configuration. The display control unit also causes the display unit to display the second job setting screen which has taken over setting of a job via the first job setting screen.
US09253341B2	Execution instructing apparatus, execution instructing method, and storage medium An execution instructing apparatus that operates to communicate with at least one processing apparatus executing a predetermined processing includes: a determination unit determining whether, of a first communication method where the execution instructing apparatus communicates with an image processing apparatus via a server which is neither the image processing apparatus nor the execution instructing apparatus, and a second communication method where the execution instructing apparatus communicates with the image processing apparatus without the server, communication can be performed using the second communication method; and a communication control unit controlling communication with the image processing apparatus so that when a determination is not made or when communication cannot be performed using the second communication method, communication regarding the predetermined processing is performed using the first communication method, and when communication can be performed using the second communication method, communication regarding the predetermined processing is performed using the second communication method.
US09253338B2	Systems and methods for routing facsimiles based on content A method for routing a facsimile includes: receiving a facsimile in a computer readable format; locating one or more keywords in the facsimile, wherein at least two of the keywords are not adjacent in the facsimile; analyzing the facsimile to determine at least one of a meaning of the facsimile and a context of the facsimile; attempting to initiate a business process based at least in part on analysis; and routing at least a portion of the facsimile comprising text to one or more destinations based at least in part on the analysis. Corresponding systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
US09253336B2	Image reading apparatus, and image reading method Provided is an image reading apparatus including an imaging unit that images light incident from a medium on which an image is formed, a measurement unit that measures a color value on an image, based on image data obtained by the imaging unit, in correspondence with a position on the image, a generation unit that generates error information indicating an error included in the color value according to the color value measured by the measurement unit and a relative position of the position on the image with respect to an optical axis of the imaging unit, and an output unit that outputs the error information generated by the generation unit and the measured color value.
US09253335B1	Usage monitoring control for mobile networks In general, techniques are described for facilitating usage monitoring control in mobile networks. A mobile gateway comprising one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. The one or more processors are configured to establish a session by which a mobile device is to access a service, and in response to receiving an indication to activate a charging rule having an incomplete indication to activate usage monitoring with respect to the service provided via the session, rejecting the charging rule.
US09253331B2	Call handling Disclosed herein is a technique whereby a user device joins a call conducted over a network, generates audio which can be processed to identify that user device and, during the call, outputs the audio such that it can be received by another user device in the vicinity of the user device which is already participating in the call, thereby enabling the other user device to identify that user device.
US09253327B2	Unified communications using called party location Call processing can include receiving a call directed to a first destination device associated with a called party, determining, using a processor, an attribute of the call, and determining a location of the called party. A call processing rule can be selected that matches the attribute of the call and the location of the called party. The call can be redirected to a second and different destination device according to the matched call processing rule.
US09253323B2	Voice over IP method for developing interactive voice response system A process performed by a personal interactive voice response service node includes setting interactive voice response service node prompts for a communications address to which communications are answered by the personal interactive voice response service node. The process includes mapping, in response to individualized instructions, actions to correspond to selections of set interactive voice response service node prompts. The process also includes identifying a selection of an interactive voice response service node prompt and executing a mapped action corresponding to the selection identified. Voice communications to and from the personal interactive voice response service node are packetized and transmitted over the internet via a network server that coordinates communications for personal interactive voice response service nodes.
US09253321B2	Method for visualizing an IVR system The invention is a method of creating a dialstring for use with mobile smartphones and other computer-enabled telephones. A software app designed to implement the method recognizes input from the user (such as the initial digits of a phone number) that identifies the organization to be called, and accesses a stored representation of the IVR phone tree for that organization. The app then presents a graphical representation of all or part of the phone tree on the display of the telephone. The user can then respond to the graphical representation by providing selective inputs that cause the app to synthesize all or part of the dialstring needed to navigate the phone tree to the desired destination. Once a dialing option has been synthesized to the user's satisfaction, the user may provide additional input that the system interprets as an instruction to open a phone call and dial the synthesized number.
US09253317B2	System and method to track and log mobile communication device call status when the device is not in possession A mobile device logging and tracking system permits a communicative association between a mobile device and a receiving device. When the mobile device communicates data including an indication of an unanswered call to the receiving device, the receiving device is configured to store the data in a memory. The memory may be local or remote from the receiving device. The receiving device may then communicate information associated with the unanswered call to a first electronic device, which may be an appliance, a gaming system, another mobile communication device, or some other device having computing capability.
US09253316B1	Recording invocation of communication sessions Systems and methods for recording a communication session between a customer and an agent of a customer center communication system are provided. In this regard, a representative method comprises: configuring a communication component of the customer center communication system to enable recording of a media stream associated with the communication session; transmitting the media stream over a network based on the configuration of the communication component; receiving the media stream over the network; and recording the received media stream.
US09253313B2	Method to manage multiple caller identities in a telecommunication system In a telecommunication system, providing to a recipient end point a caller identification (CID) from a calling end point, the calling end point including a default CID and at least one additional CID, the method includes receiving a call setup message from the calling end point, the call setup message including the additional CID, allocating a temporary end point for the call, from a pool of available end points, sending contact data for the allocated temporary end point to the calling end point, processing a first call received from the calling end point to the temporary end point, processing a second call to the recipient end point using the additional CID as the calling CID, and joining the first and second calls to generate a call from the calling end point to the recipient end point.
US09253311B2	Controlled recorded 3-way calling Agencies issue recording devices to personnel for administrating and monitoring controlled calls during the course of their duties. To provide flexible capabilities to agencies, a virtual number is provisioned and configured to enable an operator to administrate controlled calls without dedicated recording devices. Using the virtual number, the operator may setup a controlled call between a victim and a baddie. The victim is contacted via the virtual number by the operator and optionally informed about the controlled call process. In turn, the baddie is contacted using number information of the victim's phone and connected with the victim. Call audio between the victim and baddie is transmitted to the operator. When necessary, the operator may terminate the call remotely from the telephonic device the operator used to setup the call.
US09253309B2	Method and system for VPN isolation using network namespaces One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for providing exclusive access to a virtual private network (VPN) connection to an authorized application. During operation, the system creates a unique network namespace that is different from a default network namespace of a host system. The system then places a pseudo network interface associated with the VPN connection into the unique network namespace. Furthermore, the system places at least one socket for an authorized application into the unique network namespace. The system also precludes unauthorized applications on the host from accessing the unique network namespace, thereby facilitating exclusive access to the VPN connection by the authorized application.
US09253306B2	Device skins for user role, context, and function and supporting system mashups Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a communication system that provides various automated operations, including searches of public and private resources for third party information and presentation of the located third party information by a mashup and preparation of a mashup to combine different communication modes or modes in a common session.
US09253299B2	Ergonomic tubular anechoic chambers for use with a communication device and related methods Disclosed, in general, are devices that provide a substantially sound-tight chamber over a sound source while absorbing fields of sounds from the sound source. In general, the devices feature: an anechoic chamber that is configured to receive a sound source in a substantially sound-tight manner; and an anechoic channel that is in fluid communication with the ambient atmosphere. The anechoic chamber is adapted to capture air containing sound energy generated by the sound source, and distribute the air about an internal surface area on the inside of the chamber, wherein the internal surface area is sufficiently large to dampen or otherwise absorb the sound energy. Specifically, the secondary anechoic chamber collects air from in-between the first and second anechoic chambers around the perimeter of the mouth, in the low decibel environment away from the voice blast high decibel areas in front of the mouth. Voice air from speaking fills up the primary anechoic cup chamber and once the primary anechoic cup chamber is full of air, then the air is channeled to the secondary anechoic chamber and into the suppressor channel where the voice air will exit the telephone with as low of decibel energy left as possible. Additionally, the apparatus may feature a circuit board with a telephone cord female jack connection and a plurality of switches, wherein the telephone female jack mounted on the circuit board receives a quick release levered male jack connected to a wire from the telephone base set.
US09253296B2	Wireless communication device An exemplary wireless communication device includes a circuit board, a metal board, and a display module. The circuit board includes two groups of connecting terminals. The metal board is located on the circuit board and includes two metal bodies. The display module is located on the metal board. One metal body is electronically connected to one group of connecting terminals. The other metal body is electronically connected to the other group of connecting terminals.
US09253294B2	Device and method for providing a contiguous display area A device comprising a first and a second housing body and a display. The display has a first and a second display portion which are hingably connected to each other. Each display portion has a front face. The first housing body is hingably connected to the first display portion and hingably connected to the second housing body and the second housing body is hingably connected to the second display portion. And the device is configured to assume an open position and a closed position. The front faces of the display portions are arranged adjacent and facing each other in the closed position.
US09253293B2	Fault-tolerant communications in routed networks A method for providing fault-tolerant network communications between a plurality of nodes for an application, including providing a plurality of initial communications pathways over a plurality of networks coupled between the plurality of nodes, receiving a data packet on a sending node from the application, the sending node being one of the plurality of nodes, the data packet being addressed by the application to an address on one of the plurality of nodes, and selecting a first selected pathway for the data packet from among the plurality of initial communications pathways where the first selected pathway is a preferred pathway.
US09253291B2	Systems and methods for wireless communication Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication. In one aspect, an apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a wireless signal comprising a packet. At least a portion of the wireless signal may be received over a channel with a channel bandwidth of at least approximately five hundred megahertz. The packet may be formed from at least one orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol comprising at least one hundred and twenty-eight tones. The apparatus further comprises a processor configured to evaluate the wireless signal. The processor may comprise a transform module configured to convert the at least one OFDM symbol into a frequency domain signal.
US09253288B2	Location-aware mobile connectivity and information exchange system A computer platform and method for managing secure data transactions between user accounts on a server, based on the respective locations of mobile user devices related to the user accounts, where the user devices create a secured mobile communication cloud between themselves to ensure secure data communications.
US09253281B2	Cells and/or vantage points in streaming media A client receives a playlist file associated with streams of media, and reads the playlist file to retrieve coordinates of multiple cells or to retrieve multiple vantage points, where each of the multiple cells or vantage points comprises a different media stream. The client determines an available bandwidth for receiving media streams, and receives selection of one or more of the multiple cells or one or more of the multiple vantage points. The client requests, based on the selection and the determined available bandwidth, one or more media streams corresponding to the selected one or more cells or vantage points. The client plays back the one or more streams corresponding to the selected one or more cells or vantage points. The client may include a laptop, palmtop or tablet computer, a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a set top box (STB), or a television (TV).
US09253277B2	Pre-fetching stored data from a memory Systems and methods for pre-fetching of data in a memory are provided. By pre-fetching stored data from a slower memory into a faster memory, the amount of time required for data retrieval and/or processing may be reduced. First, data is received and pre-scanned to generate a sample fingerprint. Fingerprints stored in a faster memory that are similar to the sample fingerprint are identified. Data stored in the slower memory associated with the identified stored fingerprints is copied into the faster memory. The copied data may be compared to the received data. Various embodiments may be included in a network memory architecture to allow for faster data matching and instruction generation in a central appliance.
US09253275B2	Cognitive dynamic allocation in caching appliances An approach is provided in which a caching appliance receives a data packet over a network connection utilizing a network protocol. The caching appliance selects a storage area based upon the network protocol and stores the data packet in the selected storage area. In one embodiment, the caching appliance identifies a service level that corresponds to the network protocol and selects the storage area based upon the identified service level.
US09253272B2	Reliable delivery of a push-state aware client device There are provided methods, systems, devices and computer program products for reliable delivery of content packages to a client device. Push delivery of content packages is combined with pull delivery when a push delivery fails. When a client device participates in a push delivery but fails to complete, a recommendation for corrective action may be notified and, following such corrective action, the client device pulls delivery. Respective content listings are maintained by server and client device for reconciliation to prompt pull delivery by the client device.
US09253269B1	Automatic audience creation for shared content A system for creating audiences for a shared content publisher, includes a data store comprising a computer readable medium storing a program of instructions for audiences for a shared content publisher; a processor that executes the program of instructions; a data processor to monitor access to an Internet web site by a first set of users for a reference time period; a window extraction module, based on a reference split period, to divide the monitored access into a vector X and a vector Y, wherein vector X is defined by accesses by the first set of users before the reference split period, and vector Y is defined by accesses by the first user after the reference split period; and a data analysis module to create a model based on the vector X and the vector Y, to evaluate the model based on a second set of users accessing content similar to vector X, to create a final model based on the evaluation, and to score a group of users associated with the shared content publisher based on the final model, the data processor monitors accesses by the first user by recording content or shared content identification and additional information items.
US09253267B2	Portable electronic apparatus functioning as pen-table and computer system using the same A portable electronic apparatus functioning as a pen-table, includes a touch-screen module for detecting contact with an external object and creating position data of a detected region. The portable electronic apparatus, by functioning as a pen-table, eliminates the need to install or carry a mouse, a pen-table, etc. for controlling a personal computer, a laptop computer or the like. A local area communication module transmits and receives data based on a local area communication protocol, and a display module displays the detected region and information on a user interface (UI) and functions of the apparatus. A controller controls the operations of the modules in response to the user's input so as to transmit position data created by the touch-screen module to an electronic device that includes the functions of a pen-table and local area communication.
US09253265B2	Hot pluggable extensions for access management system Embodiments described herein relate to extending the functionality of one or more access management servers, using plug-in files which may be uploaded while the servers are running. The plug-in files may be discovered in both the plug-in file's own class path and the server's class path, and then may be used in the server's authentication and other operations. In certain embodiments, the server's class path need not be modified during this process, and the server need not be shut down or restarted. Certain embodiments may implement a parallel class loader. Custom plug-in file code may be loaded by the parallel class loader, and the parallel class loader is started a container class loader may be made the parent of the parallel class loader.
US09253262B2	Systems and methods for connecting media devices through web sockets Systems and methods are described herein for connecting client devices to applications on a server using web sockets. In one aspect, the systems and methods described provide for a routing table that may be used to direct communications between a client device and an application on a web server. The routing table may overcome challenges of implementing web sockets under current constraints of the web socket specification, the HTTP specification, and server implementations.
US09253260B1	Hybrid zone control system A system and method for using multiple ClimateTalk™ compliant thermostats in a zoned HVAC system are provided. The system may include a first ClimateTalk™ thermostat in a first zone, a second ClimateTalk™ thermostat in a second zone, a third ClimateTalk or 24v AC thermostat in a third zone, and a ClimateTalk™ HVAC unit and/or 24v AC HVAC unit, for servicing the demands in the first, second and third zones. A controller in the zoned HVAC system may establish a ClimateTalk™ network between the controller and the HVAC unit, where the controller may identify itself as the sole ClimateTalk™ thermostat in this network. The controller may also establish additional ClimateTalk™ networks between the controller and each of the first, second and third thermostats, by identifying the controller as a distinct ClimateTalk™ HVAC unit in each of the respective additional networks.
US09253251B2	System and method for determining a vehicle proximity to a selected address A system for determining the proximity of client devices to locations of interest is provided. The system includes a data server configured to receive data identifying a plurality of vehicles and associated vehicle locations and an input processor configured to process the received data to identify a plurality of locations of interest related to one or more assets. A database in operative communication with the data server is provided to store the locations of interest as information records. A notification server is provided to receive data identifying geographic locations of a plurality of client devices. An output processor is operatively coupled to the notification server and is configured to determine whether one or of more the client devices are within a predetermined proximity to one or more of the locations of interest. The output processor is further configured to generate a proximity alert when the one or more client devices are determined to be within the predetermined proximity to one or more of the locations of interest.
US09253249B2	Hardware resource accessing systems and methods for accessing hardware resources in browser-based operating systems and machine-readable storage medium thereof Methods for accessing hardware resources in an electronic device with a browser-based operating system (OS) which includes a user interface running in a browser are provided. A local server is first provided on the electronic device, wherein the local server has a corresponding URL and a dedicated network port. Then, upon receiving a service request from the client-side web application, the local server analyzes a service type of the service request and performs an operation to at least one of the hardware resources corresponding to the service type, wherein the service request is generated and directed to the local server according to the URL and the dedicated network port of the local server by the client-side web application on the electronic device.
US09253244B1	Subscription based polling for resource updates Techniques are described for updating resources provided to a user device, using subscription based polling. A user device may send initial requests for resource to a server, each initial request including a resource identifier and a subscriber identifier. In some cases, the subscriber identifier may uniquely identify the communication session. The server maintains subscription information correlated with the subscriber identifier, the subscription information listing which resources the user device has requested and which versions of the resources are currently available on the user device. Updates to the subscribed resources may then be provided to the user device in response to a request for updates that specifies the session identifier but that may not specify the particular subscribed resources.
US09253243B2	Systems and methods for network virtualization Message publish/subscribe systems are required to process high message volumes with reduced latency and performance bottlenecks. The end-to-end middleware architecture proposed by the present invention is designed for high-volume, low-latency messaging by, among other things, reducing intermediary hops with neighbor-based routing, introducing efficient native-to-external and external-to-native protocol conversions, monitoring system performance, including latency, in real time, employing topic-based and channel-based message communications, and dynamically optimizing system interconnect configurations and message transmission protocols.
US09253242B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for assigning separate dedicated bearers for audio and video streams in a test simulation environment Methods, systems, and computer readable media for assigning separate dedicated bearers for separate audio and video streams in a test simulation environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes generating dedicated bearer information associated with each of a dedicated audio bearer and a dedicated video bearer to be used for a communication session and providing the dedicated bearer information to a simulation device. The method further includes, from the simulation device, using the dedicated bearer information to negotiate establishment of the dedicated audio bearer and the dedicated video bearer between the simulation device and a system under test (SUT) and sending simulated traffic data to the SUT over the dedicated audio bearer and the dedicated video bearer in accordance with a mapping based on the dedicated bearer information and identifiers included in the simulated traffic.
US09253240B2	Providing sequence data sets for streaming video data A device may encapsulate video data such that Supplemental Enhancement Information (SEI) messages are stored separately from a sequence of coded video pictures described by the SEI messages. An example device includes a control unit configured to generate one or more SEI messages separate from the coded video pictures, wherein the SEI messages describe respective ones of the sequence of coded video pictures and include elements common to more than one of the coded video pictures, and an output interface configured to output the SEI messages separately from the sequence of coded video pictures. An example destination device may receive the SEI messages separately from the coded video pictures and render the coded video pictures using the SEI messages.
US09253239B2	Optimized image delivery over limited bandwidth communication channels Large-scale images are retrieved over network communications channels for display on a client device by selecting an update image parcel relative to an operator controlled image viewpoint to display via the client device. A request is prepared for the update image parcel and associated with a request queue for subsequent issuance over a communications channel. The update image parcel is received from the communications channel and displayed as a discrete portion of the predetermined image. The update image parcel optimally has a fixed pixel array size, is received in a single and or plurality of network data packets, and were the fixed pixel array may be constrained to a resolution less than or equal to the resolution of the client device display.
US09253237B2	Rich media status and feedback for devices and infrastructure components using in path signaling A STUN message is received at a router device in a network from a client device in the network along a network path. The STUN message is evaluated for information that indicates to the router device to modify media that is subsequently sent along the network path. If the evaluating indicates that the router device is to modify the media, the media is modified in accordance with information in the STUN message that indicates attributes of the network.
US09253234B2	Method and apparatus for providing enhanced streaming content delivery with multi-archive support using secure download manager and content-indifferent decoding A system, apparatuses and methods are provided to download and process data and other content streamed over a wide area network using one or more dynamically fetched, material specific, data handlers (e.g., download assistants). A download assistant fetches a data stream from a remote location and processes the streamed data iteratively using buffers and multi-threaded processes through the decoder (e.g., codec), allowing source material-specific processing of the data as it is streamed from one or more download sources as well as content-indifferent and platform-indifferent decoding. To minimize versioning issues, payload construction for secure delivery is simplified to packing and encrypting a directory tree containing any number of files or other digital media into an archive and, when needed, dividing a payload into multiple files or archives with a descriptor that lists the archives.
US09253233B2	Switch signaling methods providing improved switching between representations for adaptive HTTP streaming The switch signaling methods providing improved switching between representations for adaptive HTTP streaming described herein enable user experience and bandwidth efficiency improvements for adaptive HTTP streaming solutions, even when segment data is encrypted. The signaling methods include associating segment maps with segments of a representation, wherein a segment map comprises both temporal entry and temporal exit points within associated segments together with byte offset information and potentially other segment information, wherein segment maps may be generated with predictable time span patterns that are independent of the time spans of the associated segments. These embodiments can be used to enhance existing deployments in such a way that there is no need to change existing content encoding and formatting processes, and such that existing clients that receive and play out content are unaffected.
US09253231B2	Retrieving and caching adaptive bitrate stream segments based on network congestion A cache device may receive a request for a first segment of an adaptive bitrate stream. The request may identify a particular time interval, of the adaptive bitrate stream, to which the first segment corresponds. The request may further identify a first bitrate at which the first segment is encoded. The cache device may determine a network congestion level of a network associated with the adaptive bitrate stream. The cache device may determine, based on the network congestion level, a second bitrate that is different from the first bitrate. The cache device may obtain a second segment of the adaptive bitrate stream. The second segment may be encoded at the second bitrate. The cache device may store the second segment for delivery to a client device.
US09253227B2	Geolocation rescheduling system and method A method, computer program product, and computing system for determining an initial meeting location for a meeting previously-scheduled to be attended by a plurality of attendees at a defined meeting time. A current attendee location is determined for each of the plurality of attendees proximate the defined meeting time, thus defining a plurality of attendee locations. The initial meeting location and one or more of the plurality of attendee locations are compared to determine if the initial meeting location could be changed. If the initial meeting location could be changed, at least one alternative meeting location is suggested.
US09253219B2	System and method to influence SIP routing by sequenced applications A system and method to influence routing of a call by a sequenced application from among a plurality of sequenced applications is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a header for the call wherein the header comprises at least one directive from each of the plurality of sequenced applications. Further the method comprises arbitrating conflicts from among the one directive in the header in order to determine a set of sequenced application headers to at least partially execute. Finally, the determined set of sequenced application headers is at least partially executed.
US09253217B2	Authentication policy usage for authenticating a user A method and system for authenticating a user. A first server of at least two servers receive input authentication information from the user. The first server ascertains that the user is authorized to access a federated computing environment that comprises at least two servers, which includes the first server determining that the received input authentication information conforms to at least one rule of an authentication policy of a second server having a highest relative priority among servers of the at least two servers whose authentication policy's at least one rule, in an authentication policy table within the first server, is conformed to by the received input authentication information.
US09253216B2	Techniques of transforming policies to enforce control in an information management system In an information management system, policies are deployed to targets and targets can evaluate the policies whether they are connected or disconnected to the system. The policies may be transferred to the target, which may be a device or user. Relevant policies may be transferred while not relevant policies are not. The policies may have policy abstractions.
US09253214B1	Systems and methods for optimizing data loss prevention systems The disclosed computer-implemented method for optimizing data loss prevention (DLP) systems may include (1) monitoring data distributed via at least one data-distribution channel, (2) detecting, by analyzing the distributed data, a plurality of partial violations of a set of DLP policies, (3) determining, based on a correlation between the plurality of partial violations, that the plurality of partial violations suggest a previously undetected DLP threat, and (4) formulating an adjustment to apply to the set of DLP policies to enable the set of DLP policies to detect the DLP threat in the future. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09253210B2	Policy-based dynamic information flow control on mobile devices A method for securing data on a mobile device that supports both enterprise and personal applications. According to the method, information flows and data accesses are tracked on the device at run-time to enable access control decisions to be performed based on a policy, such as an enterprise privacy policy that has been distributed to the device from an enterprise server. The policy may be updated by events at the device as well as at the enterprise server.
US09253208B1	System and method for automated phishing detection rule evolution System and method for automatically developing phishing detection rules. Based on detected phishing indicia, a quantitative score is computed for each of a plurality of predefined parameters, with each of the parameters relating to at least one of the phishing indicia. A requirement for evolving a phishing detection rule is assessed, and a new phishing detection rule is generated based on selected parameter scores meeting the rule evolution criteria and on corresponding content of the phishing indicia relating to those selected parameter scores. New phishing detection rules are applied recursively to detect phishing indicia, and more new rules can be further evolved in recursive fashion.
US09253200B2	Programming vehicle modules from remote devices and related methods and systems Methods, apparatus and systems are provided for programming a vehicle module. An exemplary vehicle includes a first module, an authentication module communicatively coupled to the first module, and an update module communicatively coupled to the first module and the authentication module. The update module is configured to obtain a programming update for the first module that includes an authentication portion and a programming data portion. The update module provides the programming data portion to the first module and provides the authentication portion to the authentication module. The authentication module provides the authentication portion to the first module after the authentication portion is authenticated.
US09253198B2	Systems and methods for geolocation-based authentication and authorization Systems and methods are provided for controlling the authentication or authorization of a mobile device user for enabling access to the resources or functionality associated with an application or service executable at the user's mobile device. The user or user's mobile device may be automatically authenticated or authorized to access application or system resources at the device when the current geographic location of the user's mobile device is determined to be within a preauthorized zone, e.g., based on a predetermined geo-fence corresponding to the preauthorized zone. A security level or amount of authorization credentials required to authorize a user for data access may be varied according any of a plurality of security levels, when the current or last known geographic location of the user's mobile device is determined to be outside the preauthorized zone.
US09253197B2	Method and apparatus for token-based real-time risk updating According to one embodiment, an apparatus may store a plurality of tokens indicating a user is accessing a resource over a network. The plurality of tokens may include a risk token indicating a risk associated with access by the user to the resource. The apparatus may detect a token indicating a change associated with accessing the resource, and determine that the change triggers a risk update. The apparatus may then generate a dataset token that represents the risk token and the token indicating the change, and communicate the dataset token to a token provider to perform the risk update. The apparatus may then receive a recomputed risk token representing an updated risk. The updated risk may indicate the risk associated with continuing access to the resource with the change.
US09253196B2	Content access control in a social network Disclosed are systems and methods associated with a social network application. A plurality of posts associated with a client system user is displayed. First and second posts in the plurality of posts are respectively associated with first and second recipient groups. While the posts are displayed, a post input area independent of the plurality of posts is also displayed. When the user selects the post input area, it is expanded by displacing the plurality of posts. Concurrently, a content item area is displayed within the expanded post input area. An input, comprising a content item, is received from the user in the content item area. An affordance is presented that enables the user to designate access control information corresponding distribution entities. The content item and the access control information are transmitted to a system whereupon access to the content item is restricted in accordance with the access control information.
US09253191B2	Method for generating smart contents, method for executing smart contents and method for providing N-screen service of smart contents A method for generating smart contents includes contents protected by a digital right management (DRM) technology; and metadata including information necessary to use the contents. Further, the method includes a smart code for protecting copyright of the contents and position information which the smart code is downloaded.
US09253190B2	Information management system and method for managing identification information A registration unit associates identification information of a portable terminal device with identification information of a vehicle, which is to be registered and equipped with a communication device. The registration unit registers the identification information. A grant unit grants an authentication key to the portable terminal device having the registered identification information. A permission unit permits the portable terminal device with the authentication key to operate in cooperation with the communication device, which is equipped to a vehicle to be registered, and the communication device equipped to a vehicle other than the vehicle to be registered. The permission unit does not to permit the portable terminal device without the authentication key to operate in cooperation with the communication device equipped to any vehicle.
US09253189B1	Generating weights for biometric tokens in probabilistic matching systems Generating weights for biometric tokens in probabilistic matching systems is disclosed, where these weights are generated from computations performed on matched sets and unmatched sets of a reference data set. In an embodiment, scores from a similarity scoring function are distributed among bins, and a weight is computed for each bin as the log of (the matched set ratio/the unmatched set ratio), where the ratios are computed as the number of scores in a particular bin as compared to the total size of the set. The weights may then be used subsequently with scores computed by the scoring function to assess confidence of a computed similarity score, and are directed toward making the output of the probabilistic matching system more data-driven and more accurate.
US09253185B2	Cloud centric application trust validation In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and an apparatus to perform the method of sending towards a key management device associated with an application service provider for an application, a key request for the application being booted in the cloud network; and in response to the key request, receiving an application specific key for the application, where the key is based on multiple factors associated with the application server. Further, there is at least a method and an apparatus to perform the method of receiving a key request from an application server of a cloud network for the application being booted in the cloud network; in response to the key request, authenticating the request using multiple attributes associated with the application server; and sending an application specific key for the application towards the application server.
US09253182B1	Web document transfers Methods and systems for enabling transfer of digital content of a webpage to a user device for subsequent consumption by the user device are described. A client computing system receives user input indicating selection of a graphical user interface (GUI) element while presenting a webpage in a browser of the client computing system. The client computing system sends an unauthenticated request to transfer the digital content of the webpage presented in the browser and prompts a user of the browser to login to an account in response to the unauthenticated request. The client computing system sends an authentication request with login information to authenticate the user to automatically authorize operations to transfer the digital content. The client computing system sends an authenticated transfer request to a server computing system to transfer the digital content presented in the browser to the user device for the subsequent consumption by the user device.
US09253181B2	Cyber gene identification technology based on entity features in cyber space A new identification (ID) technology comprising unified and standardized object identification within Cyber Space is disclosed based upon intrinsic properties of the entity to be identified. This Cyber Gene ID (or Cyber ID) technology extracts intrinsic information from either the physical users or their cyberspace counterparts, and such information is categorized into client parameters, dynamic parameters, static parameters, cloud parameters, connection parameters and user parameters.
US09253180B2	Computer-implemented method for mobile authentication and corresponding computer system In one embodiment of the present invention a computerized method includes receiving at a personal-mobile device a first communication, which includes information for requesting user verification for logging into an account of a user, via a computing device. The account is with a service provided by an application server. The method includes starting a personal-authentication application on the personal-mobile device in response to receiving the first communication, and receiving in the personal-authentication application a user verification for confirming logging into the account. The method includes logging into the account via the computing device based on receipt of the user verification. Embodiments of the present invention provide enhanced security for logging into an account that a user may have with a service by providing that a personal-mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, which is personal to a user, is configured as a security token for login to the account.
US09253179B2	Managing security restrictions on a resource in a defined environment Approaches described herein manage security restrictions on a resource in a defined environment to provide authorization and access. Specifically, a security system maintains a security restriction on the resource (e.g., an information technology (IT) account of a user, or an apparatus) in a defined environment. The presence of a plurality of users is continuously monitored throughout the defined environment and, based on a detection of a pre-specified set of users from the plurality of users in the defined environment, the security restriction is managed (e.g., removed or maintained). In one embodiment, the system removes the security restriction from the resource to allow at least one of: access to the IT account of the user, and operation of the apparatus. The security restriction on the resource may then be reinstated in the case that the pre-specified set of users from the plurality of users is no longer present in the defined environment.
US09253178B2	Method and apparatus for authenticating a communication device According to an aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of operating a communication device, the communication device being part of a group comprising two or more communication devices that share a subscription to a communication network. The method comprises receiving a group authentication challenge from the network, at least part of the group authentication challenge having been generated using group authentication information that is associated with the shared subscription. The device then generates a device specific response to the group authentication challenge using the group authentication information and device specific authentication information and sends the device specific response to the network. The device is for example a member of a machine-type communication device group.
US09253172B2	Changing group member reachability information In an embodiment, a method comprises obtaining a second network address at a computer node, which has been already associated with a first network address and provided first keying information; sending, to a key server computer, an update message that comprises both the first network address and the second network address; using the first keying information to encrypt messages that the computer node sends from the second network address to one or more other members of a group.
US09253170B2	Method and apparatus for securing mobile applications In some embodiments, a method includes obtaining an object code of an application executed on a mobile device. The application is created by an author different from an operator of a data source. The method includes loading dynamically at least one intercept point into the object code, wherein the intercept point is to detect a predetermined input gesture. The method further includes, responsive to an input gesture being received within a context of the application at the mobile device and the input gesture matching the predetermined input gesture: (1) overlaying a user interface within the context of the application, the user interface permitting selection of data items from the data source; (2) determining from a selection signal received at the mobile device, a selected data item; (3) responsive to the determining, loading the selected data item into the context of the application; and (4) removing the user interface overlay.
US09253158B2	Remote access manager for virtual computing services A series of NAT connection rules are revised in a dynamic manner such that a pool of ports is available to connect a plurality of remote users to local virtual compute resources over one or more public IP addresses. Once a connection is established, an entry is made in a firewall state table, associating IP addresses, ports and protocol types, such that the firewall state table allows uninterrupted use of the established connection. After an entry has been made in the state table, or the routing rule has timed out, the port associated with the original NAT routing rule is removed and the same port can be re-used to establish another connection without disrupting active connections. A connection between a virtual compute resource and a local compute resource can be associated with multiple ports and multiple protocol types.
US09253154B2	Configuration management for a capture/registration system A method, apparatus, and system is described for distributing a rule to a distributed capture system and storing the rule in a global configuration database, wherein the rule defines an action for the distributed capture system to perform regarding packets intercepted by the distributed capture system.
US09253153B2	Anti-cyber hacking defense system Systems, devices, and methods for performing rate limiting on a received packet based on logged packet information and rules list determination where for each packet from a set of one or more packets, packet information is logged in a data store by comparing the received packet with previously received packets. Determining if the received packet is part of an established connection or if the received packet is part of a new connection and if determined that the packet is of an established connection, then performing a set of rules on a subset of packets, if however it is determined that the packet is of a new connection, then performing the set of rules on all the received packets. Additionally, determining whether the packet is part of a created rules list and if the packet is determined to be part of a created rules list, then bypassing filtering for the packet; if however the packet is determined to not be part of a created rules list, then assigning escalating time-based IP traffic blocks against the packet.
US09253147B2	Method for addressing an IP network connecting to another IP network To enable a visitor network to access a host network, a method includes steps in which a router of a visitor network connects to a router of a host network and transmits to it an address request message containing an identifier of the visitor router. The host router extracts, from the address request message received, the identifier of the visitor router, and transmits, to the visitor router, an address assignment message containing either an address or an address prefix of the host network, depending on the identifier of the visitor router extracted from the address request message.
US09253144B2	Client-driven load balancing of dynamic IP address allocation Techniques are described for load balancing between DHCP servers at a DHCP client. Embodiments receive load information from each of two or more DHCP servers. Here, the load information describes a current workload of the respective DHCP server from which the load information is received. One of the two or more DHCP servers is then selected at the DHCP client based on the received load information. Additionally, embodiments accept an IP address offer from the selected DHCP server.
US09253135B2	Notification management Computer-implemented methods for providing a single notification for display in an application from multiple received notifications are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first notification for an application and receiving a second notification for the application subsequent to the first notification, and analyzing content of the first notification and content of the second notification. The method also includes determining, based on the analysis, whether the second notification is related to the first notification, and providing, for display, a single notification includes at least a portion of the content of the first notification and at least a portion of the content of the second notification when the second notification is related to the first notification. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US09253134B2	Creating real-time conversations Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating conversations related to a location. One method includes receiving a topic for a real-time conversation from a user, receiving location information related to a location of the user, and creating a real-time conversation object that includes the received topic. The method also includes tagging the created real-time conversation object with the received location information, indexing, based on the received topic and the received location information, the tagged real-time conversation object with respect to other real-time conversation objects, and providing the tagged real-time conversation object in response to a search for real-time conversation objects received from another user.
US09253133B2	Message thread identification and management Systems and methods for identifying threads of related messages. A computer can associate messages with threads by storing a thread identifier (thread ID) identifying a thread and associating the thread ID with a message identifier (message ID) of each known message that belongs to the thread. The computer can inspect a message to determine whether the message identifies a reference message. Before assigning a thread ID to the message or a reference message, the computer can determine whether a message ID for either message is stored in association with a thread ID. If a thread ID is stored for a message ID of either message, the computer can assign the thread ID to message IDs of other reference messages. If a thread ID is not stored for a message ID of either message or is different for either message, store a common thread ID in association with both messages.
US09253126B2	Trusted e-mail communication in a multi-tenant environment Trusted e-mail communication may be provided. A message source organization may be validated. When a message is received from the validated message source organization for a recipient organization, a determination may be made as to whether the recipient organization supports an attribution data extension. If so, the message may be transmitted to the recipient organization with an attribution element associated with the message source organization.
US09253124B2	Techniques for sending and relaying information over broadcast and non-broadcast communications media Sending and relaying of information includes: a direct receiver receives messages from a server over a broadcast communications medium, each message having associated targeter data attributes; the direct receiver selects messages from the server for storage in a message store of the first receiver device based on the targeter data attributes associated with each message from the server; the direct receiver connects with an indirect receiver over the non-broadcast communications medium; the direct receiver receives a message request from the indirect receiver for messages in the message store of the direct receiver over a non-broadcast communications medium; and in response to the message request, the direct receiver sends messages in the message store of the direct receiver to the indirect receiver over the non-broadcast communications medium. The direct receiver receives data from the server, and the indirect receiver receives data via another receiver.
US09253119B2	Method and apparatus for administrative unit-3 circuit emulation The present invention discloses a method for AU-3 circuit emulation, including: converting frame data from an administrative unit AU-3 frame format into a tributary unit TU-3 frame format; mapping the frame data in the TU-3 frame format into a virtual container VC4 to obtain the frame data in a VC4 frame format; and emulating the frame data in the VC4 frame format. In embodiments of the present invention, frame data is converted from an AU-3 frame format into a TU-3 frame format, and the frame data in the TU-3 frame format is mapped into a virtual container VC4 to obtain frame data in the VC4 frame format. In this way, the frame data in the VC4 frame format is emulated, a requirement of transparently transmitting AU pointers in the present network is fulfilled, that is, the requirement of emulating and transparently transmitting the content of an entire AU is fulfilled.
US09253118B2	Matrix router and method of switching A matrix router and method of switching comprising a combined input stage and output stage (I/O stage) having m matrix switch(es), each matrix switch having n inputs and n outputs, each input of said n inputs switchable within said matrix switch to any output of said n outputs, k core outputs and k core inputs, each input of said n inputs switchable to any core output of said k core outputs and each core input of said k core inputs switchable to any output of said n outputs; and a core stage having a matrix switch at least with m times k core stage inputs and at least m times k core stage outputs, each core stage input connected to one core output of said I/O stage, and each core stage output connected to one core input of said I/O stage, where m, n and k are integers and m≧1, n≧2, k≧n.
US09253117B1	Systems and methods for reducing network hardware of a centrally-controlled network using in-band network connections A network topology system for reducing the hardware links in a centrally-controlled network having a plurality of network switches and a plurality of centralized controllers controlling those switches. The global network of switches and controllers is broken up into domains, wherein a domain contains a subset of controllers and switches, and a switch in a domain is controlled by one or more controllers. In-band hardware links, which carry both data and control information, are used to connect the controllers and switches in a domain, and thereby reduce the number of hardware links from that used in networks which have separate hardware links for both data and control information.
US09253115B2	Methods and systems for controlling network service quality Methods and systems are provided for controlling network service quality. According to an aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented method is provided for controlling levels of quality of service (QoS) for transmitting data between a terminal and a destination. The method comprises enforcing a first level of a QoS to a connection between the terminal and the network, receiving a user-requested, second level of the QoS from the terminal, identifying a currently-available level of the QoS on the network, determining a third level of the QoS based at least in part on the currently-available level of the QoS on the network and the second level of the QoS, and enforcing the third level of the QoS. Methods and system are provided for enabling users at the terminals to specify online a level of network QoS, and the system dynamically changes the quality level and the plan to satisfy the request.
US09253114B2	Pre-provisioning virtual machines in a networked computing environment In general, embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for pre-provisioning cloud computing resources such as virtual machines (VMs) in order to achieve faster and more consistent provisioning times. Embodiments of the present invention describe an approach to generate a pre-provisioned pool of virtual machines that are utilized when one or more consumers start to initiate a large volume of requests (e.g., instantiate/populate multiple e-commerce ‘shopping carts’). In a typical embodiment, a selection of an operating system to be associated with a VM is received in a computer data structure. A provisioning of the VM will then be initiated based on the selection of the operating system. Thereafter, at least one selection of at least one software program to be associated with the VM will be received in the computer data structure. The provisioning of the VM can then be completed based on the at least one selection of the at least one software program in response to a provisioning request received in the computer data structure.
US09253112B2	Network node and packet control method To control a timing of transmitting real-time packets, it is provided a network node for transferring a packet, comprising: ports for inputting and outputting a packet to be transferred; a buffer memory for temporarily storing the input packet; a search engine for determining a port from which the input packet is output; and a timing adjusting unit for adjusting a difference in period of time needed from reception of a specific type of packet to transmission thereof.
US09253106B2	Traffic-control-based data transmission method and communication system The present invention discloses a traffic control-based data transmission method, a traffic control-based switch, a node server and a traffic control-based communication system, thereby solving the problem that the quality of network transmission cannot be guaranteed in the present IP network. The method comprises: obtaining, by a switch, the traffic control information for each service request, wherein the traffic control information includes sending time interval and sending data size; receiving, by the switch, a data packet, and putting it into a packet buffer queue; and polling, by the switch, the packet buffer queue, and taking a packet from the packet buffer queue for sending according to the traffic control information. The present invention can realize accurate traffic control, it is applicable for multimedia transmission, and it can guarantee transmission quality.
US09253105B2	Methods and apparatuses for facilitating determination of a state of a receiver buffer Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating determination of a state of a receiver buffer. A method may include receiving, at a first time, a data packet of a data stream transmitted by a sending apparatus. The method may further include generating, at a second time, a periodically generated receiver reporting message. The method may additionally include determining an interval time defining an interval between the first time and the second time. The method may also comprise causing an indication of the interval time to be sent to the sending apparatus. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided.
US09253103B2	Managing streaming bandwidth for multiple clients A method, system and a computer program product. The method may include: allocating or receiving allocated bit rates to a plurality of streaming media flows, each streaming media flow comprises a plurality of chunks and is expected to flow over a last mile channel that is bandwidth limited; receiving a plurality of chunk requests from clients that are hosted on user devices, each chunk request indicates a requested bit rate for streaming a media chunk that belongs to the streaming media flow; changing at least one chunk request to comply with an allocated bit rate, if the requested bit rate does not comply with the allocated bit rate, to provide at least one new chunk request; and sending the at least one new chunk request to a media streamer that is expected to stream the streaming media flow to the user device.
US09253102B2	Time weighted queuing scheduler for machine-to-machine communications A device may receive machine-to-machine (M2M) traffic associated with two or more M2M applications. The M2M traffic may include information that identifies two or more priority levels associated with the M2M traffic. The device may determine parameters associated with managing the M2M traffic. The device may determine a traffic rate, an overall holding time, and an outgoing traffic rate associated with the M2M traffic. The device may determine a normalization factor based on the overall holding time and the parameters. The device may determine a set of priority level holding times based on the normalization factor, the overall holding time, and the parameters. Each priority level holding time may be associated with a priority level of the two or more priority levels. The device may manage the M2M traffic based on the set of priority level holding times and the outgoing traffic rate.
US09253099B2	System and method for overload control in a next generation network A Call Server in a network is able to monitor an offered rate of incoming calls per Access Gateway (AGW). A calculated GlobalLeakRate can be distributed between the AGWs in proportion to the traffic rate they offer. A leak rate calculation method is used to calculate the GlobalLeakRate control parameter of the ETSI NR restrictor at an overloaded Control Server The leak rate calculation is based on the POTS call rejection rate. In one particular embodiment of the present invention, the calculation is based on bringing the call reject rate close to a configurable low target reject level. An MGC is able to identify the end of an overload event with a greater degree of confidence and an AGW is able respond appropriately if the AGW is prematurely instructed to stop the control.
US09253095B2	Network control of applications using application states Application states of applications associated with a communication device can be network controlled. An application agent, associated with an application used by the communication device, controls transitioning the application between application states based on network indicators received or network events detected from a communication network. The application states include active state or doze state. An application management component associated with the communication network at least partially controls transitioning the application between application states to facilitate controlling network traffic or reducing network congestion. The application agent or application management component can map application states to various factors, including radio states, congestion level, application performance indicators, network policies, or user policies, to facilitate determining which application state to apply to an application at a given time. The application agent can be in a centralized location, or at a same or different location as the application source.
US09253090B2	System and method for reduced forwarding information storage A system and method for reduced forwarding information storage includes extracting an organizationally unique identifier (OUI) and a MAC part from a MAC address, determining whether information associated with the OUI is stored in an OUI table, determining an OUI index based on the information associated with the OUI and the OUI table when the OUI is stored in the OUI table, generating the OUI index based on the information associated with the OUI when the OUI is not stored in the OUI table, forming a forwarding information table entry including information associated with the OUI index and information associated with the MAC part, and inserting the forwarding information table entry into a forwarding information table.
US09253089B2	System and method for routing using path identifiers In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first packet sent by a first node. The packet includes a first Layer 3 source address, a first Layer 3 destination address, a first Layer 2 source hardware identifier, a first Layer 2 destination hardware identifier, and a first path identifier. The first path identifier is situated between a Layer 2 header of the first packet and a Layer 3 header of the first packet. The method includes automatically determining a first port of the first network element associated with a second node. The second node is associated with the first Layer 2 destination hardware identifier. A second path identifier is automatically determined based on the first port. The first packet is prevented from being delivered to the second node in response to determining that the first path identifier and the second path identifier are different.
US09253086B2	Method and system of dynamic next-hop routing A method implementing dynamic next-hop routing at a network device is disclosed. The network device contains a routing information base (RIB) and a forwarding information base (FIB). The method starts with receiving a request to create a dynamic next-hop type using a next-hop schema. The dynamic next-hop type is for a prefix associated with an application. The next-hop schema includes a set of functions and a set of fields associated with the set of functions. The dynamic next-hop type is created using the next-hop schema at the RIB, where the set of fields associated with the set of functions of the dynamic next-hop type is processed. The created dynamic next-hop type is then downloaded to the FIB, where the set of functions of the dynamic next-hop type is processed. Afterward, an identifier associated with the dynamic next-hop type for the prefix associated with the application is returned.
US09253081B2	Trigger message routing according to a service class In one embodiment, a machine type communication (MTC) device can receive registration associated with a new device upon the new device registration for a computer network. The MTC device can further determine a machine-to-machine (MTM) service class for the new device based on the registration data with the service class associated with at least one network route for messages destined for the new device. The MTC device can further receive a trigger message destined for the device and route the trigger message according to the network route associated with the determined MTM service class.
US09253078B2	Networks having multiple paths between nodes and nodes for such a network A method of operating a network that contains a plurality of nodes is disclosed. The plurality of nodes include a first node and a second node with the first and second nodes being connected via a first path and a second path that are different. The method includes operating the network in first and second modes of operation. In the first mode, traffic between the first and second nodes is transmitted over the first path and not the second path. In the second mode, traffic is transmitted over the first and second paths. The mode of operation is selected based upon a level of traffic between the first and second nodes.
US09253077B2	Parallel top-K simple shortest paths discovery A method for searching the top-K simple shortest paths between a specified source node and a specified target node in a graph, with graph data partitioned and distributed across a plurality of computing servers, the method including a parallel path search initialized from either one or both of the source and target nodes and traversing the graph by building likely path sequences for a match. Each computing server determines and forwards a path sequence as discovery progresses until the top-K paths are discovered.
US09253074B1	Methods and apparatus for multicast traffic failover in a network An apparatus includes an access switch having a set of ports and configured to be operatively coupled to a multicast router via a first port from the set of ports. The access switch is configured to be associated with a network associated with the multicast router, and designate the first port as a multicast-router interface during a time period. The access switch is configured to send a message to the multicast router via each port from the set of ports in response to an indication of a change in a topology of the network after the time period. The access switch is configured to designate a second port from the set of ports as the multicast-router interface and dedesignate the first port as the multicast-router interface in response to receiving, via the second port and in response to the message, a signal from the multicast router.
US09253066B2	Remote monitoring and controlling of network utilization A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by processors, cause the processors to perform: at a management computer, receiving, from a gateway located in a managed network, device information about devices in the managed network; for a particular device: determining a match between the device capabilities of the particular device and features of a particular network software application configured to control the particular device, and determining a particular protocol endpoint configured to communicate control instructions from the particular network software application to the particular device; receiving, from the gateway, aggregated data that reflects network utilization by the devices located in the managed network; for the particular device: based at least in part on the aggregated data, using the particular network software application, determining control instructions for the particular device; causing the particular protocol endpoint to transmit the control instructions for the particular device to the device.
US09253060B2	System and method of monitoring and controlling application files A system and method for updating, monitoring, and controlling applications on a workstation. The workstation includes a workstation management module configured to detect the launch or request to access a network by an application. A workstation application server receives data associated with the application from the workstation. The application server module can determine one or more policies or categories to associate with the application by referencing an application inventory database. Once the application server module has the category or policy, it forwards a hash/policy table to the workstation management module. Upon receipt of the hash/policy table, the workstation management module applies the policy that is associated with the application to control network access by the application.
US09253054B2	Remote industrial monitoring and analytics using a cloud infrastructure A cloud-based infrastructure facilitates gathering, transmitting, and remote storage of control and automation data using an agent-based communication channel. The infrastructure collects the industrial data from an industrial enterprise and intelligently sorts and organizes the acquired data based on selected criteria. Message queues can be configured on the cloud platform to segregate the industrial data according to priority, data type, or other criteria. Behavior assemblies stored in customer-specific manifests on the cloud platform define customer-specific preferences for processing data stored in the respective message queues. An agent-based analytics framework in the cloud platform performs desired analytics on the data using distributed parallel processing.
US09253053B2	Transparently enforcing policies in hadoop-style processing infrastructures Method, system, and computer program product to facilitate selection of data nodes configured to satisfy a set of requirements for processing client data in a distributed computing environment by providing, for each data node of a plurality of data nodes in the distributed computing environment, nodal data describing the respective data node of the plurality of data nodes, receiving a request to process the client data, the client data being identified in the request, retrieving the set of requirements for processing the client data, and analyzing the retrieved data policy and the nodal data describing at least one of the data nodes, to select a first data node of the plurality of data nodes as a delegation target, the first data node selected based on having a higher suitability level for satisfying the set of requirements than a second data node of the plurality of data nodes.
US09253052B2	Integration network device and service integration method thereof An integration network device and a service integration method thereof are provided. The integration network device receives a connecting request from the VDI user device. The integration network device establishes a connection between the VDI user device and the first management network device according to the connecting request. The integration network device determines that the first management network device fails the connection according to a first management information of the first management network device. The integration network device routes the VDI user device to the second management network device according to a second management information of the second management network device.
US09253051B2	System and method for delivering content in a content delivery network A content delivery method and system based on popularity-driven pre-provisioning of content in a content delivery network (CDN). In one method, a network element may obtain trend data relative to a particular content to be distributed by the CDN. The network element may also obtain demographic data of subscribers serviced by the CDN. An expected popularity distribution of the particular content is forecasted based on a metric derived from at least one of the trend data and the demographic data. A push policy for pushing and/or pre-provisioning of the content to one or more nodes of the CDN is effectuated at the network element based on the expected popularity distribution of the content relative to the geographical region serviced by the CDN.
US09253048B2	Releasing computing infrastructure components in a networked computing environment Embodiments of the present invention relate to the release of computing infrastructure components (e.g., hardware, software, combinations thereof, etc.) from a networked computing environment for potential use by another networked computing environment. In a typical embodiment, a computing infrastructure component is identified from set of computing infrastructure components associated with a networked computing environment. It may then be determined whether the computing infrastructure component can be released from the networked computing environment. Then, responsive to the determination, the computing infrastructure component may be released from the networked computing environment.
US09253045B2	Modeling and simulating flow propagation in dynamic bandwidth systems In a network that includes static bandwidth and dynamic bandwidth links, traffic flow at the OSI network layer is simulated at a traffic-flow level at interfaces to fixed bandwidth links, and simulated at a discrete-packet level at interfaces to dynamic bandwidth links. The resultant discrete-packet reception events at the receiving interface(s) of the dynamic bandwidth link are processed to determine the effective bandwidth/throughput of the link, as well as the allocation of this bandwidth among the individual flows through the link. The discrete-packet level receptions are used to reconstruct the parameters of the traffic flow at the network layer of the receiving interface, and this determined traffic flow is simulated accordingly at the next link, depending upon whether the next link is a static or dynamic bandwidth link.
US09253044B1	Quantitative assessment of biological impact using overlap methods Scores for particular network models (those having a source node connected to a set of measurable downstream nodes via causal edges) are computed across multiple networks by accounting for an overlap between these models in a manner that reduces cross-network redundancy and increases the specificity of the network models for the network in which they are found. According to another aspect, a meta-network model is created for networks by accounting for the occurrence of network models that are found in multiple networks in a manner that reduces the redundancy across networks and that increases the specificity of the network model score. Preferably, this process provides additional weighting factors for each node in the network model.
US09253041B2	Advertising layer 0 network topology information to a layer 3 network In one embodiment, techniques are provided to generate a Border Gateway Protocol-Link State (BGP-LS) advertisement message comprising information configured to indicate topological information associated with a Layer 0 (L0) network, where the topological information includes information for connectivity within the L0 network that is available to a Layer 3 (L3) network. The advertisement message is sent to a node in the L3 network. The message sent from the L0 network is received at the node in the L3 network. The topological information in the message is analyzed in order to determine connections available to the L3 network, yet within the L0 network. A connection request is sent from the node in the L3 network to the L0 network and connections between the nodes in L3 network are established using available connections in the L0 network.
US09253039B2	Device management system and device management apparatus A device management system includes an accommodation apparatus, a network device, and a device management apparatus. The accommodation apparatus includes a plurality of storage spaces. Each of the plurality of storage spaces is capable of storing an electronic device. The network device is connected to an electronic device accommodated in the accommodation apparatus. The device management apparatus includes a processor. The processor obtains connection information when a first electronic device is newly placed in the accommodation apparatus. The connection information indicates an expected connection point in the network device. The first electronic device is to be connected to the network device at the expected connection point with a cable. The processor identifies an actual connection point at which the network device has been connected to the first electronic device with the cable. The processor determines, based on the connection information, whether the actual connection point is appropriate.
US09253038B2	End-to-end network access analysis Instances of router models and filter models respectively are populated with configuration data from routers and filters in a network. A route advertising graph is derived from the router model instances. The route advertising graph indicates propagation of routes between the ones of the real-world devices serving as routers according to routing protocols implemented by the ones of the real-world devices serving as routers. Consolidated routing data is determined for the ones of the real-world devices serving as routers. In this process, the propagation of routes indicated by the route advertising graph is iterated to stability. For a destination node in the network, a respective route graph indicating available paths to the destination node from each source node in the network is constructed from the consolidated routing data. Services between each source node and the destination node are classified based on a full traversal of the route advertising graph.
US09253037B2	Virtualization system provision A method for providing a virtualization system includes receiving a plurality of virtualization system requirements from a customer that include a plurality of information handling systems (IHSs), at least one storage, and a plurality of configuration details. A primary IHS and a secondary IHS are designated, and configuration data, an application interface, and a primary IHS operating system are provided on the primary IHS. Following physical connection of the plurality of the IHSs and in response to activation of the primary IHS, a primary IHS first boot process initiates the application interface that then automatically activates the secondary IHS and uses the configuration data to automatically configure the at least one storage. In response to activation of the secondary IHS, a secondary IHS operating system on the secondary IHS initiates a secondary IHS first boot process that automatically configures virtualization software installed on the secondary IHS.
US09253036B2	Method and apparatus for provisioning a network switch port A port provision system includes a packet network device having a plurality of ports. A port provisioning system is coupled to the packet network device. The port provisioning system obtains configuration information from a host device coupled to the packet network device. The configuration information includes a virtual network identification assigned to a virtual machine included on the host device. The port provisioning system then retrieves packet information from a packet sent form the host device. The port provisioning system then provisions at least one of the plurality of ports with the virtual network identification included in the configuration information in response to determining that the packet information matches the configuration information.
US09253033B2	Network management system integrated with provisioning system Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to receive input from a user, the input including information associated with a change to a network element configuration; process the information associated with the change to a network element configuration, receive an indication from the network element that the network element configuration was successfully changed, and notify a provisioning system of the change to the network element configuration based on the indication from the network element configuration that the network element configuration was successfully changed.
US09253030B2	Switching module A fiber channel switching module can include an integrated trace buffer memory, a crossbar switch and a control processor disposed on a single line replaceable module (LRM). The trace buffer memory may be adapted to capture selected data traffic transiting the switch fabric based on pre-selected triggers. The selected data can be read out of the trace buffer memory and used for selected diagnostics.
US09253026B2	Software-defined networking disaster recovery Embodiments relate to software-defined networking (SDN) disaster recovery. An aspect is a system that includes an SDN controller configured to interface with a plurality of servers and switches in a network. The SDN controller includes processing circuitry configured to perform a method that includes establishing a plurality of flows, by the SDN controller, between a plurality of switches and pairs of servers in a network, including at least two different pairs of server types. Each server type runs a different operating system and a different disaster recovery manager in an active/active configuration. Data migration is controlled, by the SDN controller, between the pairs of servers in the network. The SDN controller dynamically reallocates the flows between the switches and the pairs of servers in the network based on detecting a fault in the network.
US09253025B1	Requesting high availability for network connections through control messages In one example, a network device includes one or more network interfaces configured to receive a message according to a protocol for reserving a public Internet protocol (IP) address and port for a network connection and to receive one or more packets of a packet flow associated with the public IP address and the port for the network connection, and one or more processors comprising a primary service device, wherein the processors are configured to determine whether the message includes an indication that the network connection is to be checkpointed for high availability, and wherein the primary service device is configured to, based on the indication, checkpoint data of at least one of the received packets to a backup service device. Accordingly, a message of a protocol for reserving a public network address and port may be used to indicate whether a network connection should be checkpointed for high availability.
US09253024B2	Closed loop communication system, apparatus and method A system, apparatus and method for a closed loop system, which can be operated over a plurality of hardware platforms. Optionally, according to at least some embodiments of the present invention, the system, method and apparatus may be used for control of an energy system.
US09253021B2	Hierarchical schema to provide an aggregated view of device capabilities in a network In one embodiment, an aggregation device within a computer network domain receives one or more capability messages from one or more devices in the computer network domain. The aggregation device may then aggregate device capabilities from the capability messages, and provides the aggregated device capabilities to a management device located outside of the computer network domain.
US09253020B2	Web service interaction in a dynamically extensible business application A method of binding a web service to a business application includes dynamically extending the executable code of the business application while the business application is being executed by a networked web service client device. The dynamic extension of the business application creates a persistent customizable web service interaction between the business application and a selected web service.
US09253018B2	Sharing an application configuration among social networks A machine may generate and store a correlation among multiple identifiers of the user that enable access to an application through multiple systems. For example, the user may have a first identifier for using a first social network system, and a second identifier for using a second social network system, and the machine may generate and store a correlation between the first identifier and the second identifier. The machine may identify the user based on the first identifier and access a database that stores the correlation. The machine may then access a configuration of the application based on the correlation and configure the application in accordance with the configuration. The machine may generate a visual representation of the configured application, provide the visual representation to a device of a further user, receive an indication of an opinion of the further user on the visual representation, and present the indication.
US09253016B2	Management of a data network of a computing environment An integrated hybrid system is provided. The hybrid system includes compute components of different types and architectures that are integrated and managed by a single point of control to provide federation and the presentation of the compute components as a single logical computing platform.
US09253012B2	Path selection device, program and method A start node acquires coupled state information indicating a connectibility of nodes from a network. By executing simulation in accordance with a computational model constructed based on the coupled state information, the start node determines for each node a first link that transmitted an oscillation or a signal first to the node. A path that extends from a target node to the start node via the first link of intermediate nodes is selected.
US09253009B2	High performance station Systems and methodologies are described for processing information at a device operating in a wireless communication system. Techniques for in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) calibration, interference cancellation, channel estimation, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and rank metric calculation are provided herein. As provided herein, one or more of the described techniques can be used to adjust the performance of a wireless station in the presence of impairments to the wireless station and/or a communication link used by the wireless station.
US09253001B2	Pulse signal outputting apparatus Radiated noises of an output pulse signal are reduced. A pulse signal outputting apparatus outputs a pulse signal generated by a modulating means outside, the modulating means includes a calculation circuit that has a pull-up resistor which is connected to power supply inside, a general-purpose input/output terminal that is connected to the calculation circuit, input/output selecting means for selecting whether the general-purpose input/output terminal is used as an input terminal or an output terminal, pull-up resistor connecting means for connecting or disconnecting the pull-up resistor and the general-purpose input/output terminal, and a pull-up resistor connection control circuit that performs control so that the pull-up resistor connecting means is operated when the general-purpose input/output terminal is selected as the input terminal, the general-purpose input/output terminal is selected as the input terminal by the input/output selecting means when a transition of an output signal level of the pulse signal starts, the pull-up resistor and the general-purpose input/output terminal are connected by the pull-up resistor connecting means when the general-purpose input/output terminal is selected as the input terminal, and the general-purpose input/output terminal is switched to the output terminal by the input/output selecting means after a certain period of time has passed.
US09253000B2	Digital broadcasting system and method for transmitting and receiving digital broadcast signal A digital broadcasting system and a method for transmitting and receiving digital broadcast signal are disclosed. The method of processing a digital broadcast signal comprises encoding signaling information for mobile data, forming data groups including mobile data, a plurality of long known data sequences, a plurality of segmented known data sequences and the encoded signaling information, interleaving data in the data groups, transmitting the digital broadcast signal including the data groups having the interleaved data, and wherein the signaling information includes concatenation information indicating whether the segmented known data sequences are concatenated between the data groups included in the digital broadcast signal.
US09252998B2	Radio to detect and compensate for frequency misalignment A radio includes a radio frequency (RF) subsystem to process analog information. A digital subsystem receives input from the RF subsystem, and may include a frequency error estimator and a transmitter. The frequency error estimator may be configured to receive samples from the digital subsystem and to estimate a frequency misalignment, between transmitter and receiver, of each of a plurality of received signals in real time. The transmitter may be configured to transmit to each of a plurality of downstream endpoints on frequencies based in part on the respective estimated frequency misalignments. Such transmissions, at a frequencies expected by each of the downstream endpoints, allows the use of narrower receiver filters by those endpoints. In one example, the plurality of received signals may be received simultaneously and be associated with packets of a plurality of different channel plans, with different channel bandwidths and/or channel spacing, and different channel modulation schemes.
US09252997B1	Data link power reduction technique using bipolar pulse amplitude modulation High-speed data links between a processor and off-chip DRAM utilizes pulse-amplitude-modulation (PAM) signaling to increase data rate for a given bandwidth and resource budget in SoCs. However, the termination resistor used in the transmission line interface between processor and DRAM consumes large amounts of power during PAM signaling. By adding a biasing source between Ground and the termination resistor, the “floor voltage” that the termination resistor uses as a reference for determining signaling levels may be raised. Raising the floor voltage reduces the amount of voltage across the termination resistor and reduces power consumption accordingly. The biasing source is adjusted to various increments of the maximum amplitude of the PAM signaling. A floor voltage of one-half of the maximum amplitude of PAM signaling produces minimum power consumption in the receiver. Additionally, data inversion pre-coding may be concatenated with the floor voltage adjustment to further maximize power savings of the interface.
US09252989B2	Data-dependent equalizer circuit A data dependent equalizer circuit includes a plurality of noise prediction filters. Respective ones of the noise prediction filters are configured to filter noise in sample data for at least one predetermined non-return to zero (NRZ) condition. A plurality of equalizers is communicatively coupled with the plurality of noise prediction filters. Respective ones of the plurality of equalizers are configured to yield equalized sample data that corresponds to the at least one predetermined NRZ condition for one or more of the noise prediction filters.
US09252988B2	System and methods for adaptive equalization for optical modulation formats A method for modifying the performance of an adaptive equalizer in a receiver is provided. A carrier wave including a first polarization state and a second polarization state, wherein there is a correlation between the first polarization state and the second polarization state, is received. The first polarization state and the second polarization state are demultiplexed to generate two respective constellations. A first expected value based on the first constellation, and a second expected value based on the second constellation, are calculated. An adaptive equalizer receives a first and second signals associated with the respective polarization states. The adaptive equalizer generates outputs based on the signals. These outputs are used to generate error values. Feedback is input into the adaptive equalizer, wherein the feedback is based on the error values.
US09252987B2	Transmission apparatus and communication system A communication device includes a transmission equalizer that equalizes a transmission signal transmitted in a signal transmission performed via a non-contact coupling, the transmission equalizer creates a plurality of equivalent transmission signals by branching the transmission signal. The transmission equalizer includes a plurality of signal paths that respectively provide time delays different from each other to the equivalent transmission signals, and an output path that provides a filter output based on the total sum of outputs of the signal paths to the non-contact coupling, and at least one of the plurality of signal paths includes a variable delay circuit that can change a time delay to be given to the corresponding transmission signal.
US09252985B2	Impedance matching between FPGA and memory modules Embodiments of the present invention provide impedance matching between a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and memory modules in a semiconductor storage device (SSD) system architecture. Specifically, a set (at least one) of memory modules is coupled to an FPGA. A damping resistor is placed at the impedance mismatching point to reduce signal noise.
US09252983B2	Method and system for reducing radiated emissions from a communications channel A communications channel may radiate energy undesirably, for example in the form of electromagnetic radiation, when a communication signal transmits over the communications channel. Processing the signal before and after transmission on the communications channel can reduce the level of radiated energy. Signal processing in advance of transmission over the communications channel can transform the communication signal into a waveform that has a reduced propensity to emit radiated energy during transmission over the communications channel. Exemplary signal transformations can involve applying either frequency-selective or broadband attenuation to the communication signal. Following transmission of the waveform over the communications channel, the original communication signal can be restored via reversing the signal transformation. The reverse transformation can comprise applying frequency-selective gain or broadband gain to the transmitted waveform.
US09252982B2	System and method for simulating a land mobile radio system The present disclosure provides a system and method for simulating a land mobile radio system having a plurality of radio sites. The simulation system may comprise an IP network providing an IP-based interface between components within the system such as, for example, a first server designed to simulate one or more radio sites, a second server designed to simulate one or more subscriber units, and a controller interface for providing commands for controlling the simulated subscriber units. Each site in the first server may include one or more site applications each associated with an IP address, and each subscriber unit in the second server is associated with a plurality of IP addresses for communicating with the site applications over the IP network.
US09252981B2	Method and apparatus for processing a communication request from a roaming voice over IP terminal An apparatus and method are disclosed for processing a communication request from a roaming VoIP terminal. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network proxy having a controller that manages a communications interface in a communication system. The controller can be programmed to receive from a Voice over IP (VoIP) terminal a request to communicate with a destination point, wherein the request comprises an identification (ID) of the destination point, an ID of the VoIP terminal, and a media access control (MAC) address of a gateway providing the VoIP terminal communication access to the network proxy, and determine from the MAC address of the gateway and the ID of the VoIP terminal whether the VoIP terminal is roaming outside of a home network. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09252980B2	Cloud services for wearable and snappable devices Wearable and snappable sensing devices may act to sense data associated with an environment of the user. A mobile device and the wearable/snappable device may together operate to provide an application for sensing environmental data associated with the user, analyzing the environmental data, and providing reports to the user. In one implementation, a mobile device may connect to an external sensing device; receiving, from the sensing device, environmental data sensed by the sensing device; provide, over a wide area network, a classification query to a remote classification service, the classification query being based on the sensed data; receive, from the classification server, classification results in response to the classification query; and provide, via a graphical display of the mobile computing device, a report based on the classification results.
US09252977B2	Method and system for an uncompromising connection from a computing device having information storage like email server to a wireless mobile device A system for sending data from at least one computing device, which may be an email server, located at a user location, to a plurality of handsets. The system includes an internal system monitor associated with the at least one computing device, and the monitor provides application connectors deployed at the user location. The system also includes at least one wireless gateway router and a mobile client, which provides a client infrastructure installed on the plurality of handsets, such that the at least one computing device acts uni-directionally and thereby provides secure delivery of the data.
US09252974B2	Mail gateway, mail delivery method, and program In a mail gateway, a collection part collects, for each specific information contained in a mail entered into a resending queue, statistical information of the specific information. A provisional queue creation part creates a provisional queue based on the collected number of the statistical information. The provisional queue handles a mail which has a possibility of causing congestion. This can prevent a normal queue from entering into a congestion state. Also in the mail gateway, if the congestion state is brought about in the provisional queue which performs a send of a mail containing the specific information, a mail sort part restricts an entry of a mail into the provisional queue. This can limit an influence of the congestion state only to the provisional queue.
US09252968B2	Link training and training frame for 100GBPS ethernet Methods, apparatus and systems for implementing link training for next-generation high-speed Ethernet links including a 100 Gbps Ethernet link. Training frames are transmitted from a transmit port to be received at a receive port, with each training frame comprising a frame marker portion, a control channel portion, and a training pattern portion. Four-level signaling including a low level signal, first and second intermediate level signals, and a high level signal is implemented for the training pattern portion of the training frame using a pseudo-random bit pattern, while only the low and high level signals are employed for the frame marker and control channel portions of the training frame. The four-level signaling may employ PAM4 encoding. Examples of apparatus and systems in which the link training techniques may be implemented include blade servers and network routers and switches.
US09252967B2	Facilitated use of heterogeneous home-automation edge components A control circuit operably couples to a plurality of home-automation edge-component interfaces. This control circuit is configured to compatibly interact with a plurality of home-automation edge components where at least some of the plurality of home-automation edge components are operationally incompatible with one another.
US09252965B2	Directed route load/store packets for distributed switch initialization Techniques for transmitting a packet from a source switch module to a destination switch module. Embodiments receive, at a first port of a first switch module, a packet that includes (i) path information specifying a route to the destination switch module and (ii) a set of load/store operations to be executed by the destination switch module. An indication of the first port is inserted into a return path information portion of the received packet. Upon determining that the first switch module is not the destination switch module, embodiments transmit the packet to a second switch module using a second port, the second port specified in the path information of the received packet, wherein the destination switch module is configured, upon receiving the packet, to copy the set of load/store operations into an execution buffer to be automatically executed.
US09252962B1	Electronic idea notebook A computer-implemented method includes receiving, from a device associated with a user of a hosted computer system, entries in a template of an electronic invention disclosure form; linking the invention disclosure form to at least one portion of an inventor's notebook containing disclosure of an invention addressed by the invention disclosure form; providing invitations to a collaboration space for the invention, whereby acceptance of the invitation provides access to at least a portion of the invention disclosure form; and providing secure access to invitees into the collaboration space, wherein the invitees are determined to have been invited to the particular collaboration space.
US09252961B2	Identify experts and influencers in a social network On embodiment accesses a set of information comprising one or more elements of information relating to a subject matter, wherein the one or more elements of information have been shared among one or more users of a social-networking system; for each element of information, determines a rate of sharing of the element of information among the one or more users and identifies one or more first users who cause the rate of sharing of the element of information to increase; and identifies one or more influencers associated with the subject matter from the one or more first users identified for each element of information.
US09252959B2	Challenging a first terminal intending to communicate with a second terminal The invention relates to a method, party challenging device (18) and computer program products for providing a challenge to a first terminal (10) intending to communicate with a second terminal (24) via two networks (N1, N2). The party challenging device receives a first electronic message (1M) concerning a transfer of media from the first terminal to the second terminal sent from the first terminal (10) and addressed to the second terminal (24), obtains communication contextual data associated with the first party or the first terminal, provides an electronic challenge message (CHM) including a challenge (CHl1) based on the obtained data and sends the challenge message to the first terminal in order to enable a decision to be made how to process the invitation message for the second terminal based on the correctness of a response (RM) including a response to the challenge.
US09252955B2	Apparatus and methods for the secure transfer of electronic data An embodiment of the invention provides a method for processing a secure electronic transaction over a network from a sender to a receiver, which includes the process of generating a first unique representation of information included in the transaction, encrypting the information with a first encryption layer, and forming an encryption packet which includes the first encryption layer. The encryption packet is then transmitted over a network and then received the by a receiver. The authenticity of the encryption packet is verified and a receipt is generated using the information included in the encryption packet. The receipt is then transmitted to an electronic postmark server which verifies authenticity of the receipt. A postmarked receipt is then created by the electronic postmark server and a copy is sent to the sender an/or the receiver.
US09252954B2	Efficient homomorphic encryption scheme for bilinear forms In one exemplary embodiment, a computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine for performing operations including: receiving information B to be encrypted as a ciphertext C in accordance with an encryption scheme having an encrypt function; and encrypting B in accordance with the encrypt function to obtain C, the scheme utilizes at least one public key A, where B, C, and A are matrices, the encrypt function receives as inputs A and B and outputs C as C←AS+pX+B(mod q), S is a random matrix, X is an error matrix, p is in integer, q is an odd prime number. In other exemplary embodiments, the encryption scheme includes a decrypt function that receives as inputs at least one private key T (a matrix) and C and outputs B as B=T−1·(TCTt mod q)·(Tt)−1 mod p.
US09252953B2	Instruction for performing a pseudorandom number generate operation A machine instruction is provided that includes an opcode field to provide an opcode, the opcode to identify a perform pseudorandom number operation, and a register field to be used to identify a register, the register to specify a location in memory of a first operand to be used. The machine instruction is executed, and execution includes for each block of memory of one or more blocks of memory of the first operand, generating a hash value using a 512 bit secure hash technique and at least one seed value of a parameter block of the machine instruction; and storing at least a portion of the generated hash value in a corresponding block of memory of the first operand, the generated hash value being at least a portion of a pseudorandom number.
US09252949B2	Broadcast encryption based media key block security class-based signing Provided are techniques for verifying, by a first device, that a management key block of a second device is valid. A management key block that includes a plurality of verification data, each of the plurality associated with a plurality of security classes ranked from a high to low, is generated. The first device, which is associated with a security class that is higher than a security class associated with the second device, verifies a management key block of the second device by calculating a management key precursor associated with the higher security class and verifying verification data associated with the higher security class. In this manner, the second device is unable to pass an unauthorized, or “spoofed,” management key block.
US09252947B1	Secure key distribution service A secure key distribution server (SKDS) determines the identity of a requesting server without use of a shared secret by resolving the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) to a network address and comparing it with the network address of a key request. A credential string may also be used as part of the identification. Once identity is established, keys may be securely distributed. The SKDS may also be implemented in a peer-to-peer configuration.
US09252945B2	Method for recognizing a manipulation of a sensor and/or sensor data of the sensor A method for data transmission between a sensor and an electronic control and/or regulating unit (ECU), the transmitted sensor data (x1, . . . , xt) and the sensor being secured against a manipulation. The system provides a particularly simple, but very secure method for manipulation protection, the sensor data (x1, . . . , xt) being transmitted via a first logical data transmission channel at a first data transmission rate, and security data (MAC; CMAC) for securing the transmitted sensor data and/or the sensor being transmitted via a second logical data transmission channel at a second data transmission rate from the sensor to the ECU. At least once at the beginning of a data transmission session, a session key is transmitted from the ECU to the sensor via a third logical data transmission channel and received by the latter, the session key being used at least for the ongoing session to generate the security data.
US09252941B2	Enhanced digital signatures algorithm method and system utilitzing a secret generator The present invention is a digital signatures scheme method and system that permits the generation of a digital signature in a manner whereby the generator is kept secret. The inclusion of a secret generator in the digital signatures scheme may reduce the potential for an attack upon the scheme to be successful. The present invention may incorporate a signing procedure and a verification procedure. The signing procedure may facilitate the determination of a group, and the identification of the generator from the group. The signing procedure may also keep the generator secret and may generate a digital signature of a message. The generator may be kept secret by one or more conditions, and one or more public keys may be utilized by the digital signatures scheme. The verification procedure may be a verification procedure operable to obtain the message and the digital signature and to verify the digital signature. Embodiments of the present invention may achieve processing of the signing procedure and/or verification procedure at a fast rate of speed, which may further diminish the chance of a successful attack upon the digital signatures scheme. Embodiments of the present invention may further generate variations of digital signatures.
US09252939B1	Single cable VSAT interface with single conversion architecture for receive and transmit A VSAT system modem has three chips and a block. A first chip generates a modulated carrier signal and a local oscillator signal having a same frequency. A second chip receives the local oscillator signal from the first chip and produces a reference signal. The reference signal and the modulated carrier signal are received by the block, which multiplexes the reference signal and the modulated carrier signal onto a single inter-facility link. The single inter-facility link transmits the modulated carrier signal and the reference signal and provides a received modulated carrier signal to a third chip. The first chip may be a synthesizer/modulator chip, the second chip may be a prescaler chip, the third chip may be a DVB-S2 tuner chip and the block may be a multiplexer. The chips may be standard semiconductor chips. Alternatively, a digital-to-analog converter chip may produce the reference signal.
US09252938B2	Telecommunications apparatus and methods for half-duplex and full-duplex A telecommunications system including plural base stations and plural terminal devices to communicate over a radio interface having a radio frame structure including radio subframes each including plural symbols. At least one symbol in each radio subframe is used to support a physical shared channel and at least one symbol in each radio subframe is used to support a physical control channel associated with the physical shared channel. A symbol at the end of each radio subframe is used to support the physical shared channel for communication links between a base station and a terminal device operating in a full-duplex mode, but the corresponding symbol is used to support a separate physical channel, for example an additional low-rate channel, for communication links operating in a half-duplex mode. Transmission resources that would normally be idle in a half-duplex system as compared to a full-duplex system can be re-used for another channel.
US09252937B2	Scheduling method and apparatus for spatial reuse A scheduling method of giving a chance for transmission to a plurality of terminals in the same time period, and a device therefor are provided. The scheduling method includes: transmitting first scheduling information to terminals in a network, the first scheduling information defining transmitting/receiving terminals and a transmission time period; receiving channel measurement information including inter-terminal interference information from the terminals in the network; and generating second scheduling information defining transmission time periods and a plurality of transmitting/receiving terminals that do not interfere with each other by using the channel measurement information.
US09252935B2	Reporting power headroom for aggregated carriers A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers.
US09252925B2	Communication apparatus, communication system, and communication method A communication apparatus including a short-distance communication module, wherein the short-distance communication module selectively performs one-to-one communication or one-to-many communication in short-distance communication, and sets a sampling rate for sampling transmission data of the communication apparatus to be greater than the inverse of an arrival time difference of the transmission data determined according to a maximum communication distance between communication apparatuses.
US09252922B2	System and method for improved error response in data mirroring Systems and methods are provided to improve performance in backup data storage systems by improving response to errors. The system and method provide for transferring data from a primary storage controller to a secondary storage controller, where the secondary storage controller is linked to the primary storage controller by a plurality of links. The system and method includes transmitting a first transaction from the primary storage controller to the secondary storage controller using a first of a plurality of links. Then, in response to the first transaction crossing a first timeout boundary without completing, the system and method includes transmitting a second transaction from the primary storage controller to the secondary storage controller using a second of the plurality of links, the second of the plurality of links preferentially selected to be on a different network failure boundary from the first of the plurality of links.
US09252918B2	Method and apparatus for control channel transmission and reception A communication system is provided wherein a user equipment (UE) receives control information from a wireless network. The UE monitors control channel candidates using common reference signals (CRS) and monitors enhanced control channel candidates using demodulation reference signals (DMRS) when the UE is configured in a first transmission mode, such as transmission mode 9, for receiving a downlink shared traffic channel based on DMRS. The UE monitors control channel candidates only using CRS when the UE is configured in a second transmission mode, such as any of transmission modes 1-6, for receiving a downlink shared traffic channel based on CRS. The UE then receives downlink control information (DCI) in a subframe in one of the monitored control channel candidates or enhanced control channel candidates in the subframe.
US09252911B2	Flexible remote node (RN) for dynamic traffic allocation in passive optical networking (PON) and mobile backhaul (MBH) applications A computer implemented method for dynamically allocating traffic in a passive optical communication system includes employing an individual wavelength channel to carry different data services from an individual transmitter, configuring an optical network unit into optical network unit groups serving at least two community of users; and providing a flexible remote node with wavelength routing flexibility including switching wavelength traffic from optical network user groups with low capacity requirements to optical network user groups with increased wavelength traffic requirements.
US09252910B2	Expandable multicast optical switch A scalable multicast M×N optical switch (MCS) includes a non-scalable MCS having a plurality of (L+1)×1 selector switches east coupled at one of its L entrance ports to egress ports of the non-scalable MCS, the remaining L−1 entrance ports being coupled to an LN upgrade ports, where M and N are integers ≧2, and L is an integer ≧1. This allows the scalable MCS to be cascaded in a daisy-chain fashion, providing scalability from the M common ports to LM common ports. In another embodiment, the selector switches are integrated into the MCS, providing scalability of common MCS ports.
US09252908B1	Non-line of sight wireless communication system and method A non-line of sight backhaul system and method are described that provides self-alignment of the antennas beams of the wireless radios of the system, that provides robust operation in licensed and unlicensed frequency bands, that facilitates the use of a reduced number of frequency channels from M to 1 and that enables operation in a non-line of sight (NLOS) propagation environment.
US09252907B2	Methods and apparatus for providing multi-antenna enhancements using multiple processing units Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for providing multi-antenna enhancements using multiple processing units. A UE (User Equipment) may receive data via three or more antennas. The UE may determine a number of independent processing units to be employed to process the data, wherein the determined number of independent processing units includes at least two processing units and at least one processing unit jointly processes at least two streams of data. The data may be processed by the determined number of independent processing units and the results of the processing units may be combined.
US09252901B2	Method and apparatus for managing synchronization groups in wireless communication system A synchronization group management apparatus of a node recognizes a node belonging to a different group if groups having mobility are moved and located in the same area, and performs an operation of merging the different groups into one group by changing the frame start time and the synchronization reference time of the node.
US09252898B2	Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted to each customer's computer-based user station. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only for music that they choose to have recorded for unlimited playback. An antipiracy “ID tag” is woven into the recorded music so that any illegal copies therefrom may be traced to the purchase transaction. Music is transmitted on a fixed schedule or through an active scheduling process that monitors music requests from all or a subset of satellite receivers and adjust scheduling according to demand for various CD's. In those instances where transmission interruptions result in data loss, the system downloads the next transmission of the requested CD and uses both transmissions to produce a “good copy”. In conjunction to the blanket transmission, an automated CD manufacturing facility may be provided to manufacture CD's and distribute them by ground transportation.
US09252897B2	Multi-feed event viewing A method may include receiving a number of video feeds from video capture devices located at an event venue. The number of video feeds may be dynamically analyzed to determine feed information associated with the number of video feeds. A request to view a multi-feed event may be received from a user device. At least some of the number of video feeds may be provided to the user device in response to the request. Feed information corresponding to the at least some of the number of video feeds may be provided based on the dynamically analyzing.
US09252895B1	System and method of measuring full spectrum of modulated output signal from device under test A system for measuring a full spectrum of a modulated output signal provided by a device under test (DUT) includes a signal generating device that provides a radio frequency (RF) stimulus signal to the DUT, and generates a trigger signal, where the DUT outputs the modulated output signal in response. A receiver, having an intermediate frequency (IF) bandwidth less than a total bandwidth of the modulated output signal, includes mixers, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) triggered by the trigger signal, and a local oscillator (LO) that consecutively generates multiple LO signals having different LO frequencies. A harmonic phase reference (HPR) generator generates a repetitive HPR signal having an HPR bandwidth wider than the total bandwidth of the modulated output signal and a modulation repetition rate the same as that of the RF stimulus signal. The mixers consecutively mix the LO signals with the HPR signal and the modulated output signal to provide IF signals input to channels of the ADC to form ADC data records, respectively, that capture the full spectrum of the modulated output signal.
US09252888B2	Coherent optical receiver device and coherent optical receiving method In a coherent optical receiver device, the control process for keeping received signals in high quality is complicated, therefore, a coherent optical receiver device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a coherent optical receiver receiving input signal light; an input power monitor obtaining input power information determined on the basis of the power of the input signal light; a local oscillator connected to the coherent optical receiver; and a controller connected to the coherent optical receiver, the input power monitor, and the local oscillator; wherein the coherent optical receiver comprises a 90-degree hybrid circuit, a photoelectric converter, and an amplifier; the input power monitor is disposed in the optical path of the input signal light in a stage preceding the amplifier; and the controller obtains the input power information from the input power monitor and controls the power of local oscillation light output from the local oscillator on the basis of the input power information.
US09252884B2	Apparatus, method, and system for improving bandwidth of a plug and a corresponding receptacle Described herein is an apparatus for improving bandwidth of a transceiver system e.g., a Universal Serial Bus (USB) micro-B connector. The apparatus comprises a first pair of lens units, each lens unit of the pair positioned on either side of an input-output (I/O) bus interface, the pair of lens units to send and receive optical signals respectively; a first housing to shield the first pair of lens units and for physically coupling the I/O bus interface and the first pair of lens units to a receptacle; and a key to grasp the first housing and to lock the first housing with the receptacle.
US09252874B2	Power management for remote antenna units in distributed antenna systems Power management for a remote antenna unit(s) (RAUs) in a distributed antenna system. Power can be managed for an RAU configured to power modules and devices that may require more power to operate than power available to the RAU. For example, the RAU may be configured to include power-consuming RAU modules to provide distributed antenna system-related services. As another example, the RAU may be configured to provide power through powered ports in the RAU to external power-consuming devices. Depending on the configuration of the RAU, the power-consuming RAU modules and/or external power-consuming devices may demand more power than is available at the RAU. In this instance, the power available at the RAU can be distributed to the power-consuming modules and devices based on the priority of services desired to be provided by the RAU.
US09252868B1	Wireless communication with interference mitigation In one implementation, a wireless communication terminal includes a primary antenna array and a first controller configured to steer a main beam of the primary antenna array in a desired direction. The wireless communication terminal also includes an auxiliary antenna array and a second controller configured to control complex weights to be applied by at least some antenna elements of the auxiliary antenna array to corresponding variants of a second signal received by the at least some auxiliary antenna elements. Furthermore, the wireless communication terminal includes at least one signal combiner configured to combine variants of the second signal received from auxiliary antenna elements into an interfering signal that models interference from a co-located wireless communication terminal and subtract the interfering signal from variants of the first signal received from antenna elements of the principal antenna array to produce an interference mitigated signal.
US09252866B2	Relay node aggregation of data transfers in a wireless telecommunication system A relay node for aggregating data transfers in a wireless telecommunications network includes a receiver configured to receive uplink signals from multiple terminals, each uplink signal including respective uplink data, a decoder operatively connected to the receiver and configured to decode the uplink signals to obtain the uplink data, a machine-readable storage medium operatively connected to the decoder and configured to store the uplink data, an encoder operatively connected to the machine-readable medium and configured to encode an aggregate uplink signal including the uplink data obtained from the uplink signals, and a transmitter configured to transmit an uplink transmission of the aggregate uplink signal to the base station.
US09252864B2	Method and apparatus for fast beam-link construction in mobile communication system A method of forming a beam-link by a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system using a beamforming scheme includes determining at least one downlink beams to be used for downlink transmission and/or reception, transmitting a reference signal to a Mobile Station via the at least one downlink beam, receiving the reference signal via an uplink beam from the Mobile station, and updating the at least one downlink beam to increase a Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). Accordingly, a beam-link using an initial beam-link between the BS and the MS and adaptive beamforming can be rapidly constructed in a high frequency band BDMA cellular system.
US09252859B2	Method for signalling resources to a radio station and radio station therefor The present invention relates to a method for signaling a plurality of transmission parameters for a plurality of communications between a primary station and a plurality of respective secondary stations in a multi-user MIMO mode, comprising the steps of (a) signaling the value of at least one first transmission parameter in a multicast message to at least two secondary stations, the value of the first transmission parameter being common to the respective communications corresponding to the at least two secondary stations, and (b) signaling the value of at least one second transmission parameter in a plurality of unicast messages to each secondary stations of the plurality of secondary stations.
US09252857B2	Embedded control signaling for wireless systems Enhancement of wireless Channel Order and rank (ECHO) systems and ECHO repeater devices for enhancement of a wireless propagation channel for point to point or point to multipoint radio configurations are disclosed. The enhancement may be used for MIMO communications channels. Aspects support a richer multipath environment to increase the rank of the channel propagation matrix and/or to increase the magnitude of the coefficients of the propagation matrix between two or more radios. Such enhancement is applicable to backhaul radios in terms of increased range or in the number of supportable information streams. The installation provisioning optimization control monitoring and adaptation of such devices within a network of backhaul radios is also disclosed. Wireless links and control between IBR and ECHO devices and between ECHO devices and other ECHO devices are also disclosed.
US09252855B2	Signal generation method and signal generation device A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
US09252853B2	Techniques for beamforming to mitigate multi-user leakage and interference Examples are disclosed for beamforming to mitigate multi-user leakage and interference. The examples include an evolved node B (eNB) receiving feedback from user equipment (UEs) to indicate strongest or highest channel gains for various beams included in a plurality of beam sets. A selection process or scheme may then be implemented to select individual beams for a UE that minimizes or reduces leakage caused by the UE's use of a given beam. Reducing leakage may reduce interference to other UEs using other beams. Other examples are described and claimed.
US09252845B2	Near-field communications and routing Near-field communications (NFC) with NFC reader devices are facilitated. In accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a NFC circuit that wirelessly communicates with different types of local NFC readers using an NFC protocol, a host circuit having one or more modules that communicate with one of the types of local NFC readers via the NFC circuit, and second (e.g., secure) modules that respectively communicate with a specific one of the different types of local NFC readers, also via the NFC circuit, using secure data stored within the second module. A routing circuit is responsive to an NFC communication received from a specific one of the NFC readers, by identifying one of the first and second modules that communicates with the specific one of the NFC readers, and routing NFC communications between the specific one of the NFC readers and the identified one of the modules.
US09252842B2	Power over coaxial cable An image communication system includes a coaxial cable having first and second ends. A monitor station is coupled to the first end and a camera is coupled to the second end. The monitor station provides power to the camera through the cable, while the cable is also used to carry communication signals transmitted by the camera to the monitor station. The image communication system includes a first active inductor coupled to the first end and a second active inductor coupled to the second end. A current-compensation circuit may also be provided.
US09252839B2	Method and device for cancelling interference between a signal carried by a carrier power line and a signal carried by a telephone line The present invention concerns a method and device for cancelling interference between a signal carried by a carrier current line of a system distributing digital services at the home of a subscriber and a signal carried by a telephone line of said system that is situated close to the carrier current line. The method is characterized in that it consists of obtaining the signal carried by the carrier current line, filtering it in order to obtain an estimate of the signal that disturbs the signal carried by the telephone line and subtracting this estimate from the signal carried by the telephone line.
US09252837B1	Split diversity data combining Various exemplary embodiments relate to a wireless communications system, communications device related methods, and automotive and other vehicles including: an antenna group comprising at least one antenna; a receiver circuit configured to receive a first instance of a data symbol via the antenna group; a first swap component configured to: receive a first portion of a second instance of the data symbol from the second communications device, provide a second portion of the first instance of the data symbol to a second communications device; and a buffer configured to store a first portion of the first instance of the data symbol and the first portion of the second instance of the data symbol; and a combining processor configured to create a first portion of a combined symbol by combining the first portion of the first instance and the first portion of the second instance.
US09252836B2	Method, devices and chip block for DS-CDMA The present invention relates to a method of producing a chip block for wireless transmission in a Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) communication system. The method comprises spreading a symbol over at least one chip block (17). The method also comprises segmenting the chip block to form a first sub-block (a0) of the chip block. The method also comprises segmenting the chip block to form a second sub-block (a15) of the chip block. The method also comprises arranging a first sub-sequence (18) of chips furthest to a first end of the chip block in the first sub-block. The first sub-sequence is identical to a second sub-sequence (19) furthest to a second end of the chip block in the second sub-block. The method also comprises modifying at least one chip contained in the first sub-block and not being part of the first sub-sequence. The modifying is dependent on said first sub-sequence such that the symbol can be at least partially despread from the chip block.
US09252825B2	Wideband digital spectrometer A processor, comprising a first data input configured to receive a stream of samples of a first signal having a spectral space, the stream having a data rate of at least 4 GHz; a second data input configured to receive a stream of samples of a second signal; a multitap correlator, configured to receive the first stream of samples and the second stream of samples, and producing at least one correlation output for each respective sequential sample of the first signal received; and a programmable control configured to alter a relationship of the stream of samples of the first signal and the stream of samples of the second signal, to thereby select, under program control, an alterable correlation output.
US09252817B2	Dynamic log-likelihood ratio mapping for error correcting code decoding Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for error correction. A soft read module is configured to obtain soft read information for a cell of a non-volatile memory medium. The soft read information may indicate a likelihood that a data value for the cell is correct. A reliability module is configured to associate the cell with a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) mapping from a plurality of LLR mappings based on one or more reliability characteristics for a set of cells that includes the cell. An LLR map module is configured to determine an LLR value based on the soft read information by using the LLR mapping.
US09252813B2	Iterative decoding of LDPC codes with iteration scheduling A method includes accepting modulated symbols, which carry bits of a code word of a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code, and computing respective soft input metrics for the bits. The code word is decoded using an iterative LDPC decoding process that includes selecting, based on a predefined criterion, a number of internal iterations to be performed by an LDPC decoder (84) in the process, performing the selected number of the internal iterations using the LDPC decoder so as to estimate decoded bits and soft output metrics indicative of the input bits based on the soft input metrics, performing an external iteration that updates one or more of the soft input metrics based on one or more of the soft output metrics produced by the LDPC decoder, and repeating at least one of the internal iterations using the updated soft input metrics.
US09252811B2	Time-varying low-density parity-check convolutional codes The present disclosure is directed to communication systems and more specifically to communication devices having encoder and/or decoder blocks employing Low Density Parity Check Convolutional Codes (LDPC CCs). According to exemplary embodiments, improved LDPC CC techniques are disclosed to construct the syndrome former of an LDPC-CC code in a systematic way based on desired Rate (b/c), Memory (ms) and Period (T) while achieving specific Degree Distribution (dv and dc), Girth, and ACE constraints (nACE, dACE) for a desired configuration.
US09252808B1	Ping-pong run length limit encoder A run length limit encoder includes a subdivided threshold lookup table to encode data using multi-level enumeration.
US09252803B2	Signal processor, window provider, encoded media signal, method for processing a signal and method for providing a window A signal processor for providing a processed version of an input signal in dependence on the input signal has a windower configured to window a portion of the input signal, or of a pre-processed version thereof, in dependence on a signal processing window described by signal processing window values for a plurality of window value index values, in order to obtain the processed version of the input signal. The signal processor also has a window provider for providing the signal processing window values for a plurality of window value index values in dependence on one or more window shape parameters.
US09252795B2	Distribution system for optical reference A system for distributing a reference oscillator signal includes a clock having a reference oscillator and a femtosecond laser stabilized by the reference oscillator. The system also includes at least one beamsplitter configured to split the femtosecond laser. The system further includes one or more remote nodes that are spaced from the clock. The remote nodes are configured to generate reference signals based on the split femtosecond laser.
US09252793B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is formed by sealing, with a resin, a semiconductor chip (CP1) having an oscillation circuit utilizing a reference resistor. The oscillation circuit generates a reference current by utilizing the reference resistor, a voltage is generated in accordance with this reference current and an oscillation frequency of the oscillation unit, and the oscillation unit oscillates at a frequency in accordance with the generated voltage. The reference resistor is formed of a plurality of resistors, which extend in a first (Y) direction orthogonal to a first side, inside a first region (RG1, RG2, RG3, and RG4) surrounded by the first side (S1, S2, S3, and S4) of a main surface of the semiconductor chip (CP1), a first line (42, 43, 44, and 45) connecting between one end of the first side and the center (CT1) of the main surface of the semiconductor chip, and a second line (42, 43, 44, and 45) connecting between the other end of the first side and the center of the main surface of the semiconductor chip.
US09252791B1	Phase locked loop and method for generating an oscillator signal A phase locked loop (PLL) system generates an oscillator signal by providing a fixed control voltage to a programmable voltage to current converter having switch selection inputs and a variable current output. Logic values are provided to the switch selection inputs to adjust a control current at the variable current output and a frequency of the oscillator signal is adjusted based on the control current. The logic values are fixed when a first condition is reached, which is based on the frequency of the oscillator signal, a division factor, and an input reference signal frequency. The fixed control voltage provided to the programmable voltage to current converter is then replaced with a charge pump control voltage based on an error signal. The error signal is based on a comparison of the input reference signal frequency and a fraction of the oscillating frequency.
US09252789B2	Oscillator circuit, vibratory device, electronic apparatus, moving object, method of adjusting vibratory device, and sensitivity adjustment circuit An oscillator circuit includes a terminal T1, a terminal T2, a variable capacitance element having one end connected to the terminal T1, and a capacitance value varying in accordance with a frequency control signal, a variable capacitance element having one end connected to the terminal T2, and a capacitance value varying in accordance with the frequency control signal, a load capacitance circuit connected to the terminal T1, and a load capacitance circuit connected to the terminal T2, and oscillates a resonator element at a frequency corresponding to the frequency control signal. The oscillator circuit is capable of adjusting the capacitance values of the load capacitance circuits, a reference voltage (the electrical potential of the terminal T1), and a reference voltage (the electrical potential of the terminal T2) in accordance with configuration information.
US09252782B2	Wireless chipset with a non-temperature compensated crystal reference An apparatus includes a temperature measuring device within a thermally conductive package. A crystal within the package is thermally coupled to the temperature measuring device and subjected to a same temperature as the temperature measuring device. A controller external to the package is configured to receive a signal from the crystal and a temperature measurement from the temperature measuring device. The controller is configured to estimate a frequency error of the crystal based on the temperature measurement and to provide a frequency error estimate to an external system.
US09252779B2	Semiconductor device and metering apparatus A semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes: an oscillator; a semiconductor chip that includes an oscillation circuit connected to the oscillator, a timer circuit that generates a timing signal of a frequency according to a oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit, and a frequency correction section that corrects a frequency of the timing signal based on temperature data; and a discrete device that includes at least one of a temperature sensing device that detects a peripheral temperature, that supplies the detected temperature as temperature data to the frequency correction section, and that is provided as a separate body to the semiconductor chip, or a capacitor that is electrically connected to both the oscillator and the oscillation circuit and that is provided as a separate body to the semiconductor chip, wherein the oscillator, the semiconductor chip and the discrete device are contained within a single package.
US09252778B2	Robust flexible logic unit A robust flexible logic unit (FLU) is targeted to be primarily, but not exclusively, used as an embedded field programmable gate array (EFPGA). The unit is comprised of a plurality of programmable building block tiles arranged in an array of columns and rows of tiles, and programmed tile by tile and column by column, using latches that are sequentially programmed and locked using a lock bit that is part of the bit stream provided. A scheme of odd and even clocks prevent latch transparency and ensures that loaded data is properly locked, to prevent overwrites. The robust FLU is further equipped with cyclic redundancy check capabilities to provide indication of faulty column configuration. The invention also provides for splitting the single FLU into multiple independent reconfigurable FLU sections, with independent user clock and reset, for implementing a plurality of independent functions or for establishing redundancy for critical functions.
US09252777B2	Method and apparatus for multiplexing pins of an integrated circuit An integrated circuit within an integrated circuit package, including a configuration module and a timing module. The configuration module configures the integrated circuit using a configure operation performed via N pins of the integrated circuit package, where N is an integer greater than 1. The timing module is configured to control on/off timing of (NM) light emitting diodes arranged in N columns and M rows connected to the N pins and M pins of the integrated circuit, respectively, where M is an integer greater than 1. During a first period, the configure operation utilizes the N pins. During a second period, the NM light emitting diodes receive data from the M pins and refresh signals from the N pins. The second period is different than the first period.
US09252767B1	Integrated switch module An integrated RF switch module including a package customized to include at least one trace. The trace includes one or more of at least one connection pad and at least one landing pad. At least one switching die is connected to the at least one connection pad. At least one device is connected to the at least one landing pad, the at least one device configured to enhance the performance of the switching die.
US09252766B2	Load detecting circuits and the method thereof A no-load detecting circuit and the method thereof are disclosed. The no-load detecting circuit may be applied in switching mode power supplies or other circuits. The no-load detecting circuit comprises: a variable resistance circuit coupled in series to a load of the switching mode power supply; and a first comparison circuit coupled to the variable resistance circuit to receive the voltage across the variable resistance circuit, wherein based on the comparison of the voltage across the variable resistance circuit and a first threshold, the first comparison circuit generates a no-load detecting signal indicative of the load status; wherein the equivalent resistance of the variable resistance circuit varies based on the varying of the load of the switching mode power supply.
US09252765B2	N-well switching circuit A dual-mode PMOS transistor is disclosed that has a first mode of operation in which a switched n-well for the dual-mode PMOS transistor is biased to a high voltage. The dual-mode PMOS transistor has a second mode of operation in which the switched n-well is biased to a low voltage that is lower than the high voltage. The dual-mode PMOS transistor has a size and gate-oxide thickness each having a magnitude that cannot accommodate a permanent tie to the high voltage. An n-well voltage switching circuit biases the switched n-well to prevent voltage damage to the dual-mode PMOS transistor despite its relatively small size and thin gate-oxide thickness.
US09252758B2	Multi-phase phase interpolator A multi-phase phase interpolator receives two input clocks to generate several equally spaced output clocks using several phase interpolators. A phase interpolator may include a first circuit branch and a second circuit branch with output nodes that are connected together to provide an output clock. The output clock may be generated at least based on resistor values of the phase interpolator.
US09252753B2	Quadrature output ring oscillator and method thereof Various circuits are described, which sustain an oscillation using a combination of four primary inverters, four feedforward inverters, and four coupling resistors for outputting a quadrature output signal while avoiding contention between a primary inverter and a feedforward inverter. In one configuration, a circuit includes four primary inverters configured in a ring topology, four coupling resistors uniformly interposed in the ring among the four primary inverters, and four feedforward inverters forming four sub-feedback loops, respectively, each sub-feedback loop comprising two primary inverters, one coupling resistor, and one feedforward inverter. In a further embodiment, the circuit further comprises a voltage-to-current converter is for receiving a control voltage and outputting a supply current to the four primary inverters and the four feedforward inverters. A corresponding method is also provided.
US09252749B2	Clock generation device, electronic apparatus, moving object, and clock generation method A clock generation device measures a frequency ratio between a clock signal CK1 (32.768 kHz+α) and a reference frequency value based on a clock signal CK3 (25 MHz), generates a clock signal CK2 obtained by masking at least one clock pulse of the clock signal CK1 based on the measurement result of the frequency ratio, and controls the measurement interval of the frequency ratio based on the difference between the measurement result of the frequency ratio and an average value of N (N is a natural number) measurement results of the frequency ratio.
US09252747B2	Stage circuits and scan driver using the same There are provided stage circuits and a scan driver using the same, which can supply scan signals using a simultaneous method or an interlace method. Each of the stage circuits includes a progressive driver and a simultaneous driver. The progressive driver outputs a scan signal to an output terminal, corresponding to a plurality of clock signals supplied simultaneously or progressively, and the coupling between the progressive driver and the output terminal is blocked when a third control signal is supplied. The simultaneous driver outputs a scan signal to the output terminal, corresponding to first and second control signals which do not overlap each other, and the coupling between the simultaneous driver and the output terminal is blocked when a fourth control signal, which does not overlap the third control signal, is supplied.
US09252745B2	Whitening filter configuration method, program, and system A system is configured so that signals passed through an all-pass filter using warp parameter λ are whitening-filtered, and so that the frequency axis is restored by an all-pass filter using warp parameter λ. This optimizes the whitening filter by determining the optimum λ. First, the AR order p is automatically estimated using λ=0. A spectral distance dλ is computed using a discrete Fourier transform spectrum value passed through an all-pass filter using warp parameter λ and a discrete AR spectrum value passed through an all-pass filter using warp parameter λ. The λ which minimizes the spectral distance dλ is set as the warp parameter, and a whitening filter is configured in which the warp parameter has been optimized.
US09252742B2	Analog filter in wireless transmission/reception device and method for setting cut-off frequency using the same A method and an apparatus are provided for setting a cut-off frequency of an analog filter of a reception device for wireless communication. A deviation value is obtained that corresponds to an error between a first gain value based on an ideal transfer function curve and a second gain value based on a measured transfer function curve at an arbitrary frequency of a frequency band in which a constant interval is maintained between a slope of the ideal transfer function curve and a slope of the measured transfer function curve. A cut-off frequency that is used to measure the measured transfer function curve in a real environment, is corrected based on the obtained deviation value.
US09252740B1	Resonator electrode shields A MEMS resonator system that reduces interference signals arising from undesired capacitive coupling between different system elements. The system, in one embodiment, includes a MEMS resonator, electrodes, and at least one resonator electrode shield. In certain embodiments, the resonator electrode shield ensures that the resonator electrodes interact with either one or more shunting nodes or the active elements of the MEMS resonator by preventing or reducing, among other things, capacitive coupling between the resonator electrodes and the support and auxiliary elements of the MEMS resonator structure. By reducing the deleterious effects of interfering signals using one or more resonator electrode shields, a simpler, lower interference, and more efficient system relative to prior art approaches is presented.
US09252739B2	Module substrate and module A module substrate includes: a multilayered wiring substrate that includes wiring layers; and embedded duplexers that are embedded in the multilayered wiring substrate and electrically connected to the wiring layers, wherein the embedded duplexers include duplexers supporting at least two bands of Band1, Band2, Band5, and Band8.
US09252738B1	Wideband tuning probes for impedance tuners and method Multi-segment RF probes for automatic slide screw impedance tuners include a multitude of slugs, which are individually adjustable towards the center conductor of the slabline and spaced against each-other in order to create the required capacitance and transmission line space values needed for synthesizing resonant networks to match arbitrary reflection factor patterns over a given frequency range. The multi-segment probes are optimized using network synthesis software within the limits of the capacitance and inductance values allowed by the hardware. The probes allow constant phase testing for 100 MHz bandwidths or more.
US09252736B2	Network signal coupling and EMI protection circuit A network signal coupling and EMI protection circuit assembly includes a processing circuit installed in a circuit board and coupled between a voltage-mode network-on-chip at the circuit board and a network connector and drivable by a driving voltage from the voltage-mode network-on-chip to process network signals. The processing circuit includes opposing first connection end and second connection end, two-wire channels electrically connected between the first connection end and the second connection end, a coupling module and an EMI protection module installed in each two-wire channel for coupling network signals and removing noises. Each EMI protection module includes two capacitors having respective first ends thereof respectively connected to the two wires of the respective two-wire channel and respective opposite second ends thereof connected in series and grounded for filtering lower frequency part of resonant waves in the band during signal transmission to prevent electromagnetic interference and to enhance signal transmission stability.
US09252733B2	Switchable filters and design structures Switchable and/or tunable filters, methods of manufacture and design structures are disclosed herein. The method of forming the filters includes forming at least one piezoelectric filter structure comprising a plurality of electrodes formed on a piezoelectric substrate. The method further includes forming a micro-electro-mechanical structure (MEMS) comprising a MEMS beam formed above the piezoelectric substrate and at a location in which, upon actuation, the MEMS beam shorts the piezoelectric filter structure by contacting at least one of the plurality of electrodes.
US09252730B2	Audio processing device and audio systems using the same An audio processing device is provided. The audio processing device includes a shaper. The shaper receives a digital input audio signal and generates an output audio signal at an output terminal according to the digital input audio signal. The shaper includes a gain adjustment unit and a shaping unit. The gain adjustment unit receives the digital input audio signal and adjusts the digital input audio signal to generate a gained audio signal. The shaping unit receives the gained audio signal. When the shaper operates in a first mode, the shaping unit shapes an envelope of the gained audio signal to generate a shaped audio signal, and the shaped audio signal serves as the output audio signal.
US09252728B2	Non-speech content for low rate CELP decoder A method and device for modifying a synthesis of a time-domain excitation decoded by a time-domain decoder, wherein the synthesis of the decoded time-domain excitation is classified into one of a number of categories. The decoded time-domain excitation is converted into a frequency-domain excitation, and the frequency-domain excitation is modified as a function of the category in which the synthesis of the decoded time-domain excitation is classified. The modified frequency-domain excitation is converted into a modified time-domain excitation, and a synthesis filter is supplied with the modified time-domain excitation to produce a modified synthesis of the decoded time-domain excitation.
US09252724B2	2G support for 2G and 3G/4G envelope tracking modulator There is provided an amplification stage including an envelope tracking modulated supply for tracking a reference signal, comprising a low frequency path for tracking low frequency variations in the reference signal and for providing a first output voltage, and a high frequency path for tracking high frequency variations in the reference signal and for providing a second output voltage, and a combiner for combining the first and second output voltages to provide a third output voltage, the amplification stage further comprising a first amplifier arranged to receive the first output voltage as a supply voltage, and a second amplifier arranged to receive the third output voltage as a supply voltage, wherein the first and second amplifiers are enabled in different modes of operation.
US09252721B2	Power decrease based on packet type Techniques for controlling one or more audio amplifiers in or associated with a device coupled on a local area network are disclosed. An example playback device includes a processor, an amplifier, a network interface, and a memory. The memory includes a software module that, when executed by the processor, causes the playback device to: operate in a first power mode in which the amplifier consumes a first amount of power; while operating in the first power mode, determine that a defined time has passed since receiving, via the network interface, a specified type of data packet; and based on determining that the defined time has passed since receiving the specified type of data packet, transition from operating in the first power mode to operate in a second power mode in which the amplifier consumes a second amount of power, wherein the first amount of power is greater than the second amount of power.
US09252717B2	Phase noise reduction in LC-VCO An approach for a transconductance cell for use in a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is provided. The transconductance cell includes a first NFET stack connected in series to a first PFET stack. The transconductance cell includes a second NFET stack connected in series to a second PFET stack. The first NFET stack and the first PFET stack are cross-coupled to the second NFET stack and the second PFET stack. The first NFET stack and the second NFET stack are connected to a tail node. The first PFET stack and the second PFET stack are connected to a power supply node.
US09252716B2	High-frequency amplifier circuit, semiconductor device, and magnetic recording and reproducing device A high-frequency amplifier circuit includes a balanced-unbalanced converter converting a single-ended signal into differential signals. The output of a first amplifier amplifying the single-ended signal is connected to the signal terminal on the unbalanced side of the balanced-unbalanced converter. The input of a second amplifier amplifying one of the differential signals is connected to one signal terminal on the balanced side of the balanced-unbalanced converter. The input of a third amplifier amplifying another of the differential signals is connected to another signal terminal on the balanced side of the balanced-unbalanced converter. An impedance element is inserted between an element on the balanced side of the balanced-unbalanced converter and a ground.
US09252714B2	Transmission signal power control device and communication apparatus A transmission signal power control device includes: at least one low-power attenuator configured to attenuate amplitude of a transmission signal when an absolute value of the amplitude of the transmission signal is smaller than or equal to a clipping threshold; a power amplifier configured to amplify the transmission signal output from the at least one low-power attenuator; and a control unit configured to stop operation of the power amplifier when the absolute value of the amplitude of the transmission signal is smaller than or equal to a value and operate the power amplifier when the absolute value of the amplitude of the transmission signal is larger than the value.
US09252713B2	Bias circuits and methods for stacked devices Embodiments of the present disclosure include a bias circuit for generating bias voltages to stacked transistors. In one embodiment, stacked transistors are coupled between an input transistor and an output node. A modulated power supply voltage and an input signal produce a voltage at the output node. The modulated power supply voltage is provided as an input to the bias circuit. Bias voltages are generated that change with the power supply voltage. In one embodiment, particular transistors in the stack are biased so that their control terminals are effectively short circuited when the power supply voltage is reduced.
US09252712B2	Hardware-efficient signal-component separator for outphasing power amplifiers Described herein is a fixed-point piece-wise linear (FP PWL) approximation technique for computations of nonlinear functions. The technique results in circuit designs having relatively few and simple arithmetic operations, short arithmetic operands and small-sized look-up tables and the circuits resultant there from can be efficiently pipelined to run at multi-GSamples/s throughputs. In one exemplary embodiment, the FP PWL approximation technique was used in the design of an energy-efficient high-throughput and high-precision signal component separator (SCS) for use with in an asymmetric-multilevel-outphasing (AMO) power amplifier. The FP PWL approximation technique is appropriate for use in any application requiring high-throughput, area and power constrained hardware implementations of nonlinear functions.
US09252708B1	Class-AB XTAL circuit A resonant element driver circuit includes a NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor that are configured to drive a resonant element. The resonant element driver circuit includes biasing circuitry that is configured to bias the PMOS transistor. The biasing circuitry receives a reference signal that is used to set the biasing on the PMOS transistor. The resonant element driver further includes mirror circuitry that tracks current flowing through the NMOS and PMOS transistors.
US09252707B2	MEMS mass bias to track changes in bias conditions and reduce effects of flicker noise A technique for tracking changes in bias conditions of a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device includes applying an electrode bias signal to an electrode of the MEMS device. The technique includes applying a mass bias signal to a mass of the MEMS device suspended from a substrate of the MEMS device. The technique includes generating the mass bias signal based on a target mass-to-electrode bias signal level and a signal level of the electrode bias signal.
US09252704B2	Voltage tunable oscillator using bilayer graphene and a lead zirconate titanate capacitor A voltage controlled oscillator comprising a substrate and a bilayer graphene transistor formed on the substrate. The transistor has two signal terminals and a gate terminal positioned in between the signal terminals. A voltage controlled PZT or MEMS capacitor is also formed on the substrate. The capacitor is electrically connected to the transistor gate terminal. At least one component is connected to the transistor and capacitor to form a resonant circuit.
US09252702B2	Frame for solar module and solar system using the same A bracket is used for supporting at least one solar module each of which has a frame. The bracket includes a fastener, a holder and a fixing element. The fastener includes a top portion and extended portions connected vertically to both sides of the top portion. The top portion has a concave segment at its central position. The holder includes a supporting portion for resisting the bracket. The holder has first through holes, in which the extended portions pass through a plurality of second through holes of the frame and the first through holes of the holder for sandwiching the bracket between the fastener and the holder. The fixing element is used for fixing the fastener on the holder.
US09252701B1	Ultimate renewable solar energy and storage system A system for integrating and co-generating renewable energies which achieves a combined powerful AC/DC electricity output, includes an enclosed volume chamber having an inner surface including a plurality of thermophotovoltaic cells located thereon and an opening for admitting a condensed high-temperature solar energy beam. A heat absorbing member located within the chamber for receiving a portion of the solar energy beam and acts as a thermal storage as well as a thermal emitter to supply thermal energy to the thermophotovoltaic cells to create DC electricity. Air is fed into the chamber to capture thermal energy from the emitter and any waste thermal energy, which is then converted into AC electricity. The system relies on the power of simplicity using a new twist in solar physics to allow for the highest conversion of sunlight energy to electricity at zero carbon emission while occupying significantly less space than typical solar energy systems.
US09252698B2	Inverter device and motor drive system An inverter device includes a power supply unit and a switch controller. The power supply unit supplies AC power to an AC motor whose electric characteristics in response to a rotation speed are switchable between low speed characteristics and high speed characteristics. The switch controller switches the electric characteristics of the AC motor. The switch controller executes switching control that alternately switches the electric characteristics of the AC motor between the low speed characteristics and the high speed characteristics on the basis of the rotation speed of the AC motor.
US09252697B2	Motor controller A motor controller configured to control an SRM includes an inverter connected to an SRM, a torque and flux estimator configured to estimate a torque and a flux generated in the SRM as an estimated torque and an estimated flux, based on output from the inverter and a rotor angle of the switched reluctance motor, a switching pattern selector configured to select one of a plurality of switching patterns based on comparing a result of a reference torque and the estimated torque, comparing a result of a reference flux and the estimated flux, and a flux phase angle, and performing switching of the inverter in accordance with a selected switching pattern, and a reference flux calculator configured to obtain the reference flux from a flux trajectory and the rotor angle changing the flux trajectory, the flux trajectory indicating a relationship between the rotor angle and the reference flux.
US09252696B2	Driver circuit and method A drive signal generating unit generates a drive signal used to alternately deliver a positive current and a negative current to a coil. The drive signal is such that nonconducting periods are set before and after a positive current conducting period and the nonconducting periods are set before and after a negative current conducting period. A driver unit generates the drive current in response to the drive signal generated by the drive signal generating unit and then supplies the drive current to the coil. The drive signal generating unit sets the width of a nonconducting period such that, after the drive start of the linear vibration motor, the width of a nonconducting period to be set before at least the first conducting period of the drive signal is shorter than the width of a nonconducting period to be set before each conducting period during steady operation of the linear vibration motor.
US09252694B2	Method and apparatus for detecting a state of an alternator regulator A detection circuit for an alternator regulator, and method therefor. The detection circuit comprises an input circuit arranged to receive a phase signal from an alternator regulator and to output an attenuated sense signal representative of the received phase signal, a detection component operably coupled to the input circuit and arranged to receive the attenuated sense signal output by the input circuit, and a blocking capacitance operably coupled between the input circuit and the detection component and arranged to block a DC component of the attenuated sense signal. The detection component is arranged to compare the received attenuated sense signal to at least one reference voltage signal, and to output a signal representative of a frequency of the phase signal from the alternator regulator based at least partly on the comparison of the received attenuated sense signal to the at least one reference voltage signal.
US09252692B2	Electric-motor furniture drive having a power supply device An electric-motor furniture drive includes a power supply device, a manual control for moving movable furniture components relative to each other, and an electric motor with reversible rotation direction. A speed-reducing transmission is connected downstream of the electric motor and an additional transmission is connected downstream of the speed-reducing transmission. The power supply device has a mains connection, transforms the mains-side input voltage into at least one output-side low voltage and is configured for galvanic isolation between the mains-connected input side and the output side for operating the electric-motor furniture drive. The power supply device is designed as a switched-mode power supply and has an intermediate circuit, a control device for controlling the switched-mode power supply, and a secondary unit. The power supply device provides an output-side operating voltage at the output thereof in an operating state and provides an output-side idle voltage at the output in an idle state.
US09252691B2	Back electromagnetic force (BEMF) sense system One embodiment includes a back-electromagnetic force (BEMF) sense system. The system includes a sense amplifier configured to measure an amplitude of a selected one of a plurality of phase voltages relative to a center tap voltage associated with a servo motor for the calculation of an associated BEMF voltage. The plurality of phase voltages can be provided to the sense amplifier via a respective plurality of control nodes. The selected one of the plurality of phase voltages on a respective one of the control nodes can be selected based on coupling the other of the plurality of control nodes associated with the other of the plurality of phase voltages to a voltage source configured to provide a predetermined voltage magnitude.
US09252685B2	Dust removing device and imaging device Provided is a dust removing device that can be designed and controlled appropriately and has high dust removal performance even at low temperature, and an imaging device using the dust removing device. In a dust removing device to be set on a base, including a piezoelectric element formed of a piezoelectric material and a pair of opposing electrodes, a vibration member, and a fixation member containing at least a high molecular compound component, a phase transition temperature T from a first ferroelectric crystal phase to a second ferroelectric crystal phase of the piezoelectric material is set to −60° C.≦T≦−5° C., and whereby, the dust removing device can be designed and controlled appropriately and high dust removal performance can be obtained even at low temperature.
US09252683B2	Tracking converters with input output linearization control In a preferred embodiment, a voltage inverter comprises a voltage converter circuit and a controller. The voltage inverter produces a time-varying output voltage from an input voltage, which can be a DC input voltage or an AC input voltage. The controller provides a control signal at a duty ratio determined dynamically by a set of signals. The set of signals include the time-varying output voltage, a predetermined output voltage, a gain factor and an inductor current in the voltage converter circuit. The predetermined output voltage can have an AC waveform or an arbitrary time-varying waveform. The voltage inverter operates to match the time-varying output voltage to the predetermined output voltage. Input-output linearization is used to design a buck inverter, and input-output linearization with leading edge modulation is used to design boost and buck-boost inverters under conditions where left half plane zero effects are present.
US09252681B2	Power converter with a first string having controllable semiconductor switches and a second string having switching modules A power converter includes at least one leg including a first string that includes controllable semiconductor switches, a first connecting node, and a second connecting node and that is operatively coupled across a first bus and a second bus. A second string is operatively coupled to the first string via the first connecting node and the second connecting node. The second string includes a plurality of switching modules wherein each of the plurality of switching modules includes a plurality of fully controllable semiconductor switches and at least one energy storage device. The power converter includes a system controller to control activation of the controllable semiconductor switches and switching modules such that a controlled electrical variable is maintained at a first predetermined reference voltage value and the average internal stored energy of the energy storage devices is maintained at a second predetermined reference value.
US09252678B2	Power conversion apparatus A power conversion apparatus is provided which includes a first DC/DC converter and a second DC/DC converter which are connected to each other in parallel, and a controller which changes a state of the second DC/DC converter between operation and stop, based on an input current or an output current of the power conversion apparatus, and at least one current threshold determined based on a first characteristic curve showing a relation between current and conversion efficiency in a state where the second DC/DC converter is stopped while the first DC/DC converter is operated and a second characteristic curve showing a relation between current and conversion efficiency in a state where the first DC/DC converter and the second DC/DC converter are operated.
US09252677B2	Quasi resonant push-pull converter and control method thereof The invention relates to a quasi-resonant push-pull converter and the method for controlling the same, said push-pull converter comprising: a direct current (DC) input power supply configured to supply DC input for the converter; a first power input unit and a second power input unit, connected to said DC input power supply, respectively and configured to supply input for the converter in different periods, comprising a first power switching tube and a second power switching tube, a first primary winding and a second primary winding; a power output circuit, configured to supply output of the converter, comprising secondary windings and full-bridge rectification circuits; a first output capacitor and a second output capacitor connected to said power output circuit and configured to store DC electric energy output by the power output circuit in which a resonant element is arranged to achieve a quasi-resonant switching circuit through voltage feedback; and a switching circuit being controlled through voltage feedback, whereby turns ratio of the primary windings and the secondary windings of the push-pull converter is controlled.
US09252672B2	Method of controlling phase-shift full-bridge converter in light load operation A method of controlling a phase-shift full-bridge (PSFB) converter in a light load operation is provided to switch control modes of the PSFB converter by detecting magnetizing current of a transformer thereof. The method includes following steps: First, the PSFB converter is operated in an extended PSFB control mode when the magnetizing current is larger. Afterward, the PSFB converter is operated in a modified PSFB control mode when the magnetizing current is gradually reduced and electric charges transported by the residual magnetizing current near to or less than a half of the DC input voltage. Finally, the optimal degree of soft switching of the PSFB converter is implemented when the PSFB converter is operated at the modified PSFB control mode. Accordingly, it is to improve overall efficiency, reduce switching losses, and achieve electromagnetic compatibility.
US09252665B2	DC-DC converter control apparatus In a DC-DC converter control apparatus, it is configured to have a current sensor for detecting a current flowing through a positive electrode wire connecting the second common terminal with the positive electrode terminal of the high-voltage port and to control operations of the first and second switching elements based on the current detected by the current sensor. With this, it becomes possible to accurately detect the current of the windings and appropriately control the operation of the switching elements based on the detected currents without increasing the transformer in size.
US09252664B2	DC-DC converter with short-circuit protection A DC-DC converter includes a voltage converter circuit having an FET 1, a short-circuit protection FET 3 that blocks a large current from flowing in the voltage converter circuit when a short-circuit failure occurs in the FET 1 or capacitors, and a detector that detects a short-circuit failure in the FET 1 or the capacitors to turn off the FET 3. The FET 1 is connected to a power supply line and also in series to the FET 3. The capacitors are connected to the power supply line and to a connection point between the FET 1 and FET 3. The detector detects a failure on the basis of the voltage at the connection point.
US09252662B2	Illumination device control systems and methods In various embodiments, a control system for an electronic circuit iteratively applies voltage to and senses current from a load to regulate operation of the load.
US09252660B2	System and method for generating a regulated boosted voltage using a controlled variable number of charge pump circuits A system, method, and computer program product for generating a regulated boosted load voltage. A comparator may use reduced versions of a reference voltage, a supply voltage, and a fed-back output load voltage to determine whether the output load voltage requires adjustment. If so, a controller may responsively vary the number of voltage boosting charge pumps connected in parallel to the load to best match a target voltage. The target voltage may be the reference voltage plus the supply voltage. A counter may track the number of active charge pumps, and may increment or decrement the number more slowly than the charge pumps operate. Loop gain may be limited by an integrating filter to prevent oscillation. The embodiments are of particular utility for signal conversion circuitry as they eliminate difficulties arising from gate-source voltage inadequacies and differences in switch transistors. A wider range of reference voltages may be accommodated.
US09252658B2	Level-crossing based circuit and method with offset voltage cancellation A level-crossing based circuit with offset voltage cancellation includes a first level-crossing detector section having a first output capacitor, wherein the first level-crossing section is configured to charge the first output capacitor to a first voltage corresponding to an input signal. The first voltage includes a first offset voltage. The level-crossing based circuit also includes a second level-crossing detector section having a second output capacitor, wherein the second level-crossing detector section is configured to discharge the second output capacitor to a second voltage corresponding to the input signal such that the second voltage includes a second offset voltage that is substantially equal in magnitude to the first offset voltage and opposite in polarity to the first offset voltage relative to an average of the first voltage and the second voltage.
US09252657B2	Phase-displacement of a power converter in a wind turbine A wind turbine generator comprising: an electrical generator configured to generate AC signals, a plurality of power converters operated by a gating signal, each power converter configured to convert the AC signals from electrical generator into fixed frequency AC signals, a transducer configured to measure the combined output from the power converters, and a controller configured to phase-displace the gating signal of one of the power converters to substantially minimize harmonic components of the combined output.
US09252656B2	Bridgeless interleaved power factor correction circuit using a PFC inductor with quad-winding on a single core A bridgeless interleaved power factor correction (PFC) circuit using a single PFC choke having four windings formed on a single core to form the four input inductors of the PFC circuit. An AC-to-DC converter constructed using the bridgeless interleaved PFC circuit achieves high conversion efficiency with high power factor and low total harmonic distortion. Furthermore, the size of the PFC circuit is reduced by using a single PFC choke with quad-winding.
US09252652B2	Wide input voltage range power supply circuit A wide input voltage power supply circuit for a load includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage includes a linear regulator circuit configured to maintain an output voltage at a predetermined output voltage level. The linear regulator includes an input for shutting the linear regulator off when an input voltage exceeds a predetermined shut off threshold. The second stage includes a high voltage detection circuit coupled to the input of the linear regulator. The high voltage detection circuit is configured to detect the level of the input voltage and to shut the linear regulator off when the input voltage exceeds the predetermined shut off threshold. An under voltage lockout circuit may be included, the under voltage lockout circuit configured to set a minimum turn-on voltage for the load.
US09252647B2	Technique for electrically connecting a generator and an exciter A connection device includes a body having a first and a second end, a first connector set at the first end, and a pin type connector set at the second end. The first connector set includes a first strip element and a second strip element, which form an electrical interface of the connection device. The pin type connector set includes a first element and a second element, and thus forms another electrical interface of the connection device, different from the electrical interface formed by the first connector set. The pin type connector may be projecting pins or hollows that receive pins. The first connector set is electrically connected to the pin type connector set. Thus, the connection device is adapted for electrically connecting a generator with an exciter having incompatible electrical interfaces.
US09252646B2	Motor with diffusion stopper A motor includes a rotation shaft, a commutator, power supply brushes, and a brush holder. The brush holder includes an opposing portion that faces an end face of the commutator in an axial direction, a bearing holder, and a diffusion stopper. The diffusion stopper is arranged in a portion of the opposing portion located toward the outer side in the radial direction from the bearing holder and limits the diffusion of abrasion powder of the power supply brushes. The diffusion stopper is projected toward the commutator in the axial direction or recessed in the axial direction.
US09252644B2	Servomotor production method, servomotor production device, servomotor, and encoder This disclosure discloses a servomotor production method of a servomotor including a motor and an encoder. The encoder includes a rotating disk and an optical module. The rotating disk is mounted on a shaft of the motor and includes at least one concentric slit formed around a disk center. The optical module is provided with a light receiving element configured to receive light emitted from a light source and subjected to an action of the concentric slit on a substrate. The servomotor production method includes adjusting a position of the optical module with respect to the rotating disk by using the concentric slit by means of an output of the light receiving element when the optical module is fixed and arranged facing the rotating disk.
US09252642B2	Electrical machine The invention relates to an electric machine (100) comprising a stator (107) and a rotor (101), wherein the rotor (101) comprises a hollow shaft (102), wherein a closed hollow space (103) is formed by means of the hollow shaft (102), wherein the closed hollow space (103) is provided for receiving a cooling agent, wherein a three-dimensional transport structure (200) is provided in the closed hollow chamber (103) for transporting the cooling agent. The three-dimensional structure can, for example, be produced by means of applying an adaptive material.
US09252640B2	Generator set assembly with baffle An apparatus includes a housing having a ventilation opening. A component such as a generator set can be disposed within an interior space of the housing. A baffle can be disposed within the interior space of the housing at a location that obstructs an acoustic line of sight between the ventilation opening and the component to eliminate or otherwise reduce a sound signature of the component. The baffle can also be configured to accumulate water from the ventilation opening. A drain can also be provided to aid in the removal of water accumulated by the baffle and route the water outside the housing.
US09252639B2	Method of manufacturing index device of machine tool A method of manufacturing an index device of a machine tool includes providing a jig having an outer periphery of the same outer diameter as an outer diameter of a motor for driving the index device, inserting the jig into a casing configured to house the motor for driving the index device prior to setting the motor into the casing, filling a material with higher thermal conductivity than the air into gap space created between the casing and the outer periphery of the jig through an opening provided in the casing; removing the jig from the casing when the material filled in the gap space becomes solidified; and setting the motor into the casing with the jig removed therefrom.
US09252635B2	Rotor for an electric machine and electric machine A rotor for an electric machine includes a pole core having a coolable magnetisable rotor section which is made of a super-conducting material. The rotor section has a rotationally symmetric geometry. The pole core is formed as a cylinder and the rotor section is arranged on an outer surface of the cylinder so as to be encircling.
US09252625B2	Method and device for charging a battery of an electrical drive using components of the electrical drive The invention relates to a multi-stage charging device for a battery of a battery operated electrical motor. The multistage charging device comprises a buck converter, an intermediate circuit and a boost converter in order to generate a suitable direct charging current from a (one or three-phase) alternating current provided by a power connection. According to the invention, components of the electrical drive are used for the boost converter and the intermediate circuit: the electrical motor functions as an intermediate circuit and the drive converter functions as a boost converter. According to the invention, the coupling of the electrical motor to the network-side buck converter occurs so that at least half the charging current flows through at least one of the at least three coils of the electrical drive. The invention further relates to a corresponding method and to a corresponding use of the drive components.
US09252618B2	Terminals, terminal systems and charging/discharging methods thereof Terminals, terminal systems, charging/discharging methods for the terminals, charging/discharging methods for the terminal systems, and discharging methods are disclosed. The terminal is coupled to a second terminal including a second switching unit, a second charging unit and a second battery unit. The second charging unit is coupled to the second battery unit. The terminal includes a first switching unit and a first battery unit. The first switching unit is coupled to each of the second switching unit and the first battery unit. The first switching unit is configured to receive a control instruction or a control signal, and to switch to the second switching unit based on the control instruction or the control signal so as to supply power to the second terminal with the first battery unit, or switch to the second charging unit based on the control instruction or the control signal so as to charge the second battery unit with the first battery unit. Thus, the battery of the terminal can be used to charge the battery of the second terminal or used directly as a second battery for supplying power to the second terminal. This improves user convenience and usability of the terminals.
US09252616B2	Zinc-air battery A zinc-air cell, a battery which is a low weight, low volume, or high energy system, or a combination thereof, and an apparatus for recharging the same are disclosed.
US09252609B2	Hanging folder device charging system A device charging system includes a base that has two opposing rim edges that are substantially parallel to each other and are spaced apart by a width corresponding to a hanging folder rail width. Several jacks are on a surface of the base, each is electrically connected to a source of power. Several hanging folders, each having integrated hanging folder rails, interface to the two opposing rim edges. The hanging folder rails are of a width corresponding to the hanging folder rail width. Several devices are physically held within a corresponding hanging folder and each device is electrically connected to one of the jacks by a charging cable, thereby providing power from the source of power to charge that device.
US09252604B2	Apparatus for wireless power transmission and reception Provided is a wireless power transmission system to increase efficiency in wireless power transmission. A wireless power transmitter may include: one or more capacitors; a power inputting unit configured to receive power from a power supply and to charge the one or more capacitors; a transmitting unit configured to transmit resonance power; and a switching unit configured to control electrical connection of the one or more capacitors to the power inputting unit and to the transmitting unit. A wireless power receiver is also described.
US09252603B2	Auxiliary power device, memory system having the same, and cell balancing method thereof An auxiliary power device includes an auxiliary power source having first and second charging cells connected in series, a cell balance circuit configured to sense a charging voltage between the first and second charging cells, generate a balance voltage based on the sensed charging voltage, and applies the generated balance voltage between the first and second charging cells, and a microprocessor configured to diagnose the first and second charging cells based on the sensed charging cells and control the cell balance circuit.
US09252602B2	Electric storage cell control circuit To satisfactorily carry out balancing even when balancing control is suspended. It is selected according to a condition which of battery cell information (old state information) by the last balancing stored in a storage device and battery cell information (new state information) acquired during a start of this time is used, and the balancing control is performed.
US09252601B2	Method for controlling a power converter in a wind turbine generator A method for controlling a power converter in a wind turbine generator, the power converter being connected to a power grid, the method comprising obtaining an alternating current (AC) line voltage at a connection point between the power converter and the power grid, obtaining a frequency of the power grid based on the AC line voltage, dynamically adapting the AC line voltage to the frequency of the power grid, generating a reference signal based on at least the frequency-adapted AC line voltage, and determining a converter control signal to be provided to the power converter based on the reference signal and the grid frequency in order to generate a power at the frequency of the power grid. Further, a wind turbine generator implementing the method is provided.
US09252592B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a rectifier coupled between a circuit ground and a terminal for coupling to an external circuit, a transistor-enhanced current path coupled to the rectifier, and a switching circuit coupled to the transistor-enhanced current path and coupled between the terminal and the circuit ground. The switching circuit is configured to turn off the transistor-enhanced current path during normal operation, and turn on the transistor-enhanced current path when an electrostatic discharge occurs at the terminal.
US09252586B2	Method for forming a seal on conductors of an electrical cable The invention provides a method of forming a seal (62) between and around conductors (12A, 12B and 12C) of an electrical power cable (10), and has particular application as a safety measure in potentially explosive applications. The method includes passing the conductors (12A, 12B and 12C) through an opening in a body (26) so as to define a cavity within the body (26) between and around the conductors (12A, 12B and 12C); introducing an absorbent material (64) into the cavity; introducing a liquid settable material (66) into the cavity; and allowing the settable material (66) to be absorbed by the absorbent material (64) and to set thereby to seal the cavity between and around the conductors (12A, 12B and 12C).
US09252585B2	Connector apparatus with shielding contact A connector apparatus having a PG screw thread in a first end section and a first traversing bore, in which a first axial clamping surface is embodied. A grounding assembly has an electrically conducting, iris spring, is arranged in the first traversing bore and lies against the first axial clamping surface. An annular clamping body having a second traversing bore, a second frontside annular clamping surface, which surrounds the second traversing bore and which is arranged in the first bore facing the grounding assembly, wherein the grounding assembly is clampable between the clamping surfaces, whereby the iris spring is radially deflectable, wherein the clamping body has an external thread for engagement in an internal thread of the base body, and wherein the connector apparatus has with reference to the first end section of the base body, behind the grounding assembly a conduit screw thread for the connection of a conduit.
US09252582B2	Plug-in type bus bar A plug-in type busbar for connecting with a relay or a breaker includes an insulating housing and a plurality of conductive busbar parts insulated from each other in the insulating housing. Two interface sets are provided on two ends of the busbar respectively. One interface set on one end of one busbar can be inserted in the other interface set of the other bus bar. The busbar is connectable with adjacent busbars through the interface sets at both ends thereof. At least an electrical connection is formed between the adjacent two busbars after the adjacent two busbars are inserted each other. When a longer busbar is demanded, an extended structure can be obtained by simply connecting two busbars together, and a connection of the busbars can be completed by connecting the insulating housing in a plugged manner.
US09252574B2	Method for inserting and removing cables A method for installing and removing a row of cables from a cable array is provided. The method includes providing an installation tool having a first body with a plurality of arms extending from one side. The plurality of arms being configured to receive a cable connector body, the plurality of arms including at least one first projection extending from one of the plurality of arms. The installation tool is moved onto a row of cables held coupled together by a bracket, each of the cables in the row of cables having a cable connector body. The connector bodies are engaged into receptacles and the bracket is moved with the at least one first projection.
US09252572B2	Media appliance and method for use of same A media appliance and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a housing is adapted to be mounted within a wall. A panel forms a front portion of the housing and the panel includes vents and the panel may be mounted substantially flush with the wall. A media player, which includes a set-top box, is disposed within the housing. A pair of ports, disposed within openings defined by the housing, are configured to receive respective optio-electric connectors. Each port includes optio-electrically conductive elements. The pair of ports are coupled to the media player and one port is configured for providing a connection to a television and the other port is configured for providing a connection to an external source of signal for the television.
US09252571B2	Terminal box A terminal box that can be reliably fixed to a solar cell module is provided. The terminal box includes a bottom wall facing a back surface of the solar cell module, a top wall facing the bottom wall, side walls, and a housing space defined by the bottom wall, the top wall and the side walls to accommodate a component to be mounted. The bottom wall includes a limiting wall formed in a periphery of the bottom wall to project toward the solar cell module, and a communication opening for allowing a charging space defined by the limiting wall and the bottom wall to communicate with the housing space. The limiting wall defines a gap for allowing the charging space to communicate with external space of the limiting wall.
US09252570B2	Countertop module utilities enabled via connection A connection system includes a feature module that supplies various functionalities, a portable countertop stand having an upright section that selectively receives the feature module and an umbilical connecting the portable stand to an external appliance to deliver utilities to the portable countertop stand. A utility port selectively delivers at least one utility to the feature module when engaged with the upright section. A utility receiver removably engages the utility port by hand without the use of tools and selectively receives a predetermined set of utilities when the feature module engages the upright surface. A connection interface detects when the feature module is engaged with the upright section and the predetermined utility set required by the engaged feature module. After the feature module is engaged, the connection interface prompts the utility port to release the predetermined utility set to the feature module.
US09252569B2	Spark plug A spark plug includes an insulator; a center electrode; a metallic shell; a ground electrode disposed at a forward end portion of the metallic shell and forming a gap in cooperation with a forward end portion of the center electrode; and a tip at least a portion of which is joined to at least the one of two side surfaces of the ground electrode which is disposed downstream with respect to fuel gas flow. In a first imaginary plane which contains a forward end surface of the center electrode and on which a discharge surface of the tip is projected, at least a portion of a projected image of the discharge surface is located within a range of 2.5G from the outer circumference of the forward end surface of the center electrode, where G (mm) is the size of the gap.
US09252565B2	Light-emitting element A light-emitting element includes a mesa structure in which a first compound semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type are disposed in that order, wherein at least one of the first compound semiconductor layer and the second compound semiconductor layer has a current constriction region surrounded by an insulation region extending inward from a sidewall portion of the mesa structure; a wall structure disposed so as to surround the mesa structure; at least one bridge structure connecting the mesa structure and the wall structure, the wall structure and the bridge structure each having the same layer structure as the portion of the mesa structure in which the insulation region is provided; a first electrode; and a second electrode disposed on a top face of the wall structure.
US09252564B2	Tunable laser with directional coupler A tunable laser has a first mirror, a second mirror, a gain medium, and a directional coupler. The first mirror and the second mirror form an optical resonator. The gain medium and the directional coupler are, at least partially, in an optical path of the optical resonator. The first mirror and the second mirror comprise binary super gratings. Both the first mirror and the second mirror have high reflectivity. The directional coupler provides an output coupler for the tunable laser.
US09252561B2	Frequency comb source with large comb spacing A frequency comb laser providing large comb spacing is disclosed. At least one embodiment includes a mode locked waveguide laser system. The mode locked waveguide laser includes a laser cavity having a waveguide, and a dispersion control unit (DCU) in the cavity. The DCU imparts an angular dispersion, group-velocity dispersion (GVD) and a spatial chirp to a beam propagating in the cavity. The DCU is capable of producing net GVD in a range from a positive value to a negative value. In some embodiments a tunable fiber frequency comb system configured as an optical frequency synthesizer is provided. In at least one embodiment a low phase noise micro-wave source may be implemented with a fiber comb laser having a comb spacing greater than about 1 GHz. The laser system is suitable for mass-producible fiber comb sources with large comb spacing and low noise. Applications include high-resolution spectroscopy.
US09252559B2	Narrow bandwidth reflectors for reducing stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical cavities An optical-fiber filter system to narrow a linewidth and to reduce noise fluctuations of an optical beam is provided. The optical-fiber filter system includes an optical fiber having a first end-face and an opposing second end-face, the first end-face and the second end-face setting a fiber length; a fiber Bragg grating having a first reflectivity positioned at the first end-face; and a reflector having a second reflectivity positioned at the second end-face. When the optical beam at a first frequency is coupled from a laser into one of the first end-face or the second end-face, a resonant cavity is established at the first frequency between the fiber Bragg grating and the reflector while Brillouin scattered light shifted from the first frequency within the optical fiber is transmitted through the fiber Bragg grating.
US09252557B2	Single cavity dual-electrode discharge cavity and excimer laser A single-cavity dual-electrode discharge cavity and an excimer laser including such a discharge cavity are disclosed. The discharge cavity may comprise a cavity body and two sets of main discharge electrodes. The cavity body may comprise a left chamber and a right chamber arranged to form a symmetric dual-chamber cavity. The left and right chambers can interface and communicate with each other at a plane of symmetry of the entire discharge cavity. The two sets of main discharge electrodes can be disposed in the left and right chambers on the upper side, respectively. According to the present disclosure, the single-cavity configuration can be used to achieve functions of dual-cavity configurations, such as MOPA, MOPO, and MOPRA. Thus, it is possible to reduce system complexities and also ensure synchronization of discharging in the discharge cavity.
US09252556B2	Amplifying optical fiber and optical amplifier The first cladding 52 has a two-layer structure formed of a solid inner layer 62A passed through the center axis of the first cladding 52 and an outer layer 62B enclosing the inner layer 62A and the plurality of cores 51 with no gap. A refractive index n1 of the core 51 is provided higher than refractive indexes n2A and n2B of the inner layer 62A and the outer layer 62B, the refractive indexes n2A and n2B of the inner layer 62A and the outer layer 62B are provided higher than a refractive index n3 of the second cladding 53, and the refractive index n2A of the inner layer 62A is provided lower than the refractive index n2B of the outer layer 62B.
US09252553B2	Optical fiber laser and method for manufacturing an optical fiber laser A laser includes an optical fiber having two ends of which a first end is configured to receive light therethrough, and a doped section configured to absorb at least part of the light received by the first end and for emitting light. The laser further includes a heat-conducting material which coats at least the doped section of the optical fiber.
US09252552B2	Gas laser oscillator capable of estimating sealability of gas container A gas laser oscillator includes an output command part for outputting a power supply output command; a power supply unit for applying a discharge tube voltage corresponding to the power supply output command to the discharge tube to start discharge; a voltage detection part for detecting the discharge tube voltage; a discharge start determination part for determining whether or not the discharge has been started on the basis of a value detected by the voltage detection part when the power supply output command is gradually increased; and a sealability determination part for determining that sealability of the gas container has been reduced when a discharge start time from the application of the discharge tube voltage until when it is determined by the discharge start determination part that the discharge is started exceeds a predetermined first threshold value.
US09252551B2	Apparatus for manufacturing a connector A connector comprises a base insulator, a plurality of elongated plate shaped contacts arranged on the base insulator, and a cover insulator arranged to hold the contacts in cooperation with the base insulator and welded to the base insulator, the base insulator is provided with a pair of openings arranged to face each other across each of holders and to intersect with the direction in which the holders are arranged.
US09252549B2	Method for making a power connection The invention provides systems and methods for power connection, which may be a sealed power connection. The sealed power connection may be used with an electric machine or any device that may require electrical and/or mechanical connection for power. The sealed power connection may provide an effective electrical connection while providing a robust mechanical connection. The electric machine or device may be fluid-sealed and/or fluid-cooled. The sealed power connection may provide for electrical insulation of the connection from the machine or device enclosure, and may also be sealed to provide for fluid sealing and/or internal fluid cooling of the electric machine or device, as well as fluid cooling of the connection.
US09252548B1	High density networking component for 1U product form factor and associated rack system Systems and apparatuses are disclosed having a 3×8 stacked RJ45 connector with an integrated LEDs option for a 1U product form factor to provide increased density of an RJ45 connector which utilizes open source and non-proprietary modular connectors in conformity with published standards. For example, in one embodiment such systems and apparatuses include a networking component having therein a connector which includes a plurality of RJ45 jacks arranged into exactly three horizontal rows and a plurality of vertical columns; a printed circuit board to electrically interface with each of the plurality of RJ45 jacks; and a 1× Rack Unit (1U) chassis having the connector and printed circuit board therein, in which at least a portion of the connector extends into a horizontal plane occupied by the printed circuit board. Rack systems and methods are further described for employing such a networking component.
US09252547B2	Universal serial bus connector A universal serial bus connector includes an insulating housing, a tongue board assembly disposed to a front of the insulating housing, a plurality of first and second conductive terminals, and a shielding shell. Each of the first conductive terminals has a base strip, a fastening strip, a contact portion and a soldering strip. The fastening strips are integrally molded to the tongue board assembly with contact portions thereof projecting under a bottom of the tongue board assembly. Each of the second conductive terminals has a touching portion and a soldering slice. Each of the soldering slices is soldered to a top surface of a portion of one of the first conductive terminals facing to a bottom surface of the soldering slice. The second conductive terminals are integrally molded to the tongue board assembly with the touching portions thereof projecting beyond a top of the tongue board assembly.
US09252546B2	Distributor connection module The invention relates to a distribution connection module (1) for telecommunications and data technology, with the distribution connection module (1) comprising a first submodule (2) and a second submodule (3), with the first and second submodule (2, 3) each having contact elements (7, 13), with the contact elements (7, 13) each having an electrical connecting contact (8, 14) and an interface contact (9, 15), with the interface contacts (9) of the first submodule (2) being electrically connected to one another by the interface contacts (15) of the second submodule (3), or with the interface contacts (9) of the first submodule (2) being connected to interface contacts (61) of a further submodule (60) and the interface contacts (15) of the second submodule (3) being connected to interface contacts (62) of a further submodule (60), with the further submodules (60) being arranged between the first and the second submodules (2, 3).
US09252543B2	Dual orientation connector assembly with interior magnetic component A dual orientation connector assembly for mating with a mating connector in two directions, including: an insulative housing defining a side wall, a printed circuit board (PCB) received in the housing, a mating member soldered on the PCB, a cable extending from an end of the insulative housing, and a magnetic component disposed in the insulative housing to provide a retaining force for retaining to the mating connector. The mating member includes a mounting portion received in the insulative housing, a mating portion extending out of the side wall of the insulative housing for mating with the mating connector, and a number of terminals mounted in the mating portion. The mating portion includes a first surface and an opposite second surface. The first surface and the second surface have the same number of the terminals.
US09252539B2	Internally switched female receptacle or connector with plug-latching safety interlock An internally switched female receptacle or connector for use with IEC 60309-2 configuration plugs and the like. Various plug-latching and plug-actuated safety interlock arrangements coordinate strictly axial plug movement relative to the receptacle with the closing and opening of sleeve contacts and terminal pressure contacts. A continuous ground feature ensures grounding of the primary electrical circuit throughout plug insertion and withdrawal. An optional low-current lighting control circuit powers an LED status indicator. A modular clocking design enables variable angular positioning of the terminals during manufacture.
US09252535B2	Terminal connecting structure A terminal connecting structure is provided with a male terminal having a tab portion and a female terminal having a contact portion. The tab portion and the contact portion mutually slide. A sliding surface of the tab portion extends in a direction inclined with respect to a sliding direction of the tab portion and the contact portion and has a projecting wall and a recess portion provided alternately along the sliding direction. A sliding surface of the contact portion extends in a direction crossing the projecting wall and the recess portion and has a projecting wall and a recess portion provided alternately along the sliding portion.
US09252533B2	Data cabling jack device and data cabling assembly structure A data cabling jack device for configuring a plurality of cables on an assembly frame is provided. The data cabling jack device includes a housing and an engaging structure. The housing has an accommodation space, wherein the housing includes a jack side and a cable side opposite to the jack side. The engaging structure is disposed on the housing and has an engaging switch and an engaging portion, wherein the engaging switch is switched between a release position and an engaging position. The release position and the engaging position are respectively disposed nearby the cable side and the jack side. The engaging portion engages the assembly frame when the engaging switch is switched from the release position to the engaging position to drive the engaging portion to protrude out of the assembly frame.
US09252527B2	Multiple wire connecting terminal A relay terminal (10) made of copper or copper alloy and configured to join an aluminum wire (20) and a copper wire (30) by being electrically connected to the aluminum wire (20) and the copper wire (30) includes a first barrel portion (11) to be caulked and crimped to an aluminum core (21) of the aluminum wire (20) made of aluminum or aluminum alloy, which is a metal different from copper or copper alloy constituting the relay terminal (10), a second barrel portion (12) to be caulked and crimped to a copper core (31) of the copper wire (30), a bottom plate (13) configured to link the first barrel portion (11) and the second barrel portion (12), and a projecting portion (41) (water drainage portion (40)) provided on the bottom plate (13) and configured to restrict the intrusion of water from the second barrel portion (12) toward the first barrel portion (11).
US09252524B2	Terminal having a pair of elastic contact pieces with inwardly and outwardly bent portions A terminal includes an elastic contact piece. The elastic contact piece comes into elastic contact with a counterpart terminal in a terminal container. The elastic contact piece includes a bent portion bent and extending from a portion of a side wall of the terminal container in the terminal container, and a clamping portion extending from a front end of the bent portion in the terminal container along an extending direction of the side wall. A dimension of the clamping portion is longer than a dimension of the bent portion in the extending direction, so as to prevent a foreign substance from entering between an inner wall of the terminal container and the clamping portion.
US09252521B1	Short path circuit card A system contains a land grid array socket with a first set of socket interconnections configured to connect to a set of circuit board electrical connectors, each socket interconnection in the first set extending from a top surface to a bottom surface. A second set of socket interconnections are configured to reversibly connect to a set of circuit card electrical connectors. A circuit board can include a mounting surface fastened to the land grid array socket. A set of electrical connectors within a socket connector zone can be connected to at least some of the first set of socket interconnections. A board cutout section is located beneath a second interconnection zone and configured to receive a circuit card.
US09252519B2	Wire branching connector A metal plate contact has two slits running from an upper end towards a bottom wall. First and second trench for receiving trunk and branching cables, respectively, and a recess for mounting a contact that crosses these trenches are created in a middle portion in a lateral direction of a housing. Left and right movable ends are connected to the middle portion on the two sides in a longitudinal direction via a connection band. The movable ends can be folded towards the top of the middle portion. First and second upper side trenches for covering the top of the first trench and covering the top of the second trench, respectively, are created in these movable ends. A wire lid for positioning a cable end is formed in one end or in the two ends of the second trench or of the second upper side trench.
US09252517B2	Connector A connector is mateable with a mating connector comprising a mating contact. The connector comprises a contact which is brought into contact with the mating contact at two points under a mated state. The contact has a first spring portion, a protruding portion protruding from the first spring portion, a slide portion extending flat and a second spring portion. The protruding portion has a first contact portion while the slide portion has a second contact portion. The first contact portion is movable by first resilient deformation of the first spring portion while the second contact portion is movable by second resilient deformation of the second spring portion. One of the first contact portion and the second contact portion is moved because of both the first resilient deformation and the second resilient deformation when the connector is transited from a mating start state to the mated state.
US09252514B2	Connector A contact unit includes a first conduction path in the form of a thin film arranged along a peripheral surface of an insulating elastic body, a second conduction path arranged along the first conduction path, and a connecting conduction path electrically connecting the first and second conduction paths to each other. A frame has a through hole. The frame supports the contact unit so that the first conduction path exposed from both openings of the through hole is brought into contact with connection objects and that the second conduction path is entirely received in the through hole.
US09252511B2	Card edge connector with soldering members in different positions A card edge connector for connecting a printed circuit board, includes an insulative housing defining an elongated base portion, a first and a second end portions located on both ends of the base portion and a pair of locking arms respectively extending forwardly from the first and second end portions. A plurality of conductive terminals are received in the insulative housing. A first soldering member is mounted on the first end portion and includes a soldering portion located below the corresponding locking arm. A second soldering member is mounted on the second end portion and includes a soldering portion located below the corresponding locking arm. The distance between the soldering portion of the first soldering member and the first end portion in a front-to-rear direction is different from the distance between the soldering portion of the second soldering member and the second end portion in the front-to-rear direction.
US09252509B2	Terminal connection structure for electric cable A terminal connection structure for an electric cable includes a first terminal connected to a part of an internal conductor which is exposed by peeling off a first insulating covering, a second terminal connected to a part of an external conductor which is exposed by peeling off a second insulating covering, and a housing member that surrounds an outer periphery of the first terminal and an outer periphery of the second terminal and contains the first terminal and the second terminal which are arranged coaxially in a separated manner.
US09252508B2	Electric connector with deformable terminals An electric connector includes at least one terminal pin having, at opposite ends thereof, terminals to be inserted into through-holes formed through printed circuit boards spaced away from and facing each other, and an aligner for aligning the terminal pins in a row in such a condition that the terminal pins are movable relative to the aligner, the terminal pin including a movement-limiter which restricts movement of the terminal pin in a direction of an axis thereof.
US09252501B2	Millimeter scale three-dimensional antenna structures and methods for fabricating same Millimeter scale three dimensional antenna structures and methods for fabricating such structures are disclosed. According to one method, a first substantially planar die having a first antenna structure is placed on a first surface. A second substantially planar die having at least one conductive element is placed on a second surface that forms an oblique angle with the first surface. The first and second dies are mechanically coupled to each other such that the first die and the first antenna structure extend at the oblique angle to the second die.
US09252500B2	Circularly polarized antenna and feeding network An antenna for transmitting and/or receiving-electromagnetic waves has a flat ground plane, and an array of radiating and/or receiving elements. The radiating and/or receiving element comprises a planar conductor which is arranged in parallel to the ground plane. An L-shaped slot is arranged in the planar conductor.
US09252496B2	Methods and compositions for energy dissipation A composition for energy dissipation in at least a portion of the frequency range from about 1 GHz to about 20 GHz, the composition can comprise a dielectric and graphene mixed with at least a portion of the dielectric, wherein the percentage volume of the graphene relative to the total volume of the composition is configured such that dissipation of incident electromagnetic radiation is substantially optimized in at least a portion of the frequency range from about 1 GHz to about 20 GHz.
US09252495B1	Ultra-wideband antenna with a conical feed structure and hyperbolic cosine taper An antenna is adapted for operation over a broadband frequency. The antenna includes a conical portion and a tapered portion. The conical portion may have a bicone structure, where each cone has a tapered portion. The tapered portion tapers asymptotically with an exponential.
US09252484B2	Antenna device and method of antenna configuration A communication antenna device (D), on board a motor vehicle, for communicating with an antenna of a portable device, includes: a communication antenna (A) including a first part (A1) having a maximum number of primary windings (E1MAX) and a second part (A2) having a maximum number of secondary windings (E2MAX), a microcontroller (10) electrically connected to the antenna (A), a first switching element (M1), for connecting the first part and/or the second part to the microcontroller (10), a second switching element (M2), for connecting a determined number of primary windings (E1i) of the first part to the microcontroller (10), a third switching element (M3), for connecting a determined number of secondary windings (E2j) of the second part to the microcontroller (10), and elements for controlling (20) the first, second and third switching elements.
US09252480B2	Two-shaft hinge antenna and foldable electronic device using the same A two-shaft hinge antenna comprises a major conductor, a first rotating element and a second rotating element. The stretching arms on both sides of the major conductor are assembled to the first rotating element and the second rotating element, respectively. The first rotating element further comprises a torque device and a first vice conductor, and the second rotating element further comprises a signal feeding line, a connection device, and a second vice conductor. The signal feeding line is electrically connected to the connection device and the second vice conductor, by which a high frequency signal can be passed to the major conductor, and then passed to the torque device on the other side and the first vice conductor. The aforementioned configuration is utilized to form an antenna loop. In addition, the configuration of this antenna can be applied to a foldable electronic device.
US09252478B2	Method of manufacturing stamped antenna A method of manufacturing a stamped antenna includes providing a sheet of metallic material for a first partial stamping that forms an antenna including at least one pilot hole, traces, contacts, carriers connected to the traces, and tie-bars between the traces. The antenna is placed on a fixture having at least one fixture pin that is inserted through the at least one lot hole. A pressure sensitive adhesive including at least one die cut hole is placed on the fixture, with the fixture pin being inserted through the die cut hole aligning the antenna and the pressure sensitive adhesive such that an adhesive region of the pressure sensitive adhesive is positioned on the traces of the antenna. The pressure sensitive adhesive is then bonded to the traces of the antenna. A second complete stamping is then performed on the antenna, including pressure sensitive adhesive, to remove the carriers and tie-bars.
US09252476B2	Circuit module including a splitter and a mounting substrate In a circuit module, even if a transmission signal output from a transmission electrode of a mounting substrate to a transmission terminal of a splitter leaks into a ground electrode, the transmission signal that has leaked into the ground electrode flows into via conductors that are connected along an edge portion of the ground electrode close to the transmission electrode and connected to a ground line of a motherboard. Therefore, the transmission signal that has been output from the transmission electrode and leaked into the ground electrode is prevented from traveling along an edge portion of the ground electrode toward a reception electrode side. Thus, characteristics of isolation between the transmission electrode and the reception electrode provided on the mounting substrate on which the splitter is mounted are improved.
US09252470B2	Ultra-broadband diplexer using waveguide and planar transmission lines A hybrid diplexer combining planar transmission line(s) and a waveguide is disclosed. In one embodiment, a diplexer includes first, second, and third ports. The diplexer also includes a first signal path and a second signal path. The first signal path may be used to convey lower frequencies, and may be implemented using planar transmission lines. The second signal path may be used to convey higher frequencies, and may be implemented, at least in part, using a waveguide. The first signal path may be coupled between the first port and the second port, while the second signal path may be coupled between the first port and the third port. In one embodiment, the first signal path may implement a low-pass filter, while the second signal path may implement a high-pass filter.
US09252469B2	Microwave circuit in strip line technology A microwave circuit in strip line technology contains metallic resonator strips on one side of a dielectric layer. Alternatively another end of consecutive resonator strips is connected by means of at least one via to a metallic surface on an opposite side of said dielectric layer. Said end of each resonator strip is connected to at least one via and is formed relative to said at least one via so that the effective electrical length of each resonator strip connected through the via is identical.
US09252467B2	Fluid regulating microvalve assembly for fluid consuming cells with spring-like shape-retaining aperture cover A fluid regulating microvalve assembly for use to control fluid flow to a fluid consuming electrode, such as an oxygen reduction electrode, in an electrochemical cell is proposed. The microvalve assembly includes a stationary valve body having an aperture and microactuators movable from a first closed aperture position to at least a second position where fluid is able to pass through the microvalve body aperture. These microactuators control the movement of spring-like shape-retaining interior aperture covers, which covers can be belleville springs or flat springs. The fluid regulating microvalve assembly can utilize cell potential or a separate source. The latter assembly can be located outside or inside the cell housing, for example between a fluid inlet aperture and the fluid consuming electrode. Using a printing process to deposit at least one of the layers is proposed for making the multilayer microvalve assembly for a fluid depolarized battery.
US09252465B2	Battery recharge estimator using battery impedance response An exemplary embodiment includes a method for determining a time to recharge a rechargeable battery system including providing impedance data over a frequency range, said impedance data characterizing the operation of a rechargeable battery within a selected time window; analyzing said impedance data for predetermined behavior of said impedance data indicating an approaching state of discharge of said battery; and, determining from said predetermined behavior of said impedance data whether a recharge of said rechargeable battery is indicated.
US09252452B2	Electrode assembly and composite electrode assembly of stair-like structure Disclosed herein are an electrode assembly and a composite electrode assembly mounted in a battery case of a secondary battery. The electrode assembly and the composite electrode assembly have a stair-like structure. The stair-like structure is formed based on the curvature of a device to utilize a dead space of the device, thereby improving the capacity of the device per unit volume.
US09252448B2	Ceria-based composition including bismuth oxide, ceria-based composite electrolyte powder including bismuth oxide, method for sintering the same and sintered body made thereof Provided are a ceria-based composition having an undoped or metal-doped ceria and an undoped or metal-doped bismuth oxide, wherein the undoped or metal-doped bismuth oxide is present in an amount equal to or more than about 10 wt % and less than about 50 wt % based on the total weight of the ceria-based composition, and at least one selected from the ceria and the bismuth oxide is metal-doped. The ceria-based composition may ensure high sintering density even at a temperature significantly lower than the known sintering temperature of about 1400° C., i.e., for example at a temperature of about 1000° C. or lower, and increase ion conductivity as well.
US09252447B2	Composite anode for a solid oxide fuel cell with improved mechanical integrity and increased efficiency A composite anode for a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), comprising an anode support layer (ASL) of Ni—YSZ and an anode functional layer (AFL) of Ni—GDC, displays enhanced mechanical stability and similar or improved electrical efficiency to that of a Ni—GDC ASL for otherwise identical SOFCs. A SOFC employing the composite anode can be used for power generation at temperatures below 700° C., where the composite anode may include a second AFL of GDC disposed between the Ni—GDC layer and a GDC electrolyte.
US09252445B2	Nanofiber membrane-electrode-assembly and method of fabricating same In one aspect of the present invention, a fuel cell membrane-electrode-assembly (MEA) has an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a membrane disposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. At least one of the anode electrode, the cathode electrode and the membrane is formed of electrospun nanofibers.
US09252444B2	Fuel cell system A fuel cell system calculates amount of fluid discharged from a fuel gas circulation path with water and fuel gas in accordance with an ordinary process map if inside an anode is not scavenged when a fuel cell stops electrochemical reaction; measures amount of water remaining in a fuel gas circulation path in accordance with cumulative electricity output, temperature, or elapsed time after starting the electrochemical reaction if the inside the anode is scavenged previously; and determines whether the inside the fuel gas circulation path is in dry condition or humid condition. The fuel cell system calculates amount of fluid discharged from the fuel gas circulation path with water or the fuel gas in accordance with a map predetermined for the dry condition if the fuel cell system determines that the inside the fuel gas circulation path is in the dry condition. The fuel cell system calculates the amount of the fluid to be discharged with the water or the fuel gas in accordance with the ordinary map if the fuel cell system determines that the inside the fuel gas circulation path is in the humid condition. Accordingly, wasteful discharge of fuel gas can be prevented in a purging operation after starting up the fuel cell system.
US09252442B2	System and method for controlling fuel cell system Disclosed is a system and method for controlling a fuel cell system. More specifically, a fuel cell demand current is calculated based on a driver demand current calculated from a driver demand torque. Then a target flow rate-1 of air to be supplied to a fuel cell stack is calculated based on the fuel cell demand current and a target stoichiometric ratio (SR) of air. The target flow rate-1 is then compensated for using the target SR, an RPM command value of an air blower is calculated based on a compensated target flow rate-2 and the amount of air currently measured. The operation of the air blower is subsequently controlled based on the calculated RPM command value.

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