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US09999165B2	Shield cover and electronic device having it According to various embodiments, there may be provided an electronic device including a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), at least one electronic component mounted in a shielding area of the PCB, and a shield cover formed of a metal material and fixed to an upper surface of the PCB to shield the shielding area. The shield cover may include an upper surface including a first plate and a second plate configured to be extended along a boundary of the first plate, a lateral surface which is configured to have a constant height along a boundary of the second plate, and an open portion configured to be exposed to up to one area of the first plate through the second plate from the lateral surface. An exposed area of the first plate may be exposed to a notch-shaped space configured to be more inwardly recessed than a virtual extension line of an outer boundary of the second plate in the open portion. Other various embodiments may also be possible.
US09999164B2	Cooling apparatus for cooling electronic device in aircraft A cooling device applicable to an airplane having a pressurized cabin and a ram air channel for cooling an electronic device arranged in the pressurized cabin, is comprised of a partition wall separating the pressurized cabin from the ram air channel; and a heat exchanger thermally in contact with the electronic device and exposed to the ram air channel so as to radiate heat to a ram air.
US09999161B2	Reversible fan assembly An electronic device includes a chassis having a recess and a fan assembly captured by the recess, wherein the fan assembly is moveable out of the recess to rotate such that airflow through the fan assembly moves in different directions to cool the electronic device as a function of such rotation.
US09999160B1	Method and system for air contamination analysis for free air cooled data centers Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for controlling conditions of an input air stream. The method includes detecting air quality conditions as environmental input variables of an input air stream and determining whether to take corrective action on the air quality conditions of the input air stream according to the environmental input variables. An output variable then may be controlled to affect the air quality conditions of the input air stream.
US09999159B2	Electronic device, drive apparatus having the electronic device and manufacturing method of the electronic device An electronic device includes a circuit board, a heat sink and thermal gel. The circuit board has an electronic component, which is mounted to a first principal surface of the circuit board. The heat sink has an opposing surface, which is opposed to the first principal surface of the circuit board. The thermal gel is filled between the circuit board and the heat sink to cover the electronic component. The circuit board has through-holes. At least a portion of each through-hole is formed in a bonding range, to which the thermal gel is bonded. The through-holes enable visual recognition of the thermal gel through the through-holes.
US09999157B2	Multi-phase heat dissipating device embedded in an electronic device A device that includes a region comprising an integrated device and a heat dissipating device coupled to the region comprising the integrated device. The heat dissipating device is configured to dissipate heat away from the region. The heat dissipating device includes a fluid, an evaporator configured to evaporate the fluid, a first condenser configured to condense the fluid, where the first condenser is located in a first wall of the device, an evaporation portion coupled to the evaporator and the first condenser, and a collection portion coupled to the first condenser and the evaporator. The evaporation portion is configured to channel an evaporated fluid from the evaporator to the first condenser. The collection portion is configured to channel a condensed fluid from the first condenser to the evaporator through the help of gravity.
US09999156B2	Integrated card rail and cooling module for embedded computing systems A flow-through card rail module is provided in a circuit module chassis assembly for an embedded computing system. A set of elongated guide rails are formed on a base plate and define a card channel for receiving a circuit card. Each guide rail has a cooling passage extending from a fluid inlet to a fluid outlet. A corrugated structure is formed on an opposite side of the base plate and includes a set of elongated cells. Each elongated cell has a cooling passage formed therein extending from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet. Internal walls subdivide the cooling passages formed in the guide rails and the elongated cells to form a honeycomb structure. The flow-through card rail module including the base plate, the guide rails and the corrugated structure may be formed as a monolithic component.
US09999152B2	Display device A display device including a display panel; a rear frame in a rear of the display panel; and a front frame positioned between the display panel and the rear frame and coupled with the display panel and the rear frame, the front frame including a plate portion facing the display panel and a side frame formed at a side or an edge of the plate portion. Further, the side frame includes a first side wall adjacent to a side of the display panel and extended from the plate portion; a second side wall; a first bending portion extended from the first side wall and connecting the first side wall to a first end of the second side wall; a second bending portion extended from the other end of the second side wall and bent from the second side wall toward the rear frame or the front frame.
US09999143B2	Display device A display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a display body including a curved part; a case including a bottom plate part through which a through hole is provided at a position opposed to the curved part; and a printed circuit board that is fixed to a surface of the bottom plate opposite to the display body side with the electronic component is mounted on a surface opposed to the bottom plate and with the electronic component arranged inside the through hole.
US09999138B2	Making interconnections by curving conducting elements under a microelectronic device such as a chip A method of making connection elements for a microelectronic device is provided, including foil ling a conducting layer on a support on which there is at least one conducting pad located on a front face of the support opposite a back face thereof, the conducting layer including a first conducting portion in contact with at least one conducting pad, the first conducting portion extending on the front face and being connected to at least one second conducting portion extending in contact with at least one given wall of the support being located between the front and back faces and forming a non-zero angle with the front face; thinning the support at the back face to release one conducting end of the second conducting portion as a free conducting end projecting from the back face; and after the thinning, bending the free conducting end projecting from the back face.
US09999134B2	Self-decap cavity fabrication process and structure A PCB having multiple stacked layers laminated together. The laminated stack includes regular flow prepreg and includes a recessed cavity, a bottom perimeter of which is formed by a photo definable, or photo imageable, polymer structure, such as a solder mask frame, and a protective film. The solder mask frame and protective film protect inner core circuitry at the bottom of the cavity during the fabrication process, as well as enable the use of regular flow prepreg in the laminated stack.
US09999132B2	Electronic package An electronic package is provided, which includes: a substrate, an electronic element disposed on the substrate, and an antenna structure disposed on the substrate. The antenna structure has a base portion and at least a support portion, the base portion including a plurality of openings and a frame separating the openings from one another, and the support portion supporting the base portion over the substrate. Therefore, no additional area is required to be defined on a surface of the substrate, and the miniaturization requirement of the electronic package is thus met.
US09999130B2	Printed circuit board and optical module comprising solder resist having no contact with an electro-conductive contact sheet group on a same substrate The application provides a printed circuit board and an optical module so as to alleviate poor contact between the electro-conductive contact sheet group and the clamping piece due to the solder resist. The printed circuit board includes a substrate, and electro-conductive wirings and electro-conductive contact sheet group both laid on the surface of the substrate, where the substrate is overlaid with solder resist, and the solder resist has no contact with the electro-conductive contact sheet group.
US09999129B2	Microelectronic device and method of manufacturing same A microelectronic device comprises a first substrate (110) having a first electrically conductive path (111) therein and a second substrate (120) above the first substrate and having a second electrically conductive path (121) therein, wherein the first electrically conductive path and the second electrically conductive path are electrically connected to each other and form a portion of a current loop (131) of an inductor (130).
US09999127B2	Device connector assembly A device is described having a body and a connector assembly. The connector assembly is positioned at one end of the body and includes a set of contacts and a cover having a façade. The cover also has a set of openings to enable at least a portion of the set of contacts to be exposed on the façade. The cover is at least partially moveable inwards towards the set of contacts when force is applied to the façade.
US09999124B2	Tamper-respondent assemblies with trace regions of increased susceptibility to breaking Tamper-respondent assemblies with regions of increased susceptibility to a tamper event are provided, which include one or more tamper-detect sensors, one or more conductive traces, and an adhesive. The tamper-detect sensor(s) facilitates defining a secure volume about one or more electronic components to be protected, and the conductive trace(s) forms, at least in part, a tamper-detect network of the tamper-respondent assembly. The conductive trace(s) is disposed, at least in part, on the tamper-detect sensor(s). The adhesive contacts the conductive trace(s) on the tamper-detect sensor(s), and is disposed, at least in part, between and couples a surface of the tamper-detect sensor(s) to another surface of the assembly. Together, the tamper-detect sensor(s), conductive trace(s), and adhesive are a subassembly, with the subassembly being configured with multiple regions of increased susceptibility to breaking of the conductive trace(s) with a tamper event through the subassembly.
US09999121B2	Board level shields with virtual grounding capability According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of board level shields with virtual grounding capability. In an exemplary embodiment, a board level shield includes one or more resonators configured to be operable for virtually connecting the board level shield to a ground plane or a shielding surface. Also disclosed are exemplary embodiments of methods relating to making board level shields having virtual grounding capability. Additionally, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of methods relating to providing shielding for one or more components on a substrate by using a board level shield having virtual grounding capability. Further exemplary embodiments are disclosed of methods relating to making system in package (SiP) or system on chip (SoC) shielded modules and methods relating to providing shielding for one or more components of SiP or SoC module.
US09999115B2	Digital control system providing power and communications via existing power wiring A two-way load control system comprises a power device, such as a load control device for controlling an electrical load receiving power from an AC power source, and a controller adapted to be coupled in series between the source and the power device. The load control system may be installed without requiring any additional wires to be run, and is easily configured without the need for a computer or an advanced commissioning procedure. The power device receives both power and communication over two wires. The controller generates a phase-control voltage and transmits a forward digital message to the power device by encoding digital information in timing edges of the phase-control voltage. The power device transmits a reverse digital message to the controller via the power wiring.
US09999114B2	Control system and sensor unit A control system includes: a first human detector that detects the presence or absence of a human within a first detection range; a second human detector that has a second detection range that overlaps with the first detection range, and detects the presence or absence of a human within the second detection range; a determiner that has a plurality of determination modes for determining the presence or absence of a human; a transmitter that transmits a control signal to a control target based on a result of determination made by the determiner; and a load that receives the control signal and serves as the control target whose operation mode is switched according to the control signal. The determiner performs operation in a first determination mode for determining the presence or absence of a human based on at least a result of detection performed by the first human detector when the load is in a first operation mode, and performs operation in a second determination mode for determining the presence or absence of a human based on a result of detection performed by the second human detector when the load is in a second operation mode that is different from the first operation mode.
US09999113B2	Infrared light emitting diode control circuit Disclosed in some examples are devices, methods, and machine-readable mediums for reliable control of IR LEDs. In some examples, a microcontroller running firmware controls whether the LED is activated or not by use of a disable signal. The microcontroller enables or disables the operation of the LED based upon a user's proximity to the LED, a watchdog timer, and a confirmation that only trusted software is executing.
US09999109B2	LED lighting assembly An LED lighting assembly includes, according to various implementations, mechanisms for protecting the LED lights from voltage or current surges, including hardware that absorbs the strike voltage and hardware that provides a bypass path. The provision of a bypass path in the event of the failure of one or LED lights in an LED string allows the string to be, in effect, “turned off” in order to protect the remaining LED lights, thereby allowing the healthy LED lights to stay lit.
US09999104B2	Lighting device and luminaire A lighting device that supplies current to light-emitting units includes: a DC-to-DC converter; a switch unit connected to the light-emitting units; and a control circuit which controls the DC-to-DC converter and the switch unit. The DC-to-DC converter includes: an inductor through which current from the DC-to-DC converter is provided to the light-emitting units; and a first switch element connected in series with the inductor and which switches ON/OFF. The control circuit includes: a zero-crossing detector that detects that current flowing in the inductor is substantially zero due to the first switch element switching OFF, and outputs a zero-current detection signal; and a switch controller that selects one of the light-emitting units and controls the switch unit to cause the current from the DC-to-DC converter to be supplied to the selected light-emitting unit when the first switch element subsequently switches ON, each time the switch controller receives the zero-current detection signal.
US09999101B2	Method and device for automatically detecting the intactness of ground electrodes in the bath of an induction furnace and induction furnace A method and an apparatus for automatically detecting the intactness of ground electrodes in the bath of an induction furnace are described. According to the method a low DC or AC current is applied to an additional insulated electrode extending through the furnace bottom and being in connection with the melt. After melting of the charge this current is measured and compared with a reference value. If the magnitude of the current drops below the reference value an alarm signal is generated. Furthermore, methods and devices for localizing a ground fault are described. By this, the security of the operation of an induction furnace is improved.
US09999094B2	Wakeup schedule coordination on a shared communication medium Techniques for co-existence on a shared communication medium are disclosed. An activation command may be received, over a backhaul connection and via a first Radio Access Technology (RAT), configuring the first RAT for active operation on a shared communication medium. An activity indicator may be generated based on the active operation of the first RAT. Based on the activity indicator, one or more measurements scheduled to be performed on the communication medium in accordance with a second RAT and a corresponding wakeup schedule may be disabled. Access of a first RAT to a shared communication medium may also be monitored. A priority indicator for the first RAT may be generated based on the monitored access. Based on the priority indicator, release of a backhaul connection on the communication medium that is associated with a second RAT may be coordinated.
US09999092B2	Techniques for discovery of Wi-Fi serial bus and Wi-Fi docking services Techniques are disclosed for discovery of Wi-Fi serial bus and Wi-Fi docking services. Such networks include (but are not limited to) IEEE 802.11 networks.
US09999086B2	Packet data transfer re-establishment The present disclosure relates to methods and arrangements for re-establishing packet data transfer between a radio base station and a wireless device following radio link failure, the radio base station having pre-configured wireless device information. The RBS receives a request for re-establishment of the radio link from the wireless device. One or more DRBs are selected for re-establishment based on the pre-configured wireless device information. The RBS transmits a radio link re-establishment response to the wireless device comprising information about the selected one or more DRBs. The selected one or more DRBs are re-established upon receipt of a re-establishment confirmation from the wireless device, whereupon packet data transfer is resumed.
US09999085B2	Communication control device, communication control method, communication system and communication device Provided is a communication control device controlling communication of multiple secondary usage nodes providing second communication services using a part of a frequency band assigned to a first communication service, including a communication unit receiving service area information for estimating service areas of the second communication services provided by the secondary usage nodes and access technique information indicating radio access techniques usable by the secondary usage nodes, a storage unit storing information on the service area and access technique received by the communication unit, an estimation unit estimating service areas of multiple second communication services, and a control unit notifying a secondary usage node providing one of the multiple second communication services of a radio access technique or a channel recommended to the at least one second communication service on the basis of a location relationship between the service areas estimated by the estimation unit and the access technique information.
US09999083B1	Ad-hoc peer-to-peer communications to access various services via a cellular network A method for accessing a network. In one embodiment, the method includes at least one computer processor identifying a request from a first device to utilize wireless communication capabilities of a second device to communicate with a wireless network. The method further includes generating a secure peer-to-peer communication link between the first device and the second device. The method further includes establishing a wireless communication link between the second device and the wireless network. The method further includes transmitting one or more communications from the first device to the wireless network, via the wireless communication capabilities of the second device.
US09999080B2	Device and method for performing device-to-device communication The method for performing device-to-device communication by a first device according to the present invention comprises: a step of searching a second device that supports device-to-device communication; a step of receiving, from the found second device, second network information including information on whether or not the second device may access the Internet; and a step of determining either the first device or the second device as a group owner based on a first network information including on whether or not the first device may access the Internet and the second network information on the second device. The first device determines the second device as a group owner when the first network information indicates that the first device may not access the Internet.
US09999079B2	Communication device, communication control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium According to one embodiment, a communication device includes a first circuitry, a second circuitry and a third circuitry. The first circuitry establishes a wireless connection with a first communication device, in accordance with a communication request relating to data communication. The second circuitry measures a communication environment of the communication device to acquire communication environment data. The third circuitry establishes a logical connection with a second communication device relating to the communication request via the wireless connection and controls so as to perform the data communication with the second communication device in accordance with the communication environment data.
US09999074B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting downlink reference signal and method and apparatus for transmitting control information in cooperative multi-point communication system A method for a base station to configure a channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) is provided. The base station configures a CSI-RS antenna port for a terminal. The base station selects one of at least one port number mapping rule for mapping a port number on the CSI-RS antenna port for the terminal. The base station notifies the terminal of the selected port number mapping rule.
US09999073B2	Signaling adapted CSI-RS periodicities in active antenna systems A method in a network node is disclosed. The method comprises grouping a plurality of antenna ports corresponding to a plurality of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) into at least a first CSI-RS antenna port group and a second CSI-RS antenna port group, and determining, based at least in part on one or more criteria, a first transmission periodicity for the first CSI-RS antenna port group and a second transmission periodicity for the second CSI-RS antenna port group. The method further comprises transmitting, to one or more user equipment, the CSI-RS corresponding to the antenna ports in the first CSI-RS antenna port group according to the determined first transmission periodicity, and transmitting, to the one or more user equipment, the CSI-RS corresponding to the antenna ports in the second CSI-RS antenna port group according to the determined second transmission periodicity.
US09999067B2	Method and apparatus for scheduling in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus are provided for configuring subframes in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) receives an uplink-downlink configuration from a base station. The uplink-downlink configuration indicates each of a plurality of subframes in a frame to any one of a downlink subframe, a special subframe and an uplink subframe. The special subframe includes a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS), a guard period (GP) and an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS). The UE receives frame configuration information from the base station and configures each of the plurality of subframes in the frame to any one of a downlink subframe, a special subframe and an uplink subframe based on the uplink-downlink configuration and the frame configuration information. The UE communicates with the base station using the configured subframes.
US09999062B1	Channel feedback preceding downlink data transmissions in cellular IoT systems A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a base station. The apparatus may transmit a message to a user equipment (UE). The message may indicate a first dedicated resource for downlink transmission, and the first dedicated resource may be associated with a scheduled downlink transmission from the apparatus. The apparatus may receive an information message from the UE on a second dedicated resource for uplink transmission based on the first dedicated resource for downlink transmission indicated in the message. The information message may be used for transmitting the scheduled downlink channel transmission that was scheduled before the information message was received. The apparatus may transmit the scheduled downlink transmission after receiving the information message from the UE. The scheduled downlink transmission may be based on the received information message.
US09999061B2	Radio resource adaptation method and associated wireless communication devices A radio resource adaptation method between UL and DL for two-way communications between a first communication device and a second communication device, comprising: receiving, by the first communication device, fed-back information in an unused part of radio resource allocated to a second communication link (UL or DL) from the second communication device to the first communication device, the fed-back information enabling utilization efficiency enhancement of radio resource allocated to a first communication link (DL or UL) from the first communication device to the second communication device; and performing, by the first communication device, resource-efficient information transmission and/or retransmission on the radio resource of the first communication link, based on the received fed-back information. The radio resource adaptation is implemented with wireless communication devices.
US09999059B2	Synchronization method and apparatus for a wireless wide band system in an interference environment Synchronization method and apparatus for a wireless wide band system in an interference environment. The method includes: obtaining interference information of a network; selecting at least one channel based at least in part on the interference information; and transmitting resource information through the at least one channel, wherein the resource information indicates a resource allocation determined at least in part on the interference information; and wherein a position of the at least one channel is indicated by a synchronization sequence. The present invention also provides another method and apparatus for synchronization.
US09999057B2	Resource allocation method of a wireless communication system and mechanism thereof An electronic equipment of a wireless communication system is provided. The electronic equipment includes an orchestrator respectively coupled to an FH network, an RRH pool, and a BBU pool. The orchestrator is configured to establish a data path in response to RRH allocation information, FH allocation information and BBU allocation information. The data path includes at least one RRH in the RRH pool, the FH network and at least one BBU in the BBU pool.
US09999052B1	Selecting primary and secondary component carrier for carrier aggregation based on carrier group delay variation, insertion loss, and other carrier attributes In a wireless network comprising a plurality of carriers available for carrier aggregation transmissions between a base station and UE, the base station: (i) determines whether a requirement exists to transmit data between the UE and the base station via a carrier aggregation transmission; (ii) in response to determining that the carrier aggregation transmission requirement exists, selects a primary component carrier and one or more secondary component carriers from the plurality of carriers for the carrier aggregation transmission based on one or more of each carrier's group delay, group delay variation, or insertion loss; (iii) allocates the selected primary and secondary component carriers to the carrier aggregation transmission; (iv) informs the UE of the allocation; and (v) executes the carrier aggregation transmission according to the allocation.
US09999050B2	Resolution method for conflict of firing phase allocation in bio-inspired distributed wireless resource allocation method The present invention relates to a bio-inspired distributed wireless resource allocation, and a method of solving a conflict of a firing phase allocation in the bio-inspired distributed wireless resource allocation includes (a) selecting a reference firing phase having a preset degree of allocation-available space, on the basis of firing phase allocation information within a received firing message, when a newly-entered node attempts the firing phase allocation, (b) calculating changeable positions of the reference firing phase and a succeeding firing phase of the reference firing phase under assumption set based on the firing phase allocation information, and (c) setting a space between the changeable positions as an allocation-available range and allowing the newly-entered node to be allocated with an arbitrary firing phase within the allocation-available range.
US09999047B2	Communication method, base station, and user equipment A communication method includes: determining a correspondence between Y uplink subframes and X downlink subframes, where the Y uplink subframes are used to respectively transmit HARQ information that is corresponding to the X downlink subframes, at least one uplink subframe of the Y uplink subframes is an uplink subframe on an FDD carrier, and the X downlink subframes are downlink subframes in one radio frame on a TDD carrier; and communicating with UE according to the correspondence.
US09999044B2	Method and device for carrier activation in carrier aggregation system The present invention relates to a method and a device for cell activation in a carrier aggregation system, and the method for activating a cell of a terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step for receiving an activation message of a first cell; a step for activating the first cell when the message of the first cell is received; an information obtaining step for obtaining uplink activation information of the first cell; and a transmission determination step for determining whether to execute an uplink transmission according to the uplink activation information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, efficient carrier management plan can be provided.
US09999041B2	Method and apparatus for transmission of configuration information A method and apparatus reduce latency of Long Term Evolution (LTE) uplink transmissions. Configuration information regarding a downlink control information message for a physical uplink shared channel transmission can be transmitted. The downlink control information message can be sent on a physical downlink control channel in a first subframe to a user equipment. The downlink control information message can indicate a plurality of resource assignments in a second subframe for an uplink carrier from which the user equipment selects one resource assignment for transmission on the uplink carrier. The downlink control information message can be cyclic redundancy check scrambled by a radio network temporary identifier that is indicated via higher layers that are higher than a physical layer. A data packet can be received from the user equipment on the physical uplink shared channel in a resource of a selected resource assignment in the second subframe on the uplink carrier. The selected resource assignment can be selected from the plurality of resource assignments.
US09999040B2	Downlink signal transceiving method and device, in wireless communication system, taking into account antenna port relationship The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a downlink signal transmission and reception method and device taking into account antenna port relationship. A method for the reception of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise: a step for determining a start symbol index for the PDSCH in a downlink subframe; and a step for receiving the PDSCH signal on the basis of the start symbol index. The PDSCH start symbol index (k) when the downlink subframe belongs to a specific subframe set is determined according to k=min(KThreshold, K), KThreshold being a prescribed threshold, K being the PDSCH start symbol index when the downlink subframe does not belong to the specific subframe set, and min(KThreshold, K) being the minimum value among KThreshold and K.
US09999037B2	Methods and apparatus for adjusting flow rate of transmissions received by a device Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for adjusting flow rate of transmissions received at a device. A user equipment (UE) determines, in response to detecting a trigger condition, a proposal to adjust feedback provided to a base station (BS) in order to adjust a flow rate of transmissions received at the UE from the BS. The UE adjusts the feedback based on the proposal and at least one additional condition and transmits the adjusted feedback to the BS.
US09999034B2	Uplink multi-user-MIMO without client assistance A method is provided in which a first wireless access point selects two or more of a plurality of client devices based on similarity of receive signal strength and carrier frequency offset with respect to the first wireless access point, and sends a downlink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission to the two or more client devices. The downlink multi-user MIMO transmission is configured to solicit acknowledgments from the two or more client devices. The acknowledgments are received at a plurality of antennas of the first wireless access point from the two or more client devices. Uplink multi-user MIMO processing of the acknowledgments is performed from the two or more of the plurality of client devices to recover the acknowledgments respectively from each of the two or more client devices.
US09999033B2	Method for calculating and reporting a buffer status and device therefor The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for calculating and reporting a buffer status in the wireless communication system, the method comprising: reporting a first amount of Data Available for Transmission (DAT) to the first BS; starting a timer for the first BS when the amount of DAT is reported to the first BS; and triggering a reporting for a second amount of DAT if the UL grant is not received from the first BS during run time of the timer for the first BS.
US09999026B2	Deciding transmission parameters A technique including: making at a communication device a provisional decision about one or more transmission parameters for a transmission from the communication device to an access network or another communication device via radio resources managed by an access network; communicating the provisional decision to the network or the another communication device; and receiving from the access network or the another communication device an indication of a final decision about the transmission parameters for the transmission from the communication device to the access network or another communication device.
US09999023B2	Coordination of capacity and coverage optimization of self-organizing networks In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a self-optimizing network (SON) coordination module that includes a conflict detection module configured to receive operational information from at least one capacity and coverage optimization (CCO) module and at least one of an energy savings management (ESM) and/or a cell outage compensation (COC) module, wherein the at least one CCO module and the at least one of the ESM module and/or the COC module are associated with at least one eNodeB (eNB) in communication with the conflict detection module. The conflict detection module is configured to determine a conflict between operational information of the CCO module and at least one of the ESM module and/or the COC module. The SON coordination module also includes a conflict resolution module configured to resolve a conflict between the operational information of the CCO module and at least one of the ESM module and/or the COC module based on, at least in part, one or more conflict resolution rules.
US09999017B2	Neighbor aware network cluster change for neighbor aware network data link Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for synchronizing clocks in a Neighbor Aware Network (NAN) Data Link (NDL) cluster. An exemplary apparatus includes a processing system configured to communicate with one or more members of a group, that includes the apparatus, according to a first data communication window (DCW) timeline having a first offset relative to a first clock associated with a first network cluster, to detect a beacon transmitted by a device of a second network cluster, wherein the beacon comprises timing information of a second clock associated with the second network cluster, to determine whether to initiate a move of the group to the second network cluster, to generate a frame to initiate the move of the group to the second network cluster, the frame comprising a first indication of the timing information of the second clock, and an interface configured to output the frame for transmission.
US09999007B2	Method, device and system for power for reporting headroom report in dual connectivity The disclosure discloses a reporting method, device and system for a Power Headroom Report (PHR) in dual connectivity. A first Evolved Node B (eNB) and a second eNB establish split Data Radio Bearers (DRBs) with a User Equipment (UE), and transmit an indication for indicating change in uplink transmission to the UE; the UE determines the change in the uplink transmission of the split DRBs, and triggers and reports the PHR to the first eNB and/or the second eNB according to the change in the uplink transmission respectively; and the first eNB and/or the second eNB receive/receives the PHR reported by the UE respectively. The disclosure also discloses the reporting device and system for the PHR in the dual connectivity.
US09999006B2	User apparatus, base station, uplink transmission power reporting method and parameter notification method A user apparatus in a mobile communication system includes a first and second base station that perform communication with the user apparatus by inter-base station carrier aggregation. The user apparatus receives, from the first base station, a first detection parameter on uplink transmission power reporting set for a first cell group that is a cell group of the first base station. The user apparatus also receives a second detection parameter on uplink transmission power reporting set for a second cell group that is a cell group of the second base station. The user apparatus reports uplink transmission power information to one of or both of the first and second base station when detecting a report trigger of the uplink transmission power information in a cell group of the first and second cell group by a detection parameter of the first and second detection parameter.
US09999005B2	Method and apparatus for enhanced secondary cell activation and deactivation A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to enhance network notification of secondary cell activation. In a first embodiment, the method includes receiving a secondary cell activation command, activating a secondary cell, and transmitting a PHR indicating activation of the secondary cell. In a second embodiment, the method includes receiving a secondary cell activation command, activating a secondary cell, and transmitting a signal indicating an expected time period until activation of the secondary cell. In a third embodiment, the method may optimize implicit SCell deactivation by receiving a secondary cell activation command, activating a secondary cell, receiving a PDCCH order for an uplink grant or a downlink assignment, and starting a secondary cell deactivation timer associated with the secondary cell in response to receiving the PDCCH order. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US09999001B2	Power control method and device A power control method and a device are provided. A network device generates, according to a coverage ratio of actual coverage performance between a second user direct connection communication device and a first user direct connection communication device to expected coverage performance of the first user direct connection communication device, a power adjustment indication message, and sends the power adjustment indication message to the first user direct connection communication device; and the first user direct connection communication device controls transmit power according to the power adjustment indication message.
US09998999B2	Techniques for coordinated uplink power control Examples are disclosed for determining, at a base station, a target received power parameter for a wireless device in communication with the base station. In some examples, the target received power parameter may be determined based on one or more uplink status signals received from the wireless device at the base station and/or one or more other base stations. For these examples, the wireless device may adjust one or more transmit power levels responsive to receiving the target received power parameter from the base station. Other examples are described and claimed.
US09998995B2	Adaptive power control of localized subnets for reducing self-interference in wireless networks A method for reducing self-interference in a wireless network, such as a Link 16 network, while maintaining simultaneous multiple access takes advantage of the physical proximity of nodes in a localized subnetwork, such as a fighter-to-fighter subnetwork in a flight wing, by actively reducing the transmit powers used for subnet messages between the nodes. Calibration messages such as Precise Participant Location and Identification (PPLI) messages are exchanged between all of the nodes of the localized subnetwork, from which each node determines the identities, transmit powers, noise levels, and SNRs of all of the other nodes. The node then determines a link margin for other nodes, and sets its transmit power to a “safe” level for the subnetwork according to the lowest link margin.
US09998991B2	Method and apparatuses for discontinuous reception cycle estimation by data packet monitoring A receiver electronic communication device and a sender electronic communication device are connected over a cellular network and the Internet. The receiver device uses discontinuous reception (DRX) to receiver data packets from the sender device. At least a starting time of an active period of a DRX cycle implemented at the receiver device is estimated responsive to monitoring the data packets transmitted from the sender device to the receiver device.
US09998990B2	Method, system and apparatus for providing coexistence between low power stations and non-low power stations Examples are disclosed for techniques for allowing a wireless device to wake up a low power device while remaining compatible with other devices and wireless protocols. A first station determines that a low power device needs to wake up all or a portion of its circuitry in order to send and/or receive data from the first station. The first station sends a legacy preamble according to a standard wireless communication method such as according to IEEE 802.11 or Bluetooth addressed to the low power device. Legacy stations will recognize that a device is accessing the medium and will abstain from transmitting data during the transaction(s) between the first station and the low power device. The first station then sends a wake up payload according to a low power wireless communication method such as ASK or FSK to the low power device. The low power device recognizes the wake up payload and wakes up its main radio such as an IEEE 802.11 or Bluetooth radio. The first station sends and/or receives data to/from the low power device according to the standard wireless communication method. If there is no more data to send or receive, low power device powers down at least its main radio.
US09998988B2	Power consumption management based on inactivity timer A user equipment (30) has an idle mode and a connected mode and is configured to perform discontinuous reception when in the connected mode. The user equipment (30) comprises a wireless interface (31) configured to receive a message from a mobile communication network (10, 14, 15) causing the user equipment (30) to make a transition from the connected mode to the idle mode after inactivity of the user equipment (30) for a time period defined by an inactivity timer value. A processing device (32) is configured to determine whether the inactivity timer value is to be adjusted in the mobile communication network (10, 14, 15), and to control the wireless interface (31) to transmit a signal to the mobile communication network (10, 14, 15) to request an adjustment of the inactivity timer value.
US09998986B2	Method for transmitting communication signals in a wireless communication system Embodiments relate to a method in a first network node for transmitting communication signals in a wireless communication system, the first network node being arranged to operate in an active mode in which the first network node has full transmission and/or reception capabilities or in an idle mode in which the first network node has limited transmission and/or reception capabilities in relation to the active mode; the method being characterized by the steps of: encoding an indication of time left in idle mode for the first network node into a communication signal; and transmitting said communication signal in the wireless communication system while operating in the idle mode. Furthermore, embodiments also relate to a corresponding method in a second network node, a first network node device, a second network node device, a computer program, and a computer program product thereof.
US09998984B2	Generic access network (GAN) controller selection in PLMN environment A method for network selection on a user equipment (UE) device and the UE device are shown. The user equipment device registers on a first network in a wide area cellular network (WACN) band and receives, from a wireless local area network (WLAN), a list of WACNs that support generic access network (GAN) capabilities. The user equipment device selects the WLAN if the first network is on the list.
US09998983B2	Network-assisted device-based intelligent radio access control Concepts and technologies are described herein for a network-assisted device-based radio access control. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a mobile device selects one or more radio access networks (“RANs”) to connect to, based upon network conditions, policies, user profiles, local device information, and/or other information. The mobile device can receive network load information from multiple RANs. The mobile device can also receive one or more policies from a radio access technology (“RAT”) selection system. The mobile device can also obtain local device information such as, but not limited to, mobility state information, performance measurement information, battery utilization information, channel quality information, applications, and/or a user override selection.
US09998981B2	Network access method and mobile communications terminal A network access method includes: determining with a mobile communications terminal if a network identity of a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN) exists in an equivalent public land mobile network (EPLMN) list, obtaining a shared network information stored in an operator's server and searching for the network identity of the VPLMN from the shared network information upon a condition that the network identity of the VPLMN does not exist in the EPLMN list, adding the network identity of the VPLMN to the EPLMN list, and accessing a network based on the EPLMN list.
US09998979B2	Utilizing explicit congestion notification for network selection Explicit congestion notification (ECN) bits that have traditionally been utilized in end to end congestion mitigation can be redefined to identify and compare congested and uncongested wireless accesses. Accordingly, mobile devices or other user equipment can leverage ECN data in order to make intelligent network selection, e.g., selecting a network with no congestion over one in a congested state. Accordingly, an application executing at the mobile device can send or receive data via the selected network that is selected based on ECN data.
US09998976B2	Method for operating a mobile device and apparatus for handing over a mobile device A method for operating a mobile device in a cabin of a vehicle as well as in an environment outside of the vehicle is provided. Additionally an apparatus for handing over a mobile device from one of a multiplicity of base stations of a mobile network to a communication system of a vehicle and for operating the mobile device in a cabin of the vehicle and for handing over the mobile device from the communication system of the vehicle to one of a multiplicity of base station of a mobile network is provided.
US09998972B2	Radio resource management method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving handover message in mobile communication system Provided are a radio resource management method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving handover messages in a mobile communication system. The radio resource management method for a source base station (source ENB) handling handover in a mobile communication system may include: determining resource information for silencing so that at least one ENB does not perform downlink or uplink transmission when a handover related message is sent or received for handover processing; determining to handover a user equipment (UE); and carrying out handover for the UE according to the determined resource information.
US09998971B2	Extended discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle length in wireless communication networks Embodiments of wireless communication devices and method for discontinuous reception (DRX) mode in wireless communication are generally described herein. Some of these embodiments describe a wireless communication device having a module to cause the wireless communication device to enter the DRX mode in an operational state of the wireless communication device. The DRX mode may include a DRX cycle having a DRX cycle length. The DRX cycle length may have a value greater than at least four values of DRX cycle lengths supported by an enhanced node-B.
US09998969B2	Portable platform for networked computing In one embodiment, a portable, networked, computing device comprises a processor, a plurality of radios, and a memory. The device may be operable to pair, by at least one of the radios, with a device associated with a user. The device may then monitor, by one of the radios, a signal for a connection established with a first network. When the device determines that the signal for the first network has dropped below a threshold level of quality, it may enable access point mode for at least one of the paired devices by turning on a radio to establish a connection with a second network and thereby providing connectivity to the second network for the at least one of the paired devices. If multiple networks are available, the device may select an optimal network based on an assessment of one or more factors.
US09998968B2	Communication system, communication control system, communication apparatus, communication method, and connection program A communication system allowing to speedily conduct a wireless connection between communication apparatuses, includes a display apparatus and an information terminal. The display apparatus includes: a unit producing an SSID including specific information specifying a setting table in which is stored setting information used in wireless communication between the display apparatus and the information terminal; a transmission unit that transmits one or more beacons including the produced SSID. The information terminal includes: a unit which identifies, of received beacons, a beacon which has the specific information included in an SSID and whose received strength meets a predetermined condition; and a unit which sets, in the information terminal, the setting information used in wireless communication between the display apparatus and the information terminal using a setting table specified by the specific information included in the SSID of the identified beacon.
US09998962B2	Method for processing radio access, forwarding device, and network controller Disclosed are a method for processing wireless access, a forwarding device and a network controller. The method includes: the forwarding device establishing a wireless access point table for local access; the forwarding device maintaining the wireless access point table for local access according to whether a wireless access point in the wireless access point table for local access exists and a state of the wireless access point in the wireless access point table for local access. The embodiments of the present document have achieved that the data of a corresponding relationship between APs and home forwarding devices are kept consistently under a pure WLAN network scenario or a multi-network integrated scenario in which the WLAN network accesses a mobile core network.
US09998959B2	Electronic device and method for providing call services for the same A method of providing call services for an electronic device is provided. The method may include receiving a call request from the user; determining whether the call request is a request for a call via an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia System (IMS) network; making, when it is determined that the call request is a request for a call via an IMS network, an attempt to set up the call via the IMS network; determining whether the attempt for the call setup via the IMS network is successful; and performing Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) when it is determined that the attempt for the call setup via the IMS network is unsuccessful.
US09998955B1	Multi-tier stateful network flow management architecture A packet transformation node of a multi-tier flow management system receives a packet of a particular network flow. The packet transformation node produces a modified version of the packet with changes to one or more header elements based on a rewrite entry generated at a rewriting decisions tier of the system, and transmits the modified version to a destination. A rewriting decisions node of the system generates rewrite entries corresponding to various packet processing requirements, based at least partly on state information regarding various flows for which rewriting entries have already been generated.
US09998953B2	Load management The disclosure is related to adaptive load management in a femtocell network. A load state of a femtocell base station may be determined as one of a low load state, a middle load state, and a high load state. According to the determined load state, a reserved service capacity and an available service capacity of the femtocell base station may be adaptive controlled. Furthermore, at least one handover trigger condition associated with the femtocell base station may be controlled according to the determined load state of the femtocell base station.
US09998949B2	Switched diversity in data link layers of directional networks The disclosed embodiments seek to improve communication rates and lessen transmission errors between nodes in a communication network. The disclosed embodiments seek to improve reception bandwidth using one or more of (1) a MAC wrapper configured to integrate incoming data across sector arrays for use by the existing chipsets, and/or (2) a new interface modification to the chip design facilitating integrated log likelihood ratio processing from across multiple sector arrays. Sector coverage may be deliberately overlapped using the dynamic diversity achieved by the embodiments to compensate for environmental factors.
US09998948B2	Method and arrangement in a wireless communication network Method and arrangement in a first node for requesting a status report from a second node. The first node and the second node are both comprised within a wireless communication network. The status report comprises positive and/or negative acknowledgement of data sent from the first node, to be received by the second node. The first node comprises a first counter configured to count the number of transmitted Protocol Data Units, PDUs, and a second counter configured to count the number of transmitted data bytes. The method and arrangements comprises initialising the first and the second counter to zero, transmitting data to be received by the second node, comparing the value of the first and the second counters with a first threshold limit value and a second threshold limit value and requesting a status report from the second node if any of the threshold limit values is reached or exceeded.
US09998947B2	Intelligent handling of voice calls from mobile voice client devices The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for intelligent handling of voice calls from mobile voice client devices. In some embodiments, the network device detects that a load, corresponding to a plurality of client devices associated with an access point, exceeds a particular threshold value. In some embodiments, the network device detects that a call quality for a current ongoing call, corresponding to a first client device associated with an access point, is below a first threshold value. In response, the network device selects a particular client device, of the plurality of client devices associated with the access point, for disassociation with the access point. The network device then causes the particular client device to disassociate with the access point.
US09998944B2	System and method of channel control in a wireless communication system An apparatus may include a receiver arranged to wirelessly receive a downlink message allocating a set of component carriers and non-backward-compatible component carriers. The apparatus may include a processor and a control channel assignment module that is operable on the processor to determine timing for an acknowledgment message for responding to data transmitted in an uplink communication, and to locate a control channel resource for an acknowledgment message to data transmitted via a non-backward-compatible component carrier, the acknowledgement message to be carried by a component carrier. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US09998942B2	Enhanced self-organizing network switching matrix Automated control of simulcast ratios based on network traffic data provides efficient network capacity management. In one aspect, a remote switching matrix can be utilized at a venue to couple remote transceiver units (RTUs) with different antenna ports, for example, of one or more multi-beam antennas deployed at the venue. A simulcast ratio that can be utilized to support traffic demand at the venue can be determined and implemented by creating dynamic connections between the RTUs and the antenna ports. In one aspect, the simulcast ratio can be modified based on changes in network traffic at the venue that are monitored via self-organizing network devices. In addition, one or more antenna beams of the multi-beam antennas are remotely steered or rotated based on a location of the traffic.
US09998935B2	System and method for sharing data based on a combined bandwidth consumption A system, method, and computer program product are provided for sharing data based on a combined bandwidth consumption. In use, a first sharing action is received. Next, a first bandwidth consumption is received. Further, a second bandwidth consumption is received. Additionally, it is determined whether a combination of the first bandwidth consumption and the second bandwidth consumption surpasses a predefined threshold. Lastly, the first sharing action is conditionally allowed based on the determination. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also presented.
US09998932B2	Method and apparatus that provides fault tolerance in a communication network A system for detecting a fault in a first wire of a power grid that affects a transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves that transport data and that propagate along a surface of the first wire, selecting a backup communication medium from one or more backup communication mediums according to one or more selection criteria, and redirecting the data to the backup communication medium to circumvent the fault. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09998931B2	Cooperative manufacturing using mobile machines An embodiment of a computer program product for manufacturing an object includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes receiving instructions to manufacture an object by a three-dimensional (3D) printing operation; determining a manufacturing plan for performing the 3D printing operation, the manufacturing plan prescribing a plurality of operational stages to be performed cooperatively by a plurality of independently operable mobile machines, providing instructions to the plurality of mobile machines, each of the plurality of mobile machines configured to perform at least one of the plurality of operational stages, and manufacturing the object by the plurality of mobile machines according to the manufacturing plan.
US09998929B2	Apparatus and method for beamforming gain difference compensation according to change of transmitting and receiving beam pattern in beamforming based wireless communication system A method of operating a Mobile Station (MS) in a wireless communication system using beamforming includes receiving a reference signal over a plurality of downlink transmit (Tx) beams, measuring channel quality information of the received reference signal, and generating effective channel quality information by compensating for beamforming gain compensation information according to the channel quality information.
US09998927B2	Mobile communication apparatus, map generating apparatus, resource management apparatus and wireless station management apparatus, for use in wireless access system In a wireless communication system, a mobile communication apparatus judges the reception quality available at its current position for direct reception of information transmitted from a fixed wireless station, with the judgement based upon the current position and upon a reception quality map expressing a relationship between reception positions and corresponding reception quality values. If the reception quality at the current position is judged to be sufficient, direct reception is executed, while otherwise, a limitation is placed upon such direct reception, for example by postponing the direct reception until reaching a position at which the reception quality will be sufficient.
US09998925B2	Electronic subscriber identity module provisioning A method for preparing an eSIM for provisioning is provided. The method can include a provisioning server encrypting the eSIM with a symmetric key. The method can further include the provisioning server, after determining a target eUICC to which the eSIM is to be provisioned, encrypting the symmetric key with a key encryption key derived based at least in part on a private key associated with the provisioning server and a public key associated with the target eUICC. The method can additionally include the provisioning server formatting an eSIM package including the encrypted eSIM, the encrypted symmetric key, and a public key corresponding to the private key associated with the provisioning server. The method can also include the provisioning server sending the eSIM package to the target eUICC.
US09998924B2	Electronic device and method for acquiring biometric information thereof A method and an apparatus for acquiring and using biometric information of a user in an electronic device are provided. According to an example embodiment of the present disclosure, the method may include executing a call function using a communication module included in the electronic device, outputting a voice signal depending on the execution of the call function through a sound output device included in the electronic device, and acquiring, by a sensor included in the electronic device, biometric information of the user of the electronic device while the call function is executed.
US09998921B2	Self-organizing network (SON) with fast initial link setup (FILS) Ameliorating initial link setup in manage networks, self-organizing networks (SONs), systems, etc. of the type having capabilities sufficient to facilitate operations according to a common methodology is contemplated. The contemplated processes and systems may include ameliorating initial link setup when operating pursuant to the Fast Initial Link Setup (FILS) protocol defined in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) specification 802.11ai with use of a self-organizing network (SON) server to facilitate access point selection.
US09998915B2	Wireless communication device A method includes displaying, at a display device of a wireless communication device, an option to store a copy of first subscriber identity module (SIM) card information in response to detection of a SIM card in a SIM card slot of the wireless communication device. The method includes, in response to a selection of the first option, storing the copy of the first SIM card information to a storage device of the wireless communication device. The method includes, after storage of the copy, sending a notification to the display device, the notification indicating that the SIM card can be removed from the SIM card slot. The method also includes sending a second option to the display device, the second option associated with setting a parameter value. The parameter value corresponds to a type of service associated with data delivery using the first SIM card information.
US09998913B2	Management method and management server for using SIM cards In a management method and a management server for using a plurality of SIM cards, a large number of users can start use easily. First, an MVNO 230A that has obtained one or more SIM cards logs in to a management screen provided by an MVNE 210 in association with a user ID of the MVNO 230A. From the standpoint of the MVNE 210, it is determined whether a user ID of a user who has accessed a management screen of a management server of the MVNE 210 is under MVNO contract (S301). When the user ID is under MVNO contract, an identification number given to each SIM card and a passcode for authentication given as needed are received as registration information (S302). If the management server of the MVNE 210 can receive necessary registration information, each SIM card of which an identification number is specified by the registration information is associated with the user ID as an SIM card used by the MVNO 230A and the association is registered in the management server of the MVNE 210 or a database 211 accessible therefrom (S303).
US09998912B2	Policy-driven aggregated network data use in mobile devices Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a first packet for transport via a mobile device, identifying a first policy, of a plurality of policies, specifying a plurality of rules for transmitting data packets via a plurality of network interfaces of the mobile device, applying the rules of the first policy to a plurality of attributes of each network interface to select at least a first one of the plurality of interfaces of the mobile device, and transporting the first packet via the at least the first one of the plurality of interfaces of the mobile device.
US09998909B2	3rd generation direct tunnel (3GDT) optimization Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a system, and corresponding method, for determining 3rd Generation Direct Tunnel (3GDT) usage based on the payload usage of a user.
US09998906B2	Close proximity notification system According to an aspect, a signal is received from a geographic location that is positioned within a space defined by an effective reception range of a short-range wireless communication transceiver. The signal is received from the short-range wireless communication transceiver and the signal includes an identification code. The receiving is by a wireless communication device located within the space. The signal is processed on the wireless communication device. The process includes identifying, based at least in part on the identification code, a retrieval location of information associated with the signal. The processing of the signal is performed exclusively by the wireless communication device and independently of any networks. The information is retrieved from the retrieval location using the wireless communication device.
US09998904B2	Smart searching of wireless devices using device location information Particular embodiments described herein provide for an apparatus, such as a wireless electronic device, that includes a memory element configured to store electronic code, a processor operable to execute instructions associated with the electronic code, and at least one module. The at least one module is configured to receive first location information identifying a first location associated with an electronic device. The at least one module is further configured to receive first connection location information indicative of a second location of the electronic device at a time of connection with a first wireless device. The at least one module is further configured to evaluate for a presence of the first wireless device when the first location is within a predetermined distance of the second location.
US09998903B2	Detecting bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons using WiFi Communication information is received from a Wireless Fidelity (“WiFi”) interface. The WiFi interface may receive WiFi information from a WiFi endpoint and/or BLE beacons from a Bluetooth device. The reason a WiFi device can receive BLE beacons is because WiFi channels and BLE beacon frequencies overlap. The BLE beacon may come from a various types of Bluetooth devices, such as a sensor, a mobile device, a communication device, and/or the like. The communication information is filtered based on one or more defined BLE beacon channels. If there are one or more BLE beacons detected in the one or more defined BLE beacon channels, BLE information is generated. The BLE information is then sent to a communication device that tracks the BLE information. For example a network monitoring station can track the BLE information.
US09998896B1	Dedicated APN access using default network access key for profile download A method including determining whether a subscriber identification profile (SIDP) is stored within a UE; sending an initial attach request along with a default network access key to a MME, upon determining that the SIDP is not stored; receiving a first authorization to attach to the network in response to the initial attach request, the first authorization restricts connectivity of the UE to an M2M activation system accessed by a dedicated APN associated with the default network access key; receiving, from a subscription management system, a SIDP generated by the M2M activation system; detaching from the M2M activation system and the network; sending a second attach request to the network based on the received SIDP; and receiving a second authorization to the network in response to the second attach request; the second authorization provides unrestricted APN connectivity and access to services associated with the subscriber identification profile.
US09998894B2	Auto-generate emergency voice call based on sensor response and pre-entered data An emergency call system which generates audio for the emergency call which is played to an emergency responder, is disclosed. The audio is generated based on a combination of data entered into a system prior to the emergency, and data entered into the system during the emergency. Such data is entered by way of sensors or user input and the data which is used during the emergency call depends on the type of call. Devices which can gather the data include bidirectional battery powered transceivers and base stations which have phone network connectivity.
US09998892B2	Determining vehicle user location following a collision event A system for identifying a location of a vehicle user following a collision event and a method of using the system that includes the steps of: receiving an indication of the vehicle collision event at a backend system, wherein the indication is displayed as a graphical user interface; receiving a command at the backend system using the graphical user interface, wherein the command is associated with identifying the location of the vehicle user at a vehicle; and transmitting the command to the vehicle for the vehicle to carry out the command.
US09998890B2	Method and apparatus for content navigation in digital broadcast radio A low cost DAB multichannel receiver comprising a simplified buffering method for buffering content segments from multiple streams contained within the DAB channel, where the receiver enables the listener to navigate buffered content segments from multiple streams within the DAB channel while enabling the broadcaster to control the timeshift of commercial content to the receiver output stream. The receiver's buffered content grows over time and is cleared when tuning away from the channel, thus encouraging listeners desiring to tune in to new content to instead navigate to new buffered segments. Broadcaster control of the listener experience may be enabled by setting content control fields which are observed in the broadcast by the multichannel receivers. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09998889B2	Apparatus and method of tracking call paths A data processing apparatus is provided. Call path storage circuitry stores an identifier of a call path and processing circuitry executes a current group of instructions from a plurality of groups of instructions. The processing circuitry is responsive to a calling instruction to firstly cause the processing circuitry to start executing, in dependence on the calling instruction, a next group of instructions from the plurality of groups of instructions such that the current group of instructions is added to the call path, and to secondly cause the call path storage circuitry to update the identifier of the call path, on the basis of the call path, using a compression algorithm.
US09998881B2	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.
US09998877B2	Pathway matching Methods, program products, and systems for estimating a location of a mobile device in a venue are provided. The venue can have pathways represented by a path network that includes segments connected by junctions. Estimating the location can include determining a first set of candidate locations for the mobile device, and mapping some of the candidate locations to updated candidate locations that are on or closer to one or more segments of the path network based on distances between the candidate locations and respective segments, resulting in a second set of candidate locations for the mobile device. The location of the mobile device can be derived from the second set of candidate locations.
US09998876B2	Inferring user equipment location data based on sector transition Determining a location of a user equipment (UE) based on historical location data and historical sector transition data is disclosed. A correlation between historic location information and a historic sector transition can be determined. The correlation can be stored in a searchable data set. A location of a current UE can be inferred based on a sector transition of the current UE. The sector transition of the current UE can be searched against eh data set to indicate a likely location of the current UE based on historical information. The searchable data set can be based on sparse location data enabling location determinations for a current UE that can otherwise lack location services. Moreover, an order of a sector transition can imbue a directionality to stored location information such that a likely location in a sector can be correlated to a transition from a prior sector of a network session of the UE.
US09998875B2	Method for managing beacon, terminal device, server and storage medium A beacon managing method is provided. The method includes receiving a first beacon signal from a first beacon at a first time; receiving a second beacon signal from a second beacon at a second time; and identifying a location error of at least one of the first beacon and the second beacon, based on first movement information of a terminal between the first time and the second time.
US09998874B2	Altitude-based indoor or outdoor detection Using estimates of a receiver's altitude to determine where a receiver is located and to refine a positioning system's estimate of a receiver's position. Systems and methods determine whether a receiver is inside or outside a building, and may use the determination to confirm or adjust an initial estimate of the receiver's position. Various approaches for making the determination and for assessing the initial estimate of the receiver's position are described.
US09998871B1	System and method for transmitting or delaying the delivery of an electronic message based on location In described embodiments, a method of managing mobile device data based on location is provided. The method includes defining a geofence within which a mobile device can receive electronic data and outside of which the mobile device cannot receive the electronic data.
US09998869B2	Determining vehicle location via signal strength and signal drop event A method for determining vehicle location via a mobile computing device includes: determining, by an application of the mobile computing device, a first signal strength corresponding to a communications component of a vehicle and a first mobile device location corresponding to the first signal strength; detecting, by the application, a signal drop event corresponding to a loss of the signal corresponding to the communications component of the vehicle; determining, by the application, in response to detecting the signal drop event, the first mobile device location corresponding to the first signal strength as the vehicle location based on the first mobile device location being the most recent location at which a recorded signal strength was at a highest level; and providing, by the application, a notification indicating the vehicle location to a user of the mobile device.
US09998868B2	Mobile device proximity notification Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for mobile computing device proximity notification. The method includes one or more processors acquiring location information for a plurality of mobile computing devices. The method further includes one or more processors creating a first group of mobile computing devices based on location proximity in the acquired location information of the plurality of mobile computing devices, wherein the created first group includes a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device. The method further includes one or more processors determining whether the first mobile computing device is within a predetermined distance to the second mobile computing device, and the first mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device are outside of an area associated with the first group.
US09998865B2	Method for performing distributed geographic event processing and geographic event processing system A method for performing distributed geographic event processing includes defining a geographical state system including: a universe of locations, a family of initial states which assigns an initial state to each location in the universe of locations, a set of geographic input events, each geographic input event including one or more state transition functions that map, for one or more locations in a support of the respective geographic input event, a current state to a pair of a next state and an output event, and a global aggregation function for aggregating sets of output events. The method further includes geographically dividing the universe of locations into a plurality of subsets; and instructing each of a plurality of computational nodes to instantiate a local state system corresponding to a respective one of the subsets.
US09998858B2	Techniques for adjacent channel interference mitigation Techniques for adjacent channel interference mitigation are described. In one embodiment, for example, a user equipment (UE) may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to associate the UE with a pico evolved node B (eNB) in a time-division duplex (TDD) picocell, identify an incongruent uplink (UL) sub-frame for the picocell, and select an enhanced UL transmit power for the incongruent UL sub-frame. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09998857B2	Electronic location identification and tracking system with beacon clustering A system and method for determining the presence of an individual at a particular spot within a location preferably based on the strength of signals received from beacons assigned to the particular spot by a software application (“App”) running on an electronic device of the individual. In one embodiment, certain presence calculations are performed by the App. In another embodiment, the App forwards information regarding the received beacon signals to an electronic identification and location tracking system and the presence calculations are performed by the system.
US09998854B2	Access point mobility indication Methods for mobility indication of wireless Access Points (APs) are disclosed. An AP may determine mobility indication information, based, in part, on at least one of: configuration information on the AP pertaining to mobility; and/or wireless signal measurements associated with the AP, and/or captured images associated with the AP, and/or sensor measurements associated with the AP. The AP may transmit the mobility indication information for the AP. The mobility indication information may indicate that the AP is mobile and/or characterize the mobility. The mobility indication information may further include a request to remove information associated with the AP from location determination databases, location assistance databases, and/or base station almanacs. Disclosed methods also pertain to a User Equipments (UE), which may receive wireless signals with mobility indication information associated with an AP; and determine a suitability of the AP for determining the UEs location based on the received mobility indication information.
US09998851B2	Information processing system and communication method An information processing system includes a mobile terminal including an electric wave receiving unit configured to receive an electric wave that includes belonging information of an electronic apparatus sent by a short range wireless communication, and an electronic apparatus display unit configured to receive a selection of the belonging information from a user, and request the information processing apparatus to perform a use start of the at least one electronic apparatus, the information processing apparatus including an information administration unit configured to read the information from a memory unit, which stores the belonging information and the at least one electronic apparatus, in response to the request from the mobile terminal to send the information, and return the read information to the mobile terminal, and an apparatus connection administration unit configured to request the at least one electronic apparatus to start a preparation of the use start.
US09998848B2	System and method for making a quick connection between a smart mobile device and external audio speakers and video monitors using a connector pad A method and system for easy and quick wireless connection of mobile devices to audio speakers and video systems, like television, using any of NFC, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth technology. An NFC case offers an easy way to connect a legacy mobile device to a Connector Pad, where NFC is not built-into a device. The Connector Pad is small device and fits perfectly in the palm of the hand. The Connector Pad enables a quick connectivity to audio speakers and television, and it manages the performance and makes sure rules set for privacy and re-connection for uninterrupted listening and playing are made effective. An available App on Android or iOS devices offers added features to remotely control sound quality, toggle between phone calls and music, manage playlists, etc. The phone may stream music or video from a cellular network or from its own storage.
US09998844B2	Signal processing device and signal processing method A signal processing device includes: a calculating unit performing calculation using signal levels of first and second acoustic signals; a determining unit, based on a result of a comparison between: the signal level of at least one of the first and second acoustic signals before the calculation; and a result of the calculation, determining whether a component of a third acoustic signal to be output from a position between a position from which the first acoustic signal is output and a position from which the second acoustic signal is output is included in the first and second acoustic signals; and a signal generating unit generating the third acoustic signal from the first and second acoustic signals when the determining unit determines that the component of the third acoustic signal is included in the first and second acoustic signals.
US09998837B2	Percutaneous vibration conductor A device, comprising a prosthesis including an external component configured to output a signal in response to an external stimulus and a skin penetrating component configured to communicatively transfer the signal at least partially beneath skin of the recipient, wherein the skin penetrating component is configured to extend into skin of the recipient and substantially lay above a surface of bone of a recipient in abutting contact thereto.
US09998834B2	Transducer diaphragm A diaphragm for a loudspeaker may include a continuous primary diaphragm having an upper surface and a lower surface, where the primary diaphragm comprises a ring-shaped, flat region having an inner diameter and an outer diameter. The diaphragm may also include a reinforcing ring attached to the upper surface of the primary diaphragm, where the reinforcing ring has an inside diameter and an outside diameter, and where the reinforcing ring is attached to the upper surface of the primary diaphragm such that the inside diameter of the reinforcing ring coincides with the inner diameter of the flat region.
US09998832B2	Surface acoustic transducer The present invention provides for a surface acoustic transducer optimally structured to produce sound within an aircraft cabin by vibrating the interior cabin walls. Specifically, the surface acoustic transducer comprises a primary assembly comprising a voice coil assembly having a voice coil former and wire, and a transducer housing for retaining said primary assembly and a magnet therein such in movable relations. The present surface acoustic transducer may further include a spider structured to provide an improved excursion. An external housing may additionally be provided comprising a rigid retaining wall for protecting the surface acoustic transducer from potential externally applied forces and a malleable excursion cover allowing for an excursion of the primary assembly thereof.
US09998828B2	MEMS microphone element A concept is provided which permits the implementation of MEMS microphone elements having a very good SNR, high microphone sensitivity and a large frequency bandwidth. The microphone structure of the MEMS element is implemented in a layer structure and includes at least one sound pressure-sensitive diaphragm (210), an acoustically permeable counter element (220) and a capacitor system for detecting the diaphragm deflections, the diaphragm (210) and the counter element (220) being situated on top of each other and a distance apart from one another in the layer structure and each bring equipped with at least one electrode of the capacitor system. According to the invention, the layer structure of the diaphragm (210) includes at least one thin closed layer (1) and at least one thick structured layer (2), a grid structure (100) covering the entire diaphragm area being provided in the thick layer (2), which determines the stiffness of the diaphragm (210).
US09998827B2	Ring network of bluetooth speakers A method for forming a complete ring network of a plurality of Bluetooth® speakers, the method including populating a configurable speaker register of each of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers with an address of an upstream Bluetooth® speaker that is in the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers, populating the configurable speaker register of each of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers with an address of a downstream Bluetooth® speaker that is in the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers, and coupling an audio source to one Bluetooth® speaker of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers.
US09998826B2	Optimization of performance and power in audio system In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for operating a playback path comprising a first dynamic range enhancement subsystem and a second dynamic range enhancement subsystem, wherein an audio signal generated by the first dynamic range enhancement subsystem is communicated to the second dynamic range enhancement subsystem, is provided. The method may include determining a first operating parameter of one of the first dynamic range enhancement subsystem and the second dynamic range enhancement subsystem that affects behavior of the other of the first dynamic range enhancement subsystem and the second dynamic range enhancement subsystem, communicating a control signal between the first dynamic range enhancement subsystem and the second dynamic range enhancement subsystem indicative of the first operating parameter, and setting a second operating parameter of the other of the first dynamic range enhancement subsystem and the second dynamic range enhancement subsystem in response to receipt of the control signal.
US09998821B2	Speaker box The present disclosure provides a speaker box, including an upper cover plate and a lower cover plate which cooperate with each other to form accommodating space and a speaker accommodated in the accommodating space, the speaker includes a diaphragm for vibrating and sounding, the diaphragm and the upper cover plate form a front cavity, the speaker box further includes a sounding channel formed by surrounding of the upper cover plate and the lower cover plate, configured to communicate the front cavity with external environment, and a sounding hole communicated with the sounding channel, the speaker is fixed on the upper cover plate, the sounding hole is provided on the lower cover plate, an extending direction of the sounding channel is perpendicular to a vibration direction of the diaphragm. By adopting the speaker of the present disclosure, the assembling yield is high and the sounding effect is good.
US09998818B1	Vehicle entertainment system A vehicle entertainment system includes a headphones device and a vehicle headrest. The headphones device includes a first speaker disposed in a first speaker housing, a second speaker disposed in a second speaker housing, and a headband connecting the first speaker housing to the second speaker housing. The vehicle headrest includes a recessed channel shaped and dimensioned to receive the headband, the first speaker housing, and the second speaker housing.
US09998817B1	On head detection by capacitive sensing BCT The present application describes on-head detection by a capacitive sensing bone conduction transducer (BCT) system and applications thereof. An example apparatus includes a wearable computing device comprising: (1) the BCT comprising a transducer coupled to a BCT frame, wherein (a) the BCT frame couples the BCT to a component of the wearable computing device, (b) at least a portion of the BCT frame is conductive, wherein the conductive portion of the BCT frame is arranged to capacitively couple the BCT to a wearer when the wearable computing device is worn, and (c) the BCT is configured to receive and be driven by an audio signal; (2) a capacitive sensor controller; and (3) at least one connective component that further couples the conductive portion of the BCT frame to the capacitive sensor controller.
US09998816B2	System and method for restraining ear-fitting headphones An ear-fitting headphone restraint system includes an attachment assembly configured to be coupled to a portion of a stem of an ear-fitting headphone. The ear-fitting headphone is configured to be positioned against an ear canal of an ear. The system also includes a brace assembly coupled to the attachment assembly and configured to restrain the ear-fitting headphone against the ear canal by creating compression forces. The compression forces include a first compression force between the ear-fitting headphone and the ear canal. The compression forces further include a second compression force between a concha of the ear and the brace assembly. A first side of the brace assembly is configured to be positioned on a portion of the concha, and the attachment assembly is operable to transmit the first compression force and the second compression force between the brace assembly and the ear-fitting headphone.
US09998815B2	Portable device and method for entering power-saving mode A portable device and a method for entering a power-saving mode are provided. An audio signal is transmitted to an earphone via a cable. At least one electrical characteristic on the cable is sensed to generate at least one sensing signal. The at least one sensing signal is sampled to generate at least one data signal. Whether the earphone is in listening position is determined according to the at least one data signal. When it is determined that the earphone is not in listening position, the portable device enters a power-saving mode.
US09998809B2	Loudspeaker module A loudspeaker module comprises an outer casing in which a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system are received. The magnetic circuit system comprises a basin-like stand fixed on the outer casing. The outer casing comprises a second casing provided with a rear sound exit hole that transversely runs through the inner side surface and the outer side surface of the second casing at the position corresponding to the outer side surface of the sidewall of the basin-like stand. The rear sound exit hole is communicated with an inner cavity of the module and an inner cavity of the electronic terminal. A chamfered plane is disposed at an upper end of the sidewall of the basin-like stand, and on a side of the sidewall of the basin-like stand. A sound emitting channel is formed between the chamfered plane and the inner side surface of the second casing.
US09998808B2	Passive optical network (PON) supporting fragmentation function of media access control (MAC) frame An optical line terminal (OLT) and an optical network unit (ONU) configured to generate a plurality of fragments by fragmenting a media access control (MAC) frame and to transmit the plurality of generated fragments, when a length of the MAC frame is greater than or equal to a maximum transmission unit (MTU).
US09998806B2	Overlapping spectrum amplification A method for overlapping spectrum amplification includes receiving an optical signal and splitting the optical signal into a first split signal having a first wavelength band and a second split signal having a second wavelength band. The splitting results in a band gap between the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band. The method further includes delaying the first split signal by a threshold period of time relative to the second split signal and combining the first split signal and the second split signal, resulting in a combined signal having the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band without the band gap therebetween. The path difference between the first split signal along the first signal path and the second split signal along the second signal path is within a threshold multipath interference compensation range.
US09998804B2	Personal protective equipment (PPE) with analytical stream processing for safety event detection In some examples, a system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) having at least one sensor configured to generate a stream of usage data; and an analytical stream processing component comprising: a communication component that receives the stream of usage data; a memory configured to store at least a portion of the stream of usage data and at least one model for detecting a safety event signature, wherein the at least one model is trained based as least in part on a set of usage data generated by one or more other articles of PPE of a same type as the article of PPE; and one or more computer processors configured to: detect the safety event signature in the stream of usage data based on processing the stream of usage data with the model, and generate an output in response to detecting the safety event signature.
US09998800B2	3D broadcast service providing method and apparatus, and 3D broadcast service reproduction method and apparatus for using image of asymmetric aspect ratio Disclosed are a method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional (3D) broadcast service using images with asymmetric aspect ratios and a method and apparatus for reproducing a 3D broadcast service. The method of providing the 3D broadcast service includes adjusting a second viewpoint image to be composed with a first viewpoint image into a 3D form with respect to the first viewpoint image and the second viewpoint image for 3D broadcasting, encoding the first viewpoint image and the adjusted second viewpoint image, and generating a broadcast stream of the first viewpoint image and a broadcast stream of the second viewpoint image by multiplexing the first viewpoint image and the second viewpoint image.
US09998799B2	Scene-by-scene plot context for cognitively impaired To improve cognitive comprehension of plots in videos and thus assist not only people with cognitive issues but also inattentive people that have trouble following along with the plot, information is sent about each scene in a video. By selecting “info” in a predetermined way, screen text is presented not about the entire show about rather about the current scene, such as a brief synopsis of what characters in the scene have done up to that point in the video.
US09998798B2	Reception device, reception method, transmission device, and transmission method The present technique relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method, capable of flexibly supporting various operation modes. A service package unit processes, on a per-service basis, using an IP address included in each of packets, a particular service and a shared service related to the particular service, among a plurality of services transmitted via a broadcast wave of digital broadcasting using an IP transmission scheme. Accordingly, it is possible to flexibly support various operation modes in the digital broadcasting using the IP transmission scheme. It would be possible, for example, to apply the present technique to a television receiver.
US09998797B2	Comment-provided video generating apparatus and comment-provided video generating method A comment-provided video generating apparatus includes: a display priority calculating unit which calculates a display priority for each of the comments and subject regions to which the comments are provided, based on comment information indicating comments to be superimposed and displayed on a video and display positions of the comments, and user information, by calculating a higher display priority for one of the comments and the subject regions specified by user information; a comment superimposing method determining unit which determines, as a method for superimposing the comments onto a video, an order of displaying the comments and the subject regions such that a comment or a subject region having a higher display priority is displayed at a position frontward than the others, according to the display priority; and an image composing unit which superimposes the comments on the video, according to the comment superimposing method.
US09998795B2	Methods, systems, and media for presenting supplemental information corresponding to on-demand media content Methods, systems, and media for presenting supplemental information corresponding to on-demand media content are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: receiving an indication from a web browser extension executing within a web browsing application that a media content item is being presented on a content provider website; identifying the media content item being presented on the content provider website; determining whether supplemental content associated with the broadcasted media content item is available; in response to determining that the supplemental content is available, causing the web browser extension to present an indicator that the supplemental content is available; obtaining the supplemental content corresponding to the broadcasted media content item, wherein each piece of the supplemental content is associated with timing information of the broadcasted media content item; and causing a portion of the obtained supplemental content to be presented concurrently with the media content item in response to detecting that the indicator has been selected.
US09998793B2	Methods and systems for determining at a present time a date at a future time at which a media asset will become available from the content provider Methods and systems are described for a media guidance application that manages user access to content provided by a plurality of content providers. In particular, the media guidance application may automatically manage and recommend content providers which a user should request access to.
US09998792B2	Electronic program guide for indicating availability of past programs A system and method for providing an electronic program guide for television or radio programs includes presenting listings of present or future programs on-screen, presenting listings of past programs on-screen and indicating whether the past program is available again at a future time. Also, a system and method for handling information controllable from an electronic program guide for television or radio programs comprises receiving information in a user's system, storing the received information in the user's system, displaying access to the stored information by means of a user interface and enabling the user to select one of a plurality of management options for controlling the operation of the stored information through the user interface.
US09998784B2	Digital device and data processing method in digital device for controlling content within a multi-view screen A disclosure is disclosed a multimedia device and a method thereof. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a display, an interface capable of receiving a first signal through a third signal, and a controller capable of controlling to: display a first application being executed on a display screen of the digital television, display a menu, overlaid on the displayed first application, including a plurality of menu items in response to the first signal requesting the menu, display a menu icon for a multi-view screen after receiving the second signal selecting a menu item among the plurality of menu items from the displayed menu, and display a second application corresponding to the selected menu item with the first application in response to the third signal, overlaid on the display screen after receiving a third signal selecting the displayed menu icon, wherein the multi-view screen is capable of displaying a plurality of applications together on the display screen.
US09998783B2	Network recorder buffer A network digital video recording (nDVR) system may take into account the capabilities of a requesting user's local DVR when managing network recordings. The user's local DVR may include a temporary buffer that is normally used to record what the DVR is tuned to, and may be used for local trickplay functionality such as pausing live television. The nDVR features described herein may track the usage of the user's temporary DVR buffer, and use that in determining what to stream in response to a user's playback request. The nDVR system can also determine if the user's local DVR has an unused tuner at a time of a program recording, and can instruct the user's local DVR to also tune to the program.
US09998782B2	DVR service including a synchronization service A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium provides to store first recording information that indicates programs that are recorded and stored at user devices, and programs to be recorded and stored at the user devices, receive, from a user device, a message that includes second recording information, wherein the second recording information includes second data instances; compare a portion of the first recording information with the second recording information; determine whether there is a difference between each first data instance relative to each corresponding second data instance; determine a master source for each first data instance that differs from each corresponding second data instance; update each first data instance that differs, one of the network device or the user device based on the master source, and provide the DVR service based on an updated portion of the first recording information, an updated second recording information, or both.
US09998773B2	Transmission device, transmission method of transmission stream, and processing device A response time until initial presentation decreases in such cases as reception of a service and reproduction of reception data after accumulation of the reception data.Identification information based on which a packet handled with priority is identifiable is inserted into each of transmission packets at the time of transmission of a transmission stream containing the transmission packets disposed successively in the transmission stream. For example, each of the transmission packets is a multilayered packet containing a multiplexed transport packet in the uppermost layer. For example, the identification information is inserted into packets in a part or all of layers of each of the multilayered packets.
US09998766B2	Image processing device and image processing method An image processing device including a decoding section configured to decode an image from an encoded stream, a horizontal filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a vertical block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, a vertical filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a horizontal block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, and a control section configured to cause the horizontal filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of vertical block boundaries included in a processing unit containing a plurality of coding units and cause the vertical filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of horizontal block boundaries included in the processing unit.
US09998761B2	Apparatus for coding a bit stream representing a three-dimensional video The disclosure relates to an apparatus for coding a bit stream representing a three-dimensional video comprising a sequence of views, wherein a depth map is associated to each view, the depth map comprising depth information of the view with respect to a position to the camera capturing the view, the apparatus comprising: a partitioner for partitioning the depth map into coding units; a determiner for determining a type of model function for each coding unit based on the depth information of the coding unit; a reducer for reducing the coding unit to a single residual value for each segment generated by model function; and a signaler for signaling the model function used and the residual value into the bitstream.
US09998760B2	Method and apparatus of constrained disparity vector derivation in 3D video coding A method and apparatus for three-dimensional video encoding or decoding with conditionally constrained disparity vector are disclosed. In one embodiment, a derived DV (disparity vector) for the current texture block is determined and DV constraint is applied or is not applied to the derived DV to obtain a final derived DV. Inter-view predictive encoding or decoding is then applied to the input data utilizing at least one of selected coding tools, wherein a same final derived DV is used by all selected coding tools, and the selected coding tools comprise inter-view residual prediction, view synthesis prediction and inter-view motion parameter prediction.
US09998754B2	Method of calculating discontinuity of motion vector and fallback performing method using the same A method of calculating discontinuity of a motion vector includes obtaining at least any one of a k-th projected forward motion vector by a forward motion vector of a block and a k-th projected backward motion vector by the forward motion vector and at least any one of a k-th projected forward motion vector by a backward motion vector and a k-th projected backward motion vector by the backward motion vector; obtaining inconsistency of forward motion vector to k-th frame projection and inconsistency of backward motion vector to k-th frame projection by calculating a first difference function using the obtained vectors, and calculating discontinuity using the inconsistency of forward motion vector to k-th frame projection and the inconsistency of backward motion vector to k-th frame projection.
US09998749B2	Composite video streaming using stateless compression A video rendering and streaming methodology that utilizes stateless video compression and video image segmentation to achieve enhanced video compression. In some implementations, the video compression and streaming techniques described herein can be deployed to allow for delivery of high-definition video games to client devices that host a standard browser.
US09998748B2	Methods and systems of archiving media files Methods and systems of archiving media files are provided. Media files may be archived such that only the difference between a media file and a base media file is stored. The base media file is archived. The media file to be archived and the base media file may have common attributes such as video codec, resolution, frame rate, and/or color space. A media file to be archived may be compared to the base media file to determine any difference. Bit-to-bit analysis or frame-to-frame analysis may be performed to identify the differences between a media file to be archived and a base media file. The differences may be extracted from the media file to be archived. A difference media file may be created to store the difference of a media file with respect to the base media file. A record may be created to store the actual location where the difference is extracted from a media file to be archived.
US09998746B2	Video decoder memory optimization Techniques are described for optimizing memory used by a video decoder. A residual coefficient matrix including non-zero value residual coefficients of a larger parent matrix with both non-zero and zero value residual coefficients can be provided to the decoder. Residual coefficient matrix metadata can also be provided so that a modified and reduced inverse transform matrix can be selected and applied to the residual coefficient matrix.
US09998744B2	Re-sampling with phase offset adjustment for luma and chroma to select filters in scalable video coding A sampling filter process is provided for scalable video coding. The process provides for re-sampling using video data obtained from an encoder or decoder process of a base layer (BL) in a multi-layer system using adaptive phase shifting to improve quality in Scalable High efficiency Video Coding (SHVC). In order to compensate for phase offsets introduced by downsampling an appropriate phase offset adjustment is made for upsampling in SHVC with an appropriate offset included for proper luma/chroma color space positions. In one approach the luma/chroma phase offset is specified and a filter is selected to apply the appropriate phase change.
US09998741B2	Coding of significance maps and transform coefficient blocks A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements.
US09998736B2	Image decoding apparatus for decoding a current picture with prediction using one or both of a first reference picture list and a second reference picture list An image coding method includes: adding, to a candidate list, a first adjacent motion vector as a candidate for a predicted motion vector to be used for coding the current motion vector; selecting the predicted motion vector from the candidate list; and coding the current motion vector, wherein in the adding, the first adjacent motion vector indicating a position in a first reference picture included in a first reference picture list is added to the candidate list for the current motion vector indicating a position in a second reference picture included in a second reference picture list.
US09998735B2	Inter-layer reference picture restriction for high level syntax-only scalable video coding In one implementation, an apparatus is provided for encoding or decoding video information. The apparatus comprises a memory unit configured to store reference layer pictures associated with a reference layer, an enhancement layer, or both. The apparatus further comprises a processor operationally coupled to the memory unit. In one embodiment, the processor is configured to restrict usage of at most one reference layer pictures that has a different spatial resolution than a current picture as an inter-layer reference picture, and predict the current picture using inter-layer prediction and the inter-layer reference picture.
US09998734B2	Decoding device and decoding method, and encoding device and encoding method The present technique relates to a decoding device and a decoding method, and an encoding device and an encoding method, capable of performing encoding and decoding independently in the time direction for each tile. A decoding unit generates a prediction image by performing, for each of tiles, motion compensation of a reference image within a co-located tile based on tile splittable information indicating that decoding is allowed for each of the tiles and motion vector information representing a motion vector used for generating encoded data of a decoding target current image when a picture of the current image is split into the tiles and decoded. The decoding unit decodes the encoded data using the prediction image. The present technique is applicable to a decoding device, for example.
US09998731B2	3-dimensional displaying apparatus and method for driving 3-dimensional displaying apparatus A 3-dimensional displaying apparatus includes an image displaying panel having a plurality of pixels and a backlight panel spaced apart from one surface of the image displaying panel. The backlight panel includes a first line source set having a plurality of line sources arranged at regular intervals and a second line source set having line sources arranged spaced apart from the respective line sources of the first line source set by a predetermined interval. The first line source set and the second line source set are driven alternately. Thus, in a case where a horizontal location of an observer varies, the change of brightness of image information and the crosstalk between adjacent visual fields are minimized, and pseudo-stereoscopic vision is prevented. Also, the irregularity of brightness distribution in a visual field may be solved.
US09998730B2	Imaging optical system and 3D image acquisition apparatus including the imaging optical system An imaging optical system includes an objective lens configured to focus light having a first wavelength band and light having a second wavelength band, an optical shutter module configured to reflect the light having the first wavelength band, which is focused by the objective lens, without modulating the light having the first wavelength band and to modulate the light having the second wavelength band, which is focused by the objective lens, and reflect the modulated light having the second wavelength band, and an image sensor configured to respectively sense the light having the first wavelength band and the modulated light having the second wavelength band, which are reflected by the optical shutter module, and to output a first image signal with respect to the light having the first wavelength band and a second image signal with respect to the modulated light having the second wavelength band.
US09998726B2	Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program product in which a view synthesis prediction utilizes a depth map, disparity information or other ranging information of a co-located reference frame in another view. A first uncompressed texture block of a first texture picture representing a first view and ranging information associated with the first uncompressed texture block are obtained. Disparity information with reference to a second view is derived on the basis of the ranging information. Reference samples of the second view are obtained on the basis of the disparity information. A view synthesis prediction is performed by using the reference samples to obtain a reference block for encoding the first uncompressed texture block.
US09998724B2	Image processing apparatus and method for processing three-dimensional data that describes a space that includes physical objects An image processing apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain three-dimensional data that describes a space that includes a physical object; a converting unit configured to convert, for data of positions in a predetermined direction of the three-dimensional data, each position in accordance with a position at which a physical object is present; and an output unit configured to output three-dimensional data for which the positions in the predetermined direction have been converted.
US09998708B1	Network architecture for immersive audio-visual communications by temporary communication structures This invention is directed to improving communication among people at remote locations, accomplished at low cost, by communication schemes involving “portal” structures, “channels” and “phonos.” The portal structures are mobile and easily deployed to the remote locations, for quick assembly and use, creating an audio-visual immersive communication experience for its users. A portal network architecture includes a plurality of portals located in different remote locations, configured to provide identical spaces that facilitate audio-video, immersive conferencing among users at the various portal sites. The portal interiors include favorable lighting and camera configurations to facilitate display of life-size, realistic, and planar images of the users while maintaining eye contact between them. The “channels” facilitate viewing of landscape or persons from a distance and “phonos” implementations provide an unmediated aural link between different locations, enabling both real-time conversation and transmission of ambient sounds.
US09998705B2	Hybrid visual communication Exemplary embodiments for visual communication between a first device and a second device, comprising: creating a 3D mesh model of a first device user; receiving sensor data from a sensor array during the visual communication session between the first device and the second device, wherein the image data includes motion of the first device user; determining 3D mesh model updates using the image data; transmitting the 3D mesh model updates to the second device for the second device to update display of the 3D mesh model of the first device user, wherein the update is represented as one or more of a blend shape and a relative vertex position change of the 3D mesh model.
US09998702B2	Image processing device, development apparatus, image processing method, development method, image processing program, development program and raw moving image format An image processing device includes: a parameter generating unit configured to receive supply of raw moving image data which is moving image data in an undeveloped state, and generate a development parameter as to a target frame of the raw moving image data; and a recording control unit configured to perform control so as to record the supplied raw moving image data, and the development parameter generated by the parameter generating unit in a predetermined recording medium in a correlated manner with each other. Thus, raw moving image data which is moving image data before development processing can be suitably employed.
US09998701B2	Imaging device in which the electric power and image signal transmission can be performed in a non-contact basis An imaging device in the present invention includes an imaging unit that images an image and an installation unit on which the imaging unit is removably installed. The installation unit houses a first contactless transmitter that transmits and receives at least one of a power and a signal in a non-contact basis. The imaging unit houses an axis portion, a second contactless transmitter, and transmits and receives at least one of the electric power and the signal in a non-contact basis, and an imaging mechanism portion that is fixed to the other end portion of the axis portion in the side opposite to the installation unit side, and is connected to the second contactless transmitter via a transmission wire inserted through the axis portion. In this way, a watertproofness and a dustproofness can be improved, and thus, it is possible to improve a long-term reliability.
US09998693B2	Image sensor adapted to blinking sources An image sensor including: a plurality of pixels each including a photodiode coupled to first and second capacitive elements by first and second transistors; a control circuit provided to acquire, for each pixel, a first and second value V_S and V_M representative of illumination levels of the photodiode during the first second periods, the first period being divided into a plurality of first sub-periods and the second period being divided into a plurality of second sub-periods, the first and second sub-periods sub-periods being interlaced; and a sum circuit capable of calculating, for each pixel, a value V_MS=C_SV_S+C_MV_M, C_S et C_M being first and second coefficients such that values C_SV_S and C_MV_M are substantially equal when the illumination of the photodiode is continuous.
US09998688B2	Thermal imaging device and a method for using same A method and apparatus are provided for generating a thermal image of a target. The method comprises: at one or more electro-magnetic transducers, receiving long wave infra-red (LWIR) radiation emitted from the target; illuminating the electro-magnetic transducers with radiation being transmitted wavelengths that belong to Near Infra-Red (NIR) band and/or that belong to the visible (VIS) band; converting at least part of the radiation received as LWIR radiation to energy at the NIR band and/or at the VIS band; and generating a thermal image based on the energy retrieved after converting at least part of the LWIR radiation received, to energy at the NIR band and/or at the VIS band, and wherein receiving the LWIR radiation and illuminating the electro-magnetic transducers, are carried out simultaneously.
US09998686B2	Transcribing video communication sessions A method to transcribe a video communication session may include obtaining, at a communication system, a request from a first communication device for a video communication session and determining a currently available second communication device from among multiple second communication devices registered with the communication system. The method may also include establishing the video communication session between the first communication device and the currently available second communication device. After establishing the video communication session, the method may include receiving media data from the currently available second communication devices, the media data including audio data and video data and capturing, at the communication system, the audio data for generation of a transcription of the audio data. The method may also include routing the media data to the first communication device, generating the transcription of the audio data, and routing the transcription to the first communication device for presentation.
US09998685B2	Spatial and temporal alignment of video sequences Some embodiments allow a video editor to spatially and temporally align two or more video sequences into a single video sequence. As used in this application, a video sequence is a set of images (e.g., a set of video frames or fields). A video sequence can be from any media, such as broadcast media or recording media (e.g., camera, film, DVD, etc.). Some embodiments are implemented in a video editing application that has a user selectable alignment operation, which when selected aligns two or more video sequences. In some embodiments, the alignment operation identifies a set of pixels in one image (i.e., a “first” image) of a first video sequence and another image (i.e., a “second” image) of a second video sequence. The alignment operation defines a motion function that describes the motion of the set of pixels between the first and second images. The operation then defines an objective function based on the motion function. The operation finds an optimal solution for the objective function. Based on the objective function, the operation identifies a transform, which it then applies to the first image in order to align the first image with the second image.
US09998684B2	Method and apparatus for virtual 3D model generation and navigation using opportunistically captured images A method and device for opportunistically collecting images of a location via a mobile device, the device including algorithms that allow the selective winnowing of collected images to facilitate the creation of a 3D model from the images while minimizing the storage needed to hold the pictures.
US09998683B2	Image processing device and image processing program An image processing device is connected to an imaging unit. The imaging unit has an overlapping region in an imaging range before and after continuous imaging. The image processing device includes: an interface that receives a plurality of captured images obtained by the imaging unit; a measurement unit configured to acquire a measurement result of a subject in the captured image by performing measurement processing to the captured image; a synthesis unit configured to generate a synthesized image by synthesizing the plurality of captured images such that the captured images overlap with one another within an overlapping range corresponding to the overlapping region in imaging order; and an output unit configured to output the synthesized image, information indicating the overlapping range correlated with the synthesized image, and information indicating the measurement result.
US09998679B2	Control device, control method, and electronic device to control an exposure amount of a pixel group The present disclosure relates to a control device, a control method, and an electronic device that enable an adequate exposure amount to be set at high speed. A control unit controls an exposure amount of a pixel group that is a two-dimensional arrangement of a plurality of pixels. Specifically, in a first mode before recording of a photographed image is started, the control unit sets a plurality of types of exposure amounts to the pixel group, and in a second mode in which the photographed image is recorded, the control unit sets fewer types of exposure amounts than in the first mode to the pixel group. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a control device that controls a solid state imaging element.
US09998674B2	Imaging apparatus capable of detecting and displaying information with respect to an incline thereof An imaging apparatus including an incline detection device configured to detect an incline of the imaging apparatus, an image display device configured to display an image based on the image information, an incline computation device configured to compute an incline information that corresponds to a magnitude of the incline, an information storage device configured to store the incline information that is computed by the incline computation device, and a display processing device configured to display the image and an incline guide display corresponding to the incline information upon a screen of the image display device. The display processing device is configured to change a display format of the incline guide display in accordance with the magnitude of the incline.
US09998669B2	Camera gimbal A camera gimbal is provided. The camera gimbal includes a gimbal barrel; a lens barrel configured to support a camera module thereon, and assembled to the gimbal barrel; and a connection unit configured to interconnect the gimbal barrel and the lens barrel, wherein the lens barrel is connected to be freely rotatable, wherein the connection unit provides a rolling axis, a yawing axis, and a pitching axis of the lens barrel, and wherein the lens barrel assembled to the connection unit is configured to maintain a horizontal posture by gravity.
US09998665B2	Camera mode selection based on context An aspect provides a method, including: obtaining, using one or more sensors of a device, contextual data relating to a picture taking context; assigning, using a processor, the contextual data to a predetermined picture taking context; and selecting a camera from two or more cameras of the device based on the predetermined picture taking context. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09998663B1	Surround image capture and processing Systems and methods are provided to perform surround image capture and processing. A camera device may use physical position and orientation sensors to determine the camera device's position along a circular path. The camera device may capture images from positions along the circular path and combine the images into a surround image animation of a central point within the circular path. The camera device may determine feature points within the image frames, and determine a smooth path or track for corresponding feature points to follow from one image to the next. The images can be combined into a smoothly animated 360-degree surround animation, which may be continually rotated without a set beginning or ending point to the animation.
US09998656B2	Monitoring system comprising a reflecting device and correspondence module and method for setting up the monitoring system A monitoring system for a monitoring area. The monitoring system includes a monitoring camera, a reflecting device, and a evaluator. The monitoring camera has a field of view 4 for capturing a first partial section of the monitoring area. The reflecting device is positioned in the field of view of the monitoring camera such that the monitoring camera captures a second partial section of the monitoring area, wherein the first and the second partial sections are positioned to overlap in a common partial section of the monitoring area, wherein a first image area a depicts the first partial section I and a second image area depicts the second partial section in the monitoring image. The evaluator is configured to identify at least one correspondence object in the first as and the second partial section.
US09998654B2	Information processing device and method for controlling information processing device A control method for controlling an information processing device 101 including a camera 10 for receiving an image and a display 14 having a display surface on the same side as an image-receiving side of the camera 10 according to an embodiment causes a computer 18A of the information processing device 101 for receiving an image of a face 21 of a subject from the camera 10, horizontally inverting the received image, and displaying the horizontally-inverted image on the display 14, to execute: detecting a distance between the information processing device 101 and a reference portion included in the face 21 of the subject; determining a scaling factor based on a ratio between a reference distance used for evaluating the image of the face 21 of the subject and the detected distance; and displaying, on the display 14, as a guide image 35 for guiding the subject in such a direction as to change a distance between the information processing device and the subject, an image corresponding to at least one part included in an image obtained by enlarging or shrinking the horizontally-inverted image of the face based on the determined scaling factor.
US09998652B2	Focusing adjustment apparatus and focusing adjustment method A focusing adjustment apparatus includes a focusing unit, a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, and a control unit. The focusing unit outputs a first signal for a focusing operation. The first acquisition unit acquires first information, which is related to characteristics of a signal used for outputting the first signal, and second information, which is related to characteristics of a captured image and is predetermined. The second acquisition unit acquires third information on aberrations of an imaging optical system. The control unit calculates a correction value based on the first information, the second information, and the third information. By using the correction value, the control unit changes the first signal, output from the focusing unit, to a second signal used in the focusing operation.
US09998650B2	Image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus for adding blur in an image according to depth map An image processing apparatus has: a depth map acquiring unit configured to acquire a depth map that records information indicating a depth distance corresponding to each point on a photographed image; an in-focus position acquiring unit configured to acquire an in-focus position on the photographed image; a reference distance determining unit configured to acquire a depth distance corresponding to the in-focus position from the depth map and sets the acquired depth distance as a reference distance; and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing on the photographed image by using the depth map and the reference distance.
US09998646B2	Camera device and terminal having same A camera device is proposed. The camera device includes a housing, a mounting barrel for mounting a camera lens, a supporting member, elastic members, a rotating ring, and a driving motor. The housing has a protrusive limiter disposed thereon. The mounting barrel has a ring-shaped flange disposed on an exterior peripheral face thereof. The central axes of the mounting barrel and the rotating ring forms an angle such that the mounting barrel is inclined with respect to the rotating ring. The plural elastic members being arranged around the ring-shaped flange. The driving motor is connected to the rotating ring in a transmission way for driving rotation of the rotating ring. The rotating ring has a protruding member disposed thereon and the protruding member is rotated along with the rotating ring. The protruding member is abutted on the ring-shaped flange.
US09998641B2	Image pickup unit provided in endoscope An optical unit includes: a lens holding frame configured to hold an objective optical system; an image pickup device holding frame configured to hold an image pickup device including a light receiving section that detects an object image formed by the objective optical system, to which a first holding frame is interpolated and fitted; a welding section provided on a fitting section of the lens holding frame and the image pickup device holding frame, configured to fix the lens holding frame and the image pickup device holding frame at a fitting position at which an image forming surface of the object image by the objective optical system and the light receiving section are made to coincide; and a bonding material configured to fill a gap formed between the lens holding frame and the image pickup device holding frame.
US09998640B2	Camera module including ventilation groove and recess portion Provided is a camera module capable of securing air permeability in an imaging portion of the camera module and reducing failure (speck failure) of an image sensor, which is caused by adhesion of a foreign matter. In a camera module in which an internal space is formed by a wiring substrate, a cover body (36), and a transparent plate (38), a ventilation groove (45) which extends from the internal space to an outside of the internal space and a recess part (46) which is formed so as to branch off from the ventilation groove (45) are formed on a surface of the cover body (36), which adheres to the transparent plate (38).
US09998639B1	Conducting autonomous experiments in space A device for conducting scientific experiments in space has a housing having dimensions of about 100×100×150 mm or smaller. Within the housing is an electronic processor, a camera, and a chamber for containing living or non-living test subjects. A mirror is positioned next to the chamber so that the camera lens can view both a face of the chamber, and the mirror, which reflects a side of the chamber. The chamber can additionally include sensors and a fan controlled by the processor to change conditions within the housing based upon sensor data.
US09998636B2	Method to remove the spectral components of illumination and background from multi-spectral and hyper-spectral images The present invention is a method of removing the illumination and background spectral components thus isolating spectra from multi-spectral and hyper-spectral data cubes. The invention accomplishes this by first balancing a reference and sample data cubes for each spectra associated with each location, or pixel/voxel, in the spatial image. The set of residual spectra produced in the balancing step is used to obtain and correct a new set of reference spectra that is used to remove the illumination and background components in a sample data cube.
US09998635B2	Endoscope system An endoscope system includes: an endoscope including an image pickup device; an EEPROM provided in the endoscope, and configured to hold data according to a kind of the image pickup device; a video processor to which the endoscope is attachably and detachably connected; a control portion provided in the video processor, and configured to acquire the data from the EEPROM when the endoscope is connected to the video processor and set processing content of noise reduction processing, based on the acquired data; and an NR processing circuit provided in the video processor, and configured to execute the noise reduction processing on a video signal outputted from the image pickup device, based on setting of the control portion. The control portion sets execution/non-execution of the noise reduction processing to the NR processing circuit, based on the acquired data.
US09998634B2	Video frame playback scheduling Systems and techniques are provided for video frame playback scheduling. A presentation time for a frame of a video may be received. An offset for the frame of video may be determined based on succeeding frames of the video and Vsync pulse times. The presentation time for the frame of the video may be adjusted based on the offset to generate an adjusted presentation time that is closer to a halfway point between a first Vsync pulse and a second Vsync pulse than the presentation time. A cumulative time correction may be tracked based on adjustments made to the presentation times for frames of the video. A magnitude of the cumulative time correction may be determined to exceed the magnitude of a positive or negative threshold. The cumulative time correction may be added to or subtracted from based on the determination that the magnitude exceeds the positive or negative threshold.
US09998633B2	Color irregularity detecting device, image forming apparatus, and color irregularity detecting method A color irregularity detecting device includes a spectrometer which includes a dispersing element which disperses light from a measurement target and a light receiving element which receives light from the dispersing element, and a color irregularity detecting section which detects color irregularity, in which the color irregularity detecting device detects color irregularity by comparing measured values (reflectance) which are results of using the spectrometer to measure three measurement wavelengths of light among light from a measurement target region in which a predetermined color is printed on a medium to reference values corresponding to the predetermined color.
US09998632B2	Color correction system and method A system and method for color correction is disclosed to reduce noise amplification during color correction. The method can comprise color correcting a noise evaluation image using a plurality of color correction parameters, determining a noise amplification metric by comparing the corrected noise evaluation image with the pre-correction noise evaluation image, and adjusting the plurality of color correction parameters based on the noise amplification metric.
US09998631B2	Information processing apparatus, method for processing information, and computer program An information processing method includes calculating at least one difference value between a pixel value of a target pixel in an input image obtained by capturing a document image and a pixel value of a corresponding pixel in a shade component image at coordinates identical to those of the target pixel. The shade component image represents shade components of the input image. The shade components depend on an image capture environment. The method further includes correcting the pixel value of the target pixel in the input image based on a correction rate to correct a shade component in the target pixel. The correction rate depends on at least one difference value associated with the target pixel in the input image.
US09998625B2	Printing apparatus configured to store in and print image transmitted from external device A printing apparatus is configured to communicate with a terminal device via a local area network and an external device via the internet. The printing apparatus includes an input interface, a print device, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: receiving specific image data representing the specific image from the terminal device; determining whether the input of the print instruction is required for printing the specific image; when it is determined that the input of the print instruction is required, transmitting the specific image data to the external device, receiving the print instruction via the input interface, acquiring the specific image data from the external device in response to the receipt of the print instruction, and printing the specific image with the print device.
US09998616B2	Image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable recording medium, and information processing system An image forming apparatus includes: a pull-print data obtaining circuit that obtains rasterized data depending on a resolution of the image forming apparatus from a server device, the server device storing intermediate data and one or more pieces of rasterized data, the intermediate data being generated based on printable data and independent of a resolution, the one or more pieces of rasterized data being generated based on the intermediate data and depending on one or more resolutions, respectively; and an image forming circuit that forms an image based on the obtained rasterized data.
US09998615B2	Wearable helmet with integrated peripherals A wearable helmet system with integrated peripherals may be provided. In some embodiments, the integrated peripherals may be provided without a helmet, but configured to be adapted into a helmet to form a helmet system consistent with embodiments of the present disclosure. The helmet system may comprise a helmet adapted for sports play. The helmet may be integrated with a plurality of peripheral devices such as, for example, but not limited to, at least one camera configured to capture video data, at least one microphone configured to capture audio data, a communications module, a power module, and a processing module. The processing module is configured to control an operation of the integrated peripheral devices based on, for example, but not limited to, instructions received via the communications module and a location of the helmet.
US09998614B1	System and method for remotely printing digital images for pickup at a retail store The method and system allow a user to launch a client application on an web-enabled device and subsequently to navigate to an image source screen within the client application. After receiving an image source selection from the user, the client application retrieves images from the selected image source. The client application displays the retrieved images available for printing to a user, and in response to receiving a selection of an image, the client application transmits the image to a proprietary server. Moreover, upon receiving print order information, the client application additionally executes a location awareness application that determines a current location of the web-enabled device and subsequently, determines a proximal retail store to the current location of the web-enabled device. Thereafter, the remote printing system creates and transmits a print order that includes the selected image to the retail store for pickup.
US09998608B2	Method, user equipment and charging system for charging proximity based services The method includes obtaining charging related information of a proximity based service used by user equipment; generating a charging request for the proximity based service used by the user equipment based on the charging related information; and transmitting the charging request to a charging system of the wireless communication network.
US09998607B2	Unified services platform using a telephone number as a common subscriber identifier A method of provisioning a plurality of applications from different application developer systems to a network provider system comprises establishing a plurality of service accounts for a corresponding plurality of application service provider systems, receiving a plurality of API interfaces from the plurality of application service provider systems, integrating, by the processor system, each of the plurality of API interfaces with a unified services platform API interface, receiving a provider API interfaces for a network provider system, and integrating the provider API interface with the unified services platform API interface. The plurality of application service provider systems provide services for use in association with a telephone number of a subscriber of telecommunication services. At least two of the API interfaces are different, and at least one of the plurality of API interfaces from the plurality of application service provider systems is not compatible with the provider API interface.
US09998606B2	Methods and apparatus to assist listeners in distinguishing between electronically generated binaural sound and physical environment sound Methods and apparatus assist listeners in distinguishing between electronically generated binaural sound and physical environment sound while the listener wears a wearable electronic device that provides the binaural sound to the listener. The wearable electronic device generates a visual alert or audio alert when the electronically generated binaural sound occurs.
US09998605B2	Audio stream arrangement Conference systems are often installed in plenary halls and comprise a plurality of microphones for participants of a discussion, whereby the speech signals of the participants are received by the microphones, amplified by the conference system and distributed to the other participants of the discussion. An audio stream arrangement (1) is proposed comprising: a plurality of audio devices (2), whereby each audio device (2) is adapted to provide an audio stream and whereby each audio device (2) comprises an audio device network interface (8) for transmitting its audio stream over a network (5), a control device (4), whereby the control device (4) is adapted to send a command over the network (5) to any of the audio devices (2) to set the audio device (2) in an active state, whereby the audio device (2) in the active state transmits its audio stream over the network (5), a processing device (3) for processing the audio streams from the active audio devices (2), whereby the processing device (3) comprises a processing device network interface (9) for receiving the audio streams from the network (5) and a mixing unit (11) with a plurality of input channels (12) and an output channel (13), whereby each input channel (12) can be assigned to a audio stream from one active audio device (2) and whereby the mixing unit (11) is operable to mix the audio streams from the plurality of input channels (12) into a common audio stream and to output the common audio stream to the output channel (13), whereby the audio streams from the active audio devices (2) to the processing device are transmitted by a multicast transmission.
US09998604B2	Apparatus, system and method of call notifications to active communication devices An apparatus, system and method for call notifications to active communication devices are provided. At an apparatus comprising a processor and a communication interface, a call for a first device is received via the communication interface. When is determined that a second device is active, a notification of the call is transmitted to the second device.
US09998602B2	Voice communications with real-time status notifications A system, apparatus, graphical user interface and methods are provided for conducting electronic voice communications with status notifications. A user of a first portable device executing a communication application selects a multi-function control that automatically initiates an audio recording, which is automatically sent toward another participant of an active communication session when the control is released. The same multi-function control may be used to transmit a textual message. A representation of the recording is displayed on the user's device, with an indicator that changes appearance when the other participant plays the recording. In addition, when one user initiates an audio recording that will be automatically sent to another user, the other user's device is advised of the initiation of recording and displays that status for the other user.
US09998601B2	Dynamically configuring interactive voice response call trees A device may receive, from an interactive voice response (IVR) device, a first request for a code. The first request may be based on the IVR device having received a call from a user device. The device may determine user device information, associated with the user device, based on the first request. The device may determine the code based on at least one of the first request or the user device information. The device may send, to the IVR device, the code to enable the IVR device to configure a call tree based on the code. The device may receive, from the IVR device, a second request for an experience. The experience may be based on the code. The device may send, to the user device, a message to cause the user device to provide the experience.
US09998598B1	Methods and systems for automatically recognizing actions in a call center environment using screen capture technology A system for recognizing processes performed by a call center agent during a session may collect input data by initiating a screen capture logging thread to capture screen shots of a desktop of the electronic device during a session. The system analyzes the input data to generate one or more events, generates a mid-level event log comprising one or more of the events, and performs action recognition on the mid-level event log to ascertain one or more actions that were performed within the one or more graphical user interfaces by the call center agent during the session.
US09998595B1	Managing contact attempts to an account in a contact center A party associated with multiple contact addresses, such as a home, cell, and/or work telephone numbers, is contacted by a dialer using a contact attempt sequence that defines how the various contact addresses are used. A graphical user interface allows a user to create a visual representation of the contact attempt sequence flow for contacting the party, e.g., a template, where logic is defined indicating how and when the various contact addresses are to be used. Thus, in one instance, the dialer may use the template to make multiple attempts to reach the party using first their home number and then their cell phone number, and if such attempts are unsuccessful, then make a further attempt to the reach the party using their work number, wherein attempts to reach the party using the home, cell, and/or work phone numbers may be limited over one or more defined time periods.
US09998589B2	Mobile phone for unlocking a lock screen by a physical key press This feature phone type mobile phone includes a physical key and a display that displays a lock screen. While displaying a notification on the lock screen, the mobile phone transitions to a screen corresponding to the notification in response to a short press operation on the physical key, and while displaying a notification on the lock screen, the mobile phone transitions to a home screen in response to a long press operation on the physical key.
US09998587B2	Rearranging display of mobile applications based on geolocation Rearranging a set of generated application display panels is provided. A set of application display icons corresponding to a set of mobile applications installed on a mobile data processing system having matching keyword tags with a geolocation keyword tag corresponding to a defined geographic area is inserted into a set of generated application display panels. The set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags is rearranged based on the geolocation keyword tag corresponding to the defined geographic area. The rearranged set of generated application display panels with the inserted set of application display icons corresponding to the set of mobile applications having the matching keyword tags is displayed.
US09998585B2	Content selection and delivery of complementary information A telephone call may be established with a mobile communications device in response to a user dialing an abbreviated dialing code. Content provided external to the mobile communications device associated with the abbreviated dialing code may be identified. Thereafter, a message may be sent to the mobile communications device including a pointer to information complementary to the identified content, wherein the pointer when activated at the mobile communications device, determines one more operational parameters associated with the mobile communications device and causes data associated with the identified content to be transmitted to the mobile communications device in a format compatible with the determined one or more operational parameters. Related methods, apparatuses, computer-program products, and systems are also described.
US09998584B2	Display device and method of controlling the same A display device and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. The display device includes a sensor unit configured to detect a first gesture input for a control interface, a communication unit configured to transmit a signal for generating a first image to a mobile device based on the detected first gesture input and to receive a signal for generating a second image from the mobile device, a display unit configured to display the control interface and the second image, and a processor configured to control the sensor unit, the communication unit and the display unit and execute according to a received control signal. The mobile device generates the signal for generating the first image, displays the first image, detects second gesture input for the first image, and transmits the signal for generating the second image to the display device based on the detected second gesture input.
US09998578B2	Mobile telephone integration device The invention relates to a mobile telephone integration device for integrating a mobile telephone into a vehicle, the mobile telephone integration device including an adapter with a depositing plane on which the mobile telephone is deposited, at least two mobile radio coupling antennas and at least one charging antenna for wirelessly charging an energy store of the mobile telephone that is arranged below the depositing plane, where the at least one charging antenna is arranged between the at least two mobile radio coupling antennas.
US09998576B2	Electronic device including antenna Disclosed is an electronic device including a housing having a first surface, a second surface and a side surface, a touch screen display including a conductive plane substantially parallel with the first surface, a printed circuit board positioned between the touch screen display and the second surface substantially parallel with the conductive plane; a wireless communication circuit, and a side member forming at least a portion of the side surface, which includes a first elongated part surrounding at least a portion of the conductive plane and formed of a non-conductive material, and a second elongated part surrounding at least a portion of the printed circuit board, but no portion of the conductive plane, and extending in parallel with the first elongated part. The second elongated part is formed of a conductive material, and is electrically coupled to the wireless communication circuit.
US09998574B2	Packet processing match and action unit with configurable bit allocation A packet processing block. The block has an input for receiving data in a packet header vector, the vector comprising data representing information for a packet and a match unit for performing match operations between packet header vector data and at least one match table. Various embodiments provide advantages in connection with storing certain action or next table bits outside of the match table, or constants in the table, or by forming the match table from multiple unit match table memories.
US09998563B2	Vertex-centric service function chaining in multi-domain networks Systems and methods for performing vertex-centric service function chaining in multi-domain networks are disclosed. A resource orchestration framework of a multi-domain network may include vertices representing physical nodes and edges representing physical links in the network. A sole resource orchestrator (in a centralized system) or multiple resource orchestrators (each associated with a respective domain in a distributed system) may coordinate execution of a common compute function on multiple vertices to identify candidate service function chain solutions to a service function chain request. The request may specify a fixed-ordered chain or a flexible-ordered chain. The compute function may, during each of multiple supersteps, determine whether a partially mapped chain can be extended on a given vertex, send a controller message to a neighbor vertex with which it has a qualified link, or return a completed chain, which may be selected for execution, dependent on applicable policies.
US09998562B1	Service-oriented system optimization using partial service relocation Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing service-oriented system optimization using partial service relocation are disclosed. An optimized configuration is determined for the service-oriented system based on performance data. The optimized configuration improves a performance metric in the service-oriented system. A partial service is automatically generated based on an original service in a service-oriented system. The partial service includes a first set of program code from the original service and excludes a second set of program code from the original service. The first set of program code is included in the partial service based on its frequency of use. One or more instances of the partial service are deployed to the service-oriented system based on the optimized configuration.
US09998561B2	Enabling access to user-chosen and/or preferred content via remote trusted third-party systems Systems and articles of manufacture for enabling access to user-specified and/or user-chosen content via remote third-party systems include communicating with a content provider via use of one or more user credentials, wherein the content provider maintains a list of user content choices and one or more preferences for content, wherein the content is generated by the user and/or by the content provider and/or by one or more other users, automatically downloading an amount of user-specified and/or user-chosen content from the list of user content choices and one or more preferences to a primary enterprise system and/or a secondary enterprise system in conjunction with an interaction between the user and the primary enterprise system, and providing access to the downloaded user-specified and/or user-chosen content to the user in conjunction with an interaction between the user and the secondary enterprise system, the content provider and/or the primary enterprise system.
US09998560B2	Communication handling An apparatus, method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for abstracting a public facing identity associated with one or more devices, such as user devices. In some embodiments, a unique identity may be associated with a device. A mapping may be used to establish a relationship between the public facing identity and the unique identity. In some embodiments, configuration data may indicate how a communication (e.g., an incoming or outgoing communication) is to be handled or routed. For example, the configuration data may indicate preferences as to which device(s) amongst a plurality of devices is to receive an incoming communication and/or which public facing identity/identities amongst a plurality of public facing identities is to be used in transmitting an outgoing communication.
US09998559B2	Preemptive caching of data A first computing device receives a first request from a client computing device, wherein the first request includes a markup language request. The first computing device transmits the first request to a second computing device, wherein the second computing device services the first request. The first computing device receives the serviced first request, wherein the serviced first request includes a manifest tag. The first computing device caches the serviced first request. The first computing device transmits the serviced first request to the client computing device.
US09998556B2	Unified end user notification platform A unified end-user notification platform delivers event alerts to different types of clients including mobile devices and HTTP clients. Users can subscribe to a plurality of notification channels and select from the associated various delivery options via a single user interface. The events are received by the unified notification platform which matches the received events with the user subscription data to identify subscribers and their respective delivery options. Corresponding event alerts are generated and delivered based on the user or subscriber specified options. Multiple event alerts corresponding to public and private data notification channels are provided to a user device via a single connection.
US09998554B2	Customized graphic identifiers Disclosed are various embodiments for tracking, in at least one computing device, a presentation of a plurality of items for a user, each item being associated with at least one respective category of a plurality of categories, and determining a user histogram that is customized for a user. A visual symbol may be generated based at least upon the user histogram for each category, each visual symbol comprising a visual characteristic for associating the visual symbol to the category and a graphical dimension of the visual symbol, wherein the graphical dimension correlates with the respective degree of interest associated with the category. Each visual symbol may be appended to one another to form a graphic identifier and a user interface encoded for rendering, where the user interface comprises the graphic identifier.
US09998551B1	Automatic discovery and registration of service application for files introduced to a user interface A catalog system automatically detects changes to configuration file at a service application. Based on the changes to the configuration file(s), the catalog system stores mapping data that identifies a resource item type that can be processed by the service application and one or more user actions that are available for processing resource items of the resource item type. The techniques thus provide for dynamic interaction with service applications.
US09998550B2	Network based service composition with variable conditions Network based service composition with variable distance conditions may be provided. A workflow definition may be received and a network topology may be built based on the workflow definition. Relational data may be received and a network instance may be built based on the network topology and the distance measurement. A plurality of network instances may be built, for example, for different distance conditions. One or more paths may be determined for a pair of services based on one or more of the network instances.
US09998549B2	Resource management for stream reservations Embodiments are disclosed for networked computing devices and methods of managing talker and listener attributes in a network. In some embodiments, a computing device comprises a networking device that receives and propagates data streams and information relating to the data streams to other devices in a network and a processor. The computing device also comprises a storage device that stores the information related to the data streams and instructions executable by the processor to receive a first talker attribute, selectively discard a second talker attribute, the second talker attribute being stored on the storage device prior to receiving the first talker attribute, and store the first talker attribute.
US09998547B2	Vehicle computing systems and methods for delivery of a mobile device lockout icon A vehicle computing system includes at least one processor configured to provide a lockout icon to a mobile device using a uniform resource identifier. The at least one processor is further configured to, in response to established communication with the mobile device having a user-interface display, retrieve the uniform resource identifier based on an application being executed at the mobile device. The at least one processor is further configured to transmit the uniform resource identifier to the mobile device to lockout the user-interface display with the lockout icon associated with the uniform resource identifier.
US09998544B2	Synchronization testing of active clustered servers In a computing device that performs synchronization testing of a plurality of active clustered servers, a request to check synchronization between slave data stored and master data is received. The request includes master synchronization test values computed by a master node that include a number of records included in a dataset and a sum of modification time values for the records. Slave synchronization test values are computed that include a number of records included in the dataset of the slave data and a sum of modification time values for the records in the dataset of the slave data. The computed slave synchronization test values are compared to the master synchronization test values. A message is sent to the requesting device indicating the slave node is synchronized when the computed synchronization test values match or indicating the slave node is not synchronized when the computed synchronization test values do not match.
US09998541B2	Content item synchronization by block A content management system synchronizes content items across client computing systems. The content items are transmitted to the content management system and managed as blocks of data with a fixed size. When a new content item is added to synchronized data at a client, the client transmits the blocks and a blocklist to the content management system. The content management system uses the blocklist to determine blocks expected to be received at the content management system and the client begins to transmit blocks of the content item to the content management system. When blocks received at the content management system match expected blocks, the content management system notifies receiving clients to begin receiving blocks for the content item, prior to receipt of all blocks on the blocklist at the content management system. This enables content items to begin synchronization across clients prior to actual entry of the content item into the content management system.
US09998540B2	Distributed storage and computing of interim data A method begins by a set of distributed storage and task (DST) execution units receiving a set of partial tasks and data, where a partial task of the set of partial tasks includes a common task and a unique partial sub-task. The method continues with the set of DST execution units executing the common task on the data to produce a set of preliminary partial results. The method continues with a first DST execution unit of the set of DST execution units generating first interim data based on the at least some of the set of preliminary partial results. The method continues with the first DST execution unit executing a first unique partial sub-task on at least one of a first portion of the data and the first interim data to produce a first partial result.
US09998539B1	Non-parity in grid encoded data storage systems Techniques for encoding data storage systems using grid-encoded data storage systems with non-parity linear redundancy encoding schemes are described herein. A grid of shards with derived shards and data shards is generated that is indexed by a first index and a second index and is configured so that each shard is reproducible from other shards with the same first index and is also reproducible from other shards with the same second index. The grid of shards is further configured so that each data row of the grid of shards has at least two derived shards and at least twice as many data shards as derived shards.
US09998536B2	Metered network synchronization Metered network synchronization techniques are described. A current network connection of a computing device is checked as to whether the current network connection has been identified as a metered network. Access by a synchronization engine of the computing device to communicate via the current network connection to synchronize data of the computing device with another computing device is managed based at least in part on a setting associated with the metered network.
US09998534B2	Peer-to-peer seed assurance protocol Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for executing a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol. The computer-implemented method may include determining a number of peers connected to the P2P file sharing network, determining a number of seeds connected to the P2P file sharing network and having a complete copy of a file, the file including a plurality of file parts, and sending a request to download the file. The computer-implemented method may further include, based on the request, computing a seed ratio and a comparison ratio for each of the plurality of file parts, and adjusting download/upload priority of each of the plurality of file parts when the seed ratio is less than a first predetermined threshold and the comparison ratio is less than a second predetermined threshold.
US09998532B2	Computer-based, balanced provisioning and optimization of data transfer resources for products and services A computer program product for provisioning resources in a balanced data transfer pipeline may associate a first requested task with a first category, allocate a first resource of a data path to the first requested task based on the first resource corresponding to the first category; and allocate a second resource as part of the data path to the first requested task based on the second resource corresponding to the first category, wherein the first resource corresponds to a first segment of the data path and the second resource corresponds to a second segment of the data path.
US09998527B2	Autonomous computer session capacity estimation Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating and updating the capacity associated with resources in a virtualized computing environment. A capacity estimation value may be stored in computer memory. The capacity estimation value may estimate how many concurrent sessions a resource in the virtualized computing environment has workload capacity to desirably handle. The system may monitor one or more resource consumption metrics of the resource on an ongoing basis. The capacity estimation value may be updated based on, inter alia, the monitoring. The capacity estimation value may be used when a request is received to create a new session in the resource.
US09998526B2	Registration redirect server Systems and methods for dynamically registering a communication device are disclosed. As one example, a communication network architecture is disclosed that includes multiple feature servers, multiple registration redirect servers (RRSs), and multiple communication devices. The feature servers provide services to the communication devices. The RRSs each service a shared virtual Internet Protocol (IP) address and perform load balancing of registration requests on behalf of multiple feature servers located geographically proximate to the RRS. The communication devices are configured to issue initial registration requests intended for any of the feature servers to the shared virtual IP address, whereby upon issuing an initial registration request, a communication device is directed to a particular feature server that is associated with a RRS that is closest to the communication device, and where the particular feature server is selected by a load balancing routine executing on the RRS.
US09998524B2	Method and system for retrieving data in a data file A method and system for retrieving at least a portion of a first data file are provided. The method includes receiving a request for the at least a portion of the first data file, the request including a start of the at least a portion and a size of the at least a portion; computing a data offset that is aligned to an integer multiple of a block size of the storage device and nearest to the start of the at least a portion; computing a byte-range that is an integer multiple of the block size of the storage device; reading data within the byte-range; and transmitting the at least a portion starting at an offset relative to the data offset that is aligned to an integer multiple of the block size of the storage device.
US09998522B2	Fast join of peer to peer group with power saving mode A wireless peer-to-peer protocol that supports fast and low power joining to an existing group. The protocol may be an extension of a peer-to-peer protocol that supports a sleep state for a device controlling the group. When a device is seeking to join a group at a time when the controlling device is in a sleep state, another device that has information about the controlling device may provide information to the joining device that may then be used by the joining device to more quickly, and using less power, synchronize with the controlling device. The information may include information about a channel used by the controlling device or about timing of availability of the controlling device. The information may also reveal whether the group provides a service being sought by the joining device or may otherwise influence whether the joining device will attempt to join a group.
US09998519B2	Techniques for promoting and viewing social content written by nearby people Techniques are disclosed for promoting and sharing social content for view in a network. An index engine of a network device queries a client device requesting a data connection to the network device for sharable social media content. The index engine receives, in response to the query, the social media content from the client device. The network device indexes the social media content in a data store of the network device. The indexed social media content is transmittable to requesting client devices connected to the network device.
US09998518B2	Media platform for adding synchronized content to media with a duration A system is provided. The system includes a content database that stores content synchronization data received from a graphical user interface. The content synchronization data has a location of media, a set of content, a content start time, and a content end time. The content start time is a time in the media at which play of the content is to start. The content end time is a time in the media at which the play of the content is to end.
US09998517B2	System and method for end-to-end RTCP Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for implementing real-time transport control protocol (RTCP) to obtain end-to-end session information. The system receives an RTCP extension that is associated with an RTCP packet in a communication session. The RTCP extension may include an instruction for transmitting RTCP data based on a triggering event. The RTCP extension can be configured to propagate along the communication session. Next, in response to the triggering event, the system can transmit the RTCP data to an address defined by the instruction as a destination address for receiving information associated with the triggering event.
US09998515B2	Systems and methods for automatically generating top level index files Systems and methods for automatically generating top level index files for use in adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment of the method of the invention includes receiving a request from a playback device at a playback server, where the request identifies a piece of content, retrieving a list of assets associated with the identified piece of content using the playback server, filtering the list of assets using at least one predetermined criterion using the playback server, generating a top level index file describing each asset in the filtered list of assets using the playback server, and sending the top level index file to the playback device using the playback server.
US09998507B2	Systems and methods for robust and persistent emergency communications Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for managing emergency communications by using multiple transport layer sessions to ensure robust communications during periods of poor communication quality and/or by providing persistent communication sessions that continue despite poor communication quality or disconnections.
US09998495B2	Apparatus and method for verifying detection rule Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for verifying a detection rule. The apparatus for verifying a detection rule includes a grammar checking unit for checking for a grammatical error in a loaded detection rule, a false-positive rate calculation unit for calculating a false-positive rate of the loaded detection rule by applying a latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm to a signature used in the detection rule, and a similarity checking unit for checking similarity between the detection rule and an existing pre-stored detection rule.
US09998492B2	Processing method for network address translation technology, NAT device and BNG device Provided are a processing method for a Network Address Translation, NAT, technology, an NAT device and a BNG device, the method includes: the NAT device determining whether or not session establishment of a UE reaches a preset threshold, and notifying the BNG device to execute a security strategy for the UE if the session establishment of the UE reaches the preset threshold, wherein the security strategy is used for stopping the attack behavior of the UE and informing the UE of the attack behavior of the UE. In the disclosure, the technical problem in the related art that the user lodges complaints against the operator for the abnormal behavior of the host user is solved, thus by reminding the user to check the security of the host user, the disclosure increases the utilization rate of the NAT device and improves user experience.
US09998488B2	Protection system including machine learning snapshot evaluation This disclosure is directed to a protection system including machine learning snapshot evaluation. A device may comprise a machine learning engine (MLE) to generate snapshots of device operation. The MLE may use active or planned operations in the snapshot to learn user behavior. Once normal user behavior is established for the device, the MLE may be able to determine when snapshots include unusual behavior that may signify a threat to the device. Snapshots determined to include unusual behavior may be transmitted to a remote resource for evaluation. The remote resource may include at least a user behavior classification engine (UBCE) to classify the user behavior by characterizing it as at least one type of use. The snapshot may be analyzed by the UBCE to determine if potential threats exist in the device, and the threat analysis may be provided to the device for evaluation and/or corrective action.
US09998483B2	Service assurance and security of computing systems using fingerprinting Providing detection of computing application malfunctions by performing at least the following: collecting a plurality of computing events that correspond to a computing application and a plurality of addresses associated with the plurality of computing events, generating an event trace that comprises the plurality of computing events and the plurality of addresses, constructing at least one sample fingerprint that represents a current behavior of the computing application using at least the event trace, comparing the at least one sample fingerprint with a behavior model that represents an expected operation of the computing application; and determining whether the computing application is malfunctioning based upon the comparison of the at least one sample fingerprint and the behavioral model.
US09998480B1	Systems and methods for predicting security threats A computer-implemented method for predicting security threats may include (1) predicting that a candidate security target is an actual target of a specific security attack according to a non-collaborative-filtering calculation, (2) predicting that the candidate security target is an actual target of a set of multiple specific security attacks, including the specific security attack, according to a collaborative filtering calculation, (3) filtering, based on the specific security attack also being predicted by the non-collaborative-filtering calculation, the specific security attack from the set of multiple specific security attacks predicted by the collaborative filtering calculation, and (4) notifying the candidate security target to perform a security action to protect itself from another specific security attack remaining in the filtered set of multiple specific security attacks based on an analysis of the filtered set of multiple specific security attacks. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09998478B2	Enterprise-wide security for computer devices A system and method for securing data in mobile devices (104) includes a computing mode (102) and a plurality of mobile devices (104). A node security program (202) executed in the computing node (102) interfaces with a device security program (204) executed at a mobile device (104). The computing node (102) is responsible for managing the security based on a node security profile (208) interpreted by a node security program (202) executed in the computing node (102). A device discovery method and arrangement (106) also detects and locates various information (120) about the mobile devices (104) based on a scan profile (206).
US09998467B2	Application publishing using memory state sharing Examples described herein enable memory state sharing among a plurality of virtual machines (VM) including a parent VM and a child VM. A request for memory state sharing between the parent VM and the child VM is received, and the parent VM is suspended. The child VM resumes execution of one or more suspended applications. In one example, the child FM is forked with pre-loaded, suspended applications from the parent VM. Aspects of the disclosure offer a high performance, resource efficient solution that outperforms traditional approaches in areas of software compatibility, stability, quality of service control, re-source utilization, and more.
US09998464B2	Storage device security system A storage device security system includes a server that is coupled to a storage device, a storage controller, a configuration IHS, and a remote access controller. The remote access controller receives a storage device access key request and a storage controller Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) from the storage controller. The remote access controller also receives a server GUID from the server. The remote access controller also receives a security key from the configuration IHS over a network. The remote access controller is configured to use a remote access controller Media Access Control (MAC) address, the storage controller GUID, the server IHS GUID, and the security key to generate a storage device access key. The remote access controller may then provide the storage device access key to the storage controller, and storage controller may use the storage device access key to access the storage device coupled to the server IHS.
US09998463B2	Peer to peer enterprise file sharing Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating the distribution of files from a file repository. Files from a file repository can be distributed via peer to peer transmissions where the peer devices can perform authentication functions. The authentication can be performed based upon metadata associated with the files as well as based upon authentication requests submitted to an authentication server.
US09998462B2	Asynchronous design data exchange with external users A method for an asynchronous data exchange between a PLM system and an external user. The method includes defining an exchange definition object related to product data, packing the exchange definition object for transfer, publishing the packed exchange definition object through an SRM to a browser of the external user, receiving a product data download request from the browser of the external user through the SRM, transferring the product data from a file management system of the PLM system to the file transfer manager of the external user, receiving a response exchange definition object from the browser of the external user through the SRM, and receiving the response product data from the file transfer manager of the external user.
US09998461B2	Server, a system, a method, a computer program and a computer program product for accessing a server in a computer network The invention concerns a first server (101) for accessing a second server (102) via a computer network (100), adapted to upon successful authentication of first credentials of a first user (EU) registered on said first server (101) by said first server (101), provide said first user (EU) access to at least a subset of functions provided by an interface (API) of said second server (102) using second credentials of a second user (HU) registered on said second server (102) for authentication with said second server (102).
US09998458B2	Identity verification method and device A method and a device of identity verification are disclosed. The method includes: receiving by a server, an identity verification request sent from a terminal, where the identity verification request contains a specified user identifier; based on a user relationship chain of the specified user identifier, obtaining a verified user information set which includes user's information on the user relationship chain; providing the verified user information set to the terminal in order to subsequently receive returned selected user's information; determining whether the received selected users information from the terminal matches the user's information on the user relationship chain; if the selected user's information received matches the user's information on the user relationship chain, confirming that the identity verification being successful. To pass the identity verification, the only requirement is that the selected user's information received from the terminal matches the user's information on the user relationship chain.
US09998454B2	Directional sensing mechanism and communications authentication The present invention is directed toward an RFID device that includes a motion sensing mechanism. The motion sensing mechanism is adapted to sense motion of the RFID device and then selectively allow or restrict the RFID device's ability to transmit messages, which may include sensitive data, when the RFID device is placed in an RF field. Thus, the motion sensing mechanism is utilized to control access to data on the RFID device to only instances when the holder of the RFID device moves the RFID device in a predefined sequence of motion(s).
US09998448B2	Delegating authorizations Delegating authorizations sufficient to access services is contemplate. The authorization may be delegated in the form of a token or other transmissible construct relied upon to authenticate access to services, such as but not necessarily limited to conferring a user identity established via authenticated device for the purposes of enabling an unauthenticated or unsecured device to access a service associated with the user identity.
US09998445B2	Authentication system A device authentication system for use with an authenticatable device having a physically-unclonable function and constructed to, in response to input, of challenge C, internally generate an output O characteristic to the PUF and the challenge C, and configured to: i) upon receiving challenge C, generate a corresponding commitment value that depends upon a private value r, and ii) upon receiving an authentication query that includes the challenge C and a nonce, return a zero knowledge proof authentication value that corresponds to the commitment value. The system comprises an enrollment server having a working verification set that includes challenge C and corresponding commitment value, wherein: a) the enrollment server is configured to generate an authentication token that corresponds to the authentication value and includes a blinded value depending upon the private value r and a random value decryptable by the authenticatable device; and/or b) the system is configured to pre-process and convey data to the authenticatable device as part of an extended Boyko-Peinado-Venkatesan generation.
US09998443B2	Retrospective discovery of shared credentials A method for identifying a shared credential within a networked computing environment. The method includes a computer processor accessing information corresponding to an aggregated plurality of authentication events within a networked computing environment. The method further includes identifying one or more credentials that are associated with the aggregated plurality of authentication events. The method further includes analyzing a frequency of usage of a first credential that is included in the identified one or more credentials. The method further includes determining that the first credential is shared, based at least in part, on the analysis of the frequency of usage of the first credential in authentication events by one or more hosts, and information related to authentication events corresponding to the one or more hosts that utilize the credential in authentication events. The method further includes generating a report that identifies that the first credential is shared.
US09998436B2	Management of encryption within processing elements A streaming environment includes at least a first processing element of a first compute node and a second processing element of a second compute node. A tuple encryption operation is determined of the first processing element and the second processing element. The first processing element includes a first encryption key for encrypting the tuples as the leave the first processing element. An encryption workload is measured of the tuple encryption operation of a processing workload of the use of the first encryption key of a transfer of the stream of tuples. A threshold of the tuple encryption operation is determined. The second processing element is migrated to the first compute node and fused to the first compute node with the first processing element. The tuple encryption operation is removed from the first processing element.
US09998435B1	System and method to anonymize data transmitted to a destination computing device A method and system for anonymizing data is disclosed. Data to be anonymized is received by an anonymization system. A request for a data encryption key is generated. A masked data encryption key is received in response to the request. The data encryption key is retrieved from the masked data encryption key. The data is anonymized using an anonymization module to derive an anonymized data using the data encryption key.
US09998432B2	Trusted communications between untrusting parties A system and method is disclosed for assuring that networked communications between parties playing a game on a network (e.g., the Internet) are not tampered with by either of the parties for illicitly gaining an advantage over the other party. An initial sequence of tokens (e.g., card representations) for playing the game are doubly encrypted using an encryption key from each of the parties. Accordingly, during play of the game neither party can modify the initial sequence of game tokens during the game. At termination of the game, at least one of the parties can fully decrypt the initial sequence of tokens, and thereby, if desired, compare the played token sequence with the corresponding the initial token sequence.
US09998429B2	Method for transmitting information from a first information provider to a second information provider via an information intermediary This invention relates to a method for transmitting information from a first information provider (100) to a second information provider (400) via an information intermediary (200), wherein the information intermediary (200): at a first point in time, receives (203) first information (500) from the first information provider (100); generates (204) data regarding the first information; at a second point in time, receives (210) a unique identifier (502) from the second information provider (400), the unique identifier (502) being uniquely associated with the first information (500); and transmits (213) the data regarding the first information to the second information provider (400).
US09998426B2	Bi-directional data security for control systems A cyber-security device includes a processor operable to process messages with a data validation rule-set; an external communication interface configured for bi-directional data communication between the processor and external networks or systems; and an internal communication interface configured for bi-directional data communication between the processor and a safety-critical control device, wherein the data received by the processor via either the external or internal communication interface is blocked, sanitized, or passed by the appropriate rule-set, depending on whether the data conform to validation criteria established by the rule-set. The processor analyzes the data, preferably byte-by-byte, with the data in each byte being required to conform to the rule-set validation criteria before being passed from the processor to the appropriate interface.
US09998419B2	Systems, methods, and computer readable media for controlling social networking service originated message traffic Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling the delivery of a social networking service originated message directed to a mobile device are disclosed. According to one example, the method performed at a routing node includes intercepting a mobility management message that includes location information associated with a mobile device, storing the location information associated with the mobile device in a location database, and receiving a social networking service originated message directed to the mobile device, wherein the message includes media content. The method further includes extracting the location information associated with the mobile device from the location database and delivering the media content to the mobile device using the extracted location information from the location database.
US09998413B2	Computer-implemented system and method for prioritizing electronic messages based on importance A system and method for prioritizing messages based on message importance is provided. Messages from one or more senders are received for a recipient. For each message, an identity of the sender is determined. A determination is made as to whether each message includes a request for an action to be performed. Also, a length of time required to read that message is determined for each message. An importance value for each message is then calculated based on the identity of the sender, whether a request is included in the message, and the length of time to read the message. Those messages with high importance values are identified as high priority messages and are provided to the recipient.
US09998410B1	Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing a request for a resource in a communication A computer-implemented method (and non-transitory media) are provided, comprising at least a portion of an instant messaging application that is configured to cooperate with an apparatus, the instant messaging application, when executed, configured to cause a device to: display an instant messaging interface including: a text entry user interface element for receiving entered text, a plurality of user interface elements for generating attachment requests that are valid according to a criterion schema defining at least one of a format or a vocabulary, the plurality of user interface elements including: a first button with corresponding first text, and a second button with corresponding second text.
US09998408B2	Event management system Event management operations are enabled. The operations can include receiving a request to manage an event on behalf of an event sponsor identity associated with an event sponsor, the request including event information including a description of the event, invitee identities associated with invitees to the event and invitee contact information associated with the invitees, generating an event invitation message including the description of the event and an instruction for responding to the event invitation message, directing the event invitation message to be sent to the invitee contact information associated with the invitees, determining that responses to the event invitation message have been received from a set of the invitees, generating an event update message based on a sorting of the responses from the set of the invitees, and directing the event update message to be sent to sponsor contact information associated with the event sponsor.
US09998404B2	Automatically orienting hardware ports in a computing device Automatically orienting hardware ports in a computing device, including: determining a location of a first hardware port configured to receive a first cable connector of a cable; determining a location of a second hardware port configured to receive a second cable connector of the cable; determining, in dependence upon the location of the first hardware port and the location of the second hardware port, orientation information for at least one of the hardware ports; and transmitting an instruction to position at least one of the hardware ports in accordance with the orientation information.
US09998402B2	MoCA packet aggregation Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: aggregating packets, including at least control packets and acknowledgement packets, with other packets.
US09998396B2	Method and system for providing dynamic admission control An approach for monitoring a media streaming session for a change to one or more resources negotiated outside of a session signaling channel, wherein the one or more resources relate to establishment of the media, and determining whether to accept a new media streaming session based on the change.
US09998392B1	Iterative network graph placement Techniques for making placement decisions for the placement of components within a computer network are described herein. A simplified representation of the computer network is used to determine a candidate placement solution based on a representation of placement requests. Constrained machine locations and constraints on the connections are used to iteratively determine placement locations based on perturbations to those constraints.
US09998388B2	Congestion control bitrate algorithm The method may include sending, via an unreliable protocol, a stream of data packets to at least one recipient device over a network. The stream of data packets may include source packets and forward error correction (FEC) packets. The method may include, during said sending, receiving one or more feedback reports from the at least one recipient device, each said periodic feedback report characterizing packet loss during a corresponding period of time. The method may also include, during said sending, adjusting a rate at which said data packets are sent in the stream in response to at least one of said feedback reports. Adjusting the rate may include increasing a FEC rate at which the FEC packets are sent while maintaining a source rate at which the source packets are sent in response to a one of the feedback reports which characterizes the packet loss as within an acceptable level.
US09998387B2	Apparatus, system and method of controlling data flow over a communication network Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of controlling data flow over a communication network. For example, an apparatus may include a communication unit to control the transfer of a stream of data from a first device to a second device over a communication link, the stream of data including data to be delivered to a plurality of endpoints. For example, the controlling may include communicating between the first and second devices at least one message including at least one endpoint-specific credit consumption unit (CCU) defined with respect to at least one endpoint of the plurality of endpoints.
US09998384B2	Window management based on an indication of congestion in a stream computing environment Disclosed aspects relate to window management in a stream computing environment. An indication of congestion may be detected with respect to the stream computing environment. Based on the indication of congestion, a set of window configurations in the stream computing environment may be determined. In response to determining the set of window configurations in the stream computing environment, the set of window configurations may be established in the stream computing environment.
US09998382B2	User-controlled network video management A process and system for user-controlled configuration of an Internet protocol network. The user may supply input for generating a network classification profile, which includes a number of classes of service (COSs) for prioritizing network traffic, including video transmission. A quality of service (QOS) may be measured and compared with a COS for video transmission. Depending on the measured QOS, a network alert may be issued and a priority of packets associated with the COS for video transmission may be increased.
US09998376B2	Control device, communication system, control method, and non-transitory recording medium A control device controls two terminating devices virtually directly connected to each other on a network, and includes a memory, an acquisition unit, a generation unit, and a transmission unit. The memory stores address information of each of the terminating devices belonging to mutually different segments on the network. The acquisition unit acquires, from the each of the terminating devices, information of a communication device residing in the segment to which the each of the terminating devices belongs. The generation unit generates, with the address information of the each of the terminating devices stored in the memory and the acquired information of the communication device residing in the segment, a processing rule to be used by the each of the terminating devices to perform a process of transferring input information. The transmission unit transmits the processing rule generated by the generation unit to the each of the terminating devices.
US09998375B2	Transactional controls for supplying control plane data to managed hardware forwarding elements Some embodiments provide novel methods for controllers to communicate with managed hardware forwarding elements (MHFEs) in a transactional manner. The transactional communication methods of some embodiments ensure that an MHFE receives the entirety of a control plane update that a controller supplies to it, before the MHFE starts to modify its data plane forwarding data and operations. The transactional communication methods of some embodiments provide one or more transactional boundary controls to the controllers to define complete control plane data set updates. In some embodiments, the transactional controls ensure that an MHFE receives all of a control plane update before it starts to modify its data plane forwarding data. Controllers use one transactional control in some embodiments when they define logical forwarding elements (e.g., logical switches or routers) on the MHFEs.
US09998372B2	Message forwarding method, system, and relay agent device A message forwarding method and system, and a relay agent device, where the forwarding method includes receiving a first dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) for Internet Protocol (IP) version 6 (DHCPv6) message from a DHCPv6 client through a layer-3 interface, generating a relay-forward message, where the first DHCPv6 message is encapsulated into the relay-forward message and an identifier (ID) of the layer-3 interface is added therein, and sending the relay-forward message to a DHCPv6 server.
US09998369B2	Periodical generation of network measurement data Some embodiments provide a method that generates different network measurements data (e.g., network topology, bandwidth estimation of different paths, etc.) for a pair of endpoints upon receiving a network administrative request (e.g., an application programming interface (API) request) or by other means (e.g., automatically and without intervention of a user). In some embodiments, the method is implemented by a network measurement agent operating on each endpoint and a centralized service component (e.g., web service layer) executing on a network manager machine (e.g., a controller) that responds to measurement requests. The network measurement agent probes the network periodically (i.e., in certain time intervals) or upon an API request that it receives through the network manager machine to gather the measurement data of a particular network topology between a pair of endpoints.
US09998367B2	Communication control system, communication control method, and communication control program An adjacent domain specification means 81 specifies an adjacent controller domain to an own controller domain. A loop solution means 82 creates a communication tree for avoiding a loop configuration present in communication paths with the adjacent controller domain. A topology specification means 83 specifies a network topology between the controller domains. A communication control means 84 calculates an optimum path based on the communication tree by use of the network topology, and controls communication from a communication device connected to each OpenFlow switch.
US09998365B2	Network feedback in software-defined networks One embodiment of the present invention provides a computing system capable of providing feedback to a controller in a software-defined network. The computing system includes a policy management module and a communication module coupled to the policy management module. During operation, the policy management module recognizes a local policy indicating how a data flow is to be processed and identifies a data flow associated with the policy. The communication module constructs a request for a flow definition from a controller in a software-defined network. A flow definition indicates how the data flow is processed in the software-defined network.
US09998358B2	Capacitive built-in touch control display panel with common electrode and touch control driving electrode in the same layer, control device and control method The invention discloses a capacitive built-in touch control display panel, a display device, a control device and method with a purpose of realizing display and touch control functions of the display panel without an additional touch panel, which simplifies the configuration of the capacitive built-in touch control display panel and improves the light transmittance. A capacitive built-in touch control display panel provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises an array substrate, an counter substrate and a liquid crystal layer, wherein the array substrate comprises a gate line and a data line disposed as intersecting each other and a transparent common electrode layer; the array substrate further comprises a touch control driving electrode positioned in the transparent common electrode layer and extending along a first direction, and a touch control detecting electrode insulated from the touch control driving electrode by way of an insulation layer and extending along a second direction; the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction, a common voltage signal and a touch control driving signal are applied to the touch control driving electrode in a time dividing manner.
US09998356B2	Synchronizing network convergence and virtual host migration A system and a method are disclosed for synchronizing network convergence and virtual host migration in a network environment. An exemplary method includes upon receiving a message indicating that a mobile host manger will migrate a virtual host from a source node to a destination node in a network, pre-calculating a route for the virtual host at the destination node; and upon receiving a message indicating that the mobile host manager will freeze the virtual host, activating the pre-calculated route at a switch to minimize packet loss while the network converges. The pre-calculated route may be activated at a switch through which the virtual host at the source node connected to the network.
US09998353B2	System and method for finding point-to-multipoint label switched path crossing multiple domains An apparatus associated with a first domain, the apparatus comprising a processor configured to compute a portion of a Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) path, wherein the P2MP path spans a plurality of domains including the first domain, wherein the apparatus does not require knowledge of a core tree of domains to compute the portion of the P2MP path.
US09998350B2	Testing device and testing method A testing device of high-frequency memory comprises a transfer interface, a tester and a socket group. The tester is electrically connected to the socket group via the transfer interface. The transfer interface is configured to merge a first testing signal with a second testing signal to generate a double frequency testing signal, wherein the first testing signal and the second testing signal are outputted by the tester, and through the transfer interface, the double frequency testing signal is shared and transmitted to the socket group for testing at least two memory packages disposed on the socket group.
US09998349B2	High granularity link oversubscription detection An analytics and diagnostic node according to the present disclosure monitors oversubscription and determines flow metrics by receiving mirror command frames from one or more switching nodes. The mirror command frames could correspond to a multiple flows traversing over a connection within a network. The analytics and diagnostic node collects at least one latency metric for each of the flows using timestamps found within the mirror command frames. Based on the latency metrics and timestamps, the analytic diagnostic node determines an average data rate for each of the flows. The analytics and diagnostic node also computes the cumulative data rates corresponding to different bucket intervals based on the average data rates. To detect oversubscription, the analytics and diagnostic node compares the cumulative data rates with one or more oversubscription rules.
US09998346B2	Fabric latency determination An analytics and diagnostic node according to the present disclosure monitors oversubscription and determines flow metrics by receiving mirror command frames from one or more switching nodes. The mirror command frames could correspond to a multiple flows traversing over a connection within a network. The analytics and diagnostic node collects at least one latency metric for each of the flows using timestamps found within the mirror command frames. Based on the latency metrics and timestamps, the analytic diagnostic node determines an average data rate for each of the flows. The analytics and diagnostic node also computes the cumulative data rates corresponding to different bucket intervals based on the average data rates. To detect oversubscription, the analytics and diagnostic node compares the cumulative data rates with one or more oversubscription rules.
US09998341B2	Method of constructing data collector, server performing the same and storage medium for the same This application relates to a method of constructing a data collector. The method may include generating a node corresponding to a data source server to generate a data collecting service node associating the generated node with at least one agent, graphically representing a data collection service flow being associated with one of the at least one agent, the data collection service flow sequentially associating at least a source flow item, a channel item or a sink item and generating an execution environment of data collection service for analyzing the data collection service node and the data collection service flow to control an operation of a data collector. A GUI (Graphic User Interface) environment is provided to more effectively construct and manage a data collection service being installed in a plurality of servers.
US09998340B2	Method and system to monitor a network A method of monitoring a network includes receiving by a user plane record aggregator first data associated with a user plane packet, the first data being selected by a user plane network element from second data, the second data being stored in a plurality of information fields, the plurality of information fields being associated with the user plane network element, the second data being obtained by the user plane network element from user plane traffic, the user plane network element processing the user plane packet in accordance with a user plane network function. The method further includes determining by an aggregation device a characteristic associated with the user plane traffic from the first data, thereby monitoring the user plane traffic without requiring a tap.
US09998337B2	Identifying nodes in a ring network Methods and systems for determining a token master on a ring network are provided. According to one embodiment, a ring controller of a first blade participating in the ring network receives an indication that an arbitration token originated by an originating blade has been received. The ring controller compares the priorities of the originating blade and the first blade. When the priority of the originating blade is higher, the ring controller transmits the arbitration token to the next blade. When the priority of the originating blade is lower, the ring controller sets the first blade as the originating blade and transmits the arbitration token to the next blade. When the priorities are equal, the ring controller assumes the role of the token master, which is responsible for periodically transmitting a discovery marker onto the ring network to facilitate topology discovery.
US09998334B1	Determining a communication language for internet of things devices A device is disclosed. The device includes a network module; where the network module is capable of communicatively coupling to one or more network access points. The device further includes one or more processors, a machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which, when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: receiving one or more broadcast signals from the one or more network access points, wherein the broadcast signal comprises a network discovery beacon frame, extracting an information from the beacon frame of each broadcast signal, determining a language of communication based on the extracted information; and assigning the language of communication as a first option of language of communication of the device.
US09998331B2	Standby instances for auto-scaling groups A computing resource service provider may provide computing instances organized into logical groups, such as auto-scaling groups. Computing instances assigned to an auto-scaling group may be place into standby. Standby instances may still be managed by the auto-scaling group but may not contribute to the capacity of the auto-scaling group for auto-scaling purposes.
US09998330B1	Service-oriented system optimization using edge relocation Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing service-oriented system optimization using edge relocation are disclosed. An optimized configuration is determined for a service-oriented system based on trace data for a plurality of service interactions between services. One or more of the services are relocated to one or more edge hosts based on the optimized configuration. The relocation improves a total performance metric in at least a portion of the service-oriented system.
US09998328B1	Service-oriented system optimization using client device relocation Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing service-oriented system optimization using client device relocation are disclosed. An optimized configuration is determined for a service-oriented system based on trace data for a plurality of service interactions between services. One or more of the services are relocated to one or more client devices based on the optimized configuration. The relocation improves a total performance metric in at least a portion of the service-oriented system.
US09998327B2	Configuration information transfer with a mobile device A mobile computing device queries a compatible device for identification information. Based on the identification information, the mobile computing device determines a family of devices, from a plurality of families, to which the compatible device belongs. Based on the determination of the device family, the mobile computing device determines one or more parameters that can be configured on the compatible device. Finally, the mobile computing device sends one or more stored values corresponding to the one or more configurable parameters to the compatible device.
US09998325B2	Apparatus and method for seamless commissioning of wireless devices An electronic device includes a first processor; a first commissioning element to communicate with external devices using wireless communication and a first memory storing programs for commissioning a target device onto a wireless local area network (WLAN). The WLAN has configuration data including a WLAN identifier and a network key. The programs provide a user interface for commissioning the target device. The target device includes a second processor, a second wireless radio, and a second commissioning element to receive the WLAN configuration data. The target device decodes the WLAN configuration data to commission the target device onto the WLAN. The electronic device sends the WLAN configuration data to the target device and receives confirmation that the target device has successfully connected to the WLAN. The electronic device displays the success in a user interface.
US09998324B2	Logical L3 processing for L2 hardware switches A method for configuring a managed forwarding element (MFE) to perform logical routing operations in a logical network on behalf of a hardware switch is described. The method of some embodiments receives data that defines a logical router that logically connects several different end machines operating on several different host machines to different physical machines that are connected to the hardware switch. The method, based on the received data, defines a number of routing components for the logical router. In some embodiments, the method then configures the MFE to implement the routing components in order to enable the MFE to perform logical routing operations on behalf of the hardware switch.
US09998319B2	Control information transmission method and sending and receiving device Disclosed are a method for transferring control information, a transmitting device and a receiving device, the method includes that: a transmitting end orderly selects an element yn or two elements y2m−1, y2m, from a sequence Y to be modulated corresponding to control information B newly added, then it selects pairing elements x2p−1, x2p from a sequence X to be modulated corresponding to related control information A, and groups yn or y2m−1, y2m and the x2p−1, x2p into an element group (x2p−1, x2p, yn) or (x2p−1, x2p, y2m−1, y2m) and maps (x2p−1, x2p, yn) or (x2p−1, x2p, y2m−1, y2m) as specified constellation points of a specified constellation diagram, and takes the constellation points as modulation symbols; it takes each two elements in the elements of the sequence X which are not used for pairing as an element group to perform QPSK modulation, modulating into QPSK modulation symbols; and it maps the constellation points and the QPSK modulation symbols to part of or all resources occupied by a corresponding control channel to be transmitted.
US09998317B2	Method of detecting synchronization signal in wireless communication system A method, communication device, and user equipment (UE) for detecting a synchronization signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a synchronization signal including a code sequence of length 2N, wherein the code sequence includes an even code sequence of length N and an odd code sequence of length N; obtaining the code sequence by de-scrambling the received synchronization signal; generating and storing a correlation value of the even code sequence by full-correlating the even code sequence with a number of candidate even code sequences; generating a correlation value of the odd code sequence by full-correlating the odd code sequence with a number of candidate odd code sequences, and obtaining a correlation value of the code sequence by adding the stored correlation value of the even code sequence corresponding to the candidate odd code sequences to the generated correlation value of the odd code sequence; and detecting the synchronization signal based on the obtained correlation value of the code sequence.
US09998316B2	Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder encoding service data, a time interleaver interleaving the encoded service data, a mapper mapping the interleaved service data into a plurality of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) symbols to build at least one signal frame, a frequency interleaver frequency interleaving data in the at least one signal frame by using a different interleaving-seed which is used for every OFDM symbol pair comprised of two sequential OFDM symbols, wherein the frequency interleaving is performed by using two memories, a modulator modulating the frequency interleaved data by an OFDM scheme and a transmitter transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein an interleaving-seed is generated based on a cyclic shift value and an FFT size of the modulating.
US09998315B2	Method and apparatus for I-Q decoupled OFDM modulation and demodulation A method and apparatus for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation includes separating a frequency-domain sequence of complex numbers into a first portion and a second portion that is disjoint with the first portion, each of the first portion and the second portion including a respective half of the complex numbers of the frequency-domain sequence, and generating a time-domain sequence having a real in-phase component that is a function of the first portion only, and an imaginary quadrature-phase component that is a function of the second portion only.
US09998314B1	Peak-to-average reduction with post-amplifier filter Systems and methods are provided for broadcasting a for broadcasting a modulated signal. A plurality of peaks is detected within a waveform envelope signal of the modulated signal. For each of the plurality of peaks, a pulse having substantial spectral content that is outside of a passband of a high power filter is constructed. The constructed pulse for each peak is subtracted from its associated peak to provide a peak-reduced signal. The peak-reduced signal is amplified at a power amplifier to provide an amplified signal. The amplified signal is filtered at the high power filter to provide a filtered signal. The filtered signal is broadcast at an associated antenna.
US09998313B2	Method and apparatus for generating OFDM signals A method in a transmitter circuit (200) of generating a signal comprising a first sequence of OFDM symbols, which are to be transmitted within a frequency sub band of a second sequence of OFDM symbols is disclosed. A first CP of the second sequence of OFDM symbols has a first duration, and a second CP of the second sequence of OFDM symbols has a second duration. In order to generate both the first and the second cyclic prefix with an integer number of equidistant samples, a first sampling rate is required. The method comprises generating (100) the signal comprising the first sequence of OFDM symbols at a second sampling rate, lower than the first sampling rate, and adjusting (110) a sampling phase during CPs.
US09998308B2	Electronic device, method and computer-readable medium for sensing spectrum usage in a cognitive radio communication system The disclosure provides an electronic device, a method and computer-readable medium. The electronic device includes a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive a radio communication signal for another device. The circuitry is also configured to determine, based on the radio communication signal, one or more features that can reflect the difference between uplink transmission mode and downlink transmission mode. The circuitry is further configured to judge whether the radio communication signal is for uplink transmission or downlink transmission according to the feature(s).
US09998307B2	Future generation 5G and multimode 4G and 3G mobile modulation format selectable (MFS) communications Future generation 5G and multimode 4G and 3G mobile Modulation Format Selectable (MFS) wireless communication networks, cellular systems and devices with fingerprint signal authentication. Touchscreen and motion detectors are controlling mobile devices. Device receiving, demodulating and processing spread spectrum signal into processed Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) signal. Mobile devices modulate and transmit processed OFDM signal. Processing spread spectrum or OFDM signals into Bit Rate Adaptable (BRA), Modulation Format Selectable (MFS) and cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase Time Constrained Signal (TCS) wave form and Long Response (LR) filtered cross-correlated filtered baseband signals. Generation of video signals and processing video signals into cross-correlated signals and modulation and transmission of video cross-correlated signals. Photo camera generated photo signal in mobile device is processed with baseband location finder signal. The photo camera generated photo with baseband location finder signal is modulated and transmitted.
US09998306B2	Equalized multi-signaling mode driver A transmit circuit can be configured to output two-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-2) or four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4). In the PAM-2 mode, pre-tap feed-forward equalization (FFE) and post-tap FFE can be applied to the PAM-2 signal by pre-taps and post-taps, respectively. In the PAM-4 mode, at least one post-tap is repurposed to generate, along with the main tap, the main PAM-4 signaling levels. At least one PAM-2 FFE tap is repurposed to apply FFE in the PAM-4 mode.
US09998305B2	Multi-PAM output driver with distortion compensation An integrated circuit device includes an output driver having a data signal terminal, logic circuitry, and a driver circuit coupled to the logic circuitry and data signal terminal. The driver circuit is configured to drive a signal corresponding to a symbol onto the data signal terminal, wherein the symbol is an N-bit symbol, having one of 2N predefined values, N is an integer greater than 1, and the signal corresponding to the symbol has one of 2N signal levels. The driver circuit includes first, second and third driver sub-circuits, each driven by an input corresponding to one or more bits of the N-bit symbol, wherein the second and third driver sub-circuits are weighted, relative to the first driver sub-circuit, to reduce gds distortion in the signal.
US09998302B2	Digital equalizer and digital equalizing method Provided is a digital equalizer which outputs a decision value corresponding to reception data transmitted from a data transmitter and is located in a data receiver. The digital equalizer includes at least one flip-flop which stores an adjacent bit sequence which is previous computing information; and a computing device which receives an output value of an analog to digital converter as a first input value, receives the adjacent bit sequence as a second input value, and outputs the decision value which is a binary value of the first input value by referring to a lookup table with respect to the first input value and the second input value.
US09998301B2	Signal isolator system with protection for common mode transients An isolator system has an isolator that generates differential isolator signals and a receiver that generates digital data representative of signals received from the isolator. The system also may include an RC filter coupled between the isolator and the receiver. During operation, the filter may distribute transient signals across various circuit paths in the isolator, only some of which are coupled to the receiver inputs. Over time, the filter may attenuate transient contributions at the receiver inputs. In this manner, the filter may limit effects of these common mode transients.
US09998295B2	Interactive advisory system A method for providing information to a plurality of vendors located remotely from a broadcast network. A plurality of user-defined parameters are received by a user input database with at least one of the user-defined parameters including a user profile. Each of the user profiles includes a user identifier code identifying a communicator device associated with a particular user. Real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices is received by a communicator location data base. Search information is received independently from a plurality of vendors and a data set is generated for each vendor.
US09998294B1	System for distributed audio output using designated audio devices Described are techniques for configuring a group of audio devices to provide a synchronized audio output. Values indicative of the data throughput for communication between each audio device and the access point and between the audio devices themselves may be determined. A value indicative of the airtime that would be used to communicate data to other audio devices, via a multicast transmission, may be determined for at least a portion of the audio devices. Based on the airtime values, the audio devices may be divided into subsets, each including a master device configured to provide data to one or more slave devices via a multicast transmission. A global master device that receives audio data from a data source and provides the data to the other master devices may be selected based on the data throughput values for communication between each master device and the access point.
US09998293B2	Method and device for maintaining multicast group member A method and a device for maintaining a multicast group member are disclosed. The method includes sending a query message to a switch at intervals of a preset period, so that the switch sends the query message to each multicast group member included in a multicast group; acquiring a count value of current period query responses received by the switch in a current period; and maintaining, according to the count value of current period query responses and a count value of previous period query responses, the multicast group member included in the multicast group. The device includes a first sending module, an acquiring module, and a maintenance module. In the present disclosure, a multicast group member is maintained using a flow table maintained in a switch, which decreases load of a controller, and improves processing efficiency of maintaining, by the controller, the multicast group member.
US09998290B2	Conflict resolution and rule determination in a policy realization framework Various systems and methods for providing a policy realization framework for a communications network are disclosed. The policy realization framework can be an application and service layer policy framework that is separate and distinct from the network layer policy framework. As such, policy decisions can be made remote from the network layer, and common policies across multiple networks are possible. A policy intelligence rules system for a policy realization framework, and methods of implementing the same, are also disclosed. The policy intelligence rules system can receive a policy request associated with a request for a network resource and policies pertaining to the policy request, which can include operator policies and subscriber specific policies. In response to determining that a policy conflict exists between the policies, the policy intelligence rules system can resolve the policy conflict and generate a rule for the communications network to use in response to the request.
US09998287B2	Secure authentication of remote equipment An authentication server may use secure messaging with a remote device prior to authorizing non-secure communications between the remote device and a content server, thereby preventing unauthorized access to the content server. The secure messaging uses such security features as encryption, signatures with authentication certificates, a realm, and/or a nonce. Once non-secure communication is authorized, the remote device may act as a proxy between the content server and a user device connected to the remote device. The authentication server sends timeout notices to the remote device containing an interval and a key. To continue non-secure communications with the content server, the remote device must respond prior to the expiration of the interval by sending a keep-alive message containing the key to the authentication server.
US09998281B2	Set of servers for “machine-to-machine” communications using public key infrastructure A set of servers can support secure and efficient “Machine to Machine” communications using an application interface and a module controller. The set of servers can record data for a plurality of modules in a shared module database. The set of servers can (i) access the Internet to communicate with a module using a module identity, (i) receive server instructions, and (iii) send module instructions. Data can be encrypted and decrypted using a set of cryptographic algorithms and a set of cryptographic parameters. The set of servers can (i) receive a module public key with a module identity, (ii) authenticate the module public key, and (iii) receive a subsequent series of module public keys derived by the module with a module identity. The application interface can use a first server private key and the module controller can use a second server private key.
US09998279B2	Electronic block cipher device suitable for obfuscation An electronic block cipher device for encrypting or decrypting a message block of digital data comprising a storage unit storing multiple substitution boxes in the form of look-up tables, the multiple substitution boxes together forming a substitution layer of a block cipher, the substitution layer being arranged to take a substitution layer input and transforming it into a substitution layer output, at least one substitution box being arranged to receive as input a combination of at least part of the outputs of more than one further substitution boxes in the same substitution layer, a control unit configured to apply the block cipher to the message block of digital data by applying a sequence of block cipher rounds to the message block, one of the block cipher rounds comprising the substitution layer.
US09998276B2	USBPD type-C BMC encoded receive message squelch detection Disclosed is a method of controlling a USB Power Delivery System including determining whether at least a predetermined length of initial bits of a message is received, turning on a clock when the predetermined length is received, determining whether the message has stopped, starting a counter when the message has stopped, determining whether a count value of the counter has reached a predetermined value, and turning off the clock when the predetermined count value has been reached.
US09998275B1	Digital monobit dithering circuit Techniques and mechanisms disclosed herein add dithering noise to a receiver to reduce harmonics.
US09998272B2	Method and apparatus for transceiving data using plurality of carriers in mobile communication system The present specification relates to a communication method and apparatus. The communication method for a base station (P-ENB) that controls a primary cell (PCell) of user equipment (UE) according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: receiving a packet from a serving gateway through a non-primary (NP)-evolved packet system (EPS) bearer for a serving cell of a non-P-ENB base station (NP-ENB); generating a first radio link control packet data unit (RLC PDU) using the received packet; and transmitting the generated first RLC PDU to the NP-ENB.
US09998265B2	Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises an encoder to encode service data, a mapper to map the encoded service data, a time interleaver to time interleave the mapped service data, wherein the time interleaving is performed depending on number of physical paths for the service data, a frame builder to build at least one signal frame including the time interleaved service data, a modulator to modulate data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and a transmitter to transmit the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US09998261B2	Method by which MIMO transmitter forms RE group Disclosed are a communication method and a MIMO transmitter for measuring the inter-channel relationship of a plurality of resource elements (REs) on the basis of channel information of the plurality of REs, and dividing the plurality of REs in consideration of the measured inter-channel relationship, thereby forming one or more RE groups, and transmitting information on the RE groups to a MIMO receiver.
US09998260B2	High throughput communication system A high throughput communication apparatus which provides low frame error rates (FER). Error checking encoder and decoders which each comprise a plurality of short blocklength error checking encoders or decoders, respectively, in parallel, coupled through common incremental redundancy. Short-blocklength codes are utilized to achieve communication capacity with incremental redundancy. The system can transmit and decode a large number of short-blocklength codewords in parallel, while it delivers incremental redundancy, without feedback, only to the decoders that need incremental redundancy.
US09998259B2	Control information transmission method, user equipment, and base station A control information transmission method a user equipment for operating the method and a base station for operating the method are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes determining, by a user equipment, a downlink control information (DCI) format of a downlink control channel corresponding to a first serving cell, wherein the first serving cell is a serving cell corresponding to the user equipment, and the DCI format is determined by using a duplex mode of the first serving cell and a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback corresponding to the first serving cell and detecting, by the user equipment, the downlink control channel according to the determined DCI format.
US09998258B2	Method of scheduling data A method of transmitting uplink control signals/status bits from a user equipment, said user equipment having multiple transmit antennae, and said control signals correspond to a plurality of previous downlink transmissions, wherein said control signals are transmitted over a plurality of PUCCH resources and over said multiple antennae, and transmitted during a single uplink sub-frame. Use of multiple PUCCH resources and multiple antennae allow greater spatial diversity.
US09998256B2	Special energy sensing espionage detector An energy sensing espionage detector is disclosed. The detector is designed to alert on compromised LED lighting sources used by spies on unsuspecting corporations and individuals. The detector counters one threat vector that is emerging from newly mandated energy policies to replace conventional lighting with energy efficient LED lighting. The detector senses that information is being transmitted by the light source using pulsed or modulated energy that is not detectable by the human eye.
US09998248B2	Interference detection A management server for managing a population of wireless access point devices by detecting out-of-band interference to the operation of the wireless access point Wi-Fi networks caused by LTE small cell devices such as macrocells and femtocells. A flow processor monitors the characteristics of data flows of devices connected to the wireless access point to determine whether they are LTE cells based on MAC address matching or the termination of a flow at a known mobile network operator gateway. A mitigation action to change the operational behavior of the wireless access point is then generated and applied to mitigate the effect of the detected interference device on the Wi-Fi network. The management server further determines, using a data store containing the location of the wireless access points, whether other wireless access points will be affected by the presence of the interference device and sends mitigation actions to potentially affected devices.
US09998247B1	Controller-based network device timing synchronization In one example, a network controller manages a network having many network devices. Network devices can receive the timing flow port role assignments from the network controller based on the controller's global view of the network topology. The controller can also calculate timing offsets to be applied to the network devices, based on timestamp information obtained by the network devices via exchanging time synchronization protocol messages, and the controller can update time clocks on all of the network devices within a single window of time, based on a timing offsets calculated in single iteration of calculations.
US09998245B2	Broadcast response system A broadcast response system provides, e.g., a radio broadcast listener with the ability to obtain media content such as music or speech while listening to the radio. The user can respond to items in the radio broadcast such as advertisements, fund raising drives, or interactive listener polls during the broadcast. Data such as song title and artist, author or publisher and the IP address for the location where the digital version of the content is stored, can be transmitted using, e.g., the RBDS/RDS data stream. A reference number representing song title and artist, author or publisher and the IP address for the location where the digital version of the content is stored can also be employed for ease of implementation. This reference number can reside in a lookup table to be accessed by broadcast response server.
US09998242B2	Second order intercept point (IP2) calibration for wireless receivers IP2 calibration efficiency can be improved by passing the calibration signal through the transceiver's duplexer instead of inserting the calibration signal directly onto transceivers receive circuit. Passing the calibration signal through the duplexer may reduce IP2 calibration periods for transceivers having less-permeable duplexers, or duplexers that provide better than average separation between the RX and TX circuits. IP2 calibration inefficiencies can also be reduced by using a binary-like search when computing the in-phase and quadrature-phase path correction coefficients of the IP2 correction code.
US09998238B2	Method and device for mitigating interference due to a wireless charging signal The disclosure relates to a mobile device, comprising: a radio receiver configured to receive a radio signal; a power receiving unit (PRU) configured to receive a wireless charging signal from a power transmission unit (PTU) configured to charge the mobile device; a wireless broadcast receiver configured to receive a harmonic of the wireless charging signal during charging of the mobile device; a frequency manager configured to scan for a frequency of the harmonic and to detect a fundamental frequency of the wireless charging signal based on the scanned harmonic; and a mitigation module configured to mitigate a harmonic content of the wireless charging signal in the received radio signal based on the detected fundamental frequency of the wireless charging signal.
US09998237B2	Implant and method of operating the implant Embodiments include an implant and a method of operating the implant. The implant includes a receiver that receives first ultrasound signals emitted by an external transmitting unit of a further apparatus. The receiver includes a piezoelement, which is excited by the first ultrasound signals at a first resonance frequency (f1) and therefrom converts the mechanical energy transferred with the first ultrasound signals into electrical energy. In embodiments of the invention, the piezoelement is additionally excited at a second resonance frequency (f2), which differs from the first resonance frequency (f1), and at the second resonance frequency (f2) operates as a transmitter to transmit second ultrasound signals.
US09998235B2	In-band optical interference mitigation for direct-detection optical communication systems This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for mitigating the effects of interference signals on optical signals received at a direct-detection optical receivers. The optical receivers are capable of attenuating interference noise signals resulting from the interference between a transmitted optical signal transmitted from a transmitter to the optical receiver and one or more additional signals received at the optical receiver. The interference can be due to multi-path interference or due to in-band interference. The receivers include a tunable filter for filtering the received optical signal to remove the interference. A frequency offset module processes the received optical signal to determine a frequency offset indicative of the difference between the carrier frequencies of a modulated optical signal and an interference optical signal. The offset frequency and a bandwidth determined by the frequency offset module can be used to adjust the tunable filter to remove the interference signal from the received signal.
US09998231B2	Driver module for mach zehnder modulator A single chip dual-channel driver for two independent traveling wave modulators. The driver includes two differential pairs inputs per channel respectively configured to receive two digital differential pair signals. The driver further includes a two-bit DAC per channel coupled to the two differential pairs inputs to produce a single analog differential pair PAM signal at a differential pair output for driving a traveling wave modulator. Additionally, the driver includes a control block having internal voltage/current signal generators respective coupled to each input and the 2-bit DAC for providing a bias voltage, a tail current, a dither signal to assist modulation control per channel. Furthermore, the driver includes an internal I2C communication block coupled to a high-speed clock generator to generate control signals to the control block and coupled to host via an I2C digital communication interface.
US09998227B2	Optical module and detection circuit thereof The present invention discloses an optical module and a detection circuit thereof. The detection circuit includes: a sampling module, including a first potentiometer configured to convert a sampling current into a sampling voltage; an amplifying module, coupled to an output end of the sampling module and configured to amplify the sampling voltage; and an analog-to-digital conversion module, coupled to an output end of the amplifying module and configured to convert the amplified sampling voltage into a digital signal for detection. By arranging a potentiometer in a sampling module of a detection circuit, a resistance value of the sampling module can be adjusted, thereby adapting to responsivities of different modulators, increasing the locking speed of a modulator, preventing horizontal shifts of a locking point and a false locking point, and reducing the occupied PCB area.
US09998225B2	Protected ethernet ring with small form-factor pluggable devices An optical transceiver for use in network device in a packet network is provided. The network device may not be capable of providing a ring topology without use of the apparatus. The network device is configured to support at least two optical interfaces and an electrical interface, and coupled to an optical link. The optical transceiver includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, and a scheduler coupled to the processor. The scheduler of the optical transceiver is configured to perform as an information base for forwarding and transferring of packets and to use an optical link as a packet buffer.
US09998224B2	Audio system based on in-vehicle optical network and broadcasting method thereof An audio system based on an in-vehicle optical network and a broadcasting method thereof are provided. The audio system according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a multi-channel router which is connected to an in-vehicle optical network to receive a multi-channel audio signal from audio signals received from the optical network; and a plurality of speakers which are connected to the multi-channel router to receive the multi-channel audio signal through the multi-channel router. Accordingly, the speakers can operate by interworking with a network even when they have no function as network devices.
US09998220B2	Transmitting method, transmitting apparatus, and program A visible light signal transmitting method includes: determining a luminance change pattern to transmit the visible light signal; switching a common switch according to the luminance change pattern, the common switch being for turning ON a plurality of light sources in common; and turning ON a first pixel switch, to cause the first light source to be ON for a period in which the common switch is ON and the first pixel switch is ON, to transmit the visible light signal, the first light source being one of the plurality of light sources. In the turning ON of a first pixel switch, when the image is displayed on the display, the first pixel switch is switched to increase a lighting period that corresponds to the first light source, to compensate a period in which the first light source is OFF for transmission of the visible light signal.
US09998219B2	Auto-discovery of neighbor relationships and lighting installation self-mapping via visual light communication Networked intelligent lighting devices may utilize visual light communication to perform autonomous neighbor discovery, for example, as part of a map generation process. Individually, each intelligent lighting device within an installation transmits a series of packets via visual light communication for receipt by one or more of the other intelligent lighting devices. Receiving intelligent lighting devices record the number of received packets from each transmitter. Records of numbers of received packets are conveyed via a data communication network to a centralized process. The centralized process utilizes the conveyed records to determine neighbor relationships between lighting devices, for example to generate a map of devices as located within the installation.
US09998211B2	Protection switching method, system, and apparatus for passive optical network The present invention provides a protection switching method for a passive optical network. The method includes receiving, by an optical network unit ONU through each of two uplink passive optical network PON interfaces, an optical network terminal management and control interface OMCI message delivered by an OLT, where the OMCI message includes: configuration information on a work side and configuration information on a protect side; and processing, by the ONU by using each of two independent OMCI MIBs of the ONU, the OMCI message received by each of the two uplink PON interfaces, updating each of the two independent OMCI MIBs according to the OMCI message, and independently responding to the OMCI message.
US09998197B2	Signaling techniques to support downlink (DL) multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) in 60 GHz wireless networks Signaling techniques to support DL MU-MIMO in 60 GHz wireless networks are described. According to various such techniques, a transmitting 60 GHz-capable device may be configured to include DL MU-MIMO control information in a PHY header of a PPDU that comprises respective data for multiple receiving devices. In some embodiments, the DL MU-MIMO control information may include information identifying each such receiving device. In various embodiments, the DL MU-MIMO control information may include information specifying—for each such receiving device—one or more respective spatial streams that are assigned to that receiving device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09998195B2	Station (STA), access point (AP) and method for uplink sounding Embodiments of an access point (AP), station (STA) and method for uplink sounding are generally described herein. The AP may transmit an uplink (UL) sounding trigger frame (TF) that indicates a request to receive UL sounding elements from a group of one or more stations (STAs). The AP may receive UL sounding elements from the STAs in accordance with UL multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) reception. The AP may also receive, from at least a portion of the STAs, UL sounding feedback that includes one or more UL sounding transmission parameters used by the portion of the STAs for UL sounding element transmissions. The UL sounding TF may further indicate the portion of the STAs that are to transmit the UL sounding feedback.
US09998192B2	Method and terminal for performing beamforming based on sensor information of terminal A method and terminal for performing beamforming. The beamforming method of a terminal includes acquiring a beamforming signal, calculating a beamforming coefficient to correspond to locations of a transmitter and a receiver, based on the beamforming signal, acquiring sensor information of the terminal, estimating a channel parameter based on the sensor information, and determining a final beamforming coefficient based on the beamforming coefficient and the channel parameter.
US09998191B2	Communication control apparatus, communication control method, terminal apparatus, and information processing apparatus [Object] To make it possible to reduce an increase in the interference while reducing load involved in beamforming.[Solution] There is provided a communication control apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire cell identification information assigned to an individual three-dimensional beam formed by a directional antenna capable of forming a three-dimensional beam, and a control unit configured to control transmission of a reference signal performed using the individual three-dimensional beam, on the basis of the cell identification information. The control unit controls the transmission so that the reference signal is transmitted in a limited portion of available resource blocks.
US09998190B2	System and method for joint MIMO transmission and compression for interference mitigation with cooperative relay System and method embodiments are provided for interference mitigation and signal enhancement in downlink wireless communications for MIMO systems with device-to-device communications across cooperating user terminals. In an embodiment, a network controller initializes a transmit covariance for beam-forming a transmit signal of the MIMO transmission from a base-station to a destination terminal and a relay terminal, and initializes a quantization noise covariance used for compressing a relay signal from the relay terminal to the destination. The transmit covariance and the quantization noise covariance are initialized in accordance with known channel state information and with statistics of noise and interference for transmit and relay channels. The transmit covariance and the quantization noise covariance are then jointly optimized using an iterative algorithm in accordance with a capacity constraint on a relay link between the relay terminal and the destination terminal and a transmit signal power constraint of the base-station.
US09998189B1	Adaptive device and method for wireless network The present invention discloses an adaptive device and method for wireless network. The method comprises: detecting RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) of a plurality of antenna pairs of a MIMO system; selecting a first antenna pair which has the highest RSSI; using the first antenna pair to perform data transmission; detecting a data rate of the first antenna pair; and determining whether to adjust other antenna pairs to perform the data transmission according to the data rate.
US09998188B2	Signal transmission apparatus and downlink signal transmission method Embodiments provide a signal transmission apparatus and a downlink signal transmission method. A downlink common channel signal that needs to be sent by using a wide beam is divided into multiple groups of grouped signals; for each group of grouped signals, signal weighting is separately performed on different radio frequency paths in a multi-antenna system; weighted grouped signals are combined to obtain a weighted downlink common channel signal; and the weighted downlink common channel signal is transmitted.
US09998187B2	System and method for combining MIMO and mode-division multiplexing A communications system includes first signal processing circuitry for receiving a plurality of input data streams and applying a different orthogonal function to each of the plurality of input data streams. Second signal processing circuitry processes each of the plurality of input data streams having the different orthogonal function applied thereto to locate a first group of the plurality of input data streams having a first orthogonal function applied thereto onto a carrier signal and locates a second group of the plurality of input data streams having a second orthogonal function applied thereto onto the carrier signal. A transmitter transmits the carrier signal including the first group of the plurality of input data streams having the first orthogonal function applied thereto and the second group of the plurality of input data streams having the second orthogonal function applied thereto over a plurality of communications links from a plurality of transmitting antennas.
US09998183B2	Antenna alignment method and system An antenna alignment method and system, with the system having a first device having NAT transmit beams and NAR receive beams. The system has a second device having NBT transmit beams and NBR receive beams. The first device transmits a signal to the second device according to a first cycle, and traverses switching of NAT transmit beams according to a third beam mode. The second device receives a signal from the first device according to the first cycle, and traverses switching of NBR receive beams according to a fourth beam mode, counts a receive signal power in each first cycle, and obtains a receive signal power corresponding to each receive beam according to the fourth beam mode, to determine that a receive signal power corresponding to an Sth receive beam is the highest, and uses the Sth receive beam as a receive beam.
US09998181B1	Method, system and apparatus for selectively accessing content at a device A method, a system and an apparatus is configured for selectively accessing content at a device. A disabled NFC tag is attached to an electronic device capable of reading the NFC tag. While the NFC tag is disabled, the electronic device is able to read any other additional NFC tag as normal. When the disabled NFC tag is activated it is read by the electronic device and transmits stored data to the electronic device. In some embodiments, the NFC tag is activated by completing a circuit of the NFC tag. In some embodiments, the circuit is completed by depressing a button.
US09998178B2	Method of contactless communication between an object and a reader by active load modulation A method can be used for contactless communication of an object with a reader using active load modulation. A main clock signal is generated within the object. The generating includes a calibration phase and a transmission phase. The calibration phase includes locking an output signal of a controlled main oscillator onto a phase and frequency of a secondary clock signal received from the reader and estimating a frequency ratio between a frequency of the output signal of the main oscillator and a reference frequency of a reference signal originating from a reference oscillator. The transmission phase includes only frequency-locking the output signal of the main oscillator onto the frequency of the reference signal corrected by the estimated frequency ratio.
US09998174B2	Power line communication interference probing and measurement on digital subscriber lines This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for wireline communication. A digital subscriber line (DSL) receiver may detect one or more power line communication (PLC) sound packets and measure PLC signal leakage on a set of DSL lines based on the detected sound packets. For example, PLC sound packets may be transmitted by PLC devices within a PLC network, and impulse noise received on the set of DSL lines corresponding to the transmitted PLC sound packet may be detected by a DSL receiver (such as a consumer premises equipment (CPE)). The DSL receiver may measure PLC signal leakage on the set of DSL lines based on the detected PLC sound packets. In some cases, the PLC sound packets may be detected based on a duration, a position, or an arrival time of a PLC sound packet.
US09998167B2	Reconfigurable integrated RF front-end for dual-band WLAN transceivers Systems and techniques relating to wireless communication devices and reconfigurable an integrated RF Front-End for dual-band WLAN transceivers include, according to an aspect, an integrated circuit chip comprising: radio frequency (RF) Front-End circuitry, wherein the RF Front-End circuitry comprises (i) an antenna input line configured to connect with one or more antennas of a wireless communication device, (ii) a transmitter input line, (ii) a first receiver output line, (iii) and a second receiver output line; harmonic trap circuitry coupled with the RF Front-End circuitry via the antenna input line, the harmonic trap circuitry being fully integrated on the integrated circuit chip.
US09998163B2	Filter and transceiver comprising dielectric body resonators having frequency adjusting holes and negative coupling holes Embodiments relate to the field of technologies of components of communications devices, and provide a dielectric filter, which resolves a problem that a solid dielectric filter has a difficulty in implementing capacitive coupling. The dielectric filter includes at least two dielectric resonators, where each of the dielectric resonators includes a body made of a solid-state dielectric material, and an adjusting hole located on a surface of the body. The adjusting hole is a blind hole, configured to adjust a resonance frequency of the dielectric resonator on which the blind hole is located. The bodies of all the dielectric resonators included by the dielectric filter form a body of the dielectric filter.
US09998162B2	Scalable stochastic successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods using capacitor circuitry to sample a value of an input signal; comparators to compare the value of the input signal with a range of voltage values and provide comparison results; successive approximation register (SAR) logic circuitry to generate first bits and second bits based on the comparison results; and circuitry to calculate an average value of a value of the second bits and a value of bits of a portion of the first bits, and to generate output bits representing the value of the input signal, the output bits including bits generated based on the average value.
US09998161B2	Wireless communication device A wireless communication device which stores and transfers entire digital media files for later use at transfer speeds compliant with the 60 GHz wireless standard. An example wireless communication device includes a receiver for wirelessly receiving an entire digital media file and associated usage rights from a kiosk while the receiver is within a wireless reception range of the kiosk, a memory for storing the digital media file and the associated usage rights, transfer circuitry for transferring the digital media file and the associated usage rights, and a controller for operating the receiver to receive the entire digital media file and associated rights, for storing the digital media file for later playing, and for operating the transfer circuitry to transfer the digital media file and associated rights.
US09998157B2	Adaptive dual polarized MIMO for dynamically moving transmitter and receiver Systems and methods are presented for increasing throughput between mobile transmitters/receivers (e.g., between an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and a ground station) using orthogonally polarized transmission channels. The system may first calibrate the receiver and transmitter antenna pairs using pilot signals and then may update look up tables for feedforward correction. The system may decouple and predict the cross polarization interference due to relative dynamic movement between the transmitter and the receiver. The system may perform a closed-loop suboptimal estimation to generate refined corrections by minimizing a difference between a training vector and a pilot-signal feedback. Cross-polarization discrimination between the transmission and reception antennas may then be Cancelled to improve signal to noise and interference ratio and performance of the system.
US09998155B2	Signal processing device, signal processing method, information processing program and recording medium The invention relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, an information processing program and a recording medium, which removes wide-range frequency noise. In a signal processing device (10), a cycle of acquiring a signal from a sensor is a data acquisition cycle, which is shorter than a cycle of forwarding time sequence data from which noise is removed to a controller, that is, a forwarding cycle.
US09998153B2	Front-end module for carrier aggregation mode A new front-end module is disclosed. In an embodiment the front-end module is configured to operate carrier aggregation modes using a cascade of switches and an intelligent set of bands. The module can be assembled by sub-modules.
US09998151B2	Data storage device and operating method thereof A method for operating a data storage device including a nonvolatile memory device and first and second type decoders includes: obtaining a plurality entry values of total power consumption value of the first and second type decoders respectively based on a plurality entry values of decoding performance information of the first type decoders; choosing a minimum value among the plurality entry values of total power consumption value; generating first and second decoding control information according to the minimum value in order to control the first and second type decoders; updating the decoding performance information at each of the decoding operations of the first and second type decoders; and repeating the obtaining of the total power consumption value, the choosing of the minimum value, and the generating of the first and second decoding control information based on the updated decoding performance information.
US09998150B1	Layered data redundancy coding techniques for layer-local data recovery Techniques and methods for generating and implementing multiple layers of redundancy coded data are disclosed. For example, a redundancy coding scheme may include data elements that include data that is unencoded relative to the input, yet may still fully participate in providing redundancy to any data element in a given set. In a layered scheme, the input may include a bundle or group of encoded (or unencoded) data elements, thereby nesting two or more layers of redundancy coding. The specific amount of redundancy generated by such a scheme may be adjusted and adapted to failure characteristics of the entity on which the data elements are stored.
US09998149B2	Constant hamming weight coding Encoding or decoding can operate a processing system to apply one or more recursive relations to a known parameter associated with a length m and a Hamming weight l to produce a computed parameter associated with length m−1. An encoding process can thus assign values to bits of a code based on comparison of the data value being encoded and the computed parameter. A decoding process can use the computed parameters in a calculation of a decoded data value.
US09998145B2	Data processing method and device A data processing method and device are provided, where the method includes encoding data by using an arithmetic coding algorithm, so as to obtain a code value interval. When a code value corresponding to the data exists in the code value interval, obtaining the code value according to the code value interval. The method further includes comparing a quantity of bits of the code value with a quantity of bits of the data, so as to obtain a comparison result, and performing a storage operation according to the comparison result.
US09998141B2	Method and system for transmitting data A method and a system for transmitting data are provided. In a source apparatus, original data is divided into a plurality of source segments, a similarity calculation is performed for each of the source segments to obtain a similarity set, and the similarity set is transmitted to a target apparatus. In the target apparatus, whether a target segment corresponding to the source segment exists in the target apparatus is determined according to the similarity set to obtain a comparison result, and the comparison result is transmitted to the source apparatus. In the source apparatus, after the original data is dehydrated according to the comparison result to obtain dehydration data, the dehydration data is transmitted to the target apparatus. In the target apparatus, the dehydration data is rehydrated to the original data.
US09998134B1	Analog-to-digital converter circuit calibration system In various embodiments, at least one analog-to-digital converter (ADC) channel circuit may be used to convert an analog input signal into an output digital signal. A comparator threshold adjustment circuit may pseudorandomly modify at least one comparator threshold. A postprocessing circuit may identify, based on outputs of the ADC channel circuits, an ADC coefficient and may modify an output digital signal based on the ADC coefficient. As a result, the ADC channel circuits may more accurately convert the analog input signal into an output digital signal, as compared to a system that uses ADC channel circuits but does not include a postprocessing circuit. Further, a similar result may be obtained, as compared to a system that uses a higher gain amplifier, a higher speed amplifier, or both, but does not modify the one or more outputs.
US09998132B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device having an analog/digital conversion circuit converting an analog signal to a digital signal, includes a holding circuit outputting an analog signal having a value according to a value of an analog signal supplied in a first period; and a prediction circuit generating a first digital signal based on bit position information from a prediction table corresponding to the supplied analog signal.
US09998131B1	Hybrid analog-to-digital converter An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit includes a first ADC stage comprising a first successive approximation register (SAR) circuit that is configured to convert a current analog input signal into a first digital signal corresponding to a most-significant-bits (MSB) portion of a current digital output signal, and to generate a residual voltage corresponding to a voltage value difference between the current analog input signal and the first digital signal; a second ADC stage, coupled to the first ADC stage, comprising an amplifier circuit that is configured to amplify the residual voltage; and a third ADC stage, coupled to the second ADC stage, comprising a second SAR circuit that is configured to convert the amplified residual voltage into a second digital signal corresponding to a least-significant-bits (LSB) portion of the current digital output signal when the first SAR circuit receives a subsequent analog input signal.
US09998129B1	PLL post divider phase continuity A phase continuity architecture is provided to maintain the phase continuity for a post divider output signal from a post divider that post divides a PLL output signal. A pulse swallower removes a pulse from the PLL output signal responsive to an edge is a divided feedback clock signal. A sampler samples the post divider output signal responsive to a detection of the missing pulse to determine a phase relationship between the post divider output signal and the divided feedback clock signal.
US09998126B1	Delay locked loop (DLL) employing pulse to digital converter (PDC) for calibration Aspects of the disclosure are directed to generating a quadrature clock signal from an in-phase clock signal. In accordance with one aspect, a delay locked loop (DLL), including a first pulse to digital converter (PDC) to generate a first pulse width measurement, wherein the first pulse width measurement includes a first sign and a first magnitude; a second pulse to digital converter (PDC) to generate a second pulse width measurement, wherein the second pulse width measurement includes a second sign and a second magnitude; a digital loop filter coupled to the first PDC and the second PDC, the digital loop filter to generate a filtered comparison output based on the first pulse width measurement and the second pulse width measurement; and a first delay generation block to generate a quadrature clock signal based on the filtered comparison output and an in-phase clock signal.
US09998124B2	Low power clock source An ultra-low power clock source includes a compensated oscillator and an uncompensated oscillator coupled by a comparator circuit. In an example, the compensated oscillator is more stable than the uncompensated oscillator with respect to changes in one or more of temperature, voltage, age, or other environmental parameters. The uncompensated oscillator includes a configuration input configured to adjust an operating characteristic of the uncompensated oscillator. In an example, the uncompensated oscillator is adjusted using information from the comparator circuit about a comparison of output signals from the compensated oscillator and the uncompensated oscillator.
US09998109B1	Power module with improved reliability A power module includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a number of semiconductor die coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal. The semiconductor die are configured to provide a low-resistance path for current flow from the first terminal to the second terminal during a forward conduction mode of operation and a high-resistance path for current flow from the first terminal to the second terminal during a forward blocking configuration. Due to improvements made to the power module, it is able to pass a temperature, humidity, and bias test at 80% of its rated voltage for at least 1000 hours.
US09998100B2	Package programmable decoupling capacitor array A semiconductor chip allows for a selected amount of on-die decoupling capacitance to be connected to a very-large-scale integrated circuit (VLSI) system after the circuit design is complete. The semiconductor chip comprises an integrated circuit disposed on a packaging substrate, and a power distribution network that is electrically connectable to the integrated circuit via a programmable connectivity array via the packaging substrate.
US09998096B2	Wave separator A wave separator includes an n number (n being a natural number of 3 or larger) of band pass filters having an n number or larger of mutually different pass bands, and a common terminal. For a first of the band pass filters that is one of a band pass filter having a center frequency of a pass band at a lowest side and a band pass filter having a center frequency of a pass band at a highest side and that has a larger or equal difference in a center frequency of a pass band from an adjacent band pass filter as compared with the other band pass filter satisfies a predetermined configuration for a second band pass filter having a pass band adjacent to the first band pass filter.
US09998093B2	Resonator device, electronic apparatus, and moving object A resonator device includes a base including a fixed section and a movable section connected to the fixed section, a resonator element including a first base section, a second base section, and a vibration arm, one end of which is connected to the first base section and the other end of which is connected to the second base section, the first base section being fixed to the fixed section and the second base section being fixed to the movable section, a weight section connected onto the movable section, and a stress relaxing section provided between a connection region of the weight section and the vibration arm.
US09998088B2	Enhanced MEMS vibrating device A MEMS vibrating device includes a substrate, at least one anchor on a surface of the substrate, and a vibrating body suspended over the substrate by the at least one anchor. The vibrating body includes a first piezoelectric thin-film layer, a second piezoelectric thin-film layer over the first piezoelectric thin-film layer, and an inter-digital transducer embedded between the first piezoelectric thin-film layer and the second piezoelectric thin-film layer. Embedding the inter-digital transducer between the first piezoelectric thin-film layer and the second piezoelectric thin-film layer may result in enhanced vibrational characteristics of the MEMS vibrating device, thereby increasing the performance thereof.
US09998079B2	Amplifiers A chopper amplifier and method of operation are described. The chopper amplifier comprises a first chopper arranged to modulate an input signal using a first chopper signal having a chopper frequency. An amplification stage has an input arranged to receive the chopped signal and an output, and supplies an amplified signal at the output. An output chopper is arranged to integrate the amplified signal using a second chopper signal having the chopper frequency to generate an amplified output signal. The amplification stage is further configured to filter the chopped signal to attenuate signal components having frequencies lower than the chopper frequency.
US09998067B2	Photovoltaic module A photovoltaic module includes an encapsulated photovoltaic element and an infrared-transmissive decorative overlay simulating conventional roofing.
US09998066B2	Method and apparatus for forming and mounting a photovoltaic array A photovoltaic (PV) module framing and coupling system enables the attachment of PV modules to a roof or other mounting surface without requiring the use of separate structural support members which attach directly to and span between multiple PV modules in a formed PV array. The apparatus provides a parallel coupling for securely interlocking the outside surfaces of parallel frame members together in a side to side arrangement to form an array with improved structural load distribution. The coupling may attach to a slot in the frame at substantially any position along the length of the frame thereby enabling the interconnection of adjacent PV modules along both an x and y axis. The apparatus may further provide a rotating portion and locking portion, mounting brackets for direct connection to a mounting surface, grounding teeth, and a twist-lock engagement means for interlocking and aligning PV modules in the array.
US09998055B2	Low inductance power electronics configuration for electric drive systems A multi-stage power module is provided. The multi-stage power module may include at least one heat sink having a first surface, a second surface and an edge, a first set of switches disposed on the first surface of the heat sink, a second set of switches disposed on the second surface of the heat sink, a plurality of capacitors disposed adjacent to the edge of the heat sink, and a bus bar assembly symmetrically coupling the capacitors to each of the first set of switches and the second set of switches.
US09998051B2	Method for the reduction and modulation of noise of an electric motor A method for the noise modulation of a three-phase synchronous electric motor driven using a vector regulation by means of a motor control unit. Actual values for the rotated current components id and iq may be obtained in an open-loop control system, where id corresponds to the magnetization current and iq corresponds to the torque-forming current of the synchronous motor. The actual values may be compared with predetermined reference target values, and the differences between the actual values and the reference target values may be converted into control variables to regulate the actual values (iq, id) to the reference target values. The magnetization current-forming current component (id) may be adapted using an acoustic controller to a desired acoustic state depending on an acoustic state that was measured by a measuring device and was transmitted to the motor control unit.
US09998050B2	Operating a wind turbine being connected to a utility grid both via a HVDC power connection and via an umbilical AC cable with a network bridge controller performing a power and a voltage control A method is provided for controlling the operation of a wind turbine includes (a) receiving an active power reference signal; (b) determining, based on the active power reference signal and an active power feedback signal, a first voltage control signal and a power controller frequency signal; (c) receiving a power reference signal; (d) determining, based on the power reference signal and the power feedback signal, a power offset frequency signal; (e) determining, based on the power controller frequency signal, a second voltage control signal; (f) determining, based on the power offset frequency signal, an angle signal indicative for an actual angle of a rotating dq reference frame; and (g) controlling the operation of a power converter based on the first voltage control signal, the second voltage control signal, and the angle signal.
US09998047B2	Synchronous machine with rechargeable power storage devices A rotor portion of a synchronous machine includes a rotor. The rotor carries a field winding and a re-chargeable power storage device. The re-chargeable power storage device is electrically connected to the field winding to provide electrical power to the field winding while in generate or motor mode, and to provide electrical power to the re-chargeable power storage device while in a charge mode.
US09998045B2	Alternator controller In one embodiment, a generator includes a rotor configured to rotate in cooperation with a stator to generate electrical power. A sensor, which is supported by the rotor, is configured to generate a trigger signal indicative of a position of the rotor. A communication interface is configured to receive the trigger signal from the sensor of the rotor and receive data indicative of an output of the generator. A controller supported by the rotor or configured to perform a phase analysis of the trigger signal and the output of the generator and calculate a power angle for the generator based on the phase analysis.
US09998038B1	Fan motor power-off automatic braking circuit A fan motor power-off automatic braking circuit includes an energy storage unit, a motor drive circuit, a control unit and a resistance unit connected with an input power. The energy storage unit is electrically connected with the motor drive circuit for receiving and storing an operation voltage. The motor drive circuit has multiple upper arm switch components, multiple lower arm switch components, a first drive unit and a second drive unit. The control unit is respectively electrically connected with the lower arm switch components and the first and second drive units. When the fan is powered off, the energy storage unit provides the operation voltage to the upper arm switch components to switch on the same, whereby the upper arm switch components and the motor winding form a closed loop to achieve braking effect.
US09998032B2	Method of manufacturing a circuit device In one form, a method of manufacturing a circuit device comprises providing a lead frame comprising a plurality of leads, each comprising an island portion, a bonding portion elevated from the island portion, a slope portion extending obliquely so as to connect the island portion and the bonding portion, and a lead portion extending from the bonding portion. First and second transistors and first and second diodes are mounted upper surfaces of island portions of respective first and second leads, and are connected to the respective leads through wirings that connect the transistors and diodes to the bonding portions of the respective leads. Lower surfaces of the island portions are attached to an upper surface of a circuit board, and the circuit board, the transistors, the diodes, and the lead frame are encapsulated by a resin, so that the lead portions are not covered by the resin.
US09998031B2	PWM controlled neutral point clamped multilevel converter A neutral point clamped, multilevel level converter includes a DC voltage link; a first capacitor coupling one side of the DC link to a neutral point; a second capacitor coupling another side of the DC link to the neutral point; a plurality of phase legs, each phase leg including switches, each phase leg coupled to an AC node; a current sensor associated with each AC node; and a controller generating a PWM signal to control the switches, the controller generating a current zero sequence component in response to current sensed at each of the current sensors, the controller adjusting a modulation index signal in response to the current zero sequence component to produce the PWM signal.
US09998029B2	Inverter and inverter device According to one embodiment, an inverter including a detector which detects a value of an output voltage and a value of an output current; a command value input unit which is capable of receiving a current command value; a current command value compensating unit which, when the value of the output voltage detected by the detector is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, computes a compensation current value for compensating the current command value; an adder which adds the compensation current value to the current command value and outputs the compensated current command value; and a current controller which computes a voltage command value so that a difference between the compensated current command value and the output current detected by the detector becomes zero.
US09998027B2	Dual mode power supply controller with charge balance multipliers and charge balance multiplier circuits A circuit for generating an output current includes a control signal generating circuit that is configured to generate a control signal. The control signal is a function of a level of an analog input voltage signal, and a level of the output current is a function of a level of an analog input current signal and the level of the analog input voltage signal.
US09998024B2	Power conversion apparatus A power converter of a power conversion apparatus includes any one or more of a functional module in which a rectifier unit rectifying an externally supplied alternating-current voltage and an inverter unit converting a direct-current voltage into alternating-current power are combined, a functional module in which a converter unit converting an alternating-current voltage into a direct-current voltage and an inverter unit converting a direct-current voltage converted by the converter unit into alternating-current power are combined, and a functional module in which an inverter unit converting a direct-current voltage into alternating-current power is provided. The functional module has a cooler cooling a semiconductor component.
US09998022B2	Current limit peak regulation circuit for power converter with low standby power dissipation A current limit peak regulation circuit, a current limit circuit and a power converter including the current limit peak regulation circuit. The current limit peak regulation circuit provides a current limit threshold to limit a maximum allowable peak current value of a current flowing through a main switch of the power converter and adjusts the current limit threshold to decrease with decrease in a switching frequency of the power converter when the power converter is in a constant voltage mode so as to reduce power dissipation of the power converter in standby mode.
US09998017B2	Controller for a resonant converter A controller for a resonant converter, the resonant converter comprising a first switch and a second switch. The controller configured to: close the first switch to start a half cycle of operation; open the first switch before completion of the half cycle; maintain the first switch and the second switch in an open state in order to define a stop-interval; and end the stop-interval by closing the second switch.
US09998013B2	MOSFET driver with reduced power consumption A power supply can be operated in a low power mode by adjusting the pulses provided to a power supply switch until a pulse resulting in a reduced amount of power that exceeds a minimum power threshold required by a load coupled to the power supply switch is identified. For each successive switching cycle, a pulse causing a lower power to be provided to the load is produced. When a pulse is produced that causes a power to be provided to the load that does not exceed the minimum power threshold required by the load, a subsequent pulse is produced that causes a greater power to be provided to the load than the previous pulse. If the greater power exceeds the minimum power threshold, the subsequent pulse is stored and similar pulses are provided for the remainder of the low power mode.
US09998010B1	Automatically reconfigurable buck-boost DC-DC converter with shared capacitors An automatically reconfigurable Buck-Boost DC-DC converter having an input supply and an output voltage includes a linear regulator (LDO) for Buck configuration; a switched-capacitor DC-DC converter; a capacitor and switch array, and a gain selector to switch between the linear regulator (LDO) when an output DC level is higher than an input DC level (Buck configuration) and the switched-capacitor DC-DC converter when the output DC level is lower than the input DC level (Boost configuration).
US09998008B2	Active transient response for DC-DC converters A first power transistor of a DC-DC converter is connected between a voltage supply node and a common node, a second power transistor is connected between a reference node and the common node, and an inductor is connected between the common node and the output node of the DC-DC converter. A controller switches the first transistor off and the second transistor off during a step-down event at the load if current in the inductor exceeds a positive threshold value.
US09998005B2	Single inductor dual output voltage converter and the method thereof A voltage converter provides a positive voltage and a negative voltage with a single inductor. The voltage converter has a first switch, a second switch, a third switch and a fourth switch switched periodically, wherein each switching period comprise a first time period, a second time period and a third time period, and wherein: during the first time period, the first switch and the fourth switch are turned on, whereas the second switch and the third switch are turned off; during the second time period, the first switch and the third switch are turned on, whereas the second switch and the fourth switch are turned off; and during the third time period, the second switch and the fourth switch are turned on, whereas the first switch and the third switch are turned off.
US09998004B2	Accurate non-isolated high voltage DC-DC feedback A method and apparatus for regulating a non-isolated high voltage converter applies a PWM signal to a power transistor that couples an input voltage to a floating ground node to charge an inductor and generate an output voltage which is measured with a first floating comparator to disable the PWM signal upon detecting a high threshold output voltage, the first floating comparator having inputs connected across first and second resistive elements to measure a voltage across a feedback resistor connected in series with a diode between the output voltage and a neutral ground reference. Subsequently, the output voltage is measured with a second floating comparator to enable the PWM signal upon detecting a low threshold output voltage, where the second floating comparator has inputs connected across the first and second resistive elements to measure the feedback voltage across the feedback resistor.
US09998003B2	DC-DC converter, power receiving device, and power feeding system A circuit capable of keeping input impedance constant is provided. Further, a circuit which can contribute to improvement in power feeding efficiency in power feeding by a magnetic resonance method is provided. A voltage (a former voltage) proportional to a direct-current voltage input to a DC-DC converter from the outside and a voltage (a latter voltage) proportional to a current input from the outside are detected, and the ratio of the former voltage and the latter voltage are held constant. Accordingly, input impedance can be kept constant. Further, impedance conversion is performed in the DC-DC converter. Thus, even when the battery in which power feeding is performed exists on an output side of the DC-DC converter, input impedance can be kept constant. Consequently, power can be supplied to a power receiving device including the DC-DC converter and the battery with high power feeding efficiency by a magnetic resonance method.
US09998001B1	Zeno phenomenon avoidance in power controller handoff A control circuit eliminates the Zeno phenomenon in a power supply controller while transferring control from a primary side controller to a secondary side controller. The primary side controller generates a feedback voltage (e.g., threshold voltage) that is input to a comparator. An output node voltage of the control circuit is fed back to the linear amplifier to be compared with the threshold voltage. While the output node voltage is less than the threshold voltage, a charge pump is coupled to the output node of the control circuit. After the output node voltage has toggled around the threshold voltage a number of times, the comparator output node is coupled to the output node of the control circuit and the charge pump is decoupled from the output node. When the output node voltage has discharged to be equal to the threshold voltage, control is handed off from the primary side controller to the secondary side controller.
US09998000B2	Balancing charge pump circuits Methods and systems of controlling a switched capacitor converter are provided. Upon determining that a voltage across a flying capacitor is above a first threshold, a first current is drawn from a first terminal of the flying capacitor by a first current source, and a second current is provided to a second terminal of the flying capacitor by a second current source. Upon determining that the voltage across the flying capacitor is below a second threshold, the first current is provided to the first terminal of the flying capacitor by the first current source, and the second current is drawn from the second terminal of the flying capacitor by the second current source. Upon determining that the voltage across the flying capacitor is above the second threshold and below the first threshold from the reference voltage, the first and second current sources are turned OFF.
US09997999B2	Capacitive DC power transformer The present document relates to power transformers for electronic computing devices. In particular, a power converter configured to convert electrical power at a DC input voltage Vin into electrical power at a DC output voltage is described. The power converter comprises a plurality of flying capacitors, and a plurality of switches which are configured to arrange the plurality of flying capacitors in accordance to a sequence of operation phases. The power converter comprises a control unit configured to control the plurality of switches to repeat the sequence of operation phases at a duty cycle frequency. The plurality of flying capacitors is arranged in series during the operation phases of the sequence of operation phases. The sequence of operation phases comprises at least two operation phases during which the plurality of flying capacitors is arranged in a different order.
US09997998B2	Electronic circuit and boost converter An electronic circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a first logic circuit, a second logic circuit, first and second capacitors, and a connection circuit. The first logic circuit has a first output terminal from which a first output signal based on a first input signal is output. The second logic circuit outputs a second output signal obtained by inversion of the first output signal is output in a steady state. The first and second capacitors each have one terminal at a first voltage. The connection circuit connects one of the first output terminal and the second output terminal to the first capacitor, and the other to the second capacitor. The connection circuit interchanges connection destinations of the first capacitor and the second capacitor in accordance with a received first connection control signal.
US09997995B2	Three-phase parallel power converter load adjustment A sharing criteria metric is received for each of three phases of a three-phase power. Loads on power converters receiving the three phase power are adjusted based on the sharing criteria metric of each of the three phases.
US09997994B1	Totem-pole power factor corrector and current-sampling unit thereof A totem-pole PFC and a current-sampling unit of the totem-pole PFC are provided. The totem-pole PFC is electrically connected to an AC power source and a DC-to-DC converter, and is electrically connected to a load through the DC-to-DC converter. The current-sampling unit has a first sampling switch and a second sampling switch. The first sampling switch and the second sampling switch are controlled to be turned on and turned off so that a magnetizing current flows through the magnetizing inductor when a magnetizing inductor is magnetized and a demagnetizing current does not flow through the sampling resistor when the magnetizing inductor is demagnetized, thereby increasing the demagnetization efficiency and overcoming superimposed operations to improve current detection and increase conversion efficiency of the power conversion.
US09997991B2	Switched-mode power converter with a current limit circuit A switched-mode power converter with current limit circuits for limiting the input current into the power converter and/or the output current is presented. The power converter contains a feedback loop for controlling the output voltage of the converter. A first voltage comparison unit within the feedback loop compares an output voltage with a reference voltage and outputs an error voltage based on the comparison. The power converter also contains a current control unit for limiting the input/output current. The current control unit contains a current comparison unit and a connection unit. The current comparison unit compares the input/output current with a current threshold and outputs an intermediate voltage based on the comparison. The connection unit connects the output of the current comparison unit and the output of the current comparison unit to the output of the first voltage comparison unit if the input/output current exceeds the current threshold.
US09997989B2	Method and device for electrical current delivery using parallel semiconductor switches The disclosure relates to a method and a control device for controlling at power semiconductor switches connected in parallel for switching a total current. The semiconductor switches each have a gate terminal. An input terminal for feeding the total current, an output terminal for discharging the total current, and a joint control terminal for receiving a joint control signal that has the state ‘disconnect’ or ‘connect’ are provided. The power semiconductor switches are each connected between to the input terminal and the output terminal. At least one ascertainment unit is designed to receive the joint control signal, ascertain individual control signals in accordance with the joint control signal to control the individual power semiconductor switches, and output the individual control signals to the gate terminals of the power semiconductor switches. The individual control signals each have the state ‘disconnect’ or ‘connect’ and differ at least temporarily.
US09997988B2	Zero-crossing detection circuit In one embodiment, a zero-crossing detection circuit can include: (i) a first detection circuit configured to detect a current through a main transistor of a main circuit of a switching power supply, and to generate a voltage sense signal that represents the current through the main transistor; (ii) a second detection circuit configured to detect if quasi-resonance occurs in the main circuit, the second detection circuit being configured to generate at least one pulse signal when the quasi-resonance is detected; and (iii) a control circuit configured to receive the at least one pulse signal and the voltage sense signal, to turn the main transistor off when the current through the main transistor reaches a predetermined value, and to turn the main transistor on when the at least one pulse signal is active.
US09997986B2	Magnetic coupling A rotatable magnetic coupler includes disc carrying, circumferentially spaced magnets arranged in rows on a first side of the disc. The magnets are oriented such that one pole of a first magnetic polarity from each magnet faces outwardly from the disc rotation axis while the other pole of a second magnetic polarity for each magnet faces inwardly toward the axis of rotation. The inner row magnets are preferably of lesser height than the outer row magnets to intensify a virtual gear-coupling effect in the magnetic field lines. A magnetic coupling is formed when two such couplers are rotatably mounted sufficiently close to one another that their magnetic fields are coupled together, such that rotation of one coupler rotatably drives the second coupler.
US09997981B2	Electric machine An electric machine includes a housing, a driveshaft and a rotor which is mounted on the driveshaft. The driveshaft is supported on the housing by at least one rolling-contact bearing and in addition by an electrically-conductive slide bearing which also establishes an electric connection between the driveshaft and the housing.
US09997978B2	Apparatus and methods for generating electricity from composting One feature pertains to an apparatus that includes a segmented collector region, a hollow tower, and one or more turbines. The segmented collector region includes a plurality of sectors each capable of receiving compostable matter that heats air within the sectors as the compostable matter composts. The hollow tower includes a first end and a second end, where the first end of the hollow tower is coupled to the segmented collector region to allow airflows from the heated air in the plurality of sectors to flow from the plurality of sectors to the first end of the tower and then rise up through the hollow tower to the second end of the tower. The one or more turbines are positioned in a path of at least one of the airflows to generate electricity.
US09997976B2	Failure mode protection for electromechanical battery An electromechanical battery can include a rotary member made at least in part of a first material composition. The rotary member having an interior surface defining an internal core cavity and at least one central chamber. A plurality of permanent magnets supported by the interior surface of the core cavity. A core member can be disposed within the core cavity. At least one levitating magnet can be supported by an exterior surface of the core member. The rotary member levitated with respect to the core member by the permanent magnets and levitating magnet. A second material composition can reside within at least one of the rotary member and the core member. The first member material composition converts through chemical reaction when exposed to the second material composition into a third material composition. The third material composition characterized by energy absorption resisting continued rotation of the rotary member.
US09997975B2	Driving apparatus A driving apparatus (101) is provided with: a base part (110); a driven part (130) which is capable of rotating; an elastic part (120a, 120b) which connects the base part and the driven part and which has elasticity for allowing the driven part to rotate around a rotational axis which is an axis along one direction (Y axis); a coil part (140) which is disposed on the base part, wherein the driven part is disposed on an outside of a winding of the coil; and a magnetic field applying part (151, 152) which applies the magnet field to the coil part.
US09997974B2	Connector device A motor case (10) has connectors (30) fixed at motor case mounting holes (11), and an inverter case (50) has connectors (60) radially movable at inverter case mounting holes (65). The inverter case (50) is mounted on the motor case (10) so that the connectors (30, 60) fit together. A surface seal (45) is disposed on a lower surface of a flange (42) at an outer periphery of a housing (35) of the motor-side connectors (30), and is compressed elastically against an upper surface of the motor case (10) at an outer periphery of the motor case mounting holes (11). A metal pressing member (20) is fixed on the motor case (10) and presses the flange (42). An axial seal (47) is fit on the outer periphery of the housing (35) and is compressed elastically between the outer periphery and an inner periphery of the second mounting hole (65).
US09997970B2	Pump having a rotation prevention means and domestic appliance having a pump of this kind A pump has a DC pump drive motor with an electrically driven stator winding and a rotor which is mounted such that it can be driven in rotation in the field of the stator winding. The motor also has a motor shaft, a permanent-magnet ring and a holder which is mounted on the motor shaft and on which the permanent-magnet ring is held. The pump has a rotation-prevention device configured to secure the permanent-magnet ring against rotation about the axis of the rotor on the holder. A domestic appliance, in particular a dishwasher or a washing machine, is provided with a pump of this kind.
US09997969B2	Embedded magnet motor and rotor of embedded magnet motor An embedded magnet motor includes a stator core, a plurality of permanent magnets each having a rectangular cross section, and a rotor core. The stator core and the rotor core define a first air gap being positioned at an intermediate portion of the rotor core, a second air gap being positioned at a first portion corresponding to a first axis of the rotor core, and a third air gap being positioned at a second portion corresponding to a second axis of the rotor core. Because a diameter of the intermediate portion being positioned between the first portion and the second portion of the rotor core is set smaller than a diameter of the first portion and than a diameter of the second portion, the first air gap is set greater than the second air gap and than the third air gap.
US09997968B2	Fixing resin composition, rotor, automobile, and method of manufacturing rotor A solid fixing resin composition, which has excellent filling properties, and a rotor using the same are provided. The fixing resin composition is used to form a fixing member constituting a rotor which includes a rotor core (110) which has a laminate formed by lamination of a plurality of plate members, is fixed and installed on a rotating shaft, and has a plurality of hole portions (150) arranged along the peripheral portion of the rotating shaft, provided in the laminate; a magnet (120) inserted in the hole portion (150); and a fixing member (130) formed by curing a fixing resin composition, filled in the separation portion between the hole portion (150) and the magnet (120), the resin composition including a thermosetting resin (A) containing an epoxy resin; a curing agent (B); and an inorganic filler (C), in which the ICI viscosity at 150° C. of the epoxy resin is equal to or less than 3 poises.
US09997966B2	Stator fixing structure A stator fixing structure includes a tube and a fixing member. The tube has an outer surface, and both a stator set and the fixing member are fitted around the tube in a bottom-up sequence. The fixing member has a main body, which has a contact surface and an engaging unit. The engaging unit is circumferentially extended from the main body towards a center of the main body to form a plurality of free ends to tightly press against the outer surface of the tube. The contact surface is axially tightly in contact with the stator set to prevent the stator set from sliding.
US09997963B2	Techniques for scheduling delivery of wireless power in wireless power delivery environments Techniques are described herein for utilizing power requirements of a device in order to schedule wireless power delivery in wireless power delivery environments. In some embodiments, the techniques can alternatively or additionally employ advanced usage based power models to schedule wireless power delivery in wireless power delivery environments. For embodiments where device usage information is utilized, various means of collecting and analyzing the usage data may be employed. Furthermore, in some embodiments, some of the usage data may be ignored in order to ensure that the usage models for the device are not polluted with abnormal or detrimental data.
US09997961B2	Wireless power transmission system capable of continuing power transmission while suppressing heatup of foreign objects A power transmitting antenna includes a first resonant circuit including a power transmitting coil. A power receiving antenna includes a second resonant circuit including a power receiving coil. When the power transmitting antenna and the power receiving antenna are electromagnetically coupled to each other, the power transmitting antenna and the power receiving antenna have an odd-mode resonance frequency corresponding to an odd-mode resonant condition, and an even-mode resonance frequency corresponding to an even-mode resonant condition, and the even-mode resonance frequency is higher than the odd-mode resonance frequency. A wireless power transmitting apparatus is provided with a power transmitting circuit configured to generate high-frequency power at a variable frequency, and supply the high-frequency power to the power transmitting antenna. A control circuit sets the frequency of the high-frequency power generated by the power transmitting circuit to one of the odd-mode resonance frequency and the even-mode resonance frequency.
US09997957B2	Auto-switching duplex module A system and method (“utility”) for providing power to an electrically powered device from alternate, redundant power sources via a single power cord. The utility is operable to provide redundant power to an electrical device having a power cord terminating in a standard plug. The utility is operable to sense a loss of power quality from one power source, and to switch a connection to another power source in response to the loss. The utility may be configured to match the form factor of a standard (e.g., NEMA or other electrical standard) duplex receptacle unit. The utility may be incorporated into a standard outlet box or may plug into a standard outlet box.
US09997956B1	Systems, apparatus, and methods for automatic generation control islanded operation Embodiments provide systems, apparatus, and methods for power distribution during islanding conditions. Embodiments include power generating resources operating within a control area; power consuming loads; a power transmission network coupling the resources to the loads; and an energy management system in communication with the resources and configured to control operation of the resources within the control area. The energy management system is operative to divide the control area into a plurality of isolation areas in response to detecting that isolation areas have occurred within the control area, assign at least one of the resources to each of the isolation areas, disable operation of the control area, enable each of the isolation areas to operate as an island having automatic gain control, balance a generation level and load level for each isolation area, and use load frequency control to stabilize operation of each isolation area. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed.
US09997953B2	Battery system Provided is a battery system including: a solar panel that generates power using solar light; a power conditioning system (PCS) for solar light that converts a direct-current power which is output from the solar panel into an alternating-current power and supplies the converted power to a power system; a secondary battery; a PCS for the secondary battery that converts direct-current power charged and discharged from the secondary battery into alternating-current power and charges and discharges the converted power to and from the power system; and a smoothing unit that calculates a target value with respect to a composite value of power which is supplied to the power system by the solar panel and the secondary battery and gives a charge and discharge command to the PCS for the secondary battery in accordance with the target value. The smoothing unit includes a sample number calculation unit, a moving average calculation unit, and data of an amount of solar radiation, a moving average of an amount of power generation of the solar panel is calculated using a predetermined number of samples in the sample number calculation unit, and the number of samples is increased and decreased corresponding to an increase or decrease in the data of an amount of solar radiation.
US09997952B2	Wireless charging module and mobile terminal including the same A chargeable communication module is provided, which includes a wireless power charging coil; first and second wireless communication coils, which are respectively electrically isolated from the wireless power charging coil; and a magnetic sheet. The wireless power charging coil is disposed on a surface of the magnetic sheet. The first and second wireless communication coils are adjacent to and outside of the wireless power charging coil. At least a portion of the first wireless communication coil is disposed on the surface of the magnetic sheet. At least a portion of the second wireless communication coil is disposed on the surface of the magnetic sheet.
US09997950B2	Receiving antenna and wireless power receiving device including the same A receiving antenna of a wireless power receiving device wirelessly charging electric power according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate, a first soft magnetic layer stacked on the substrate, and including a soft magnetic material, and a receiving coil configured to receive electromagnetic energy emitted from a wireless power transmission device, and including a first coil layer wound in parallel with the soft magnetic layer, and a second coil layer electrically connected to the first coil layer and wound in parallel with the first coil layer, and a current direction of the first coil layer is opposite to a current direction of the second coil layer.
US09997945B2	Chargeable device and charger thereof Disclosed is a chargeable device having a processing circuitry configured to detect a voltage level at a first point of the processing circuitry. The first point is electrically coupled via a first resistor to a source of measurement signal and via a diode to a second point. The second point being electrically coupled via a second resistor to a first charger contact of the chargeable device and via a third resistor to a second charger contact of the chargeable device. The processing circuitry is configured to determine, from the voltage level detected at the first point, whether or not the first charger contact and the second charger contact of the chargeable device are electrically connected to a charger and whether or not the charger is energized.
US09997944B2	Method and system of charging a battery Embodiments herein disclose a method and system of charging a battery. The method includes identifying a state of the battery and a plurality of current levels corresponding to the state of the battery. Furthermore, the method includes charging the battery by applying the plurality of current levels corresponding to a pre-defined sequence to attain a cut-off voltage of the battery.
US09997942B2	Battery charging method and apparatus with power point check and switchable control In embodiments, apparatuses, methods and systems associated with battery charging are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a reference current selector may receive a battery voltage sense input and output a reference current level signal, a power point check detector may receive a power supply sense input and output a power point check signal, and a controller coupled to the reference current selector and the power point check detector may receive a battery current sense input and switch a control output based at least in part on the reference current level signal, the battery current sense input, and the power point check signal. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09997938B2	Circuit arrangement and a method for charging a dc link capacitor, as well as a battery and motor vehicle comprising such a circuit arrangement A circuit arrangement for charging a DC link capacitor with electrical energy from a charging battery includes a first switching element. The first switching element can optionally electrically connect a first connection contact of the circuit arrangement for the charging battery to a second connection contact of the circuit arrangement for the DC link capacitor. The circuit arrangement also includes an electrical pre-charging resistor that can connect in parallel with the first switching element. The circuit arrangement also includes two second switching elements that can be connected in series with the pre-charging resistor and in parallel with the first switching element.
US09997937B2	Electronic cigarette charging apparatus An electronic cigarette charging apparatus used for charging a battery rod (100) of an electronic cigarette. One end of the battery rod (100) is provided with a first electrode (101) and a second electrode (102) both electrically connected to the electronic cigarette charging apparatus. The electronic cigarette charging apparatus includes a first magnetic charging electrode (2). The first charging electrode (2) is provided with at least one butted curved surface corresponding to the position of the first electrode (101) or the second electrode (102). During the charging, the first charging electrode (2) abuts against and is in magnetic attraction with the first electrode (101) or the second electrode (102) to form conductive connection. The implementation of the electronic cigarette charging apparatus has the beneficial effects: the electronic cigarette charging apparatus can increase the contact area of the charging electrode (2) and the battery rod (100), and the charging is stable.
US09997936B2	System for charging mobile device using an ad-hoc infrastructure with energy harvesting capabilities A system and method for charging of a mobile device in an ad hoc parked vehicle charging system. A plurality of mobile device users and charging vehicles are registered in the ad hoc parked vehicle charging system. The current charge of an authenticated mobile device user is monitoring and the user is automatically alerted the authenticated user that the current charge is below a threshold set in the user's charging profile. The method includes locating registered charging vehicles parked within a preset distance range of the authenticated user and sending the parked location information to the user, automatically enabling a wireless charging connection between the authenticated user's mobile device and a parked registered charging vehicle selected by the user and automatically controlling charging the authenticated user's mobile device according to the authenticated user's charging profile and the parked registered charging vehicle's charge supply profile.
US09997935B2	System and method for charging a barcode scanner Cordless indicia readers may use a rechargeable energy storage unit (RESU) for power. The RESU may include either at least one lithium-ion battery or at least one super capacitor. Problems may arise when an RESU containing a lithium-ion battery is charged using a super-capacitor charging-scheme. The present invention embraces a system and method for charging a barcode scanner that includes determining the RESU type and then charging the RESU with a charging process that is appropriate for the RESU type.
US09997933B2	Systems and methods for battery charging and management A charging device can include an input interface for receiving electrical power from a power source and an output interface for outputting electrical power to a mobile electronic device. The charging device can include a supplemental battery. A bypass electrical pathway can couple the input interface to the output interface to pass electrical charge from the power supply through the charging device to the mobile electronic device. A charging electrical pathway can couple the input interface to the supplemental battery. A discharge electrical pathway can couple the supplemental battery to the output interface. The bypass electrical pathway can include a voltage modifier configured to modify the voltage output by the output interface. The charging device can be configured to empirically determine the power capacity of the power supply. The charging device can monitor temperatures and/or battery health information, which can be used to reduce current or disable the charging device.
US09997929B2	Foreign object detecting device, wireless power transmitting apparatus, and wireless power transfer system A foreign object detecting device includes first, second, and third coils and a foreign object detecting circuit. The foreign object detecting circuit outputs a first detecting signal having a first predetermined waveform to a first terminal of the first coil and outputs a second detecting signal having a second predetermined waveform, which is an inverted form of the first predetermined waveform, to a fifth terminal of the third coil to cause a combined magnetic field extending over the first and third coils. The foreign object detecting circuit measures an amount of change of the impedance value of the first or third coil with respect to a change in the combined magnetic field in the case of the presence of a foreign object. The amount of change exceeds a predetermined value, the foreign object detecting circuit determines that there is a foreign object above the second coil.
US09997927B2	Power transmission apparatus, control method of power transmission apparatus, and storage medium A power transmission apparatus that wirelessly transmits power includes a detection unit that detects an object, an authentication unit that performs authentication processing including a determination whether the object detected by the detection unit is a power reception apparatus, a power transmission unit that wirelessly transmits power according to a result of the authentication processing performed by the authentication unit, a reception unit that receives a power transmission stop request, and a control unit that stops power transmission according to reception of the power transmission stop request and controls the authentication unit so that the authentication processing is not performed in a period from when the power transmission is stopped to when another object different from the object determined to be a power reception apparatus is detected by the detection unit.
US09997926B2	Home appliance and operating method thereof A home appliance includes a driver to drive a load, a power supply to convert AC power supplied from an outside of the home appliance, and to receive DC power during interruption of electric power, and a controller (1) to perform a control operation to supply first electric power based on the supplied AC power to the load in accordance with a normal operation mode when no interruption of electric power occurs, (2) to perform a control operation to supply second electric power based on the supplied DC power to the load in accordance with the normal operation mode when no interruption of electric power occurs, and (3) to perform a control operation to supply third electric power based on the supplied DC power to the load in accordance with a power saving mode upon the interruption of electric power.
US09997917B2	Transformerless power conversion Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for non-isolated power conversion. In one aspect, a method includes generating first and second rectified outputs using a rectifier with a first input and a second input connected respectively to a first and second output of a power source, capacitively coupling the first and second rectified outputs to a neutral, generating first and second AC outputs from the first and second rectified outputs, and capacitively coupling the first and second AC outputs to the neutral. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer programs, configured to perform the actions of the methods, encoded on computer storage devices.
US09997915B2	Method and system for using demand side resources to provide frequency regulation using a dynamic allocation of energy resources Dispatch engines service endpoints by transmitting dispatch signals to the serviced endpoints that cause the endpoints to adjust their electric power consumption from the electric power grid in accord with a control signal received by the dispatch engine. A market interface dispatch engine receives its control signal from an electric power grid managing entity, and downstream dispatch engines form a hierarchy cascading downstream from the market interface dispatch engine with each downstream dispatch engine being an endpoint serviced by a dispatch engine located upstream in the hierarchy. The control signal received by each downstream dispatch engine comprises dispatch signals transmitted by the upstream dispatch engine. The endpoints further include electric power-consuming loads. A suitable load controller comprises separate power interface and logic elements operatively connected to define the load controller, with the logic element powered by low voltage DC power received from the power interface element.
US09997914B2	Supporting electric utility performance with dispatchable distributed energy resources Distributed energy resources are validated by dispatching a distributed energy resources individually in known ambient conditions and monitoring the particular effect of dispatch to then establish a database of performance for multiple different distributed energy resources. The distributed energy resources can be permanently monitored to further build up this database and to verify that the distributed energy resource is performing consistent with its validation or other expected performance. Distributed energy resources of a slow responding variety and a fast responding variety can be paired together and dispatched together, so that the paired fast responding and slow responding distributed energy resources mimic a large fast responding distributed energy resource. The benefits of a high capacity fast responding distributed energy resource is thus provided, such as for the load shedding and grid support benefits thereof.
US09997913B2	Systems and methods for operation of an AC power supply distribution circuit Systems and methods for operation of an AC power supply distribution circuit that has a limited supply capacity rely on dynamically measured available load capacity to regulate operation of the AC power supply circuit, and existing and potential loads, to avoid fault or damage.
US09997911B2	Generating electric substation load transfer control parameters A method for generating electric substation load transfer control parameters includes adjusting elements in a fundamental scale matrix according to a condition change of a power grid, wherein the fundamental scale matrix is constructed based on the topology structure of the power grid, and the elements in the fundamental scale matrix represent switch information and risk values of paths between nodes of the power grid, wherein the switch information represents number of switching times required for connecting two nodes of the power grid; and performing operations on the adjusted fundamental scale matrix to generate switch information and risk values of paths for electric substation load transfer control, as electric substation load transfer control parameters.
US09997909B2	Surge protection device Disclosed is a surge protection device (10, 110) for an outdoor lighting fixture that includes a live connection (23A, 123A), a neutral connection (23B, 123B), and a ground connection (23C, 123C). A first varistor (42) and a second varistor (43) may be electrically connected to one another in a series connection between the live and neutral connections and a third varistor (41) electrically connected between the live and neutral connections in a parallel configuration with the first varistor and the second varistor. A surge arrestor (46, 146) may also be electrically connected between the ground connection (23C, 123C) and the series connection between the first varistor and the second varistor.
US09997905B2	Control device A control device that can realize low power consumption even if the temperature of a wire is erroneously calculated. A control unit calculates, for each of one or more wires, a temperature difference between an ambient temperature of the wire and a temperature of the wire over time, and supplies/interrupts an electric current that flows through the wire. The control unit interrupts, for each of the wires, the electric current if the temperature sum of the calculated temperature difference and the ambient temperature is greater than or equal to a first threshold. The control unit measures a time period in which the electric current is being interrupted. If, for each of the wires the calculated temperature difference is less than a second threshold or the measure time period exceeds a predetermined time period, the control unit halts the calculation of the temperature of the wires.
US09997904B2	Method for controlling trip event of inverter Disclosed herein is a method for controlling a trip event of an inverter by taking into account the temperature of the inverter. The method includes: sensing a change in temperature of the inverter for an overload current measurement time using the temperature sensing circuit; determining an amount of heat emitted from the inverter based on the change in temperature; determining an electrical energy of the inverter consumed for the overload current measurement time; determining a compensation reference time based on the amount of heat and the electrical energy; and comparing the compensation reference time with the overload current measurement time to trip the inverter. As a result, the actual temperature of the inverter measured when the inverter is in operation is reflected, so that the trip event of the inverter can be controlled more accurately.
US09997900B2	Protecting cap for terminal consolidation splice A water proofing protecting cap that is placed over a terminal consolidation splice portion of a wire harness. The protecting cap being a dip molded transparent tubular body that is provided with a bottom portion wherein, from an opening for insertion at the other end, the protecting cap can be filled with a water sealant and a terminal consolidation splice portion of a wire harness is insertable. A marking line made by a rib on a male mold used in the dip molding is provided in a circumferential direction on an inner circumferential surface of a peripheral wall and is distanced by a required height from an inner surface of the bottom portion toward the opening, and a non-transparent line is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the peripheral wall following the marking line. The non-transparent line serving as a control line for a lower end position of the consolidation splice portion.
US09997899B2	Modular cable management spools Improved cable management spools for patch panel assemblies/patching systems are provided. The present disclosure provides improved systems/methods for the design and use of modular cable management spool assemblies configured to mount with respect to media patching systems (e.g., to patch panel assemblies configured to support multiple media connections). The modular cable management spools are configured to mount with respect to media patching systems and/or to related supporting structures (e.g., to cable management plates, to racks, etc.) for cable management purposes. Disclosed herein is a patching system utilizing modular cable management spools for cable management purposes, the patching system (e.g., high density patching system) configured to support copper-based and/or fiber optic connections in the same patching system/enclosure.
US09997895B2	Load buss assembly and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a load buss array assembly includes placing a plurality of load conductors within a thermally conductive substrate, placing a portion of a load connector within the thermally conductive substrate, and electrically connecting the load conductors to the portion of the load connector within the thermally conductive substrate.
US09997893B2	Semiconductor laser diode and method of fabricating the same Provided are a semiconductor laser diode and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor laser diode includes a c-plane substrate, a group III nitride layer disposed on the c-plane substrate, and a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer disposed on the group III nitride layer in the stated order, wherein each of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer is exposed to the outside of the semiconductor laser diode.
US09997891B2	Widely tunable short cavity laser A tunable source includes a short-cavity laser optimized for performance and reliability in SSOCT imaging systems, spectroscopic detection systems, and other types of detection and sensing systems. The short cavity laser has a large free spectral range cavity, fast tuning response and single transverse, longitudinal and polarization mode operation, and includes embodiments for fast and wide tuning, and optimized spectral shaping. Disclosed are both electrical and optical pumping in a MEMS-VCSEL geometry with mirror and gain regions optimized for wide tuning, high output power, and a variety of preferred wavelength ranges; and a semiconductor optical amplifier, combined with the short-cavity laser to produce high-power, spectrally shaped operation. Several preferred imaging and detection systems make use of this tunable source for optimized operation are also disclosed.
US09997890B2	Discrete wavelength tunable laser A multisection digital supermode-distributed Bragg reflector (MSDS-DBR) comprising: a plurality P of digital supermode Bragg reflector (DS-DBR) grating sections arranged along a waveguide; wherein each DS-DBR grating section is configured to pass or reflect light over a given spectral region, the given spectral region being different from the spectral regions of the other DS-DBR grating sections; wherein each DS-DBR grating section comprises a plurality M of grating sub-regions, each sub-region corresponding to a spectral sub-band within the spectral region of the DS-DBR grating section, and wherein each grating sub-region includes a positive electrical contact and a negative electrical contact; said grating sub-region being configured to pass or reflect light of its spectral sub-band when an electrical bias is provided between its positive and negative electrical contacts.
US09997889B1	Threshold fluorescence detection for protection of laser systems A laser device includes a gain medium configured to receive an excitation light and emit a fluorescence signal based on an amount of stored excitation light accumulated in the gain medium. The laser device includes a pump source configured to pump the excitation light to the gain medium using a supply voltage. The laser device includes one or more photodetectors configured to detect the fluorescence signal. The laser device also includes a comparator configured to generate an alert signal indicating an intensity of the detected fluorescence signal is greater than a threshold. The alert signal can trigger certain actions to occur for disrupting a destructive lasing action including one or more of ceasing output of the supply voltage to the pump source, spoiling an optical cavity to obstruct lasing action through the gain medium, or inserting a seed light to extract gain from the gain medium in a non-destructive manner.
US09997886B2	Method of forming termination end on cable A method of forming a terminating end of a cable, comprising the steps of: providing a cable; cutting a circumferential slit through an outer insulation layer; clamping a first section of the outer insulation layer with a first clamping device, and clamping a second section of the outer insulation layer with a second clamping device; displacing the first clamping device, separating the first section from the second section and exposing a section of a metal braid; displacing the first clamping device; pushing and pressing the exposed section to fold the exposed section into a braid protrusion portion; loosening the first and second clamping devices, and removing the cable from the first and second clamping devices; cutting the braid protrusion portion with a cutting device to form a protruding braid portion, the protruding braid portion; and removing the first section of the outer insulation layer and a first protruding braid portion.
US09997884B1	Connector A connector includes an inner sleeve through which a central conductor and an insulator of a coaxial cable are passed, and an outer sleeve through which the central conductor, the insulator and a shield member of the coaxial cable are passed, the inner sleeve including a rotatable cylindrical member and having a cutout window opened by a predetermined angle range in a circumferential direction, a front end and a rear end of the cutout window in a direction along the central conductor coinciding with a front end of the central conductor and a front end of the insulator, respectively, the predetermined angle range of the cutout window being smaller than 180°, a straight line between both ends in the circumferential direction of the cutout window passing outside the central conductor.
US09997882B1	Electrical charging devices and assemblies Electrical charging devices and assemblies are provided herein. An example apparatus includes a cradle configured to receive and retain an electronic device, side rail tracks extending below the cradle, an electronics tray defining a recess that receives an interchangeable electronics assembly, the interchangeable electronics assembly having electrical conductors, means for electrically coupling the interchangeable electronics assembly with the electronic device, when the electronics tray is coupled with the side rail tracks, and the interchangeable electronics assembly being disposed inside the recess such that the electrical conductors protrude from the electronics tray.
US09997875B2	Connector and cable with torque-limiting features A connector includes separate portions that rotatably couple together and form a connector. The portions include elements for defining cavities and or slots therebetween that accept one or more shear elements, such as shear pins for the purposes of coupling the separate portions together in forming a unitary connector. The connector might be used between a cable and another connector or could form part of the connector on a cable. The shear element is configured for engaging the various portions and spanning across the interface for joining the portions together. The shear element is configured for breaking when a sufficient torque force is applied between the connector portions.
US09997871B2	Electrical cable connector with grounding sheet A first terminal module and a second terminal module are integrally assembled with the base, and each of the first terminal module and the second terminal module includes the insulator and the corresponding terminals embedded therein. The first terminal module and the second terminal module are stacked with each other with a metallic shielding plate therebetween. The shielding plate includes front spring fingers and rear spring fingers respectively mechanically and electrically connected with the contacting sections and connecting sections of the respective grounding terminals.
US09997868B1	Electrical connector with improved impedance characteristics A shroud that forms part of an electrical connector for securing a plurality of circuit wafers within the electrical connector includes a top wall, a bottom wall, and a plurality of vertical members extending between the top and bottom walls that define a plurality of slots for receiving the plurality of circuit wafers. Each vertical member includes a first side that faces a second side of an adjacent vertical member. The first side defines top, middle, and bottom surface regions that are spaced apart from the second side of the adjacent vertical member by a first distance, and first and second recessed surface regions between the top, middle, and bottom surface regions that are spaced apart from the second side of the adjacent vertical member by a second distance that is greater than the first distance. The first and second recessed surface regions are positioned so as to prevent direct contact between the vertical members and one or more high-frequency traces disposed on the plurality of circuit wafers.
US09997865B2	Electrical connector and method of making the same An electrical connector includes: a plug connector including an insulative housing, plural conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing, a shielding plate affixed to the insulative housing, and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; and an insulative shell attached to the plug connector and a silicon o-ring integrated with an opening of the insulative shell.
US09997861B2	Force limiting latch indicator A latch indicator apparatus for indicating a locked status of an attachment between a cable housing and a cable receptor. The latch indicator apparatus includes a latch indicator attached to a cable housing at an attachment point, a first resistive element having a first resistance, and is attached to the cable housing at the attachment point. The restive element of the latch indicator attaches to an indicator tab. The latch indicator includes an indicator window, which is positioned to indicate a locked status of the latch indicator based on the first resistance of the first resistive element. The latch indicator tests a connection between a cable housing and a cable housing by indicating a locked status. The locked status is indicated by exerting a first force on the indicator tab by pulling the indicator tab in a direction away from the connection between the cable housing and the cable receptor.
US09997859B2	Electrical connector having a firmly secured front sealing member An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion; plural contacts affixed to the insulative housing and exposed to the tongue portion; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing and having a front end; an outer cover enclosing the shielding shell and having a front protrusion; and a front sealer having a front main body, a rear securing portion, and a pair of connecting portions connected between the front main body and the rear securing portion; wherein a groove is defined between the front end of the shielding shell and the front protrusion of the outer cover; and the front main body is disposed in the groove and the rear securing portion is disposed behind the front protrusion of the outer cover.
US09997856B2	AC socket, power cord and display apparatus having the same A display apparatus in which a height of an AC socket protruding to a rear side of a printed circuit board is reduced and a power cord is provided to be in close contact with a product to provide a display apparatus in which a creeping distance is increased to prevent the printed circuit board from being damaged by a high voltage or a stroke of lightning.
US09997855B2	Pressure contact type connector and manufacturing method of the same A pressure contact type connector includes: an upper flat plate portion; a lower flat plate portion which is disposed below the upper flat plate portion; a first spring portion which connects the upper and lower flat plate portions; and a second spring portion which extends upward from the lower flat plate portion and applies a resilient force to the upper flat plate portion, in which the first and second spring portions are wound about the upper flat plate portion when viewed from above in a plan view, and extend so that the spring portions do not interfere with each other when being compressed and extended in the vertical direction, the first spring portion is formed to be bent so that a width dimension is larger than a thickness dimension, and the second spring portion is formed to be bent so that a width dimension is larger than a thickness dimension.
US09997854B2	Movable connector Connection reliability of terminals in a movable connector is enhanced. The movable connector includes a fixed housing having an abutment receiving portion and a movable housing having an abutment portion. When a pin terminal is fitted and inserted, the abutment portion abuts on the abutment receiving portion. This prevents arcuate curved deformation of the movable housing, and restricts a movable piece of a terminal at a center portion of the movable housing from being slightly stretched from the beginning of fitting and from constantly receiving load.
US09997852B2	Electrical connector having power contacts and holding members acting as additional power contacts An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing; plural signal contacts secured to the insulative housing; plural power contacts secured to the insulative housing; and a pair of holding members secured to two opposite ends of the insulative housing, wherein the power contacts are disposed adjacent to the pair of holding members and the pair of holding members also act as power contacts.
US09997843B2	Band-selective aperture shading for sidelobe reduction in TX/RX phased array satellite communications transceivers For phased array aperture shading for sidelobe reduction in satellite communication transceivers, apparatus and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a planar array antenna tile having a plurality of patch antenna elements. The apparatus also includes a transmit feed point that drives the planar array antenna tile. The apparatus further includes a feed network element that distributes power unequally among two or more of the patch antenna elements, wherein the feed network element connects the two or more patch antenna elements to the transmit feed point.
US09997839B2	Metal pattern on electromagnetic absorber structure A metal pattern formed in the electromagnetic absorber structure is provided. By performing the laser treatment to form the active layer thereon, the metal pattern can be regionally formed on the electromagnetic absorber structure in the following electroless plating processes.
US09997836B2	Reradiation antenna and wireless charger A reradiation antenna including an insulation panel; a ground contact formed on one side of the insulation panel; a slot formed by eliminating a part of the ground contact by exposing the insulation panel; a power feeding unit formed on the insulation panel between the slot and separated from the ground contact and connected with a power source using a first end of the power feeding unit; and a radiation unit formed on one side of the insulation panel, and connected with a second end of the power feeding unit positioned at an opened end of the slot.
US09997835B2	Bobbin for bar antenna and bar antenna including bobbin A bobbin for a bar antenna includes a core holding portion being configured to be mounted with a stick-shaped core, and a restriction portion being connected to the core holding portion, the restriction portion being configured to restrict a turned-back portion of a conductive wire from moving to a side where a lamination portion is positioned, the conductive wire forming the lamination portion by being wound to the core in a first direction in a longitudinal direction of the core, the turned-back portion serving as a portion being turned back in a second direction that is different from the first direction.
US09997831B2	Compact wideband radio frequency antenna systems and associated methods A compact, wideband antenna system includes first and second monopole radiating elements positioned near an edge of a common ground plane. The first and second monopole radiating elements may be located on opposite sides of the ground plane. Additional monopole elements may also be provided. In some embodiments, the ground plane includes an opening in a central region thereof to accommodate an optical system. In some embodiments, an additional antenna (e.g., an array antenna) may be provided over the same ground plane in a region between the monopole elements.
US09997830B2	Antenna system and method for full duplex wireless transmission with channel phase-based encryption An antenna assembly includes a first active antenna element and a second active antenna element, each of which may be a dipole. A first set of independently-switchable radio-frequency reflectors are positioned around at least the first active antenna element. These first switchable radio-frequency reflectors may also be positioned around the second active antenna element. Alternatively, a second set of independently-switchable radio-frequency reflectors may be positioned around the second active antenna element. The switchable reflectors enable controlled perturbation of the communication channel between the antenna assembly and a remote communications node, enabling securely encrypted communications.
US09997828B2	Electronic device with shared antenna structures and balun An electronic device may be provided with shared antenna structures that can be used to form both a near-field-communications antenna such as a loop antenna and a non-near-field communications antenna such as an inverted-F antenna. The antenna structures may include conductive structures such as metal traces on printed circuits or other dielectric substrates, internal metal housing structures, or other conductive electronic device housing structures. A main resonating element arm may be separated from an antenna ground by an opening. A non-near-field communications antenna return path and antenna feed path may span the opening. A balun may have first and second electromagnetically coupled inductors. The second inductor may have terminals coupled across differential signal terminals in a near-field communications transceiver. The first inductor may form part of the near-field communications loop antenna.
US09997826B2	Two-element traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) antenna Devices and systems are disclosed for a Traffic Collision Avoidance system (TCAS) antenna. In some examples, the TCAS antenna includes two antenna elements, a first plurality of bolt holes, a second plurality of bolt holes, and a third plurality of bolt holes. The first plurality of bolt holes in conjunction with the second plurality of bolt holes enables the TCAS antenna to be mounted to an aircraft in a first orientation. The third plurality of bolt holes in conjunction with the first plurality of bolt holes enable the TCAS antenna to be mounted to the aircraft in a second orientation, and the second orientation is different than the first orientation.
US09997823B2	Combination antenna A combination antenna includes a conductive block having at least one electrical component mounted on the surface. A metallic housing is connected to the conductive block via at least one electronic element having a front surface and a rear surface. The front surface includes one or more plates separated by gaps of a predetermined width. The rear surface includes a continuous plate separated from the front surface by a gap of a second predetermined width. One or more antenna feeds are disposed between the front surface and the rear surface of the metallic housing and are connected to the metallic housing directly or via the at least one electronic element. A grounding plane includes one or more grounding points connected to the front surface and the rear surface directly or via the at least one electronic element.
US09997821B2	Frequency modulation assembly and cavity filter A frequency modulation assembly includes a self-locking screw, a self-locking adjuster and an elastic member. The self-locking screw has a first external screw thread, the self-locking adjuster has a mounting hole in which an internal screw thread is formed, the self-locking screw is inserted into the mounting hole, and the first external screw thread is engaged with the internal screw thread to achieve a connection between the self-locking screw and the self-locking adjuster, one end of the self-locking screw which passes through the mounting hole is inserted into a ceramic resonance rod in the cavity filter, and the elastic member is connected with the self-locking screw and configured between the self-locking adjuster and the ceramic resonance rod. The frequency modulation assembly can decrease accumulated assembly tolerances, reduce manufacturing cost and improve assembly efficiency, further the elastic member is beneficial to adjust the accuracy of the frequency modulation effect.
US09997810B2	Electrically driven vehicle This electrically driven vehicle is configured so that a first liquid cooling medium having a relatively high specific gravity and a second liquid cooling medium having a relatively low specific gravity exchange heat in a heat exchanger disposed closer to the rear of the vehicle than a radiator disposed at the front of the vehicle. As a result, the second liquid cooling medium having a relatively low specific gravity flows between the radiator and the heat exchanger, and consequently, an increase in the weight of a cooling mechanism for a battery can be minimized.
US09997809B2	Battery module A battery module, including a plurality of rechargeable batteries; a holder fixing the rechargeable batteries; an electrode tab connecting the rechargeable batteries, the electrode tab including a bent portion bent and then extending in a side direction of the rechargeable batteries; and a balancing wire connecting the electrode tab and the protection circuit board, the bent portion of the electrode tab including a protruding portion protruding from a surface of the electrode tab.
US09997805B2	Electrolyte and lithium-ion secondary battery An electrolyte containing a non-aqueous solvent, a lithium salt (A) and at least one compound (B) selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1), a compound represented by the following formula (2) and a compound having a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (3a) and a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (3b).
US09997802B2	High energy density aluminum battery Compositions and methods of making are provided for a high energy density lithium-aluminum battery. The battery comprises an anode comprising aluminum metal. The battery further comprises a cathode comprising a lithium metal oxide. The battery further comprises an electrolyte capable of supporting reversible deposition and stripping of aluminum at the anode, and reversible intercalation and deintercalation of lithium at the cathode.
US09997795B2	Relative humidity estimators for fuel cell stack ports A water management method for a fuel cell stack (FCS) is provided. The method may include outputting via a controller an FCS anode port estimated relative humidity value based on consumption of reactants and generation of products in the FCS and adjusting a humidification control strategy based on the value. The outputting may be in response to occurrence of a predicted FCS anode port relative humidity value from a model of a hydrogen recirculation system (HRS) of the FCS being within a predefined range. A fuel cell vehicle including a HRS and a controller is also provided. The HRS may include an ejector and a fuel cell stack having an anode port. The controller may be configured to activate a HRS model to calculate a real-time estimate of a relative humidity of the anode port based on an estimated flow rate of a secondary nozzle of the ejector.
US09997794B2	Protective and precipitation layers for PEM fuel cell A membrane electrode assembly is provided which includes an anode; a cathode; a membrane between the anode and the cathode; and a protective layer between the membrane and at least one electrode of the anode and the cathode, the protective layer having a layer of ionomer material containing a catalyst, the layer having a porosity of between 0 and 10%, an ionomer content of between 50 and 80% vol., a catalyst content of between 10 and 50% vol., and an electrical connectivity between catalyst particles of between 35 and 75%. A configuration using a precipitation layer to prevent migration of catalyst ions is also provided.
US09997793B2	Gas-liquid separator including filter at emission inlet for fuel cell A gas-liquid separator includes a housing that draws in emission from a fuel cell unit. The gas-liquid separator separates water from the emission and drains the separated water out of the housing. The housing includes a case including an emission inlet, a cap including a drain port that drains the separated water out of the housing, and a filter fitted into the emission inlet from an inner side of the housing. The filter captures foreign matter entering the housing.
US09997792B2	Cell voltage monitoring connector system for a fuel cell stack An electrical connection system for cell voltage monitoring in a fuel cell stack. The fuel cell stack comprises a plurality of layers and a plurality of electrically conductive connection tabs extending outwardly from at least one face of the stack. The electrically conductive connection tabs are each formed as a laterally extending free portion of a flexible sealing gasket. Other portions of the gasket are disposed to provide sealing engagement between at least two layers of the fuel cell stack. By using the gasket material to form such electrical connection tabs, rather than flow plates, the connection tabs are made flexible to make it easier to connect to standard arrays of connectors in connector assemblies.
US09997791B2	Membrane electrode units for high temperature fuel cells with improved stability The present invention relates to membrane electrode units (MEU) for high temperature fuel cells having an improved stability and a process for their manufacture.
US09997789B2	Lithium primary battery using composite electrolyte Disclosed is a lithium primary battery using a composite electrolyte, wherein, in order to maximize advantages of a lithium thionyl battery and a lithium sulfonyl battery, electrolytes of the two batteries are mixed to proceed two-stage discharging, thereby making it possible to check the battery usage.
US09997788B2	Methods of producing porous platinum-based catalysts for oxygen reduction A porous metal that comprises platinum and has a specific surface area that is greater than 5 m2/g and less than 75 m2/g. A fuel cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and an electrolyte arranged between the first and the second electrodes. At least one of the first and second electrodes is coated with a porous metal catalyst for oxygen reduction, and the porous metal catalyst comprises platinum and has a specific surface area that is greater than 5 m2/g and less than 75 m2/g. A method of producing a porous metal according to an embodiment of the current invention includes producing an alloy consisting essentially of platinum and nickel according to the formula PtxNi1-x, where x is at least 0.01 and less than 0.3; and dealloying the alloy in a substantially pH neutral solution to reduce an amount of nickel in the alloy to produce the porous metal.
US09997786B2	Steel foil and method for manufacturing the same A steel foil according to an aspect of the present invention includes, by mass %, C: 0.0001 to 0.02%; Si: 0.001 to 0.01%; Mn: 0.01 to 0.3%; P: 0.001 to 0.02%; S: 0.0001 to 0.01%; Al: 0.0005 to 0.1%; N: 0.0001 to 0.004%; and a balance consisting of Fe and impurities, wherein a thickness is 5 to 15 μm, and a tensile strength is more than 900 MPa and 1.200 MPa or less.
US09997783B2	Positive electrode for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including same A positive electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a positive active material and a binder including polyvinylidene fluoride, a carboxyl group-containing polyvinylidene fluoride, and poly(vinylidenefluoride-tetrafluoroethylene). The positive electrode may have an improved binding force and increased flexibility. A rechargeable lithium battery includes the positive electrode. The rechargeable lithium battery may have high capacity and excellent performance.
US09997778B2	Polycrystalline vanadium oxide nanosheets Improved V2O5 materials are disclosed herein in the form of 2D leaf-like nanosheets. Methods of forming the V2O5 nanosheets and batteries (e.g., lithium-ion) incorporating the V2O5 nanosheets are also provided.
US09997777B2	Electrochemical device electrode including cobalt oxyhydroxide This invention discloses an electrochemical device having a multilayer structure and methods for making such a device. Specifically, this invention discloses a multilayer electrochemical device having nano-sized cobalt oxyhydroxide conductive agents and/or active materials within the polymer layers.
US09997776B2	Alloy powder for electrodes, negative electrode for nickel-metal hydride storage batteries including the same, and nickel-metal hydride storage battery including the same Disclosed is an alloy powder for electrodes for nickel-metal hydride storage batteries having a high battery capacity and being excellent in life characteristics and high-temperature storage characteristics. The alloy powder includes a hydrogen storage alloy containing elements L, M, Ni, Co, and E. L includes La as an essential component. L includes no Nd, or when including Nd, the percentage of Nd in L is less than 5 mass %. The percentage of La in the hydrogen storage alloy is 23 mass % or less. M is Mg, Ca, Sr and/or Ba. A molar ratio α to a total of L and M is 0.045≤α≤0.133. A molar ratio x of Ni to the total of L and M is 3.5≤x≤4.32, and a molar ratio y of Co is 0.13≤y≤0.5. The molar ratios x and y, and a molar ratio z of E to the total of L and M satisfy 4.78≤x+y+z<5.03.
US09997775B1	Reconfigurable liquid metal and graphene power source A device includes an electrolyte disposed between a layer of graphene and liquid metal. A system based upon the device includes a substrate having first and second layers of graphene and an enclosure disposed thereon. The enclosure encases the first and second layers of graphene and has a channel formed therein. A first end of the channel is disposed over at least a portion of the first layer of graphene and a second end of the channel is disposed over at least a portion of the second layer of graphene. An electrolyte disposed within the channel. Liquid metal is disposed within the electrolyte such that the liquid metal is separated from the first layer of graphene and the second layer of graphene by the electrolyte. The liquid metal is movable within the electrolyte to reconfigure power delivery to different connected loads.
US09997772B2	Negative-electrode material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery production process for the same, negative electrode for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, and nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery Providing a negative-electrode material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, the negative-electrode material including lithium silicate particles coated by a carbonaceous substance, a production process for the same, a negative electrode for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, and a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery. A negative-electrode material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery includes lithium silicate particles having a surface at least some of which is coated by a carbonaceous substance formed by heating a carbon-containing compound at a thermal decomposition temperature of the carbon-containing compound or more and 1,100±° C. or less, the carbon-containing compound being a solid at ordinary temperature and exhibiting a zeta-potential absolute value being 60 or more against N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (or NMP).
US09997768B2	Lithium ion secondary battery and method for manufacturing lithium ion secondary battery A lithium ion secondary battery involves a negative electrode sheet including a negative current collector and a negative active material layer that contains negative active material particles including first particles and second particles. In the negative active material layer, the ratio of the first particles to the total negative active material particles in a part on the current collector side in the layer thickness direction of the negative active material layer is higher than the ratio of the first particles to the total negative active material particles in the whole negative active material layer and the ratio of the second particles to the total negative active material particles in a part on an outer surface side of the negative active material layer in the layer thickness direction is higher than the ratio of the second particles to the total negative active material particles in the whole negative active material layer.
US09997766B2	Positive electrode active material A highly effective positive electrode is obtained by using a material such as Na which is an inexpensive abundant resource. A positive electrode active material of sodium transition metal phosphate of olivine structure in which the sodium transition metal phosphate of olivine structure includes, a phosphorus atom that is located at the center of a tetrahedron having an oxygen atom in each vertex, a transition metal atom that is located at the center of a first octahedron having an oxygen atom in each vertex; and a sodium atom that is located at the center of a second octahedron having an oxygen atom in each vertex, and adjacent sodium atoms are arranged one-dimensionally in a <010> direction.
US09997763B2	High current battery pack fusing system A high current fuse with a short time constant is provided for use in an electric vehicle. The fuse is designed to exhibit thermal characteristics that are similar if not substantially identical to those of the wire bond interconnects used in the vehicle's battery pack. As a result, the system does not go into an overheat protection condition when the system is subjected to repetitive high current cycles, such as those common during aggressive and/or spirited driving. The fuse includes an arc suppressor.
US09997756B2	Lead-acid battery separators with ultra low resistivity and sustained wettability A lead-acid battery separator with ultralow resistivity results from high porosity, controlled pore (10) size distribution, and an ionic surfactant (14) with a long alkyl side chain (18) that is anchored to the polymer matrix (12) of a silica-filled polyethylene separator. The surfactant cannot be easily removed or washed away and thereby imparts sustained wettability to the separator. Controlling the number of, and volume occupied by, the pores (i.e., porosity) and pore size distribution of the separator contributes to a reduction in electrical (ionic) resistivity.
US09997755B2	Separator comprising a porous layer and method for producing said separator The present invention relates to a separator for an electrochemical cell, preferably a lithium ion battery, comprising a porous layer which comprises at least one block copolymer having three or more polymer blocks and at least one aluminum oxide or hydroxide, a lithium ion battery comprising such a separator, and a method for producing such a separator.
US09997754B2	Filter element A seal arrangement for a housing for receiving a battery has a valve arrangement for compensating a pressure differential between an interior of the housing for receiving a battery and an environment outside of the housing for receiving a battery. A desiccant is provided for removing moisture from a gas contained in the interior or gas that flows into the housing for receiving a battery. A chamber is provided that is connected to the valve arrangement and that contains the desiccant, wherein the chamber and the valve arrangement are in gas-conducting communication with each other.
US09997753B2	Mounting structure for electric storage apparatus A mounting structure for an electric storage apparatus includes the electric storage apparatus, a vehicle body, a first reinforce, and a second reinforce. The electric storage apparatus outputs an energy for use in running of a vehicle. The vehicle body includes a concave portion opened upward in the vehicle. The concave portion houses the electric storage apparatus. The first reinforce is disposed along a bottom face of the concave portion and extends in a predetermined direction. The second reinforce is disposed along an upper face of the electric storage apparatus and extends in the predetermined direction.
US09997749B2	Rechargeable battery A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly comprising: a first electrode and a second electrode; a case comprising an opening at a side of the case, the case accommodating the electrode assembly; a cap assembly comprising a cap plate covering the opening of the case, a first terminal protruding out of the cap plate and electrically coupled to a first electrode, and a second terminal protruding out of the cap plate and electrically coupled to a second electrode; a first current collector coupled to a lower part of the cap assembly and having a first side electrically connected to the first terminal and a second side coupled to the first electrode; and a deformation preventer coupled to the lower part of the cap assembly and formed to accommodate a part of the first current collector.
US09997742B2	Method of manufacturing an organic EL display device A method of manufacturing an organic EL display device includes disposing a second base material that is disposed to face a first base material having a display region and including a TFT layer on a supporting substrate that supports the second base material, disposing the first base material on a side opposite to a side where the supporting substrate of the second base material is disposed, disposing a dam material that surrounds the display region between the first base material and the second base material, filling an inside of the dam material with a filling material between the first base material and the second base material, disposing an auxiliary wall to be separated from an outside of the dam material between the first base material and the second base material, and cutting the second base material through the supporting substrate between the dam material and the auxiliary wall.
US09997740B2	Organic light emitting display device and method for manufacturing the same Discussed is a method for manufacturing an organic light emitting display device including forming a first electrode on a predetermined region of a substrate; forming an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode; forming a second electrode on the substrate including the organic light emitting layer; and bonding an encapsulation substrate to the substrate so as to electrically connect the encapsulation substrate and the second electrode to each other.
US09997735B2	Organic light emitting display apparatus with a plurality of light emitting devices for emitting light of difference colors Discussed is an organic light emitting display (OLED) apparatus which facilitates to prevent a color deviation for a white color of the OLED apparatus from being increased, and thus improves the properties of color change rate in color coordinates for the white light. The OLED apparatus may include a plurality of light emitting devices for emitting light of different colors, wherein the sum of the full width at half maximum of main peak wavelength of light respectively emitted from each of the plurality of light emitting devices is 75 nm or more when the white light is emitted from the OLED apparatus.
US09997732B2	Organic electroluminescent apparatus forming a microcavity The present application discloses a tandem organic electroluminescent apparatus including a reflective electrode; a first light emitting unit on the reflective electrode; a semi-transparent connecting layer on a side of the first light emitting unit distal to the reflective electrode; at least one second light emitting unit on a side of the semi-transparent connecting layer distal to the first light emitting unit; and a transparent electrode on a side of the at least one second light emitting unit distal to the semi-transparent connecting layer. The semi-transparent connecting layer and the reflective electrode form a microcavity.
US09997730B2	Display device In a display device including a flexible display panel, the risk of disconnection of a wiring due to bending is reduced. A display panel includes a display function layer including display elements and a wiring on one major surface of a base material having flexibility. The display panel includes, on the one major surface of the base material, an organic-film-covered wiring area where the surface of the wiring is covered with an organic planarization film that is an organic insulating film in direct contact with the wiring. The display panel includes, in the plane thereof, a display area where the display elements are arranged and a component mounting area that is a peripheral area located outside the display area. As the organic-film-covered wiring area, a curved area is provided in the peripheral area.
US09997727B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices Triphenylene containing benzo-fused thiophene compounds are provided. Additionally, triphenylene containing benzo-fused furan compounds are provided. The compounds may be useful in organic light emitting devices, particularly as hosts in the emissive layer of such devices, or as materials for enhancement layers in such devices, or both.
US09997725B2	Heterocyclic compound, light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device A novel heterocyclic compound is provided. In particular, a novel heterocyclic compound which can improve the element characteristics of the light-emitting element is provided. The heterocyclic compound is represented by a general formula (G1) DBqAr1nAr2-A (G1) in which a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzo[f,h]quinoxalinyl group and a substituted or unsubstituted benzobisbenzofuranyl group are bonded to each other via a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group. In the general formula (G1), DBq represents a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzo[f,h]quinoxalinyl group, Ar1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms, n represents 0 or 1, Ar2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms, and A represents a substituted or unsubstituted benzobisbenzofuranyl group. When the arylene group represented by Ar1 and Ar2 has substituents, the substituents may be bonded to each other to form a ring.
US09997724B2	Organic electroluminescent compound and organic electroluminescent device comprising the same The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent compound and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. The organic electroluminescent compound of the present disclosure has good color purity, solubility, and thermal stability. By comprising the organic electroluminescent compound of the present disclosure, an organic electroluminescent device showing low driving voltage, excellent current and power efficiencies, and significantly improved lifespan can be provided.
US09997722B2	Compound and organic light-emitting device including the same An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes the compound represented by Formula 1: The organic light-emitting device according to embodiments of the present disclosure may have high efficiency and long lifespan characteristics.
US09997721B2	Photoelectric conversion material, photoelectric conversion element, optical sensor, and imaging element An object of the invention is to provide: a photoelectric conversion material which has excellent deposition stability such that when the photoelectric conversion material is used in a photoelectric conversion element, the change in the performance of the element due to variations in the concentration of the photoelectric conversion material is small; a photoelectric conversion element using the photoelectric conversion material; and an optical sensor and an imaging element including the photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion material of the invention is a compound (A) expressed by the following Formula (1).
US09997715B2	Material for organic electroluminescent device and organic electroluminescent device using the same A material for an organic electroluminescent device having high emission efficiency and an organic electroluminescent device utilizing the same. The material is represented by Formula 1. In Formula 1, X1 to X7 are each independently hydrogen, deuterium, a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; Ar1 and Ar2 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms for forming a ring; L is a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group; n is an integer from 1 to 3; at least one L is a phenylene group represented by Formula 2. In Formula 2, Y1 to Y6 are each independently a direct linkage, hydrogen, deuterium, halogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having 2 to 15 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group.
US09997714B2	Hole transport material The invention relates to 2,2′,7,7′-tetrakis-(N,N′-di-4-methoxy-3-methylphenylamine)-9,9′-spirofluorene, to a process for its preparation, and to its use as hole transport material for electronic or optoelectronic devices, especially for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells.
US09997711B2	Organic light-emitting device An organic light-emitting device including a first compound represented by Formula 1 and a second compound represented by one of Formulae 2A to 2C.
US09997710B2	Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon polymers The present invention relates to organic copolymers and organic semiconducting compositions comprising these materials, including layers and devices comprising such organic semiconductor compositions. The invention is also concerned with methods of preparing such organic semiconductor compositions and layers and uses thereof. The invention has application in the field of printed electronics and is particularly useful as a semiconducting material for use in formulations for organic thin film transistor (OTFT) backplanes for displays, integrated circuits, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), photodetectors, organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, sensors, memory elements and logic circuits.
US09997708B2	Mask frame assembly, apparatus and method for manufacturing a display apparatus A mask frame assembly includes a frame having an opening, a support bar extended in a first direction crossing the opening of the frame and having distal ends installed over the frame, and a mask having extended in a second direction crossing the first direction, having distal ends installed over the frame, and having a pattern unit extended along the second direction and configured to pass a deposition material. The support bar includes a first opening disposed on one side of the support bar and having a first width in the second direction, and a second opening disposed on the other side of the support bar opposite to the one side of the support bar and having a second width greater than the first width in the second direction.

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