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US10123953B2	Reduction of tooth staining derived from cationic antimicrobials Disclosed are oral care compositions having reduced tooth staining propensity and comprising in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, a cationic antimicrobial agent and an anti-stain agent comprising one or more materials from each of at least two of the following chemical groups: Group 1. anionic agents, Group 2. aldehydes, ketones, and other reactive carbonyl compounds and Group 3. nonionic ethoxylated surfactants. Examples of cationic antimicrobial agent include quaternary ammonium compounds such as cetylpyridinium chloride, cetyl pyridinium fluoride, tetradecylpyridinium chloride, N-tetradecyl-4-ethyl pyridinium chloride and domiphen bromide; chlorhexidine; and metal ion sources to supply metal ions such as stannous, zinc or copper.
US10123949B2	Multicomponent meso thread containing hyaluronic acid and method for producing same (variants) The group of inventions relates to the field of aesthetic, plastic and reconstructive cosmetology/medicine, and more particularly to meso threads used for remedying aesthetic and age-related changes to the skin, and to methods for producing such threads. Proposed is a multicomponent meso thread consisting of a core and a shell. The core is realized in the form of a fibroin thread, and the shell contains hyaluronic acid or a salt thereof or a polyelectrolyte complex of hyaluronic acid or a salt thereof and chitosan or a salt thereof. Also proposed are a variant of the thread having a plastifying agent in the shell, and methods for producing the proposed meso threads.
US10123945B2	Feeding bottle apparatus A feeding bottle apparatus comprising a cylindrical bottle for containing a flowable material, having a top with an opening, a bottom, a length, at least a first portion of the bottle curving along the length, and markings indicative of an amount of flowable material; a cap attachable to the top of the bottle, having an opening aligned with the opening of the bottle; and a tube extending through the opening of the cap and the opening of the bottle, having a first end extending out of the bottle and a second end disposed within the bottle, the first end having an opening and a deflector member, the second end extending substantially the length of the bottle and having at least one bottom member; wherein the bottle is formed of a flexible material such that pressure applied to the bottle discharges the flowable material through the tube.
US10123942B2	Tablet printing apparatus and tablet printing method A tablet printing apparatus first applies either ultraviolet rays or infrared rays to surfaces of tablets that are being conveyed. The ultraviolet or infrared rays are applied to at least a contour portion of a target area where a print image is to be formed. In the case of applying ultraviolet rays, the surface of the contour portion is roughened, and the angle of contact with ink is reduced. In the case of applying infrared rays, the contour portion is etched into a recessed shape. Thereafter, ink is ejected inside the contour portion. This configuration suppresses the spread of the ejected ink to the outside of the target area. As a result, the print image has a well-defined contour.
US10123941B2	Fluid valve and fluid connection system The invention relates to a fluid valve and fluid connection system, comprising a casing having a chamber with a first internal connection element and a first external connection element; comprising a first movable valve element in the chamber; and comprising an actuating element which has a fluid communication system with a second internal connection element and a second external connection element; wherein the first internal connection element cooperates with the second internal connection element and the valve element to establish or block a fluid connection between the first and second external connection elements.
US10123939B2	Hermetic closing plug for a sealed sterile vial containing medical or nutritional active substances, suitable for the sterile connection to a container of liquid diluent solution, and sterile connection system using said closing plug A closing plug for a sealed sterile vial containing medical or nutritional active substances, which is suitable for the sterile connection to a container of liquid diluent solution. There is also described a sterile connection system between a sealed sterile vial closed by means of a plug and a tube for drawing said active substances, for mixing them with a liquid diluent solution inside a sterile container. The plug requires an internal sterile chamber in which, upon the piercing of an outer film for sealing the plug, a compressible protection cap of a piercing tip of the tube is inserted, which abuts against a seat of the sterile chamber allowing the tip to pierce the end wall of the protection cap and then the inner membrane of the closing plug. An intermediate pierceable membrane placed on the seat of the internal chamber of the vial may be included.
US10123936B2	Visual remote control and tactile interaction system A remote system for sexual interaction is provided. The system may include an input device in communication with an output device including a phallic object. A motor is provided for moving the phallic object relative to movements associated with the input device.
US10123934B2	Clitoral stimulator A clitoral stimulator features first and second contact members, at least one of which is supported for back and forth movement relative to the other of said first and second contact members in a longitudinal direction. Each contact member has a respective contact surface on side thereof facing toward the other in a lateral direction lying transverse to the longitudinal direction. The respective contact surfaces are separated or separable by a sufficient distance to accommodate a user's clitoris between the respective contact surfaces of said first and second contact members with said respective contact surfaces in contact with the user's clitoris at opposing sides thereof. An actuation mechanism is operable to drive the back and forth movement to perform a rolling action the user's clitoris between the stimulation members.
US10123930B2	Standing traction device An exercise apparatus includes an adjustable support frame configured be adjusted to raise or lower a waist portion thereof to accommodate users of different heights standing adjacent thereto on a support surface. The exercise apparatus also includes a pivotal upper body support constructed and arranged to pivot relative to the support frame. The upper body support is configured to receive a torso of a user standing adjacent to the adjustable support frame, and facilitate a traction exercise to stretch a spine of the user when the torso of the user engages the pivotal upper body support and bends over the support frame.
US10123920B2	Absorbent article having asymmetric absorbent core component An absorbent article for wearing about the lower torso of a wearer includes a topsheet, a backsheet joined to at least a portion of the topsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core includes a first layer and a second layer, wherein the first layer is disposed in fluid communication with the second layer. The first layer has a first shape and the second layer has a second shape. The first shape is different from the second shape. Each of the first layer and second layer comprise less than about 20 percent airfelt.
US10123918B2	Closure tape with patterned adhesive Various fastening tape closure assemblies are described. The closure tapes are useful in the manufacture of disposable articles, and particularly disposable diapers. The closure tapes generally include a fastening tape and a release tape that at least partially covers the fastening tape during storage and transport of the tape and/or the disposable article. The release tapes include a layer of adhesive for bonding to a region of a diaper. The adhesive layer is in a patterned configuration.
US10123916B2	Absorbent products having improved packaging efficiency A package comprising an interior space and an exterior surface may have a plurality of disposable absorbent articles disposed within the interior space of the package. Each of the disposable absorbent articles may have a topsheet; a backsheet; a substantially cellulose free absorbent core located between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent products may exhibit an In-Bag Stack Height of less about 80 mm as measured according to an In-Bag Stack Height Test.
US10123910B2	Apparatuses and methods for seaming substrates A method of joining substrate portions includes positioning the substrate portions such that the substrate portions overlap at an overlap area. The substrate portions each have a melting temperature and an outer surface. A fluid is heated to a temperature sufficient to at least partially melt the substrate portions. A jet of the heated fluid is directed from a fluid orifice onto the substrate portions at the overlap area. The heated fluid penetrates at least one of the outer surfaces of the substrate portions. The substrate portions are at least partially melted using the heated fluid. The substrate portions are compressed to join the substrate portions together at the overlap area.
US10123907B2	Mud visor for roll-off film system A mud visor formed by a substantially transparent sheet is attached to a goggle lens. The mud visor may be attached to the goggle lens using a substantially transparent adhesive or adhesive tape. Thus, the mud visor may provide clear and improved field of view for the user. Further, the mud visor may be configured to cover and guide a top portion of a roll-off film as the roll-off film is conveyed across the goggle lens. A top portion of the mud visor may be inserted into the lens groove of a goggle frame along with the goggle lens when the goggle lens is attached to the goggle frame. The mud visor also may stretch across the goggle lens and overlap with film canisters at both sides to provide a seamless coverage to prevent mud from entering behind the mud visor or the roll-off film.
US10123902B2	System and method for patient temperature control A patient temperature control system and method are provided for automated temperature control according to a programmed protocol. In one aspect, at least one programmed protocol may be established for each of a plurality of patient thermal therapy phases. In turn, the temperature of a thermal exchange medium may be controlled, based at least in part, upon the programmed protocol, during each of the phases. In another aspect, a plurality of programmed protocols may be established, wherein a selected one of the protocols (e.g. selected by a user at a user interface) may be utilized for automated temperature control during patient thermal therapy. The protocol(s) may include a target patient temperature and/or a set duration for one or more of the phase of thermal therapy. Further, the protocol(s) may be user-definable and modifiable during therapy. In a multi-phase configuration, automatic termination and initiation of successive phases may be selectively established by a user, based on target patient temperature data and/or set duration data on a phase-specific basis.
US10123898B2	Device and method for fixation for bone or soft tissue deformity of digits A fixation device comprises a first clamping member having an adjustable clamping collar and a first curved support portion attached to the adjustable clamping collar. The first clamping member is adapted to receive a digit. The first curved support portion is adapted to support an inferior surface of a proximal phalanx of the digit. A distal member is adjustably attachable to the first clamping member. The distal member has a second curved support surface adapted to support an inferior surface of a distal phalanx of the digit and a curved distal end adapted to apply a compressive force in a proximal direction to a distal end of the distal phalanx.
US10123897B2	Dynamic cushion heel-ankle-foot orthosis A dynamic cushion heel-ankle-foot orthosis system is configured to provide controlled tibial progression in a human user. The dynamic cushion heel-ankle-foot orthosis system includes a leg calf shell further comprising a leg calf shell plantar flexion ridge at a lowermost point. A boot shell is rotatably connected to the leg calf shell and further comprising a boot shell plantar flexion ridge at an uppermost point. The boot shell plantar flexion ridge contacts the leg calf shell plantar flexion ridge at a plantar flexion ridges region and rotates no further.
US10123893B2	Prewire channel stent A prewire channel stent has a structure that includes a balloon having a metallic mesh material outside the balloon, a central passage inside the balloon, and a second passage disposed between the metallic mesh material and the balloon. The second passage allows a second guidewire to be received therein, and the use of the second guidewire thereby avoids the problem of wire exchange and stent dislodgement in known devices.
US10123884B2	Spinal implant system and method A spinal implant comprises an implant body extending between an anterior surface and a posterior surface. The implant body includes a first vertebral engaging surface and a second vertebral engaging surface. The implant body includes an outer surface that defines an oblique surface. A wall is connectable with the implant body and translatable relative to the oblique surface. Systems and methods are disclosed.
US10123882B2	Spinal implant system and method A spinal implant includes an implant body including a first endplate and a second endplate. A plurality of electrodes include at least one electrode disposed with the first endplate and at least one electrode disposed with the second endplate such that the electrodes conduct an electric current to stimulate tissue growth adjacent the implant body. Systems, surgical instruments and methods are disclosed.
US10123872B2	Expandable annuloplasty ring and associated ring holder Devices and methods are provided for surgical repair of dilated aortic root to restore aortic valve competence while preserving native leaflets. In one aspect of the invention an expandable annuloplasty ring is provided for external placement at the base of a dilated aortic root. The expandable ring is capable of elastically expanding between a first diastolic diameter and a larger second systolic diameter to provide a physiologically representative surgical repair of the aortic root. In a further aspect of the invention, is provided a holder assembly for aortic annuloplasty ring and suitable for other cardiac valve prosthesis. The holder assembly consists of a holder body pivotingly coupled to a handle member through a ball-and-socket arrangement.
US10123871B2	Implant capsule and implant delivery system An implant capsule (10) and an implant delivery system are disclosed. The implant capsule (10) includes, sequentially from a proximal end to a distal end, a flexural section (102, 102a-102e), a reinforcement section (101, 101a-101e) and a radiopaque reinforcement ring (104a-104e). The reinforcement section (101, 101a-101e) has higher strength than the flexural section (102, 102a-102e). The implant delivery system includes the implant capsule (10). The implant capsule (10) can ensure the implant to be deployed in a coaxial condition and prevent over-expansion due to large expansion forces exerted by a stent of the implant.
US10123868B2	Hybrid breast implant, method for making and using same An implant includes: a sinusoidal container that includes: a plurality of projections; a plurality of troughs; and a plurality of smooth interfaces, wherein a smooth interface is interposed between a projection and an adjacent trough for the plurality of projections, troughs, and interfaces to provide a smooth continuous transition between adjacent projections and troughs. A process for making an implant includes: forming a sinusoidal container from a polymer, the sinusoidal container including: a plurality of projections; a plurality of troughs; and a plurality of smooth interfaces, wherein a smooth interface is interposed between a projection and an adjacent trough for the plurality of projections, troughs, and interfaces to provide a smooth continuous transition between adjacent projections and troughs; and providing a filling tube attached to the sinusoidal container to make the implant.
US10123865B2	Vascular filter assembly having low profile sheath A vascular filter assembly includes a catheter body having a self-expanding filter member coupled thereto. A sheath is disposed directly over the self-expanding filter member such that the self-expanding filter member is at least partially constrained from expansion in a first configuration within an interior space defined between the sheath and the catheter body. The sheath includes at least one aperture disposed through a wall thereof.
US10123862B2	Randomly uniform three dimensional tissue scaffold of absorbable and non-absorbable materials An implantable structure, method for making the structure and method for using the structure, where the structure includes a combination of non-absorbable and absorbable components, and the implantable structure has a randomly uniform array of materials. The resulting implantable structure provides improved tissue ingrowth and flexibility after implantation and after absorption of the absorbable materials.
US10123861B2	Bag for packaging diluted animal semen suitable for artificial insemination, in particular of porcine species; and system comprising same The bag comprises two flexible sheets (11) attached to each other by a weld area delimiting a pouch having a predefined volume when said bag is filled, said pouch being designed to contain a dose (27) of said diluted animal semen having said predefined volume. The surface (30) of each of said flexible sheets (11) faces said pouch (14) which is part of a layer (35) of weldable thermoplastic material. For one or preferably for each of said sheets (11), said layer of weldable thermoplastic material (35) comprises triclosan; and the ratio between said predefined volume of said pouch and the sum of the areas of the surfaces (30) of said sheets (11) facing said pouch is between 0.3 ml/cm2 and 0.5 ml/cm2. The system comprises such bags and an antibiotic-free dilution medium.
US10123856B2	Dental framework and prosthesis A dental prosthesis and a process for design and manufacturing, incorporating a dental implant framework and veneering overlay that will be designed and manufactured simultaneously and permanently fixated to one another.
US10123840B2	System and method for medical device placement in bone Disclosed herein are device and methods for determining an orientation of an instrument for inserting a medical device in a bone. One such method includes simulating an insertion point and an orientation of a simulated surgical hardware installation on a diagnostic representation of the bone, and then using an electronic device to align an instrument for inserting a surgical hardware installation at a desired orientation through an insertion point of the bone by indicating when an orientation of the electronic device is within a threshold of the simulated orientation.
US10123839B2	Systems and processes for pre-operative planning and precise bone removal for femoroacetabular impingement Described herein are systems and processes for performing femoroacetabular impingement hip surgery using a robotic system. In general, the processes may include receiving an image of the at least one bone; creating three-dimensional models of the at least one bone; determining the location of the at least one bone such that a precise orientation is known; Using software to automatically generate a volume of the at least one bone to be removed; automatically performing robotically controlled milling to remove the impinging at least one bone; and providing a simulated kinematic analysis of motion of the at least one bone after it is removed. The process may further include the step of receiving input from the user, determined manually by said user, based on the three dimensional-models of the at least one bone, to modify a volume of the at least one bone to be removed.
US10123836B2	Methods to prevent stress remodeling of atrial tissue Methods and devices are disclosed herein for therapeutically treating atrial tissue to lessen the effects of mechanical stress on atrial tissue, where reducing mechanical stress in the portion of atrial tissue reduces formation of at least one arrhythmia substrate. In one example, the devices and methods are suitable for minimally invasive surgery. More particularly, methods and devices described herein permit creating an ablation pattern on an organ while reducing excessive trauma to a patient.
US10123834B2	Surgical instrument comprising an improved actuating drive An instrument (10) according to the invention comprises a cam mechanism drive comprising a locking cam mechanism (31) and a cam mechanism (40), which serves power-transfer and control purposes, so as to initially create a tractive movement at traction elements (20, 21) and then a sliding movement at a sliding element (23). The concept allows for a tolerance-insensitive, functionally reliable design.
US10123833B2	Energy-harvesting system, apparatus and methods An electrosurgical energy delivery apparatus includes an energy delivery circuit, a control circuit and an energy-harvesting system with a plurality of energy-harvesting circuits and a voltage regulator that provides a regulated DC voltage to the energy delivery circuit and/or the control circuit. The energy delivery circuit receives an electrosurgical energy signal having a primary frequency and selectively provides the electrosurgical energy signal to an energy delivery element. The control circuit connects to the energy delivery circuit and selectively enables the flow of electrosurgical energy to the energy delivery element. The plurality of energy-harvesting circuits each include an energy-harvesting antenna tuned to a particular frequency, a matched circuit configured to receive an RF signal from the energy-harvesting antenna, rectify the RF signal and generate a DC signal, and an energy storage device that connects to the voltage regulator to receive and store the DC signal.
US10123827B2	Distal locking intramedullary nail A distal locking intramedullary nail is provided. The distal locking intramedullary nail includes a distal tip and a hollow inner portion. The distal tip includes two or more blades secured by, and rotatable about, a pin. The hollow inner portion has an internal threading for receiving an inner shaft having a threaded portion. Twisting of the inner shaft, with the threaded portion engaged with the internal threading of the hollow inner portion of the distal locking intramedullary nail, causes a distal end of the inner shaft to advance distally through the hollow inner portion of the distal locking intramedullary nail and to impact a proximal end of the two or more blades, thereby causing the two or more blades to rotate about the pin and to engage an inner wall of a patient's medullary canal.
US10123825B2	Sacroiliac screw An improved joint fusion screw for transiliac fixation has a screw head and extending therefrom an elongate hollow shaft. The hollow shaft has an externally threaded end portion extending to a tip end and a non-externally threaded shank portion having a plurality of window openings. At or near the tip end is a start of a thread with a bone cutting flute. The bone cutting flute has a cutting edge on a circumferential exterior of the threaded tip to cut bone and directs the cut bone internally into a bone receiving opening in the hollow shaft directly in front of the cutting flute. The cutting edge lies at the start of the thread extending radially above the bone receiving opening at least partially overhanging the opening configured to cut bone.
US10123824B2	Coupling devices and methods of using the same In one embodiment, a medical device includes an elongate member, a first coupler, and a second coupler. The elongate member has a first end portion, a second end portion, and a side portion. The side portion of the elongate member has a first receiving portion and a second receiving portion. The first receiving portion is configured to receive a first support member. The second receiving portion is configured to receive a second support member. The first coupler is coupled to the elongate member and is configured to engage the first support member to help retain the first support member within the first receiving portion. The second coupler is coupled to the elongate member and is configured to engage the second support member to help retain the second support member within the second receiving portion.
US10123821B2	Scope and magnetic introducer systems and methods Exemplary scope systems and methods involve a cannula assembly, a sheath assembly, and a tubing set. A cannula assembly, which may be a non-magnetic scope cap assembly, can include a cannula body, a proximal housing having a strap, an optical window, and a luer for suction or flushing. A cannula body may include a first lumen or scope channel for receiving a visualization device such as an endoscope or laparoscope, a distal end having suction or flushing flush apertures, and a second lumen for providing fluid communication between the apertures and the luer. Exemplary magnetic introducer systems and methods involve a cannula assembly, a sheath assembly, a tubing set. In some cases, the cannula assembly of a magnetic introducer system can be a magnetic scope cap assembly. In addition to cannula and sheath assemblies, magnetic introducer systems can include a magnetic introducer tubing assembly and a stylet assembly.
US10123820B2	Grid and rotatable cube guide localization fixture for biopsy device A biopsy system with a grid plate used as either a lateral or medial compression plate of a localization fixture used with a breast coil includes a rotatable guide cube that may be inserted into a desired rectangular recess in the grid plate after rotating to position a selected guide hole in the desired spatial orientation. Versions of a guide cube include those rotatable in two axes to provide additional hole positions, angled holes, enlarged circular holes that function with a rotating guide to support a noncircular biopsy instrument cannula (e.g., trocar/sleeve combination, core biopsy probe of a biopsy device) for rotation. A rotating guide may have an unlocked state for easily sliding to a selected longitudinal position thereon. Thereafter, the rotating guide is locked to serve as a positive depth stop (e.g., quarter turn locking elastomeric rings, triangular and scissor clips, and shutter depth stops).
US10123810B2	Medical instrument set and method of use for treating bony aberrations of the calcaneus A medical instrument set and method of use for surgically treating bony aberrations of the calcaneus such as calcaneal compression fractures. The present medical instrument set allows surgical treatment of bony aberrations through a minimally invasive procedure that provides better outcomes than both a closed reduction and an open reduction procedure. The medical instrument set includes one or more of an access needle, drill, depth guide, cement plunger, and curette. The access needle is used to provide access to a desired calcaneal site and is characterized by a cannula and a removable trocar tip. The drill is used to bore into the calcaneus. The depth guide is used to visually indicate how far a medical instrument extends beyond and/or through the access needle cannula. The cement plunger is used to introduce bone cement into the desired calcaneal site. The curette is used to mechanically create a void at the desired calcaneal site.
US10123800B2	Surgical incision and closure apparatus with integrated force distribution Apparatus for closing a surgical incision comprise a base having left and right panels, a force distribution structure coupled to each panel, and a closure component which releasably attaches to the force distribution structure to draw the inner edges of the panels together in order to close adhered tissue edges. The force distribution structures allow the inner edges of the panels to expand while restraining expansion of the outer edges of the panels and limiting elongation of the lateral dimension of the panels. The incision closure appliance may be placed on skin or other tissue prior to forming the incision to be available to close said incision at the end of the surgical procedure.
US10123797B2	Surgical fastener applying apparatus A surgical fastener applying apparatus for applying fasteners to body tissue. The apparatus includes a cartridge receiving half-section defining an elongated channel member configured to releasably receive a stationary housing of a firing assembly. The stationary housing is dimensioned to releasably receive a single use loading unit therein, and includes a lockout structure that prevents insertion of the single use loading unit into the stationary housing after the stationary housing is mounted to the cartridge receiving half-section.
US10123796B2	Medical implant delivery system and related methods A fastener delivery tool configured to deliver a fastener into tissue of a patient including a shaft, a handle assembly connected to a proximal end of the shaft, one or more prongs connected to a distal end of the shaft, and a fastener push rod received at least partially within the shaft, wherein the fastener push rod is connected to the handle assembly, wherein the fastener push rod is moveable relative to the shaft, and wherein the fastener push rod includes one or more detents configured to be received within a passageway of a fastener and secure the fastener to the fastener push rod with friction.
US10123794B2	Method and apparatus for passing suture through tissue A suture passer comprising: a hollow tube, the hollow tube comprising a distal end, a proximal end, a lumen extending from the distal end to the proximal end, and a window formed in the sidewall of the hollow tube, the window communicating with the lumen; and a clamping rod slidably received in the lumen of the hollow tube, the clamping rod comprising a distal end and a proximal end, the distal end being bifurcated into a first arm and a second arm, one of the first and second arms extending distally of the other of the first and second arms and including a clamping surface, and at least one of the first and second arms being outwardly biased such that when the clamping rod is moved distally so that the distal end of the at least one outwardly biased arm is adjacent to the window, the distal end of the at least one outwardly biased arm extends outwardly through the window.
US10123790B2	Device for reducing the retraction of a fascia or a soft tissue mantle in an open soft tissue defect The invention relates to a device for reducing the retraction of the edges (4.1) of an opened fascia (4) of a patient (1) having an open soft tissue defect, in particular having an open abdominal wall (2) or an open soft tissue defect on the back, via which a tensile force (A, B) can be applied to the edges (4.1) of the fascia (4) by a force component (A1, B1) directed away from the body of the patient (1), such that the device (11) holds the edges (4.1) of the fascia (4) under tension and spaced apart from each other and that furthermore there is an open soft tissue defect, in particular an opened abdominal wall (2), or an open soft tissue defect on the back. The invention further relates to a kit for treating an open soft tissue defect, in particular of an opened abdominal wall (2) or of an open soft tissue defect on the back, having at least one sponge (9, 15, 28) for filling out an opening (7) of a soft tissue defect, in particular in the abdominal wall or of an open soft tissue defect on the back, and having such a device (11) for reducing the retraction of the edges (4.1) of an opened fascia (4).
US10123789B1	Variable compressible wound closure device and method A variable compressible device is utilized with a vacuum to preferentially close a wound. At least one of a strengthening member which resists compression preferentially in one direction, more so than another direction, or a flute in a layer of the closure device whereby to facilitate preferentially compressing in a direction perpendicular to the flute is provided. When utilized with prior art wound closure techniques, a wound is preferentially pulled shut, in what is believed to be a better manner than prior art devices. Furthermore, the device may be utilized with different wound closure techniques.
US10123788B2	Deployment catheter A deployment catheter is described herein that preferably is configured to deliver a medical device such as a valve to a location in a patient such as a patient's airway. Preferably, such a deployment catheter is configured to be used in conjunction with a bronchoscope. In some embodiments, a locking lever is provided to reduce the likelihood of accidental deployment of the device, and which resets conveniently after use to as to permit multiple device deployments.
US10123786B2	Bone marrow harvesting device Bone marrow harvesting devices and methods of use for harvesting bone marrow from a biological source of bone marrow are provided that promote ease of use, and reduce patient pain and potential trauma to harvested bone marrow, wherein an exemplary bone marrow harvesting device includes an elongated shaft comprising a distal region, a proximal region, and a lumen extending therebetween, the distal region comprising a plurality of through-wall apertures in fluid communication with the lumen; and an expandable member disposed along the distal region thereof and configured to transition between a collapsed state and an expanded state for vibrating to disrupt the bone marrow. Methods of using the inventive bone marrow harvesting device to provide more efficient bone marrow disruption, improve the efficiency of bone marrow aspiration, and increase the quantity of bone marrow harvested in a single procedure are also provided.
US10123785B2	Container and cap for a biological specimen A container for collecting a biological specimen is provided that includes a peripheral wall extending from a base. The container further includes a longitudinal tower disposed within the container. The tower forms a partition within the container to form at least a first chamber and a second chamber therein, wherein the first and second chambers are in fluid communication with one another. In addition, the container include an insert disposed within the container opposite the base, the insert comprising at least a first opening and a second opening. The second opening provides access to the second chamber and is further configured to engage a specimen collecting device to leave a portion of the specimen collecting device within the second chamber. The first opening provides access to the first chamber and is further configured to receive a syringe therein for accessing the biological specimen. Associated systems and methods are also provided.
US10123782B2	Integrated system for ultrasound imaging and therapy using per-pixel switches Ultrasound imaging and therapy with the same array of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers is provided. The electronics includes a per-pixel switch for each transducer element. The switches provide an imaging mode driven completely by on-chip electronics and a therapy mode where off-chip pulsers provide relatively high voltages to the transducer elements.
US10123777B2	Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and ultrasound probe An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a transformer, a first power source, a second power source, and a switching unit. The transformer includes a primary winding and a secondary winding, and drives an ultrasound transducer based on a voltage generated in the secondary winding. The first and second power sources cause a potential difference. The switching unit switches a connection path between the primary winding and at least one of the first and second power sources to a first connection path that connects the first power source to one end of the primary winding and the second power source to the other end, a second connection path that connects the first power source to the other end and the second power source to the one end, or a ground connection path that connects the first power source or the second power source to the ground through the primary winding.
US10123775B2	Transducer with protective layer and associated devices, systems, and methods A method of fabricating miniature ultrasound transducers includes receiving a wafer on which a plurality of miniature ultrasound transducers is formed. The miniature ultrasound transducers each includes: a transducer membrane that contains a piezoelectric material and a first bond pad and a second bond pad each electrically coupled to the transducer membrane. A protective layer is conformally deposited over the plurality of miniature ultrasound transducers from a front side of the wafer. A first etching process is performed to form a plurality of first trenches that extend into the wafer from the front side. The first trenches are etched through the protective layer. The first trenches are disposed between adjacent miniature ultrasound transducers. A second etching process is performed to remove portions of the protective layer disposed over the first and second bond pads, thereby exposing the first and second bond pads.
US10123772B2	Ultrasonic data acquisition apparatus, system and control method thereof An ultrasonic data acquisition apparatus includes an inner layer, a guiding rail surrounding the inner layer and an ultrasonic probe positioned outside of the inner layer and connected to the guiding rail. The inner layer includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner layer is curved along a circumference direction. The ultrasonic probe includes a far end adjacent to the tissue and a near end opposite to the far end. When the ultrasonic data acquisition apparatus is in working, the ultrasonic probe is movable relative to the inner layer along the circumference direction while keeping the far end consistently abutting against the outer surface of the inner layer. Besides, a system for acquiring ultrasonic data and a control method of the ultrasonic data acquisition apparatus are also disclosed.
US10123770B2	Patient support system A system for supporting a patient while scanning a volume of tissue protruding from a patient includes a base having a planar portion configured to support the patient in a prone configuration. A frustoconical portion extends from the planar portion and defines a base aperture configured to receive the volume of tissue. A support assembly couples to the base. A membrane is retained in tension within a frame at a peripheral portion of the membrane. The membrane defines a membrane aperture configured to align with the base aperture, and the membrane is configured to deflect into the frustoconical portion of the base in response to the patient's weight. The system can further include an electrical subsystem including a pressure sensor array configured to generate signals in response to a pressure distribution resulting from the patient's weight at the patient interface system.
US10123764B2	Vibro-acoustic transducer In various embodiments, vibro-acoustic transducer arrangements in accordance herewith are optimized for sensing and transducing acoustic phenomena occurring within a patient's body, and manifesting themselves at the skin surface with frequencies ranging from 0.001 Hz to 10 kHz. Strategies for effectively coupling to the skin include judicious mismatching of mechanical impedance, the use of impedance-matching gels or liquids, a shaped (e.g., domed) pickup, material selection, and/or a peripheral leaf-spring arrangement permitting relative movement between inner and peripheral diaphragm portions. The spring stiffness or spring compliance of the leaf springs may be selectively chosen to optimize the frequency response of the sensor.
US10123763B2	X-ray CT system An X-ray CT system of an embodiment includes an X-ray scanner including an X-ray generator that performs X-ray imaging by scanning around a subject that is placed on a bed top and an X-ray detector. The X-ray scanner performs X-ray imaging while the bed top and the X-ray scanner are being reciprocated relative to each other in a first direction along the longitudinal direction of the bed top and a second direction opposite thereto. The X-ray CT system further includes a comparator that compares the positions of the bed top when a predetermined number of views are acquired in a plurality of times of X-ray imaging in the first direction or in a plurality of times of X-ray imaging in the second direction.
US10123757B2	Image-processing device, radiation image capture system, image-processing method, and computer-readable storage medium An overall controller of a console acquires a radiation image of an imaging subject captured by a radiation image capture device for radiographic imaging. The overall controller also acquires body thickness information indicating a body thickness of the imaging subject in a direction in which radiation passes through. The overall controller also adds to the radiation image an assist line image that have would be expected to be obtained if a predetermined member had been disposed and captured at a position inside the imaging subject determined based on the acquired body thickness information, or at a position between the imaging subject and the radiation image capture device.
US10123749B2	Blood sugar level prediction device, measurement device, blood sugar level prediction method and computer-readable storage medium A blood sugar level prediction device (10) is for predicting the blood sugar level of a user (30). The blood sugar level prediction device (10) is provided with a pattern selection unit (11) that selects one pattern from a plurality of preset blood sugar level time series variation patterns, based on the blood sugar level of the user (30) at the time of fasting, and a correction processing unit (12) that corrects the selected pattern using a plurality of measured values obtained by executing optical measurement of blood sugar levels over a number of measurement dates, targeting the user (30).
US10123748B2	Active patient risk prediction Electronic health records of a plurality of patients are received. A risk prediction model for a disease based on the electronic health records of the plurality of patients is created. An electronic health record of an original patient is received. A neighboring group of patients of the plurality of patients is identified, wherein the neighboring group of patients is two or more patients similar to the original patient. An ordering of the two or more patients of the neighboring group of patients is received, wherein the ordering of the two or more patients of the neighboring group of patients is based upon how similar each patient of the two or more patients is to the original patient. The risk prediction model is updated based on the ordering of the two or more patients of the neighboring group of patients.
US10123747B2	Retinal scan processing for diagnosis of a subject Embodiments relate to digital image processing for diagnosis of a subject. More specifically, the embodiments relate to automation of diagnoses through data interpretation. An image is acquired from the subject. Elements are recognized within the image based on morphological features. The image is compared to learned data. Based on the comparison, a probability of a potential diagnosis(es) is calculated. A diagnosis of the subject is determined based on the potential diagnosis(es) and the calculated probability. The diagnosis may be changed based on a new image acquired from the subject.
US10123745B1	Apparatus and method for cardiac signal noise detection and disposition based on physiologic relevance An apparatus comprises an input configured to receive electrocardiogram (ECG) data detected by a patient monitoring device, the ECG data containing a physiologic signal and one or more segments of noise within the ECG data. A scrubber comprises a plurality of scrubbing modules each configured to process the ECG data and noise in a manner differing from other scrubbing modules. The scrubber is configured to filter the one or more noise segments that overlap with the physiologic signal, and consolidate the ECG data to eliminate the one or more noise segments that are non-overlapping with the physiologic signal. An output is configured to output scrubbed ECG data.
US10123744B2	Biosensor There is provided a biosensor capable of improving the S/N ratio of a final photoplethysmographic signal regardless of the change in a noise component such as extraneous light.A biosensor includes a driving signal generation unit for generating a pulsed driving signal, a light-emitting element for emitting light in response to a generated driving signal, a light-receiving section including a light-receiving element for outputting a detection signal in accordance with the intensity of light received and an amplification unit for amplifying a detection signal output from the light-receiving element, a filter unit for removing a pulse wave component from a detection signal output from the light-receiving section to obtain a baseline signal, and a differential amplification unit for taking a difference between a detection signal output from the light-receiving section and a baseline signal obtained by the filter unit.
US10123741B2	Cardiac condition detection Systems and methods for determining a cardiac condition of the human based on acceleration measurements received from one or more accelerometers of a garment worn by a human, electrocardiogram measurements received from electrodes of a garment worn by the human, and a machine learning model previously determined based on training data. An alert message that indicates the determined cardiac condition may be transmitted or displayed to the human wearing the garment or another person who will assist the human. For example, a posture pattern may be determined based on the acceleration measurements. The cardiac condition may be determined based in part on the posture pattern.
US10123740B2	Wearable action-aware device The wearable action-aware device includes a clothing body, a signal receiving and computing element, and a conductive line made of conductive fabric. Two ends of the conductive line are electrically connected to the signal receiving and computing element, respectively, to form a circuit, and both the signal receiving and computing element and the conductive line are disposed on the clothing body. An exposed side of the conductive line has electrical conductivity, and the circuit is disposed on a part of the clothing body corresponding to a part of a body that needs to be measured. Action information of a user can be measured when the user wears the present invention wearable action-aware device.
US10123738B1	Methods and apparatus for skin color patient monitoring Methods and apparatus for diagnosing cardiovascular health in a patient by monitoring changes in skin redness levels, which is associated with perfusion and ability of circulatory system to adapt to physical exertion. Color detectors including colorimeters and spectrophotometers may be used to monitor and quantify skin color. Wet run solutions such as acetylcholine solutions may be applied to the skin area being monitored. Skin redness can be monitored during the course of exercise or a stress test, as well as during recovery. Wearable color detector devices can be worn by patients during exercise.
US10123737B2	Systems and methods for treating a psychiatric disorder Systems and methods for treating a subject with a psychiatric disorder are provided in which a therapy session is conducted. In the therapy session, each respective expression image in a plurality of expression images is sequentially displayed. Each expression image is independently associated with an expression. The successive display of images is construed as a tiled series of expression image subsets, each consisting of N expression images. Upon completion of the display of each respective subset, the user is challenged as to whether the first and the last images in the respective subset exhibit the same emotion. A score is determined for the respective subset based on whether the subject learned to respond correctly. The number of images in each subset is adjusted to a new number based on these scores. A treatment regimen is prescribed to the subject for the psychiatric disorder based at least in part on the scores.
US10123733B2	Skin elasticity measurement A method of measuring a characteristic of a skin, including varying an air pressure in a chamber positioned adjacent to a skin, in which the chamber has an opening that exposes the skin to changes in the air pressure in the chamber. A plurality of measurements of surface profiles of the skin are made over a period of time as the surface profile of the skin varies in response to changes in the air pressure.
US10123729B2	Alarm fatigue management systems and methods An apparatus for modifying alarms at a medical device for alarm fatigue management is provided and includes an alarm monitor, an alarm filter, an alarm modifier, a memory element for storing data, and a processor that executes instructions associated with the data, wherein the processor and the memory element cooperate such that the apparatus is configured for receiving an alarm condition from an alarm management engine, the alarm condition based on an alarm fatigue level of a user of the medical device, the alarm fatigue level based on at least a user fatigue model, a medical device model and a patient condition, receiving an alarm from the medical device, modifying the alarm according to the alarm condition, the alarm condition being configured to increase a likelihood of the user responding to the modified alarm, and generating an alarm indicator based on the modification.
US10123726B2	Configurable physiological measurement system A physiological measurement system has a sensor, a processor, a communications link and information elements. The sensor is configured to transmit light having a plurality of wavelengths into a tissue site and to generate a sensor signal responsive to the transmitted light after tissue attenuation. The attenuated light can be used by the system to determine a plurality of physiological measurements. The processor is configured to operate on the sensor signal so as to derive at least one physiological parameter after which of the plurality of physiological measurements the system is configured to or capable of measuring.
US10123722B2	Body-worn monitor for measuring respiration rate The invention provides a multi-sensor system that uses an algorithm based on adaptive filtering to monitor a patient's respiratory rate. The system features a first sensor which is selected from the group consisting of an impedance pneumography sensor, an ECG sensor, a PPG sensor, * and a motion sensor (e.g., an accelerometer) configured to attach to the patient's torso and measure therefrom a motion signal. The system further comprises (iii) a processing system, configured to operably connect to the first and motion sensors, and to determine a respiration rate value by applying filter parameters obtained from the first sensor signals to the motion sensor signals.
US10123720B2	Retrospectively correlated turbo spin echo imaging Systems and methods which generate a sequence of images using turbo spin echo magnetic resonance imaging which are retrospectively correlated with periodic motion occurring within a subject being imaged are described. In one embodiment, k-space measurements (or the measurements from which images are formed) are captured during, and correlated with, different phases in a cardiac cycle of the subject. With this sequence, the images that are produced are able to show, and/or compensate for, motion correlated with the cardiac cycle of the subject.
US10123716B2	Adaptive selection of digital egg filter A method and system for filtering a detected ECG signal are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises filtering the detected ECG signal using a plurality of digital filters. The method includes adaptively selecting one of the plurality of digital filters to maintain a minimum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In a second aspect, the system comprises a wireless sensor device coupled to a user via at least one electrode, wherein the wireless sensor device includes a processor and a memory device coupled to the processor, wherein the memory device stores an application which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to carry out the steps of the method.
US10123715B2	Methods and systems for automatically identifying detection parameters for an implantable medical device An initial set of parameters for operating one or more detection tools is automatically derived and subsequently adjusted so that each detection tool is more or less sensitive to signal characteristics in a region of interest. Detection tool(s) may be applied to physiological signals sensed from a patient (such as EEG signals) and may be configured to run in an implanted medical device that is programmable with the parameters to look for rhythmic activity, spiking, and power changes in the sensed signals, etc. A detection tool may be selected and parameter values derived in a logical sequence and/or in pairs based on a graphical representation of an activity type which may be selected by a user, for example, by clicking and dragging on the graphic via a GUI. Displayed simulations allow a user to assess what will be detected with a derived parameter set and then to adjust the sensitivity of the set or start over as desired.
US10123712B1	Anastomosis leak testing apparatus Anastomosis leak testers for testing for leaks in gastrointestinal anastomoses in patients include an inflation pump and a conduit part. The inflation pump has a compressible portion and a mechanism for providing a uni-directional flow of air through the inflation pump upon intermittent compressing thereof. Conduit parts have an interior space, a portion to be inserted into an anus of a patient or arm to be mated to a gastric tube, rectal tube or endoscope, a pressure relief valve and an indicator pin, and a rearward arm connected to the inflation pump. Upon actuation of the inflation pump, air flows through the inflation pump and through the conduit part into the patient's bowel. When the air pressure in the bowel exceeds a specified pressure, air is released through the pressure relief valve and ejects the indicator pin, which alerts the surgeon that the desired rectal pressure has been reached.
US10123706B2	Intraoral scanner with dental diagnostics capabilities Methods and apparatuses for generating a model of a subject's teeth. Described herein are intraoral scanning methods and apparatuses for generating a three-dimensional model of a subject's intraoral region (e.g., teeth) including both surface features and internal features. These methods and apparatuses may be used for identifying and evaluating lesions, caries and cracks in the teeth. Any of these methods and apparatuses may use minimum scattering coefficients and/or segmentation to form a volumetric model of the teeth.
US10123703B2	Health monitoring apparatus with wireless capabilities for initiating a patient treatment with the aid of a digital computer Individuals who suffer from certain kinds of medical conditions, particularly conditions that only sporadically exhibit measurable symptoms, can feel helpless in their attempts to secure access to medical care because, at least in part, they are left to the mercy of their condition to present symptoms at the right time to allow diagnosis and treatment. Providing these individuals with ambulatory extended-wear health monitors that record ECG and physiology, preferably available over-the-counter and without health insurance preauthorization, is a first step towards addressing their needs. In addition, these individuals need a way to gain entry into the health care system once a medically-actionable medical condition has been identified. Here, the ECG and physiology is downloaded and evaluated post-monitoring against medical diagnostic criteria. Medical specialists are pre-identified and paired up with key diagnostic findings, such that an individual whose monitoring data indicates a medical concern will be automatically referred and treated.
US10123702B1	Patient monitoring system A patient monitoring system includes an electronic device that may be manipulated by a first user. The electronic device has a first transceiver. A monitoring unit is worn on a second user thereby facilitating the monitoring unit to detect vital signs of the second user. The monitoring unit is in wireless electrical communication with the electronic device via the Internet or the like. Moreover, the monitoring unit selectively generates an alarm sequence when the monitoring unit detects that the vital signs have deviated from a pre-determined normal state. The electronic device generates an audible alarm when the monitoring unit generates the alarm sequence. In this way the electronic device notifies the first user that the second user is experiencing a medical emergency.
US10123701B2	Intraocular pressure detecting device and detecting method thereof An intraocular pressure detecting device includes a pressure generation unit, a light source, an image sensing unit and a processing unit. The pressure generation unit applies pressure to a target surface of an eyeball along a first operation axis direction, such that a deformation is generated on the target surface. The light source emits light that irradiates the target surface along a second operation axis direction, so as to generate a speckle pattern on the target surface. The image sensing unit observes and records an image variation of the speckle pattern along a third operation axis direction. The processing unit is signally connected with the image sensing unit to receive an image of the speckle pattern. The processing unit identifies and analyzes a feature size of the image of the speckle pattern for obtaining an intraocular pressure value of the eyeball. An intraocular pressure detecting method is also described.
US10123699B2	Ophthalmologic apparatus and imaging method The ophthalmologic apparatus includes: a scanning unit that scans a fundus of an eye to be inspected with measurement light; a selecting unit that selects one imaging mode out of a first imaging mode and a second imaging mode which is different from the first imaging mode; an acquiring unit that acquires information which indicates a movement amount of the eye to be inspected, based on a plurality of planar images of the fundus; and a correcting unit that corrects a scanning position of the measurement light in an initial scan which is executed after the information indicating the movement amount has been acquired, in the first imaging mode, and corrects the scanning position of the measurement light in an initial scan included in an initial scanning group which is executed after the information indicating the movement amount has been acquired, in the second imaging mode.
US10123697B2	Apparatus and method for automatic alignment in an optical system and applications Methods and apparatus for automatically aligning a confocal aperture utilize a confocal imaging system and a computer controlled optimization algorithm such as the Nelder-Mead algorithm for imaging an in-vivo eye having chromatic aberration. When using a confocal aperture of 3.4 Airy disks in diameter, images were obtained using retinal radiant exposures of less than 2.44 J/cm2, which is ˜22 times below the current ANSI maximum permissible exposure. The embodied method can be used, e.g., to study RPE morphology in AMD and other diseases, providing a powerful tool for understanding disease pathogenesis and progression, and offering a new means to assess the efficacy of treatments designed to restore RPE health.
US10123693B2	Quantification of inter-ocular suppression in binocular vision impairment Systems, apparatus, and methods are provided for quantifying inter-ocular suppression in binocular vision impairment. The systems, apparatus, and methods may include a stimulus presentation device and a controller which present different stimuli to each eye of a patient. The stimuli can include letters, numbers, or shapes which are arranged in rows, and columns with a stimulus presented to each eye in a location corresponding a stimulus presented to the other eye. The combined contrast of corresponding stimuli equals a predetermined value, and this contrast can be adjusted with each iteration of stimuli presented. This adjustment can be based upon the patient's reports of what is seen and adjustments made by an algorithm executed by the controller. Suppression can thus be determined in terms of visual field location and quantified.
US10123685B2	Apparatus and method to illuminate and orient guidewire An apparatus includes a power source, a pulse generator, a light source, a guidewire, an optical fiber, and a connector. The pulse generator is in electrical communication with the power source. The pulse generator is also capable of generating an electric pulse. The light source is in electrical communication with the pulse generator in such a way that the light source turns on and off in response to the electric pulse received from the pulse generator. The guidewire includes a proximal end and a distal end. The optical fiber extends through the guidewire from the proximal end of the guidewire towards the distal end of the guidewire. The connector couples with the guidewire while allowing the light source to communicate with the optical fiber.
US10123677B2	Dishwasher with a pivot system for a dish rack A dishwasher includes a slide system for sliding movement of a dish rack in and out of a wash chamber, and a pivot system to enable cooperative pivoting of the dish rack and an access door when the dish rack at least partially overlies the door and the door is pivoted from an opened to a closed position.
US10123675B2	Torsion wringer A torsion wringer has a receiving device for receiving the head of a mop, the receiving device having an upper part and a lower part which can be interconnected by elements. The design and to development of the torsion wringer can provide a mop that can be freed from liquid in a problem-free manner. The torsion wringer has elements designed in such a manner and/or are articulated on the parts of the container such that the parts can be rotated with respect to each other.
US10123674B2	Cognitive vacuum cleaner with learning and cohort classification A method, system and computer program product for modifying a cleaning routine of a mobile cleaner scans the surface to collect debris data, the debris data including an amount and location of debris on the surface. A profile of the surface is updated with the collected debris data. A profile of the surface is analyzed to identify a debris region on the surface, the debris region including an amount of debris differs from a high threshold. A cleaning routine of the mobile cleaner is modified based on the profile.
US10123662B2	One-piece foam construct The invention relates to a one-piece foam construct reversibly assembled by at least one binder, as well as the methods of making and assembling said one-piece foam construct. The construct is meant for use as a cleaning implement.
US10123657B2	Capped rim system for a bathtub A capped bathtub system including a bathing well having a rim extending along a perimeter of an upper part of the bathing well and a rim cap configured to cover the rim. The rim cap includes a first flange that extends partially along an inner surface of the bathing well, a second flange that extends partially along an outer surface of the bathing well, and a cover portion that connects the first flange to the second flange. At least one recess is formed into a portion of the rim that is covered by the rim cap.
US10123655B2	Thermos flask A thermos flask comprises a container that has, on the upper side, an opening on which a lid is held. The lid closes the opening when in a closed position and is able to be at least partially moved by means of an actuation element in order to partially release the opening such that liquid can be poured out. The lid is able to be placed on a receiving portion of the container and is held in the closed position by means of a detent.
US10123654B2	Apparatus for cooking food products including a detachable plate An apparatus for cooking food products is provided. The apparatus includes at least one heating plate having a surface provided with alternate crests and troughs. The apparatus further comprises a fixing system adapted to detachably fix a corrugated protective plate, having a non-stick face, to said heating plate. The corrugated protective plate has a first and a second corrugated edge and alternate crests and troughs extending from the first to the second corrugated edge and adapted to match the alternate crests and troughs of the heating plate when the corrugated protective plate is fixed to the heating plate. Said fixing system comprises fixing elements adapted to exert a force on corresponding portions of the protective plate close to the first or the second corrugated edge so as to push the protective plate against the heating plate.
US10123650B2	Vacuum coffee maker with magnetic coupling system A vacuum-type coffee maker includes an upper brewing unit and a lower carafe. The upper brewing unit includes a vessel and a collar disposed around a lower portion of the vessel. The collar includes a magnetic array defining an upper magnetic coupler. The lower carafe includes a vessel having a collar disposed around an upper portion of the vessel. The collar further includes a magnetic array to define a lower magnetic coupler. In assembly, the upper magnetic coupler is magnetically coupled to the lower magnetic coupler when the upper brewing unit is received on the lower carafe. A heating element is disposed in a base portion of the lower carafe. The lower carafe is removeably received on a support stand, and the heating element of the lower carafe is powered by the support stand in use during a brewing sequence.
US10123649B2	System and methods for dispensing hot beverages A system for dispensing hot beverages in single-portion beverage containers. The beverage containers are retained within a dispensing enclosure and are heated by conduction of heat from a heating surface, thereby maintain the beverages at a specified hot temperature that is hotter than comfortable to the touch. Each individual beverage container has an internal enclosure at the temperature of the heated beverage, and an insulating surround that allows a consumer to remove the can from the dispensing enclosure without touching any hot surface. The dispensing enclosure may be portable. The single-portion beverage containers have an insulating surround which leaves the container bottom clear for thermal contact with the heating surface.
US10123644B2	Glove dispensing apparatus and glove cartridge for use therewith and glove dispensing method An apparatus for dispensing a disposable glove and applying it to the hand of a user in which a stream of air drawn into an enclosed glove applying chamber through a constricted opening aligned with the heel of the glove inflates the topmost glove in a stack of gloves in the chamber so that a user can readily insert his hand into the glove. After the user has donned the glove on the hand, a wall of the chamber is opened to permit the user to readily withdraw his hand from the glove applying chamber while the air flow which originally inflated the top-most glove is disrupted. Upon closures of the chamber wall, the re-established air flow automatically inflates the next lower glove in the glove stack to prepare the next glove for receipt of another hand.
US10123643B2	Lapel support A lapel support comprises a grip, a loop and a coupling member. The lapel support is for use on a garment that is being supported by a hanger. The hanger comprises a clothes support structure and a rod for suspending the clothes support structure from a rod, for example in a closet. The grip grips the rod of the hanger and is coupled to the coupling member. The coupling member is also coupled to the loop, and maintains tension between the grip and the loop. The loop engages a button on a garment.
US10123631B2	Operating system for, and a method of, operating an article of furniture An operating system (10) for operating an article of furniture (12), the article of furniture (12) comprising a support structure, at least one component displaceably arranged relative to the support structure and a receiver. The operating system (10) includes a (controller 34) which communicates wirelessly with the article of furniture (12), the controller (34) outputting operating signals (46) containing operating instructions. A signal processing module communicates with the wireless controller (34) via a routing arrangement (48), the signal processing module receiving the operating signals (46) and converting the operating signals into control signals to be provided to the receiver to effect displacement of the at least one component of the article of furniture (12) relative to the support structure under the control of a user.
US10123624B2	Chair with variable positioning and support An adjustable chair frame with a back and seating surfaces that flex to conform to the shape, weight and movement of an occupant is disclosed. The chair form and proportions provide for a recumbent position that disperses the weight of the occupant more evenly, thereby reducing external and internal physiological point loading. The form also provides ergonomic articulation to minimize internal physiological stresses such as neck/back vertebral compression. Eccentric connections driven by a motor assembly allow positioning adjustment of the components of the chair. Additionally, an air pump assembly may be included to automatically adjust one or more air bladders provided on the interior of the chair frame.
US10123618B2	Household appliance A household appliance includes a storage space. A partition plate located in the storage space includes a first surface, a second surface, a first end, and a second end. A first connecting structure includes a first projecting portion and a first slot. The first slot includes a first slot section and a second slot section being in communication with the first slot section and extending in a front-back direction. The first slot section has an inlet opening to the first surface and/or the second surface. The first projecting portion is adapted to enter the first slot section through the inlet and then enter the second slot section. The household appliance is therefore easy to assemble.
US10123617B2	Shelf for storage racks An apparatus that can be used to hold varying weights contains a planar body, a plurality of support beams, a first beam receiving channel, and a second beam receiving channel. When in use, items are stored upon a load bearing surface of the planar body. The plurality of support beams is slidably positioned in between the first beam receiving channel and the second beam receiving channel. Depending on the weight of the items, the user can adjust the number of the plurality of support beams being utilized. When the items are stored, the weight of the items are evenly distributed among the plurality of support beams. Since the plurality of support beams is positioned opposite to the load bearing surface, the items can be stored with no interference.
US10123614B2	Concealed shelf Disclosed is a shelf with a housing having a hollow interior and a tray having a plurality of surfaces, wherein the tray is in communication with the hollow interior of the housing, a holder is attached to the shelf one or more electrical outlets, which are electrically connected to a power source.
US10123613B2	Height adjustable table The present invention relates to an improved height adjustable table which can assist and motivate the user to use the height adjustable table in a manner which increases health, calorie burn and well-being. This is done by logging how long the table has been in a standing and/or sitting range. The log can be used to calculate the calories burned during use. In another embodiment the log can be used to remind the user of the table to change position during the use of the table.
US10123610B2	Force-sensing toothbrush A toothbrush comprises a head including a plurality of cleaning elements attached to the head, a handle, a neck extending between the head and the handle, a motor unit including a motor and a manual winder for manually energizing the motor, and a force sensor configured to detect a user-applied force exceeding a predetermined threshold force, wherein the force sensor causes the toothbrush to produce at least one of an audible signal and a tactile signal when the user-applied force exceeds a predetermined threshold force. An audible signal and a tactile signal may comprise, respectively, muting of the motor and interruption of vibration of the toothbrush.
US10123606B1	Container for removably retaining a razor cartridge with razorblades including a zinc strip and a central stabilizer with a tab and wings to provide an evenly distributed downward force in the direction of the zinc strip A container retained in a closed condition by an internal spring force. When the container is in a closed condition, a razorblade cartridge containing at least one razorblade having a sharp front edge faces a zinc strip removably retained within an interior chamber of the container. A convex shape of the zinc strip creates an upward orientation of the zinc strip to enhance contact with the razor blade. A central stabilizer is retained in the interior chamber of the container, the central stabilizer having a downwardly extending tab to provide a downward force on a razorblade cartridge. A pair of oppositely disposed wings on the central stabilizer provides an even distribution of the downward force.
US10123603B1	Diffuse fiber optic lighting for luggage The luggage lighting system includes a piece of luggage and a lighting module coupled to the luggage. In some embodiments, the lighting module is a fiber-optic lighting module. The luggage includes an outer surface, and the lighting module includes a light diffuser coupled to the outer surface. In some embodiments, the light diffuser is a fiber-optic light diffuser. The lighting module also includes a light source, such as a laser or a light emitting diode (LED). When the light source is powered on, the output light is directed through the light diffuser. The light diffuser is configured to output single or multiple colors of light, easily observed by someone looking at the luggage. The luggage lighting system is particularly useful for identifying one's luggage from surrounding pieces of luggage lacking the luggage lighting system.
US10123599B2	Luggage bag with organizer Embodiments of the invention provide a luggage bag and an overhead luggage bag, which include an outer container and an organizer that is contained therein. The organizer includes a built-in compartment and a plurality of removable foldable compartments. The organizer can be stored within the outer container and covered by an outer flap. The compartments can stack and fold onto each other and can fold into and out of the outer container. The compartments can be removably attached to each other. The compartments can be modular such that the organizer can be configured to include any desired number of compartments. The compartments of the organizer can unfold, deploy, and extend from the outer container. The overhead luggage bag can include one or more easy-access portals through which contents of the luggage bag can be conveniently accessed without fully opening the luggage bag.
US10123598B2	Portable work surface system for carry-on cases The disclosure is directed to a portable work surface system for carry-on cases. In one embodiment, the system includes one or more work surfaces in the form of tables that may be removably secured to all types of carry-on cases. Each work surface forming part of the system is not only universal in its coupling to existing carry-on cases, but is also substantially dimensioned and stable enough to support various types of electronic devices, such as a portable computer, mouse, keyboards, etc. The work surface system may be adapted for use with a hard drive carry-on case having pull-out handles and wheels and configured to store a hard disk system for use in film production, for example. Additional alternative embodiments are proposed to accommodate different needs and types of uses.
US10123597B1	Vertical luggage A vertical luggage includes a luggage body having an opening located on a front panel thereof and recessed toward a back panel thereof, a rectangular front bag stitched with one lateral side thereof to one lateral side of the luggage body for use as a front cover to close the opening of the luggage body, a first zipper for binding the other three sides of the front bag to the other three sides of the opening, and a compressible inner bag stitched to an inner side of the front bag for holding a suit bag and other storage items, and a bottom layer space defined in a bottom side inside the luggage body.
US10123593B2	Consumer product attachment systems having a locking assembly Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a locking assembly for an attachment system of an electronic device. More specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an attachment unit that is configured to be inserted and removed from a housing of a consumer product. The attachment unit and/or the housing includes a catch member or other such locking assembly configured to releasably secure the attachment unit within the housing.
US10123592B2	Strap secured attachment providing load support and/or anti abrading protection of an article supporting sling A multi-functional article easily attachable to and adjustable along a strap, without having to either disassemble or modify the strap in any fashion. The attachment article includes a base configured with an interior cutout profile defining a pair of inwardly projecting tabs with contoured opposing edges configured to receive a strap in manipulated engaging fashion in order to mount the article to the strap. An integrally defined end portion extends from an edge of the base, typically in a reverse angled fashion, and defines a catch operable in multiple variants to either prevent abrading of a rifle sling, backpack strap, or the like as well as being operable in a further variant to provide a vertical load supporting article.
US10123589B2	Reel based lacing system A lacing system configured to selectively adjust the size of an opening on an object and allow for the incremental release of the lace within the lacing system. The lacing system can have a reel comprising a housing, a spool supported by the housing, and a knob supported by the housing. The reel can be configured so that cable is gathered in the channel formed in the spool when the spool is rotated in a first direction relative to the housing, and so that cable can be incrementally released from the spool when the spool is rotated in a second direction relative to the housing. In some embodiments, the reel can include a rotation limiter which can be configured to prevent over-tightening of the lacing system and/or to prevent rotation past the substantially fully loosened state.
US10123587B2	Adjustable bladder system for an article of footwear An adjustable bladder system for an article of footwear is disclosed. The bladder system includes an outer bladder that may be inflated using an external pump. In addition, one or more tensile members may be disposed internally to the outer bladder to provide enhanced support. A valve member may also be disposed internally to the outer bladder. The valve member can include a contoured edge to provide a contoured shape for the outer bladder.
US10123583B2	Athletic performance monitoring systems and methods in a team sports environment Systems and methods for sensing and monitoring various athletic performance metrics, e.g., during the course of a game, a practice, a training session, training drills, and the like, are described. These systems and methods can provide useful metrics for players and coaches relating to athletic performances in various sports, including various team sports.
US10123579B2	Kit and method for facilitating tying a tie Based on a person's neck size, torso length measured from the neck to the waistline, and a constant that depends upon the type of knot that will be tied, a position for attaching a marker on a rear surface of the tie can be determined. The marker then provides a reference point to indicate where a broader portion of the tie should cross over the narrower portion after the tie is looped around a person's collar. This approach ensures that the tie will always be tied with the correct length of the broad end hanging below the knot.
US10123575B2	Bra with support portions A bra having one or more flexible elastomeric support strips is provided herein. The support strips are affixed to one or more of an outer-facing surface of the breast cups of the bra or to an inner-facing surface of the breast cups of the bra such that they provide support to at least the under portions of a wearer's breasts.
US10123574B2	Multi-sized wireless push-up brassiere A wireless push-up brasserie having unique construction providing lift and support is disclosed. A cup portion has innovative materials, fabric cuts, seams and layers providing push-up and push-in to a wearer's bust line. Further to the enhanced look, the invention also provides substantial comfort and feel. Specialized elastic bands are additionally included to shoulder straps and a chest strap providing lift similar to spring force. The invention also adds versatility to its design to include size adjustment and optional crisscrossed back straps or adjusted to be worn as a halter around the wearer's neck.
US10123573B2	Abdominal-restraint garment and methods of assembling the same Disclosed herein are abdominal-restraint garments comprising an outer garment layer and an inner abdominal-restraint layer. The inner abdominal-restraint layer can be attached to the outer garment layer. In some embodiments, a front bottom and/or back bottom of the inner abdominal-restraint layer are attached to an inner side of the outer garment layer. The front top of the inner abdominal-restraint layer can be configured to be even with the front rise of the outer garment layer or extend above the front rise of the outer garment layer. The inner abdominal-restraint layer can be configured to extend across a garment-wearer's abdominal region. In some embodiments, the abdominal-restraint garment is a pair of pants, jeans, a pair of shorts, a skirt, leggings, or tights. Also disclosed herein are methods of assembling the abdominal-restraint garments disclosed herein.
US10123566B2	Electronic cigarette An electronic cigarette includes a liquid supply including liquid material, a heater operable to heat the liquid material to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the liquid material and form an aerosol, a wick in communication with the liquid material and in communication with the heater such that the wick delivers the liquid material to the heater, at least one air inlet operable to deliver air to a central air passage upstream of the heater, and a mouth end insert having at least two diverging outlets. The electronic cigarette can also include an air flow diverter which directs incoming air away from a heating zone of the heater.
US10123558B2	Leuconostoc citreum and fermented foods using the same as a starter, and compositions thereof The present invention relates to Leuconostoc citreum CJGN34 KCTC 10974BP lactic acid bacteria, fermented foods including kimchi manufactured using the lactic acid bacteria as a starter, and lactic acid bacteria composition comprising of the lactic acid bacteria. The novel Leuconostoc citreum CJGN34 of the present invention enhances the general taste quality of kimchi; increases the intrinsic complex sour taste and carbonated taste of kimchi manufactured by traditional manufacturing method in wintertime; and regularly sustains the fermentation quality during the year; particularly, has an effect for controlling the deterioration of fermentation quality in the summer in which the taste quality deteriorates. Thus, the lactic acid bacteria of the present invention can be used as a starter in fermented foods including kimchi, or as a drug medicine in the form of a tablet or capsule mixed with carriers or additives, or a s probiotics for foods; or applied in cosmetic ingredients by mixing in a certain amount. Therefore, the lactic acid bacteria of the present invention can be used in a manner commonly applied in various fields of technology such as medicine, food, feed, cosmetics or the like.
US10123556B2	Method for cooking food using steam A method of cooking food, such as fish and vegetables, using steam during a cooking cycle comprises a preheating step where the cavity is heated toward a cooking temperature and a cooking step where the cavity is maintained at the cooking temperature. The preheating step comprises a dry preheating step where no steam is introduced into the cooking cavity and a steam preheating step where steam is introduced into the cavity.
US10123550B2	Method for manufacturing confectionery shells A method of producing a multi-layered confectionery shell and a method of producing a plurality of confectionery shells are provided. The distance the stamp is pressed into the mold cavity in a second phase is shorter than the distance the stamp is pressed into the mold cavity in a first phase.
US10123544B2	Tool for removal of meat pieces such as tenderloin from a carcass The invention relates to a tool for manual or especially automatic removal of tenderloins from half-carcasses of slaughtered animals. The tool comprises a circular knife blade, a blade housing supporting the knife blade, and a movable knife blade protector. The tool is connected to a motor capable of driving the knife blade. A tenderloin is partly cut free with the knife, the knife blade protector is activated to protect the knife blade and the tool is used to pull the tenderloin free from the half-carcass without damaging the tenderloin with the knife. The tool can be arranged on a robot and can be used for automatic removal of tenderloins from half-carcasses at slaughterhouses.
US10123542B2	Compositions and methods to increase plant yield The present invention includes compositions and methods for increasing the absorption of nutrients by plants to increase their growth comprising: identifying a plant in need of enhanced nutrient uptake and growth when compared to non-treated plants; obtaining a whole leaf aloe vera extract and at least one plant nutrient selected from nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), or potassium (K); and mixing the whole leaf aloe vera extract into a plant growth media, wherein the plant absorbs the one or more plant nutrients at a higher rate and the plants have at least one of increased growth, increased grain size, increased grain yield, increased panicles, or an increase in the number of seedlings per plant when compared to the addition of the one or more nutrients alone.
US10123541B2	Biocidal mixture, use of biocidal mixture and compositions comprising a biocidal mixture The present invention generally relates to a synergistic mixture of biocidal effect comprising phenylpropanol and hop extract. Particularly, the mixture of the invention can be used in the fields of cosmetics, medicines and food.
US10123539B2	Bromate suppression A apparatus and method for killing microorganisms in a body of water that has been treated with ozone in the presence of bromide ions with the method comprising the steps of carrying out the ozonization of a body of water in the presence of bromide ions, adding a metal ion donor to the body of water, and adding a hypobromite ion scavenger to the body of water to interact with the metal ion donor to enhance a metal ion concentration in the body of water while suppressing the oxidization of the bromide by the Ozone to produce bromate.
US10123538B2	Glyphosate salt herbicidal composition A process is provided for preparing a glyphosate salt solution that comprises potassium and IPA cations in a desired mole ratio, and that has a glyphosate a.e. concentration not less than about 400 g/l. The process includes adding glyphosate acid to a glyphosate potassium salt solution having a glyphosate assay of at least about 40% a.e. by weight, to form a slurry. The process also includes introducing isopropylamine, in an amount sufficient to neutralize the added glyphosate acid, to the slurry with mixing until all glyphosate is dissolved, to form a mixed glyphosate salt solution comprising potassium and IPA cations in the desired mole ratio.
US10123532B2	Spray drift reduction agents comprising low hydrophilic-lipophilic balance surfactants Embodiments of the present invention disclose using low hydrophilic-lipophilic balance surfactants as spray drift reduction agents and methods of using such agents.
US10123522B2	Insect pest monitor and product transfer station A domed or curved station for monitoring, capturing, or killing crawling insects, the station having a lower member that may be flat, curved or of varying contour, a curved or angled upper member connected directly or by one or more intermediate members to the lower member, an adhesive on one of the lower member or the upper member, the adhesive either being a tacky substance applied directly to the lower member's upper surface/upper member's lower surface or to another piece of material that this secured to the lower member or upper member, a pesticide which is placed opposite the adhesive on the interior of the station, such as being either applied directly to the curved upper member's lower surface or removably secured to the upper member's lower surface, and an attractant placed in between the upper member and the base member.
US10123521B2	Systems and methods for automated fish culling An automated fish culling system which includes a base station which includes a processor and base station display for displaying information corresponding to a plurality of cull tags, the base station display being communicably coupled to the processor. Each of the plurality of cull tags are configured to be associated with a fish and includes cull tag display for identifying the cull tag. The system further includes a memory for storing data that includes information associated with the fish, the information comprising a fish weight, wherein the processor determines which fish to cull based on at least the fish weight associated with each fish, and indicates which fish to cull via at least the base station display.
US10123518B2	Genetically modified non-human animals and methods of use thereof Genetically modified non-human animals expressing human SIRPα and human IL-15 from the non-human animal genome are provided. Also provided are methods for making non-human animals expressing human SIRPα and human IL-15 from the non-human animal genome, and methods for using non-human animals expressing human SIRPα and human IL-15 from the non-human animal genome. These animals and methods find many uses in the art, including, for example, in modeling human T cell and/or natural killer (NK) cell development and function, in modeling human pathogen infection of human T cells and/or NK cells, and in various in vivo screens.
US10123517B2	Immune competent models of human disease Immunocompetent animal models having immunological tolerance to a xenograft and methods of producing the same. The animal models are tolerized to the xenograft in the pre-immune, fetal or embryonic stage, followed by transplanting the xenograft into the animal in the post-natal stage, such that the post-natal animal is immunologically tolerant to the xenograft, while remaining immunocompetent.
US10123512B2	Assembled pet framework made of paper An assembled pet framework made of paper includes a geometric body made of corrugated paper and cut to not only form therein a geometric through hole but also obtain a geometric cylinder, a geometric disk, geometric rings, a disk and a plate centrally provided with a geometric hole, which are put together to form a pet toy framework. Multiple geometric bodies and multiple geometric rings are put together to form a pet toy maze. The corrugated paper is made from eco-friendly, recyclable and reusable materials. Body-shaped corrugated paper and plate-shaped corrugated paper are cut with a minimal waste of materials or even without wasting any materials to therefore protect the environment and save materials. The bodies, rings, and disks are coupled together to form pet-related devices of different shapes. Multiple bodies and rings together form a cat maze in which cats play.
US10123509B2	Dynamic canine tracking method for hazardous and illicit substances Vapor wake detection is a highly advantageous method and system for detecting explosives and other illicit substances. With vapor wake detection, a canine and a handler are used; however, unlike other detection schemes, the canine leads the handler. After the handler positions the canine in a desired location, the canine detects scents in the air that come to the canine. When the canine detects a trained scent, the canine leads the handler to or follows behind the carrier of the item with the scent. Once the carrier is identified by the handler, the proper personnel are contacted. To implement vapor wake detection effectively, specific rigorous training is utilized.
US10123508B2	Apparatus for measuring amount of feed using weight sensor Provided is an apparatus of measuring the amount of feed. The apparatus includes a feed tank, a plurality of sliders, a case, a plurality of guides, and a weight sensor. The feed tank includes a discharge tube disposed at a lower part thereof and includes a body filled with feed. The plurality of sliders is radially and vertically disposed on an outer surface of the feed tank. The case has a discharge tube insertion hole at a lower part thereof to receive a discharge tube of the feed tank and receives the feed tank. The plurality of guides is radially and vertically disposed on an inner surface of the case. The weight sensor is disposed under the guide and makes contact with a lower end of the slider of the feed tank to measure the weight of the feed tank and feed.
US10123507B2	Animal feeder An animal feeder configured to provide feed to animals via gravity actuation is disclosed. The animal feeder may be configured such that feed is contained within a feed container and provided to animals via gravity and through an outlet opening configured to eliminate stagnant pockets and feed spoilage. The animal feeder is also configured to feed only specific animals. In particular, the animal feeder may include a support system with a pivot for supporting the feed container above ground level and enabling the feed container to rotate relative to the pivot, thereby preventing smaller species animals from feeding in the feed trough in favor of larger species animals. If a smaller species animal attempts to jump and place its front legs on the feeder to feed from the feed trough, the feeder spins causing the smaller species animal to fall back to the ground.
US10123505B2	Milk pump device and method for displacing an amount of milk A milk pump device, comprising a passage duct, a first one-way valve, a second one-way valve and a membrane pump. The first and second one-way valves are included in the passage duct and oriented in the same direction relative to each other. The membrane pump is positioned between the first one-way valve and the second one-way valve. The membrane pump forms a first milk meter for generating a first milk measurement with respect to a number of complete pumping strokes of the membrane pump. The milk pump device further comprises a second milk meter for carrying out a second milk measurement with respect to a residual pumping stroke.
US10123501B1	Soybean variety 01064722 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01064722. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01064722. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01064722 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01064722 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10123499B1	Maize hybrid X08K189 A novel maize variety designated X08K189 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08K189 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08K189 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08K189, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08K189. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08K189.
US10123498B2	Method of plant genome design, method of creating new cultivar and new cultivar Plant genome design method defines DNA markers M1 to M5, for each target region, DNA marker M2 is at an upstream side of a target region, or upstream thereof, DNA marker M1 is upstream of DNA marker M2, DNA marker M4 is at a downstream side of the target region, or downstream thereof, DNA marker M5 is downstream of DNA marker M4, and DNA marker M3 is in the target region; and designs a genome so that a substitution region, containing the target region, in a chromosome of the original cultivar to be substituted with a chromosome fragment derived from the foreign cultivar has an end on an upstream side between DNA marker M1 and DNA marker M2, and an end on a downstream side of the substitution region between DNA marker M4 and DNA marker M5.
US10123497B2	Hybrid melon variety 34-742 RZ The present invention relates to a Cucumis melo seed designated 34-742 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Cucumis melo plant produced by growing the 34-742 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the melon cultivar, represented by melon variety 34-742 RZ.
US10123495B2	Controlled system for supporting algae growth with adsorbed carbon dioxide A system and method for creating a useful carbon-enriched media in a reactor which will assimilate carbon into an algae biomass, requires measuring a respective carbon concentration of the media, C(measured), as it enters, and as it leaves the reactor. Operationally, desired carbon concentration values are preset, C(set), and are provided along with values obtained for C(measured) as input to a system controller. Respective differentials between C(measured) and C(set) at the reactor's input and output ports are determined by the controller and are used to control a volumetric fluid flow rate of the media through the reactor. Specifically, the controller establishes a volumetric fluid flow rate of the media as it is passed through an absorber where the media is carbon-enriched by interaction with combustion gases from an external source (e.g. a power plant).
US10123491B2	Aeroponics system with microfluidic die and sensors for feedback control The present disclosure is directed to a greenhouse or single container for plant growth coupled to the Internet of Things and including a microfluidic die for water or nutrient distribution. The microfluidic die is controllable automatically or with instructions from a remote user, based on sensors included within a growth environment.
US10123489B2	Plant growth system and method for controlling plant growth The present disclosure provides a plant growth system and a method for controlling plant growth. The plant growth system includes a cabinet within which partitions are provided so as to divide an interior of the cabinet into a plurality of plant growth compartments, wherein at least one side wall of the cabinet is provided with a touchable; transparent display panel capable of being switched to black screen display.
US10123487B2	Clean grain elevator paddles for a combine harvester A grain paddle for a clean grain elevator of a combine harvester. The paddle includes a substantially rigid body with a planar portion having ends disposed distal and proximal to an elevator chain of the combine harvester. Some paddle embodiments include an angled end adjacent the proximal end of the planar portion. Some paddle embodiments include an angled end adjacent to the distal end of the planar portion. Some paddle embodiments include sloped lateral edges.
US10123485B2	Tapered vane for agricultural harvester transition cone A transition cone for a threshing system of an agricultural harvesting machine has an inner surface with a tapering inner circumference between a wider upstream end and a narrower downstream end, and a plurality of vanes in the transition cone. Each vane extends between the upstream end and the downstream end and at least partly around the tapering inner circumference. Each vane includes an upstanding segment extending away from the inner surface, and a base segment extending from the upstanding segment along the inner surface on the downstream side of the upstanding segment. The base segment has a thicker proximal region adjacent the upstanding segment and a thinner distal edge opposite thereto, with a curved exposed surface extending there between.
US10123483B2	Threshing drum An agricultural combine has a threshing drum and a matching concave, the threshing drum comprising multiple threshing slats having an outer surface segment which, when the drum is rotated with respect to the concave with crop material in the drum, beats and squeezes the crop material thereby releasing grain from residue in the crop material, wherein at least the outer surface segment is formed from a material having a Shore A hardness higher than 90 and lower than 95.
US10123479B2	Quick change lawn mower blades A mower blade assembly attaches to a rotatable spindle and includes a mounting plate which defines a first pin aperture. The mounting plate and a retaining plate are attached to the rotatable spindle. The retaining plate defines a second pin aperture. A movable pin plate comprises a pin. A blade is selectively attachable to the mounting plate. The blade defines a retaining plate aperture and a third pin aperture. A biasing member urges the movable pin plate from a disengaged position to an engaged position. The pin is engageable with the pin apertures for mounting and retaining the cutting blade to the mounting plate. The blade is attached by moving the blade over the retaining plate aperture, urging the movable pin plate to the disengaged position, rotating the blade, and releasing the movable pin plate. Another embodiment includes a force finger.
US10123478B2	Walk power mower with biased handle A walk power mower having a cutting deck supported upon the ground by front and rear wheels. The mower includes a biased handle that permits the handle to be pivotally displaced downwardly, against an upward bias force, during operation. The bias force may be provided by a resilient member that compresses as the handle is displaced downwardly. The compression of the resilient member allows downward movement of the handle without initially producing corresponding upward movement of the front wheels of the mower during rearward pulling of the handle.
US10123477B2	String trimmer line holder device and system Disclosed herein is a string trimmer line holder device that includes a main body extending between a first end and a second end, the main body including a first opening proximate the first end and a second opening proximate the second end. A length of pre-cut string trimmer line is configured to be inserted into each of the first and second openings such that a first end of the pre-cut string trimmer line is inserted into the first opening and a second end of the pre-cut string trimmer line is inserted into the second opening.
US10123476B2	Seeding system A product distribution system includes a product on demand pick-up assembly including a hopper. The hopper is configured such that an air stream flowing into the pick-up assembly entrains product therein and conveys product downstream through a plurality of conduits. The product distribution system further includes a container for storing product prior to delivery of product to the pick-up assembly and a meter and conveyor assembly configured to move product from the container to the pick-up assembly hopper such that an amount of product greater than a predetermined quantity is maintained in the pick-up assembly hopper during operation of the system.
US10123474B2	System and method for controlling machinery for randomizing and replicating predetermined agronomic input levels A controller is operatively connected to a dispensing system and configured to change the dispensement of an agricultural input from the dispensing system in different predetermined locations within at least one predefined test plot in a management zone of an agricultural field. The predetermined locations have been randomized and replicated for quantifying the agronomic response in a statistically valid manner.
US10123471B2	Gimbal for connecting implements to a tow vehicle A gimbal is provided for attaching an implement to a three-point hitch. The gimbal has an implement plate comprising a first side and a second side wherein attached to the first side is an upper implement bracket for coupling to an upper implement arm and a lower bracket for coupling to a lower implement arm wherein the second side comprises a retaining cavity. A tow plate is received in the retaining cavity and is rotational relative to the implement plate. The tow plate comprises lower brackets arranged to connect to lift arms of the three point hitch and an upper bracket arranged to connect to a stabilizer arm of the three point hitch.
US10130018B2	Compute node cooling with air fed through backplane A computing system includes a chassis, one or more backplanes coupled to the chassis. Computing devices are coupled to the one or more backplanes. The one or more backplanes include backplane openings that allow air to pass from one side of the backplane to the other side of the backplane. Air channels are formed by adjacent circuit board assemblies of the computing devices and the one or more backplanes. Channel capping elements at least partially close the air channels.
US10130015B2	Electronic circuit unit An electronic circuit unit (1) comprising at least one electrical or electronic device (8) with at least one terminal contact (101), the at least one terminal contact (101) being connected in an electrically conducting manner to at least one terminal pad (100), at least one terminal contact (101) and at least one terminal pad (100) are surrounded in the region of the electrical point of contact by an electrically insulating compound (9), the electrical or electronic device (8) being arranged outside the electrically insulating compound (9).
US10130013B1	Cooling electronic devices in a data center A data center cooling system includes an outer container that defines a first volume; an inner container that defines a second volume and is positioned within the first volume, the inner container including an air outlet that includes an airflow path between the first and second volumes; a liquid seal to fluidly isolate a liquid phase of a non-conductive coolant that fills at least a portion of the first and second volumes from an ambient environment; and a plurality of electronic heat-generating devices at least partially immersed in the liquid phase of the non-conductive coolant to transfer a heat load to the non-conductive coolant.
US10130010B2	Internal heat-dissipation terminal The disclosure provides an internal heat-dissipation terminal, wherein the terminal comprises at least one cavity in which heat-storage material is arranged. The cavity is located in an area without a device in the terminal. The technical solution of the disclosure can be applied to substantially enhance the heat storage capability of the terminal.
US10130008B2	Immersion cooling systems and methods An immersion cooled electronic arrangement includes a sealed housing, a coolant contained within the housing, and an electronic device submerged within the coolant. An agitator is disposed within the housing to control passive heat transfer between the electronic device and the coolant. An immersion cooling system and related method are also described.
US10130007B2	Fan control system for a computer system based on a time variable rate of current A fan control system includes a fan and a target device. The fan control system includes a controller to control the rotation speed of the fan. The controller controls the rotation speed according to a time-variable rate of current consumed by the target device. Particularly, when the time-variable rate of current exceeds a threshold, the controller controls the fan to operate at a maximum rotation speed.
US10130006B2	Thermal control within an enclosure with circular cross-section A thermal control system includes an enclosure configured to contain a thermal mass. A baffle plate is disposed in the enclosure. A heat exchanger is coextensive with and cooperates with the baffle plate to divide the enclosure into a first chamber and a second chamber. An air circulation element cooperates with the baffle plate and the heat exchanger to define an air circulation path and to cause air to flow through the air circulation path. The heat exchanger exchanges thermal energy with the air flowing through the air circulation path.
US10130000B2	Power connector for electronic equipment supported by a rack assembly An electronic system includes a rack assembly including a first rail and a second rail defining a first width therebetween and a chassis that supports electronic components and is insertable between the first rail and the second rail. The chassis includes a first side and a second side defining a second width therebetween that is less than the first width. The electronic system further includes a power connector coupled to the chassis and movable between a first position and a second position. The power connector and the second side define a third width when the power connector is in the first position. The power connector and the second side define a fourth width when the power connector is in the second position. The third width is greater than the first width and the fourth width is less than the first width.
US10129999B2	Slam latch A slam latch includes a retaining screw that is held in position by a distal upper support that constrains a distal portion of the retaining screw from moving upward, a middle lower support that constrains a middle portion of the retaining screw from moving downward, and a proximal upper support that constrains a proximal portion of the retaining screw from moving upward. The slam latch further comprises one or more L-shaped retaining members on the side that allow sliding the one or more L-shaped retaining members into a corresponding slot(s) of a device being secured, thereby preventing the slam latch from torqueing and bending with respect to the device.
US10129998B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes a first circuit board and a second circuit board arranged to have their first main surfaces facing each other, and a casing containing the first and second circuit boards. The first circuit board has the first main surface having a first electronic component with a mounting height from the first main surface toward the second circuit board greater than a distance between the first and second circuit boards. The second circuit board has an opening or a cutout as a first hollow portion facing the first electronic component. The first hollow portion receives a part of the first electronic component.
US10129997B2	Guide assembly for proper electrical blind mating of a module in an enclosure A guide assembly an enclosure-based device such as a computer provided in a rack-mountable chassis. The guide assembly is configured to facilitate blind connector mating such as electrical interconnection between a receiving connector on a previously-mounted board and an edge connector on a circuit board supported in a housing of a module that is slid or inserted into the interior space of the enclosure or chassis. The guide assembly (and devices that include a guide assembly) address the two design challenges discussed above of increasing numbers of circuits in devices that need to be connected and of decreasing pitch between the connectors. The guide assembly is configured, with its mechanical features, to decouple the degrees of freedom (DOFs) between the module being inserted into the chassis and the receiving/mating connector on the previously-mounted board. The guide assembly constrains five out of the six DOFs, which effectively ensures proper connector mating.
US10129991B2	Foldable electronic device and linking assembly A foldable electronic device and a linking assembly are provided. The foldable electronic device includes a host and a foldable display attached to the host. The host has a first portion, a second portion and a linking assembly connected therebetween. The linking assembly includes N+1 blocks (wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2) and a plurality of linking sets. Each block has a body and a pair of fitting portions disposed at two opposite sides of the body in a sliding mirror symmetry manner along a first direction, and the fitting portion of the Nth block is fitted with the fitting portion of the N+1 block. Each linking set has two links, and two ends of the two links overlapping each other lean against the Nth block and can move relative to the Nth block. Other two ends of the two links without overlapping each other are respectively fixed to the N−1th and N+1th blocks. When the link assembly is bent, a virtual center of any two adjacent blocks locates within a scope of the foldable display.
US10129989B2	Electronic device including glass housing An electronic device may comprise a housing including two opposite open ends and at least a portion comprising a light-transmitting material, a bracket disposed inside the housing and having a shape corresponding to the housing, a flexible display device disposed between the housing and the bracket and configured to display information to an outside through the light-transmitting portion of the housing, and a plurality of covers closing the open ends of the housing and supporting two opposite ends of the bracket, wherein the bracket may include an inner space for mounting electronic parts, and the bracket is length-adjustable in at least one direction. The housing may be formed of a glass tube. Thus, the housing may be formed into a desired shape by processing the glass tube. A stretchable bracket structure may be implemented inside the housing to come in tight contact with the housing.
US10129985B2	Substrate cover A substrate cover has a conductive frame body covering a surface circumference edge region and an upper circumference region of a substrate drawn with a charged particle beam, the conductive frame body comprising a notch portion provided at part of an inner circumference of the conductive frame body, and a recessed portion provided on the outer circumference side of the upper surface of the conductive frame body, such that the recessed portion is arranged adjacent to the notch portion in a direction of a frame width of the conductive frame body, and a conductive member provided on the recessed portion so as to pass through the notch portion to project inward to the inside of the frame of the conductive frame body, the conductive member comprising a contact portion electrically connected to the surface of the substrate, and a brim portion covering an upper portion of a gap.
US10129983B2	Optical module and flexible printed circuit board A base material includes a pair of end regions located on both sides in a first direction, and an intermediate region located between the pair of end regions. The intermediate region includes a pair of side edges on both sides in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Both the pair of side edges do not project outward in the second direction from the pair of end regions. At least one of the pair of side edges has a shape recessed inward in the second direction from the pair of end regions. Terminals include end pads and a side pad. The end pads are located in each of the pair of end regions of the base material and arranged in the second direction. The side pad is located at at least one of the pair of side edges of the base material.
US10129980B2	Circuit board and electronic component device A circuit board includes an insulating layer having a protrusion on a surface, and a connection pad formed on an upper surface of the protrusion. A peripheral portion of a lower surface of the connection pad is exposed from the protrusion.
US10129979B2	PCB assembly with molded matrix core Methods and devices related to the design and fabrication of molded cores for printed circuit board assemblies and system-on-package (SIP) devices are discussed. The discussed printed circuit board assemblies may have multiple electrical components embedded in a molded core matrix and forming electrical connections with one or more printed circuit boards attached to the molded core matrix. Methods for sourcing of electrical components and production of the molded cores and printed circuit board assemblies are also discussed. The methods and devices may increase a volumetric density of electrical components in printed circuit board assemblies and provide improved mechanical properties to the electrical circuit device.
US10129977B2	Semiconductor device mounting structure, backlight device, and mounting substrate A semiconductor device mounting structure includes a semiconductor device and a mounting substrate. The semiconductor device includes a first external connection terminal and a device-side mounting insulating region. The first external connection terminal is provided at a first end and has a metal region on a semiconductor mounting surface of the semiconductor device. The device-side mounting insulating region is defined by the metal region on the semiconductor mounting surface. The semiconductor mounting surface faces a substrate mounting surface. The mounting substrate has on the substrate mounting surface a land pattern made of an electrically conductive material to be electrically connected to the first external connection terminal. The land pattern is provided in a first shape to surround the device-side mounting insulating region and includes a land-side insulating region which has a second shape to correspond to a periphery of the device-side mounting insulating region.
US10129975B1	Liquid metal interfaces for flexible and reconfigurable electronics A reconfigurable electronic component comprising a channel having first and second ends and outer walls defining a lumen; a liquid phosphonic acid within the lumen; and a liquid metal within the lumen. A first electrical contact at the first end of the channel and a second electrical contact in communication with the lumen at the second end of the channel. A predetermined amount of a solvent and a liquid metal may be within the lumen, and the solvent may comprise ethanol. The liquid metal may be selected from the group consisting of eutectic gallium indium (EGaIn) and eutectic gallium-indium-tin alloys. The phosphonic acid may be selected from the group consisting of decylphosphonic acid (DPA), fluorobenzylphosphonic acid (FPA), and difluorobenzylphosphonic acid (DFPA). The first and second electrical contacts comprise copper. An overflow channel and a reservoir for the liquid metal and phosphonic acid may be in fluid communication with the lumen.
US10129973B2	Voltage divider circuit assembly and method A voltage divider circuit assembly includes resistors, an external electrostatic shield, and internal electrostatic shield(s). The resistors are in series with each other between input terminals that receive an input voltage. An external resistor is disposed between sensing terminals that conduct an output voltage that is the input voltage divided by the resistors in the series. The external shield is conductively coupled with the series of the resistors with the external resistor disposed outside of the external shield and the other resistor(s) inside the external shield. The internal shield(s) are conductively coupled with the resistors and disposed inside the external shield. A first internal resistor is disposed inside the external shield and outside of the internal shield(s). One or more remaining resistors are inside the internal shield(s). The shields divide parasitic capacitances to enable the measurement of dynamically changing high voltage input signals.
US10129972B2	Frame elements for package structures comprising printed circuit boards (PCBs) An apparatus, includes a substrate, an electronic component disposed over the substrate, and a frame element disposed over the substrate. The frame element provides structural rigidity to the apparatus. The apparatus also includes an encapsulating material disposed over an upper surface of the substrate, the electronic component and the frame element. An electrically conductive layer is disposed over the encapsulating material.
US10129969B2	Arc cutting system, including coolant tubes and other consumables, and related operational methods A method of using a coolant tube in a liquid cooled plasma arc torch is provided. The method includes installing the coolant tube and a first electrode in the plasma arc torch. The method also includes biasing, by a first coolant flow, a biasing surface of the coolant tube against the first electrode, such that the coolant tube translates axially along the longitudinal axis to contact the first electrode. The biasing by the first coolant flow defines a first distance in an axial direction between the O-ring of the coolant tube and a proximal end of the first electrode. The method further includes removing the first electrode from the plasma arc torch and installing a second electrode in the torch. The method includes biasing, by a second coolant flow, the biasing surface of the coolant tube against the second electrode, such that the coolant tube translates axially along the longitudinal axis to contact the second electrode. The biasing by the second coolant flow defines a second distance in an axial direction between the O-ring of the coolant tube and a proximal end of the second electrode. A difference between the first distance and the second distance is at least about 0.25 inches.
US10129967B2	Inner static electricity eliminating control valve for organic solvent delivery pipelines An inner static electricity eliminating control valve for organic solvent delivery pipelines is disclosed. The inner static electricity eliminating control valve is to be installed on and connected to an organic solvent delivery pipeline, to eliminate the inner static electricity generated by the organic solvent inside the organic solvent delivery pipeline. The inner static electricity eliminating control valve includes a valve casing, a main valve chamber, a pneumatic valve, a subsidiary valve chamber, a check valve, a static electricity export mechanism and a solvent export portion, wherein, the pneumatic valve can periodically apply pressure toward the organic solvent inside the main valve chamber, so that the organic solvent inside the main valve chamber can be delivered periodically through the check valve to the subsidiary valve chamber, and during this process, the static electricity export mechanism will export and eliminate the static electricity existing in the organic solvent.
US10129966B2	Backlight module, display device and method for manufacturing the display device Embodiments of the present invention relate to a backlight module, a display device and a method for manufacturing the display device. The backlight module includes: a backlight module body and a conductive light-shielding adhesive for bonding the backlight module body and a display panel, the backlight module body is provided with a connecting wire for electrically connecting to the display panel circuit board arranged on the display panel, the display panel circuit board is provided with a ground terminal. According to the present invention, static electricity on the display panel may flow to the ground terminal through the conductive light-shielding adhesive, the backlight module body and the display panel circuit board, by providing the conductive light-shielding adhesive and the connecting wire on the backlight module, such that the effects of increasing the static electricity protection capability to the backlight module and the life of the display panel are achieved.
US10129963B2	Lighting system, lighting devices, and terminal A lighting system includes lighting devices and a terminal. The terminal includes a display screen, an input unit, a wireless transmitter which transmits a radio signal, a communication unit which wirelessly transmits a control command to one of a communication address and a logical address for at least one of the lighting devices, specifying the one of the communication address and the logical address, and a controller which displays, on the display screen, icons respectively corresponding the lighting devices, and when an instruction for selecting any one of the icons has been received by the input unit, causes the wireless transmitter to transmit a radio signal indicating predetermined information. When one of the lighting devices which corresponds to the selected icon has received the radio signal, the lighting device transmits the communication address assigned to the lighting device itself to be used for communication with the communication unit.
US10129961B1	Consolidation of lamp power conversion and external communication control A lighting system includes one or more methods and systems to control an input switching stage of a power converter to provide power for a lamp and modulate a line current supplied to the power converter to carry data related to a state of the lamp. In at least one embodiment, a single controller consolidates the functions of controlling an input stage of the power converter and communicating to an external device by modulating the line current supplied to the power converter to carry data related to a state of the lamp. The particular type of current modulation and communication protocol utilized by the consolidated power conversion-communication controller is a matter of design choice. In at least one embodiment, the lamp includes one or more electronic light sources, such as one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) and/or one or more compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).
US10129960B2	Antenna arrangement for a solid-state lamp An antenna arrangement for a solid-state lamp is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide for improved performance by positioning the antenna for radio frequency (RF) control of the lamp non-parallel to the main driver board and/or the LED board. This positioning can provide distance from the main board circuitry and a ground plane for the antenna. An RF daughter card can be used for the antenna and also possibly for other RF components. In some embodiments, the antenna is substantially perpendicular to the main board. In some embodiments, the lamp is dimensioned as a replacement for a standard incandescent bulb, such as an A, BR, or PAR bulb. In some embodiments, an optically transmissive enclosure and/or a base define the interior cavity of the lamp. A plurality of LEDs can be disposed within the optically transmissive enclosure.
US10129953B2	Controlled lamp device A controlled lamp device (1), comprising: a lamp housing (2) with a light exit opening (3), a sensor unit (4) for detecting a contactless manual intervention (15, 16-1, 16-2, 17) of an operator of the lamp device in an intervention region (5, 5-1, 5-2), and an evaluation and control device (6) for evaluating the intervention of the operator detected by the sensor unit and for influencing a control parameter for the operation of the lamp device depending on a result of the evaluation, wherein the sensor unit (4) is provided in and/or on the light housing (2) laterally adjacent to the light exit opening (3), and the evaluation and control device (6) is designed such that it only influences the control parameter if the evaluation carried out by the evaluation and control device (6) shows that a predefined path in an intervention region has been covered in a gesture-like manner during the intervention of the operator.
US10129947B2	Light-emitting device using organometallic complex Light-emitting elements having high emission efficiency and long lifetime can be provided. By forming light-emitting devices including the light-emitting elements, the light-emitting devices having low power consumption and long lifetime can be provided. A light-emitting device comprises a light-emitting element including a light-emitting layer between a first electrode and a second electrode. The light-emitting layer includes a first organic compound having a hole-transporting property, a second organic compound having an electron transporting property, and an organometallic complex. A central metal of the organometallic complex is an element belonging to one of Group 9 and Group 10, and a ligand of the organometallic complex is a ligand having a pyrazine skeleton.
US10129946B2	High-efficiency, wide dynamic range dimming for solid-state lighting A solid-state lighting system includes a light-emitting device connected in series with a variable dim setting resistor, an adjustable regulator, and a current sensor disposed in a feedback loop between an adjust input of the adjustable regulator and the variable dim setting resistor. The voltage dropped across the variable dim setting resistor is forced to remain constant irrespective of the resistance setting of the dim setting resistor. The current sensor measures or senses the current flowing through the variable dim setting resistor and causes the adjustable regulator to adjust its output voltage and the forward voltage drop across the light-emitting device so that the current flowing through the light-emitting device matches the current set by the variable dim setting resistor. Controlling the current in this manner allows dimming to be performed over an extremely wide dimming range, to very low light levels, and without producing light flicker at any dim level.
US10129943B2	Dimmable LED module and method of using same A dimmable LED module configured for electrical connection with an AC mains power supply via a switch (9), the dimmable lighting module including a plurality of activatable LED light sources configured for emitting a corresponding lighting characteristic when activated, and, a control unit (4) configured for selectably activating at least one of the plurality of LED light sources in response to a control signal generated by a predetermined switching operation of the switch (9) that is received by the control unit (4) such that a plurality of lighting modes are able to be selectably output from the dimmable LED module corresponding to the at least one of the plurality of LED light sources that are selectably activated by the control unit (4), the plurality of lighting modes being indicative of a resulting lighting characteristic emitted by the at least one of the plurality of selectably activated LED light sources corresponding to the lighting modes, wherein the plurality of lighting modes include at least a first lighting mode and a second lighting mode whereby the second lighting mode is indicative of a resulting lighting characteristic that is relatively dimmed compared to that of the first lighting mode.
US10129942B2	Electronic circuit for driving LED strings so as to reduce the light flicker LED strings cascaded to one another are driven by an electronic circuit that includes regulation modules and a brightness-compensation module. The regulation modules carry out in sequence a current-regulation phase, in which they regulate the current that flows in the corresponding LED strings. The regulation module includes: a compensation regulator coupled to a compensation LED string and to a capacitor and a generator that generates an electrical quantity indicating the luminous flux emitted by the LED strings and by the compensation LED string. The compensation regulator regulates a current that flows in the compensation LED string as a function of the electrical quantity, discharging the capacitor through the compensation LED string.
US10129941B1	LED driver gate clamp systems and methods Aspects of the subject technology relate to display circuitry such as backlight control circuitry for operating light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The backlight control circuitry may include a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) transistor and a current regulation transistor coupled in series with at least one LED. The current regulation transistor may have a gate terminal that receives a feedback-controlled gate voltage. The backlight control circuitry may include a gate clamp circuit coupled to the gate terminal of the current regulation transistor that clamps the gate voltage during a portion of a PWM on pulse.
US10129933B2	Induction coil unit According to the invention, for shrinking and expanding a tool in the bush part (3) of a tool holder, an induction coil unit (1), in which several polar parts (25) made of a soft magnetic material are radially adjusted in the yoke ring made of a soft magnetic material, is provided. Said polar parts have end faces (29) which are inclined in relation to the axis of rotation (7) of the bush part (3) and can be kept in a linear contact with a conical peripheral surface (31) of the bush part (3) which holds a the tool (11) in a press fit manner. In order to avoid possible local overheating of the bush part (3), the area (39) of the end face (29) parallel to the axis is connected on the output side of the tool to an area (33) of the end face (29) inclined in relation to the axis of rotation (7).
US10129932B2	Sensing element A sensing element for sensing a temperature of an electrically heated window includes a coil of filament wire having a first end and a second end, the coil having a resistivity that changes based on temperature, a first substantially flat conductive material electrically coupled to the first end of the coil, a second substantially flat conductive material electrically coupled to the second end of the coil, a first lead wire electrically coupled to the first substantially flat conductive material and extending outwardly, and a second lead wire electrically coupled to the second substantially flat conductive material and extending outwardly.
US10129931B2	Electrical resistance heating element A silicon carbide heating element is provided having one or more hot zones and two or more cold ends in which:— the cross-sectional areas of the two or more cold ends are substantially the same or less than the cross-sectional areas of the one or more hot zones; and part at least of at least one cold end comprises a body of recrystallized silicon carbide material coated with a conductive coating having an electrical resistivity lower than that of the recrystallized silicon carbide material.
US10129930B2	Multiple basic service set identifier (BSSID) indication This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for enabling Multiple BSSID functionality. In some implementations, each BSS of the multi-BSS AP may transmit management frames with a Multiple BSSID element (MBE). Multiple BSSID-capable STAs may interpret the MBE information and implement corresponding Multiple BSSID functionality, whereas legacy STAs may ignore the MBE and interpret such frames as legacy management frames. In some other implementations, a multi-BSS AP may configure one or more of its BSSs to transmit management frames without the MBE. These legacy management frames may include a multi-BSS indicator (MBID) to advertise that the corresponding AP is a multi-BSS AP. The MBID also may provide information regarding a transmitted BSS of the multi-BSS AP. Multiple BSSID-capable STAs may search for a transmitted BSS based on the presence of the MBID, whereas legacy STAs may ignore the MBID and interpret such frames as legacy management frames.
US10129928B2	System and method for UE fountain relay based network System and method embodiments are provided for enabling flexible and reliable UE-to-UE based relay. The embodiments include using fountain codes for combining signals at a suitable network layer higher than a media access control (MAC) sub-layer and using a MAC sub-layer hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission scheme. When a relay UE in a UE group for joint reception receives, from a network access point, a data packet intended for a destination UE in the UE group and including fountain code at the higher network layer, the relay UE sends the data packet to the destination UE and returns a HARQ ACK message at the MAC sub-layer to the access point. The destination UE then receives and decodes the data packet. Subsequently, upon receiving the entire data, the destination UE sends an ACK message at the higher network layer to the access point.
US10129919B2	Video headset Methods and apparatuses for video headsets are described. In one example, both a Bluetooth link and a Wi-Fi link are established between a video headset and a computing device, the Bluetooth link and the Wi-Fi link in operation concurrently. A user speech is received at a video headset microphone during a voice call, and a far end call participant speech is output at a video headset speaker during the voice call. A video is captured with a video headset video camera during the voice call. The user speech is transmitted over the Bluetooth link from the video headset to the computing device and the video is transmitted over the Wi-Fi link from the video headset to the computing device.
US10129918B2	Methods, wireless device, base station and candidate relay station for supporting D2D communication over relay A methods, base station, wireless device and candidate relay device for supporting a D2D communication between a first wireless device and a second wireless device over a relay. The base station receives (302) from the first device an identity of a candidate relay wireless device and a first quality metric (Geq) pertaining to a first relay link between the first device and the candidate relay device and to a second relay link between the second device and the candidate relay device. The base station also obtains (304) a second quality metric (G12) pertaining to a D2D link between the first and second devices, and a third quality metric (G1 BS) pertaining to a cellular link between the base station and the first device. When the first quality metric (Geq) indicates a better link quality than both the second metric (G12) and the third metric (G1 BS), the base station selects (310) a relay mode for the D2D communication with the candidate relay device as the relay and instructs the involved devices accordingly.
US10129917B2	Device to device communication method and user equipment The present invention discloses a D2D communication method and user equipment. The D2D communication method includes: determining, by first user equipment, a value of a scrambling code parameter, where the scrambling code parameter includes at least one of the following parameters: a common scrambling code parameter and a specific scrambling code parameter; scrambling, by the first user equipment, a to-be-sent bit according to the value of the scrambling code parameter; and sending, by the first user equipment, a scrambled to-be-sent bit. According to the D2D communication method and the user equipment disclosed in the present invention, transmission information can be scrambled and descrambled in a D2D communication process, thereby improving feasibility of a D2D communication scheme and improving user experience.
US10129912B2	Sensor based configuration and control of network devices A mobile device, such as a smartphone or a tablet computer, can execute functionality for configuring a network device in a communication network and for subsequently controlling the operation of the network device with little manual input. The mobile device can detect sensor information from a network device. The mobile device can determine device configuration information based, at least in part, on decoding the sensor information. The mobile device can provide the device configuration information to an access point of a network. The mobile device can receive communication link information from the access point. The mobile device can provide the communication link information to the network device. The mobile device can receive a message indicating a communication link between the network device and the access point is established.
US10129911B2	Method and apparatus for processing an uplink unit in a wireless LAN system A method for processing an uplink PPDU in a wireless LAN system is proposed herein. The uplink PPDU may correspond to a PPDU that is received from multiple users. In the receiving device, a first uplink MU PPDU may be received from a first user, and a second uplink MU PPDU may be received from a second user. In this case, CSD of an enhanced method may be applied to LTF signals respective to each of the first uplink MU PPDU and the second uplink MU PPDU. Additionally, an orthogonal mapping matrix may be applied to the LTF signals respective to each of the MU PPDUs as a method ensuring orthogonality between the streams.
US10129906B2	Partial port hybrid CSI feedback for MIMO wireless communication systems The method comprises receiving periodic CSI feedback configuration information including a periodicity value and an offset value corresponding to a first CSI report, and at least one periodicity value and at least one offset value corresponding to a second CSI report, measuring a first CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) and a second CSI-RS configured for a periodic CSI reporting based on at least two different enhanced MIMO types (eMIMO-Types), generating the first CSI report and the second CSI report for the first eMIMO-Type and the second eMIMO-Type, respectively, determining a periodic reporting interval for each of the first CSI report and the second CSI report, and reporting the first and second CSI reports based on the determined periodic reporting intervals using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 2 or a PUCCH format 3 or a combination of the PUCCH format 2 and the PUCCH format 3.
US10129903B2	Dynamic configuration of uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) frame resources for a time division duplex (TDD) transmission Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to perform adaptive time division duplexing (TDD) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-ACKnowledgement (ACK) reporting is described. The UE can implement an adaptive uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration received from an eNodeB. The UE can process a downlink (DL) HARQ reference configuration received from the eNodeB for a serving cell. The DL HARQ reference configuration can be for the implemented adaptive UL-DL configuration. The UE can format HARQ-ACK feedback for transmission on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) of the serving cell in accordance with the DL HARQ reference configuration.
US10129900B2	Wireless resource scheduling method and device for NAN A wireless resource scheduling method and device for NAN are disclosed. The wireless resource scheduling method for NAN can comprise the steps of: determining switching from a WiFi mode to a NAN mode by a NAN terminal of an AP function; when the NAN terminal of the AP function determines the switching to the NAN mode, transmitting a CTS-to-self frame on the WiFi mode by the NAN terminal of the AP function; switching from the WiFi mode to the NAN mode by the NAN terminal of the AP function; and transmitting, by the NAN terminal of the AP function, a NAN frame to a NAN terminal on the NAN mode, wherein the WiFi mode supports communication on the basis of a BSS and the NAN mode can support communication on the basis of a NAN cluster.
US10129899B2	Network apparatus A traffic amount measuring unit measures the traffic amount of frames received in each of cycles, and outputs the measured traffic amount for each cycle. A plurality of frequency counters are provided so as to correspond to a plurality of ranges, and retain frequencies of each of the plurality of ranges, respectively. A frequency counter updating unit determines in which of the plurality of ranges the traffic amount output for each cycle is included, and updates the frequency of the frequency counter corresponding to the range obtained by the determination result.
US10129896B2	Method and system for optimizing channel access in a wireless local area network A method and apparatus for optimizing channel access by an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network is provided, the method comprises transmitting first information to a station, and receiving second information from the station while transmitting the first information to the station, wherein the first information and the second information includes at least one of a request to send (RTS) frame, clear to send (CTS) frame, acknowledgement information, and data, respectively.
US10129887B2	Wireless system with configurable radio and antenna resources A wireless access device, system and method are disclosed for provisioning multiple concurrent radio services and adaptive management of multi-radio access points or multi-radio small cell base stations.
US10129886B2	Control method of frequency band switching and wireless communication apparatus In a frequency band switching by Fast Session Transfer (FST), a timeout value (link loss timeout: LLT) is determined based on a change in a communication state, a switching setup sequence including a step of transmitting the determined timeout value to a peer wireless station is performed, and frequency switching to the second frequency band is performed when time of the timeout value elapses from when the switching setup sequence is completed. For example, a large timeout value (LLT=T1) is set at time of connection establishment, and the LLT is changed (LLT=T2 to T4) based on, for example, a state of transmission data or a change in a channel state.
US10129885B2	Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method A wireless communication apparatus includes an indirect wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication that involves an access point; a direct wireless communication unit that performs direct wireless communication that does not involve the access point; and a control unit that controls a search for the access point that is performed sequentially on a plurality of channels, in which the control unit controls the number of channels that are used by the indirect wireless communication unit for the search for the access point, according to a communication state of the direct wireless communication.
US10129882B1	Systems and methods for allocating resource blocks based on uplink transmission parameters Systems and methods are described for allocating resource blocks based on uplink transmission parameters, resulting in beneficial coverage and capacity of a wireless system. A headroom report that comprises a transmission power headroom for a wireless device may be received. Potential resource block allocations for the wireless device may be generated based on channel information for a plurality of frequency bands, the generated potential resource block allocations comprising a frequency band and a time slot. A potential resource block allocation may be selected from among the potential resource block allocations based on a maximum power reduction for the allocation and the reported transmission power headroom for the wireless device. The selected resource blocks may then be allocated for the wireless device.
US10129880B2	Aggregation groups for aggregating heterogeneous carriers A network node provides cells serving uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) resources for wireless communications between the network node and a user equipment node (UE). The network node forms a primary aggregation group of cells that contains a primary cell (PCell) and operates the UL and DL resources of the PCell in the primary aggregation group to communicate with the UE. The network node configures the UE to connect to a serving cell, and assigns the serving cell to a secondary aggregation group of cells. The network node sets up the UL and downlink resources of the serving cell as a group PCell in the secondary aggregation group for communication with the UE. Related user equipment and methods by network nodes and user equipment are disclosed.
US10129877B2	Paging for machine type communication devices Methods, systems, devices, or apparatuses may support paging for machine type communication (MTC) devices. In one example, a base station may identify a mode of operation to be used for MTC. Based on the identified mode of operation, the base station may determine a subframe to be used for a paging occasion for a user equipment (UE) with which the base station communicates using MTC. A base station may also repeat a page in a number of subframes according to a repetition level for a paging occasion. The page may be for one or more UEs using MTC. The base station may identify the starting subframe for the paging occasion. The base station may then transmit the page based at least in part on the repetition level, where the page may be scrambled by the base station based at least in part on the starting subframe.
US10129871B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting enhanced uplink data using a H-ARQ process A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configured to configure a set of hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes. The WTRU is configured to receive information which limits a particular MAC-d flow to accessing a limited set of H-ARQ processes. The WTRU is configured to determine whether a first H-ARQ process from the set of H-ARQ processes is available for transmitting EU data in a transmit time interval (TTI). The WTRU is configured to determine whether the particular MAC-d flow has access to the first H-ARQ process, based on the information received. The WTRU is configured to transmit data from the particular MAC-d flow in the TTI using the first H-ARQ process, on a condition that the first H-ARQ process is available for transmitting EU data in the TTI and that the particular MAC-d flow has access to the first H-ARQ process.
US10129870B2	Separation of control and data subbands in unlicensed spectrum A wireless device may identify a first subband in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band used to communicate control traffic. The wireless device may identify a second subband in the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band used to communicate data traffic. The first subband and the second subband may be different. The wireless device may reserve the first subband for a first duration of time for a plurality of wireless devices. The reservation may be based at least in part on an enhanced self-clear-to-send (self-CTS) transmitted over the first subband.
US10129867B2	Universal peer-to-peer signaling network virtualization and orchestration Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to universal peer-to-peer signaling network virtualization and orchestration. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a universal DIAMETER orchestrator can determine DIAMETER peer nodes to be utilized to handle DIAMETER signaling traffic for a service. The universal DIAMETER orchestrator can allocate transport resources over which a transport connection between the DIAMETER peer nodes can be established. In some embodiments, the universal DIAMETER orchestrator can allocate the transport resources on-demand. The universal DIAMETER orchestrator can allocate DIAMETER resources to provision DIAMETER signaling interfaces to handle the DIAMETER signaling traffic between the DIAMETER peer nodes. In some embodiments, the universal DIAMETER orchestrator can allocate the DIAMETER resources in accordance with a rule to override a traditional DIAMETER routing agent.
US10129866B2	Blind decoding for an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) Technology for a user equipment (UE) configured for blind decoding downlink control information (DCI) from an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) is disclosed. The UE can receive, from a base station, the EPDCCH that includes the DCI. The UE can attempt one or more times to decode the DCI from enhanced control channel elements (ECCE) of the EPDCCH from physical resource block (PRB) region candidates in a PRB set using a selected set of enhanced resource element group (EREG) index maps for the ECCE until the DCI is successfully decoded.
US10129865B2	Method and terminal device for allocating resources in a plurality of subframes A method operating a telecommunications system including a base station and plural terminal devices arranged to communicate over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel conveying user-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel conveying control-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices. The control-plane data conveys information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective of the terminal devices. The radio interface is based on a radio frame structure including plural subframes each including a control region supporting the downlink control channel and a user-plane region supporting the downlink shared channel. The method uses the control region of a first radio subframe to convey an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of a second radio subframe subsequent to the first radio subframe.
US10129863B2	Enhanced physical downlink control channel transmission method and apparatus This application provides an enhanced physical downlink control channel transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: in a physical resource block set, separately arranging first resource groups in each physical resource block pair PRB pair, where the first resource groups are enhanced resource element groups eREGs or REGs, and the physical resource block set includes at least one of the physical resource block pairs; numbering second resource groups according to a correspondence between the first resource groups and the second resource groups in the physical resource block set, where the second resource groups are control channel element eCCE groups or control channel candidates; determining numbers of the second resource groups for transmitting an E-PDCCH; and mapping, according to the determined numbers, the E-PDCCH to the corresponding first resource groups for transmission. The technical solution of this application resolves an E-PDCCH transmission problem.
US10129862B1	Methods, devices, apparatus, and systems for medium access control in wireless communication systems utilizing spatial focusing effect A base station of a time reversal communication system is provided. The base station receives a set of channel probing signals from a set of terminal devices, determines channel impulse responses based on the channel probing signals, and determines location-specific signature waveforms based on the channel impulse responses, in which each of the location-specific signature waveforms is associated with a particular location of the respective terminal device. The base station generates a set of medium access layer parameters, in which each medium access layer parameter is associated with a particular one of the terminal devices. For each terminal device, the base station generates transmit data signals based on data intended for the terminal device, and the medium access layer parameter and the location-specific signature waveform associated with the terminal device. The base station transmits the transmit data signals wirelessly to the terminal devices.
US10129860B2	Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus and communication method A mobile station (MS) receives a parameter used for configuring PUCCH resources, the PUCCH resources being configured on an uplink component carrier (UCC) on which HARQ control information is transmitted on a PUCCH; determines a first PUCCH resource on the UCC for a first PDSCH transmission indicated by a detection of a first PDCCH in a sub-frame on a first downlink component carrier (DCC), the first PUCCH resource being determined based on a control channel element of the first PDCCH; determines a second PUCCH resource on the UCC for a second PDSCH transmission indicated by a detection of a second PDCCH in the sub-frame on a second DCC, the second PUCCH resource being determined from the PUCCH resources which are configured; and transmits information bits using one of the first or the second PUCCH resource, the information bits being used for indicating the HARQ control information.
US10129857B2	Band occupancy techniques for transmissions in unlicensed spectrum A method and apparatus for uplink transmission by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a first assignment for one or more beacon signals. The first assignment includes a first resource assignment and a first interlace assignment. The UE may determine that a size of a payload of an uplink transmission is less than a threshold. The UE may transmit the one or more beacon signals according to the first assignment in response to the determination. The one or more beacon signals increase bandwidth occupancy by the UE over a contention-based spectrum. Additionally, the UE may receive a second assignment for the payload of the uplink transmission. The second assignment includes a second resource assignment and a second interlace assignment. The UE may transmit the payload of the uplink transmission according to the second resource assignment on the second interlace assignment.
US10129856B2	Uplink control information transmission method, base station, and user equipment Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink control information transmission method, a base station, and user equipment. The method includes: receiving, by UE in a downlink subframe N, a downlink control channel sent by a base station; sending, by the UE, a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement corresponding to the downlink control channel to the base station in an uplink subframe N+4 by using a PUCCH, where when the uplink subframe N+4 belongs to a first uplink subframe set, the PUCCH is carried on a second serving cell of the UE, and when the uplink subframe N+4 belongs to a second uplink subframe set, the PUCCH is carried on the first serving cell, where a duplexing mode of the first serving cell is different from a duplexing mode of the second serving cell.
US10129852B2	Method for broadcasting to unspecified entity in wireless communication system and device for the same Provided is a method for transferring a broadcast message to an unspecified entity in a wireless communication system, the method performed by a device for transferring a broadcast message and comprising creating a resource for receiving the broadcast message in accordance with a request, received from an application device, for creating the resource for receiving the broadcast message, storing a content of the broadcast message in a specified attribute of the created resource if the broadcast message is received, and if an event trigger condition of a subscription resource for the created resource is satisfied, transmitting a notification message, which includes the stored content of the broadcast message, to an address or a device indicated by a notification target attribute of the subscription resource.
US10129848B2	System and methods for locating a mobile device A system for locating a mobile device emitting a radio frequency signal. A wireless access point device of a wireless local area network is configured to communicatively connect to a wide area network. The system comprises a first access device for wirelessly communicatively detecting a first signal strength of the radio frequency signal in relation to the first access device, a media access control (MAC) address, and a first timestamp of the first signal strength, of the mobile device; a second access device for wirelessly communicatively detecting a second signal strength of the radio frequency signal in relation to the second access device, the MAC address, and a second timestamp of the second signal strength, of the mobile device; a third access device for wirelessly communicatively detecting a third signal strength of the radio frequency signal in relation to the third access device, the MAC address, and a third timestamp of the third signal strength, of the mobile device.
US10129843B2	Synchronization signal sending method and apparatus, and synchronization signal receiving method and apparatus The present invention provides a synchronization signal sending method and apparatus and a synchronization signal receiving method and apparatus. The synchronization signal sending includes: a sending module, configured to send a first-type subframe, where the first-type subframe includes a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a first synchronization channel, the first synchronization channel includes a first primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a first secondary synchronization signal (SSS); and a processing module, configured to control the sending module to switch from sending the first-type subframe to sending a second-type subframe. The sending module is further configured to send the second-type subframe under the control of the processing module, where the second-type subframe includes a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a second synchronization channel, the second synchronization channel includes a second PSS or a second SSS.
US10129840B2	Method, device, and system for notifying terminal type supported by current cell The present invention provides a method, a device, and a system for notifying a terminal type supported by a current cell, so that a UE can identify the terminal type supported by the current cell as soon as possible. The method includes: carrying preset indication information in a downlink signal, where the indication information is used to indicate the terminal type supported by the current cell, the preset indication information is agreed upon by a network side and a terminal in advance, and the indication information is a synchronization sequence or a first indicator bit used to indicate the supported terminal type; and sending the downlink signal to the terminal.
US10129836B2	Network node and method for managing maximum transmission power levels for a D2D communication link A network node and a method therein for managing a device-to-device, D2D, communication link between a first device and a second device are disclosed. The network node determines a threshold value based on interference information relating to interference of the first device. The threshold value indicates an upper limit for allowable transmit power of the first device when transmitting on the D2D communication link. Then, the network node sends the threshold value to the first device. Subsequently, the network node receives, from the first device, a message indicating that power of transmission, by the first device, on the D2D communication link exceeds the threshold value.
US10129835B2	Method of efficiently reporting user equipment transmission power and apparatus thereof A method and an apparatus for efficiently transmitting or reporting a Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method of transmitting the PHR of the UE in a mobile communication system includes configuring an extended PHR including an indicator corresponding to a variation factor of a maximum transmission power of the UE, and transmitting the extended PHR from the UE to a Base Station (BS). The BS may be notified of a maximum transmission power of the UE and a variation factor corresponding to the maximum transmission power in order to enable efficient scheduling.
US10129834B2	Transmission power control methods and devices Transmission power control methods and devices are described. In a transmission power control method, a specific absorption rate (SAR) is calculated based on a transmission power of the communication device and a proximity distance of the communication device with an external object. A time average specific absorption rate can be calculated based on the SAR. A power absorption budget value can be calculated based on the time average specific absorption rate and a time average specific absorption rate threshold value. Further, the transmission power of the communication device can be adjusted based on the power absorption budget value.
US10129827B2	UE and method thereof for applying common discontinuous reception configuration Embodiments herein provide a method applying a common Discontinuous Reception (DRX) configuration at a User Equipment (UE) in a multi-connectivity mode. The method includes detecting, by the UE, a common DRX criterion. Further, the method includes forcing, by the UE, the DRX ON state of the first DRX cycle to a DRX OFF state. Further, the method includes forcing, by the UE, the first DRX cycle to wake up when one of a second DRX cycle transits from the DRX OFF state to the DRX ON state and a common DRX time period expires.
US10129826B2	Implicit power management mode and state transitions A station (STA) of a wireless local area network (WLAN) transitions implicitly between power management (PM) modes or PM states, without providing an explicit indication of the PM mode/state change to an access point (AP) of the WLAN. Transitions include changes between an active mode and a power save (PS) mode, or between an awake state and a doze state of the PS mode. Transitions occur immediately after receipt of a beacon indicating pending data for the STA, after an offset time indicated in the beacon, or at a specific wake time negotiated with the AP. After data reception is complete, the STA transitions implicitly to the PS mode or a doze state of the PS mode, after a power save inactivity timeout period or after receiving an indication that data transmission is complete.
US10129824B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data by using plurality of carriers in mobile communication systems The method for transmitting and receiving data at a base station in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of receiving a performance report from a terminal, determining whether the addition of a serving cell is necessary, when the addition of the serving cell is necessary, transmitting a request for receiving a cell identifying signal to one or more other base stations on the basis of the received performance report and transmitting a request for transmitting the cell identifying signal to the terminal. According to the embodiment, in a network in which a small cell and a macro cell are overlapped and operated, the terminal can minimize battery consumption and quickly recognize the small cell.
US10129819B2	System and method for common attributes in HESSID and the associated queries Mobile stations can query independent basic service set (BSS) parameters of a group of Access Points (APs) by setting a Pre-Association Message Exchange BSSID Independent (PAME-BI) bit during Wi-Fi discovery. The PAME-BI bit may be included in a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request to indicate that an Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) request carried by the GAS request is querying both independent and dependent BSS parameters. In some embodiments, the PAME-BI bit is included as a field in the ANQP query, rather than the GAS request message.
US10129814B2	Method and apparatus for joining centralized cluster A method and an apparatus for joining a centralized cluster is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a DMG Beacon frame sent by a first S-AP, where the DMG Beacon frame includes cluster information of the first S-AP; measuring, according to the cluster information of the first S-AP, signal quality and a state of each Beacon SP included in a BI of the first S-AP; if a Beacon SP whose state is an idle state is obtained by means of measurement, associating the Beacon SP with the first S-AP as a non-PCP/non-AP station, and receiving an Announce frame sent by the first S-AP; selecting one S-AP from the first S-AP and the second S-AP as a to-be-joined S-AP; and joining a centralized cluster of the to-be-joined S-AP.
US10129812B2	Uplink transmissions for type 2 relay A method for providing user agent data. The method includes an access node receiving an indicator sent from a relay node as an indication that the relay node has received data from the user agent.
US10129811B2	Multi-RAT heterogenous carrier aggregation A network node for facilitating data transfer is disclosed, comprising: a routing module configured to receive network link capacity information; a first radio interference operating on a first radio access technology and coupled to the routing module; and a second radio interface operating on a second radio access technology and coupled to the routing module, wherein the routing module is configured to receive packets directed to a third virtual radio interface and route the packets to one or both of the first and the second radio interfaces to provide throughput at the third virtual radio interface that is greater than throughput available via either the first or the second radio interfaces independently.
US10129808B2	Reducing communication silence when performing inter-technology handoff To perform an inter-technology handoff, an indicator in a service request message is received by a mobile switching center (MSC). The indicator is to indicate to the MSC that an inter-technology handoff from a packet-data wireless access network to a circuit wireless access network has been requested. The behavior of the MSC is modified in response to the indicator to reduce the communication silence during the inter-technology handoff.
US10129807B2	System and method for using mobility information in heterogeneous networks Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to reducing or making more efficient handovers from one cell to another cell in a communications network. The method includes receiving mobility data for a device being serviced by a first cell, classifying the device based on the mobility data to yield a classification and making a handoff decision when handing off the device from the first cell to a second cell based at least in part on the classification. An example of the mobility data is a speed at which the device is moving.
US10129806B2	Method to assign IP traffic to desired network elements based on packet or service type Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a demand for real-time services to a first mobile device, by way of a base station of an LTE system. In response, utilization of a first wireless channel of a first radio of the base station is evaluated. The first radio supports a first wireless service that includes the real-time service and a non-real-time service to a second mobile device within the same cellular region. A handover of the second mobile device to a second radio of the base station is facilitated in response to the utilization. The second radio is configured to support a second wireless service that excludes the real-time service within the same cellular region. Responsive to the handover, the second radio supports the non-real-time service over the second wireless channel to the second mobile device within the cellular region. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10129803B2	Cell selection A technique including detecting respective pairs of primary and auxiliary priority indicator values for a plurality of radio resources of a radio access network in one or more transmissions by said radio access network; and selecting a cell to adopt as a serving cell based at least partly on both said primary indicator values and said auxiliary indicator values; wherein the primary priority indicator values for said plurality of radio resources provide an indication of the priority order for said plurality of radio resources to a first degree of resolution; and the combinations of primary and auxiliary priority indicator values for said plurality of radio resources provide an indication of the priority order for said plurality of radio resources to a second degree of resolution higher than said first degree of resolution.
US10129796B2	Dynamic RAT selection According to techniques described herein, a UE (which may be link budget limited) may be connected to a network using a first RAT. The UE may be configured to determine a first resource requirement for communication on the network using the first RAT and a second resource requirement for communication on the network using a second RAT. The UE may be further configured to trigger a re-selection to the second RAT in response to the UE determining that the second RAT is preferred over the first RAT based, at least in part, on a comparison of the first and second resource requirements.
US10129787B2	Shared communication links in an electronic trading system Certain embodiments provide methods, tangible computer storage medium, and systems of shared communication links in an electronic trading system. An example method includes determining a first network service state of a first communication network established between a first wireless trading device and an exchange and receiving a second network service state of a second communication network established between a second wireless trading device and the exchange. The first wireless trading device receives the second network state from the second wireless device via a shared communication link. The example method also includes determining an active communication network based on a quality-of-service metric calculated between the first communication network and the second communication network by comparing the first network service state and the second network service state. The example method also includes communicating market information related to one or more markets with the exchange utilizing the active communication network and distributing the market information via the shared communication link.
US10129786B2	Methods, access point and wireless device for communicating downlink data An access point of a radio network, a wireless device and methods therein, for controlling a radio communication of data from the access point to the wireless device. When detecting that the number of wireless devices in a user group for which downlink data is pending exceeds the number of wireless devices that can receive downlink data during an upcoming time period reserved for the user group, the access point selects a subset of the wireless devices to which it is possible to send downlink data during the upcoming time period, and transmits a beacon indicating that the subset of the wireless devices have pending data to receive. Thereby, any unsuccessful requests transmitted from devices for pending data may be avoided and the risk for collision of requests may also be reduced.
US10129784B2	MME overload or underload mitigation by MME VNF apparatus and method Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses and methods for mobility management entity (MME) overload or underload mitigation using an MME virtual network function (VNF). Various embodiments may include one or more processors to execute instructions to process a notification from a virtual network function manager (VNFM) to determine instantiation of a MME as a VNF, add the MME to an MME pool, and assign a value to an application parameter of the MME VNF. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10129778B2	SDN-based channel estimation for multiplexing between LOS mmWaves NLOS sub-6 GHz and FSO A system for providing small cell backhaul communication includes a small cell backhaul network including a plurality of small cell network nodes. At least one mmWave transceiver at each of the plurality of small cell network nodes establishes communication links with other small cell network nodes within the small cell backhaul network. A software defined network (SDN) controller for controls communication link configuration by the at least one mmWave transceiver between the plurality of small cell network backhaul nodes of the small cell backhaul network. The link configurations are established by the SDN controller using mmWave communications.
US10129777B2	Device-driven intelligence and feedback for performance optimization and planning of a service network A subscriber device reports network operation conditions, such as network performance incidents, to receive feedback from the network related to the incident and available or possibly available solutions, and to produce network intelligence suitable for network planning and network performance enhancement. Reporting of network performance incidents can be characterized by location and time of occurrence, wherein this intelligence is provided by the user device. Feedback provided by the network is based on the network performance data received as part of reporting an incident. The reporting described herein enables a network operator to generate network planning intelligence based on actual network performance as experienced at the subscriber level.
US10129776B2	Method and device for displaying isolation or recovery of base station in wireless communication system The present specification provides a method and device for displaying the isolation or recovery of a base station in a wireless communication system. The second base station receives information indicating the state of a link with a first base station and an evolved packet core (EPC) from the first base station or a mobility management entity (MME), and determines whether to perform a handover on the basis of the received information.
US10129772B1	Anticipatory networking Embodiments for performing an anticipatory networking are provided. These embodiments include detecting an action taken by a user of a wirelessly-enabled device, an automated action of the wirelessly-enabled device, or a current condition of the device; learning what future operations the wirelessly-enabled device will likely need to perform in order to carry out the desired user action or device action; creating a user profile based on the learned information; and proactively performing, based on the user profile, certain downstream operations before the data corresponding to those operations is actually needed. In some embodiments, the anticipatory networking techniques disclosed herein essentially represent the confluence of networking concepts and machine learning concepts, and as such, enable wireless communications having reduced latency, while also improving network reliability and device performance.
US10129771B2	Wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing wireless communication program In a wireless communication system (1), a hard AP (10) including a station function (15) activates a soft AP function (22) of a wireless LAN device (20) included in a first combination composed of one or a plurality of wireless LAN devices (20) to check scan responsiveness, activates the soft AP function (22) of the wireless LAN device (20) included in other combination, and activates the soft AP function (22) of the wireless LAN device (20) included in a combination having higher scan responsiveness from between that of the first combination and that of the other combination.
US10129768B1	Determining potential interference in a wireless network A potential interference is determined for specific geographic locations of a wireless network based on signal measurements performed by wireless devices at said specific geographic locations. Obtaining power measurements of reference signals sensed at a wireless device at a specific location, and determining a potential interference caused at the specific location based on the power measurements. The power measurements comprise measurements of a reference signal power (RSRP) performed by a wireless device at the specific location. The wireless device may perform multiple measurements of signal power at various locations, and submit to the network measurements recorded at each location. The measurements may be performed periodically or triggered by the network.
US10129766B2	Quality of service management methods, quality of service management devices and quality of service management system The present disclosure provides QoS management methods, QoS management devices and a QoS management system. According to the present disclosure, with respect to a terminal in a dual-connectivity scenario, QoS parameter thresholds corresponding to a QoS parameter may be re-allocated to an MeNB and an SeNB for the terminal in accordance with an initial value corresponding to the QoS parameter of the terminal, so as to ensure that a QoS parameter value finally acquired by the terminal and corresponding to the QoS parameter does not exceed a numerical range defined by the initial value of the QoS parameter. As a result, it is able to match services provided to the terminal with the QoS that should have been possessed thereby in the case that the terminal is served by the MeNB and the SeNB, thereby to control the QoS of the terminal.
US10129761B2	Management of community Wi-Fi network Various technologies described herein pertain to managing and accessing a community Wi-Fi network. The community Wi-Fi network can include sharer computing devices in differing local networks that share respective network bandwidth capacities with consumer computing devices. Feedback information pertaining to network bandwidth capacity available at different geographic locations covered by the community Wi-Fi network can be collected and evaluated to enable generation of maps for visualizing coverage of the community Wi-Fi network. A consumer computing device can display a map that includes visual information pertaining to the geographic coverage of the community Wi-Fi network relative to a geographic location of the consumer computing device. Community Wi-Fi network coverage can be analyzed to detect geographic locations at which network coverage is desirably added; network coverage can be added by incentivizing a potential sharer computing device to opt in to share network bandwidth capacity or controlling beamforming of sharer computing device(s).
US10129759B2	Dual band LTE small cell A dual band LTE small cell base station communicates on both licensed bands and unlicensed bands. The small cell base station modifies the communication protocol utilized by the licensed band to enable communication over an unlicensed band. This modification involves replacing the physical (PHY) layer of the licensed band communication protocol with the PHY layer of a to-be-used protocol in an unlicensed band.
US10129758B2	Regulating operation of 60 GHz devices Embodiments of a wireless station and method for controlling use of the 60 GHz band are described. The station (STA) can include memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to decode a packet received from a second STA via a microwave wireless channel. The packet includes information indicating that a millimeter wave wireless channel is unavailable for communication. A current geographic location and a mobility status for the second STA may be determined based on an authentication message originating from a third STA. The mobility status may indicate whether the second STA is moving or is stationary. The second STA may be authenticated based at least on the mobility status. Upon authenticating the second STA, usage of the millimeter wave wireless channel may be suspended for a pre-determined period of time.
US10129757B2	Transceiver architecture for license assisted access systems Methods and devices useful in concurrently receiving and supporting Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) and Long Term Evolution Licensed Assisted Access (LTE-LAA) wireless data signals are provided. By way of example, an electronic device includes a network interface configured to allow the electronic device to communicate over one or more channels of a wireless network, and a transceiver configured to transmit data and to receive data over the one or more channels. The transceiver is configured to receive licensed cellular signals and unlicensed cellular signals over the one or more channels.
US10129755B2	Deauthenticating and disassociating unauthorized access points with spoofed management frames A spoofed management frame is sent to an unauthorized access point (AP) on behalf of a station from an authorized AP, using a media access control (MAC) address of the station. The spoofed frame triggers a security association (SA) query from an unauthorized AP to reestablish valid communications. An acknowledgment (ACK) frame sent from the client to the unauthorized AP responsive to the SA query request is detected by the AP. A probe response is sent to the client. The probe response includes a channel switching element. The channel switching prevents the client from completing the SA process before a time out.
US10129754B2	Real time digital issuance of resources Systems and devices are provided for real-time digital issuance/provisioning of digital resources. In accordance with embodiments of the invention, real-time provisioning of the digital resources occurs through access to a mobile application. In specific embodiments in which the user does not currently have authorization to use the mobile application, an authorization code is issued to a user and inputted via the mobile application as a means for verifying the identity of the user prior to provisioning the digital resource to the digital storage.As such, by having the provisioning occur electronically via the mobile application provisioning of the digital resource is highly secure, in that, provisioning occurs without the user possessing or having knowledge of the digital resource credentials prior to provisioning.
US10129749B2	Method and device for acquiring response message, method and device for routing response message, and system for acquiring response message and routing response message A method and device for acquiring a response message, a method and device for routing the response message, and a system for acquiring the response message and routing the response message are disclosed. The method includes steps that: a source node sends a service request message to a second group of nodes via a first group of DRA nodes; and the source node acquires the service response message returned by the destination node via the second group of DRA nodes.
US10129743B2	Method and apparatus for establishing a secure communication link between a mobile endpoint device and a networked device A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for establishing a secure communication link between a mobile endpoint device and a networked device are disclosed. For example, the method scans an optical code, wherein the optical code contains configuration information and an encryption key, configures the mobile endpoint device in accordance with the configuration information, sends a request to the networked device to establish the secure communication link, wherein the request is encrypted using the encryption key and receives a confirmation from the networked device that the secure communication link is established between the mobile endpoint device and the networked device once the networked device has authenticated the mobile endpoint device based upon the request, wherein the confirmation is encrypted using the encryption key.
US10129740B2	Establishing a connection based on position Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including a communication unit capable of wireless communication with another wireless communication apparatus, a determination unit for determining whether the communication unit is in proximity to the other wireless communication apparatus, and a control unit for performing, in a case the communication unit is determined to be in proximity to the other wireless communication apparatus, a connection procedure between the communication unit and the other wireless communication apparatus.
US10129731B2	Neighbor discovery and neighbor selection of mesh network devices in a mesh network Network hardware devices organized in a wireless mesh network (WMN) in which one network hardware devices includes multiple radios. A processing device of a first network hardware device scans a channel of the first radio for access point (AP) beacon frames that each contains information identifying a mesh network device in a WMN. The processing device creates a list of a plurality of mesh network device from the AP beacon frames and transmits a location probe transmission by each of the plurality of radios one sector at a time in a neighbor discovery process. The processing device receives metrics of the location probe transmissions received by the plurality of mesh network devices in the neighbor discovery process and configures each of the plurality of radios to communicate with one of a set of neighbor mesh network devices using the metrics in a neighbor selection process.
US10129729B2	Smartphone Bluetooth headset receiver Systems and methods are provided for allowing a user with a Smartphone to pair the Smartphone with another Bluetooth device to receive audio that is played to the user over headphones or through speakers on the Smartphone. Further, an audio processing module is used to modify the audio presented to the user, extract closed captioning text to be displayed to the user, find information relevant to the audio to be displayed to the user, and pause audio content sent to the Smartphone when phone calls or other Smartphone interruptions occur.
US10129727B2	Information interaction method and system applying to electronic cigarette The present invention provides an information interaction method and system applying to electronic cigarettes, used for at least two electronic cigarettes transmitting information by using electromagnetic wave signals to perform information interaction within a preset distance. Beneficial effects of implementing the present invention are: the information interaction can be performed between the electronic cigarettes, thereby greatly facilitating information exchange and obtaining between each other and helping in establishing social communication between users; statistics collection and processing on electronic cigarette information can offer a help for the users to select the electronic cigarettes suiting themselves. In addition, a vibration sensor is used to detect vibration signals of the electronic cigarettes themselves, thereby proving beneficial effects of easy use and flexible operations.
US10129722B2	Service processing method and network device A network device executes a method including receiving a request message for a first service sent by a user equipment; determining a first service requested by the request message for the first service; and sending the request message for the first service to a first value added service server.
US10129715B2	Reporting terminal capabilities for supporting short message service A method and apparatus for receiving at least one IP-based registration message from a first UE is disclosed. The at least one IP-based registration message may indicate support for short message reception and may include security association data of the first UE, a MSISDN identifier of the first UE, and an IP address of the first UE. Reception of capability information of the first UE is further disclosed. A database may be configured to store the security association data of the first UE, the MSISDN identifier of the first UE, the IP address of the first UE, and the capability information of the first UE. Transmitting, to a second UE, an indication of whether the second UE is or is not capable of IP based short message communication with the first UE is further disclosed.
US10129712B2	Floor control method and apparatus A floor control method and apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment a floor control method includes receiving, by a server over Long Term Evolution network, a first message sent by user equipment (UE), wherein the first message comprises a parameter indicating that an event type is a floor request, generating, by the server, a second message according to a floor control policy and the first message, wherein the second message comprises a parameter indicating that an event type is floor granted and sending, by the server, the second message to the UE, wherein the second message is used to instruct the UE to notify a user of the UE that a floor is granted.
US10129710B2	Method and apparatus for indicating stopping MBMS transmission in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for stopping receiving of a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) data in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE), which is receiving a MBMS data of group communication from a network, receives an indication of stopping receiving the MBMS data from the network, and stops receiving the MBMS data based on the indication.
US10129707B2	Automatically navigating a mobile device to a particular electronic page based on a user's location within a venue A location of a user within a venue can be determined by determining a location of a mobile device of the user within the venue. A user interaction with the mobile device while the user is located within the venue can be detected. Responsive to detecting the user interaction with the mobile device while the user is located within the venue, a sub-section within the venue at, or within a predetermined distance to, the location of the user within the venue, or at least one event that takes place in the sub-section within the venue at, or within a predetermined distance to, the location of the user within the venue, can be identified. The mobile device can be automatically navigated to an electronic page containing information for the sub-section within the venue or information for the at least one event that takes place in the sub-section within the venue.
US10129704B1	First responder tracking breadcrumbs Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for tracking emergency responders. An emergency responder tracking system may comprise a beacon comprising a radio frequency module; a portable device, wherein the portable device is configured to receive a wireless signal from the beacon and transmit the wireless signal to a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a user interface and is configured to receive the wireless signal from the portable device and provide a map, in the user interface, of a location of the beacon; wherein the wireless signal comprises a unique identifier, a location of the beacon, a last detected location of an emergency responder, and/or current time.
US10129698B2	Internal location address and automatic routing of intra-facility movement Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for facilitating movement within a facility by providing internal navigation instructions to a user, and/or for automatically operating various transportation mechanisms within the facility to move the user therein. Various embodiments thus comprise a computing entity configured to receive location information/data indicative of a current location of a user and destination information/data indicative of a desired destination for the user, generate a recommended route for the user, and transmit one or more signals to location devices along the recommended route to provide navigations cues to the user, or to one or more transportation mechanisms to enable the user to board the transportation mechanism at a first location, and disembark the transportation mechanism closer to the desired destination.
US10129695B2	System and method for communication with a tracking device A system and method for providing communication with a tracking device are disclosed. An example tracking device includes a location detector, a communication device, memory, a processor, and a configuration routine. The location detector is operative to determine locations of the tracking device. The communication device is operative to communicate with a remote system. The memory stores data and code, the data including location data determined by the location detector and configuration data. The processor is operative to execute the code to impart functionality to the tracking device. The functionality of the tracking device depends at least in part on the configuration data. The configuration routine is operative to modify the configuration data responsive to communications from the remote system. Thus, functional access to the tracking device is provided to the remote system.
US10129691B2	Systems and methods to determine a location of a mobile device Systems and methods to determine a location of a mobile device by combining a radio frequency navigation system and an inertial navigation system, where the radio frequency navigation system determines a location of the mobile device in reference to a map of radio frequency signals and the inertial navigation system based on dead reckoning the position of the mobile device based on measurements from motion sensors and/or magnetic field sensors. The mobile device combines the position determination results from the radio frequency navigation system and the inertial navigation system to determine two successive locations. A heading of the user of the mobile device is computed from the two successive locations without using the orientation of the mobile device.
US10129689B2	Systems and methods for machine-type communication Systems and methods are provided for managing machine-type communication and for mobile network memory conservation. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, a machine-type communication gateway including a centralized policy engine and a device trigger storage may be communicatively connected to control nodes of a mobile network and to trigger providers of a fixed network. The machine-type communication gateway may be configured to receive device triggers from the trigger providers, store the device triggers in the device trigger storage in queues, and providing the device triggers to the control nodes at rates determined by the centralized policy engine. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, a non-transitory storage memory may store bearer information. The mobile network may be configured to receive an indication to establish a data session, retrieve the stored bearer information from the storage memory, and commit memory resources by establishing one or more bearers for the data session using the stored bearer information.
US10129687B2	Compressed sensing with machine-to-machine communication Some examples include a plurality of secure low-power compressive sensing sensor blocks able to communicate with each other and with a computing device to perform spatial and/or temporal compressive sensing. As one example, a first sensor block may obtain data by randomly sampling a sensor signal from a first sensor coupled to the first sensor block. The first sensor block may send the data obtained from the randomly sampled sensor signal to at least one other sensor block of the plurality of sensor blocks, wherein the data is distributed to the plurality of sensor blocks. In addition, at least one of the first sensor block or another sensor block may process the data to at least one of packetize or encrypt the data. The first sensor block and/or the other sensor block may send the processed data to the computing device.
US10129684B2	Systems and methods for audio creation and delivery Systems and methods of providing an audio signal are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of delivering an audio signal from a device toward a user's ear includes, for example, transmitting a filtered audio signal from a transducer positioned at a location on the device that is longitudinally spaced apart from an entrance of an auditory canal of the user's ear when the device is worn on the user's head.
US10129681B2	Calibrating listening devices Systems and methods of calibrating listening devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of calibrating a listening device (e.g., a headset) includes determining head related transfer functions (HRTF) corresponding to different parts of the user's anatomy. The resulting HRTFs are combined to form a composite HRTF.
US10129680B2	Methods and systems for rendering binaural audio content Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments receiving audio content in a multi-channel sound format over a communication network resulting in multi-channel audio content. Further embodiments can include identifying a compression ratio of the audio content. Additional embodiments can include determining a rendered sound externalization for rendering the audio content according to the compression ratio of the audio content. Also, embodiments can include rendering the audio content in a binaural audio format for headphone playback on an audio device according to the rendered sound externalization. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10129676B2	MEMS microphone, apparatus comprising a MEMS microphone and method for fabricating a MEMS microphone A MEMS microphone and a method for manufacturing a MEMS microphone are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide a MEMS microphone including a MEMS microphone structure having at least one counter electrode structure and a diaphragm structure deflectable with respect to the counter electrode structure and a thermocouple arranged at the MEMS microphone structure.
US10129665B2	Distributed resonator A device, including a vibratory apparatus having an actuator configured to generate vibrations upon actuation of the actuator, including plurality of lever arms, wherein the vibratory apparatus is configured such that at least a respective portion of respective lever arms of the plurality of lever arms move about at least one of a single or a respective hinge when the vibratory apparatus is generating vibrations.
US10129661B2	Techniques for increasing processing capability in hear aids The signal processing functions of a hearing aid as described above necessarily cause some delay between the time the audio signal is received by the microphone or wireless receiver and the time that the audio is actually produced by the output transducer. In some situations, signal processing incorporating longer delays may be better able to improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or other functional parameters for a hearing aid wearer, but a balance should be struck between these positive effects of delay and other negative effects. The techniques described herein address the problem of balancing the positive and negative effects of delay.
US10129658B2	Method and apparatus for recovering audio signals from images A method of recovering audio signals and corresponding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention using video or other sequence of images enables recovery of sound that causes vibrations of a surface. An embodiment method includes combining representations of local motions of a surface to produce a global motion signal of the surface. The local motions are captured in a series of images of features of the surface, and the global motion signal represents a sound within an environment in which the surface is located. Some embodiments compare representations of local motions of a surface to determine which motions are in-phase or out-of-phase with each other, enabling visualization of surface vibrational modes. Embodiments are passive, as compared to other forms of remote audio recovery that employ active sensing, such as laser microphone systems. Example applications for the embodiments include espionage and surveillance.
US10129652B2	Audio speaker surround geometry for improved pistonic motion An audio speaker having a suspension system including a surround to support a diaphragm within a frame and to reduce non-pistonic motion of the diaphragm at several resonant frequencies is disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of the surround include a film that undulates in a peripheral direction around the diaphragm and includes several undulations above and below a radial gap between the diaphragm and the frame. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10129651B2	Center-fixed MEMS microphone membrane A MEMS microphone having a backplate, a spring, and a membrane. In one embodiment, the membrane is supported in an approximate center of the membrane via a support. The support is connected to the approximate center of the membrane and an approximate center of the backplate. The membrane is connected to a spring that provides an electrical connection. The membrane may be electrically biased via the electrical connection. One or more overtravel stops are fixed to the backplate and pass through an aperture of the membrane. The overtravel stops are configured to prevent movement of the membrane in a radial direction opposite to the backplate. The membrane includes a stress gradient, a corrugation, or another structure that sets or determines a stiffness of the membrane.
US10129650B2	Vibration unit for acoustic arrangement A vibration unit for an acoustic arrangement includes an encircling frame, a vibration member, and a weaving suspension extended between the vibration member and the encircling frame for enabling the vibration member to be reciprocatingly moved. The weaving suspension includes a plurality of reinforcing ribs radially and outwardly extended from the vibration member to the encircling frame to form a weaving-like structure, such that the vibration member is prohibited to move along a rib extending direction of each of the reinforcing ribs to ensure the vibration member to be reciprocatingly moved in a linear direction.
US10129649B2	User-programmable, head-supportable listening device with WiFi media player A user-programmable, head-supportable listening device with built-in WiFi media player is configured to provide user custom application programmability with higher fidelity sound provided by resident audio electronics and conduction speakers, in stereo and HD audio surround sound, the listening device having a user programmable electronics system assembly providing the ability to scan, detect, select and play audio and video from wired and wireless sources of audio and video signals, and from both residential media sources and online streaming music services, an audio media storage device to provide storage of user-selected media for accessing from the listening device or by an external wired and wireless device, which provides the user with control of speakers, wireless interfaces, automatic scanning capability and playing of audio-video media.
US10129647B2	Wireless sound equipment There is disclosed a wireless sound equipment including a body which is wearable on a user's body, a first hole formed in an upper portion of the body, a second hole formed in a lower portion of the body toward the user's body when the user wears the wireless sound equipment, a first speaker configured to output sound via the first hole, and a second speaker configured to output sound via the second hole.
US10129646B2	Panel vibration type sound generating display device Disclosed is a display device that includes a display panel, sound generating actuators including a first sound generating actuator in a first area of the display panel and a second sound generating actuator in a second area of the display panel, the first and second sound generating actuators configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound, and a partition between the first sound generating actuator and the second sound generating actuator.
US10129643B2	Autonomous vehicle ingress and egress A vehicle system includes a plurality of speakers and a processor. Each of the plurality of speakers is associated with one of a plurality of vehicle components. The processor is programmed to select at least one of the plurality of speakers to play a sound associated with one of the plurality of vehicle components and in accordance with a location of a passenger relative to at least one of the plurality of vehicle components.
US10129641B2	Audio reproduction device target sound signature A system for tuning an audio reproduction device is disclosed. The system includes an audio signal generator for generating an audio signal to be played back in an audio reproduction device and sending the audio signal to the audio reproduction device; a microphone signal module for receiving a microphone signal from a microphone, the microphone signal recording a sound wave reproduced by the audio reproduction device when the audio signal is played back in the audio reproduction device; a comparison module for determining whether the microphone signal matches target sound signature data; and a filter module for applying a digital filter to emulate a target sound signature responsive to determining that the microphone signal does not match the target sound signature data.
US10129640B2	Suppressing a modal frequency of a loudspeaker An example provides an apparatus to receive an audio input signal, generate, from the audio input signal, a filtered audio input signal to suppress at least one modal frequency of a flat loudspeaker diaphragm, and output the filtered audio input signal to at least one actuator to cause a vibration of the flat loudspeaker diaphragm.
US10129639B2	Headphones, audio device, audio system and method for transmitting signals A set of headphones includes a connector with a first connection contact and a second connection contact as well as a loudspeaker, which is connected to the first connection contact in order to supply a loudspeaker signal. The set of headphones also includes a first and a second digital microphone, each of which is set up to generate a digital microphone signal, in particular with a binary bit stream. A multiplexer, which is coupled, at an output, to the second connection contact, is set up to generate a coded multiplex signal at the output on the basis of the microphone signals.
US10129637B2	Phase plug for compression driver having improved assembly This invention provides a phase plug for loudspeakers of the compression driver type having a body characterized by a plurality of channels, each channel constituting a wave passage for acoustic waves from an input surface (that receives acoustic waves) to an output surface (that transmits acoustic waves), the input surface being provided by an integral member. The positions and widths of the channel openings are determined in order to reduce acoustic resonances in the compression chamber. The acoustic channels are characterized by the fact that their openings towards the input surface depart in the axial direction. The width of the acoustic channels is computed in order to guaranteed that there will be no loss of acoustic intensity in the channels.
US10129627B2	Wireless digital audio music system A wireless digital audio system includes a portable audio source with a digital audio transmitter operatively coupled thereto and an audio receiver operatively coupled to a headphone set. The audio receiver is configured for digital wireless communication with the audio transmitter. The digital audio receiver utilizes fuzzy logic to optimize digital signal processing. Each of the digital audio transmitter and receiver is configured for code division multiple access (CDMA) communication. The wireless digital audio system allows private audio enjoyment without interference from other users of independent wireless digital transmitters and receivers sharing the same space.
US10129625B2	Headphone eartips with internal support components for outer eartip bodies Headphone eartips with internal support components and methods for making the same are provided. Different support components may provide specific amounts and types of additional rigidity at specific portions of an exterior surface of an outer eartip body that may be expected to interface with specific portions of an ear canal geometry when an eartip subassembly is positioned within the ear canal, such that the eartip subassembly may conform to the various shapes of the ear canal while maintaining an acoustic seal.
US10129624B2	Method and device for voice operated control At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method and device for voice operated control with learning. The method can include measuring a first sound received from a first microphone, measuring a second sound received from a second microphone, detecting a spoken voice based on an analysis of measurements taken at the first and second microphone, learning from the analysis when the user is speaking and a speaking level in noisy environments, training a decision unit from the learning to be robust to a detection of the spoken voice in the noisy environments, mixing the first sound and the second sound to produce a mixed signal, and controlling the production of the mixed signal based on the learning of one or more aspects of the spoken voice and ambient sounds in the noisy environments.
US10129621B2	Connection device for loudspeaker boxes, arrangement of loudspeaker boxes suspended below one another, and method and transport cart for setting up the arrangement A connection device for setting up an arrangement of a plurality of loudspeaker boxes that are suspended beneath one another comprises a first assembly rail which is provided for assembly on a first loudspeaker box and to which a latching part is attached, and a second assembly rail which is provided for assembly on a second loudspeaker box and to which a retaining element that interacts with the latching part is attached. Herein, a free path length of a longitudinal displaceability of the latching part in relation to the first assembly rail is preselectable. Furthermore, the position of the retaining element in relation to the second assembly rail is preselectable.
US10129620B2	Multilayer approach to hydrophobic and oleophobic system and method An earpiece may include an earpiece housing, an electronics package associated with the earpiece housing, a hydrophobic barrier on the earpiece, and an oleophobic barrier on the earpiece. The hydrophobic barrier may be applied directly to the electronics package. The oleophobic barrier may be distal to the electronics package. The oleophobic barrier may be an oleophobic nano-coating applied to a mesh or screen. The hydrophobic barrier may be distal to the electronics package. The oleophobic barrier may be distal to the hydrophobic barrier. The hydrophobic barrier may be a nano-coating applied directly to a mesh or screen. The oleophobic barrier may be a nano-coating applied directly to a mesh or screen.
US10129619B2	Receiver The present invention discloses a receiver comprising an outer housing that consists of a first housing, a second housing and a third housing fitting to each other from top to bottom. The third housing is an integral structure, and includes a magnetic conductive piece and a plastic piece integrally injection-molded therewith. The magnetic conductive piece is bonded and fixed with a magnet and a washer. The magnetic conductive piece, the magnet and the washer together form a magnetic circuit system of the receiver, and the third housing is fixed with the second housing by ultrasonic welding through the plastic piece. The receiver of the present invention can realize one-step assembly of the rear cavity housing of the product, simplify the production process of the product, save the production time, and further reduce the production cost of the product.
US10129614B2	Passive optical network communications method, apparatus and system The present invention discloses a passive optical network communications method: reporting, by an optical network unit, ONU, a calibration record of the ONU, where the calibration record includes an ID of a calibrated wavelength channel; sending a first message to the ONU when the OLT determines, according to the calibration record, that a target wavelength channel ID corresponding to a target wavelength channel to which the ONU needs to switch is not in the calibration record, where the first message includes a forced wavelength switching flag; and instructing the ONU to switch to the calibrated target wavelength channel. In this way, the ONU can implement wavelength switching quickly after calibrating a new wavelength channel so as to perform data communication over the calibrated new wavelength channel.
US10129613B2	Optical switch, optical switching apparatus An optical switch includes a first optical absorbing layer sensitive to a first light and having a first superlattice structure and a first bandgap; a second optical absorbing layer sensitive to a second light and having a second bandgap smaller than that of the first bandgap; and a barrier layer having a second superlattice structure. The first optical absorbing layer, the second optical absorbing layer, and the barrier layer are arranged in a direction of an axis to form an arrangement with a first band-offset in a conduction band of the first optical absorbing layer, a second band-offset in a conduction band of the barrier layer, and a well in a conduction band of the second optical absorbing layer.
US10129612B2	Signal sending device, signal receiving device, and signal sending and receiving system and method A signal sending device, a signal receiving device, and a signal sending and receiving system and method are presented. The devices and system combine a plurality of sense data into a data packet to transmit the data packet. Through the method, the data packet is processed, received, and sent under a transmission mechanism based on independent data packets. Therefore, the plurality of sense data and overhead data are combined into a data packet, and thus the redundant overhead data is reduced, so as to reduce the time spent on sending actual data to a transmission channel, thus improving the efficiency of data exchange and saving electrical energy.
US10129611B2	System and method for monitoring sensor output A monitoring system can receive sensor measurements from a select sensor of a group of sensors. The sensor measurements are compared to group alert condition or an individual alert condition. Based on the comparison, an alert state can be identified and a user notified of the alert state. The system can automatically determine the individual alert condition, which can be uniquely associated with the select sensor and can be associated with a domain of time.
US10129610B2	Methods and apparatus to monitor media Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a network interface to obtain media monitoring information from a content publisher. The apparatus further includes a media identifier to determine a first media identifier based on the obtained media monitoring information corresponding to media presented at a media device, map the first media identifier to a second media identifier in a look-up table, the second media identifier based on an audience measurement entity (AME) media analyzer obtaining the media before the media device accessed the media, and credit the presentation of the media to the media device based on the mapping. The apparatus further includes a report generator to generate a media crediting report based on the crediting.
US10129609B2	Method for transceiving media files and device for transmitting/receiving using same A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an MPEG-2 TS-based media file are provided. In the method of transmitting an MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS)-based media file, a Presentation Time Stamp (PTS) of a Presentation Unit (PU) is mapped to a Media Presentation Time (MPT) for synchronization with other media with respect to at least one program element forming a program included in the media file; and synchronization information including the mapped media presentation time is transmitted together with the media file, wherein the media presentation time is provided for a first PU in a segment of the transmitted media file.
US10129604B2	Analytic system for automatically combining advertising and content in media broadcasts An analytic platform, article of manufacture, system, computer-readable medium, and method for selecting and inserting advertisements for delivery to a content viewing device. A plurality of advertising metrics are generated from data originating from a plurality of content viewing devices. Then, an advertisement is selected for presentation along with content directed to one of the content viewing devices, the advertisement being selected based on the advertising metrics. Once selected, the advertisement is added to the content for delivery to said one of the content viewing devices.
US10129602B2	Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signal, apparatus for receiving broadcast signal, method for transmitting broadcast signal and method for receiving broadcast signal A method for generating and processing a broadcast signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: encoding broadcast data for one or more broadcast services; encoding first level signaling information including information describing properties of the one or more broadcast services; encoding second level signaling information including information for listing the one or more broadcast services; and generating a broadcast signal including the encoded broadcast data, the encoded first level signaling information and the encoded second level signaling information.
US10129601B2	Shared spectrum access for broadcast and bi-directional, packet-switched communications Techniques are disclosed relating to spectrum sharing between different radio access technologies. In some embodiments, a broadcast base station is configured to wirelessly broadcast audio and video data to a plurality of broadcast receiver devices using a particular frequency band. In these embodiments, the broadcast base station is configured to discontinue broadcasting in the particular frequency band during a scheduled time interval, to enable one or more cellular base stations to perform bi-directional packet-switched wireless data communications using the particular frequency band.
US10129599B2	Media preference database Example techniques for populating a preference database affiliated with a media playback system with preferences received for media items are provided. A preference may be associated with a media item from a service provider account, and may be stored in the preference database in association with the service provider account. The service provider account may be associated with multiple user profiles used to access a media playback device, and the preference may be associated with one of the user profiles associated with the service provider account, and stored in association with the user profile. Further, the preference may be received from a user account different from a user account used to access the media item. In this case, the preference may be stored in association with the user account providing the preference. The stored preferences may be used to manage media content playback by the media playback system.
US10129593B2	Time-based dynamic secondary content placement calls in time-shifted content Apparatus and methods for enabling time-based secondary content scheduling and dynamic placement for users of a content distribution network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a managed network, and the secondary content comprises advertising which was scheduled at the time the primary content was stored/recorded. A management process is adapted to identify the originally scheduled advertisements and utilize a temporal reference (e.g., time stamp) or other data associated with the original recording provided to the management process when an advertisement call is made dynamically, thereby preserving such relationship when the recorded content is requested for playback with a certain period of time, without having to store the advertisements with each recording. In another embodiment, a Campaign Management System (CMS) is used to associate campaigns based on a time period “in the past” (e.g., via use of one or more historic records regarding the advertisement placement for each user individually).
US10129586B2	Detecting and isolating television program content from recordings of television airings Various implementations process a television content stream to detect program boundaries such as the starting point and ending point of the program. In at least some implementations, program boundaries such as intermediate points between the starting point and ending point of the program are also detected. The intermediate points correspond to where a program pauses for secondary content such as an advertisement or advertisements, and then resumes once the secondary content has run. Once program boundaries are detected, primary content is isolated by removing secondary content that occurs before the starting point and after the ending point. In at least some implementations, secondary content that occurs between detected intermediate points is also removed. The primary content is then recorded without secondary content that originally comprised part of the original television content stream.
US10129584B2	Display component activation A device configuration for determining whether to send an activation notification based on whether a signal can be decoded by a tuner or codec are described herein. For example, a device may include a tuner, activated in response to receiving the user indication, to attempt to decode a signal corresponding to a channel, and a processor to execute instructions that: detect, prior to a start of a delay period, that the tuner is required to decode the signal, determine, during the delay period, whether the signal can be decoded by the tuner, deactivate the tuner after the delay period without sending a tuner activation notification, in response to a determination that the signal cannot be decoded by the tuner, and send the tuner activation notification to a remote server after the delay period, in response to a determination that the signal can be decoded by the tuner.
US10129583B2	Automated program guide scrolling A user device may receive one or more signals in a particular sequence and within a threshold period of time from an accessory; determine a scrolling instruction corresponding to the one or more signals received in the particular sequence and within the threshold period of time; and execute the scrolling instruction to continuously scroll through a program guide, displayed by the user device, based on determining the scrolling instruction.
US10129573B1	Identifying relevance of a video Techniques for identifying relevance of a video are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: causing a video to be played on a device of a user; receiving, from the device, an instruction to share the video with another user, the instruction corresponding to a point-in-time in the video; identifying text in a transcript of the video based on the point-in-time; causing the identified text to be displayed on the device based on the instruction to share the video; receiving, from the device, an instruction to include user-approved text along with the video in the sharing of the video with the one or more other users, the user-approved text comprising at least a portion of the identified text; and causing the user-approved text to be displayed on a device of the other user in association with the video based on the instructions to share and include.
US10129570B2	System and method for stream fault tolerance through usage based duplication and shadow sessions Embodiments of the present invention: provide, from a first VOD server having a first cache, a first media presentation to a first group of user devices and a second media presentation to a second group of user devices; provide, from a second VOD server having a second cache, a third content to a third group of user devices; measure a first popularity corresponding to the first media presentation and a second popularity corresponding to the second media presentation; store a copy of the first media presentation on the second cache based on the first popularity and the second popularity; determine when the first VOD server fails to continue to provide the first media presentation; and provide, from the second VOD server, the first media presentation to the first group of user devices, wherein the first cache has the first media presentation stored therein, and wherein the second cache has the second media presentation stored therein.
US10129569B2	Wireless transmission of sports venue-based data including video to hand held devices Venue-based data including video from cameras located at a sports venue can be provided to hand held devices authorized by at least one casino. A casino patron's hand held device can enable to view sporting events provided to a hand held device from a server and placement of wagers with the server. Venue-based data including video and statistics are received from server including camera views captured as video by at least one camera located within at least one sports venue. Venue-based data is processed at server for display on a display associated with at least one hand held device operating within a casino. Venue-based data is displayed on hand held devices, enabling casino patrons to view event video. Portable devices can be authorized only when moving about a casino. Casino patrons can also gamble using said hand held device while viewing selected sporting events within the casino.
US10129565B2	Method for processing high dynamic range video in order to improve perceived visual quality of encoded content A method for processing High Dynamic Range (HDR) video in order to improve the perceived visual quality of encoded content. An encoder receives an original image, wherein a contrast analysis is performed on said original image in order to highlight potential problematic areas. The original image is reduced to a decreased bit depth image in order to compute a predicted image, wherein the predicted image is then magnified to an increased bit depth image. A residual image is then computed from the original image and the increased bit depth image, and the residual image is transformed into a frequency signal. Quantized coefficients determined through the contrast analysis are then applied to the frequency signal to produce a reduced frequency signal. The encoder then inserts high-frequency components into the reduced frequency signal before encoding a compressed image from the reduced frequency image and the predicted image.
US10129563B2	Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding video using temporal motion vector prediction A method of encoding a video into a coded video bitstream with temporal motion vector prediction comprises: determining a value of a flag for indicating whether temporal motion vector prediction is used or not used for the inter-picture prediction of a sub-picture unit of a picture; and writing the flag having the value into a header of the sub-picture unit or a header of the picture; wherein if the flag indicates that temporal motion vector prediction is used, the method further comprises: creating a first list of motion vector predictors comprising a plurality of motion vector predictors including at least one temporal motion vector predictor derived from at least one motion vector from a collocated reference picture; selecting a motion vector predictor out of the first list; and writing a first parameter into the coded video bitstream for indicating the selected motion vector predictor out of the first list.
US10129560B2	Method and apparatus for processing video signal The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing a video signal. The present invention can acquire an inter-view motion vector of a current block, acquire a first corresponding block by using the inter-view motion vector, identify a prediction method of the first corresponding block, acquire a second corresponding block when the first corresponding block is not coded by a time inter prediction, acquire a time motion vector of the second corresponding block, acquire a time motion vector of the current block by using the time motion vector of the second corresponding block, and decode the current block by using the time motion vector of the current block.
US10129559B2	Image compression A method for compressing images includes identifying a set of image blocks from a plurality of digital images. For each image block from the set, image features of the image block are extracted. The set of image blocks is sorted into an ordered sequence of image blocks based on an average image feature difference between sequentially sorted image blocks. The set of image blocks is compressed into compressed image data based on inter block correlations between image blocks in the ordered sequence.
US10129557B2	Tiling in video encoding and decoding Implementations are provided that relate, for example, to view tiling in video encoding and decoding. A particular method includes accessing a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture (826), accessing information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined (806, 808, 822), decoding the video picture to provide a decoded representation of at least one of the multiple pictures (824, 826), and providing the accessed information and the decoded video picture as output (824, 826). Some other implementations format or process the information that indicates how multiple pictures included in a single video picture are combined into the single video picture, and format or process an encoded representation of the combined multiple pictures.
US10129554B2	Method and apparatus for processing video Provided is an apparatus for processing a video. The apparatus for processing a video includes an image receiving module that is configured to receive encoded data, a filtering module that is configured to filter an image frame reconstructed from the encoded image, a block dividing module that is configured to divide the filtered image frame into a plurality of blocks, a compression module that is configured to compress each of the plurality of blocks, package the compressed plurality of blocks into a predetermined unit, and generate lookup table information corresponding to each of the packaged plurality of blocks, and a frame buffer memory that is configured to record the packaged data and the lookup table information.
US10129553B2	Dynamic digital image compression based on digital image characteristics Systems and techniques are disclosed for dynamically and automatically selecting an appropriate compression technique and/or compression parameters for digital images in order to reduce or prevent loss of significant information that may negatively impact the utility or usefulness of the digital images. For example, based on various image characteristics associated with a digital image, the system may dynamically compress the image using particular compression techniques and/or by adjusting compression parameters, to maintain significant information of the image. The system may select compression techniques and/or compression parameters based on one or more compression rules, which may be associated with image characteristics, patient characteristics, medical history, etc. Further, the system may, based on the one or more compression rules, compress the image to a maximum degree of compression while maintaining the significant information of the image.
US10129550B2	Inter-layer syntax prediction control An apparatus for coding video information according to certain aspects includes a memory unit and a processor in communication with the memory unit. The memory unit is configured to store video information associated with a base layer, an enhancement layer, or both. The processor is operationally coupled to the memory unit and is configured to provide a first indicator configured to enable or disable inter-layer syntax prediction and to provide a second indicator configured to enable or disable inter-layer texture prediction. The first and second indicators can be provided separately from each other. In one embodiment, the processor is further configured to disable inter-layer syntax prediction based at least in part upon information indicative of a codec associated with the base layer.
US10129548B2	Arithmetic decoding device, image decoding device, and arithmetic coding device To reduce the amount of processing related to coding and decoding of transform coefficients, a sub-block coefficient presence/absence flag indicating whether or not at least one non-zero transform coefficient is included is decoded for each of two or more sub-blocks obtained by dividing a unit region, and a context index of a target sub-block is derived on the basis of transform coefficient presence/absence flags each indicating whether or not a transform coefficient is 0. In accordance with the sub-block coefficient presence/absence flags of adjacent sub-blocks that are adjacent to the target sub-block, the context index of the target sub-block is derived.
US10129542B2	Reference pixel selection and filtering for intra coding of depth map A video codec configured to receive a current block and a plurality of neighboring pixels, wherein the current block comprises a first partition and a second partition, select one or more reference pixels from the plurality of neighboring pixels, and predict a plurality of pixels located in the second partition based on the reference pixels.
US10129534B2	Transparent LED display device A transparent LED display device structure having an image tape formed having a small width by a thin plate and in which an image is formed by the unit of a line in a horizontal direction; an image division structure provided below an image plate line, in which oblique surfaces formed by a first prism bar and a second prism bar having a reflection surface as a rectangular oblique side are coupled with each other, and as a result, a front image and a rear image straightly penetrate and light of the image tape, which vertically incidents in the oblique surface is reflected at a right angle at 90°; a blocking plate provided on the bottom of the image division structure; and a transparent image plate configured by sequentially stacking the blocking plate, the first and second prism bars, and the image tape upwards.
US10129532B2	3D display device and driving method thereof Embodiments of the present invention disclose a 3D display device and a driving method thereof, and the 3D display device comprises: a display panel, comprising sub-pixel units arranged in a matrix and defined by data lines and gate signal lines, and each gate signal line being located between two adjacent columns of sub-pixel units; a lenticular lens grating, provided at a light exiting side of the display panel, splitting light emitted from the display panel, and comprising lens units, wherein each lens unit corresponds to at least two adjacent columns of sub-pixel units; in a 3D display mode, columns of sub-pixel units alternatively display a left/right eye image and a right/left eye image, and each lens unit comprises, in a region corresponding to each column of the sub-pixel units, a lens structure matching the left or right eye image currently displayed by the column of the sub-pixel units.
US10129531B2	Imaging apparatus and image sensor array An imaging apparatus including an imaging lens, and an image sensor array of first and second image sensor units, wherein a single first image sensor unit includes a single first microlens and a plurality of image sensors, a single second image sensor unit includes a single second microlens and a single image sensor, light passing through the imaging lens and reaching each first image sensor unit passes through the first microlens and forms an image on the image sensors constituting the first image sensor unit, light passing through the imaging lens and reaching each second image sensor unit passes through the second microlens and forms an image on the image sensor constituting the second image sensor unit, an inter-unit light shielding layer is formed between the image sensor units, and a light shielding layer is not formed between the image sensor units constituting the first image sensor unit.
US10129529B2	Method and apparatus for taking and displaying multi-view orthostereoscopic 3D images An imaging system includes a camera, a display panel and a processor for providing image data to the display panel. The camera has a sensor with pixel rows for capturing an image taken by a camera lens through a lenticular sheet with first lenticules, such that each first lenticule covers at least two pixel rows. The display panel is used to show a displayed image based on the image data. The display panel is covered by a viewing lenticular sheet with second lenticules. The displayed image has a plurality of segments, with each segment under a second lenticule and each segment has sub-segments corresponding to pixel rows under a first lenticule. Image data provided to the image display panel is arranged such that image contents in the sub-segments under each second lenticule and image contents in the pixel rows under each first lenticule have different arrangement orders.
US10129526B2	Methods for interfacing with an interactive application using a controller with an integrated camera A computer implemented method for using a controller with at least one integrated camera is provided. The method includes identifying fixed points associated with objects disposed in a three-dimensional space using a depth camera that is part of with a controller. The method includes analyzing the identified fixed points captured by the depth camera and determining changes in position of the controller based on changes in position of the fixed points as determined from depth data captured by the depth camera. The method further includes triggering an input command when the controller is determined to in a particular positon based on the determined changes in position.
US10129525B2	Broadcast transmitter, broadcast receiver and 3D video data processing method thereof A broadcast transmitter, a broadcast receiver, and a 3D video data processing method are disclosed. A 3D video data processing method includes processing, by a video formatter, 3D video data, encoding, by an encoder, 3D video data, generating, by a system information processor, system information having 3D video composition information including information about the processing and encoding of 3D video data, multiplexing, by a multiplexer, the system information and the 3D video data, and transmitting, by a transmitter, a broadcast signal. In a 3D video data processing method, a receiver receives a broadcast signal including 3D video data and system information, a system information processor obtains 3D video composition information by parsing the system information, a decoder decodes the 3D video data according to the 3D video composition information, and an output formatter formats and outputs the decoded 3D video data according to the 3D video composition information.
US10129524B2	Depth-assigned content for depth-enhanced virtual reality images According to various embodiments of the invention, a system and method are provided for enabling interaction with, manipulation of, and control of depth-assigned content in depth-enhanced pictures, such as virtual reality images. Depth-assigned content can be assigned to a specified depth value. When a depth-enhanced picture is refocused at a focus depth substantially different from the specified assigned depth value, the depth-assigned content may be omitted, grayed out, blurred, or otherwise visually distinguished. In this manner, content associated with an in-focus image element can be visually distinguished from content associated with an out-of-focus image element. For example, in at least one embodiment, depth-assigned content is visible only when an image element associated with the content is in focus (or nearly in focus). According to various embodiments of the invention, many different types of interactions are facilitated among depth-assigned content, depth-enhanced virtual reality images, and other content.
US10129523B2	Depth-aware reprojection Examples are disclosed that relate to depth-aware late-stage reprojection. One example provides a computing system configured to receive and store image data, receive a depth map for the image data, processing the depth map to obtain a blurred depth map, and based upon motion data, determine a translation to be made to the image data. Further, for each pixel, the computing system is configured to translate an original ray extending from an original virtual camera location to an original frame buffer location to a reprojected ray extending from a translated camera location to a reprojected frame buffer location, determine a location at which the reprojected ray intersects the blurred depth map, and sample a color of a pixel for display based upon a color corresponding to the location at which the reprojected ray intersects the blurred depth map.
US10129521B2	Depth sensing method and system for autonomous vehicles In one aspect, an image processing method for processing images is provided, comprising the steps of: obtaining, from an optical sensor, at least two images, determining an image warping function at least partially compensating the distortion, applying the determined image warping function to the image including the distortion, and calculating by a processing unit, and outputting, a depth and/or disparity image from the at least two images.
US10129519B2	Naked-eye three-dimensional display processing method, naked-eye three-dimensional display processing device and display device A naked-eye 3D display processing method includes: receiving source display data for naked-eye 3D display; modifying the source display data, so as to acquire target display data including data corresponding to at least one subpixel separation sequence consisting of one or more consecutive subpixels in a dark state, two subpixels, which are arranged in a row identical to and adjacent to the subpixel separation sequence, corresponding to different views; and outputting the target display data to a display panel so as to display the target display data.
US10129518B2	Vehicle vision system with customized display A vision system for a vehicle includes a plurality of cameras and a processor operable to process image data captured by the cameras to generate images derived from image data captured by at least some of the cameras. The processor is operable to generate a three dimensional vehicle representation. A display screen, viewable by a driver of the vehicle, is operable to display the generated images and the three dimensional vehicle representation as would be viewed from a virtual camera viewpoint exterior to and higher than the vehicle itself. A portion of the three dimensional vehicle representation is rendered as displayed to be at least partially transparent to enable viewing at the display screen of an object present exterior of the vehicle that would otherwise be partially hidden by non-transparent display of that portion of the three dimensional vehicle representation.
US10129515B2	Display control device, recording control device, and display control method There is provided a display control device including a related content acquisition unit that acquires related content that relates to predetermined video content, and a display controller that applies control to display the related content after the predetermined video content is recorded.
US10129512B2	Self-adjusting portable modular 360-degree projection and recording computer system The present disclosure relates to an innovative projection system that comprises a camera that records images and videos, and sends the recorded images and videos to a computing device, a projector that projects output images or videos received from the computing device, a rechargeable battery that provides power to the camera and the projector and a communication unit that establishes connections between the camera, the projector and the computing device. The projection system has at least one motor that rotates the camera and the projector in at least one axial direction, where the camera rotates and searches for images and videos projected by another projector, and the projector then projects images and videos adjacent to or on top of the images and videos projected by another projector, or projects images and videos that merge with the images and videos projected by another projector.
US10129510B2	Initiating human-machine interaction based on visual attention A device for interacting with a user is presented. The device includes a target area, a sensor coupled to the target area, wherein the sensor detects whether a human is present in a predefined proximity region and detects a direction of visual attention given by the human in the predefined proximity region, a processor coupled to the sensor and making a determination that the user's visual attention is in a direction of the target area for a minimum visual contact period, and an input engine that is activated based on the determination.
US10129506B2	Advanced transparent projection communication terminals Enterprise communication display systems enable life-like images for videoconferencing and entertainment productions. Life-like images appear in a 3D environment where imaged people are visible through specially configured see-through displays. Imaged people can be viewed amongst a reflected foreground. Methods for enterprise-wide deployments for corporate, healthcare, education, and government communications, including hotel properties and a property management system are shown. Direct projection see-through screen configurations are created that eliminate unwanted secondary images in the room, conceal exposed projector lenses, reduce lens flare, makes practical multi-use room installations, images conferees among a room environment, enables touch screen interactivity, and utilizes extreme short throw projectors to reduce cost and bulk of common throw projectors. Further, a multi-format VR/AR production system is disclosed enabling several formats to be created simultaneously. Further, a camera through a transparent OLED for eye contact videoconferencing is disclosed. Additionally, an imaged map projected interior environment that produces the rooms ambient light is disclosed.
US10129503B1	Image-capturing watch An image-capturing device is disclosed. The image-capturing device may include two cameras, a watch body, and a watch band coupled to the watch body. The two cameras may simultaneously capture images. A processor of the image-capturing device may combine image data of the simultaneously-captured images from the two cameras into resultant image data representing a single continuous image. The images captured by the cameras may be moving images (i.e., video). The processor may identify a tracking target within the captured images and may continuously output target image data representing a target area of the image including the tracking target. Where the tracking target is a face captured from a low angle, the processor may angle-adjust the image so that the output target image data represents the face from a different angle (e.g., a front angle).
US10129500B2	Multi-display apparatus The multi-display apparatus of the present disclosure is a multi-display apparatus for displaying a single image by combining a plurality of displays. The multi-display apparatus includes the plurality of displays connected to a network. Each of the plurality of displays includes a communication unit that communicates via the network and a controller. The controller determines whether a video signal can be reproduced at a predetermined display frame rate. When the video signal cannot be reproduced at the predetermined display frame rate, the controller changes a display frame rate from the predetermined display frame rate, and notifies other display of the display frame rate changed. When the display frame rate changed is notified from the other display, the controller changes the display frame rate to the display frame rate notified to reproduce the video signal.
US10129496B2	Imaging device and imaging system An imaging device includes an imaging unit, a reference signal generation unit, m (m is an integer of 3 or more) number of column delay units, and a plurality of column AD conversion units. The plurality of column delay units is arranged so as to correspond to two or more and less than m of the column AD conversion units. Each of the plurality of column delay units includes a first delay circuit. The first delay circuit generates a plurality of first delay clocks. The column AD conversion unit includes a comparison unit, a latch unit, and a counter unit. The comparison unit compares a pixel signal with a reference signal, and outputs a control signal corresponding to a comparison result. The latch unit includes a plurality of latch circuits that latches the plurality of first delay clocks on the basis of a state change of the control signal.
US10129488B2	Method for shooting light-painting video, mobile terminal and computer storage medium A method for shooting a light-painting video and a mobile terminal. The method includes steps as follows. After shooting begins, light-painting images are continuously collected by means of a camera. The light-painting images are read at intervals, and a composite image is generated from a current light-painting image and a previously collected light-painting image. Composite images are captured, the captured composite images are video-encoded, and a light-painting video is generated from the video-encoded composite images.
US10129483B2	Methods and apparatus for implementing zoom using one or more moveable camera modules Methods and apparatus for implementing a camera device including multiple camera modules and which supports zoom operations are described. A plurality of moveable camera modules are included with the position of the moveable camera modules being controlled as a function of a zoom setting. One or more fixed camera modules are also included to facilitate image combining. A fixed camera module having a smaller focal length than the movable camera modules is used in some embodiments to capture a scene area including scene area portions which will be captured by movable camera modules. The image captured by the fixed camera module, with the small focal length, is used in aligning images captured by the movable camera modules during generation of a composite image. The camera may also include another fixed camera module, e.g., having the same focal length as the movable camera modules, for capturing the center of a scene.
US10129482B2	Imaging apparatus and display control method for self-portrait photography A display controller includes circuitry configured to cause a display device to display self-portrait photographing information in response to receiving an indication that the display device and an imaging unit are in a predetermined positional relationship.
US10129480B2	Specimen observation device It is possible to readily observe pathology specimens without spending much time and suspected pathology specimens in detail. A specimen observation device comprises an image capturing unit acquiring a partial image representing at least a part of one of multiple pathology specimens mounted on an accommodating section and a whole image of the multiple pathology specimens mounted on the accommodating section; an input unit inputting identification information of the accommodating section; a display unitdisplaying an enlarged version of the partial image acquired by the image capturing unit); an image designating unit designating the partial image displayed on the display unit; and a storage unit storing the identification information input via the input unit and a position of the partial image designated via the image designating unit in relation to the whole image such that the position and the identification information are associated with the whole image.
US10129475B2	Image capturing apparatus and method of controlling an image capturing apparatus An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor and a processor. The image sensor includes an imaging plane that receives an image of a shooting target field through color filters according to two or more wavelength regions and outputs a signal of the image of the shooting target field. The processor is configured to set a larger weight for a wavelength region having a higher image forming performance than for a wavelength region having a lower image forming performance in accordance with a high-resolution direction determined in the image of the shooting target field, generate image data based on the signal output by the image sensor, and detect an object in the generated image data.
US10129474B2	Observation apparatus, measurement system and observation method An observation apparatus includes an imaging unit, a driving mechanism and a control unit. The imaging unit takes images of a target object. The driving mechanism moves the imaging unit to change an observation position of the target object. The control unit controls the driving mechanism and the imaging unit while switching between a first mode in which the imaging unit takes images while simultaneously being moved at a high speed by the driving mechanism, and a second mode in which the imaging unit takes images having a higher resolution than the images taken in the first mode while simultaneously being moved at a speed lower than that of the first mode.
US10129470B2	Apparatus and method for generating an output video stream from a wide field video stream System and methods are disclosed for generating an output video stream from a wide field video stream. The wide field video stream may be created from compiling a plurality of video stream capturing different viewpoints of the same environment simultaneously. Upon selecting a wide field video stream, a first geometric function may be utilized to generate individual intermediate points that correspond to locations in a wide field video stream to be displayed on a particular display space. A second geometric function may be further utilized to generate reference points so that a the pixel on the output video stream are determined from the intermediate points of the wide field video stream of the first geometric function. Upon the execution of the first and second geometric function, an output video stream is generated for display on the determined display space.
US10129467B2	Video photographing processing method and apparatus Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a video photographing processing method and apparatus, and relate to the field of information technologies. The embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to automatic generation of a photo during video photographing. Various embodiments provide a video photographing processing method, including acquiring at least one piece of behavior information of a photographed person when a camera is turned on; determining whether behavior information for which a photo needs to be generated exists in the at least one piece of behavior information; and if the behavior information for which a photo needs to be generated exists in the at least one piece of behavior information, configuring a target video frame as a photo that needs to be generated.
US10129457B2	Control apparatus, method of controlling shooting apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium A control apparatus includes: an acquisition unit adapted to acquire annotation information input by a user with respect to a first image shot by a shooting unit; a conversion unit adapted to convert the annotation information into a camera command defining an operation of the shooting unit; and an execution unit adapted to cause the shooting unit to execute an operation based on the camera command when shooting a second image shot after the first image.
US10129456B1	Apparatus for adjusting focus of camera and control method thereof Disclosed are an apparatus and method for adjusting the focus of a camera. The apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure includes an image acquirer; a neuromorphic hardware including a plurality of neurons; and a controller configured to generate input vectors by vectorizing image data, input each of the generated input vectors to the neuromorphic hardware, select neurons, receive an edge pattern type value between the input vector and one corresponding edge pattern from each of the selected neurons, calculate a focus parameter value of the image frame on the basis of the received edge pattern type values, compare the focus parameter value of a current image frame and a focus parameter value of a previous image frame, determine a moving direction of the focus lens according to a comparison result, and move the focus lens on the basis of the determined moving direction.
US10129454B2	Imaging device, endoscope apparatus, and method for controlling imaging device The imaging device includes an imaging optical system that includes a movable lens that simultaneously adjusts the angle of view and the in-focus object distance, an image sensor, a plurality of phase sensors, an acquisition section (A/D conversion section) that acquires phase information from the plurality of phase sensors, a lens control section that controls the position of the movable lens, and a moving amount calculation section that calculates the moving amount of the movable lens necessary for implementing an in-focus state of an image formed on the image sensor due to light beams that have passed through the imaging optical system, based on a phase difference that is based on the phase information, the lens control section controlling the position of the movable lens based on the moving amount calculated by the moving amount calculation section.
US10129453B2	Image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, control method of image capturing apparatus, and computer readable storage medium An image capturing apparatus includes: an encoding unit configured to perform encoding processing on an image output from an image capturing unit for obtaining an image; a communication unit configured to receive designation of a resolution of the encoding unit from an information processing apparatus; an obtaining unit configured to obtain a resolution which is associated with the resolution set for the image capturing unit, and is settable for the encoding unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether the designated resolution is the resolution obtained by the obtaining unit and settable for the encoding unit; and a transmission unit configured to transmit an error response to the information processing apparatus, if the determination unit determines that the designated resolution is not the resolution obtained by the obtaining unit and settable for the encoding unit.
US10129452B2	Camera module and array camera module based on integral packaging technology A camera module and an array camera module based on an integral packing process are disclosed. The camera module or each of the camera module units of the array camera module includes a circuit board, an integral base, a photosensitive element operatively connected to the circuit board, a lens, a light filter holder installed at the integral base and a light filter installed at the light filter holder. The light filter is not required to be directly installed to the integral base, so that the light filter is protected and the requiring area of the light filter is reduced.
US10129450B2	System and method for ophthalmological imaging adapted to a mobile processing device A system and method for ophthalmological imaging is provided for use with a mobile processing device, wherein the mobile processing device comprises a camera lens, light source, and processor configured to process images captured, received, and/or delivered by the mobile processing device. The mobile processing device adapted ophthalmological instrument system comprises housing segments, circuitry, lights, and a frustum cone, wherein the frustum cone comprises reference lines of a plurality of circular, frusto-conical, alternating transparent and opaque concentric rings in the conical surface in optical alignment with the mobile processing device's camera lens and subject's central cornea and/or tear-film layer(s). Reflections of the reference lines off the cornea and/or tear-film layer are imaged by the mobile processing device and analyzed by software applications downloaded to and/or accessed by the smart-phone's processor(s), wherein data of shape, structure, composition, function, and/or power of the cornea and/or tear-film layer(s) are determined by methods comprising one or more image processing and/or computer vision functions configured to produce topographic data. The processor of the mobile processing device can provide and/or receive specific information to/from other instruments and/or users through a communications network.
US10129446B2	Telecommunication unit that enables communication between image pickup apparatus and interchangeable lens, as well as lens adapter A telecommunication unit which ensures high reliability of electric connection with a simple structure and enables satisfactory communication between an apparatus main body of an image pickup apparatus and an interchangeable lens. A first electric connecting unit has contact portions that are electrically connected to the interchangeable lens when the interchangeable lens is mounted on the lens adapter. A second electric connecting unit has contact portions that are electrically connected to the apparatus main body when the lens adapter is fixed to the apparatus main body. The contact portions of the first electric connecting unit are arranged in the form of an arc with an optical axis of the interchangeable lens at its center. The contact portions of the second electric connecting unit are arranged in a linear fashion in a width direction of the apparatus main body perpendicular to the optical axis of the interchangeable lens.
US10129443B2	Imaging device An imaging device of the present invention includes: a first case having an opening; a substrate on which a first terminal electrically connected to an imaging element is mounted, the substrate being provided in the first case; a second case covering the opening of the first case; and a connector. A first terminal accommodation portion accommodating the first terminal is fixed to the substrate. The connector includes a second terminal accommodation portion accommodating a second terminal electrically connected to the first terminal. The second case has a through hole. The first and second terminals are configured so that, in a process in which the first terminal accommodation portion and the second terminal accommodation portion are inserted to be accommodated in the through hole, the first and second terminals come into contact with each other while sliding on each other and the first and second terminals are elastically deformable upon contact with each other.
US10129442B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus includes a sound information obtaining unit, and a sound synthesizer unit. The sound information obtaining unit is configured to obtain a plurality of sound information items, the plurality of sound information items being on sounds indicating a plurality of user-selectable candidates, respectively. The sound synthesizer unit is configured to synthesize the plurality of sound information items such that output sounds indicating the plurality of candidates, respectively, at least partially overlap one another.
US10129434B2	Generation of images at lower resolution Examples include acquisition of an input image, generation of a first output pixel and a second output pixel based on a first set and a second set of input pixels, selective reassigning of a gray value of at least one of the first and second output pixels, and generation of an output image based on the output pixels at a second resolution lower than the first resolution.
US10129432B2	Point of sale platform and associated methods A point-of-sale terminal that generates a radio frequency (RF) field through a flat panel display and touchscreen is disclosed. The point of sale device includes a touchscreen, a display positioned behind the touchscreen, and an antenna located behind the display. The antenna can be entirely within the lateral extent of the touchscreen. The antenna can be mounted to the display via a layer of adhesive or mounted to a support frame. The antenna generates the RF field above the touchscreen.
US10129431B2	Communication apparatus, control method, and recording medium for communicating with an external device using a first and second communication method Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a communication apparatus capable of preventing a decrease in the speed of communication with an external device due to execution of a handover when the communication apparatus is connected to the external device, and also directed to a control method and a recording medium. A communication apparatus provides, by using a first communication portion that uses a first communication method, communication information for performing communication based on a second communication method to an external device, and causes a second communication portion that uses the second communication method to connect with the external device using the second communication method, and performs control in such a manner that, in a case where the second communication portion connects with the external device, the first communication portion is used to provide communication information to no other external devices.
US10129426B2	Image forming apparatus having display screen with position configurable icons, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium An image forming apparatus includes a main body and an operation unit. The main body includes: a first storage storing device information of the apparatus; and a notifying unit notifying the operation unit of the device information when the apparatus starts up. The operation unit includes: a second storage storing placement information of display information associated with an instruction to process an application for the apparatus, and correspondence information of the device information and the placement information; an acquiring unit acquiring the device information; a selecting unit selecting placement information corresponding to the device information from the placement information; a checking unit checking whether an application of placement display information placed based on the placement information, has been installed on the apparatus; a placing unit placing the placement display information on a display information screen; and a display control unit displaying the display information screen with the placement display information.
US10129425B2	Communication apparatus capable of shifting to at least one of a first state and a second state in which less power is consumed than in the first state, and a control method and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for use with same A communication apparatus includes a control unit configured, when the communication apparatus is in a first state and when a receiving unit receives a request, from an external device, for data for a predetermined screen that is among a plurality of screens for remotely using the communication apparatus, not to execute control for delaying execution of a shifting process, and when the communication apparatus is in the first state and when the receiving unit receives a request, from the external device, for data for display of a screen that is not the predetermined screen and that is among a plurality of screens for remotely using the communication apparatus, to execute the control for delaying execution of the shifting process.
US10129424B2	Image reading device, image forming apparatus, method of displaying document image, and non-transitory recording medium An image reading device includes an imaging device to capture an image of a document placed below the imaging device to generate a document image and output an image signal based on the document image, circuitry to determine a size of a fed-sheet based on information on the fed-sheet, the fed-sheet being a sheet to be formed with the document image, generate a frame image for the document image, the frame image having a size equal to the size of the fed-sheet, and synthesize the frame image with the image signal output from the imaging device to generate a synthesized image, and a display to display the synthesized image.
US10129418B2	Image forming apparatus having translation data application and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing translation data application An image forming apparatus includes an installer portion, the installer portion being capable of installing a translation data application and an add-on application on the image forming apparatus, the add-on application for customizing functions of the image forming apparatus. The translation data application is capable of storing at least one of plural translation data files, the translation data files classified into groups each containing one or more terms in one or more languages. The translation data application includes: a program for the image forming apparatus to install the translation data file from a server; and a definition file specifying an access method for the add-on application to access the translation data application. Upon activation, the add-on application performs the following operations: accessing the translation data application by the access method; extracting a target term in a target language from the translation data file; and generating a display screen.
US10129417B2	Ad hoc transmission of scanned documents to computing devices The disclosed embodiments provide a system that performs document scanning. The system includes a scanner and a computing device. To enable detection of the computing device in proximity to the scanner, the computing device may be configured to advertise a scan-receiving capability using a discovery protocol. Next, the scanner may use the discovery protocol to identify a set of computing devices in proximity to the scanner, including the computing device. The scanner may then provide the set of computing devices to a user of the scanner and obtain, from the user of the scanner, a selection of the computing device as a recipient of the scanned document. Finally, the scanner may send the scanned document to the computing device over a network connection with the computing device.
US10129414B2	Systems and methods for detecting transparent media in printers A printer that includes systems for detecting transparent medium may include a medium dispenser for transporting print medium along a transport pathway to a print station which receives the print medium. Transmitters and receivers may be positioned on opposite sides of the transport pathway for scanning the print medium with a light beam. The sensor arrangement may be configured to detect deflection of the light beam when a transparent print medium is transported on the transport pathway between the transmitter and the receiver. The results of the scan may be communicated to a controller to facilitate proper print settings.
US10129412B1	Establishing and maintaining a VOIP call A system, apparatus, and methods are provided for establishing and supporting a VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) call from one computing/communication device to another. The system receives a call offer from a caller, forwards it to the callee, and identifies to each party multiple candidate relay entities for relaying their digitized voice communications. Each device binds with one or all relays, and either or both of them select one of the relays to use in a relay mode of operation of the call, if necessary. One or more of the relays inform the devices of their external network addresses, and each device passes its (internal and external) addresses to each other, through the system. The devices attempt to establish a direct connection to conduct their call in a peer-to-peer mode of operation, but may dynamically switch between peer-to-peer and relay modes as necessary.
US10129403B1	Systems and methods for routing cross-channel communications Activities performed by a client at a site of an organization are monitored and stored in an activity database. A call is thereafter received from the client at a telephone system of the organization, which performs an identification of the client. The identification is provided to a cross-channel router as a request for a prediction on where the call from the client should be routed, and the router indexes into the activity database based on the identification of the client to obtain the monitored activity of the client. The router employs predicting rules and the obtained activity to generate a prediction of client needs, and returns the generated prediction to the telephone-based system, which presents prioritized telephone prompts to the client according to the returned prediction to help in routing the call.
US10129401B1	Methods and systems for customizing interactive voice response calls Methods and systems described in this disclosure allow customers to personalize their phone experience when calling into an organization. In some embodiments, customers who may benefit from this service are identified based on the content of the customer's previous or current phone calls to the organization. The identified customers may be invited to enroll and to provide preferences for a customized Interactive Voice Response experience. In some embodiments, the customer can elect to hear the balances of one or more of his accounts without going through a phone menu or asking a representative to look up the relevant amounts. Once enrolled, when the customer dials into the organization and upon successful authentication, the organization proactively states the customer's account balances with no further customer request.
US10129400B2	Automated response tool to reduce required caller questions for invoking proper service A language processor includes a parser and an invoker. The parser parses a spoken statement to detect a plurality of words in the spoken statement and generates a parse tree based on the detected plurality of words. The invoker determines, based on the parse tree, a plurality of potential services to invoke to respond to the spoken statement, calculates a confidence score for each potential service of the plurality of potential services, wherein each confidence score indicates a likelihood, that a potential service is a service requested by the spoken statement, and determines, based on the calculated confidence scores, to invoke a potential service of the plurality of potential services in response to the spoken statement. This helps reduce a number of questions that a caller associated with the spoken statement has to answer before the language processor determines a service to invoke to respond to the caller.
US10129397B1	Inbound calls to intelligent controlled-environment facility resident media and/or communications devices An inbound controlled-environment facility resident call server may route a non-resident inbound call to a controlled-environment facility resident media and/or communications device. The called resident device may confirm that the non-resident is associated with an Address Identifier (AID) of that resident device. The resident device may also receive data for verifying authentication of the resident operating the device, verify authentication of the resident operating the device, and verify that the resident operating the device is associated with the AID. The inbound resident call server, or the called resident device itself, may connect the inbound call to the called resident device in response to the device authenticating the non-resident is associated with the AID, verifying authentication of the resident operating the device, and verifying that the resident operating the device is associated with the AID.
US10129393B2	Caller identification using communication network information In one embodiment, a social networking system determines a user identifier of a caller placing a call to a receiving user based on the call's phone number, accesses one or more data stores for information associated with the caller, and present to the receiving user the information associated with the caller.
US10129388B1	Systems and methods for restricting operation of a mobile device while operating a vehicle A method may include receiving, by a mobile device, signals periodically output by a plurality of beacon devices, wherein the beacon devices are positioned at known locations within a motor vehicle interior. The mobile device also receives vehicle operating condition information from a vehicle interface device operatively coupled to one or more electronic systems of the motor vehicle. The mobile device determines a position of the mobile device within the motor vehicle interior based on the received signals and determines whether a user of the mobile device is a driver of the motor vehicle based on the position of the mobile device and the vehicle operating condition information. When it is determined that the user of the mobile device is the driver of the motor vehicle, the mobile device restricts one or more features of the mobile device.
US10129387B2	Terminal anti-lost method and terminal Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a terminal anti-lost method and a terminal, to resolve a problem that a lost terminal is difficult to find when a user discovers in a timely manner that the terminal is lost. The method in the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: first detecting, by the terminal when receiving a specific instruction, whether the terminal is currently in a lock screen state, where the specific instruction represents an instruction of controlling the terminal to decrease volume and/or an instruction of preventing the terminal from receiving a carrier signal; and skipping executing, by the terminal, the instruction when it is determined that the terminal is in the lock screen state, and controlling the terminal to increase the volume and/or play an alarm tone by using a loudspeaker.
US10129381B2	Disablement of lost or stolen device The restricted use of a cellular network to facilitate disablement of a device that is suspected lost or stolen. Accordingly, even if the device is not capable of general use of the cellular network, disablement communications are still permitted across the cellular network. Accordingly, the device may receive a disable command from the disablement service over the cellular network, and acknowledge processing of the disable command to the disablement service also over the cellular network. Thus, efforts by an unauthorized possessor of the device to prevent disablement by removing the physical authentication module are thwarted. Likewise, turning the cellular service off using software settings at the device also does not prevent the device from being disabled via cellular network communication.
US10129376B2	Mobile terminal The present invention relates to a mobile terminal. Provided is a mobile terminal comprising: a display unit having a window; a main body on which the display unit is seated, wherein an internal space is formed between the main body and the display unit; a sliding unit having a first battery accommodated therein, wherein the sliding unit implements a first state where the sliding unit is inserted into the internal space and a second state where the sliding unit is extracted from the internal space; and a second battery provided in the internal space to supply electric power when the first battery is extracted, wherein in the first state, wireless communication for mobile communication and an operation by software are performed using the first battery, and in the second state, the wireless communication for mobile communication is interrupted, and the operation by the software is performed using the second battery.
US10129374B2	Mobile communications device A mobile communications device. The mobile communications device has a rectangular housing and a touchscreen. The housing has a bonding surface configured to bond with the touchscreen, one end of the bonding surface that is provided with a control button and the other end opposite to the end that is provided with a control button are each provided with a supporting surface, the touchscreen is adhered to the supporting surfaces, and two opposite side surfaces of the housing are each connected to the touchscreen in a sealed manner using a sealing piece. The two opposite side surfaces are side surfaces that are perpendicular to a frame line of the end of the bonding surface that is provided with a control button.
US10129372B2	Transferring multiple data sets using a multipath connection Example methods are provided for a first endpoint to transfer a first data set and a second data set to a second endpoint using a multipath connection. The method may comprise detecting the first data set and the second data set from an application executing on the first endpoint for transfer to the second endpoint. The method may comprise, in response to determination that in-order transfer is not required for the first data set and the second data set, establishing a first subflow of a multipath connection with the second endpoint to send the first data set and establishing a second subflow of the multipath connection to send the second data set. The method may further comprise sending the first data set on the first subflow and the second data set on the second subflow to the second endpoint.
US10129366B2	Callee condition based communication with mobile devices For location-based communication with mobile devices, a set of callee conditions is received at a caller's device, which has to be satisfied by a callee according to information descriptive of a condition of the callee. The state information is distinct from the location and a time of the callee's presence at the location. An evaluation is made that each device associated with each potential callee in a first subset has been present at the location at a specified time, and that each potential callee in the first subset satisfies the set of callee conditions. At the caller's device, an instruction is received for making a telecommunication call to a device of a potential callee in a first subset. The call is initiated from the caller's device to mobile devices associated with the first subset of potential callees.
US10129360B2	Unified data networking across heterogeneous networks A system is provided for unified data networking across a plurality of heterogeneous networks different ones of which include a source network node and a querying network node. The system may receive a data packet having a payload and a tag that includes a unified identity code (UIC) for a category of information. Content of the payload may be stored in a cache memory based at least in part on the UIC. In at least one instance, a query including the UIC may be received from the querying network node, and the system may retrieve the content from the cache memory based on the UIC. The system may then generate and transmit, to the querying network node, a reply data packet having a payload with the content and a tag that includes the UIC.
US10129359B2	Methods and apparatus to selectively provide cached and presently compiled applications Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to selectively provide cached and presently compiled applications are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request for an application from a device, querying a cache of pre-compiled applications based on the request for the application, if a pre-compiled version of the requested application is found in the cache, sending the pre-compiled requested application to the device; and if a pre-compiled version of the requested application is not found in the cache, thereupon compiling the requested application, and sending the compiled requested application to the device.
US10129352B2	Information management method An information management method includes receiving an appliance identifier of an unregistered target appliance among at least one of appliances, a gateway identifier of a home gateway, and biological information regarding a user of the unregistered appliance, determining whether among the registered appliances associated with the gateway identifier, management information regarding at least one of the appliances associated with the user of the biological information is registered in a database, registering, if the determination is yes, the management information regarding the at least one of the registered appliances in the database as management information of the unregistered appliance in association with the user of the biological information, and sending, to an information terminal of the user, display information indicating that the management information regarding the at least one of the registered appliances is registered as management information of the unregistered appliance in association with the user of the biological information.
US10129348B2	Method and apparatus for modifying behavior of a user via a network A method and apparatus for modifying a behavior of a user are disclosed. For example, the method determines a baseline of a behavior to be modified for a user, the baseline comprising at least one triggering event that is established for the behavior to be modified and at least one action to be taken when the at least one triggering event is detected, detects the at least one triggering event that is established for the behavior to be modified for the user, identifies the at least one action to be performed when the at least one triggering event is detected, and performs the at least action that is identified.
US10129347B2	Procedure, apparatus, system, and computer program for collecting data used for analytics A procedure for operating a communication network including a network device that is in communication in the network with at least one user communication terminal and at least one server that server that provides content. The procedure includes receiving a message from one of the user communication terminal and the server, inserting at least one of an identifier of the user communication terminal and an identifier of the server in the message, and forwarding the message, including the at least one identifier inserted in the inserting, towards another of the user communication terminal and the server. A computer program, apparatus, and communication network also operate in accordance with the procedure.
US10129343B2	Method for searching for docking service and peripheral function by using direct communication and apparatus for same Disclosed are a method and an apparatus capable of searching for a docking service and a peripheral function incidental to the docking service in a direct communication system. To this end, a method by which a first wireless device searches for a peripheral function provided by a second wireless device can comprise the steps of: transmitting a probe request frame to the second wireless device by the first wireless device; and receiving a probe response frame from the second wireless device as a response to the search request, wherein the probe response frame can include a bitmap for indicating a name of the peripheral function supported by the second wireless device or the peripheral function supported by the second wireless device.
US10129341B2	Automated configuration of endpoint security management Systems and methods for managing configuration of a client security application based on a network environment in which the client device is operating are provided. According to one embodiment, a network connection state of a client device with respect to a private network is determined by a client security application running on the client device. The client security application, then selects a configuration based on the determined network connection state. Finally, the client security application launches one or more functions of the client security application that are designated by the selected configuration.
US10129340B2	Method and apparatus for performing multiple forms of communications in one session An approach is provided for performing multiple and hybrid forms of communication in the same communication session. A communication manager receives a to establish a communication session using a first form of communication, wherein the communication session supports multiple and simultaneous forms of communication. Next, the communication manager selects a second form of communication to conduct the communication session. Then, the communication manager transcodes the second form of communication to the first form of communication. The different forms can be converted to facilitate and enrich the communication capability, according to an embodiment of the invention.
US10129339B1	Communication system configured for transmitting sensor values from N sensing sources to a control unit A communication system for transmitting sensor values to an Electronic Control Unit (“ECU”) includes a chain of ASICs (sensor interface devices). Each ASIC is coupled to sensors. All sensors connected to an ASIC are measured by said ASIC to obtain sensor values for transmission via a SENT stream in the direction of an ECU. An ASIC is further able to read and decode a Single Edge Nibble Transmission (“SENT”) stream from a previous ASIC in the chain. The ASIC combines its own measurements with the measurements received via the SENT stream to one SENT output stream carrying the sensor values of all sensors connected to said ASIC and all previous ASIC in the chain for transmission to a subsequent ASIC in the chain or the ECU. Only one SENT-input is needed at the ECU to receive measurements from multiple sensors, wherein the number of sensors can easily be changed.
US10129338B2	Associating dialysis accessories using wireless communication A method comprising: establishing a wireless connection between a first medical device and a second medical device, comprising: receiving, by the first medical device, via a short-range wireless technology protocol, connection information related to the second medical device; and establishing, by the first medical device, a wireless connection with the second medical device based on the connection information.
US10129337B2	Service and APIs for remote volume-based block storage Methods, apparatus, and computer-accessible storage media for providing a volume-based block storage service and application programming interfaces (APIs) to the service. A block storage service and block storage service APIs may allow processes (applications or appliances) on the service client network to leverage remote, volume-based block storage provided by the service provider. The APIs may provide a standard interface to volume-based block storage operations on a remote data store. The service provider, the service clients, and/or third parties may develop various applications and/or appliances that may, for example, be instantiated in service clients' local networks and that leverage the block storage service via the APIs to create and manage volumes and snapshots on the remote data store and to upload and download data from the volumes and snapshots on the remote data store.
US10129325B2	Systems and methods for controlling a device via gestures received by a remote device A method and system for sharing a user interface of a first device with a second device and enabling a user of the second device to interact with the user interface via gestures received by the second device. The first device (e.g., a smartphone) can host an application and generate a graphical user interface, which it transmits to the second device (e.g., a tablet computer) for display by the second device. The second device can receive input from a user, such as a touch input via a touchscreen of the second device, and transmit a representation of the input to the first device for providing input to the application hosted by the first device.
US10129324B2	Contextual, two way remote control Methods and systems for allowing interaction between devices are described. At a first device, an application is executed. The application operates interactively with a remote control application executing on a second device. One or more information items are transmitted to the second device for display as one or more selectable display items. Each respective information item is associated with an action definition. The action definition includes a command to be sent by the second device to the first device in response to a user selection of the respective information item. A command is received from the second device in response to a selection of a first one of the selectable display items by the user. A predefined action is performed in response to receiving the command.
US10129323B1	Sharing data across partner websites Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. An indication of receipt of a request is received from a user device to navigate to a first web based resource. The request includes an appended cookie when one is available on the requesting device. Partner web based resources are identified in a co-operative that includes the first web based resource. A code segment is provided that is configured to send, to respective entities associated with the identified partner web based resources, a second request to share user data with the first web based resource. The shared user data is data collected by a respective partner web based resource and is associated with the user device. The shared data is data that was collected by an entity associated with the respective partner web based resource and associated with the user device.
US10129322B2	Method and system for determining browser compatibility A method and system for determining browser compatibility are provided. The method includes: receiving a request for electronic content from a user device; determining browser data associated with the user device; determining accepted browser versions associated with the requested content; determining whether the browser data is compatible with the accepted browser versions; if the browser data is compatible, loading the electronic content; otherwise, determining user factors associated with the user device; generating a notification; and transmitting, the notification. The system includes: a connection module configured to receive a request for electronic content; a compatibility module configured to determine browser data, determine accepted browser versions, determine whether the browser data is compatible with the accepted browser versions and if the browser data is compatible, allow for the loading of the electronic content; and a notification module configured to determine user factors associated with the user device, and generate a notification.
US10129319B2	Use of webRTC apis for improving communication services Devices, server nodes and associated methods related to communication services applying webRTC are disclosed. The method performed by a device includes creating an RTCPeerConnection object and instructing the RTCPeerConnection object to create a RTCSessionDescription, SDesc_1, for a session containing audio and video components. The method further includes determining which capabilities that are supported by the device based on information in the SDesc_1, and further indicating information related to the determined capabilities to a first user on a user interface. A first user, when using the service, is enabled to select a type of user communication, based on the indicated information, that can be provided by the device.
US10129318B2	Media stream data and control parameter synchronization Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to transmitting or receiving a media stream and associated control parameter over different physical channels. The transmitter transmits a media stream over a first physical channel and at least one associated control parameter along with a time parameter associated with a part of the media stream over a second physical channel. The associated control parameter along with the time parameter is sent before the media stream to the receiver. The receiver processes the media stream, by extracting the control parameter and time parameter associated with a part of the media stream, and at least applying the extracted control parameter to the part of the media stream.
US10129312B2	Dynamic video streaming based on viewer activity In some examples, techniques and architectures for modifying resolution of video displayed on a display device include receiving information from a distance sensor and one or more image sensors, detecting an activity of a viewer of the display device based, at least in part, on the information received from the distance sensor and the one or more image sensors, and transmitting a request to a remote server to adjust bandwidth of media content streaming to the display device to a new bandwidth. The new bandwidth may be based, at least in part, on one or more of the activity of the viewer, size of the display device, or an ability of the viewer to resolve images displayed on the display device.
US10129310B1	In-application demonstration using video and data streams Techniques for in-application demonstration using video and data streams are described herein. A video stream comprising video data that includes an instructional video may be received and played. A data stream associated with the video stream may be received at least partially concurrently with, or during, receiving of the video stream. It may then be determined when the playing of the video stream proceeds to a first data location, and the playing of the video stream may be stopped. A first portion of data within the data stream that is associated with the first data location within the video stream may then be identified. The first portion of data may include an indication of at least one operation performable within an executing application. Instructions may then be provided, based at least in part on the first portion of data, for performing the at least one operation within the executing application.
US10129306B1	Shared applications including shared applications that permit retrieval, presentation and traversal of information resources Techniques are described to support shared applications, including a shared application that permits retrieval, presentation and traversal of information resources. The innovative techniques enable multiple participants at different locations to both see and interact with assets such as a web-based content. The innovative techniques centralize the functionality of an application that is to be shared. A shared application is executed, during a collaboration, at a centralized location in a manner that does not require any local resources to create an application instance.
US10129304B2	Systems and methods for making common services available across network endpoints Systems and methods are disclosed for providing access to common services in a communication session. According to certain embodiments, a request to initiate a communication session is received. The communication can include a plurality of endpoints. An inventory of available services can be determined for each of the plurality of endpoints. At least one service that is commonly available to at least a subset of endpoints can be identified from the inventories of available services. Access can be provided to the at least one common service to the subset of endpoints during the communication session.
US10129300B2	Communications methods, apparatus and systems for conserving media resource function resources Communications methods, apparatus and systems for conserving Media Resource Function (MRF) resources by identifying streams of sessions, for example, non-real time streams, which can be routed to avoid use of MRF resources. An exemplary embodiment includes receiving by a SBC a session initiation request from a first device directed to a second device for a session including a plurality of streams; establishing a plurality of routes to the second device, said routes including at least a first route and a second route, the first route not including a media content processing entity and the second route including a media content processing entity; identifying from the streams for the session a first set of streams; said first set of streams including one or more streams that do not require media content processing; and routing one or more of the streams of the first set of streams via the first route.
US10129297B2	System and method thereof for multi-tiered mitigation of cyber-attacks A method and system for controlling multi-tiered mitigation of cyber-attacks. The method comprises monitoring at least availability and load of each protection resource in a multi-tiered communication network, wherein each tier in the multi-tiered communication network includes a plurality of protection resources having capacity and security capabilities set according to the respective tier; for each protection resource, computing a current aggregated load metric (ALM); determining based on at least one of the computed ALM and security capabilities of a respective protection resource, if the respective protection resource assigned to a protected entity can efficiently handle a detected cyber-attack against the protected entity; and selecting at least one new protection resource to secure the protected entity, upon determining the protection resource cannot efficiently handle the detected cyber-attack, wherein the selection is based on at least one of the computed ALM and a security capabilities of the at least one protection resource.
US10129292B2	Front-end protocol for server protection The present invention provides for protecting against denial of service attacks. A request is sent by a client, the request comprises client indicia. The request is received at a server. A request count is incremented by the server. A sequence number is assigned as a function of the client indicia. A problem is selected by the server. The problem is sent by the server to the client. A solution to the problem is sent to the server. It is determined if the solution by client is correct. If the solution is correct, a session is performed. If the solution is not correct, the request is discarded. This can substantially decrease the amount of attacks performed by a rogue client, as the session set-up time can be substantial.
US10129291B2	Anomaly detection to identify malware Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to monitor activities of objects in a system, compare the monitored activities to metadata for the system, and identify low prevalence outliers to detect potentially malicious activity. The monitored activities can include an analysis of metadata of the objects in the system to identify polymorphic threats, an object reuse analysis of the system to detect an object reusing metadata from another object, and a filename analysis of the system.
US10129285B2	End-to-end taint tracking for detection and mitigation of injection vulnerabilities in web applications The embodiments described in this disclosure may be adapted to detect and mitigate tainted content in network communications across client-server boundaries using a pair of complementary taint engines at both ends of the network. Methods, systems and computer readable storage media are adapted to receive request from a web application of a client system and generate standard responses. The header of the request can include a request taint value that can be evaluated to determine whether the request is a standard network transfer protocol request (e.g., HTTP request) or a multipart network transfer protocol request (e.g., a CTTP request). If the request is a multipart network transfer protocol request, a multipart network transfer protocol response can be constructing based on the generated standard network transfer protocol response, and client systems can be configured to detect tainted content based on the multipart network transfer protocol response.
US10129284B2	System and method for automated configuration of application firewalls In a system for configuring a web application firewall, one or more parameters of the firewall are adjusted such that a test configured for exposing a vulnerability of an application protected by the application firewall is blocked by the firewall and another test configured to invoke functionality of the application but that does not expose or exploit any security vulnerability is not blocked by the firewall. A notification is provided to a user if such a firewall configuration is not found after a specified number of attempts.
US10129283B1	Detection of a rogue base station A device observes base station signals and identifies those that are suspicious and those that are normal. The device avoids communication with the sources of suspicious signals. A rogue base station may be the source of suspicious signals. A system operated by a mobile network operator is a source of normal signals. A rogue operator and the mobile network operator have different goals and those differences are the basis of embodiments provided herein to detect the rogue base station. The observations are characterized by message rates, waveform accuracy, cell parameters, and synchronization level.
US10129281B2	Latency-based detection of covert routing A method and apparatus for detecting covert routing is disclosed. In the method and apparatus, data addressed to a remote computer system are forwarded over a first network path, whereby the data is associated with a computer system of a plurality of computer systems. Further, a plurality of first network performance metrics is obtained. A likelihood of covert routing is determined based at least in part on the plurality of first network performance metrics.
US10129275B2	Information processing system and information processing method An information processing device and method that monitor a behavior of malware (program), and generate a log which associates identification information of an invoked library function, input data to the library function, output data from the library function and a taint tag for uniquely specifying output data every time the program invokes a library function. Further, the information processing device and method refer to a taint tag set to output data from an information processing device and a log, track a dependent relationship between items of data input and output to and from libraries and specify a library function which has generated the output data from the information processing device.
US10129273B2	System and methods for computer network security involving user confirmation of network connections Systems and methods for detecting anomalies in network traffic and providing notification to the users of the computers that generated the network traffic for confirmation of the activities that resulted in the network traffic are described herein. According to particular embodiments, the system is configured to collect data regarding network activity (e.g., via sensors), generate inquiries to users regarding that activity, receive the user's response to those inquiries, and provide the user's response along with the network activity to a security analyst.
US10129271B2	Tracking users over network hosts based on user behavior A method of tracking users over network hosts based on behavior includes analyzing data representing behavior of active network hosts during two or more time windows at a computing apparatus having connectivity to a network. Based on the analyzing, a profile is generated for each network host active in the network during the two or more time windows. Similarity between the profiles for the two or more time windows are determined and, based on the similarity, it may be determined that an identity associated with one of the active network hosts during a time window of the two or more time windows has changed.
US10129270B2	Apparatus, system and method for identifying and mitigating malicious network threats Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for identifying and mitigating malicious network threats. Network data associated is retrieved from various sources across a network and analyzed to identify a malicious network threat. When a threat is found, the system performs a mitigating action to neutralize the malicious network threat.
US10129268B2	Registry apparatus, agent device, application providing apparatus and corresponding methods A method for verifying trusted communication between an agent device and an application providing apparatus using a registry apparatus. The registry apparatus maintains a device registry comprising authentication information for uniquely authenticating at least one agent device. The method includes the steps of obtaining from the device registry the authentication information for the agent device identified by a device identifier specified in an the authentication request from the agent device, performing verification of the agent device using the authentication information obtained from the device registry, and if the verification is not successful, transmitting to at least one of the agent device and the application providing apparatus revocation information for denying the trusted communication between the agent device and the application providing apparatus.
US10129267B1	Using space-filling curves to fingerprint data A file is received. Contents of the file are transformed using a space-filling curve. One example of a space-filling curve that can be used for the transformation is a Hilbert curve. The result of the transformation is down-sampled. One example way of down-sampling is using a blur operation with anti-aliasing. A hashing operation is performed on the down-sampled result. One example of a hashing operation is locality sensitive hashing.
US10129266B2	Identity information systems and methods A computer implemented method of providing candidate information comprises: obtaining a challenge code from a verification service at a first device associated with an ID candidate; capturing the challenge code from the first device at a second device associated with an ID checker; verifying the challenge code between the second device and the verification service and, if the challenge code is verified, providing the candidate information from the verification service, such that the candidate information is accessible to the ID checker.
US10129264B2	Method and apparatus for implementing document sharing between user groups Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for implementing document sharing between user groups. The method comprises: receiving document sharing request information sent by a user in a first user group, the document sharing request information carrying an identifier of a target shared document and an identifier of a second user group; sending a shared document instruction to the second user group according to the identifier of the second user group, the shared document instruction carrying an identifier of a to-be-created shared document and an index of the to-be-created shared document and being used for instructing the second user group to create a shared document corresponding to the target shared document, the index of the to-be-created document being the same as the identifier of the target shared document, for associating the to-be-created document with the target shared document. A document is shared by applying the solutions provided by embodiments of this application, and after a user in a first user group edits a target document, the shared document can be synchronously updated in a second user group.
US10129262B1	Systems and methods for secure device management In one embodiment, a method is performed by a computer system. The method includes receiving base attribute values of a registrant device. The method further includes determining similarities of the base attribute values to a reference string to yield base similarity values. The method also includes registering the registrant device for policy enforcement using the base similarity values. Furthermore, the method includes, responsive to a trigger, determining target attribute values of a target device. Also, the method includes determining similarities of the target attribute values to the reference string to yield target similarity values. Moreover, the method includes, responsive to the target similarity values satisfying a similarity threshold in relation to the base similarity values, configuring policy enforcement such that the target device is treated as the registrant device.
US10129255B1	Device authentication with MAC address and time period In an approach to device authentication, one or more processors receive a security policy comprising at least a first media access control (“mac”) address and a corresponding time period for determining network access for a device. One or more processors receive a second mac address and a corresponding time of connection of the second mac address for authentication of the device. One or more processors determine the second mac address is the first mac address and, responsive to determining the second mac address is the first mac address, one or more processors determine to grant network access to the device based on whether the time of connection of the second mac address is within the time period.
US10129251B1	System and method for verifying liveliness A machine-assisted method for verifying a video presence that includes: receiving, at a computing device of an identity provider, an authentication request initially sent from a requester to access an account managed by a relying party, different from the identity provider; retrieving, from the authentication request, at least a portion of a video stream feed initially from the requester, to the computing device, the portion of video stream feed portraying a face of the requester; extracting the face of the requester from the portion of the video stream feed; providing a directive to the requester soliciting a corresponding gesture; and receiving a response gesture from the requester.
US10129248B2	One-time-password generated on reader device using key read from personal security device An authentication system is provided using one-time passwords (OTPs) for user authentication. An OTP key may be stored on a different device than the device on which the OTP is generated. In an embodiment, the system described herein enables a combined authentication system, including the two separate devices communicating over a non-contact interface, to provide advantageous security features compared to the use of a single device, such as a hardware OTP token. One device may be a personal security device and the other device may be a reader device coupled to a host device via which access is being controlled.
US10129246B2	Assignment and distribution of network configuration parameters to devices A method, system and network element are disclosed which allows securing, customizing and generally improving network equipment (device) configuration and DHCP network address identification, assignment and distribution mechanism, such that network address and parameter configuration, assignment and distribution in a communications network is performed in a more optimum and secure manner. The DHCP protocol is improved using policies based on roles (profiles) directly linked to the physical identification of the device (for example, to its MAC address).
US10129243B2	Controlling access to traversal using relays around network address translation (TURN) servers using trusted single-use credentials Embodiments disclosed provide access to Traversal Using Relays around Network Address Translation (TURN) servers using trusted single-use credentials, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by a TURN authentication agent, a request for a TURN server credential. Responsive to determining that the request is authorized, the agent generates a trusted single-use credential and transmits it to the requestor. Using this trusted single-use credential allows untrusted clients to access a TURN server without exposing a userid/password combination. In another embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by the TURN server, a request for a TURN service. The server challenges the request, and receives a userid and a password. Responsive to determining that the userid and the password constitute a trusted single-use credential and responsive to determining that the request is authorized, the server provides the TURN service for the requestor.
US10129241B2	Hypervisor agnostic bidirectional secure channel for guest agent transport Systems, methods, and computer readable medium for virtualized computing environments. A method for providing a connection between a guest virtual machine and a service virtual machine uses driver code functions to establish a listening port on the service virtual machine without providing a listening port on the guest virtual machine. The guest virtual machine initiates a remote procedure call socket between itself and the service virtual machine over a secure, hardened port. The service virtual machine presents an authority certificate by encoding into the authority certificate identifying information received from the guest virtual machine. The service virtual machine makes available (e.g., as an ISO image) the authority certificate, which is used to establish new secure connections. Communications continue, where some communications are initiated by the service virtual machine over the hardened port, and some communications are initiated on-demand by the guest virtual machine over newly-established and authenticated secure RPC connections.
US10129239B2	Systems and methods for performing targeted scanning of a target range of IP addresses to verify security certificates The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for scanning of a target range of IP addresses to verify security certificates associated with the target range of IP addresses. Network traffic may be monitored between a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers over an IP address space. Traffic monitors positioned intermediary to the plurality of client and the plurality of servers can identify a target range of IP addresses in the address space for targeted scanning. The target range of IP address may be grouped into a priority queue and a scan can be performed of the target range of IP addresses to verify a security certificate associated with each IP address in the target range of IP addresses. In some embodiments, a rogue security certificate is detected that is associated with at least one IP address in the target range of IP addresses.
US10129238B2	System for control of secure access and communication with different process data networks with separate security features A distributed block chain network having at least a private block chain portion, and in some cases a public block chain portion, allows users to take actions (e.g., accessing, viewing, storing, disseminating, validating, or the like) with respect to event information associated with events. In some aspects of the invention the distributed block chain network with the private block chain portion may be utilized to verify events and separate the private information associated with the events from the public information associated with the events. As such, the present invention provides systems for centralized control of secure access to process data networks by utilizing a private block chain; and moreover, provide systems for control of secure access and communication with different process data networks with different security requirements by utilizing one or more block chains with private block chain portions and/or public block chain portions.
US10129236B2	Determination apparatus, determination method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium A determination apparatus according to an embodiment includes a receiving unit, an acquisition unit, and a determination unit. The receiving unit receives a request for authentication of identity of a user who uses a terminal device. The acquisition unit acquires context information that is information indicating a context of the terminal device. The determination unit performs determination related to authentication requested by the terminal device, on the basis of the context information acquired by the acquisition unit. For example, the determination unit determines whether an authentication procedure for an authentication request received by the receiving unit is needed on the basis of a change between context information that is acquired upon reception of an authentication request by the receiving unit and context information that has been acquired upon reception of a past authentication request.
US10129233B2	Method, device and system for network-based remote control over contactless secure storages A typical system environment comprises a terminal device, a secure storage subsystem, and an interconnectivity component. The terminal device has a network connectivity subsystem enabled for data connectivity with a wireless communications network. The secure storage subsystem has a secure storage memory for securely storing contents and is enabled for local RF connectivity through a local RF communication subsystem. The secure storage subsystem is operable as a contactless smartcard in accordance with any contactless technology. The interconnectivity component is adapted to enable communication of the secure storage subsystem through the network connectivity subsystem with the network. The interconnectivity component is further configured to detect that messages received from the network are destined for the secure storage subsystem and is configured to supply that identified messages to the secure storage subsystem. The messages enable exercising control over the secure storage subsystem in that the messages comprise one or more instructions to be processed by a secure memory controller of the secure storage subsystem.
US10129229B1	Peer validation The present disclosure describes systems and methods for authenticating a called party during the initialization stage of establishing a secure telecommunication channel to provide assurances to the initiator that they are communicating with whom they intended. A first user issues a challenge that includes a nonce to one or more second user devices. The second user's secure collaboration application receives the challenge, signs the nonce included in the challenge, and sends the response with the signed nonce to the first user. The first user receives the response and determines whether the signature of the first nonce is valid. If the signature is not valid, the first user's secure collaboration application terminates the secure telecommunication. However, if the signature received in the response is valid, the first user's secure collaboration application begins exchanging encrypted telecommunication data with the second user over a secure telecommunication channel.
US10129221B1	Transport facilitation system implementing dual content encryption A transport facilitation system can manage a transportation arrangement service that links requesting users with available drivers throughout a given region. In doing so, the transport facilitation system can receive pick-up requests from users and transmit invitations to drivers to service those requests. For each ride, the transport facilitation system can initiate one or more recording mechanisms to record content within a passenger interior of the vehicle as the driver transports the requesting user from a pick-up location to a destination location. After the vehicle arrives at the destination location, the transport facilitation system can dual encrypt the content utilizing a first public key associated with the driver and a second public key associated with the requesting user, and store the dually encrypted content in a storage device. Decryption can require a pair of private keys associated with the rider and the driver.
US10129220B2	Application and data protection tag According to one embodiment, a system includes a processing circuit and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processing circuit. The logic is configured to cause the processing circuit to generate a multi-context ADPL tag unique to a pair of data socket descriptors on which data is to be received and/or transmitted by a first application instance operating on the system and a second application instance operating on a second host. The logic is also configured to cause the processing circuit to embed the ADPL tag as part of an application payload in response to the first application instance calling an API configured to transmit the application payload out from the system via a sender data socket descriptor. More systems, methods, and computer program products are described in accordance with other embodiments.
US10129216B2	Low latency server-side redirection of UDP-based transport protocols traversing a client-side NAT firewall Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for low latency server-side redirection of User Datagram Protocol (UDP)-based transport protocols traversing a client-side Network Address Translation (NAT) are provided. A request may be sent from a client for a data resource to a first server. The data resource may be received from a second server that has not been previously connected to the client. Receiving the data resource from the second server may be facilitated by the first server through redirecting the request to the second server and providing for the second server to connect to the client and directly respond to the request. The first server may lack at least one of the requested data resource or resources for providing the requested data resource.
US10129210B2	Registrant defined limitations on a control panel for a registered tertiary domain Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: receive, from a sub domain registration settings control panel displayed on a client computer, form elements to be displayed on a sub domain settings control panel, and store these form elements in a database. The server(s) may then display an HTML form on the sub domain settings control panel, where each HTML for element corresponds to a database record defining features for updating an email, tertiary domain or record modification to a zone file for a registered sub domain.
US10129209B2	Method and communication device for network address translation traversal A method and a communication device for network address translation (NAT) traversal is provided. The method includes following steps. A NAT device information is exchanged between a communication device and another communication device. A relay connection is established between the communication device and the another communication device through a relay server. Whether it is feasible to establish a P2P connection between the communication device and the another communication device is determined according to the NAT device information. When it is feasible to establish the P2P connection between the communication device and the another communication device, an attempt to establish the P2P connection between the communication device and the another communication device is made. If the P2P connection is not established successfully, an attempt to establish the P2P connection between the communication device and the another communication device is made again.
US10129207B1	Network address translation within network device having multiple service units A network device having multiple service units receives an outbound packet of a communication session, where the service units can perform network address translation (NAT) on the outbound packet. The outbound packet includes a private source network address and source port. The network device applies a service unit selection function to a header of the outbound packet to produce a first result, and selects, based on the first result, a service unit to perform NAT for packets of the communication session. The network device determines a port for network address translation that produces a second result equal to the first result when the service unit selection function is applied to the portion of the header when the portion includes a selected public network address and determined port. The service unit can thereby perform session-aware services on packets of the communication session without redirecting the packets between the service units.
US10129205B2	Address management in an overlay network environment Embodiments of the invention relate to overlay network address management. One embodiment includes an overlay gateway including an overlay network manager associated with a physical network. The overlay network manager prevents duplicate address assignment for overlay domains having a first sharing status and performs address translation for overlay domains having a second sharing status. Address translation is avoided for overlay domains having the first sharing status.
US10129201B2	Management of domain name systems in a large-scale processing environment Systems, methods, and software described herein facilitate the management of virtual clusters in a large-scale processing environment. In one implementation, a method of operating a control node includes receiving a request to configure a virtual cluster with one or more data processing nodes, and identifying a tenant associated with the request. The method further provides identifying a namespace for the tenant, and identifying internet protocol (IP) addresses for the one or more data processing nodes. The method also includes generating namespace to IP address pairs for the one or more data processing nodes based on the namespace and the IP addresses, and configuring a domain name system (DNS) for the virtual cluster with the namespace to IP address pairs.
US10129199B2	Ensuring that a composed message is being sent to the appropriate recipient A method, system and computer program product for ensuring that the composed message is being sent to the appropriate recipient. A message being composed by an author is detected. The intended recipient(s) to receive the composed message are identified. The composed message is then analyzed to identify one or more of the following characteristics: a topic, a greeting, a dialect, a conversation pattern and a language pattern. A profile for the intended recipient storing information regarding the characteristics of the recipient (e.g., social group, historical topics discussed, conversation pattern) is obtained. A score is generated based on the consistency between the characteristics of the analyzed message with the characteristics of the recipient obtained from the recipient's profile. A notification may then be issued to the author if the score is less than a threshold value to ensure that the intended recipient is the correct recipient to receive the composed message.
US10129196B2	Handling various scenarios where an email recipient is not available A method for sending a plurality of alternate contact information associated with an online communication system. The method may include receiving an electronic message associated with the online communication system, wherein the electronic message is addressed to a recipient from a sender. The method may also include identifying a recipient inbox using a plurality of directory information associated with the received electronic message. The method may further include determining the identified recipient inbox satisfies at least one of a plurality of alternate contact criteria. The method may also include transmitting a plurality of alternate recipient contact information within a simple message transfer protocol (SMTP) response to the sender based on the plurality of determined alternate contact criteria being satisfied.
US10129190B2	Method and apparatus for messaging service internetworking A method and system for converting data message formats in a message server is provided. The message server receives a first data message including origin format information from a first user. The message server then sends the first data message including origin format information to a second user. The message server receives a second data message from a second user, the second data message including the origin format. The second data message is converted to the origin format if the first user is unable to receive the second data message. The message server then sends the converted second data message to the first user.
US10129189B2	Computerized system and method for automatically communicating conditional messages within a mobile application environment Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide an improved messaging platform that enables the creation and communication of locked electronic messages to recipients, where the message is automatically unlocked for recipient viewing only upon satisfaction of a real-world condition set by the sending user. Upon creating the message, the sender sets time, date and/or geographical restrictions for viewing the message, such that only upon those set restrictions being satisfied is the message delivered and viewable on the recipient user's device.
US10129183B2	Connection apparatus and connection apparatus management method A method for managing a connection apparatus and a connection apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment the connection apparatus includes a first connector configured to be connected to a service processing unit, a second connector configured to be connected to a first switching unit, a third connector configured to be connected to a second switching unit, wherein the third connector is further configured to be disconnected from the second switching unit and connected to the first switching unit. The apparatus further comprises a first transmission medium, a second transmission medium, one end of the first transmission medium being directly connected to the first connector, one end of the second transmission medium being directly connected to the first connector, another end of the first transmission medium being directly connected to the second connector, and another end of the second transmission medium being directly connected to the third connector.
US10129181B2	Controlling the reactive caching of wildcard rules for packet processing, such as flow processing in software-defined networks Software-Defined Networking (“SDN”) enables flexible flow control by caching policy rules at OpenFlow switches. Compared with exact-match rule caching, wildcard rule caching can better preserve the flow table space at switches. However, one of the challenges for wildcard rule caching is the dependency between rules, which is generated by caching wildcard rules overlapped in field space with different priorities. Failure to handle the rule dependency may lead to wrong matching decisions for newly arrived flows, or may introduce high storage overhead in flow table memory. A wildcard rule caching system, which may be used for SDN partitions the field space into logical structures called buckets, and caches buckets along with all the associated wildcard rules. Doing so resolves rule dependency while using control network bandwidth efficiently. Further, controller processing load and flow setup latency are reduced.
US10129179B2	Managed connectivity devices, systems, and methods One exemplary embodiment is directed to an end node that includes functionality to read information stored on or in a segment of physical communication media that is attached to the end node and to communicate the read information over a network (for example, to an aggregation point). Another exemplary embodiment is directed a wall outlet that includes functionality to read information stored on or in a segment of physical communication media connected to it and communicate at least a portion of the information read from the segment of physical communication media to an aggregation point. Another exemplary embodiment is directed a wall outlet that includes a switch and functionality to read information stored on or in a segment of physical communication media connected to it and to communicate at least a portion of the information read from the segment of physical communication media to an aggregation point.
US10129177B2	Inter-cloud broker for hybrid cloud networks A cloud broker gateway interfaces with an enterprise network and one or more public cloud networks, including a first public cloud and a second public cloud. The cloud broker gateway receives a request for one or more computing resources from a tenant associated with the enterprise network, and directs the request to the first public cloud based on a brokerage policy for the tenant. The cloud broker gateway receives a response indicating the first public cloud cannot provide the one or more computing resources, and redirects the request to the second public cloud based on the brokerage policy for the tenant. The cloud broker gateway also establishes a hybrid cloud that provides access to the one or more computing resources between the second public cloud and the enterprise network.
US10129172B1	Systems and methods for cloud-based application access to resources Systems and methods which facilitate access to computing resources by cloud-based applications are described. Embodiments enable cloud-based applications to provide output to and/or obtain input from computing resources, such as printers, scales, scanners, and storage devices, for performing various functions. In operation according to embodiments, a user agent client application is executed by computing equipment in communication with a computing resource to which access is to be provided to one or more cloud-based applications. Although embodiments implement a user interface client application which is separate from a user agent client application, tight integration between a user interface client application and user agent client application may be provided. Embodiments not only facilitate operation whereby a cloud-based application is enabled to provide output to and/or obtain input from computing resources, but also facilitate remote and/or shared client interaction with such computing resources.
US10129159B2	Multi-path network communication A method for data communication between a first node and a second node over a number of data paths coupling the first node and the second node includes transmitting messages between the first node and the second node over the number of data paths including transmitting a first subset of the messages over a first data path of the number of data paths, and transmitting a second subset of the messages over a second data path of the number of data paths. The first data path has a first latency and the second data path has a second latency substantially larger than the first latency, and messages of the first subset of the messages are chosen to have first message characteristics and messages of the second subset are chosen to have second message characteristics, different from the first message characteristics.
US10129157B2	Multiple feedback instance inter-coordination to determine optimal actions Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to multiple feedback instance inter-coordination to determine optimal actions. According to one aspect, a system can receive a plurality of events associated with a group of feedback instances operating in a runtime. The system can examine the plurality of events to determine if a match exists between the plurality of events and an optimization plan. If so, the system can instruct a further system to realize the optimization plan. If not, the system can identify an extensibility of a feedback instance in the group of feedback instances. The extensibility can extend functionality of the feedback instance to provide additional information responsive to an event of the plurality of events. The system can update a feedback instance model associated with the feedback instance for which the extensibility was identified and can instruct the further system to extend the scope of the feedback instance.
US10129154B2	Controlling packet flow in a network A method, processor and system for controlling packet flow in a network provides for selecting a transmission scheme based on a payload rate for payloads arriving at a buffer. The transmission scheme includes data blocks comprising packets each having an associated payload, the data blocks have a variable packet transmission rate and a variable payload per packet ratio. The product of the variable packet transmission rate and the variable payload per packet ratio remains constant. The data blocks are sent to a network switch that deterministically routes the data blocks.
US10129142B2	Route configuration for logical router Some embodiments provide a method for implementing a logical router (LR) in a logical network. The method receives configuration data connecting a first LR to a second LR, which includes several logical routing components with separate routing tables. For each of one or more routes configured for the first LR, the method adds a route to the routing table of a distributed routing component of the second LR. The added route has a next hop address of an interface of the first LR. The method also adds, for each of the one or more routes configured for the first LR, a route to the routing tables of each of one or more centralized routing components of the second LR. The next hop address of the added route is an address of an interface of the distributed routing component that is internal to the second LR.
US10129141B2	Method, mobile terminal, and apparatus for managing routing device A method includes: obtaining, by a mobile terminal, first network connection parameters of a routing device connected to the mobile terminal; according to the first network connection parameters, determining, by the mobile terminal, whether the mobile terminal has a management permission for managing the connected routing device; and if the mobile terminal has the management permission for managing the connected routing device, managing, by the mobile terminal, the connected routing device.
US10129136B2	Virtual router cluster, data forwarding method and apparatus The present application discloses a virtual router cluster, and a data forwarding method and apparatus. A specific implementation of the virtual router cluster includes: a gateway and at least one virtual router interconnected with the gateway; the gateway receiving an externally transmitted data packet; the gateway selecting a first virtual router corresponding to the data packet from the at least one virtual router according to an Open Shortest Path First protocol, and forwarding the data packet to the first virtual router corresponding to the data packet; and the first virtual router receiving the data packet and forwarding the data packet to a destination. This implementation implements network load balancing, thereby avoiding network congestion.
US10129135B1	Using a neural network to determine how to direct a flow A flow of packets is communicated through a data center. The data center includes multiple racks, where each rack includes multiple network devices. A group of packets of the flow is received onto an integrated circuit located in a first network device. The integrated circuit includes a neural network. The neural network analyzes the group of packets and in response outputs a neural network output value. The neural network output value is used to determine how the packets of the flow are to be output from a second network device. In one example, each packet of the flow output by the first network device is output along with a tag. The tag is indicative of the neural network output value. The second device uses the tag to determine which output port located on the second device is to be used to output each of the packets.
US10129134B2	System and method for adding routing paths in a network Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing multiple egress points from a telecommunications network for a client of the network. In particular, the process and system allows for multiple provider edges of the network to utilize a route reflector server to provide a border gateway protocol (BGP) route to other provider edges in the network. Further, the multiple provider edges may each announce similar interior gateway protocol (IGP) routes through the network such that a provider edge receiving a packet intended for the customer network may select from the multiple IGP routes to provide the intended packet to the customer network. In this manner, the receiving provider edge may load balance among the various connections of the customer network to the telecommunications network.
US10129133B2	Ground system for vehicle data distribution Techniques for delivering data or information to a vehicle include a method of distributing information to a vehicle. Information corresponding to the vehicle is first received while the vehicle is en route between an origination point and a destination from a computing device that is not being transported by the vehicle. A first computing device or a second computing device determines a destination port at which the vehicle is to arrive, the destination port included in a plurality of ports at which vehicles arrive and from which vehicles depart. The first computing devices causes data to be routed to a third computing device communicatively connected to the first computing device, the third computing device corresponding to the destination port, and at least one of the data or the third party computing device determined based on the information received at the first computing device.
US10129132B2	Control system, control method, control program, and recording medium An IO-Link master includes: an IO-Link communication port that communicates with an IO-Link device according to a predetermined communication protocol; a digital input port that receives a first signal value output from the IO-Link device; and a determiner that determines whether abnormality is generated in a digital input line connecting the digital input port to the IO-Link device based on a second signal value received with the IO-Link communication port and the first signal value.
US10129129B2	Distributed monitoring and control of network components A distributed monitoring system and a computer-implemented method monitors and controls locally situated network components through a monitoring and control device or processor querying the network component operating parameters and sending control commands for controlling the parameters queried. Reports of the status of the monitored network components are periodically generated from throughout the network and sent to a remotely located status viewing station configured to generate a monitoring interface and display the operational status of the network based on the status reports. If necessary, the status viewing station automatically transmits instructions, or a user enters instructions into the status viewing station, for instructing action be taken by the monitoring and control device or processor, e.g., to adjust one or more operating parameters queried. The distributed monitoring system may be particularly useful in monitoring and managing the health of a digital signage network.
US10129126B2	System for predictive usage of resources Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for predictive usage of resources across a dispersed Internet protocol capable network connecting devices electrically attached to the network. The present invention is configured to determine resource utilization profile associated with a user; continuously monitor the resource utilization profile of the user to track the use of the one or more resources allocated to the user over a predetermine period of time; determine one or more elevated usage instances; predict, via the resource prediction application, that at least one of the one or more elevated usage instances is scheduled to occur; determine one or more resources across the dispersed network for the user for processing during the at least one of the one or more elevated usage instances; and reallocate the one or more determined resources to the user.
US10129122B2	User defined objects for network devices Systems and methods are provided herein. An exemplary servicing node may include: an interface to a data network, the interface coupled to an object machine; and the object machine, the object machine: receiving a data packet from the data network using the network interface, the data packet comprising at least one of a destination address, a destination port number, and an application protocol; determining a condition associated with the at least one of the destination address, the destination port number, and the application protocol; identifying a program name using the condition; executing a program using a name table, the name table linking each of a plurality of program names to a respective program, the executing comprising getting an instruction of the program, the instruction including object information.
US10129113B2	Method and apparatus for evaluating hardware based on cloud server The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for evaluating hardware based on a cloud server, the method comprising: detecting information on hardware components of a computer terminal; determining the type of the computer terminal based on information on the hardware components of the computer terminal; and scoring the hardware components of the computer terminal based on information on the hardware components and the type of the computer terminal. In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, the hardware components are scored based on the type of the computer terminal, and the relevant database are timely updated to ensure the accuracy of the hardware scoring.
US10129112B2	Workflow-based resource management Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for workflow-based resource management. A process can execute a resource management application. The process can obtain load data that describes a resource load associated with resources. The processor can analyze the load data to detect a change in resource load associated with one of the resources and identify workflows that includes the resource. The workflows can include a description of how the resources are utilized during execution of a process by the resources. The processor can identify a relevant workflow that is associated with the process and issue commands to resources associated with the relevant workflow to proactively adjust capacity of the resources associated with the relevant workflow.
US10129106B2	Management of virtual machine resources in computing environments Embodiments of the present disclosure call for a method, a system, and a computer program product for managing virtual resources for a virtual machine of interest on a physical server. The method includes monitoring a plurality of physical servers, on a computing system. Each physical server provides an initial level of virtual resources to a plurality of virtual machines. The method also includes receiving a requested level of virtual resources for a virtual machine of interest hosted by a first physical server from the plurality of physical servers. The method also includes determining whether the first physical server is able to host the requested level of virtual resources for the virtual machine of interest. The method also includes determining, in response to the first physical server not being able to host the requested level of resources for the virtual machine of interest, a path.
US10129105B2	Management of virtual machine placement in computing environments A method, a system, and a computer program product for managing the resources of a virtual machine on a physical server are provided. The method includes receiving, at a management application, a request to increase a first virtual resource from an initial level to an increased level for a first virtual machine. The first virtual machine is provided by a first physical server in a computing environment. The method also includes determining whether a free virtual resource for the first physical server is sufficient for the request at the increased level. The method also includes increasing, in response to the free virtual resource being insufficient for the request, the first virtual resource.
US10129102B2	Service based testing Some tests can be implemented as services. A network provider can deploy (“push”) a test to a container resident on one or more devices of the network, either at installation, periodically, or when a problem is reported. When a customer reports an issue, services running on one or more devices of the customer's installation can cause the containerized tests to be run. For example, the central office of the network provider can initiate a request to run the test through the internet (or other connection) by the container. In some implementations, there is an overlap of the service based test set with traditional technician initiated test sets forming a hybrid testing architecture.
US10129099B2	Differentiated services for protocol suitable network virtualization overlays An approach is provided in which an information handling system matches packet properties of an egress data packet to a classification rule corresponding to differentiated services (DiffServ) parameters. The information handling system encapsulates the egress data packet with a network virtualization overlay header that includes a DiffServ classification identifier corresponding to the DiffServ classification rule. In turn, the information handling system sends the encapsulated egress data packet to a downstream network component.
US10129097B2	GUI and high-level API wrapper for software defined networking and software defined access for controlling network routing and rules Provided is a process including: obtaining, with a network controller, a current state of a network; causing, with the network controller, a graphical user interface to be presented that depicts at least part of the network graph and includes user-inputs by which a user requests changes to the network graph; receiving, with the network controller, a request input to modify the network graph; and modifying, with the network controller, the network graph and enforcing the modification.
US10129094B1	Variable computing capacity In a multi-tenant web services platform, a request to allocate a subset of the customer's reserved computing resource capacity as a variable resource is received from a customer. The platform is allowed to modify one or more parameters of the subset in accordance with at least one criterion without modifying the remaining portion of the customer's reserved computing resource capacity. The subset is analyzed in accordance with the at least one criterion. The parameters of the portion of the subset are modified based on the analysis of the subset.
US10129093B1	Strategic network formation involving information sources, aggregators, and consumers Described is a system for modeling strategic network formation. A network formation model is generated using a concatenation of joint strategies s of a set of N agents, such that s=sSsAsC. The N agents include a group of source agents NS, a group of aggregator agents NA, and a group of consumer agents NC, each group of agents having a distinct joint strategy for accessing a set of information. sS represents a joint strategy of the group of source agents, sA represents a joint strategy of the group of aggregator agents, and sC represents a joint strategy of the group of consumer agents. The network formation model is operated according to the joint strategies of the set of N agents. Data relating to the set of N agents of the network formation model is output for the investigation of the formation of information diffusion networks.
US10129091B2	Hybrid cloud identity mapping infrastructure In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method for providing a hybrid cloud computing environment are disclosed. For example, a system may authorize an enterprise user based on an enterprise identity. Once authenticated, embodiments may use mapping data and a cloud role to determine an identity to use when the enterprise user accesses a cloud.
US10129090B2	Site asymmetric topology reconciliation in a computer cluster A site asymmetric topology reconciliation module (SATRM) provides a stable topology for nodes located at different sites of the cluster during loss and reconnection of communication links between the sites. The SATRM monitors the cluster topology for changes in communication links between nodes. When there is an unstable cluster topology due to a loss in the communication links, the SATRM severs links to one or more sites to create a stable topology. When a communication links recovers, the SATRM merges sites to create a stable topology with the sites connected with the recovered communication links.
US10129086B2	Collection of performance data in a communications network A Data Communication Network couples a Management System to Network Elements. The Data Communication Network comprises a Gateway Network Element and a number of the Network Elements subtended by the Gateway Network Element. A method performed by the Management System comprises: a) determining the number of Network Elements that are subtended by the Gateway Network Element; b) determining a value of an interval parameter for the Network Elements based on the number of the Network Elements that are subtended by the Gateway Network Element, wherein the interval parameter is a duration over which performance data is collected by the Network Element; and c) assigning the determined value of the history control interval parameter to the Gateway Network Element and the subtended Network Elements.
US10129083B2	Methods for optimizing an over-the-air update using a lightweight device update protocol (LWDUP) Methods, devices, and non-transitory computer readable media optimize an over-the-air update include identifying initiation of an over-the-air update for a client computing device. The update is retrieved from a content server based on the identifying and utilizing a first protocol. The update to the client computing device is divided into a plurality of data segments which are sequentially downloaded utilizing a second protocol which is different from the first protocol.
US10129079B2	Telecommunications system and method Methods and elements are disclosed for controlling services in a specific location in a wireless communication network, by configuring a policy comprising service control information and location based information corresponding to the specific location for controlling services for user equipments, UEs in the location from a second core network element.
US10129078B2	Orchestration engine for real-time configuration and management of interconnections within a cloud-based services exchange In some examples, a cloud-based services exchange comprises a plurality of interconnection assets configured to connect at least one customer of the cloud-based services exchange to a plurality of cloud service providers; and an orchestration engine configured to modify the plurality of interconnection assets by receiving an indication of a client request for cloud exchange services offered by the cloud-based services exchange; selecting a workflow for providing the cloud exchange services, wherein the workflow specifies a set of tasks to be performed to fulfill the client request for the cloud exchange services; call one or more microservices to perform the tasks of the set of tasks as specified by the selected workflow; consolidate responses received from the microservices after performing the tasks; and send a response to the client request for the cloud exchange services based on the consolidated responses.
US10129062B2	Transmission method, transmission device, reception method and reception device A transmission method includes mapping processing, phase change processing, and transmission processing. In the mapping processing, a plurality of first modulation signals and a plurality of second modulation signals are generated using a first mapping scheme, and a plurality of third modulation signals and a plurality of fourth modulation signals are generated using a second mapping scheme. In the phase change processing, a phase change is performed on the plurality of second modulation signals and the plurality of fourth modulation signals using all N kinds of phases. In the transmission processing, the first modulation signals and the second modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from different antennas, and the third modulation signals and the fourth modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from the different antennas.
US10129060B2	Allocating and receiving tones for a frame A communication device for allocating tones is described that includes a processor and instructions in memory in electronic communication with the processor. The communication device determines whether a bandwidth for signal transmission is 20, 40, 80 or 160 megahertz (MHz). The communication device respectively allocates tones for 20, 40, 80 or 160 MHz as follows: for a very high throughput (VHT) signal A1 (VHT-SIG-A1): 52, 104, 208, 416; a VHT signal A2 (VHT-SIG-A2): 52, 104, 208, 416; a VHT short training field (VHT-STF): 12, 24, 48, 48; one or more VHT long training field(s) (VHT-LTF(s)): 56, 114, 242, 484; a VHT signal B (VHT-SIG-B): 56, 114, 242, 484; and a data field (DATA): 56, 114, 242, 484. The communication device also transmits the signal.
US10129052B2	Phase noise estimation Methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses are described for phase noise estimation. A transmitting device identifies a phase noise metric associated with a receiving device. The phase noise metric provides an indication of the expected phase noise for the receiving device. The transmitting device selects a plurality of pilot tones adjacent to each other and a plurality of null tones for a transmission to the receiving device based on the phase noise metric. The plurality of null tones may be adjacent to and on both sides of the pilot tones in the frequency domain. The transmitting device identifies its own phase noise metric and select the pilot tones adjacent to each other and plurality of null tones in further consideration of its own phase noise metric. The receiving device may use the pilot tones and plurality of adjacent null tones to determine a phase noise estimation for the transmission.
US10129050B2	Contiguous network for cloud communications A network comprises ingress nodes, egress nodes, primary switches, and secondary switches where any pair of an ingress node and an egress node connects to orthogonal sets of primary switches and each secondary switch connects a respective set of primary switches to an orthogonal set of primary switches. Thus, each ingress node has a primary path and numerous compound paths to each egress node. The primary path traverses a respective primary switch, and each compound path traverses a first primary switch, a secondary switch, and a second primary switch. The disclosed connectivity pattern enables network scalability to accommodate hundreds of thousands of ingress-egress node pairs while permitting a significant proportion of incoming data to be routed through the primary switches avoiding the secondary switches.
US10129048B2	Progressive modulation for downstream access A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
US10129047B2	Home automation system deployment A technician assistance application aids installation and diagnostics for an automated home monitoring system often referred to as an “Intelligent Home” system. The monitoring system includes a plurality of security sensor devices deployed around a dwelling and responsive to a monitoring application on a central computing device. The central computing device provides an on-site console for gathering signals from the security sensors and forwarding the gathered signals to a monitoring station or central office. The central office interprets the received signals to identify an anomaly or other signal consistent with a need to notify first responders or otherwise trigger an alarm. In addition to basic intrusion and fire protection, the monitoring system may monitor a variety of other non-emergency aspects such as lights, visual camera signals, door locks and environmental conditions.
US10129046B1	Fault tolerant services for integrated building automation systems A service accesses one or more building automation system's elements directly to collect data and provides the data to data consumers.
US10129043B2	Apparatus and method for network flow scheduling Embodiments are provided for path flow scheduling of multicast traffic through a network. The paths for traffic flow are determined to optimize link utilization in terms of bandwidth and link capacity, and limit link cost. In an embodiment, a method is implemented for network flow scheduling. The method includes establishing, by a controller of a network, a multicast tree which includes a plurality of links for sending multicast traffic from a source to multiple destinations. The tree is established based on minimizing a number of links in the multicast tree. The tree is then adjusted by replacing one or more of the plurality of links to reduce the link utilization. The tree adjustment is repeated by further replacing one or more links in the multicast tree to further reduce the link utilization.
US10129042B2	MBMS error processing method, communication node, communication system, and storage medium The present invention relates to the field of communications. Disclosed are an MBMS error processing method, a communications node, and a communications system, which are designed for solving the problem in the prior art that data cannot be transmitted in time when an MBMS error occurs. The method comprises: receiving indication information of an MBMS error; establishing a unicast bearer according to the indication information; and sending data through the unicast bearer, the data being data that a user equipment is receiving through an MBMS bearer or data that the user equipment is interested in to receive when the MBMS error occurs. Also disclosed is a computer storage medium.
US10129041B2	End to end multicast IP multicast enabled devices, systems and methods for use on an end-to-end IP multicast-enabled network are disclosed. An IP multicast system, device and method operable on the network includes an IP multicast-engine, and storage for storing instruction sets to instruct the engine to send messages according to a select multicast application. A plurality of devices become members of an IP multicast group such that sending a message to a single multicast address can provide for the concurrent control of, and the delivery of the multicast message to, the devices of the group. Error conditions in a multicast source may be handled by preserving the multicast session resources, and reassigning a multicast source address from a faulty source encoding device to an alternate device.
US10129037B2	System and method for authenticating and enabling functioning of a manufactured electronic device A system and method for authenticating and enabling functioning of a manufactured electronic device are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: an obfuscation code generator to produce an obfuscation code having a first portion representing manufacturing or physical characteristics of a particular paired system and a second portion representing one or more identifiers of the particular paired system, the obfuscation code generator to use the obfuscation code to obtain an authentication key; and an obfuscation state machine configured with a pre-defined quantity of state elements, a pre-defined quantity of the state elements being functional state elements, the obfuscation state machine being programmed with the authentication key to cause the obfuscation state machine to transition a protected device from an initial obfuscation state to a functional state, the embedded active obfuscation unit being further configured to load random bit-selected values from the obfuscation code into the obfuscation state machine for the values of the state elements and to load a different set of random bit-selected obfuscation values from the obfuscation code into the obfuscation state machine for the values of the functional state elements of the obfuscation state machine, thereby causing the protected device to transition from the initial obfuscation state through a set of obfuscation states before reaching the functional state for normal operation.
US10129033B2	Methods of accessing and providing access to a remote resource from a data processing device A method of accessing a remote resource (4) from a data processing device (2) includes obtaining a first URL corresponding to the remote resource (4), obtaining secret data corresponding to the first URL, using the secret data to generate an obscured URL at the data processing device (2), and accessing the remote resource using the obscured URL. This allows the user of the device (2) to see a first URL which is intelligible and provides useful information about the device, without sharing that information with the network. The obscured URL identifies the actual location of the remote resource and can be an unintelligible stream of digits or letters.
US10129031B2	End-to-end service layer authentication A variety of mechanisms to perform End-to-End authentication between entities having diverse capabilities (E.g. processing, memory, etc.) and with no prior security associations are used. Security provisioning and configuration process is done such that appropriate security credentials, functions, scope and parameters may be provisioned to an Entity. Mechanisms to distribute the security credentials to other entities which could then use the credentials to perform an End-to-End authentication at the Service Layer or the Session Layer and using Direct or Delegated modes are developed.
US10129027B1	Security alerting system with dynamic buffer size adaption A Security Alerting System is provided with dynamic buffer size adaptation. An alert message from a Security Alerting System is transmitted by obtaining the alert message from the Security Alerting System; authenticating the alert message using a secret key known by a server; storing the authenticated alert message in a buffer; transmitting the buffer to the server; and detecting a truncation attack based on generating different cryptographic keys for protection of inserted messages and transmitted buffers, wherein the cryptographic keys for protection of inserted messages are generated in a forward-secure manner in a same order that the messages are inserted in the buffer and wherein the cryptographic keys for protection of transmitted buffers are generated in a forward-secure manner in a same order that the buffers are transmitted over a network.
US10129026B2	Method and system for cheon resistant static diffie-hellman security A method for providing Cheon-resistance security for a static elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman cryptosystem (ECDH), the method including providing a system for message communication between a pair of correspondents, a message being exchanged in accordance with ECDH instructions executable on computer processors of the respective correspondents, the ECDH instructions using a curve selected from a plurality of curves, the selecting including choosing a range of curves; selecting, from the range of curves, curves matching a threshold efficiency; excluding, within the selected curves, curves which may include intentional vulnerabilities; and electing, from non-excluded selected curves, a curve with Cheon resistance, the electing comprising a curve from an additive group of order q, wherein q is prime, such that q−1=cr and q+1=ds, where r and s are primes and c and d are integer Cheon cofactors of the group, such that cd≤48.
US10129022B1	Secret key for wireless communication in cyber-physical automotive systems A key generation technique exploiting the randomness of a wireless channel to generate secret keys to secure automotive wireless communication using symmetric cryptography is presented. Moreover, the algorithm of the present technique solves the challenging key exchange problem in automotive wireless communication with low costs in terms of performance and code size. As demonstrated, the proposed algorithm can generate secret keys with 67% average min-entropy. Furthermore, the proposed technique can achieve up to 10× performance and 20× code size reduction in comparison to the state-of-the-art hybrid cryptographic algorithms.
US10129020B2	Efficient methods for protecting identity in authenticated transmissions Systems and methods are provided for protecting identity in an authenticated data transmission. For example, a contactless transaction between a portable user device and an access device may be conducted without exposing the portable user device's public key in cleartext. In one embodiment, an access device may send an access device public key to a portable user device. The user device may return a blinded user device public key and encrypted user device data. The access device may determine a shared secret using the blinded user device public key and an access device private key. The access device may then decrypt the encrypted user device data using the shared secret.
US10129019B2	DP HDCP version converter A DisplayPort (DP) High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) version converter that converts an HDCP content protection version from input to output includes a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver receives a serial bit stream transmitted from an upstream device, and decrypts link symbols of the received serial bit stream by use of a decryption unit. The transmitter encrypts, by use of an encryption unit, the link symbols decrypted by the receiver, and converts the encrypted link symbols into a serial bit stream and transmits the serial bit stream to a downstream device. The receiver and the transmitter have the same link configuration.
US10129014B2	System and method of performing initial timing synchronization of receivers of modulated signals According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a receiver of modulated signals comprises a signal mixer, a synchronization detector, and a data demodulator. The signal mixer is configured to perform baseband down-conversion of a signal according to a mixer frequency, the signal including a synchronization header and a data payload. The synchronization detector is configured to: generate a differential signal based on the signal, perform cross-correlation of the differential signal with a reference differential signal to generate a cross-correlation output, and analyze the cross-correlation output to detect an end of the synchronization header. The data demodulator is configured to demodulate the data payload in response to detection of the end of the synchronization header.
US10129013B1	Multi-rate transceiver circuitry Techniques to operate circuitry in an integrated circuit are provided. The circuitry may include rate detection circuitry, receiver circuitry, and configuration circuitry. The receiver circuitry may receive a data stream with an arbitrary data rate. The rate detection circuitry may receive a reference clock signal that is associated with the received data stream. The rate detection circuitry determines the frequency of the reference clock signal such that an appropriate clock signal may be generated for the receiver circuitry. The receiver clock signal may be generated by clock generation circuitry that is coupled to the rate detection circuitry. The configuration circuitry may accordingly configure the receiver circuitry based at least on the determined frequency of the reference clock signal so that the receiver circuitry may operate at the arbitrary data rate.
US10129005B2	Method and apparatus for transceiving data using plurality of carriers in mobile communication system The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation while transceiving data using a plurality of carriers in a mobile communication system. The communication method for a terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a control message, including setting information of a secondary serving cell (SCell) to be added and discontinuous reception setting information, from a primary serving cell (PCell); and applying, if the control message includes an indicator indicating that the first base station to which the SCell to be added belongs and the second base station to which the PCell belongs are different from each other, the DRX setting information to the serving cell of a first base station. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation is applied upon the occurrence of inter-base-station carrier aggregation, thus reducing the consumption of a battery.
US10128996B2	Method for transmission device-to-device signal in wireless communication system and apparatus for same The present invention provides a method for transmitting a device-to-device (D2D) signal and an apparatus for the same, which are used in a wireless access system supporting D2D communication. According to one aspect of the present invention, the method for transmitting a D2D signal by a terminal comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, sounding reference signal configuration information instructing an uplink subframe to transmit a sounding reference signal; and determining whether to transmit the D2D signal in a D2D subframe set in a specific subframe when the specific subframe is included in the sounding reference signal configuration information.
US10128992B2	Apparatus and method for communication with time-shifted subbands Apparatuses and methods in a communication system are provided. The solution comprises utilizing a given number of parallel subbands in communication, where the transmission timing in each of the subbands is time-shifted by a predetermined time offset.
US10128991B2	Method and apparatus for performing physical dedicated channel establishment and monitoring procedures A method and apparatus are described for performing a dual-carrier operation. A first timer is initiated for an anchor carrier and a second timer is initiated for a supplementary carrier. A physical channel failure may be declared on a condition that either of the timers expire before a predefined number of in-synch indication received from a layer 1 (L1) entity is counted. Uplink transmission and enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) operations may be stopped on a supplementary carrier associated with the physical channel failure, but may be continued on an anchor carrier that has a physical channel established. If the physical channel failure is associated with the anchor carrier, uplink transmission and E-DCH transmission operations are stopped on all carriers.
US10128989B2	Station (STA), access point (AP) and method for aggregation of data packets for uplink transmission Embodiments of a station (STA), access point (AP) and method for aggregation of data packets are generally described herein. The AP may transmit a trigger frame (TF) to an STA that indicates an access class (AC) constraint parameter and a traffic identifier (TID) aggregation limit parameter. The STA may select a group of aggregate TIDs from which medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (MPDUs) may be aggregated into an aggregated MPDU (A-MPDU). The AC constraint parameter may indicate a recommended AC from which at least a portion of the aggregate TIDs are to be selected. The TID aggregation limit parameter may indicate a number of TIDs to be selected for the group of aggregate TIDs.
US10128985B2	ACK clock compensation for high-speed serial communication interfaces In a serial communication interface with transceivers that run on different clocks, an ACK transmit FIFO is used to track packets transmitted, and an ACK receive queue is used to track ACK bits for received packets. The ACK receive queue contains a number of entries, and training for the transceivers begins transmitting ACK bits from the ACK receive queue once the ACK receive queue has multiple valid ACK bits. When the ACK receive queue is less than a lower threshold, an ACK compensation mechanism sends one or more packets that make the ACK receive queue grow. When the ACK receive queue is more than an upper threshold, the ACK compensation mechanism sends one or more packets that make the ACK receive queue shrink. The combination of the ACK receive queue and the ACK compensation mechanism allow dynamically compensating for the different clocks of the two transceivers.
US10128984B2	Packet tracking techniques for communication networks Packet tracking techniques for communication networks are described. In an example embodiment, an apparatus may comprise circuitry, a tracking component for execution by the circuitry to, in response to a request of an initiator device to establish a packet transfer session, determine whether tracking information for the packet transfer session can be locally maintained and in response to a determination that the tracking information for the packet transfer session cannot be locally maintained, identify one or more tracking parameters for retention at the initiator device, and a communication component for execution by the circuitry to send an acceptance message to grant the request of the initiator device to establish the packet transfer session, the acceptance message to indicate a request for retention of the one or more tracking parameters. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10128982B2	Extended polar codes A method for increasing coding reliability includes generating a generator matrix for an extended polar code including a standard polar code part and an additional frozen part. The standard polar code part has N bit-channels, including K information bit-channels and N−K frozen bit-channels. The additional frozen part has q additional frozen bit-channels. Among the K information bit-channels, q information bit-channels are re-polarized using the q additional frozen bit-channels. The method further includes receiving an input vector including K information bits and N+q−K frozen bits, and transforming, using the generator matrix, the input vector to an output vector including N+q encoded bits. The K information bits are allocated to the K information bit-channels, and the N+q−K frozen bits are allocated to the N−K frozen bit-channels and the q additional frozen bit-channels.
US10128975B2	In-band noise and/or spectral deformation measurement on polarization-multiplexed signals There is provided a method to discriminate NLE-induced signal deformation from ASE-noise on polarization multiplexed signals, in order to measure the OSNR under NLE conditions and/or characterize the NLE-induced signal deformation. In accordance with one aspect, the method is based on the acquisition of optical spectrum traces when the (data-carrying) optical communication signal is partially or completely extinguished (ASE-noise only), as well as with a live optical communication signal. Comparing traces acquired with different conditions and/or at different dates allows discrimination of the signal contribution, the ASE-noise contribution and the NLE-induced deformations on the SUT.
US10128974B2	Optical receiver module and process to assemble optical receiver module An optical receiver module that receives wavelength multiplexed light and a process to assemble the optical receiver module are disclosed. The optical receiver module provides a coupling unit to collimate the wavelength multiplexed light and a device unit that installs an optical de-multiplexer and photodiode elements within housing. The front wall of the housing through which the wavelength multiplexed light passes is polished in a right angle with respect to the bottom of the housing.
US10128973B2	Activation of an optical network unit in a multi-wavelength passive optical network A method for activating an ONU in a multi-wavelength PON. Other ONUs may be already active and transmit upstream signals to the OLT on various upstream channels. The new ONU transmits an activation signal superimposed to such upstream signals. Since the ONU may include an uncalibrated tunable transmitter, initially the activation signal wavelength might be different from that upon which the ONU shall be activated. The activation signal optical power is lower than the other upstream signals, so as not to impair their reception at the OLT. The OLT operates the ONUs already active on the upstream channel on which the new ONU shall be activated to suspend transmission for one or more time gaps, during which the OLT detects the activation signal. This improves activation signal detection conditions, thereby allowing to increase its bitrate. An acceptable duration of the activation procedure can then be achieved.
US10128969B2	Communication apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A communication apparatus communicates with an information processing apparatus by a wireless communication method by broadcasting an advertising signal based on a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard. In a case where a first advertising signal which includes information indicating an apparatus state is broadcasted and of which a radio wave strength is set to a first radio wave strength and where a connection request is not received even after a predetermined time has elapsed since broadcasting the first advertising signal, the radio wave strength of the first advertising signal is changed to a second radio wave strength that is higher than the first radio wave strength. In a case where a second advertising signal which does not include the information indicating the apparatus state is broadcasted and of which the radio wave strength is set to the first radio wave strength and where the connection request is not received even after the predetermined time has elapsed since broadcasting the second advertising signal, the radio wave strength of the second advertising signal is not changed.
US10128964B2	Multiphase preamble data sequences for receiver calibration and mode data signaling Methods and apparatus are described that facilitate transmission of data, particularly between two devices within an electronic apparatus. In particular, a preamble for transmission in a sequence of symbols over a multi-wire communications interface, such as a MIPI C-PHY interface, is constructed to include one or more symbols each having a single state transition symbols for signaling a particular calibration preamble from a transmitter to a receiver over the multi-wire communications interface. The preamble, having only single state transition symbols, improves reliability of decoding the symbols at a receiver, including reception and decoding without the use of a calibration clock.
US10128963B2	Integrated circuit calibration architecture A calibration architecture that enables accurate calibration of radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs) chips used in transceiver RF systems in a relatively simple testing environment. Embodiments of the invention include one or more on-chip switchable internal calibration paths that enable direct coupling of a portion of the on-chip circuit to an RF test system while isolating other circuitry on the chip. Periodic self-calibration of an RF IC can be performed after initial factory calibration, so that adjustments in desired performance parameters can be made while such an IC is embedded within a final system, and/or to take into account component degradation due to age or other factors.
US10128962B2	RF front-end with power sensor calibration One exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to a circuit that includes at least one RF signal path for an RF signal and at least one power sensor, which is coupled to the RF signal path and configured to generate a sensor signal representing the power of the RF signal during normal operation of the circuit. The circuit further includes a circuit node for receiving an RF test signal during calibration operation of the circuit. The circuit node is coupled to the at least one power sensor, so that the at least one power sensor receives the RF test signal additionally or alternatively to the RF signal and generates the sensor signal as representing the power of the RF test signal.

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