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| US10130581B2 |
Method for improving the pharmaceutic properties of microparticles comprising diketopiperazine and an active agent
Methods are provided for drying a particle. Specifically, there is provided a spray-dried diketopiperazine-insulin particle formulation having improved aerodynamic performance and in which the active agent is more stabile and efficiently delivered as compared to that of the lyophilized diketopiperazine-insulin formulation. The dry powders have utility as pharmaceutical formulations for pulmonary delivery. |
| US10130568B2 |
Process for dyeing or lightening keratin fibres in two parts, using an oil-rich alkaline direct emulsion based on a solid nonionic surfactant with an HLB ranging from 1.5 to 10
The present invention relates to a process for dyeing or lightening keratin fibres, comprising the step of extemporaneously mixing at the time of use two compositions (A) and (B) and of applying the said mixture to the said fibres; the said mixture comprising at least 25% by weight of fatty substances relative to the total weight of the composition obtained from the mixing of two compositions (A)+(B); with: —(A) representing a composition in direct emulsion form whose content of oil(s) ii) is at least 30% by weight relative to the weight of composition (A), and comprising: i) at least one nonionic surfactant that is solid at room temperature and at atmospheric pressure, with an HLB ranging from 1.5 to 10; ii) at least one basifying agent; Hi) optionally at least one additional surfactant other than the solid nonionic surfactants (i), iv) optionally at least one dye; and—(B) representing a composition comprising at least one chemical oxidizing agent. A subject of the present invention is also a multi-compartment device and a composition (A) in direct emulsion form and the ready-to-use composition resulting from the mixing of compositions (A) and (B). The process according to the invention makes it possible to dye keratin fibres in a powerful, intense and/or homogeneous manner while at the same time being easy to prepare and to apply, since the mixture in the form of an oil-rich emulsion does not run, but remains localized at the point of application. The process of the invention also makes it possible to lighten keratin fibres in a noteworthy manner. |
| US10130566B2 |
Hollow calcium phosphate particles
The object is the invention is to provide hollow, and preferably porous, spherical CaP particles preferably without the use of strontium ions. This is achieved by a method comprising the steps: a) Providing an aqueous buffer solution of purified water having a pH of 6-10 comprising 20-200 mM sodium ions, 0.1-10 mM potassium ions and 1-10 mM phosphate ions, and wherein the buffer solution is essentially free from strontium; b) adding calcium ions in the range of from 0.1 to less than 2 mM, and magnesium ions in the range of 0.01-5 mM to the buffer solution and forming a mixture; c) heating the mixture of step b) at 60-200° C. for at least 5 minutes d) isolating the formed particles; and e) optionally washing the isolated particles using a suitable solvent. The particles comprise 40-70 weight % of calcium, 20-40 weight % of phosphate and 1-25 weight % magnesium. The Ca/P weight ratio is in the range of 1.10 to 1.90 and more than 80 % of the particles have a particle size between 200 to 1500 nm. The particles are essentially free from strontium. A composition comprising the particles may be used for remineralization of teeth or as bone void filling material. |
| US10130565B2 |
Solid cosmetic composition in compact powder form
The present invention relates to a solid cosmetic composition in the form of a compact powder, comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, at least: —a pulverulent phase in an amount of greater than or equal to 35% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition, —a liquid fatty phase comprising at least one non-volatile oil, and —at least one amorphous hydrocarbon-based block copolymer. The present invention also relates to a process for coating the face, and in particular the eyelids, with the said cosmetic composition. |
| US10130564B2 |
Dental polymerizable monomers
Provided are dental polymerizable monomers that can give cured products having high toughness and high rigidity, dental polymerizable monomer compositions containing the polymerizable monomers, and dental compositions containing the dental polymerizable monomer compositions, and cured products thereof having high mechanical properties. The dental polymerizable monomer (A) which includes a urethane acrylate obtained from an appropriately rigid diisocyanate and an appropriately flexible hydroxyacrylate is used to prepare a dental polymerizable monomer composition containing the dental polymerizable monomer, and a dental composition containing the dental polymerizable monomer composition. |
| US10130563B2 |
Dental polymerizable monomer compositions
Provided are dental polymerizable monomer compositions that can give cured products having high toughness and high rigidity, and dental compositions containing such dental polymerizable monomer compositions and cured products thereof having high mechanical properties. The dental polymerizable monomer composition includes a urethane acrylate compound (A) and a polymerizable compound (B) having at least one polymerizable group selected from methacryloyl groups and acryloyl groups, the urethane acrylate compound (A) being obtained by reacting a specific hydroxyacrylate (a1) with a diisocyanate (a2) having two isocyanate groups bonded to a divalent C6-9 aromatic hydrocarbon group or a divalent C6-9 bridged cyclic hydrocarbon group via a methylene group optionally substituted with a hydrocarbon group in place of a hydrogen atom, the proportion of the number of acryloyl groups present in the urethane acrylate compound (A) being 10% to less than 90% relative to the total number of (meth)acryloyl groups in the monomer composition. |
| US10130562B2 |
Monomer mixture for the preparation of dental materials
Monomer mixture for the preparation of dental materials, which contains at least one low-volatile monomethacrylate, at least one highly viscous polyfunctional methacrylate and at least one low-viscosity polyfunctional methacrylate. |
| US10130560B2 |
Bioactive “smart” dental composite materials
Provided herein are composite materials comprising a thiol-ene polymer resin in a continuous phase and a filler in a discontinuous phase, the filler comprising fluorapatite crystals and silica. Further provided are methods of using these composite materials as restoratives in dental applications. This dental composite is labeled as “smart” because, when the shrinkage stress of the composite is greater than a programmable or pre-selected threshold level, it will elicit visual clues for the dentist. |
| US10130559B2 |
Dilation device for placing catheter tubes
A stoma dilation device that includes a tubular support and an inflatable dilation portion located on the tubular support. The inflatable dilation portion includes a stiffening portion and inflation lumen. The device may have a retention portion configured to have a diameter upon full, unrestrained inflation that is greater than the diameter of the dilation portion. The device is designed to be placed in a patient to dilate the stoma for the installation of a catheter feeding tube. The device may be placed and withdrawn with the use of an endoscope which need be inserted into the patient only one time. The single insertion of the endoscope significantly reduces the trauma to the patient in comparison with multiple endoscope insertion methods. |
| US10130558B2 |
Coded collapsible drug reservoir
A coded collapsible drug reservoir and a drug delivery system including the coded collapsible drug reservoir. The drug reservoir includes a collapsible housing and a port in communication with the collapsible housing. The drug reservoir further includes a coding feature disposed on the drug reservoir, and the coding feature identifies the drug reservoir. |
| US10130555B2 |
Foot massage physiotherapy plates
This disclosure discloses a pair of foot massage physiotherapy plates. The foot massage physiotherapy plates comprise bottom plates, foot reflex zone massage blocks and foot acupuncture point massage posts; the foot reflex zone massage blocks are connected with the bottom plates through massage block bolts and the foot acupuncture point massage posts are connected with the foot reflex zone massage blocks through massage post bolts; massage bulges are arranged on the front surfaces of the foot reflex zone massage blocks. The foot massage physiotherapy plates disclosed by the disclosure change the design of fixed massage blocks for only massaging foot reflex zones, and the detachably installed foot acupuncture point massage posts are arranged on the detachably installed foot reflex zone massage blocks; the foot massage physiotherapy plates disclosed by the disclosure are safe, reliable, convenient, effective, comfortable and health-promoting. |
| US10130550B2 |
Sexual stimulation device using light therapy, vibration and physiological feedback
A sexual stimulation apparatus and method which may comprise a plurality of light sources for photostimulation of the vagina, clitoris, or both; one or more vibrators for mechanical stimulation of an area of the vagina; a handle; a controller and programmable memory for containing non-transitory instructions for modes of operation and driving the light sources and vibrators of the invention; a vaginal finger; a handle for ease of use; a keypad for user entry of commands; and a charging or programming port. The invention may also comprise sensors that sense physiologic parameters of a user and adjust sexual stimulation parameters to achieve a desired sexual stimulation effect. Blood oxygen level, temperature, pulse rate and muscle electrical activity may be sensed. The invention also may comprise a flexible covering that provides smooth sliding engagement with an area of the vagina of a user. |
| US10130549B2 |
Physical therapy ball
A physical therapy ball comprises inner and outer hallow spherical bodies. A web positions the inner spherical body with respect to the outer spherical body to form a gap there between. The gap is filled with a high heat capacity gel. An array of conical sections extends from the outer surface of the outer spherical body to facilitate foot massage. |
| US10130548B2 |
System and method to assist users having reduced visual capability utilizing lighting device provided information
A lighting device obtains data related to objects and boundaries in an area in the vicinity of the lighting device, and a user wearable device provides a display (e.g. an augmented reality display based on the data related to the objects and the area boundaries) for a user/wearer. The lighting device includes a mapping sensor that collects data related to the objects and boundaries in the area. The user wearable device includes a camera or other optical sensor and wireless communication capability. The user wearable device is provided with mapping data that is presented on a display of the user wearable device. The communications and display capabilities allow the user wearable device to obtain room mapping information related to area in the vicinity of the lighting device in order to provide navigational assistance to a visually impaired person in the area. |
| US10130545B2 |
Leg lifter
The present invention provides a leg lifter for those having lower extremity injuries or limited lower extremity strength to facilitate movement. The leg lifter includes a wrapping portion configured to encircle a user's ankle via a fastener. The wrapping portion further includes an adjustable strap that extends outwardly and orthogonally from substantially a midpoint of the wrapping portion. The adjustable strap includes a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the proximal end is affixed to the wrapping portion. The distal end is adapted to be held by a user for lifting the adjustable strap, thus causing the user's lower extremity to be lifted. The distal end further includes a fastener that allows a user to removably attach the distal end to his or her clothing. The adjustable strap is configured to be lengthened or shortened to improve a user's movement and achieve independence from caretakers. |
| US10130543B2 |
Position-retaining device
In an initial configuration a device comprises a casing containing: a plurality of beads, a rupturable first container containing one or more isocyanates and a rupturable second container containing one or more polyols, wherein in the final configuration the casing is substantially filled by a polyurethane in which the plurality of beads are embedded. In an intermediate configuration the device is transformed from the initial configuration to a final configuration by rupturing the first container and rupturing the second container so that the one or more isocyanates react with the one or more polyols in a reaction that forms the polyurethane. As the polyurethane is formed during the reaction the polyurethane surrounds the plurality of beads. The device may be molded as the polyurethane is formed in the casing. |
| US10130542B1 |
Device for positioning the neck of a person in the flexion and extension positions
A device for supporting the upper body parts of a person next to the medical examining table where the rest of the body is resting and positioning the head and neck of the person above and below the top of the medical examining table for the taking of medical pictures. |
| US10130535B2 |
Four bar apparatus and method for lifting, lowering, exercise and self-propelled transit
A four bar apparatus and method are provided for lifting, lowering, providing exercise and facilitating self-propelled transit. The apparatus includes an actuator and interconnected four-bar lifting mechanism, which includes a crank, a coupler, a rocker, and a frame. Each of the crank, coupler, rocker and frame are rotatably interconnected, and operation of the actuator moves a lift point of the coupler, with the lift point connectable to a vest-type garment or belt worn by a user of the apparatus, with the lift point following a J shape path or an S shape path to lift the user from a shoulder or hip area, respectively. |
| US10130534B2 |
Method and apparatus for automated positioning of user support surfaces in power driven wheelchair
By programming position parameters corresponding to user support surfaces of a power driven wheelchair, movement of the user support surfaces is automated. The user support surfaces can be positioned individually, as part of a sequence or as part of a series of sequences. Accordingly, with little effort, a user can position the user support surfaces of the wheelchair to a predefined position. |
| US10130533B2 |
Patient contact compensating wheelchair
This patent pertains to patient contact compensating wheelchairs. One implementation includes a motorized base that includes a battery and a seat positioned above the base. In one instance, the seat can include a moisture permeable structure configured to support a patient and a fan configured to move air below the moisture permeable structure to carry moisture from the patient away from the moisture permeable structure. Another implementation includes a set of patient contact objects configured to alternatively contact first and then second portions of an underside of the moisture permeable structure so that at a first time more of the patient's weight is supported at the first portion than at the second portion and at a second time more of the patient's weight is supported at the second portion than at the first portion, to relieve contact pressure of the patient. |
| US10130532B2 |
Elevated height wheelchair
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a wheelchair configured to reposition an occupant between a lowered and a raised position. The wheelchair can include a frame, a seat moveable relative to the frame, a drive wheel, and one or more pairs of arm assemblies. The arm assembly includes a wheel configured to move from a first spatial location when the wheel chair is operating on flat, level ground to a second spatial location that is different than the first spatial location. Arm limiters that can selectively engage the arm assembly dependent on the position of the arm assembly and surface conditions of ground and can limit the range of motion of the arm assembly and sometimes other operational aspects of the chair. |
| US10130530B2 |
Mechanism and apparatus for wheelchair reconfiguration
Embodiments according to the present invention include a load transitioning mechanism which enables attachment and release of at least one ground-contacting adaptive implement, such as a multi-terrain caster wheel assembly, a motorized wheel, or a ski; embodiments further enable reversible reconfiguration of the wheelchair by a user between a.) an original load-bearing configuration utilizing the conventional forward caster wheels of the wheelchair, and b.) a modified load-bearing configuration utilizing the ground-contacting adaptive implement. |
| US10130527B2 |
Absorbent cores having material free areas
An absorbent core (28), for use in an absorbent article, comprising a core wrap (16, 16′) enclosing an absorbent material (60) comprising superabsorbent polymer particles. The core wrap comprises a top side (16) and a bottom side (16′), and the absorbent core comprises one or more area(s) (26) substantially free of absorbent material through which the top side of the core wrap is attached to the bottom side of the core wrap, so that when the absorbent material swells the core wrap forms one or more channel(s) (26′) along the area(s) (26) substantially free of absorbent material. The superabsorbent polymer particles have a time to reach an uptake of 20 g/g (T20) of less than 240 s as measured according to the K(t) test method. |
| US10130525B2 |
Absorbent structure for absorbent articles
Absorbent structures for diapers are provided, comprising, immobilized onto a supporting sheet, an absorbent layer with absorbent material containing superabsorbent polymer particles and therein, in the front region, a first and a second substantially longitudinal channel, each being free of said superabsorbent polymeric particles, for improved fit and/or performance throughout the use thereof. |
| US10130522B2 |
Manufacturing method for disposable worn article
A method for manufacturing a disposable worn article including the steps of: carrying a continuous sheet (W1) continuous in a carrying direction (X1); placing elastic members (F3), continuous in the carrying direction of the continuous sheet, on the continuous sheet with the continuous elastic members stretched; placing discontinuous sheets (W2), each of which has a predetermined length, on the continuous sheet intermittently and successively in the carrying direction so that the continuous elastic members are sandwiched between the discontinuous sheets and the continuous sheet; and carrying out a first joining step in which, in an area where each of the discontinuous sheets is placed, the continuous sheet, each of the discontinuous sheets, and the continuous elastic members are joined to one another, intermittently in the carrying direction, along first joining portions (32A, 32C) extending in a width direction (Y) crossing the carrying direction. |
| US10130515B2 |
Mechanically registered videoscopic myringotomy/tympanostomy tube placement system
Devices, systems, methods, and kits for treating the tissue structures of the ear make use of a guide structure that can mechanically register a treatment probe with a target region of a target tissue, the guide structure being fittingly received in an auditory canal and often comprising a conformable body such as a compressible foam, or the like. The guide structure may include an articulating mechanism for selectively orienting the treatment probe toward the target region of, for example, a tympanic membrane. The guide structure may also support a videoscopic image capture device, illumination transmitting optical fibers, an aiming beam transmitter, and the like. Such structures facilitate myringotomy, tympanostomy tube placement, and the like, under local anesthesia in a doctor's office. |
| US10130510B2 |
Apparatus for patterned plasma-mediated laser ophthalmic surgery
A system for ophthalmic surgery on an eye includes: a pulsed laser which produces a treatment beam; an OCT imaging assembly capable of creating a continuous depth profile of the eye; an optical scanning system configured to position a focal zone of the treatment beam to a targeted location in three dimensions in one or more floaters in the posterior pole. The system also includes one or more controllers programmed to automatically scan tissues of the patient's eye with the imaging assembly; identify one or more boundaries of the one or more floaters based at least in part on the image data; iii. identify one or more treatment regions based upon the boundaries; and operate the optical scanning system with the pulsed laser to produce a treatment beam directed in a pattern based on the one or more treatment regions. |
| US10130503B2 |
Conical port
An access port comprising a port body and a catheter, the port body defining a cavity into which a fluid can be delivered or extracted through one side of the port body, the catheter being in communication with the cavity and being disposed on an opposed side of the port body, thus protecting the catheter from needle stick damage. An access port comprising a port body and a catheter, the port body defining a cavity into which a fluid can be delivered or extracted from through one side of the port body, the port body being configured to extend partly through a hole in the body of a patient in which the access port is implanted and thus plug the said hole. The port body comprising integral means for anchoring the port body to the body of the patient. Also is provided a method for anchoring the access port to the hole and extracting the access port from the hole as well as the applicator, extractor and delivery sheath for anchoring and extracting the access port. |
| US10130499B2 |
Endoluminal device
The present invention relates to an endoluminal device for implantation in a body lumen, such as a pancreatic duct. The device is provided with a distal end region having greater flexibility than that of a medial region of the device. |
| US10130496B2 |
Ankle brace
An ankle brace for a prosthetic device includes a prosthetic foot and a lower leg piece. The ankle brace may bridge a gap between the prosthetic foot and the lower leg piece. The ankle brace may include a main member which is made of a flexible material and includes a cavity for accommodating the prosthetic device. At least one reinforcement element may be arranged on the main member which may increase the inherent stability of the ankle brace. |
| US10130490B2 |
Intervertebral spacer
Disclosed is an assembly and method for implant installation between adjacent vertebral bodies of a patient. The implant has a support body and a rotatable insert therein and the support body is curved for installation between adjacent vertebral bodies transforaminally. An installation instrument is also disclosed for removable attachment to implant and engagement with the rotatable insert to selectively permit rotation between the insert and the support body. The installation instrument extends along a longitudinal tool axis and when the installation instrument is in a first position the insert is rotationally fixed with respect to the support body and when the installation instrument is in a second position the support body may rotate with respect to the insert. |
| US10130487B2 |
Vertebral implants and related methods of use
A vertebral insert may include a first linkage, a second linkage, and a third linkage. The first, second, and third linkages may at least partially defining a cavity. The insert may be movable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, and the movement of the first and second linkages with respect to one another may be configured to reciprocally move the insert between the collapsed and expanded configurations. |
| US10130485B2 |
Multi-walled placeholder
A placeholder for vertebrae or vertebral discs includes a tubular body, which along its jacket surface has a plurality of breakthroughs or openings for over-growth with adjacent tissue. The placeholder includes at least a second tubular body provided with a plurality of breakthroughs and openings at least partially inside the first tubular body. The first and second tubular bodies can have different cross-sectional shapes, can be are arranged inside one another by press fit or force fit or can be connected to each other via connecting pins and arranged side by side to one another in the first body. |
| US10130477B2 |
Method of fusing a sacroiliac joint with an implant with voids
A method for fixating a dysfunctional sacroiliac joint for SI joint fusion including implanting a joint implant at the sacroiliac joint. The joint implant may include a body extending a length between a proximal end and a distal end, an exterior surface, an interior surface opposite the exterior surface and defining an internal volume therein, a wall thickness extending between the exterior surface and the interior surface, a proximal opening extending into the internal volume, and a first plurality of voids along the length and extending through the wall thickness from the exterior surface to the interior surface. The first plurality of voids may be arranged along the length in a repeating pattern of a group of voids, wherein each void of the first plurality of voids is generally polygonal in shape. |
| US10130471B2 |
Medical system, a device for collecting chordae and/or leaflets and a method therefor
Disclosed is a medical system for short time replacement and repair of a native valve, which comprises an artificial valve (502); and a device for collecting and arranging chordae and/or leaflets to hold and/or stabilize the artificial valve in a desired position, the device comprising: a unit for grasping a plurality of chordae and/or leaflets. The system and/or device allows for fast and easy replacement of a native valve, fast and easy positioning of a temporary artificial valve, and more time for medical personnel to make decisions, prepare and/or perform surgery/medical intervention. |
| US10130468B2 |
Replacement prosthetic heart valves
A two-stage or component-based valve prosthesis that can be quickly and easily implanted during a surgical procedure is provided. The prosthetic valve comprises a support structure that is deployed at a treatment site. The prosthetic valve further comprises a valve member configured to be quickly connected to the support structure. The support structure may take the form of a stent that is expanded at the site of a native valve. If desired, the native leaflets may remain and the stent may be used to hold the native valve open. In this case, the stent may be balloon expandable and configured to resist the powerful recoil force of the native leaflets. The support structure is provided with a coupling means for attachment to the valve member, thereby fixing the position of the valve member in the body. The valve member may be a non-expandable type, or may be expandable from a compressed state to an expanded state. The system is particularly suited for rapid deployment of heart valves in a conventional open-heart surgical environment. |
| US10130453B2 |
Bite registration device
A bite registration device is provided that can be placed within a patient's mouth and adjusted to a desired position relative to the patient's maxillary and/or mandibular teeth while permitting visual inspection of the patient's anterior teeth during acquisition of the bite registration. The bite registration device is also configured to permit introduction of bite registration material without having to remove the device from the patient's mouth once optimal positioning has been established. |
| US10130451B2 |
Ultrasonic tip assembly
A tip assembly for use with a dental tool, the tip assembly comprising a housing for attaching to the dental tool, at least one aspiration needle having a passageway extending at least partially through the aspiration needle, a substantial length of the aspiration needle, or at least from one end to the other end of the aspiration needle, the passageway providing a single continuous path to aspirate the irrigant and/or debris from the root canal cavity of the tooth, and at least one irrigation needle having a passageway extending at least partially through the irrigation needle, a substantial length of the irrigation needle, or at least from one end to the other end of the irrigation needle, the passageway provides a continuous flow path for delivering fluid/irrigant from a reservoir in communication with a proximal end of the irrigation needle to the distal end of the irrigation needle and into a root canal/coronal opening of a tooth. |
| US10130450B2 |
Method and apparatus for laser induced thermo-acoustical streaming of liquid
A laser induced thermo-acoustical system has a waveguide for propagating laser radiation to an absorbing layer of a tip. The tip has an absorbing layer serving to absorb the laser radiation propagating through the waveguide. The absorbing layer has such an absorption coefficient that upon absorbing the laser radiation the absorbing layer heats up to boil a quantity of a liquid when the tip is surrounded by the liquid. A laser induced thermo-acoustical method calls for providing a waveguide for propagating laser radiation to the absorbing layer of the tip to be at least partially absorbed by the absorbing layer and to boil a quantity of the liquid surrounding the tip and generating the stream of liquid. The laser induced thermo-acoustical streaming of the liquid is used, in particular, for the treatment of a root canal and periodontal pockets. |
| US10130449B2 |
Dental casting billet material, metal powder for powder metallurgy, dental metal component, and dental prosthesis
A dental casting billet material includes: Co as a main component; Cr in a proportion of 26% by mass or more and 35% by mass or less; Mo in a proportion of 5% by mass or more and 12% by mass or less; and Si in a proportion of 0.3% by mass or more and 2.0% by mass or less, wherein the billet material is formed from a sintered body of a metal powder, and the billet material has a relative density of 92% or more and 99.5% or less. |
| US10130441B2 |
Clip-on affixable light source
A clip-on light source is provided that is suited for use with medical instruments. The device comprises a light source housing that is rotatably affixed to a spring biased clip. The clip includes an upper clip member and a lower clip member that are hinged and spring biased together. The upper clip member is rotatably affixed to the lower surface of the housing such that the housing can rotate relative to the clip once the clip is affixed to a support surface. The housing comprises a frontal portion, an upper portion, and an interior volume, whereby the interior volume supports a circuit board, a battery power supply, and the light source. The light source projects through an upper surface projection along the housing, whereby the light is directed along the upper surface of the housing and towards the frontal portion. |
| US10130440B2 |
Stereotactic access devices and methods
This invention is directed to devices and methods for stereotactic access, and particularly to a frameless stereotactic access device for accessing a body cavity and methods therefor. In general, a stereotactic device may include portions or features for fixing the device to a portion of a patient's body, such as, for example, a skull, such that the device may be generally spatially fixed in relation to the patient's body or part thereof. The stereotactic device may also generally include portions or features for guiding a medical device or other device at a particular trajectory in relation to the patient's body or part thereof. |
| US10130439B2 |
Package for an object and an assembly including such a package
A package for an object includes a support element with means for coupling the object to the support element. A first hollow protective element is provided as a stopper coupled to the support element of the object. The support element presents a grip portion which projects from the stopper, the support element, alone or in co-operation with the stopper, defining a first chamber containing the object. A second hollow protective element is provided as a cover. The cover is coupled to the stopper so as to cooperate with the stopper to define a second chamber inside which the grip portion of the support element extends. The cover is coupled to the stopper, with the grip portion of the stopper projecting from the cover. |
| US10130435B2 |
Operating a medical-robotic device and a medical-robotic device
A method for operating a medical-robotic device is provided. The robotic device includes a number of components able to be moved autonomously in an environment of the robotic device. Planning data for an autonomous movement or constraint of at least one subset of the movable components is provided to the robotic device. A movement or constraint of the corresponding movable components to be carried out autonomously by the robotic device is planned based on the planning data provided. The planned movement or constraint is visually presented. A way for an operator to exert influence on the planned movement or constraint is provided, and the movement or constraint is autonomously carried out as a function of the influence exerted. |
| US10130432B2 |
Hybrid robotic surgery with locking mode
Methods and devices are provided for performing robotic surgery. In general, a surgical system is provided including an electromechanical tool with a first mode of operation in which the electromechanical tool mimics movement of a controller, and a second mode of operation in which the tool mirrors movement of the controller. A hybrid surgical device is also provided including an adapter matable to a handle assembly such that the adapter is electronically coupled to a motor of the handle assembly and is configured to communicate with the motor. A robotic laparoscopic surgical device is also provided including a motion sensor configured to sense movement of an electromechanical tool and an electromechanical arm that assists movement of the tool. A robotic surgical device is also provided including an electromechanical driver associated with a trocar and being configured to rotate and to translate a tool disposed through a passageway. |
| US10130426B2 |
Cutting human or animal bone tissue and planning such cutting
Method for planning a process of cutting human or animal bone tissue. The method includes: obtaining initial data of an initial situation of the bone tissue; defining target data of a target situation of the bone tissue; and computing a cut geometry using the initial data and the target data for cutting the bone tissue apart. The cut geometry includes a structure such that the bone tissue is reassemblable at least in one degree of freedom in the target situation after being cut apart along the cut geometry. By shaping the structure of the cut geometry according to the target situation the planned cut can be provided with a particular function. Such a functional cut can geometrically define and restrict possible movements of cut apart bone portions. The functional cut can allow for comparably precisely repositioning the bone into the target position and any movement therefrom can be prevented. |
| US10130425B2 |
Method and system for skin blemishes layered skin treatment
A system and method for performing layer treatment for skin blemish in which the target area of the skin is first treated by performing a deep layer treatment by cutting the fibrous bands and then performing a superficial skin treatment by using electromagnetic radiation and both of the treatment take place within the same day. |
| US10130424B2 |
Multiple beam laser treatment device
Embodiments of the invention include a treatment device and corresponding treatment method for laser wound healing, the device and method making use of the simultaneous action of multiple laser types and laser wavelengths which are applied at human tissue. The treatment device generally includes a laser system and a hand-piece which is coupled to the laser system. The hand-piece is designed so that one or multiple laser beams are applied at relatively small spot and at a relatively high power level, and are surrounded by a relatively large spot of another laser beam with a relatively low power level. In a preferred implementation, the hand-piece is adapted to facilitate the emission of first and second laser beams together with a third laser beam which is delivered at a different spatial profile in comparison to the first and second laser beams. |
| US10130423B1 |
Systems, devices, and methods for focal ablation
Systems, devices, and methods for electroporation ablation therapy are disclosed, with the device including a set of splines coupled to a catheter for medical ablation therapy. Each spline of the set of splines may include a set of electrodes formed on that spline. The set of splines may be configured for translation to transition between a first configuration and a second configuration. |
| US10130422B2 |
Catheter with soft distal tip for mapping and ablating tubular region
A catheter includes an elongated body having a longitudinal axis, a distal assembly distal the elongated body, the distal assembly having a tapered helical form comprising a larger, electrode-carrying proximal loop and a smaller, softer distal loop, and a shape-memory support member extending through at least the proximal loop. For example, the helical loop subtends at least about 720 radial degrees, with the proximal loop subtending about 360 radial degrees, and the distal loop subtending about 360 radial degrees. The softer distal loop with a straight distal end atraumatically guides the distal assembly into a tubular region so that the larger proximal loop can sit on the ostium of the tubular region with improved electrode and tissue contact. |
| US10130419B2 |
System and method for assessing effective delivery of ablation therapy
A system and method for assessing effective delivery of ablation therapy to a tissue in a body is provided. A three-dimensional anatomical map of the tissue is generated and displayed with the map defining a corresponding volume. An index is generated corresponding to a location within the volume with the index indicative of a state of ablation therapy at the location. The index may be derived from one or more factors such as the duration an ablation electrode is present at the location, the amount of energy provided, the degree of electrical coupling between an ablation electrode and the tissue at the location and temperature. A visual characteristic (e.g., color intensity) of a portion of the anatomical map corresponding to the location is then altered responsive to the index. |
| US10130416B2 |
Limited reuse ablation needles and ablation devices for use therewith
A surgical instrument includes a reusable component and a limited-use component releasably engagable with the reusable component. The reusable component includes a detecting member and is configured to connect to a source of energy. The limited-use component is transitionable from a first state to a second state. The detecting member is configured to detect a response of the limited-use component for determining the state of the limited-use component. Energy is permitted to be supplied to the limited-use component when it is determined that the limited-use component is disposed in the first state. Energy is inhibited from being supplied to the limited-use component when it is determined that the limited-use component is disposed in the second state. |
| US10130414B2 |
Surgical instrument
A sealing instrument (10) including two branches (15, 16) with sealing jaws (19, 20, 36, 37) acted on by a sealing voltage preferably between 80 and 120 volts. Tissue receptacles (53, 54) are separated from one another by a wall-like extension (24), which at its lower edge carries a cutting electrode (31), are defined between the branches (15, 16). A cutting voltage from 300 to 500 volts is applied between a branch (16) and the cutting electrode. When the branches are closed the grasped tissue is sealed simultaneously between the sealing jaws (19, 36 and 20, 37) and is severed by the cutting electrode (31). Even though the tissue is severed completely; for example after 0.3 to 0.5 seconds and the sealing requires more time, the rolls of tissue grasped in the tissue receptacles (53, 54) act as form-fitting protection of the vessel edges in the tool (12). |
| US10130413B2 |
Temperature-sensing electrically-conductive tissue-contacting plate and methods of manufacturing same
An end-effector assembly includes opposing jaw members movably mounted with respect to one another. At least one of the jaw members includes a temperature-sensing electrically-conductive tissue-contacting plate having a tissue-contacting surface and a bottom surface. A first layer is disposed on one or more portions of the bottom surface of the temperature-sensing electrically-conductive tissue-contacting plate. The first layer includes an electrically-insulative material. One or more openings are formed in the first layer. One or more electrically-conductive traces are formed over the electrically-insulative material and associated with the one or more openings. One or more temperature sensors are coupled to the bottom surface of the temperature-sensing electrically-conductive tissue-contacting plate and associated with the one or more openings. The one or more openings are each configured to receive at least a portion of the one or more temperature sensors therein. The one or more temperature sensors are electrically coupled to the one or more electrically-conductive traces. |
| US10130412B2 |
Systems and methods for estimating tissue parameters using surgical devices
Systems and methods for estimating tissue parameters, including mass of tissue to be treated and a thermal resistance scale factor between the tissue and an electrode of an energy delivery device, are disclosed. The method includes sensing tissue temperatures, estimating a mass of the tissue and a thermal resistance scale factor between the tissue and an electrode, and controlling an electrosurgical generator based on the estimated mass and the estimated thermal resistance scale factor. The method may be performed iteratively and non-iteratively. The iterative method may employ a gradient descent algorithm that iteratively adds a derivative step to the estimates of the mass and thermal resistance scale factor until a condition is met. The non-iterative method includes selecting maximum and minimum temperature differences and estimating the mass and the thermal resistance scale factor based on a predetermined reduction point from the maximum temperature difference to the minimum temperature difference. |
| US10130410B2 |
Electrosurgical instrument including a cutting member decouplable from a cutting member trigger
An electrosurgical instrument. The electrosurgical instrument includes a first arm, a second arm and a coupling system. The first arm includes a first jaw. The second arm is pivotably connected to the first arm and includes a second jaw, a cutting member movable within the first and second jaws, and a cutting member trigger. The coupling system includes a coupling member mechanically coupled to the cutting member trigger. The coupling member is movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position of the coupling member, the cutting member is mechanically uncoupled from the cutting member trigger. In the second position of the coupling member, the cutting member is mechanically coupled to the cutting member trigger. |
| US10130408B2 |
Distraction screw
A distraction screw includes a proximal portion secured to a first vertebra, a distal portion secured to a second vertebra and an intermediate portion. The intermediate portion is coupled to the proximal and distal portions and is positioned in an intervertebral space. The intermediate portion is configured and adapted to enable distraction of the first vertebra relative to the second vertebra. |
| US10130403B2 |
System for achieving selectable fixation in an orthopedic plate
An orthopedic plate and fastener system is provided for fixation of bones which has an implant that can selectably be used to achieve fixed angle and variable locking of the fasteners, as well as non-locking of the fasteners. The system includes a variable locking assembly that includes a locking insert, having threads which mates with internal threads of a through opening in the implant. The system also provides for locking fixed angle fixation, and non-locking variable angle fixation, all of which can be used with the threaded holes of the plates. The locking insert is provided on a ring driver, which is similar to or acts as the drill guide used with the locking fasteners of the present. Thus, the invention also relates to a method of enabling surgery where the surgeon can select the mode of fixation of fasteners between variable axis locking, variable axis non-locking, and fixed angle locking fixation, all utilizing the same fastener opening within the implant. |
| US10130402B2 |
Bone fixation devices having a locking feature
Devices and methods for locking one or more bone screws to a fixation plate. A cam-style locking feature may be disposed in the fixation plate such that, when the locking feature is in a first position, the bone screw is able to traverse an opening in the fixation plate and engage adjacent bone; and when the locking feature is rotated into a second position, an interference between the locking feature and bone screw causes the bone screw to be firmly secured to the fixation plate. |
| US10130393B2 |
Dynamic stabilization members with elastic and inelastic sections
An improved dynamic longitudinal connecting member includes a rod portion joined with a tensioned cord portion, for use in a medical implant assembly having at least two bone attachment structures, a spacer covering the join of the rod and cord portions and extending between the at least two bone attachment structures, a sleeve, a bumper and a cord blocker. The spacer and bumper are compressed. The cord portion is slidable with respect to at least one of the bone attachment members. |
| US10130391B2 |
External fixation struts
Dynamization struts and methods of use are provided. A dynamization strut may comprise a sleeve, a shaft, a biasing member, and a bushing. The sleeve may comprise an inner recess with a first and second section. The shaft may comprise an interior section to be disposed within the inner recess of the sleeve. The biasing member may be disposed around the interior section of the shaft, and sized to fit within the first section of the inner recess of the sleeve. The bushing may be secured against a portion of the shaft. Rotation of the bushing may provide for compressive movement of the biasing member relative to the sleeve and shaft. Compression of the biasing member may occur without a corresponding change in a total length of the dynamization strut. Rather, changes in the length of the strut may occur as a result of external compressive forces acting upon it. |
| US10130387B2 |
Introducer sheaths, thrombus collection devices, and associated methods
A sheath comprises an elastomeric tube having a self-expanding scaffold coupled to a wall. The scaffold can expand to a diameter larger than the tube diameter to provide an enlarged distal opening. An aspiration catheter has a balloon and an aspiration port so that occlusive material can be removed from a blood vessel by drawing the balloon through the vessel while simultaneously aspirating through the port. |
| US10130386B2 |
Identification of elastic lamina to guide interventional therapy
Described herein is a system and method for identifying elastic lamina during interventional procedures, such as atherectomy. Such identification can be used to avoid trauma to the external elastic lamina during the procedure. |
| US10130385B2 |
Method and apparatus for placing a catheter within a vasculature
A catheter for insertion into vasculature of a patient to a target area in the vasculature includes a hollow inner shaft, a non-occluding self-expandable scaffold coupled to the distal end of the inner shaft and disposed at the distal end of the inner shaft, and a hollow outer shaft. The outer shaft is slidable over the inner shaft and scaffold such that the scaffold is in a non-expanded state when the outer shaft is around the scaffold. The outer shaft has a state where the distal end of the outer shaft remains near the target area without the inner shaft and the scaffold being within the outer shaft. The inner shaft and the scaffold are removable through the proximal end of the outer shaft while the distal end of the outer shaft remains near the target area. |
| US10130384B2 |
Catheter systems and methods for re-entry in body vessels with chronic total occlusion
A catheter system and corresponding methods are provided for accessing a blood vessel true lumen from a sub-intimal plane of the vessel. The catheter includes components that are symmetric about the longitudinal axis and allow for reentry without the need to ensure a correct orientation of the cannula. |
| US10130371B2 |
Aortic occlusion device
Embodiments of aortic occlusion devices are described herein that include radially expandable and collapsible proximal and distal end portions, such as annular self-expanding stents or frames, that are configured to radially expand within an aorta to secure the device within the aorta. The devices can also include a catheter extending axially between the distal end portion and the proximal end portion and a porous covering, or filter, positioned around the catheter and between the proximal end portion and the distal end portion and configured to filter emboli from blood flowing into upper-body arteries. The device can further include a one-way valve positioned at or adjacent to the distal end portion of the device and configured to restrict retrograde blood flow through the device toward the heart. |
| US10130370B2 |
Medical restriction device for hollow organs of a body
The invention relates to a medical restriction device for hollow organs of a body, having a longitudinal flexible element having a first and a second end, a closure device locking the longitudinal element annularly in a predetermined diameter position, and a tip as an insertion aid at the first end of the longitudinal element for placing the restriction device on the hollow organ, wherein the tip comprises a reinforcing core made of rigid material, wherein an opening is provided at the second end of the longitudinal element as part of the closure device, the tip can be inserted with the first end of the longitudinal element into the opening at the second end of the longitudinal element for locking the closure device, and the tip is fixedly connected to the first end; and can be cut off after locking the longitudinal element by the closure device. |
| US10130368B2 |
Expandable compression rings for improved anastomotic joining of tissues
The present invention relates to surgical instruments and methods for enhancing properties of tissue repaired or joined by surgical staples and, more particularly to surgical instruments and methods designed to enhance the properties of repaired or adjoined tissue at a target surgical site, especially when sealing an anastomosis between adjacent intestinal sections so as to improve tissue viability, prevent tissue infection, and to prevent leakage. The present invention further relates to an expandable compression device for application to anastomotically joined tubular tissues, comprising: an upper ring-shaped or disk-shaped flange at a distal end of said device connected to a lower ring-shaped inflatable flange at a proximal end of said device via a hollow cylindrical tubular body, with an opening forming an axial passage through said upper flange, lower flange, and tubular body. |
| US10130367B2 |
Surgical apparatus
A surgical apparatus including an electrical conductor with a strain relief is provided. A tool assembly is supported on a body portion and is articulable relative to the body portion. The tool assembly includes an identification assembly in electrical communication with a powered handle assembly. An electrical conductor extends from a connection assembly in the body portion to the identification assembly. The electrical conductor includes a strain relief portion for accommodating the articulation of the tool assembly relative to the body portion. |
| US10130365B2 |
Wound closure device
A wound closure device for positioning within a wound gap defined between at least two tissue segments has an effect of drawing the at least two tissue segments to a state of proximity that closes the wound gap. The wound closure device includes a tubular collapsible member having an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration. The wound closure device further includes tissue engaging structure for attaching the tissue segments to the tubular collapsible member. |
| US10130364B2 |
Surgical instrument and drive mechanism thereof
A surgical instrument and a drive mechanism, the drive mechanism includes a motor, a planetary gear train, and a bidirectional ratchet mechanism; the input sun gear of the planetary gear train engages the output shaft of the motor; an output carrier of the planetary gear train engages an executing mechanism of the surgical instrument through a transmission mechanism; the bidirectional ratchet mechanism includes a ratchet, a bidirectional pawl assembly, and a stop; the ratchet is in rigid connection with an annular gear of the planetary gear train; the bidirectional pawl assembly includes a bidirectional pawl; the stop selectively drives a first end or a second end of the bidirectional pawl to lock the ratchet, so as to lock corresponding rotation of the ratchet when the motor drives the planetary gear train, and unlock corresponding rotation of the ratchet when the transmission mechanism drives the planetary gear train. |
| US10130359B2 |
Method for forming a staple
A method of forming a surgical staple comprising a base, a first staple leg, and a second staple leg is disclosed. The method comprises positioning the first staple leg within a first cup of a staple pocket and positioning the second staple leg within a second cup of the staple pocket, contacting the first staple leg to bend the first staple leg toward a first side of the base wherein the first staple leg is maintained in an unformed and unheated configuration until a first compressive force is applied to the first staple leg, and contacting the second staple leg to bend the second staple leg toward a second side of the base wherein the second staple leg is maintained in an unformed and unheated configuration until a second compressive force is applied to the second staple leg. |
| US10130358B2 |
Devices for controlling the unloading of superelastic and shape memory orthopedic implants
This disclosure provides novel devices for controlling the unloading stress and recoverable strain of Nitinol devices and/or other shape memory material devices. The devices may be used to bring bone fragments into close proximity with each other, generate a compressive load between the bone fragments, and maintain that compressive load between the bone fragments while healing occurs. |
| US10130355B2 |
Flexible planar member for tissue fixation
A flexible fixation assembly including a flexible main body and a suture engagement portion of the flexible main body. The suture engagement portion is configured to cooperate with a suture to mate the suture with the flexible main body. The flexible main body is configured to flex outward against walls of a bone hole when implanted therein to retain both the flexible main body and the suture mated therewith within the bone hole. |
| US10130353B2 |
Flexible system for delivering an anchor
A system and associated method for manipulating tissues and anatomical or other structures in medical applications for the purpose of treating diseases or disorders or other purposes. In one aspect, the system includes a delivery device including a flexible portion that is suited to access target anatomy. The flexibility of an elongate portion of the delivery device can be varied. Additionally, the delivery device can include structure that maintains the positioning of the delivery device in patient anatomy. |
| US10130352B2 |
Surgical bowel retractor devices
A bowel retractor device comprising a bendable collar, a flexible planar film, and at least one preformed opening defined in the flexible planar film is disclosed. The at least one preformed opening is configured to retainingly support at least one section of bowel. The at least one preformed opening comprises an open center portion defining a hole in the flexible planar film and a plurality of radially-extending slots extending from an outer perimeter of the hole. Each radially-extending slot comprises a slot width that is different from a diametrical width of the hole to form a plurality of gripping portions extending inward toward the open center portion. The gripping portions are formed for gripping the at least one section of bowel to retainingly support the at least one section of bowel inserted through the open center portion. |
| US10130349B2 |
Modular refractor and related method
A retractor assembly for positioning tissue during a surgical procedure, having two opposing arms disposed adjacent to one another and sized and configured to be urged substantially laterally away from one another during actuation of the retractor assembly into an open position, and one or more posts, each post being connected to, or integral with, and extending radially outwardly from a respective one of the opposing arms, each of the one or more posts having a length sufficient so that each of the one or more posts will extend through a respective aperture defined by a modular component to be detachably attached to the respective one of the opposing arms. Related methods of positioning tissue during surgery are also described. |
| US10130348B2 |
Surgical retractor systems and methods
Embodiments herein are generally directed to surgical retractor systems. In some embodiments, these retractor systems may be used in spinal fusion or other procedures that utilize a transforaminal approach. |
| US10130345B2 |
System and methods for tracking robotically controlled medical instruments
Systems and methods are described herein for tracking an elongate instrument or other medical instrument in an image. |
| US10130342B2 |
Initialization of fitting parameters for perfusion assessment based on bolus administration
An embodiment includes analyzing a body part perfused with a contrast agent, which has been pre-administered as a bolus to circulate through the body-part with at least a first passage during an analysis interval. The analyzing includes providing at least one input signal indicative of a response to an interrogation signal of a corresponding location of the body part during the analysis interval, and fitting each input signal over the analysis interval by an instance of a combined bolus function of time, based on a combination of a first simple bolus function of time modeling the first passage of the contrast agent and at least one second simple bolus function of time each one modeling a corresponding second passage of the contrast agent. |
| US10130338B2 |
Ultrasound probe and aligned needle guide system
A side-fire ultrasonic probe includes an alignment feature that, when used to connect the probe with a needle guide for intra-cavity medical procedures, enables alignment of a needle in an imaging plane of an ultrasonic transducer. The alignment feature is configured such that alignment of the needle within the imaging plane is accomplished when a protective sheath is disposed between the alignment feature and the needle guide. This configuration can be used with high frequency ultrasonic arrays having frequency distributions centered at about 20 MHz, and for medical procedures, such as biopsying organs or other bodily intra-cavity structures, and delivering intra-cavity therapies. |
| US10130335B2 |
Ultrasonic diagnostic system
An ultrasound diagnostic system includes a portable ultrasound diagnostic device and an extended docking device to which the portable ultrasound diagnostic device is detachably mounted, wherein at least one of probes and channels are extended when the portable ultrasound diagnostic device is mounted to the extended docking device. Also, the ultrasound diagnostic system may further include an indoor ultrasound diagnostic device including a portable docking part, and the portable ultrasound diagnostic device may include a cart-based docking part and be connected to the indoor ultrasound diagnostic device. The ultrasound diagnostic system may enhance portability of the portable ultrasound diagnostic device and simultaneously achieves superior ultrasound diagnostic performance and quality also in the portable ultrasound diagnostic device through extension of the probes, signal channels, diagnostic items, or diagnostic performance, as occasion demands. |
| US10130334B2 |
Presenting a graphical representation of an ultrasound scanning volume
An image processing apparatus includes a display controller. The display controller is configured to arrange a foreground image in a three-dimensional space and display, on a display device, the foreground image as an inspection status image representing an inspection status by an ultrasonic wave. The foreground image includes a linear image being as an image including a plurality of linear images that change in accordance with a status of a probe and connect the center of a circle and a circumference of the circle with each other, a probe image that is located at the center of the circle and has a shape of the probe, and a spherical image being as a spherical image that represents a range to which the ultrasonic wave output from the probe is applied and has a cross section as the circle. |
| US10130332B2 |
Method and apparatus of diagnosing cardiac diseases based on modeling of cardiac motion
A method and an apparatus for diagnosing cardiac diseases based on a cardiac motion modeling are provided. The method may include applying physical characteristics of a cardiac motion to a 3D heart shape model, deriving a boundary condition by fusing the 3D heart shape model to which the physical characteristics are applied and a plurality of cardiac ultrasound images according to a temporal change, obtained to acquire a dynamic image, and diagnosing the cardiac diseases using a result of modeling that models the cardiac motion of the user using the boundary condition. |
| US10130331B2 |
Distal protection systems and methods with pressure and ultrasound features
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to systems and methods for providing embolic protection to a medical procedure by filtration of debris generated by the medical procedure. The system and methods include an embolic protection device having an ultrasound transducer for assisting in intravascular navigation of the device. |
| US10130330B2 |
Ultrasonic tracking of ultrasound transducer(s) aboard an interventional tool
In one aspect, an ultrasound receive beamformer is configured for one-way only beamforming of transmissive ultrasound using one-way delays. The receive beamforming in some embodiments is used to track, in real time, a catheter, needle or other surgical tool within an image of a region of interest. The tool can have embedded at its tip a small ultrasound transmitter or receiver for transmitting or receiving the transmissive ultrasound. Optionally, additional transducers are fixed along the tool to provide the orientation of the tool. |
| US10130329B2 |
Distinct needle display in ultrasonic image
A process for visualization of a needle in an ultrasound image comprises defining a region of an ultrasound image in which a body of a needle is expected using a needle tracking system to predict the location of the needle. The process also includes assigning a probability to a plurality of pixels within the region of the ultrasound image of being representative of the body of the needle, and modifying the display of each pixel having an assigned probability within a predetermined range. |
| US10130328B2 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasound image acquisition
Method for ultrasound image acquisition includes defining a fixed frame of reference, with an origin of coordinates within a transmitter of a tracking system; detecting position and orientation of a probe relative to the frame of reference with a probe sensor of the tracking system coupled to the probe; detecting position and orientation of a body relative to the frame of reference with a reference sensor of the tracking system coupled to the body; calculating position and orientation of the probe with respect to the body; acquiring a set of 2D images constituting a 3D by transmitting an ultrasonic beam into the body and receiving echographic signals with the probe; iterating for a predetermined number of 3D image acquisitions; generating a panoramic 3D image by combining the 2D images based on information of position and orientation of the probe relative to the body for each 2D image acquisition. |
| US10130326B2 |
Methods and compositions for objectively characterizing medical images
Methods and compositions are provided for objectively characterizing a pathological lesion in a patient. The method comprises: introducing into the patient a contrast enhancing agent; subjecting the patient to magnetic resonance imaging to obtain an image; and applying a 3-D autocorrelation function to a subdomain of interest of the image to obtain at least one 3-D autocorrelation spectrum. The method may further comprise comparing the at least one 3-D autocorrelation spectrum to a pre-existing 3-D autocorrelation spectrum that is characteristic for the pathological lesion. In one example, the methods and compositions may be useful for identifying and objectively characterizing amyloid plaque deposits characteristic of Alzheimer's Disease. |
| US10130323B2 |
Method and apparatus for planning computer-aided diagnosis
The invention provides a method and apparatus for classifying a region of interest in imaging data, the method comprising: calculating a feature vector for at least one region of interest in the imaging data, said feature vector including features of a first modality; projecting the feature vector for the at least one region of interest in the imaging data using a decision function to generate a classification, wherein the decision function is based on classified feature vectors including features of a first modality and features of a second modality; estimating the confidence of the classification if the feature vector is enhanced with features of the second modality. |
| US10130318B2 |
Integrated microtomography and optical imaging systems
An integrated microtomography and optical imaging system includes a rotating table that supports an imaging object, an optical stage, and separate optical and microtomography imaging systems. The table rotates the imaging object about a vertical axis running therethrough to a plurality of different rotational positions during a combined microtomography and optical imaging process. The optical stage can be a trans-illumination, epi-illumination or bioluminescent stage. The optical imaging system includes a camera positioned vertically above the imaging object. The microtomography system includes an x-ray source positioned horizontally with respect to the imaging object. Optical and x-ray images are both obtained while the imaging object remains in place on the rotating table. The stage and table are included within an imaging chamber, and all components are included within a portable cabinet. Multiple imaging objects can be imaged simultaneously, and side mirrors can provide side views of the object to the overhead camera. |
| US10130317B2 |
Intraoral dental radiological imaging sensor
An intraoral x-ray imaging sensor includes an electronic interface substrate which has a first surface and a second surface and is substantially rectangular with a mesial end and a distal end and a semiconductor imager which is mechanically and electrically coupled to the electronic interface substrate and which has a first surface and a second surface. The semiconductor imager consists of a silicon layer having an array of detector elements formed on its the first surface and is substantially rectangular with a mesial end and a distal end. The electronic interface substrate and the semiconductor imager have a first cut corner and a second cut corner at its the distal end. The second surface of the semiconductor imager is disposed adjacent and contiguous to the first surface of the electronic interface substrate. The intraoral x-ray imaging sensor also includes a plurality of first electrical pads, a plurality of second electrical pads and a plurality of bond wires. The first electrical pads are disposed on the first surface of the electronic interface substrate wherein some of the first electrical pads are disposed adjacent and contiguous to the first cut corner and the remainder of the first electrical pads are disposed adjacent and contiguous to the second cut corner. The second electrical pads are disposed on the first surface of the semiconductor imager wherein some of the of second electrical pads are disposed adjacent and contiguous to the first cut corner and the remainder of the second electrical pads are disposed adjacent and contiguous to the second cut corner. Each bond wire electrically couples one of the first electrical pads to one of the second electrical pads. |
| US10130314B2 |
Method for recording a complete projection data set in the central layer for CT reconstruction using a C-arm X-ray apparatus with a limited rotation range
A method for recording a scan from a series of 2D X-ray projections using a C-arm X-ray apparatus to reconstruct a region of interest. The method includes positioning the C-arm X-ray apparatus in an initial configuration and, while recording a series of X-ray projection views: translating the C-arm along a first path within a C-arm plane parallel to the periphery of the C-arm until the central ray vector extends through the virtual scan center and the region of interest is disposed within the fan beam, moving the C-arm peripherally along the orbital movement axis by at least 180° minus the fan angle, and translating the C-arm along a second path within the C-arm plane until the second limiting vector of the fan beam is tangential to the region of interest. |
| US10130307B2 |
Electrocardiogram (ECG) authentication method and apparatus
Disclosed are an electrocardiogram (ECG) authentication method and apparatus, and a training method and apparatus for training a neural network model used for ECG authentication, the ECG authentication apparatus being configured to acquire an ECG signal of a subject, extract a semantic feature of the ECG signal, and authenticate the subject based on the extracted semantic feature. |
| US10130306B2 |
Apparatus and method for detection of sleep disordered breathing
An apparatus, system, and method directed to detecting a physiological signal during discrete time separated detection windows, deriving one or more respiratory disturbance indices from the physiological signal, detecting a respiratory disturbance state in response to the one or more respiratory disturbance indices deviating from a threshold value, interpolating the one or more respiratory disturbance indices between adjacent time separated detection windows, and declaring a respiratory disturbance episode based on the detected respiratory disturbance state during the detection windows and the interpolation between detection windows. |
| US10130304B2 |
System, method and apparatus for orientation control
A system for control of a device includes at least one sensor module detecting orientation of a user's body part. The at least one sensor module is in communication with a device module configured to command an associated device. The at least one sensor module detects orientation of the body part. The at least one sensor module sends output signals related to orientation of the user's body part to the device module and the device module controls the associated device based on the signals from the at least one sensor module. |
| US10130301B2 |
Devices and methods for remote hydration measurement
Devices and methods are described for a hand-held hydration monitor including a viewfinder including one or more alignment features configured to align with a target on a subject; a micro-impulse radar component; a data storage component including stored information associated with reference reflected pulses correlated with reference hydration states; a user interface; and a computing component including a processor and circuitry, the circuitry including micro-impulse radar control circuitry configured to actuated the micro-impulse radar component, and hydration determination circuitry configured to receive information associated with one or more reflected pulses from a tissue associated with the target on the subject and to compare the information associated with the one or more reflected pulses from the tissue associated with the target on the subject with the stored information associated with the reference reflected pulses correlated with the reference hydration states to determine a relative hydration state of the tissue. |
| US10130300B2 |
Apparatus and method for estimating anaerobic threshold
An apparatus for estimating an anaerobic threshold may include a heart rate detector configured to detect a heart rate from a signal sensed from a user, and an anaerobic threshold estimator configured to estimate an anaerobic threshold of the user based on a change in the detected heart rate. |
| US10130299B2 |
Neurofeedback eyeglasses
Thermal measurements of the forehead can be indicative of brain activity, and as such, may be useful for conducting brain-related treatments, such as neurofeedback. In one embodiment, a system for conducting a neurofeedback session includes an inward-facing head-mounted thermal camera (CAM) and a user interface. CAM takes thermal measurements of a region on the forehead (THF) of a user, and is located below the middle of the region. The user interface provides, based on THF, the neurofeedback session for the user. Optionally, a computer controls the neurofeedback session by providing the user feedback via the user interface. The computer may generate the feedback based on the similarity between a current THF pattern and a previous THF pattern of the user taken while the user was in a target state. |
| US10130295B2 |
Method for the detection and staging of liver fibrosis from image acquired data
This invention relates to methods for ascertaining at least one of liver fibrosis or cirrhosis in a subject, by processing of one or more medical images of the liver, using a computing machine, to quantify nodularity of the surface of the liver and calculate a liver surface nodularity score. |
| US10130289B2 |
Pulse and confidence indicator displayed proximate plethysmograph
According to some embodiments of the present invention, a display is used to show an indication of the signal's quality. This indication of the signal's quality may be provided in a number of ways, including audibly or visually. |
| US10130286B2 |
Pressure-sensing device with biplanar sensor array
A pressure-sensing device is disclosed, which includes a pressure sensor pad. The pressure sensor pad includes a first planar substrate, a second planar substrate, first signal lines, second signal lines, a plurality of rows of first sensor components, and a plurality of columns of second sensor components. The first signal lines and the rows of first sensor components are formed on the first planar substrate, and each row of the first sensor components is connected to a corresponding one of the first signal lines. The second planar substrate is disposed opposite to the first planar substrate. The second signal lines and the columns of second sensor components are formed on the second planar substrate, and each column of the second sensor components is connected to a corresponding one of the second signal lines, where the second sensor components face the first sensor components respectively. |
| US10130285B1 |
Wearable apparatus for patient tracking
An apparatus for tracking patients utilizes a wristband with integrated radio frequency circuits (RFIC). The wristband may further incorporate an antenna on a flex PCB. The wristband may also be disposable and comprising means for replacing the RFIC. |
| US10130281B2 |
Device for measuring bioimpedances
The device is used to measure bioimpedances and has in each case at least one measurement electrode for each foot and each hand of a person who is to be measured. The electrodes are connected to an evaluation unit. In addition, at least one balance is used to determine a body weight of the person who is to be measured. The hand electrodes, provided for contact with the hands of the person who is to be measured, are arranged in the area of at least one positionable support element. |
| US10130276B2 |
Medical apparatus
An apparatus comprising a plurality of electrically conductive elements for transmitting an electrical signal from a sensor to a medical device is described, wherein the electrically conductive elements are moveable between a first stored position and a second in use position. In this manner the apparatus provides an interface between the sensor and the medical device such that the length of each of the electrically conductive elements can be varied and adjusted such that the excess amount of the elements is minimized and the functionality of the sensors and/or medical device maximized. |
| US10130273B2 |
Device and method having automatic user-responsive and user-specific physiological-meter platform
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a CPU and a memory circuit that has user-corresponding data stored on the memory circuit, and a platform over which a plurality of electrodes are interleaved, and configured for engaging the user. While the plurality of electrodes is concurrently contacting a limb or other extremity of the user, measurement signals are obtained from the plurality of electrodes. Based on a plurality of impedance-measurement signals being obtained from the electrodes, signals are generated that correspond to cardiovascular timings specific to the user. In such aspects of the present disclosure, pulse characteristic signals are determined based on the plurality of impedance-measurement signals and comparisons of user-obtained data are made relative to user-data profiles stored in the memory circuit. |
| US10130272B2 |
Personal safety and security mobile application responsive to changes in heart rate
A software app for a mobile device is disclosed for alerting a custodian of a person to be protected of an emergency situation involving the person to be protected. The app includes software instructions for carrying out a method including: establishing a range of normal heart rates for the person using a heart rate monitor; detecting a heart rate for the person that is outside of the established range; activating at least one of a camera, a microphone, an accelerometer, and a location indicator on the mobile device carried by the person; establishing a wireless data connection between the mobile device and a communication network; and transmitting data to the custodian from the activated camera, microphone, accelerometer, or location indicator via the communication network. The app can notify a custodian of a medical or safety emergency as it is happening, giving that custodian the ability to immediately notify emergency personnel. |
| US10130264B2 |
Polysiloxane elastomer containing liquid crystal lateral chain, and smart watch made from the same
A polysiloxane elastomer containing liquid crystal lateral chain, and a smart watch made therefrom are disclosed. The polysiloxane elastomer containing liquid crystal lateral chain includes a polysiloxane backbone chain and a lateral chain formed by a liquid crystalline monomer and connected with the polysiloxane backbone chain, wherein the polysiloxane backbone chain is crosslinked by a crosslinking agent. |
| US10130259B2 |
Systems for optical imaging of biological tissues
A fiber-based polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) system uses a new polarization diversity detection (PDD) scheme and requires no active polarization modulating components. Retardation of the sample can be determined from amplitudes of arbitrarily-oriented x- and y-components of the reflected light. A hybrid custom 50/50 coupler with single-mode fiber inputs and polarization maintaining (PM) fiber outputs combines light from sample and reference arms of an interferometer. Another embodiment provides a system adapted to provide co-registered autofluorescence-optical coherence tomography (AF-OCT) imaging. AF excitation light is introduced and collected AF light is extracted at a fiber optic rotary joint (FORJ) equipped with an embedded dichroic mirror. A probe tip that uses a clad fiber to supply light to a focusing element provides enhanced OCT and AF performance. |
| US10130257B2 |
Access system for a motor vehicle
A wrist computer to be worn on an arm of a user, comprising a detection device configured to detect at least one vital parameter of the user, and a radio module configured to, when activated, establish and maintain a wireless data connection to a radio module of another object, wherein the wrist computer comprises a control unit configured to activate the radio module of the wrist computer when the at least one vital parameter of the user is detected by the detection device, and to deactivate the radio module of the wrist computer when the at least one vital parameter of the user is no longer detected by the detection device. |
| US10130255B2 |
Tracking eye recovery
A method and system for tracking eye recovery. The method includes: receiving eye data from an eyewear, wherein the eye data includes images acquired by an image capturing device in the eyewear; analyzing the eye data to determine an eye recovery status, wherein the analyzing is carried out by comparing the eye data to an initial set of eye conditions; and providing a notification of the eye recovery status. |
| US10130252B2 |
Trial frame and method for measuring key parameter thereof
A trial frame includes a trial frame body and at least one measurement subject having a visual invariant geometric characteristic. The trial frame body has at least one key parameter. The measurement subject is disposed on the trial frame body and collaborates with a measurement method. A two-dimensional image of the measurement subject is recorded by an image capturing device when the trial frame body fits to a user, and the key parameter is deduced from the two-dimensional image of the measurement subject. |
| US10130247B2 |
Calculating light projection obstruction in human vision analysis
The present invention is the integration of formulas, algorithms, databases, and interactive interfaces. The technology results in a user friendly software application that captures, documents, and delivers the results of human vision studies via a secure web server. The present invention is a method for incorporating commercially available software having an Application Program Interface (API) for calculating the amount of vision obstruction for a particular device by producing a rendered image having pixels and designating the pixels in the rendered image to have various colors. Certain types of colors are designated for representing objects in the rendered image to be visible to the user, and other types of colors are designated to represent objects which are obstructed in the rendered image. |
| US10130244B2 |
Encasement platform for smartdevice for attachment to endoscope
A case or encasement for use with a smartdevice, such as a smartphone or tablet and an endoscope is disclosed. The encasement includes a power supply, logic for controlling wireless communications, a light source, and other accessories, for use with an endoscope. In an embodiment, the encasement includes a power supply that may be used to charge a smartdevice, power a light source and a wireless communications module. Other embodiments include a mechanism for communicating between the smartdevice and the encasement to control the light source and any other accessories coupled to the encasement. |
| US10130240B2 |
Medical system
A medical system includes a light source apparatus, an operating field monitor, and a system controller. The system controller includes a discriminating section and a control section configured to perform control to display, when an endoscopic image is displayed on the operating field monitor, a voice operation main screen for instructing operation of a controlled apparatuses and the endoscopic image on the operating field monitor and display, when the endoscopic image is not displayed on the operating field monitor, a voice operation screen for performing a check of operation states of the controlled apparatuses and an operation instruction of the controlled apparatuses on the operating field monitor. |
| US10130239B2 |
Filter assembly for a dishwasher appliance
A filter assembly for filtering a wash fluid to be circulated by a circulation pump in a dishwasher appliance includes a discharge blade defining lateral, transverse and vertical directions. The discharge blade includes a blade hub and a pair of opposing blades, and each of the opposing blades extend outward from the blade hub to a blade tip along the lateral direction. Further, each opposing blade may include a leading edge, a trailing edge, a top surface, and a bottom surface. The trailing edge of at least one opposing blade may be spaced apart from the leading edge along both the transverse and vertical directions, and may define a curve extending between the blade hub and blade tip along the lateral direction. Still further, the top surface of the at least one opposing blade may define a slope between the leading edge and the trailing edge along the transverse direction. |
| US10130233B2 |
Robot cleaner
A robot cleaner that sweeps dust on the floor toward its center and absorbs the dust through a small-area inlet with a strong suction force, by a cleaning tool that integrates functions of side brushes and a main brush into one. The present disclosure also provides a robot cleaner that enables a large-diameter foreign material to be guided to and effectively absorbed through the inlet without interference by a cleaning tool. The robot cleaner includes a main unit including a fan motor and a dust collector and having an inlet arranged on a base to absorb foreign materials, and a cleaning tool arranged in the bottom of the base, extending to a front side of the base from the inlet and guiding a foreign material on a floor to a side of the inlet, wherein the cleaning tool is arranged to be movable by an external force. |
| US10130228B2 |
Robot cleaning system and control method having wireless electric power charge function
Provided are a wirelessly charged robot cleaner in a robot cleaning system and a controlling method thereof. The wirelessly charged robot may include a target resonator to receive a resonance power through energy-coupling with a source resonator of a wireless power transmitter, a wireless power receiving unit to convert the received resonance power into a rated voltage, and a battery controller to check a remaining capacity of the battery based on a scope of a predetermined area to be cleaned, and to charge, using the rated voltage, the battery based on the remaining capacity of the battery. |
| US10130223B2 |
Vacuum cleaning device with a tank-type vacuum cleaner
The invention relates to a vacuum cleaning device with a tank-type vacuum cleaner, a suction hose which is connected to the housing of the tank-type vacuum cleaner, and a filter bag. The tank-type vacuum cleaner has a motor fan unit which is designed such that the average electric input power of the fan unit ranges from 1000 W to 200 W and results in a vacuum of more than 12.5 kPa in the measuring chamber when using aperture 6 and a vacuum of more than 4.0 kPa in the measuring chamber when using aperture 8 in the event of an average electric power input ranging from 1000 W to 800 W; a vacuum of more than 10.0 kPa in the measuring chamber when using aperture 6 and a vacuum of more than 3.4 kPa in the measuring chamber when using aperture 8 in the event of an average electric power input ranging from 799 W to 600 W; a vacuum of more than 7.0 kPa in the measuring chamber when using aperture 6 and a vacuum of more than 2.5 kPa in the measuring chamber when using aperture 8 in the event of an average electric power input ranging from 599 W to 400 W; and a vacuum of more than 4.0 kPa in the measuring chamber when using aperture 6 and a vacuum of more than 1.4 kPa in the measuring chamber when using aperture 8 in the event of an average electric power input ranging from 399 W to 200 W. The suction hose has an average cross-sectional area of at least 9 cm2, in particular at least 11 cm2 or 13 cm2, and the filter bag has a bag surface area between 2500 cm2 and 5000 cm2 and is a disposable filter bag made of a nonwoven fabric. |
| US10130222B2 |
Biotechnology toilet provided with decomposing process device, and ready-to-assemble lavatory provided with same
A biotechnology toilet provided with a decomposing process device and a non-flush toilet bowl attached to a toilet bowl attachment plate that covers the toilet bowl opening of the decomposing process device, in which: the conveying blades are disposed at both ends of the rotation shaft; a circumferential stirring member that stirs an organic waste and a sawdust in a circumferential direction is fastened to each of the rotation shaft between the conveying blade and the internal side face of the process tank; two drive mechanisms are provided on an outer side face of the process tank, the two rotation shafts are driven and rotated by the respective drive mechanisms connected one by one to the respective rotation shafts; the two drive mechanisms are controlled by a single control device of the decomposing process device via different control circuits. |
| US10130217B2 |
Nut cracker with mechanical advantage
A nut cracking device with a frame having elongated, parallel members that surround a mechanical advantage device, such as a hydraulic jack. Top and bottom channel members are mounted at opposite ends of the frame members to separate the frame members and form a rigid frame structure. An anvil with texture to reduce slipping and increase pressure is mounted to the top member and extends toward the jack, on which a table is mounted. A nut may be placed on the table. Upon displacement of the jack's shaft, the table moves toward the anvil and any nut on the table is clamped, and ultimately fractured, between the table and the anvil. A hand-grippable knob permits manual bypass of a valve to permit the table to be pulled away from the anvil by springs mounted to the table. |
| US10130215B2 |
Coffee bean container
Coffee bean container, in particular a double bean container, for releasably fixing on a coffee grinder or a coffee machine with an integrated coffee grinder, with a first bean compartment (3) comprising a first bean outlet (6) and with at least one second bean compartment (4) comprising a second bean outlet (6), with closure means (12) assigned to the bean outlets (5, 6) for closing the bean outlets (5, 6), with locking means (13) for locking the bean container to the coffee grinder or to the coffee machine, and with an actuating element (8) actuatable by a user and moveable relative to the bean compartments (3, 4), wherein the actuating element (8) is designed and arranged for both opening all bean outlets (5, 6) and for locking the locking means (13), in particular with a single actuating movement, and/or both for closing all bean outlets (5, 6) and unlocking the locking means (12), in particular with a single actuating movement. |
| US10130208B2 |
Pod-holder
The present invention relates to a pod-holding device (100) for a beverage dispensing machine. The pod-holding device comprises a first (7) and a second (11) extraction subunit, the first extraction subunit (7) sealingly closing against the second subunit (11) so as to form, when closed, an extraction chamber for the pod, and, when open, allow insertion of the pod between the two subunits (7, 11). |
| US10130195B2 |
System and method for smart retail display
The present system relates to methods and apparatus for displaying retail information. Specially, the present system provides a system for displaying retail information specified by a retailer or a consumer and real-time monitoring of retail product for the retailer. For example, this allows a retailer to send promotional offers to a consumer operated external device, the retailer to keep real-time inventory of products, and the consumer to request the location of a product in a retail outlet. Additionally, the described system provides methods and apparatus for theft detection of a retail product. |
| US10130193B2 |
Display case door assembly with vacuum panel and lighting features
A display case door assembly for a temperature-controlled storage device includes a vacuum panel, a hinge rail, and a lighting element. The vacuum panel includes a first vacuum pane, a second vacuum pane, and an evacuated gap between the first and second vacuum panes. The evacuated gap provides thermal insulation for the vacuum panel. The hinge rail is coupled to an edge of the vacuum panel and configured to rotate along with the vacuum panel between an open position and a closed position. The lighting element is coupled to at least one of the edge rail and the vacuum panel and configured to emit light toward an interior of the temperature-controlled storage device when the hinge rail and vacuum panel are in at least the closed position. |
| US10130191B2 |
Convertible children's walker
A convertible children's walker device includes a seated walker portion and a standing walker portion. The standing walker portion is detachably mounted to the seated walker portion in a first seated-support mode wherein the standing walker portion is used in combination with the seated walker portion, and the standing walker portion is detached from the seated walker portion in a standing-support mode of use independent of the seated walker portion. |
| US10130190B2 |
Ergonomic twin baby carrier
A child carrier for carrying two children of the same or different sizes, the carrying being by only a first person in a first configuration and the carrying being by the first person and a second person in a second configuration, has first and second child carrier portions including first and second carrier pouches, respectively, each pouch attached at its bottom to a waist support, shoulder straps, and second shoulder straps independent of any child carrier portions in the first configuration and independent of any waist support such that the second shoulder straps are not directly connected to any waist support in either the first or second configuration . The first and second child carrier portions are configured to be secured to the shoulder straps in the first configuration. The second child carrier portion is configured for complete removal from the shoulder straps and for attachment to the second shoulder straps to create an independent child carrier worn by the second person in the second configuration. |
| US10130188B2 |
3-in-1 convertible furniture piece
A convertible furniture piece includes a base frame, pivotable arms connected to the base frame, and a back member rotatably connected to the pivotable arms, the back member comprising first and second portions coupled together by a linkage system. The connection of the pair of pivotable arms to the base frame comprises a first pivot point that enables translation of the back member between a generally upright couch position and a horizontal table position, with the first and second portions of the back member being joined in each of the couch position and the table position. The connection of the back member to the pair of pivotable arms comprises a second pivot point that enables translation of the back member between a generally upright couch position and a bed position, with the first and second portions of the back member being rotated relative to one another in the bed position. |
| US10130187B1 |
Kneeler
A kneeler for supporting a person in a kneeling position has a platform including a cushion for a person's knees when in a kneeling position. The corners of the platform have pockets for holding upright handles and allowing the upright handles to be separated from the platform. The handles facilitate a person to use their arms to move from an upright position to a kneeling position and move back from a kneeling position to an upright position. |
| US10130182B2 |
Layered structure for a seat cushion
A seat cushion having a layered structure including at least a surface layer unit and a cushion layer unit disposed below the surface layer unit, characterized in that the cushion layer unit includes at least one nonwoven layer and at least one spacer crocheted-fabric and/or spacer knitted-fabric layer. A seat cushion of a seating furniture or an automobile seat or an office seating furniture or an aircraft seat are exemplary embodiments of the seat cushion mentioned above. |
| US10130179B2 |
Apparatus and method for a chair runner
A chair runner having a first end and a second end and comprising a first side having a first recessed portion and a second recessed portion, a second side that is substantially arcuate and an attachment means. The first recessed portion is disposed adjacent to the first end and the second recessed portion is disposed adjacent to the second end, the first recessed portion is adapted to removably receive a first leg of a stationary chair and the second recessed portion is adapted to removably receive a second leg of the stationary chair, and the attachment means is adapted to removably secure the chair runner to the stationary chair. A method for converting a stationary chair having at least four legs into a rocking chair comprising removably attaching each of the at least one pair of chair runners to two legs of the stationary chair. |
| US10130178B1 |
Rail mount systems
An improved rail mount system which makes it possible to mount new equipment trays onto a component panel without complete disassembly using newly designed hardware. The newly designed hardware makes it possible to lock the nut in place and countersink the screw in such a manner as to prevent the “splitting” or opening of the rail extrusions. |
| US10130171B2 |
Insulated transport cabinets for food and the like
The present disclosure provides an insulated transport cabinet for food or the like having a housing, a door, a hinge cover, and a hinge pin. The housing includes a barrel portion adjacent to a front surface and extending between top and bottom ends. The barrel portion includes a longitudinal axis, a gap separating the barrel portion into top and bottom barrel sections having first and second passageways aligned with the longitudinal axis, respectively. The door includes a hinge adjacent to a side surface and including a third passageway aligned with the longitudinal axis. An inner surface of the hinge pin complements an outer surface of the hinge. The hinge pin passes through the first, third, and second passageways. The door pivots about the longitudinal axis between an open position and a closed position. The longitudinal axis is offset from a center plane of the door. |
| US10130166B1 |
Collapsible table assembly
A collapsible table assembly includes a table for supporting objects. A plurality of legs is provided and each of the legs is removably coupled to the table. A plurality of containers is provided and each of the containers is removably coupled to the table thereby inhibiting the containers from falling over. A plurality of mating members is provided and each of the mating members is coupled to the table. A pouch is selectively suspended from the mating members and the pouch stores objects. |
| US10130164B2 |
Collapsible gantry car wash
A gantry style car wash assembly is disclosed. The car wash assembly has two opposing support pillars, a transverse gantry member, first and second opposed wall segments, and a brush mounted about a shaft. The transverse gantry member extends between the two opposing support pillars, and is moveable up and down relative to said two opposing support pillars. Each of the first and second opposed walls defines a portion of two opposing channels. The first and second removable wall segments are removably mountable above the first and second wall segments. Each wall segment includes a vertical extension channel that extends one of the two opposing channels substantially to said transverse gantry member. The brush extends between said first and second pillars, and that is mounted within said two opposing channels for upward and downward movement of said brush. |
| US10130161B2 |
Backpack with suspension arrangement
A backpack includes a pack body, two length-adjustable shoulder straps extended from the pack body for allowing the wearer to wear the pack body at the wearer's back, and a suspension arrangement which includes a resilient unit provided between the pack body and the shoulder straps for absorbing a bounding force of the pack body. Therefore, the resilient unit allows a relative movement of the pack body with respect to each of the shoulder straps but minimizes the relative movement of the pack body by absorbing the bounding force of the pack body. The resilient unit is also arranged for evenly distributing a loading force of the pack body to each of the shoulder straps, such that the resilient unit absorbs the bounding force of the pack body at different directions so as to balance the uneven loading force at the pack body. |
| US10130160B1 |
Backpack with quick deploying body armor
A backpack with quick deploying body armor includes a backpack having a front compartment and rear compartment which has an opening on the top of the backpack; the opening can be closed by a flap which has open and closed positions; the flap can be locked to the top of the backpack. A rear ballistic panel is attached to the vertical face of the rear compartment. A front ballistic panel module has two connecting straps connecting to the bottom face of the rear compartment and two pulling straps. The front ballistic panel module has a storage position and deployed position. In the storage to position, the front ballistic panel is in the rear compartment and the pulling straps are attached to the shoulder straps of the backpack. In the deployed position, the front ballistic panel is out of the rear compartment and the pulling strap is fastened to the body of the wearer by connecting the end of the pulling strap. |
| US10130151B2 |
Hard-shell luggage with combination of shells and ring frames
A hard-shell luggage includes two shells connected together to form a storage space therein. Each of the shells has a rigid panel and an annular frame connected together. Two stop mechanisms are provided on the shells to be abutted against the rigid panels respectively to stop a movement of the panels so as to increase a structural strength of the luggage. |
| US10130149B1 |
Airtight and waterproof slide fastener woven from nylon
The present invention provides a novel airtight and waterproof slide fastener woven from nylon, comprising a fastener tape and a fastener element. The nylon fastener element is woven on a tape made of high-strength polyester threads. A thermoplastic polyurethane eslatormer (TPU) layer is formed on the fastener tape on the back of the slide fastener. The TPU layer is permeated into gaps on the fastener tape and into gaps on the fastener element, and the TPU layer on the back of the fastener element has a thickness greater than that of the TPU layer at the location of the fastener tape to form a first TPU ridge. The first TPU ridge is cut from the middle. The surface of the first TPU ridge is heated and then squeezed to form a second TPU ridge. |
| US10130142B2 |
Article of footwear with knitted component having biased inter-toe member
An article of footwear includes a sole structure and an upper that is attached to the sole structure. The upper includes a forefoot region that is configured to receive a plurality of toes of a foot. The upper includes a first zone having a first elasticity, a second zone having a second elasticity, and a third zone having a third elasticity. The third zone is disposed between the first zone and the second zone. The third elasticity is greater than the first elasticity and the second elasticity. The third zone is configured to bias the first zone and the second zone toward each other. The third zone is biased generally toward the sole structure and configured to be received in a space located between two of the plurality of toes of the foot. |
| US10130141B2 |
Article of footwear with sole member
An article of footwear has a sole member with an exposed central torsion bar or rod connecting the heel region of the sole member to the forefoot region of the sole member. The torsion bar or rod may be supported at either end by sockets of the sole member. The torsion bar or rod may also be supported at one or more intermediate points by a hollow component. This hollow component may itself be supported by ribs extending to the medial and lateral sides of the sole member, respectively. The torsion bar or rod, the sockets, the hollow component and the ribs form a suspension structure connecting the forefoot region of the sole member to the heel region of the sole member. |
| US10130134B2 |
Protective headgear
A protective headgear device including a fabric cap (102) into which a hard shell (120) of reinforced fibers is inserted. A foam liner 140 or foam inserts (1500) are secured to the hard outer shell 120 and serve a shock absorbing function. The foam liner (14) and/or foam inserts (120) include or form grooves and/or channels used to direct hot air towards the top center of the headgear assembly where the hot air can be vented through holes which extend through the cap (102) and hard outer shell (120). The holes may pass through the foam liner 140 or meet up with holes on channels in or between the foam inserts through which air can pass. The hard outer shell may be thinnest on top and thicker on the left and right sides. The center front and rear may be the same thickness as the top of the hard shell. |
| US10130130B2 |
Magnetic fastener assemblies
A clasp assembly is provided. The clasp assembly includes a first clasp member, a second clasp member, a first magnet, and a metallic component. The first clasp member defines a first cavity sized to receive a first portion of a zipper, and defines a first portion extending over the first cavity. The second clasp member defines a second cavity sized to receive a second portion of the zipper, and defines an overhang. The first magnet is secured to one of the first portion of the first clasp member and the overhang of the second clasp member. The metallic component is secured to another of the first portion of the first clasp member and the overhang of the second clasp member. The overhang is sized to receive the first portion of the first member to align the first magnet and the metallic component for magnetic interaction therebetween. |
| US10130129B2 |
Insulated composite fabric
An insulated composite fabric has an inner fabric layer, an outer fabric layer, and an insulating-filler layer enclosed there between. The insulating-filler layer is a textile fabric with at least one raised surface. One side of the insulating-filler layer comprises a first surface with relatively high pile, including regions of no pile or relatively low pile interspersed among regions of relatively high pile. The other side of the insulating-filler layer comprises a second surface with relatively high pile, including regions of no pile or relatively low pile interspersed among regions of relatively high pile. Interconnecting piles are formed with regions of the relatively high pile of the first pile surface and regions of the relatively high pile of the second pile surface. |
| US10130125B2 |
Bib garment for protecting baby's and patient's clothing
A bib garment for protecting a baby's clothing is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a bib garment comprises an inner section, the inner section comprising a front layer constructed using a soft absorbent material and a liquid-proof material, the inner section further comprising a first back layer constructed using a soft hypo-allergenic material. The bib garment further comprises an outer section, the outer section comprising a back layer constructed using a liquid-proof material. A top end of the inner section and top end of the outer section are joined at a fold line. The bib garment further comprises a first strap and a second strap, each of the first and second straps having a first end attached to the fold line and a second end having removable attachment materials, wherein the second end of the first strap is removably attachable to the second end of the second strap. |
| US10130124B2 |
Low temperature heat not burn electronic cigarette
The present invention relates to a low-temperature heat-not-burn electronic cigarette comprised of the first holder including a pipe and a mounting plate with the mounting plate connected to the external wall of the pipe. The mounting plate and the second holder are connected to form an inner cavity with a control plate fixed in the inner cavity and the second holder having a key linked to the buttons on the control plate with the buffer pads. The pipe has a corrugated internal wall and a movable cigarette cartridge. The pipe is inserted into an outer pipe. The outer pipe has an insulation retaining bracket and a battery with the insulation retaining bracket having an installation slot facing the cigarette cartridge and the heating coil on the installation slot. |
| US10130122B2 |
Supply item for vapor generating device
A fluid supply, can ridge fir a vapor generating device that includes an ejection head structure and a fluid reservoir body for removable attachment to the ejection head structure. The ejection head structure contains an ejection head and a flexible circuit attached to an ejection head structure for electrical communication with the ejection head. The fluid reservoir body includes a vaporizing fluid therein, a fluid supply port in fluid flow communication with the vaporizing fluid, and a fluid port seal for the fluid supply port. |
| US10130121B2 |
Method and apparatus for cleaning a heating element of aerosol generating device
A method of using an aerosol-generating device is provided, including bringing a heating element of the aerosol-generating device into contact with an aerosol-forming substrate, raising a temperature of the heating element to a first temperature to heat the aerosol-forming substrate sufficiently to form an aerosol, removing the heating element from contact with the aerosol-forming substrate and heating the heating element to a second temperature, higher than the first temperature, to thermally liberate organic materials adhered to or deposited on the heating element. An aerosol-generating device is also provided, including a heating element coupled to a controller configured to heat the heating element to the first temperature and to the second temperature. |
| US10130119B2 |
Electronic vaporiser system
An electronic cigarette vaporizer system operable in a ‘power’ mode to increase the amount of vapor produced by a vaporizer that forms part of the system, compared to normal, whilst monitoring the temperature of a heating element in the vaporizer to ensure that excessively high temperatures, associated with undesirable compounds in the vapor produced by the heating element, are not reached. The system includes a button or sensor that alters the operation of the heating element in such a way as to increase the vapor produced, compared to normal. |
| US10130111B2 |
Flavor station assembly
A flavor station assembly can be employed to dispense snow cone flavors or other types of flavoring syrups or liquids. The flavor station assembly can include one or more saucer assemblies where each saucer assembly is configured to dispense a number of flavors. Each saucer assembly can be coupled to a support assembly that is configured to pivot thereby enabling the saucer assemblies to be positioned in a desired location relative to the structure to which the support assembly is mounted. |
| US10130107B2 |
Processing device for processing slaughtered and plucked poultry carcasses, comprising poultry-support devices and poultry-processing devices
A processing system for processing slaughtered and defeathered poultry bodies, comprising a plurality of processing devices which, for the processing-transport of the poultry bodies separately from a main conveyor device, is designed with a processing-holding means which is movable on a circular path. The processing system has transfer stations arranged in succession along a main conveyor line, in which the poultry bodies are transported in a suspended manner by carrier devices. Each processing device is assigned a transfer station which is formed by a transfer pair having two rotary transfer devices. The first rotary transfer device removes the poultry bodies from the carrier devices and transfers them to the processing-holding means of the processing device. The second rotary transfer device removes the processed poultry bodies from the processing-holding means of the processing device and transfers them to the carrier devices. Each carrier device has a pair of carriers with receivers for limbs of the poultry body and comprises a carrier-control device. Each carrier is configured with a controllable holding device which is connected with the carrier-control device via a control element that controls a holding member of the limb receiver. The limb receiver is open in an open position of the controllable holding member for the clamping-free insertion and removal of the poultry body limbs. The poultry-processing device has a processing-control device with which the processing-holding means is connected and is controllable along its circular path, namely in a starting position for receiving a poultry body, at least one processing position, and an end position for removing the poultry body. |
| US10130106B2 |
Device and method for separating a wishbone from a poultry carcass
A wishbone separator device for separating a wishbone from a poultry carcass includes a primary wishbone cutter including a front cutter portion including a central front apex, a left and a right front cutting edge, which diverge from said central front apex, a wishbone limb cutter portion, including a left and a right limb cutting edge. An intersection point of an extension of the left limb cutting edge and an extension of the right limb cutting edge is arranged on a center line parallel to the cutting direction through the central front apex. The left and right front cutting edge are arranged forward of the left and right limb cutting edge, respectively as seen in the cutting direction and outward relative to said imaginary extension line from the left and right limb cutting edge, respectively. |
| US10130103B2 |
Liquid sabadilla extract
The present invention is directed to methods of producing liquid sabadilla extract. Thea invention also relates to methods for controlling pests by application of liquid sabadilla seed extract to pests' environment or to pests. |
| US10130102B2 |
Dry, flowable sabadilla extract
The invention relates to methods for preparing a dry, flowable sabadilla extract and to methods of its use as a pesticide. |
| US10130099B2 |
Modulation of plant immune system function
Immune function of a plant can be modulated by administering a composition comprising beta glucan, where the beta glucan includes unbranched beta-(1,3)-glucan. Such unbranched beta-(1,3)-glucan can be obtained from Euglena, including heterotrophically grown Euglena. The unbranched beta-(1,3)-glucan can be in the form of paramylon and/or can be part of algae meal. The composition can further include a fertilizer, a pesticide, a fungicide, a bactericide, combinations thereof, as well as one or more various plant immune system modulators other than beta glucan. The wellbeing of the plant seed, seedling, mature plant, or harvested plant product can accordingly be improved. |
| US10130094B2 |
Pesticidal/ovicidal composition and pesticidal/ovicidal method
A pesticidal/ovicidal composition comprising: (a) 50-99.9 parts by mass of a triglyceride containing not less than 50% of oleic acid as a fatty acid component; (b) 0.1-20 parts by mass of a nonionic surface active agent; and (c) 0-30 parts by mass of a glycerin derivative. The composition according to the invention has not only a pesticidal activity but also an ovicidal activity on crop pests, and provides a safe and high pesticidal/ovicidal effect. |
| US10130091B2 |
Agrochemical emulsifiable concentrate formulation
An agrochemical emulsifiable concentrate (EC) formulation comprising at least one agrochemical active ingredient; at least one surfactant emulsifier; optionally, a stabilizer; and a primary solvent system, wherein the solvent system is selected from benzyl acetate or a combination of benzyl acetate and at least one substantially water-immiscible co-solvent. |
| US10130088B2 |
Fishing tackle box
A box for transporting fishing tackle. The tackle box may include a tackle box housing having a rigid outer shell enclosing a first internal cavity and with openings at a front and back end, which may be covered by adjustable closure panels that themselves have receptacles for fishing tackle. The tackle box housing may further include an inside wall, or multiple such walls, having a plurality of lure retaining holes disposed therethrough, each of the lure retaining holes defined by the inside wall having a substantially round wide portion and at least one substantially rectangular narrow portion extending from the wide portion. This wall may be integrated with the tackle box housing or may be provided in a separate insert, and may be formed from a transparent material if desired. Other containers, such as drawers, may also be provided in the tackle box housing or in the insert. |
| US10130085B2 |
Spool brake device for dual-bearing reel
A spool brake device for a dual-bearing reel, the spool brake device includes a spool brake, a rotation detector, and a spool controller. The spool brake can electrically brake a spool during a releasing of a fishing line by applying a braking force to the spool. The rotation detector can electrically detect a rotation of the spool. The spool controller can determine whether a terminal tackle has landed on water based on an output from the rotation detector after a starting of a casting, and can control the spool brake such that the braking force is maintained at a magnitude when a determination that the terminal tackle has landed on water, the magnitude equal to a magnitude of the braking force at a point of time the determination is made that the terminal tackle has landed on water. |
| US10130083B2 |
Line roller and spinning reel for fishing having same
A line roller for guiding the fishing line onto a spool of a spinning reel for fishing includes a cylindrical guide member including a guide surface for guiding the fishing line on the outer perimeter, an axle bearing member that rotatably supports an inner perimeter surface of the guide member, a support member that supports the axle bearing member, and a grease holding unit that forms a space leading from the axle bearing member to the guide member and that holds a water-repellent grease in the space. |
| US10130082B2 |
Angler kit and method for personalized hand production of fishing lures
An angler's personalized fishing lure skirt composition and production kit and a method for personalized production of fishing lure skirts, including angler personalized fishing lure skirts having body tendrils and a combination of body tendrils and elongated, fishing lure tail tendrils. |
| US10130080B2 |
Obesity animal model and methods for making and using thereof
The application provides, among others, methods for constructing animal obesity models, methods for screening microorganism or composition of microorganisms that may cause obesity, methods for screening therapeutic targets for treating metabolic disorders, and methods for screening or evaluating microorganisms, compounds, food, recipes, formulations, drugs, nutritional supplements, healthcare products, beverages and other items for preventing and treating metabolic diseases. |
| US10130074B1 |
Poop pickup tool
A poop pickup tool with a first and second flexible panel, a handle sheet holding member and a frame retaining bracket. The first and second panels each have a diamond shaped frame member at their distal end. The first panel has a hand grip at its proximal end. Flat holding brackets slidably retain the first panel and second panels. The second panel has a perpendicularly disposed handle portion. The frame retaining bracket is attached to the second panel at the lower end of the frame member so that a user can place the first and second diamond shaped frame members over a plastic sheet that covers a portion of poop and then slide the first panel backward to trap the plastic sheet and enclose the poop between the rear portion of the first frame and the front portion of the second frame. |
| US10130071B2 |
Animal cage
An animal cage is described suitable for automated use in a vivarium. The cage comprises a study animal; bedding; pathogens; a wireless, a sterilizable scale comprising a sterile case comprising a flexible, penetrated membrane; and a penetrating fastener penetrating the membrane. The comprises four internal volume areas with respect to pathogen content: (1) volume between the membrane and a weighing platform, free of bedding; (2) a sterile volume inside the scale case below the membrane; (3) a vertical channel fluidly connecting the inside of the cage with the first volume; and (4) the inside of the cage outside of the above three volumes. These four volumes are sterilely isolated from air outside the cage. Electronics in the scale communicate wirelessly, through the cage, to cage-associated electronics outside the cage, using narrow beam communications free of device-ID specific protocol. The scale may be disassembled, sterilized in a fluid, re-assembled, and re-used in a different cage. |
| US10130070B2 |
Washing machine with a low number of nozzles
A washing machine (1) for washing animal cages and/or other equipment or accessories used in animal facilities and/or in research laboratories, comprising a washing chamber (2); a plurality of rods (3) arranged inside the washing chamber (2) and designed for spraying a fluid on a load to be washed, each rod (3) comprising a plurality of nozzles (4) for the inlet of said fluid in said washing chamber (2); pumping means associated with the rods (3) to feed the fluid to the nozzles (4); the machine 1 comprises a maximum of six of such rods (3). |
| US10130069B2 |
Production method for animal excrement treatment material and production device therefor
A production method for animal excretion treatment material and a production device therefor, having a step in which a raw material is pulverized and a pulverized material is obtained and a step in which the pulverized material is granulized. In the step in which the pulverized material is obtained, the raw material is pulverized by a pulverizer and the pulverized material is obtained. The pulverizer has: an insertion port for the raw material; a pulverization chamber for the raw material; a pulverization mechanism provided inside the pulverization chamber; a mesh screen through which passes the raw material pulverized by the pulverization mechanism and having a plurality of openings; and a discharge port connected to the openings in the mesh screen. |
| US10130068B2 |
Cartridge, and a teat cup
A teatcup to be attached to a teat of an animal to be milked includes a connector and a cartridge received in the connector. The cartridge includes a sleeve having an upper end and a lower end, a teatcup liner mounted in the sleeve and having an inner space for receiving the teat, and a pulsation chamber provided between the sleeve and the teatcup liner. The teatcup liner includes an upper end portion located at the upper end of the sleeve, a barrel portion and a lower end portion extending beyond the lower end of the sleeve. The lower end portion forms an end nozzle extending beyond the lower end of the sleeve and having a circumferential external surface. An annular seal element is provided at the circumferential external surface to seal between the lower end nozzle and the connector. |
| US10130066B2 |
Potato plant Solanum tuberosum L. denominated KI969
A new and distinct clonal line plant of Solanum tuberosum L. named KI969 and characterized by elevated levels of proteinase inhibitor II. |
| US10130062B1 |
Maize inbred PH4257
A novel maize variety designated PH4257 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH4257 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH4257 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH4257 or a locus conversion of PH4257 with another maize variety. |
| US10130061B1 |
Maize inbred PH2T6M
A novel maize variety designated PH2T6M and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2T6M with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2T6M through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH2T6M or a locus conversion of PH2T6M with another maize variety. |
| US10130060B1 |
Soybean variety 01068804
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01068804. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01068804. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01068804 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01068804 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US10130059B1 |
Soybean variety 01068801
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01068801. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01068801. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01068801 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01068801 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US10130058B1 |
Soybean variety 01064723
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01064723. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01064723. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01064723 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01064723 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US10130055B2 |
High-shelf hydroponic cultivation system equipped with solar panel
[Problem] To provide a high-shelf hydroponic cultivation system equipped with a solar panel having a large power generation amount while ensuring light quantity for a plant.[Solution] Since the high-shelf hydroponic cultivation system 80 equipped with a solar panel has a light transmitting region A provided at the solar panel 50, more light can be taken into the frame unit and can be utilized for cultivating the plants P1 and P2. Since the double-sided light receiving solar cell 52 is employed for the solar panel 50 and light reflectivity is given to the floating bench 34, the weed-proof sheet 56, the vertical frame 20b and the like, light which does not shine on the plants P1 and P2 is reflected to a light receiving region on a rear face side of the double-sided light receiving solar cell 52 and can be effectively utilized for power generation. Thus, a large power generation amount can be obtained while ensuring light quantity for the plants. |
| US10130053B2 |
Liquid dispensing system
A liquid dispensing system that includes a carrier having a storage tank disposed thereon for storing a liquid product. A boom is coupled to the carrier and includes a distribution hose through which the liquid product flows from the storage tank and into a number of liquid placement apparatuses. Each liquid placement apparatus includes a drop assembly coupled to the boom and extending downward. A base assembly is coupled to the lower end of the drop assembly and a hose assembly extends from the distribution hose to the base assembly. A lower hose assembly is protected within the base assembly and includes a pair of dribble hoses extruding from the base assembly. The liquid product is delivered proximate to the ground surface through the dribble hoses. |
| US10130050B2 |
Plant growth substrates
A man-made vitreous fiber (MMVF) plant growth substrate is provided together with an irrigation strategy for providing water to the substrate. The substrate comprises a slab having a volume of 3 to 20 liters on which a single block containing one or more plants is disposed. In the context of this substrate, it is found that an irrigation strategy can be used which comprises a first period during which the desired water content in the slab is reduced to a minimum level before increasing and a second period during which the desired water content is maintained at a substantially constant level, wherein the difference between the minimum level and the constant level expressed as a percentage of the water content required to saturate the plant growth substrate is less than or equal to 25%. This provides excellent control over the balance between vegetative and generative growth in the plant. |
| US10130049B2 |
Automated wide-ranging (large-scale) anti-hail protection method and a network
The present invention relates to hail warning and prevention.An automated method of wide-ranging anti-hail protection including reception of sky proper radiothermal emission in M sites, its comparison with corresponding thresholds, generation command signals to detonate combustible gas and to direct shock waves upwardly to the sky, generation and transmission alert signals, reception of transmitted alert signals in each M sites, comparison with proper code-signals of that site and setting alert operational mode of sonic generator.An automated network of anti-hail protection including M hail preventing sonic set in M sites of anti-hail protection area any of which comprises an antenna, a radiometric receiver, a controlled compensation device, a controlled multi-channel threshold system, a warner a transmitter, a receiver, a code-signal comparison device, a first controlling switcher, a controlled single-channel thresholder and a second controlling switcher.It is enhanced operation efficiency and is automated exploitation of an anti-hail protection network. |
| US10130046B1 |
Collapsible plant dome device
Collapsible plant dome device comprising a transparent canopy, a collapsible frame mounted on a central support member and comprising a plurality of support arms carrying the transparent canopy, a pair of diametrically opposed vent mesh openings disposed within a sidewall of the transparent canopy, a pair of diametrically opposed vent flaps each pivotally connected to a respective horizontal upper edge of each of the diametrically opposed vent mesh openings for covering and uncovering each of the diametrically opposed vent mesh openings in respective closed and open vent configurations, and at least one pair of tie down rings each interiorly mounted on a different one of a diametrically opposed pair of the plurality of support arms. In one embodiment, the device comprises a transparent skirt detachably coupled to an interior side of the transparent canopy for forming an imbricated transparent domed canopy and skirt plant enclosure. |
| US10130041B2 |
Baler with automated ejection of bales
A system for ejecting a bale from a baler, wherein the ejection process is controlled by a control unit with input from various sensors and from a remote operator located on a tractor. The control unit automatically positions a chute, controls a power take-off from the tractor, depressurizes and opens a chamber door, ties the bale, selects and causes ejector teeth to project into a forming chamber to engage the bale, causes the ejector teeth to move toward a discharge outlet such that the engaged bale moves with them toward and through the discharge outlet, and determines when the bale has fully ejected from the baler. The remote operator may choose to eject only the bale or to eject the entire contents of the forming chamber, and if the former, the control unit determines the bale's length and selects a subset of the ejector teeth that corresponds to that length. |
| US10130035B2 |
Row unit for a corn head assembly having a top plate with a structured surface
A row unit of a corn head assembly for an agricultural harvester capable of reducing grain loss is provided. The row unit includes a frame and first and second spaced apart row unit arms mounted to the frame, and a top plate. The top plate is positioned about a rear end of the frame and includes an outer surface having a retaining structure configured to inhibit a flow of grain in a forward direction along the outer surface. |
| US10130034B2 |
Sugar-cane harvester having a tubular frame
A sugar-cane harvester having a tubular frame is provided. The frame is configured for mounting a set of sugar-cane harvesting devices (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10), and is formed by a set of tubular parts linked mechanically to one another. The mechanical linking between the tubular parts that form the frame are made via at least one of rivets, soldering, or flanges. The frame may also be an exoskeleton-type frame configured for receiving all the components that form the industrial system of a sugar-cane harvester. |
| US10130033B2 |
Combine harvester with improved chopper and spreader arrangement
A combine harvester has at least one rotor oriented in the longitudinal direction of the harvester and configured to separate grains and light chaff from a stream of residue material transported to the distal end of the rotor, where said stream is ejected downwards into a chopper housing. The chopper housing has a pair of chopper wheels configured so that the stream of residue material is ejected directly into the area between said chopper wheels, with essentially no residue being allowed to enter the space between the circumference of the wheels and the sidewalls of the chopper housing. The harvester also has a spreader with a pair of laterally placed spreader openings in the chopper housing, preferably with a pair of spreader snouts mounted on said openings. |
| US10130032B2 |
Volume extending assembly for combine storage tank
An extension assembly for a processed crop storage tank on a combine. A closure assembly for a top opening on the tank has at least one panel with one surface area that is exposed to bound a part of an exterior space above the storage space with the closure assembly open. The extension assembly has a first extension panel with a first surface with a first area and a connecting system through which the first extension panel is operatively connected to the combine. The first extension panel is changeable between a deployed position and a stored position. In the deployed position the first surface and one surface define a combined exposed surface area that is greater than the first area of the first surface. The combined surface area is exposed to confine processed crop in the exterior space with the closure assembly open. |
| US10130030B2 |
Trimmer head
A spool for a trimmer head has a structure for guiding a pair of separate trimmer line pieces through a core of the spool. The spool includes separate trimmer line channels formed through the core, each channel receiving one of the trimmer line pieces. A spool cover is positionable adjacent to the spool to enclose the channels. The spool cover includes a pair of cantilever springs extending therefrom for releasably securing the trimmer line pieces within the channels. |
| US10130028B2 |
Fluid application systems including pressure dampeners
A fluid application system includes a manifold defining an internal passageway, a plurality of nozzles connected in fluid communication with the internal passageway, a plurality of electrically actuated valves for controlling fluid flow through the plurality of nozzles, where each valve of the plurality of electrically actuated valves is connected in fluid communication between the internal passageway and a corresponding one of the plurality of nozzles, and a pressure dampener connected to the manifold and configured to dampen fluctuations in fluid pressure within the internal passageway. |
| US10130027B2 |
Wheel or disc scraper and agricultural implement featuring same
A scraper employs a support arm for mounting to a frame of an agricultural implement and a frustoconically bowl-shaped scraper member rotatably supported on the support arm in a position facing the open end of the bowl toward a ground-engaging wheel or disc. Different embodiments disclose unique mounting arrangements, including embodiments where a bearing has its outer race affixed to a closed end wall of the bowl, a bushing is fastened between the inner race of the bearing and a support arm situated outside the bowl to support the bowl in a manner rotatable about the bushing at an axial distance from the support arm, and a separate outer sleeve is disposed around the bushing in a freely rotatable manner to prevent wrapped straw accumulation between the bowl and the support arm during rotating use of the scraper. |
| US10130025B2 |
Rotary cutter with parallel pivot wheels
An agricultural implement for use with a tractor. The agricultural implement comprises a main body, a hitch, a plurality of wheel support assemblies, and a pair of wheels coupled to each of the wheel support assemblies. Each of the wheel support assemblies includes a longitudinal support assembly extending rearward from the main body. The wheel support assemblies further include a transverse support assembly coupled to the longitudinal support assembly, with each of the wheels of the pair of wheels being disposed on opposite sides of the transverse support assembly, and with the transverse support assembly being rotatable relative to the main body, such that raising one wheel of the pair of wheels causes the corresponding lowering of another wheel of the pair of wheels. The wheel support assemblies also include a rotational damping mechanism for restricting rotation of the transverse assembly and the pair of wheels relative to the main body. |
| US10130022B2 |
Autonomous systems, methods, and apparatus for AG based operations
The use of self-powered, autonomous vehicles in agricultural and other domestic applications is provided. The vehicles include a self-propelled drive system, tracks or wheels operatively connected to the drive system, a power supply operatively connected to the drive system, an attachment mechanism for attaching equipment to the vehicle, and an intelligent control operatively connected to the drive system, power supply, and attachment mechanism. The vehicle is configured to connect to the equipment to perform agricultural operations based upon the equipment. Multiple vehicles can be used in a field at the same time. Furthermore, the invention includes the ability to move one or more of the autonomous vehicles from field to field, home to field, or from generally any first location to a second location. |
| US10136570B2 |
Mounted substrate, mounted-substrate production method, and mounted-substrate production device
An array substrate includes a driver, a glass substrate having a driver mounting section where the driver is mounted, an anisotropic conductive material that is interposed between the driver and driver mounting section so as to electrically connect both and that at least includes a binder made of a thermosetting resin and conductive particles in the binder, and a heat supply part provided on at least the driver mounting section of the glass substrate for supplying heat to the anisotropic conductive material. |
| US10136558B2 |
Information handling system thermal management enhanced by estimated energy states
Thermal conditions at processing components disposed in an information handling system are estimated by applying conservation of energy and component power consumption so that discrete control of information handling system exhaust temperatures is more accurately maintained. For example, a PCI backplane communications card has its power consumption estimated based upon its width so that air flow through the information handling system is adequate to meet an exhaust temperature constraint. |
| US10136556B2 |
Electronics rack with selective engagement of heat sink
An electronics rack comprising a frame, a heat sink coupled to the frame, and a cage adapted to support an electronic component. The cage is movable between first and second positions toward and away from the heat sink. The rack further includes an eccentric cam operatively positioned between the frame and the cage and being rotatable to move the cage between the first and second positions. In one embodiment, the cage comprises a cooling brick movable toward and away from the heat sink when the cage moves between the first and second positions. The cooling brick can include a first heat pipe extending generally in a first direction and a second heat pipe extending generally in a second direction transverse to the first direction. For example, the first heat pipe can be embedded in a top plate and the second heat pipe can be embedded in a top cold rail. |
| US10136554B2 |
Passive two-phase cooling with forced cooling assist
Techniques that facilitate two-phase liquid cooling electronics are provided. In one example, a system comprises a pump and a valve. The pump circulates a coolant refrigerant through a two-phase refrigerant system associated with an electronic component. The valve controls a flow path of the coolant refrigerant that flows through the two-phase refrigerant system. Furthermore, the valve modifies the flow path of the coolant refrigerant through the two-phase refrigerant system in response to a determination that an operation of the pump satisfies a defined criterion. |
| US10136551B2 |
Liquid cooling system for server
A method of cooling a computer server that includes a plurality of server modules, and is positioned in an enclosed room, includes transferring heat generated by a server module of the plurality of server modules to a hot plate of a liquid cooling system. The liquid cooling system may be positioned within the server module, and the hot plate may have a surface exposed to the enclosed room. The method may also include positioning a cold plate of a room-level cooling system in thermal contact with the hot plate. The method may also include directing a cooling medium through the room-level cooling system to transfer heat from the hot plate to a cooling unit positioned outside the room. |
| US10136550B2 |
Cold plate device for a two-phase cooling system
Techniques that facilitate two-phase liquid cooling of an electronic device are provided. In one example, an apparatus, such as a cold plate device, comprises a first stackable layer and a second stackable layer. The first stackable layer comprises a first channel formed within the first stackable layer. The first channel comprises a first channel length and the first channel receives a coolant fluid via an inlet port of the apparatus. The second stackable layer comprises a second channel that provides a path for the coolant fluid to flow between the first channel and an outlet port of the apparatus. The second channel comprise a second channel length that is different than the first channel length. |
| US10136549B2 |
Fan speed control device
A control device for a ceiling fan may have a motor drive circuit configured to control a rotational speed of a motor of the ceiling fan, an occupancy sensing circuit, and a control circuit configured to adjust the rotational speed of the motor in response to a detected occupancy or vacancy condition. The control circuit may process the signals generated by the occupancy sensing circuit to eliminate the effects of vibrations and/or wobbling of the ceiling fan. The control circuit may control the motor drive circuit to adjust the rotational speed of the motor in response to an accelerometer to minimize the magnitude of the wobble of the ceiling fan. The control circuit may be configured to learn a preferred rotational speed for the motor. The control circuit may also be configured to control the rotational speed of the motor to affect a thermal comfort level of an occupant. |
| US10136547B1 |
Retracting latch
Disclosed is a switch card assembly and chassis system, including a switch card housing, a latch base adjacent the switch card housing, the latch base including a pivot slot and a control slot, and the latch having a boundary with the chassis, a latch coupled to the latch base, the latch including a plurality of latch toes that move through the boundary of the latch base, and a plurality of pins attached to the latch and slideable within the plurality of slots, wherein the latch is rotated to lock and unlock the switch card housing in the chassis. |
| US10136545B2 |
Power module
The present invention provides a power module including a substrate and a modular housing structure. The substrate includes an electronic element disposed thereon. The modular housing structure is disposed on the substrate and located around the electronic element. The modular housing structure includes a plurality of sidewalls configured to connect with each other detachably. Each sidewall includes two connecting elements disposed on two opposite ends thereof respectively. The two connecting elements of any one of the sidewalls are connected to two corresponding connecting elements of two adjacent sidewalls respectively. Consequently, the numbers and connections of the sidewalls are adjustable and varied according to the size of the substrate so as to avoid the waste of space and enhance the power density. |
| US10136544B2 |
Dual in-line memory module connector
A dual in-line memory module (DIMM) connector can include a double data rate fourth generation (DDR4) DIMM connector to connect to a DIMM via a lowest notch of the DIMM relative to an electronic component on which the DIMM is located. |
| US10136543B1 |
Inductance-based user interface elements
Mechanisms for providing inductance-based user interface elements are provided. Some implementations of such inductance-based devices may feature very small gaps between the housing and the inductive coil, as well as various features to aid in improving sensor sensitivity and reducing the possibility of false button-push events. |
| US10136541B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), a housing, an inner cover, and an outer cover. The PCB mounts a first socket and a second socket thereon. The housing includes a first slot disposed to correspond to the first socket and a second slot disposed to correspond to the second socket. The housing receives the PCB. The inner cover opens/closes the first slot. The outer cover opens/closes the second slot. The first socket and the second socket are open toward the first slot and the second slot, respectively. When the outer cover is open, the inner cover is exposed and is in an openable state. |
| US10136538B2 |
Electronic element support frame, electronic element assembly, and electrical assembly
The present disclosure discloses an electronic element support frame, an electronic element assembly, and an electrical assembly. The electronic element support frame has a body, an isolative wall, and a pair of retaining parts. The body has an axial direction. The isolative wall is arranged to continuously extend along the axial direction of the body. The pair of retaining parts are arranged on the body and disposed at two sides of the isolative wall, respectively. The retaining parts together with the isolative wall enclose a pair of accommodating parts, respectively. The accommodating parts extend continuously along the axial direction of the isolative wall to accommodate pins of the electronic element, respectively. The electronic element support frame of the present disclosure can avoid erroneous contact between the pins of the electronic element, thereby enhancing safety performance. |
| US10136537B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
A display device includes a backlight unit generating a light and curved, a display panel curved while being disposed on the backlight unit and receiving the light to display an image, and a heat discharge bottom chassis fixing the backlight unit and the display panel to each other and curved. The backlight unit includes a light source unit generating the light and an optical member disposed on the light source unit. The heat discharge bottom chassis includes a light source unit accommodating part accommodating the light source unit, an optical member accommodating part accommodating the optical member and supporting the display panel, and a display panel accommodating part disposed on the optical member accommodating part and accommodating the display panel. The light source unit accommodating part, the optical member accommodating part, and the display panel accommodating part include a same material. |
| US10136535B2 |
Hermetically-sealed packages including feedthrough assemblies
Various embodiments of a hermetically-sealed package and methods of forming such packages are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the hermetically-sealed package can include a housing and a feedthrough assembly that forms a part of the housing. The feedthrough assembly can include a non-conductive substrate and a feedthrough. The feedthrough can include a via from an outer surface to an inner surface of the non-conductive substrate, a conductive material disposed in the via, and an external contact disposed over the via on the outer surface of the non-conductive substrate. The external contact can be electrically coupled to the conductive material disposed in the via. Further, the external contact can be hermetically sealed to the outer surface of the non-conductive substrate by a laser bond surrounding the via. |
| US10136533B2 |
Method of producing a potted electronic module
A method is provided for producing an electronic module that includes an electronic assembly with a conductor which is arranged in a housing, and which includes an electrical contact guided out through the housing wall. In the method, a protective layer is removed from an area of the conductor by ablation, and then a potting or casting compound is introduced into the housing, so that the potting compound covers a location at which the electrical contact passes through the housing wall, and the potting compound adheres directly onto the exposed conductor at the area at which the protective layer was removed. |
| US10136530B2 |
Utility vault interlocking lid seat
A vault system is provided that defines an enclosed volume to protect various electrical, water, communications and other components. The system comprises a lid to allow selective access to the contents in the enclosed volume of the vault. Over time, continued wear and tear on the lid of the vault can cause the lid to deflect inward and/or cause the body of the vault to deflect outward, which compromises the integrity of the vault. Interlock features, methods, and systems are provided transfer stress and strain between the lid and the vault, which maintain the integrity of the selective interconnection between the lid and the vault. |
| US10136522B2 |
Electrical terminal and circuit board assembly containing the same
The present disclosure includes a circuit board assembly that may include a circuit board that may include a first side and a second side opposite from the first side. The circuit board assembly may include a female terminal inserted in the first side of the circuit board and an electrical component that may be disposed at the second side. The first electrical component may include a first male terminal extending through the circuit board into the first female terminal. A female electrical terminal may include an outer wall defining an internal space and a pair of prongs extending from the outer wall and at least partially within the internal space. The pair of prongs may be disposed at a vertical distance from the top of the outer wall. |
| US10136521B2 |
Wiring board and method for manufacturing the same
A wiring board and a method for manufacturing the same enabling simple and easy formation of a conductive pattern are provided. The method comprises a transferring step of bringing a resin composition containing a first compound inducing a low surface free energy and a second compound inducing a higher surface free energy than the first compound into contact with a master on which a desired surface free energy difference pattern is formed and curing to obtain a base material to which the surface free energy difference pattern is transferred; and a conductive pattern forming step of applying a conductive coating composition onto a surface of pattern transfer of the base material to form a conductive pattern. |
| US10136518B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor having three external electrodes and board having the same
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include three external electrodes disposed on a mounting surface of a ceramic body to be spaced apart from one another. When a length of the ceramic body is defined as L, and a width of an active region including a plurality of internal electrodes disposed therein in a width direction of the ceramic body is defined as A, A/L is in a range of 0.64 to 1.14 (0.64≤A/L≤1.14). |
| US10136516B2 |
Microelectronic device attachment on a reverse microelectronic package
The present description relates to the field of fabricating microelectronic structures. The microelectronic structure may include a microelectronic substrate have an opening, wherein the opening may be formed through the microelectronic substrate or may be a recess formed in the microelectronic substrate. A microelectronic package may be attached to the microelectronic substrate, wherein the microelectronic package may include an interposer having a first surface and an opposing second surface. A microelectronic device may be attached to the interposer first surface and the interposer may be attached to the microelectronic substrate by the interposer first surface such that the microelectronic device extends into the opening. At least one secondary microelectronic device may be attached to the interposer second surface. |
| US10136515B2 |
Flexible printed circuit board
A flexible printed circuit board is disclosed. In one aspect, the flexible printed circuit board includes a plurality of signal-transmitting lines formed in a signal-transmitting area and a plurality of first pads formed in a pad area adjacent to the signal-transmitting area and electrically connected to the signal-transmitting lines. The flexible printed circuit board also includes an adhesive-penetrating groove formed between two adjacent ones of the first pads. The adhesive-penetrating groove is formed in a length direction extending from the pad area to at least a portion of the signal-transmitting area. |
| US10136508B2 |
Cyclic accelerator for accelerating charge carriers and method for manufacturing a cyclic accelerator
What is shown is a cyclic accelerator for accelerating charge carriers. The cyclic accelerator includes a charge carrier source configured to generate free charge carriers, a vacuum chamber configured to receive the free charge carriers, wherein the vacuum chamber is produced by means of MEMS technology, and wherein at least a main surface region of the vacuum chamber has a semiconductor material. In addition, the cyclic accelerator has electrodes configured to accelerate the free charge carriers in the vacuum chamber by means of an alternating current field, and a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic field perpendicularly to the direction of movement of the charge carriers. |
| US10136504B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling aquatic lighting using power line communication
In some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, systems and methods for controlling aquatic lighting using power line communication are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes a lighting controller configured to receive power via an AC power line, the lighting controller comprising a light driver circuit configured to be coupled to at least one light source, a first power line modem configured to be connected to a local area network via a second powerline modem and the AC power line, and a processor that is configured to receive, from a user interface via the first power line modem, lighting data corresponding to a lighting selection specified by user input received by the user interface and cause the light driver circuit to drive the at least one light source to present the lighting selection based on the lighting data. |
| US10136497B2 |
Light-emitting diode (LED) light sets
Apparatuses and systems are provided for changing the spectrum of light emission from a light-emitting diode (LED) light set. The LED light set may include LEDs, each of which having at least a first LED chip and a second LED chip configured to emit light at differing wavelengths. The first and second LED chips may be connected in series with opposite polarities. Responsive to receiving a power flow in a first direction from a power terminal, the first LED chip may emit light of a first color while the second LED chip may remain powered off. Responsive to receiving the power flow in a second direction opposite the first direction from the power source, the second LED chip may emit light of a second color different from the first color while the first LED chip may remain powered off. |
| US10136496B2 |
Apparatus for supplying electrical energy to a consumer
The apparatus for supplying at least one consumer with electrical energy or for providing electrical power for at least one consumer from an on-board motor vehicle electrical system is provided with a control circuit, which is designed as an IC and has an input by means of which electrical energy can be supplied to the control circuit from the on-board motor vehicle electrical system, and having at least a first output and a second output, wherein a consumer can be supplied with electrical energy from the on-board motor vehicle electrical system by the control circuit by means of each of said two outputs, or the control circuit can provide electrical power for a consumer by means of said outputs, at least one external resistor, which is arranged outside the IC, for emitting possible lost electrical power outside the IC, wherein firstly the external resistor is connected to the second output of the control circuit, and secondly the consumer can be connected to the external resistor. The setpoint value for the electrical power of the consumer, which electrical power can be controlled by the control circuit, can be specified. Distributing the electrical energy for the consumer or the electrical power which is provided for said consumer between the at least two outputs of the control circuit can be controlled by said control circuit depending on at least one distribution parameter. Said distribution parameter can be supplied to the control circuit or determined in the control circuit. |
| US10136495B2 |
Two-level LED security light with motion sensor
A LED security light includes a power supply unit further comprising a first power source and a second power source, a light sensing unit, a motion sensor unit, a loading and power control unit, a time setting unit and a light-emitting unit. The motion sensor is activated at dusk and is deactivated at dawn. When the first power source is used and when a motion intrusion is detected by the motion sensor, the LED security light generate a first level illumination for a short time duration. When the second power source is connected and when a motion intrusion is detected by the motion sensor, the LED security light generate a second level illumination for a short time duration. The time setting unit is for setting the time duration of the first level illumination or the second level illumination. The first power source is a solar power while the second power source is a backup battery. |
| US10136488B1 |
LED dimming
Techniques are provided for low, or deep, dimming of a light-emitting diode (LED) load. In an example, a method of adjusting an initial voltage of a driver circuit for an LED load can include providing current to an LED load from a power stage of the driver during an on-time of a pulse-width modulation (PWM) cycle, receiving error current information of the driver circuit at a low-dimming control circuit of the driver, and adjusting a voltage of an output capacitor coupled to the driver during an off-time of the PWM cycle, the charge adjustment based on the error current information. |
| US10136487B2 |
Power optimization for linear regulator
A power supply includes a power converter configured to convert an input voltage to a target output DC voltage in response to a feedback signal, the feedback signal having a value. The power supply also includes a regulator coupled to the power converter and configured to generate an output power status signal, which may be in one of two states depending whether an output current from the regulator is above or below a target current over a preset time duration. Further, a control circuit is coupled to the power converter and to the regulator and configured to increment or decrement the value of the feedback signal depending on the state of the power status signal. |
| US10136486B2 |
LED lighting system
An LED lamp arrangement adapted for fitting in a luminaire. The luminaire is adapted for a fluorescent lamp and having a ballast. The LED lamp arrangement has a plurality of LEDs, and two or more electrodes for releasably connecting to the luminaire and for conducting current from the ballast for supply to the LEDs. The LED lamp arrangement further has a sensor circuit and a protection circuit. The sensor circuit and the protection circuit are adapted to increase the total load impedance of the LED lamp arrangement if the ballast is a constant power electronic ballast. |
| US10136485B1 |
Methods for adjusting the light output of illumination systems
In accordance with various embodiments, an overall optical characteristic of light emitted by an illumination system having multiple strings of light-emitting elements, as well as an overall intensity of the light emitted by the illumination system, are independently selected via controlling the strings over multiple time intervals. |
| US10136482B1 |
Lighting driver, lighting system and control method
A lighting driver is for receiving an alternating current power supply from a fluorescent lighting ballast and makes use of a closed loop control of a shunt device for selectively shunting the power supply for example to implement dimming control. The closed loop control is adapted based a detected current. This enables low frequency components of the ballast current to be removed or reduced so that a smaller output capacitor is needed. |
| US10136478B2 |
Hob device
A cooktop apparatus, in particular an induction cooktop apparatus, includes a switching unit configured to interrupt and establish current flow from a current supply, a first switching element receiving the current flow during an operating process, a control apparatus, which controls the switching unit during the operating process such that the switching unit interrupts the current supply during a first time interval which has a duration of less than of half a period of the power supply voltage. The control apparatus causes the current supply to be connected during the operating process immediately before and immediately after the first time interval. The first switching element begins switching and ends switching during the first time interval. |
| US10136477B2 |
Method for controlling an induction heating system
A method for controlling an induction heating system, particularly an induction heating system of a cooktop on which a cooking utensil with a certain contents is placed for heating/cooking purposes, comprises the steps of carrying out a predetermined number “n” of electrical measurements of a first electrical parameter of the heating system on the basis of a predetermined electrical value of a second electrical parameter, “n” being ≥2, repeating the above set of measurements at a predetermined time after the first measurements, and estimating at least one thermal parameter of the heating system, particularly of the contents of the cooking utensil, on the basis of the above set of measurements. |
| US10136475B2 |
Cord-shaped heater and sheet-shaped heater
A cord-shaped heater 10 has a plurality of conductive wires 5a that are covered with an insulating film 5b. The insulating film 5b includes a silicone resin. A quantity of the silicone resin included in the insulating film 5b is 40 to 80% by a weight ratio. The conductive wires 5a are wound around a core material 3 in a state of being paralleled together. An insulation body layer 7 is formed on an outer periphery of the conductive wires. A part or all of the insulation body layer 7 is formed of a heat-fusing material. A sheet-shaped heater 31 is wherein the cord-shaped heater 10 is arranged on a substrate 11. |
| US10136474B2 |
Heat generating element
A heat generating element for an electrical heating device of a motor vehicle, including at least one PTC element and two contact plates which are in contact with opposite sides of the PTC element and are provided on their outer side facing away from the PTC element with an insulating layer. Shielding is provided, comprising a first shell-like shielding plate and a second shell-like shielding plate which are each provided on the outer side of the insulating layer and are connected thereto in a thermally conductive manner. The longitudinal wall sections, directed towards one another, of the first and second shielding plate form an overlapping region. In order to reduce EMC problems, two shielding plates are sealed by way of an adhesive which is received in one of the two shielding plates and into which the end of a rim of the other shielding plate dips. |
| US10136467B2 |
Mobile terminated control method and related network devices
The invention provides for a method of controlling a mobile terminated procedure between a mobile terminal device and a network node device of a mobile radio communications network, and to a related terminal device, and particularly concerning a change in network node connection as part of a Circuit Switched Fallback procedure, and including the step of transmitting a connection-maintaining request such as a follow-on-request from the terminal device to the network node device during the mobile terminated procedure and seeking to maintain connectivity with the network node device so as to allow for a post location update procedure arriving from the network. |
| US10136465B1 |
Enhanced access class barring mechanism in LTE
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing enhanced access class barring in LTE are provided. In embodiments, the method includes receiving, on a mobile device, a SIB2 message. A barring factor associated with the SIB2 message is identified. In embodiments, the barring factor is dynamic based on traffic parameters associated with a network. An upper limit for a random number is set on the mobile device and the random number is generated. The random number is generated and compared to the barring factor. If the random number is less than the barring factor, access to the network is provided to the mobile device. In embodiments, an additional random number is generated for special users or devices if the random number is greater than or equal to the barring factor. |
| US10136463B2 |
Server and data transmission method
A server is provided, which includes a terminal determining unit which determines a destination terminal to share a service when a service request sent by any terminal is received or when it is detected that a network-side needs to share the service, a generation unit which generates service network topology structure information corresponding to the service according to the destination terminal, and a network determining unit which determines a hosted network corresponding to the service according to the service network topology structure information. Correspondingly, a data transmission method is also provided. |
| US10136461B2 |
Communication device and master station device
A communication device includes a processor and a memory storing wireless information used for establishing wireless connection with a specific access point and instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the communication device to: search a first-type master station device for a first-type wireless network identified by a first predetermined character string; and search a second-type master station device for a second-type wireless network identified by a second predetermined character string in a case different from a case where the number of first-type target device found as a search result for the first-type master station device is one. The instructions, when executed, further causing the communication device to establish wireless connection with a second-type target device that is the second-type master station and join the second-type wireless network; and transmit the wireless information to the second-type target device by using the second-type wireless network. |
| US10136457B2 |
Method for coupling subscriber identity module and electronic device thereof
A method for coupling a subscriber identity module in an electronic device and the electronic device thereof. The method includes sensing a request for changing from a currently coupled 1st SIM to a 2nd SIM among a plurality of SIMs. A 1st communication protocol between the 1st SIM and a short-range communication module is inactivated in response to the change request to release a 1st communication session with the 1st SIM. A 2nd communication protocol between the 2nd SIM and the short-range communication module is activated to couple a 2nd communication session with the 2nd SIM. |
| US10136454B2 |
Application server for managing communications towards a set of user entities
An application server for managing communications towards a set of user entities, the set of user entities having a first user entity. The application server includes a receiver for receiving a first session initiation request, the first session initiation request having a public identification identifying the set of user entities, a processor for assigning a first user identification to the public identification, the user identification identifying the first user entity, and a transmitter for transmitting a second session initiation request to establish a communication link towards the first user entity, the second session initiation request including the first user identification. |
| US10136451B2 |
User terminal, radio base station and adaptive modulation and coding method
In one aspect, the adaptive modulation and coding method includes, in a user terminal, receiving a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index, acquiring a modulation order corresponding to the received MCS index as a modulation order of a downlink shared channel, from a first table in which MCS indexes are associated with modulation orders including 8 and transport block size (TBS) indexes, and a second table is provided in which MCS indexes are associated with modulation orders of less than 8 and TBS indexes, and the first table is provided by puncturing a combination of a modulation order and a TBS index in the second table so that the first table and the second table are equal in a number of bits for an MCS index. In other aspects, a user terminal and a radio base station are provided. |
| US10136446B2 |
Techniques and apparatuses for voice over long term evolution (VoLTE) call prioritization for multiple carriers
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a plurality of resource block allocations corresponding to a plurality of carriers. The user equipment may identify a carrier, of the plurality of carriers, to be used for communication of at least one high priority communication based at least in part on a comparison of a plurality of frequencies corresponding to the plurality of resource block allocations. The user equipment may communicate the at least one high priority communication using the identified carrier. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US10136441B2 |
Systems and methods of buffering application data operable at a delivery control server
A method of buffering application data operable at a delivery control server is provided. Related systems and computer program products are also provided. |
| US10136439B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving beam information in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to transmitting and receiving beam information in a wireless communication system. An operation of a receiving end includes: generating a signal indicating two or more analogue transmission beams which are allocable to the receiving end; and transmitting the signal. In addition, the present disclosure includes other embodiments different from the embodiment described above. |
| US10136434B2 |
Method and apparatus for use with a radio distributed antenna system having an ultra-wideband control channel
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a network element of a distributed antenna system, a reference signal, an ultra-wideband control channel and a first modulated signal at a first carrier frequency, the first modulated signal including first communications data provided by a base station and directed to a mobile communication device. The instructions in the ultra-wideband control channel direct the network element of the distributed antenna system to convert the first modulated signal at the first carrier frequency to the first modulated signal in a first spectral segment. The reference signal is received at an in-band frequency relative to the control channel. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10136433B2 |
System and method for adaptive transmission time interval (TTI) structure
Methods and devices are provided for communicating data in a wireless channel. In one example, a method includes adapting the transmission time interval (TTI) length of transport container for transmitting data in accordance with a criteria. The criteria may include (but is not limited to) a latency requirement of the data, a buffer size associated with the data, a mobility characteristic of a device that will receive the data. The TTI lengths may be manipulated for a variety of reasons; such as for reducing overhead, satisfy quality of service (QoS) requirements, maximize network throughput, etc. In some embodiments, TTIs having different TTI lengths may be carried in a common radio frame. In other embodiments, the wireless channel may partitioned into multiple bands each of which carrying (exclusively or otherwise) TTIs having a certain TTI length. |
| US10136430B2 |
Data transmission using frequency resources determined from frequency resource numbers
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method and user equipment, where the method includes: sending, by first user equipment, an indication signal, where the indication signal indicates frequency resource numbers of one or more physical resources (S110); determining, by the first user equipment according to the frequency resource numbers, a frequency resource occupied by a data signal (S120); and sending, by the first user equipment, the data signal by using the frequency resource (S130). According to the embodiments of the present invention, a frequency diversity gain can be obtained. |
| US10136428B2 |
Resource allocation method for communication between transmitting and receiving terminals in communication system supporting direct device-to-device communication and apparatus for same
The present specification relates to a method in which a base station efficiently notifies a transmitting terminal of a resource domain for transmitting control information and data in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication. To this end, the transmitting terminal receives resource allocation information associated with D2D communication from the base station, and transmits, to a receiving terminal, control information (SA) for D2D communication and data corresponding to the SA on the basis of the resource allocation information received from the base station, wherein a time domain location for transmitting the SA has a predetermined time domain pattern on the basis of the resource allocation information received from the base station, and a frequency domain location for transmitting the SA can be determined in advance by one of two specific hopping patterns. |
| US10136426B2 |
Wireless conferencing system using narrow-band channels
A wireless-conferencing system enables two or more radios to communicate with each other in full-duplex communication, such as by using time division multiple access (TDMA). To use the wireless-conferencing system in a narrowband radio service system, such as GMRS having channel spacing of 25 kHz, one or more techniques are used to implement the wireless-conferencing system. |
| US10136425B2 |
Apparatus and method of using time reuse frame structures for multi-hop communications
A system and method of using time reuse frame structures for improving multi-hop communications are disclosed. Namely, the system is networked and includes a superframe structure for multi-hop communication including tiers. The system also includes a computer-implemented device located in an initiator subframe of a first tier frame of the superframe. The device including a non-transitory memory including executable instructions for multi-hop communication and a processor operably coupled thereto for executing the multi-hop communication. The system also includes a second tier frame of the superframe including at least two hopper subframes. Each of the at least two hopper subframes including a contention access period and a contention free period. |
| US10136424B2 |
Extended DSME MAC for low power utility monitoring service
A method of configuring a multi-superframe is provided. The method includes setting at least one parameter for configuring the multi-superframe, and configuring the multi-superframe corresponding to the at least one parameter, wherein the at least one parameter includes a superframe order (SO), a beacon order (BO), and a multi-superframe order (MO), in a form of positive integers, and the setting includes setting the MO to have a value higher than the BO. |
| US10136423B2 |
Method and apparatus, in mobile communication system, for effectively providing configuration information about small cell that has small cell service region
A method and an apparatus, in a mobile communication system, for effectively providing configuration information about a small cell that has a small cell service region are provided. The method for transmitting reconfiguration information of a small cell base station in a mobile communication system includes: when deciding to reconfigure a small cell, obtaining the latest macro cell configuration information from a macro cell base station; generating reconfiguration information about the small cell on the basis of the obtained macro cell configuration information; and transmitting, to the macro cell base station, the regenerated reconfiguration information so that the macro cell base station can transmit the reconfiguration information to User Equipment (UE). |
| US10136421B2 |
Carrier indication method, user equipment, and base station
This application discloses a carrier indication method, user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment, first information sent by a base station; if the user equipment is capable of transmitting uplink data and downlink data on a carrier, determining, by the user equipment according to the first information, a carrier used for transmitting first-type information; and transmitting, by the user equipment, the first-type information on the determined carrier, where the first-type information includes at least one of the following: uplink data, downlink data, and scheduling information. In this application, user equipment determines, according to first information sent by a base station, a carrier used for transmitting information, and therefore, can normally transmit information. |
| US10136415B2 |
System, security and network management using self-organizing communication orbits in distributed networks
In one aspect, machines in a managed network implements a set of rules that cause individual machines to directly interact with only a small number of machines in the network (i.e., a local neighborhood within the network), while the independent local actions of the individual machines collectively cause the individual machines to be self-organized into one or more communication orbits without any global control or coordination by a server or an administrator. The communication orbits are used for supporting network, security and system management communications in the managed network. |
| US10136413B2 |
ARO values in PUCCH resource allocation for EPDCCH in TDD
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for defining ARO values in TDD are provided. One method includes defining acknowledgement (Ack)/negative acknowledgement (Nack) resource offset (ARO) values in time division duplex (TDD) with a first set of values and a second set of values. The first set of values contains negative values and is used to offset hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment (ACK) resource determination so that HARQ-ACK is transmitted on physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources corresponding to another downlink subframe, and the second set of values contains values between −2 and 2. |
| US10136403B2 |
Communication control device with dynamic fragmenting of non-real-time data
There is provided a communication control device including: a real-time communication status extraction unit that acquires a communication timing of real-time data; a dynamic fragment size determination unit that acquires a fragment size of sending data which can be sent until the communication timing acquired by the real-time communication status extraction unit; a fragment processing unit that fragments non-real-time data to have at least a fragment size which is equal to or less than the fragment size acquired by the dynamic fragment size determination unit; and a communication unit that sends the non-real-time data, which is fragmented by the fragment processing unit, before the communication timing of the real-time data. |
| US10136402B2 |
Efficient uplink timing synchronization for fixed-location M2M terminals
A method for determining synchronization of uplink timing in a machine type communication (MTC) system comprising a machine type communication device (MTCD) and a network element is disclosed that takes advantage of the MTCD being at a fixed location relative to the network element. The method includes receiving at the MTCD an uplink timing adjustment value from the network element and storing the uplink timing adjustment value at the MTCD. The MTCD then uses the stored uplink timing adjustment value from a previous uplink transmission for synchronizing uplink timing for a subsequent uplink transmission from the MTCD to the network element even following a period of inactivity of the MTCD, or expiration of any existing maximum uplink timing alignment period permitted for use of the timing adjustment value by the MTCD, or MTCD clock drift. |
| US10136401B2 |
Apparatus and method for achieving synchronization in wireless communication system
A method of operating a terminal that is related to achieving synchronization in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving signals with a bandwidth comprising a plurality of channels, selecting at least one channel group to attempt to detect based on radio frequency level per a reception signal, wherein the channel group denotes a set of channels that belongs to one bandwidth, and performing a synchronization procedure on each of channels that belong to the at least one channel group selected. |
| US10136395B1 |
System and method for co-located SAR control in an information handling system
A method and information handling system including a wireless interface adapter for communicating on a plurality antenna systems for connection to a plurality of concurrently operating wireless links and a processor executing code instructions for a co-located antenna dynamic power control system for detecting a first active wireless link operating via a first antenna system and a second active wireless link operating via a second, co-located antenna system, wherein the total transmission power between the first antenna system and the second antenna system is limited to a regulatory safety maximum. The processor determining relative transmission activity levels for the information handling system relative to the first active wireless link and the second active wireless link, including a first wireless link data rate transmission level for the first antenna system and a second wireless link data rate transmission level for the second antenna system and the co-located antenna dynamic power control system instructing the wireless interface adapter controller to increase transmission power to the first antenna and decrease transmission power to the second antenna relative to the regulatory safety maximum power level when the first wireless link data rate transmission level is greater than the second wireless link data rate transmission level. |
| US10136394B2 |
Methods and apparatus for optimization of femtocell network management
Methods and apparatus that reduce network management overhead required for the operation of wireless femtocells. In one aspect of the invention, a central network entity governs the simultaneous operation of several femtocells by specifying modes of operation, and operational parameters for one or more of the femtocells. In one embodiment, at least one of the specified modes of operation directs a femtocell to operate in a substantially autonomous manner within the network-defined operational parameters. The network-defined constraints are provided to the femtocell for example, responsive to a successful registration attempt. |
| US10136393B2 |
Control method for real-time scene detection by a wireless communication apparatus
A control method for real-time scene detection by a wireless communication apparatus equipped with at least one environmental measurement sensor is disclosed. A temporal adjustment of the instants of activation of the detection is based on measurement values delivered by the at least one environmental measurement sensor at instants of measurement. |
| US10136391B2 |
System and method to enhance battery life in cell phone devices
A system that enhances life of a battery in cell phone devices that work in conjunction with a cellular telephone network has a Registration-Request Signal transmission management function that operates in the device and periodically detects change in physical location of the device from an immediate prior location, called an LchangeDelta. The function, if the LchangeDelta is below a threshold of change in location, suppresses an Registration-Request Signal transmission from the device to the cellular network, thus enhancing battery life. |
| US10136390B2 |
Ready timer period splitting for extended coverage global system for mobile communications (EC-GSM)
A core network node (e.g., Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)), a radio access network node (e.g., Base Station Subsystem), a wireless device, and various methods are described herein for splitting a period of a ready timer to allow for different periodicities of reachability for the wireless device. |
| US10136384B1 |
Methods and apparatus for performing buffer fill level controlled dynamic power scaling
Integrated circuits with wireless communications circuitry are provided. The wireless communications circuitry may include an input FIFO, an output FIFO, a processing module interposed between the input and output FIFOs, and dynamic power control circuitry that controls the performance of the processing module. The input and output FIFOs may provide fill level information to the processing module. The dynamic power control circuitry may analyze the current fill level information received from the input and output FIFOs and may increase the operating frequency and/or boost the power supply voltage of the processing module in response to detecting that the input FIFO is filling up faster than the output FIFO or may decrease the operating frequency and/or reduce the power supply voltage of the processing module in response to detecting that the output FIFO is filling up faster than the input FIFO. |
| US10136381B2 |
Telecommunications apparatus and methods
A wireless telecommunications system supports a virtual carrier operation mode in which downlink communications are made by a base station while a terminal device can receive at least some communications from the base station within a restricted subset of transmission resources, and supports terminal devices in a radio resource control connected mode and radio resource control idle mode. When there is to be a change in system information the base station transmits to the terminal device an indication that updated system information is to be broadcast by the base station, the indication received by the terminal device while in the connected mode. Before seeking to acquire the updated system information, the terminal device transitions from the connected mode to the idle mode, and then seeks to acquire updated system information. The base station restricts transmission of user-plane data to the terminal device until the terminal device re-enters the connected mode. |
| US10136379B2 |
Method and device for processing network access, and network access method and device
Provided are a method and device for processing a network access, and a network access method and device. The processing method includes: acquiring resource configuration information of an access signal group, the resource configuration information including: a sending resource required by a terminal for sending an access signal on a resource corresponding to the access signal group, and an access response resource corresponding to the access signal group, the access signal being used for accessing a network, the access response resource being used for indicating a resource used by a sending device of the access signal when receiving a response signal of the access signal; and notifying the terminal of the resource configuration information. |
| US10136378B2 |
Relay station apparatus, mobile communication system, base station apparatus, and method for controlling relay station
A mobile communication system includes at least one upper radio station (1) and a relay station (2). The relay station (2) performs a radio relay between a lower radio station (3) and the upper radio station (1). The relay station (2) is configured to attach, when an attaching to a first upper radio station included in attaching configuration information indicating an upper radio station to which the relay station (2) should attach is unsuccessful, to a second upper radio station different from the first upper radio station, and to notify a network (4 and 5) of notification information via the second upper radio station, the notification information indicating that the attaching to the first upper radio station is unsuccessful. |
| US10136375B2 |
Method for service data management, apparatus, and system
A service data management method. The method includes: receiving, by the NOA, a service request of a first user equipment UE, and forwarding the service request to the SP server by using the NOC, so that the SP server returns service data requested by the first UE; determining, by the NOA, that the service data has been stored in the NOA, and sending hit indication information to the NOC, so that the NOC replaces a data segment in the service data with preconfigured replacement information, where bandwidth occupied by the preconfigured replacement information is smaller than bandwidth occupied by the data segment; and determining, by the NOA, a corresponding data segment according to received replacement information, and sending the data segment, which has been stored, to the first UE. Solutions provided in embodiments of the present invention can reduce the backhaul bandwidth occupancy. |
| US10136372B2 |
Relay UE selecting method performed by UE in wireless communication system and UE using the same
A method of selecting a relay user equipment (UE) performed by a remote UE in wireless communication system, and a UE using the method are provided. The method includes determining whether a measurement of a current relay UE is smaller than a threshold and selecting a candidate relay UE satisfying a specific condition as a relay UE when the measurement of the current relay UE is smaller than the threshold. Here, the candidate relay UE is selected as a relay UE only when a measurement of the candidate relay UE is greater than a minimum hysteresis value (minHyst) based on the threshold. |
| US10136366B2 |
Method and apparatus for terminal to perform frequency measurement on basis of cell specific priority
Provided are a method for a terminal to perform frequency measurement on the basis of a cell specific priority in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for supporting the same. The terminal may be configured to: receive the cell specific priority and a frequency specific priority from a network; compare a cell specific priority of a first cell and a frequency specific priority of the frequency to which the first cell belongs; determine whether to apply the cell specific priority of the first cell to the frequency to which the first cell belongs; and perform frequency measurement on the basis of the determined priority. The first cell is a cell for which a cell specific priority is set, and the cell specific priority may be set to be the same for each frequency. |
| US10136357B2 |
Method for managing congestion of a transmission link in a packet communication network
In order to detect congestion on a transmission link, endpoint items of network equipment are associated with congestion-detection applications. Per class of service, one application sends to the other control messages indicating volumes of data transmitted by the concerned item of network equipment via the transmission link. On reception of the control messages, the other application obtains information on volumes of data received by the other item of network equipment. By determining a first divergence in volumes of data transmitted between two control messages and a second divergence in volumes of data received, between two control messages, this other application is able to detect a situation of congestion on the transmission link occurring for one or more classes of service, and to generate an alarm signal accordingly. |
| US10136351B2 |
Mobile edge computing for tele-operation
An apparatus includes radio transceiver equipment configured to transmit and receive radio signals to and from mobile devices within a coverage area of a Radio Access Network. A Mobile Edge Computing server is integrated with the radio transceiver equipment. The Mobile Edge Computing server is configured to host at least one application instantiating a virtual Rendezvous Point operative to support a bidirectional data link between a predetermined pair of the mobile devices. |
| US10136348B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing wireless communication based on heterogeneous interference alignment (IA) scheme in wireless local area network (WLAN)
Provided is a method and apparatus for performing a wireless communication based on a heterogeneous interference alignment (IA) scheme for a downlink multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (DL MU-MIMO) communication in a wireless local area network (WLAN), and a wireless communication method employing a hybrid scheme that may include storing maximum throughputs of IA schemes, measuring an environment of a wireless network, calculating predicted throughputs of the IA schemes based on the measured environment of the wireless network, selecting an IA scheme from among the IA schemes based on the predicted throughputs, and communicating with a user terminal based on the selected IA scheme. |
| US10136346B2 |
System and method for indicating channel assessment information
The embodiments provide a method implemented by a network device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to provide a deferred clear channel assessment (CCA) from a physical layer to an upper layer within the network device. The deferred CCA enables the upper layer to make a final decision on the state of a wireless medium. The method identifies at least one condition on a wireless medium where an upper layer decision is required to determine a state of the wireless medium, and passes on requisite data to the upper layer to enable a decision on the state of the wireless medium. The deferred CCA process supports more complex CCA processes that may rely on information available in an upper layer. |
| US10136345B2 |
Testing a mobile application
Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for testing a mobile application. Testing a mobile application can include simulating a cellular network condition for each of a plurality of locations utilizing a network simulation engine. Furthermore, testing a mobile application can include testing performance of the mobile application for each of the simulated cellular network conditions. |
| US10136342B2 |
System and method to facilitate wireless network optimization
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include determining one or more outlier access points (APs) of a plurality of APs managed by a same service provider, wherein the determining is performed based on performance metrics calculated for each of the plurality of APs and wherein each outlier AP has a performance metric that fails to satisfy a performance metric threshold; identifying a Radio Frequency (RF) cluster to which each outlier AP belongs, wherein each outlier AP belongs to only one RF cluster; applying one or more optimization parameters to one or more APs for one or more RF clusters; and calculating new performance metrics for the plurality of APs to determine whether any of the plurality of APs fail to satisfy the performance metric threshold after the one or more optimization parameters are applied. |
| US10136341B2 |
Wireless data concentrator systems and methods
A computer implemented method includes transmitting a transmit command to a first data concentrator to send out a predetermined signal of predetermined characteristics according to a transmission setting, receiving a received signal from at least one second data concentrator, and determining if there are any signal transmission effects between the first data concentrator and the second data concentrator based on a comparison of the predetermined signal and the received signal. |
| US10136336B2 |
Base station and method thereof
There is provided a base station (BS) (1000) and a method at the BS that is capable of enhancing network capacity with low transmission power in a radio network. The method comprises serving a cell with one or more first carriers. The method further comprises serving a hot-spot within the cell with one or more beam-formed second carriers, wherein the first and second carriers share a total transmission power for serving the cell. Beam-forming based hot-spot carriers can efficiently save transmission power and contribute to the total power utilization efficiency. The base station (1000) thus can meet the capacity enhancement requirement with low transmission power. |
| US10136324B2 |
Method and apparatus for reading verification information
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for controlling an application to read verification information. The method comprises: setting, in a terminal, a safe application strategy for reading a verification information, wherein the verification information is a message for verifying identity or permission of the terminal or a user in the process of executing a specific service; after the terminal receives the verification information from a network device, the application requesting to acquire the verification information; judging whether the application satisfies the safe application strategy, and according to the judging result, allowing only the application that satisfies the safe application strategy to read the verification information; and using the verification information for verifying identity or permission of the terminal or a user in the process of executing the specific service. the present invention, effectively preventing an illegal application from stealing the verification information and ensuring information security. |
| US10136319B2 |
Methods and apparatus to discover authentication information in a wireless networking environment
Examples to discover network authentication information in a wireless network involve transmitting during network discovery and prior to authentication, a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request to a network access point. The request requests authentication information. In addition, a response to the request is received from the network access point. The network authentication information is retrieved from the response. The network authentication information includes a re-direct frame. |
| US10136309B2 |
Spectrum access server support of resource assignments based on radio access network coexistence information
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for spectrum access server support of resource assignments based on radio access network coexistence information. An example method generally includes obtaining information regarding capability of different entities requesting use of the shared radio resources, estimating compatibility between the different entities based on the information, and allocating the shared radio resources to the different entities based on the estimated compatibility. |
| US10136305B2 |
Method and apparatus for using mobile subscriber identification information for multiple device profiles for a device
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages reuse of mobile subscriber identity information. Further aspects may include mobile subscriber identity information used in a device having multiple device profiles indexed, directly or indirectly, by multiple ki (e.g. shared secret keys). Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10136300B2 |
Method of establishing a connection between a mobile communicating object and a remote server
The present invention relates to a method of establishing a connection between a mobile communicating object and a remote server, by way of a mobile communication network where the communicating object has a list encompassing a determined number of preferred mobile communication networks with which the object can be made to connect. The method comprises a first step where the communicating object establishes a radio connection with one of the networks available so as to transmit a first series of audit information (such as quality of signal, error rate, base station cell identifier) to the remote server, a step of verification by the server of the data received and, in the event of anomaly, of engagement of a procedure for modifying the selection of the mobile communication network to which the mobile object is connected. |
| US10136295B1 |
Device, system and method for public safety assistance detection
A device, system and method for public safety assistance detection is provided. The device comprises a communication interface; a location determining device; an input device; a memory storing keywords; and a controller. The controller implements: an assistance application; and at least one monitored application at which alphanumeric input is received using the input device, each of the assistance application and the at least one monitored application hosted by different respective servers. When the alphanumeric input is received at the at least one monitored application, the controller provides the alphanumeric input to the assistance application. When the alphanumeric input is received at the assistance application includes one or more keywords, the controller transmits, using the interface, at least a portion of the alphanumeric input to a server that hosts the assistance application, as well as a current location determined using the location determining device. |
| US10136294B2 |
Devices and methods for efficient emergency calling
Disclosed are devices, systems, methods, and media for efficient emergency calling using digital devices. In some embodiments, a user is able to make an emergency call by a one-touch or dual-touch process. An authentication process may reduce inadvertent and unauthorized emergency calling. Persistent emergency buttons are also disclosed that may be used for calling emergency in different states of the device. |
| US10136293B1 |
Inflight entertainment system that selects among passenger electronic devices for connection based on power measurements
An inflight entertainment system for use in an aircraft displays commands to a passenger to move a passenger electronic device (PED) between locations defined relative a seatback display device and the passenger's seat. The system measures received signal strength indications (RSSIs) from discoverable PEDs over time while the PED is moved between the locations, and selects one of the PEDs that satisfies a defined rule for an amount of change that is observed over time in the measured RSSIs for that PED. The system then establishes a connection through a Bluetooth transceiver with a Bluetooth transceiver of the selected PED. |
| US10136289B2 |
Cross device information exchange using gestures and locations
A method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) are presented for exchanging information between two or more devices when they are in a close proximity using gestures and web technologies. According to an embodiment, the identification of one or more devices using gestures is asynchronous, so that the two or more devices do not have to be shaken together at the same time synchronously, which is one advantage over conventional approaches. Another advantage is that various embodiments described herein do not require a user to download any special software (application), and it can work on all platforms, for example, with HTML5-compliant browsers. |
| US10136279B2 |
Terminal peripheral management method and M2M gateway
Provided is a method for managing a terminal peripheral, including that an M2M gateway obtains a policy definition of an event, and obtains, from the policy definition of the event, an operation priority indication corresponding to an operation in the event; and when the event is triggered by the M2M gateway and if it is determined that an operation of the same type as the operation in the event exists in a corresponding terminal peripheral, whether to deliver the operation in the event to the corresponding terminal peripheral is decided according to the operation priority indication in the policy definition of the event and a priority judgment policy. An M2M gateway is also provided. Processing priorities of operations of the same type can be determined according to priority indications of the operations by adopting the present disclosure, thereby avoiding operation conflict and system error reporting occurring on a terminal peripheral, and improving the efficiency of an M2M gateway in managing a terminal peripheral or a terminal peripheral group. |
| US10136278B2 |
Offline charging for group communications using multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) delivery
Systems and methods for performing offline charging for group communications. One embodiment is an application server that identifies data for a group communication, identifies an encryption code assigned to the group, encrypts the data for the group communication using the encryption code, and initiates delivery of the encrypted data for the group communication to the group of mobile devices over an MBMS bearer. The application server collects charging information related to the group communication using MBMS delivery, formats the charging information into an offline charging communication, and transmits the offline charging communication to an offline charging system. |
| US10136276B2 |
Modality-centric mass notification system
A Modality-centric Mass Notification System (“Modality-centric MNS system”) for notifying a plurality of recipients of an Emergency Event is disclosed. The Modality-centric MNS system may include a Mass Notification System (“MNS”) Notification Engine, modality corridor (“MoCo”) dispatcher, and a plurality of modality corridors, wherein each modality corridor of the plurality of modality corridors establishes, for signal communication, a signal path from a plurality of signal paths, between the MNS Notification Engine and a recipient of the plurality of recipients. The MNS Notification Engine is configured to manage MNS Incidents and Notifications and the MoCo dispatcher is configured to select a first modality corridor from the plurality of modality corridors to establish a first signal path from the MNS Notification Engine. |
| US10136274B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating an indication of remaining battery life for a wireless device
A method (100) for generating an indication of remaining battery life for a wireless device is disclosed. The wireless device is positioned in an installation location and operable for radio communication with a communication network node. The method comprises estimating a signal loss between the wireless device in the installation location and the communication network node (120) and mapping the estimated signal loss to an indication of remaining battery life for the wireless device (130). The mapping is based on remaining battery capacity for the wireless device and estimated energy consumption of the wireless device for radio communication, the estimated energy consumption being generated from the estimated signal loss and determined communication parameters for the wireless device. Also disclosed are an apparatus (300, 400) for generating an indication of remaining battery life for a wireless device and a computer program product configured to carry out a method for generating an indication of remaining battery life for a wireless device. |
| US10136271B2 |
Automatically answering an incoming voice-call on a mobile device with no-touch user interface interaction
This disclosure describes techniques for automatically answering an incoming voice-call on a mobile device. A voice-call answering application, executed on the mobile device, may allow a user to answer an incoming voice-call by applying a movement or a biometric sample that is preconfigured to answer the incoming voice-call. In some examples, the user may preconfigure the voice-call answering application to recognize different movements or biometric samples based on a time of day, a day of the week, a geographic location, or a type of motion. |
| US10136267B2 |
Device actions based on device power
In one embodiment, one or more computing devices determine, substantially in real time and locally at a mobile device, one or more current dynamic operating conditions of the mobile device related to energy consumption by the mobile device. The computing devices identify a pre-determined device state that corresponds to the current dynamic operating conditions of the mobile device and determine, based at least in part on the pre-determined device state, an action for the mobile device to take, the action being related to energy consumption by the mobile device. |
| US10136266B2 |
Group communication service enabler (GCSE) group management
A communication method implemented on a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) communication network includes providing an attachment between a group member of a communication group and a group application server, detecting a detachment between the group member and the group application server, and reestablishing the attachment by the 3GPP communication network. A Mobility Management Entity (MME) may provide the attachment. A Group Communication Service Enabler Application Server (GCSE AS) or a Multipoint Service (MuSe) functionality may detect the detachment. The attachment may be reestablished according to the MuSe functionality. A group communication bearer may have a first priority level for allocating resources to the group communication bearer, and a second priority level for allocating resources to the non-group communication bearer. The second priority level may be different from the first priority level. Different Quality Control Indexes (QCIs) may be provided to the group communication bearer and the non-group communication bearer. |
| US10136263B2 |
Mobile communication system and communication apparatus
In a mobile communication system, a mobile communication apparatus in a vehicle includes a selected resource antenna permitting communication using a selected resource, establishing wireless communication with a target communication apparatus. The mobile communication system includes a propagation path characteristic acquirer section and a resource selector section. The propagation path characteristics acquirer section acquires propagation path characteristics information in association with a future communication position, the propagation path characteristics information being about propagation path characteristics between (i) the target communication apparatus and (ii) a reference antenna equal to the selected resource antenna in antenna characteristics including an antenna format. The resource selector section, based on the propagation path characteristics information, selects a resource to be used in communication at the future communication position before the selected resource antenna of the mobile communication apparatus comes to be placed at the future communication position. |
| US10136262B2 |
Detecting movement in a physical environment
The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for detecting movement in a physical environment. Specifically, a network device obtains a first feedback information for a first set of wireless signals transmitted by a first device in a physical environment and received by a second device in the physical environment. Moreover, the network device obtains a second feedback information for a second set of wireless signals transmitted by the first device and received by the second device. The network device then compares the first feedback information to the second feedback information to identify a first set of one or more difference values. Based on the first set of one or more difference values, the network device determines that one or more physical entities within the physical environment have moved. |
| US10136256B2 |
Method for determining the position of a portable user device around a vehicle and associated location device
Disclosed is a method of determining the position of a portable user device around a vehicle by a location device placed on board the vehicle and communicating with the portable device by radio waves, including the execution of the following steps whenever the portable device receives a signal from the location device: step E3: Measuring and storing a value of strength of the signal) thus received; step E4: Measuring and storing a value of acceleration) of the portable device; step E5: Calculating a ratio between a variation of the strength value thus measured, relative to a strength value stored at a preceding instant-RSSI, and a variation of the acceleration value thus measured, relative to an acceleration value stored at the preceding instant-AC; step E6: Comparing the ratio thus calculated with at least one predetermined threshold, in order to determine a distance between the portable device and the vehicle. |
| US10136255B2 |
Method and apparatus for proximity sensing on a communication device
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting, by a first receiver of the first group of receivers, a first disturbance in one of a first group of electromagnetic waves and detecting, by a second receiver of a second group of receivers, a second disturbance in one of the second group of electromagnetic waves. A processing system can determine a position of a physical object in proximity to the transmission medium according to locations of the first and second receivers with respect to the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10136253B1 |
System and method for tracking a vehicle's course by comparing geolocation data from a known course
A computer-implemented method and system for tracking a vehicle's course using geolocation data is provided. The method comprises obtaining a set of predetermined GPS locations representing a closed course; tracking movements of a user using a GPS controller; authenticating the movements of the user against the set of predetermined GPS locations while the client terminal is within a predetermined distance of at least one of the set of predetermined GPS locations; and presenting consolidated timing information about the user's movements along the set of predetermined GPS locations. The system comprises a central processing server in communication with a computer network and configured to obtain information from a central database; and one or more client terminals in communication with the central processing server via the computer network, and configured to provide a graphical user interface for user interaction with the central processing server. |
| US10136249B2 |
Information distribution apparatus and method
Proposed are an information distribution apparatus and method capable of efficiently distributing information. Clustering processing of collecting time series position data, which is configured from position information of a plurality of mobile communication objects, and classifying the time series position data into a plurality of clusters based on the collected time series position data of each of the mobile communication objects is executed, profiling processing of determining, for each of the clusters, a dominant attribute of each user in which the time series position data was allocated to the relevant cluster based on pre-registered attribute information of each of the users of each of the mobile communication objects is executed, and, for each of the clusters, information to be distributed to each of the users in which the time series position data was allocated to the relevant cluster is determined based on a processing result of the profiling processing. |
| US10136245B2 |
Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method, and program
There is provided an apparatus including a circuitry configured to initiate a reception of an information request that has been wirelessly transmitted from an information processing terminal, initiate, based on the information request, an obtaining of an information wirelessly from an external communication device, and initiate a wireless transmission of the obtained information to the information processing terminal. |
| US10136240B2 |
Processing audio data to compensate for partial hearing loss or an adverse hearing environment
Methods a provided for improving an audio scene for people suffering from hearing loss or for adverse hearing environments. Audio objects may be prioritized. In some implementations, audio objects that correspond to dialog may be assigned to a highest priority level. Other implementations may involve assigning the highest priority to other types of audio objects, such as audio objects that correspond to events. During a process of dynamic range compression, higher-priority objects may be boosted more, or cut less, than lower-priority objects. Some lower-priority audio objects may fall below the threshold of human hearing, in which case the audio objects may be dropped and not rendered. |
| US10136239B1 |
Capturing and reproducing spatial sound apparatuses, methods, and systems
A processor-implemented method for capturing and reproducing spatial sound. The method includes: capturing a plurality of input signals using a plurality of sensors within a sound field; subjecting each input signal to a short-time Fourier transform to transform each signal into a transformed signal in the time-frequency domain; decomposing each of the transformed signals into a directional component and a diffuse component; optimizing beamformer weights using vector based amplitude panning to determine an optimal directivity pattern for the diffuse component of each transformed signal; constructing a set of diffuse sound channels using the diffuse components of the transformed signals and the optimized beamformer weights; constructing a set of directional sound channels using the directional components of the transformed signals; and reproducing the sound field by distributing the directional and diffuse sound channels to a plurality of output devices. |
| US10136237B2 |
Parametric stereo upmix apparatus, a parametric stereo decoder, a parametric stereo downmix apparatus, a parametric stereo encoder
A parametric stereo upmix method for generating a left signal and a right signal from a mono downmix signal based on spatial parameters includes predicting a difference signal comprising a difference between the left signal and the right signal based on the mono downmix signal scaled with a prediction coefficient. The prediction coefficient is derived from the spatial parameters. The method further includes deriving the left signal and the right signal based on a sum and a difference of the mono downmix signal and said difference signal. |
| US10136234B2 |
Techniques for autonomously calibrating an audio system
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for calibrating an audio system. The technique includes transmitting information to a robotic vehicle for positioning a microphone at a plurality of different listening locations within a listening environment and, for each different listening location, acquiring a sound measurement via the microphone. The technique further includes calibrating at least one audio characteristic of the audio system based on the sound measurements acquired at the different listening locations. |
| US10136233B2 |
Compact public address access point apparatuses
Apparatuses that operate as both a public address speaker and a wireless access point (AP) for mounting to a ceiling or wall. The compact public address access points described herein may include an AP housing, enclosing a radio (e.g., a 3×3 MIMO radio) and antenna, that is coupled to a speaker assembly including a speaker, a conical acoustic reflector positioned between a front of the speaker and the housing of the AP, and an annular region comprising a concave inner wall facing the conical acoustic reflector. Although the AP is nested atop the front of the speaker, the speaker may produce high-quality sound with accurate voice reproduction without interfering with the operation of the wireless transmission of the AP. Methods of operating and installing these apparatuses are also described. |
| US10136232B2 |
Transducer protection system, hearing device and usage of a transducer protection system
A transducer protection system for the protection of at least one transducer opening in a housing of a hearing device, including a support and a plurality of fibers each fixed at one end to the support and free to move on the other end. |
| US10136231B2 |
Changeable cartridge for hearing device docking stations
The present invention relates to a changeable cartridge for a hearing device docking station, said changeable cartridge comprising a flexible waste reservoir being adapted to receive waste products from hearing device fuel cell power packs, and a flexible fuel reservoir being adapted to hold and provide fuel to hearing device fuel cell power packs. The present invention further relates to a hearing device docking station and a hearing device docking station assembly. |
| US10136230B2 |
RF antenna and hearing device with RF antenna
The present disclosure relates to an RF antenna adapted to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic RF signals within a first frequency range enclosing a first frequency of resonance of the RF antenna, the RF antenna comprising: an electrically conductive antenna element having a feed for electrically connecting to an RF transmitter and/or an RF receiver; an electronic component adapted to receive and/or provide one or more electric signals from/to an electronic circuit within a second frequency range not overlapping the first frequency range; and one or more electric leads electrically connected to lead the one or more electric signals between the electronic component and the electronic circuit, each of the one or more electric leads being electrically connected to the electronic circuit through a respective inductor adapted to reflect and/or attenuate signals within the first frequency range and pass signals within the second frequency range. |
| US10136228B2 |
Hearing aid device and method for feedback reduction
A hearing aid device that is configured to be inserted into the bony region of an ear canal includes a receiver, a microphone, a processor for processing sound signals detected by the microphone, and a feedback suppressor for carrying out electronic feedback suppression by applying at least one of a frequency shift and a time delay to the sound signals detected by the microphone. The hearing aid device may be configured to carry out the electronic feedback suppression including at least one of the frequency shift and the time delay as function of the frequency of the detected sound signals. |
| US10136227B2 |
Method of sound processing in a hearing aid and a hearing aid
A method of processing sound in a hearing aid (100, 300, 400) comprises separating the input transducer signal into a periodic and aperiodic signal for further processing in the hearing aid (100, 300, 400). The invention also provides a hearing aid (100, 300, 400) adapted for carrying out such a method of sound processing. |
| US10136223B1 |
Control method and control system for audio device
A control method and a control system for an audio device are disclosed. The control method and control system are applied to a USB audio adapter that includes an analog audio interface and is connected to a host. The control method includes steps of: detecting whether the analog audio interface is connected to a target device or detecting a function of the target device, and generating a detection result accordingly; controlling the USB audio adapter to operate in a disconnected mode; and controlling the USB audio adapter to continue operating in the disconnected mode according to the detection result, or controlling, according to the detection result, the USB audio adapter to operate in a connected mode and transmit audio data to the host and/or receive audio data from the host. |
| US10136221B2 |
Sound processing unit, sound processing system, audio output unit and display device
Practical speaker connection is identified using a device having a sound channel of a 5.1 channel or 7.1 channel, and a device is provided that can easily reproduce the optimum multiple channels. Actual speaker arrangement can be identified by, for example, measuring the impedance of a terminal at the side of an audio amplifier. If incorrect connection is found, a warning is issued. This information is transmitted to a signal source with an EDID and a signal with the optimum a number of sound channel is sent. The EDID is also used for the connection with a display unit and the speaker connection with which the display unit is provided uniquely. For example, a sound through the 7.1 channel is easily reproduced using the speaker of the display unit in the channel of the front speaker. |
| US10136213B2 |
Microphone module with shared middle sound inlet arrangement
The present invention relates to a microphone module comprising a first directional microphone comprising a front sound inlet and a front membrane, a second directional microphone comprising a rear sound inlet and a rear membrane, and a middle sound inlet arrangement being acoustically connected to the front and rear membranes, said middle sound inlet arrangement comprising acoustical resistance means arranged at least partly therein. The microphone module aims at generating a cardioid and an anti-cardioid response, or alternatively any other back-to-back polar patterns. |
| US10136212B2 |
Speaker device and audio output device including the same
A coaxial speaker device using a P-type speaker and an audio output device including the same are provided. The speaker device includes a first speaker configured to output a high-pitched audio, a second speaker including a P-type magnet and configured to output a low-pitched audio, and a holder configured to coaxially couple the first speaker and the second speaker. The holder includes a first protrusion configured to be coupled to a lower end of the first speaker and a second protrusion configured to be coupled to an upper end of the second speaker. |
| US10136209B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for supplying power to active noise reduction headset
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for supplying power to an active noise reduction headset The method for supplying power to an active noise reduction headset includes: receiving a signal of first voltage transmitted by the terminal; processing the signal of the first voltage to obtain a signal of second voltage, where the second voltage is less than the first voltage, and the signal of the second voltage is transmitted to a noise reduction chip of the active noise reduction headset, so that the noise reduction chip of the active noise reduction headset acquires the signal of the second voltage to implement a noise reduction function. The method, apparatus, and system for supplying power to an active noise reduction headset provided in the embodiments of the present invention are used to supply power to the active noise reduction headset. |
| US10136203B2 |
Display device
To enhance positional accuracy of a speaker unit and to prevent sound leakage of sound outputted from the speaker unit and air leakage. Included are: a display configured to allow an image to be displayed on a display screen; a front board mounted on a front side of the display; a mount frame that is mounted on a rear surface side of the front board and includes a speaker mount section; a speaker bracket that is mounted on the speaker mount section and includes a sound output hole; and a speaker unit that is attached to the speaker bracket and includes a sound output section. The speaker mount section is provided with an insertion hole. The front board is provided with a mount hole superposed on the insertion hole. The speaker bracket is provided with a mount protrusion that is inserted in the insertion hole and the mount hole and is positioned with respect to the mount hole. The speaker bracket is provided with a sealing cushion located around the sound output section. |
| US10136200B2 |
Distributed antenna system architectures
Optical fiber-based wireless systems and related components and methods are disclosed. The systems support radio frequency (RF) communications with clients over optical fiber, including Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) communications. The systems may be provided as part of an indoor distributed antenna system (IDAS) to provide wireless communication services to clients inside a building or other facility. The systems incorporate various functions, such as optical network terminal (ONT), splitter, and local powering, in antenna coverage areas. |
| US10136199B2 |
Optical transmission method and optical transmission apparatus
The present application discloses example optical transmission apparatuses, where one example apparatus includes a filter, a router, and an optical multiplexer. The filter is connected to the router, and the router is connected to the optical multiplexer. The filter performs parity optical demultiplexing on 2N input optical signal groups by using 2N comb filters to obtain 2N odd optical signal groups and 2N even optical signal groups, and sends the 2N odd optical signal groups and the 2N even optical signal groups to the router. The router separately routes the 2N odd optical signal groups and the 2N even optical signal groups to the optical multiplexer by using at least four AWGRs. The optical multiplexer performs, by using 2N optical multiplexers, optical multiplexing on 4N optical signal groups output by the router to obtain 2N output optical signal groups. |
| US10136197B2 |
Connector element information detections
A device receives an analog voltage signal over a single physical electrical connection. The analog voltage signal can be converted into a digital value which can then be correlated to (i) an indication of a connection state of the primary device, and (ii) information about another device (or set of devices) which is connected to the device. |
| US10136193B2 |
Supporting trickplay of streaming DLNA multimedia by HLS access device
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the generation of a continuous multimedia stream during trickplay operations. When a trickplay request is received by a device that is processing a video stream for delivery to a media player, the device may modify the video stream to create a seamless delivery and playback of the underlying content at the media player. In response to a trickplay request such as a pause request or seek request, the device may identify a seek target based on the request and may initiate a new video stream that begins at the identified seek target. The device may further modify the new stream by trimming from the stream any content that is already stored or cached at the media player, thereby creating a video stream without any discontinuities. |
| US10136191B1 |
Methods, systems, and media for recommending media content based on attribute grouped viewing sessions
Methods, systems, and media for recommending media content based on attribute grouped viewing sessions are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving an authorization to access a media content consumption history associated with an authenticated user account, wherein the media content consumption history includes a plurality of viewing sessions that each include media content items that have been consumed during that viewing session and wherein each of the plurality of viewing sessions is associated with session attribute information; determining whether the session attribute information associated with the plurality of viewing sessions meets session attribute criteria; generating a plurality of session group profiles by grouping a subset of viewing sessions from the plurality of viewing sessions based on the session attribute information meeting the session attribute criteria; determining that a user device using the authenticated user account is consuming a media content item in a current viewing session; determining whether the user device is likely to view additional media content items associated with at least one of the plurality of session group profiles by comparing session attributes of the current viewing session with each of the plurality of session group profiles; in response to determining that the current viewing session matches a session group profile from the plurality of session group profiles based on the comparison, combining the media content items associated with the session group profile with the media content item in the current viewing session; and causing a recommended media content item to be presented on the user device for the user of the authenticated user account, wherein the recommended media content item is selected from the combined media content items. |
| US10136188B1 |
Display of content in a program guide based on immediate availability of the content
Data associated with content available for immediate viewing is aggregated into a program guide. A plurality of content sources for content available for immediate viewing is mined to obtain data associated with the content available for immediate viewing from the plurality of content sources. The mined data is processed to create a program guide identifying the content available for immediate viewing. The program guide displaying the identified content available for immediate viewing is presented to a user. |
| US10136187B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for presenting a suggestion to watch videos
Methods, systems, and media for presenting a suggestion to watch videos are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for presenting a suggestion to watch videos is provided, the method comprising: receiving, from a user device, a message that includes a link to a video; determining whether the link has been selected; in response to determining that the link has not been selected, determining a probability value that indicates a likelihood that a user associated with the user device would be interested in viewing the video; in response to determining that the probability value is greater than a predetermined threshold value, determining a time to suggest that the user view the video based at least in part on information relating to movement of the user device; and causing a suggestion to view the video to be presented in a suggestion interface on the user device at the determined time. |
| US10136185B2 |
System and method for detecting unknown TV commercials from a live TV stream
Unknown potential commercials are detected in a video data stream that contains segments of program type content, and blocks of commercial content. Each block includes a plurality of successive individual commercials. A library of known commercials is maintained in a first database. A video data stream is received in a video processing engine which includes a search engine that is in communication with the first database. The search engine identifies all known commercials in the video data stream and their respective start and end times. The video processing engine identifies all time segments that are sandwiched between the known commercials. The video processing engine filters out as a potential commercial any identified time segments that are significantly longer than the time length of a commercial. The video processing engine designates content of each of the time segments that were not filtered out as being one or more unknown potential commercials. |
| US10136184B2 |
Methods and apparatus to detect people
Example apparatus disclosed herein include processor circuitry and memory including machine executable instructions which, when executed, cause the processor circuitry to generate a first presence indication based on a threshold number of portions of an image including a first human pulse waveform. The example instructions, when executed, also cause the processor circuitry to identify a first location associated with a face in the image based on thermal imaging data, and adjust a first count based on a comparison of the first location associated with the face and a second location associated with the first presence indication. |
| US10136182B2 |
Presenting multimedia content from multiple sources at a same time
A device is configured to tune multiple tuners to multiple television channels. The device may receive image data and audio data for the television channels from the tuners. The device may provide the image data from the tuners for display on a display device and for display at a same time. The device may assign the audio data from a group of the tuners to respective audio channels. The device may provide the audio data from the group of tuners for output at the same time via the respective audio channels. |
| US10136180B2 |
Intelligent device system and method for distribution of digital signals on a wideband signal distribution system
A plurality of intelligent device systems for use with a wideband signal distribution network, and methods for transmitting digital information and receiving digital and non-digital information onto and off of an RF carrier through a wideband signal distribution network, are disclosed. The intelligent device systems provide networks of intelligent devices that modulate and demodulate digital video, IP video/data/voice and digital wireless onto, and off of, a wideband signal distribution system, such as an analog carrier system, using existing EIA/TIA 568 standard wiring infrastructure. The methods modulate and demodulate digital video, IP video/data/voice and digital wireless onto, and off of, a wideband distribution system, such as an analog carrier system, and separate IP portions from non-IP portions. |
| US10136178B2 |
Methods and systems for identifying a recording conflict for a media program scheduled to be recorded in the future
An exemplary method includes a web services provider system detecting an input command provided by a user during a scheduling session and representative of a request for a local digital video recording (“DVR”) system to record a media program during a presentation time period that is subsequent to the scheduling session. During the scheduling session and in response to the input command, the web services provider system identifies a maximum number of media programs other than the media program and that are already scheduled to be concurrently recorded by the local DVR system at any given time during the presentation time period, determines whether the maximum number equals a maximum recording limitation of the local DVR system, and performs, based on the determination whether the maximum number equals the maximum recording limitation of the local DVR system, a predetermined action with respect to the media program. |
| US10136177B2 |
Method and apparatus for augmenting media services
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor that includes a memory and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller can be programmed to receive media content from a set top box where the set top box is a separate device from the media processor and where the media content includes video content. The controller can also be programmed to receive supplemental content from a mobile communication device where the supplemental content is based on reading of a two dimensional bar code by the mobile communication device, and where the supplemental content comprises an image. The controller can further be programmed to generate augmented content by overlaying the supplemental content with the media content and to provide the augmented content to a display device for presentation. |
| US10136176B2 |
Set top/back box, system and method for providing a remote control device
A set top/back box and system and method for providing a remote control device are disclosed. In one embodiment, one or more wireless transceivers are located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes television input/output, a processor, and memory. The set top/back box may establish a pairing with a programmable device, such as a proximate wireless-enabled interactive handheld device having a touch screen display, whereby formatted parallel audiovisual experience instructions, including virtual buttons, may be transmitted to the programmable device for display on the touch screen display to create an experience parallel to the experience on the television. The set top/back box receives and processes virtual remote control functionality input instructions from the programmable device to control amenities associated with the set top/back box. |
| US10136171B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically recording content based on user web activity data
Systems and methods for automatically recording content based on user web activity data are provided. One such method includes receiving, by a receiving device, user web activity information associated with a user of the receiving device. The receiving device further receives content information associated with program content that will be available for viewing via the receiving device at a future time. The received user web activity information and the content information are compared to determine program content relevant to the user. A timer is automatically set, in advance of a time when the relevant program content will be available for viewing, to record the program content relevant to the user when the program content becomes available for viewing. |
| US10136170B2 |
Systems and methods for non-linear optimization of audience reach
Methods and systems are disclosed for an optimization system that recommends amounts of resources for use in reaching viewers during a media asset. The optimization system, using control circuitry, receives a user input of a first value of a resource and determines a first rate at which a number of unique household viewers reached during a first media asset changes for the first value. The optimization system compares the first rate to a threshold rate and determines whether the first rate equals or exceeds the threshold rate. The optimization system, in response to determining that the first rate does not equal or exceed the threshold rate, recommends a second value to the user. |
| US10136169B2 |
Digital broadcasting receiver and method for controlling the same
A method of processing broadcast data includes: performing RS encoding and CRC encoding on mobile service data to generate an RS frame belonging to an ensemble including a signaling information table including access information of the mobile service data and identification information for identifying a stream where keys to decrypt the mobile service data are obtained; mapping a portion of data in the RS frame to a group including known data sequences, FIC data, and TPC data, wherein the FIC data includes information for rapid mobile service acquisition, and the TPC data includes FIC version information for indicating an update of the FIC data; and transmitting a broadcast signal including the group. The group further includes data blocks. First, fourth, fifth and sixth known data sequences are inserted into third, fifth, sixth and seventh data blocks, respectively. Second and third known data sequences are inserted into a fourth data block. |
| US10136166B1 |
Method and system for communicating inserted material to a client device in a centralized content distribution system
A system and method includes a local area network, a client device, a replacement metadata determination module and a server device in communication with the client device through the local area network. The server device communicates main content to a client device. The main content comprises a plurality of main content packets. The server device determines main content metadata from the main content prior to communicating main content to the client device and determines insert content metadata from insert content. The insert content comprises a plurality of insert packets comprising the insert content metadata. The replacement metadata determination module determines a replacement metadata for the insert content based on the main content metadata. The server device replaces the insert metadata with the replacement metadata to form modified insert packets and communicates modified insert packets to the client device thereafter. |
| US10136164B2 |
Vehicle entertainment system
A vehicle entertainment system including a server storing media files, and smart monitors. Each smart monitor presents media selections corresponding to the media files and receives an input from passengers for playing a selection. Each smart monitor includes local content storage storing a subset of the media files. A network connects the smart monitors and server. Program logic executed by each smart monitor performs tasks including determining if a media file corresponding to an input is available from a first source, and if available, playing the media file from the first source; if the media file is not available there, determining if the media file required is available from a second source and if available, playing the media file from the second source; and if the media file is not available from the second source, determining if the media file is available from a third source. |
| US10136158B2 |
Intra prediction method and apparatus using the method
An intra prediction method and a device using the intra prediction method are provided. The intra prediction method using a DC mode includes setting a bottom-right pixel to a DC-predicted value, interpolating the bottom-right pixel and an n-th top reference pixel to derive predicted values of an n-th column and interpolating the bottom-right pixel and an n-th left reference pixel to derive predicted values of an n-row, and performing bidirectional linear interpolation to derive predicted values of pixels included in a prediction unit other than the n-th row and the n-th column. |
| US10136155B2 |
Motion compensation using a patchwork motion field
Techniques for direct mode video coding/decoding techniques. According to one embodiment, various blocks in B frames may use motion vectors from different reference frames (P frames or B frames), according to what is referred to herein as a patchwork motion field. Different blocks of a given frame may use motion vectors inherited from different frames for purposes of computing a predicted block for the given frame. |
| US10136149B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding residual block, and method and apparatus for decoding residual block
A decoding apparatus includes a splitter which splits the image into a plurality of maximum coding units, hierarchically splits a maximum coding unit among the plurality of maximum coding units into a plurality of coding units, and determines one or more transformation residual blocks from a coding unit among the plurality of coding units, wherein the one or more transformation residual blocks include sub residual blocks, a parser which obtains an effective coefficient flag of a sub residual block among the sub residual blocks from a bitstream, the effective coefficient flag of the sub residual block indicating whether at least one non-zero effective transformation coefficient exists in the sub residual block, and when the effective coefficient flag indicates that at least one non-zero transformation coefficient exists in the sub residual block, obtains transformation coefficients of the sub residual block based on location information of the non-zero transformation coefficient and level information of the non-zero transformation coefficient obtained from the bitstream, and an inverse-transformer which performs inverse-transformation on a transformation residual block including the sub residual block based on the transformation coefficients of the sub residual block. |
| US10136145B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing buffer for encoding and decoding multi-layer video
Provided is a multi-layer video decoding method for efficiently obtaining, from a bitstream, information indicating a maximum size of a decoded picture buffer (DPB) regarding a layer set including a plurality of layers. |
| US10136144B2 |
Method and apparatus of inter-layer filtering for scalable video coding
A method and apparatus for inter-layer prediction for scalable video coding are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention apply inter-layer adaptive filtering to the video data derived from the reconstructed BL video data to generate inter-layer adaptive filtered data. The inter-layer adaptive filtered data is then included as prediction data to encode or decode the EL video data. The video data derived from the reconstructed BL video data is up-sampled before applying inter-layer adaptive filtering. The up-sampling may also be included in the inter-layer adaptive filtering. In another embodiment, the inter-layer adaptive filtering comprises adaptive up-sampling. For up-sampled BL video data at locations not collocated with the EL video data, the up-sampled BL video data is divided into location types according to locations of the up-sampled BL video data. Each location type may have an individual filter for up-sampling video data in the group. |
| US10136143B2 |
Advanced residual prediction in scalable and multi-view video coding
In an example, a method of coding video data includes determining a partition mode for coding a block of video data, where the partition mode indicates a division of the block of video data for predictive coding. The method also includes determining whether to code a weighting factor for an inter-view residual prediction process based on the partition mode, where, when the weighting factor is not coded, the inter-view residual prediction process is not applied to predict a residual for the block. The method also includes coding the block of video data with the determined partition mode. |
| US10136137B2 |
Video decoder with enhanced CABAC decoding
A decoder receives a bitstream containing quantized coefficients representative of blocks of video representative of a plurality of pixels and decodes the bitstream using context adaptive binary arithmetic coding. The context adaptive binary arithmetic coding decodes the current syntax element using the first mode if the current syntax element is intra-coded and selecting between a first set of probable modes and a second set of probable modes, where the first set of probable modes are more likely than the second set of probable modes. The context adaptive binary arithmetic coding decodes the current syntax element using the second mode if the current syntax element is intra-coded and if selecting among one of the second set of probable modes. |
| US10136134B2 |
Method to encode video with close multiple scene changes
A video encoding method is provided when three scenes are separated by two closely spaced scene changes. For scene changes spaced greater than a threshold, scene changes are programmed with I frames in a normal fashion. If less than the threshold, the method encodes depending on complexity of the first, second and third scene to determine how to encode the scene changes. To compare complexities, the process begins by using X1, X2, and X3 to note respectively the complexities of the first, the second and the third scenes. If the absolute difference of X1 and X2 is higher than a first threshold and the absolute difference of X2 and X3 is higher than a second threshold, the first scene change is more significant than the second scene change, so in that case the process encodes the first scene change as an I-frame and picks a quantization parameter (QP) based on the complexity blended from the complexity of scene 2 (X2) and scene 3 (X3). |
| US10136129B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding video using split layer
A method performed by an apparatus of decoding a video in the unit of blocks, includes: extracting and decoding a first information corresponding to a minimum block size and a second information corresponding to a difference between the minimum block size and a maximum block size, from a bitstream; calculating the maximum block size based on the first information corresponding to the minimum block size and the second information corresponding to the difference; decoding, from the bitstream, partition information of a square current block having the derived maximum block size to identify one or more subblocks in the current block which have sizes equal to or larger than the minimum block size; decoding a prediction mode information of each of the subblocks, the prediction mode information indicating whether a subblock is inter-predicted or intra-predicted; and reconstructing each of the subblocks in the current block by predicting each of the subblocks. |
| US10136128B2 |
Cell-based compression with edge detection
An example embodiment may involve obtaining an a×b pixel macro-cell from an input image. Pixels in the a×b pixel macro-cell may have respective pixel values and may be associated with respective tags. It may be determined whether at least e of the respective tags indicate that their associated pixels represent edges in the input image. Based on this determination, either a first encoding or a second encoding of the a×b pixel macro-cell may be selected. The first encoding may weigh pixels that represent edges in the input image heavier than pixels that do not represent edges in the input image, and the second encoding might not consider whether pixels represent edges. The selected encoding may be performed and written to a computer-readable output medium. |
| US10136127B2 |
Image transmission device, image transmission method, image reception device, and image reception method
In prior art documents, no consideration is given as to how to more faithfully preserve image (here and subsequently also termed “video”) data of larger size during transmission. Provided is an image transmission device for transmission of image data, characterized by having a compression processor for compressing image data, and an output section for outputting compressed data having been compressed by the compression processor, the output section outputting the compressed data separately during a first interval and a second interval different from the first interval. |
| US10136122B2 |
Autostereoscopic 3-dimensional display
The present disclosure relates to an autostereoscopic three-dimensional (or, 3D) display using a switchable barrier. The present disclosure provides an autostereoscopic 3D display comprising: a display panel including a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix manner; and a switchable barrier disposed on a front surface of the display panel, wherein the switchable barrier includes: a lower substrate having first lower electrodes, a first passivation layer covering the first lower electrodes, second lower electrodes on the first passivation layer, a second passivation layer covering the second lower electrodes, and third lower electrodes on the second passivation layer; an upper substrate having an upper electrode facing with the first lower electrodes, the second lower electrodes and the third lower electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. |
| US10136114B2 |
Projection display component and electronic device
A projection display component of an electronic device includes a carrier and a first cover. The carrier is arranged to carry the electronic device. The first cover is arranged to partially reflect a projected image from the electronic device. The first cover is attached to the carrier via a first hinge set. |
| US10136110B2 |
Low-light image quality enhancement method for image processing device and method of operating image processing system performing the method
A method of enhancing a low-light image includes receiving a first image from an RWB image sensor, receiving a second image from an RGB image sensor, receiving an illumination value from an illumination sensor, and selecting at least one of the first and second images and generating a third image using the at least one selected image. |
| US10136109B2 |
Image sensor including color separation element and image pickup apparatus including the image sensor
An image sensor includes a pixel array having a Bayer pattern structure including a first pixel row in which first pixels and second pixels are alternately provided and a second pixel row in which additional ones of the second pixels and third pixels are alternately provided, a first element to control light of a first wavelength band to travel in directions toward left and right sides of the first element and to control light of a second wavelength band of the incident light to travel in a direction directly under the first element, and a second element to control light of a third wavelength band to travel in the directions toward the left and right sides of the second element and to control the light of the second wavelength band to travel in a direction directly under the second element. |
| US10136108B2 |
Imaging device
An imaging device includes a plurality of first pixels that includes pixels of a plurality of color components and generates a first signal from incident light, a plurality of second pixels that generates a second signal from light that has transmitted at least a part of the first pixels, and a signal generation unit that generates a signal obtained by combining the first signal and the second signal. |
| US10136106B2 |
Train asset tracking based on captured images
A system for tracking train assets is disclosed. The tracking system may include an image capture device configured to collect an image data set of a train asset and an area surrounding the train asset. Furthermore, the image data set may be associated with a time stamp and in one non-limiting example, the time stamp provides a collection time of the image data set. In some embodiments, a controller may be configured to receive the image data set and to perform an analysis of the image data set and the analysis provides a track location of the train asset and an identification of the train asset. |
| US10136104B1 |
User interface
Methods and apparatus for controlling one or more devices using a computing device, such as a wearable computing device, are disclosed. Using a sensor associated with a wearable computing device, one or more inputs are generated at the wearable computing device. As one example, the sensor can be an image capture device, and the inputs can be one or more images from a point of view of a person associated with the computing device. As another example, the sensor can be a motion sensor, and the input can be locations and/or orientations, and a gaze direction can be determined. The computing device can determine an object of interest based on the inputs. A control signal can be generated for the object of interest. The control signal can be transmitted from the computing device. |
| US10136098B2 |
Integrity verification of an audio-visual data stream
Methods and systems are provided for integrity verification of an audio-visual data stream. The method includes inserting a watermark into a frame of the visual data stream or into an audio window of a corresponding audio data stream, where the watermark includes: a hash code of the previous frame of the visual data stream and a hash code of the audio window of the audio data stream, and where the audio window corresponds in time to the previous frame of the visual data stream. |
| US10136097B2 |
Digital camera raw image support
RAW camera images may be processed by a computer system using either a particular application or a system level service. In either case, at least some parameters needed for the processing are preferably separated from the executable binary of the application or service, and are provided in separate, non-executable, data-only files. Each of these files can correspond to a particular camera or other imaging device. When a user of the system attempts to open a RAW image file from an unsupported device, the local system may contact a server for on-demand download and on-the-fly installation of the required support resource. |
| US10136095B2 |
Image processing device, display device, and image processing method
A projector is configured so as to be able to perform a plurality of types of image processing on processing target data in the case in which one of still image data and data of a frame constituting video data is input as the processing target data. A video processing section includes a selector for controlling an execution sequence of the types of image processing to be executed, and a panel correction section for outputting the processing target data having been processed in the execution sequence controlled by the control section. |
| US10136094B2 |
Display apparatus and method for controlling display apparatus
A display apparatus that displays an image includes a connection unit that is connected to an external apparatus and receives an image signal and a control signal from the external apparatus, a display unit that displays an image based on the image signal received by the connection unit, and a control unit that performs reconnection action of causing the connection unit to enter a first state in which the control unit recognizes that the external apparatus has not been connected to the connection unit and then causing the connection unit to enter a second state in which the control unit recognizes that the external apparatus has been connected to the connection unit. |
| US10136091B2 |
Solid-state image pickup element and image pickup system
At least one solid-state image pickup element includes a plurality of pixels that are arranged in a two-dimensional manner. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units each including a pixel electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer disposed on the pixel electrode, and a counter electrode disposed such that the photoelectric conversion layer is sandwiched between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode. In one or more embodiments, each of the plurality of pixels also includes a microlens disposed on the plurality of photoelectric conversion units. |
| US10136090B2 |
Threshold-monitoring, conditional-reset image sensor
An image sensor architecture with multi-bit sampling is implemented within an image sensor system. A pixel signal produced in response to light incident upon a photosensitive element is converted to a multiple-bit digital value representative of the pixel signal. If the pixel signal exceeds a sampling threshold, the photosensitive element is reset. During an image capture period, digital values associated with pixel signals that exceed a sampling threshold are accumulated into image data. |
| US10136081B2 |
Solid-state imaging element with latch circuits and electronic device equipped with the same
A pixel includes detection portions which detect transferred charges, a reset portion which resets the plurality of detection portions, a connection/separation control portion which controls connection and separation of the detection portions, and an output portion which outputs a signal corresponding to the potential of a detection portion. In a state where the connection/separation control portion connects the detection portions, the output portion outputs a connection-state reset level signal and a connection-state output signal and, in a state where the connection/separation control portion separates the detection portions, the output portion outputs a separation-state reset level signal and a separation-state output signal. A first pixel signal is generated by a difference between the connection-state reset level signal and the connection-state output signal, and a second pixel signal is generated by a difference between the separation-state reset level signal and the separation-state output signal. |
| US10136076B2 |
Imaging device, imaging system, and imaging method
An imaging device is provided with a condition designating unit which designates, by time division, imaging conditions for capturing an image, and light emission conditions for emitting auxiliary light, an imaging section which captures an image including a subject according to the imaging conditions, a light emitting unit which emits auxiliary light with respect to the subject according to the light emission conditions, and an image composer which composes a first image that is captured under a first imaging condition during a light emission period in which the auxiliary light is emitted and a second image which is captured under a second imaging condition during a non-light-emission period which is continuous to the light emission period and in which the auxiliary light is not emitted, in which quality of an image which is captured in a low illumination environment is improved. |
| US10136075B2 |
Compensation circuit for an x-ray detector
A pixel circuit includes a voltage compensation circuit connected to a body terminal of the pixel's switching TFT to compensate for a decreasing threshold voltage drift of the TFT. |
| US10136074B2 |
Distribution-point-based adaptive tone mapping
A method for tone mapping includes configuring, by at least one processor, at least one tone mapping function based on a measure of a distribution of luminance values within video data. The measure of a distribution of luminance values represents a luminance level at which a predetermined percentage of pixels of the video data have luminance values satisfying a threshold condition. The method includes generating a tone mapped video by applying the at least one configured tone mapping function to the video data. |
| US10136071B2 |
Method and apparatus for compositing image by using multiple focal lengths for zooming image
Provided are an image zooming method and an image zooming apparatus for optical zooming by using a plurality of lenses with different focal lengths. The image zooming method includes capturing an identical scene via a plurality of lenses; obtaining a first image and a second image of the identical scene that have different resolving powers; determining a first area of the first image and a second area of the second image which corresponds to the first area; and generating a composite image the second area and a remaining area of the first image from which the first area is excluded. |
| US10136065B2 |
Method for the transformation of a moving image sequence and moving image sequence transformation device
A method is provided for the transformation of a moving image sequence and a moving image sequence transformation device designed for executing the transformation method. For a current individual image of the moving image sequence, the method forms a transformation basis (1) in which a first individual image, the current individual image, and a second individual image are arranged adjacent to each other. Intersection points (S1, S2) are determined for connecting lines (7, 8) which extend from image points corresponding to each other from the first individual image and the current individual image and from the current individual image to the second individual image, comprising image starting limits and image end limits (15, 16) of the current individual image. A new image point position of an image point in the current individual image results from averaging the intersection points. |
| US10136064B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method of controlling image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus comprising: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a focal length of an imaging optical system; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain a distance to a subject; a setting unit configured to set a movable range for a correction unit configured to correct camera shake, based on the focal length and the distance to a subject; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a correction amount for correcting the camera shake within the movable range that was set by the setting unit, based on a camera shake signal from a camera shake detection unit configured to detect camera shake and output the camera shake signal. |
| US10136063B2 |
Image stabilizing method and apparatus
Provided are an image stabilizing apparatus and method thereof. The image stabilizing apparatus performs image stabilization by using both an image sensor and a motion sensor. Image distortion and movement are stably corrected by using both the position of a feature point, which is extracted by the image sensor and image processing, and the movement position of the feature point, which is predicted by the motion sensor. |
| US10136062B1 |
Information processing apparatus, mode selection method, and mode selection program
There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of setting a privacy mode intuitively and easily. The information processing apparatus capable of selecting the privacy mode includes: an imaging unit configured to acquire an image; a determination unit configured to acquire an output value related to the brightness of the image acquired by the imaging unit to determine whether the output value related to the brightness of the image meets a predetermined condition; and a mode selection unit configured to select the privacy mode when the determination unit determines that the output value related to the brightness of the image meets the predetermined condition. |
| US10136056B2 |
Panoramic imaging apparatus and system, method of generating panoramic image using panoramic imaging system, computer-readable recording medium, and computer program stored in computer-readable recording medium
Provided are a panoramic imaging apparatus, a panoramic imaging system, a method of generating a panoramic image using the panoramic imaging system, a computer-readable recording medium, and a computer program stored in a computer-readable recording medium The panoramic imaging apparatus includes a first camera module capturing an omnidirectional image, a second camera module positioned a certain distance away from the first camera module and capturing an omnidirectional image, and a controller generating and storing an image frame based on the omnidirectional image captured by at least one of the first camera module and the second camera module Each of the first camera module and the second camera module includes two lenses having a viewing angle greater than or equal to 180°, sharing an optical axis, and formed to be convex in opposite directions of each other to capture the omnidirectional image. |
| US10136055B2 |
Method for stitching together images taken through fisheye lens in order to produce 360-degree spherical panorama
The present invention is to provide a method for enabling an electronic device to read at least two images taken from different positions by a digital camera mounted with a fisheye lens; acquire internal and external parameters of the fisheye lens corresponding to the different positions as well as the vignetting coefficient for eliminating the vignetting on the images; perform exposure compensation and color calibration on the images for letting them have consistent brightness and hues; project the images onto a spherical surface and spread out the spherical surface to form a two-dimensional spread-out picture based on the parameters; register the overlapped images projected on the two-dimensional spread-out picture and adjust the offset of corresponding pixels thereof, register and adjust the brightness and hues of the overlapped images into consistency; and fuse overlapped images together to produce a 360-degree spherical panorama without having any noticeable stitching seam between the images. |
| US10136053B2 |
System and method for controlling a specimen scanner remotely
This disclosure teaches a system and method for controlling a specimen scanner remotely. In one embodiment, a method for controlling a specimen scanner remotely can comprise the step of communicating with a specimen scanner to a network. The specimen scanner can comprise a camera, a stage, one or more lenses, and one or more light sources. The method can comprise the additional step of providing a graphical user interface to a remote computer connected to the network. The graphical user interface can be operable to control the camera, choose one of the one or more lenses, and adjust the one or more light sources. The method can further comprise the step of receiving instructions from the remote computer, and controlling the specimen scanner based on those instructions. |
| US10136052B2 |
Methods and apparatus to capture photographs using mobile devices
Methods and apparatus to capture photographs using mobile devices are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a photograph capturing controller to capture a photograph with a mobile device. the example apparatus further includes a perspective analyzer, implemented by the mobile device, to analyze the photograph to determine a probability of perspective being present in the photograph. The example apparatus also includes a photograph capturing interface to prompt a user to capture a new photograph when the probability of perspective exceeds a threshold. |
| US10136051B2 |
Imaging apparatus for imaging during panning imaging when a self-timer is set to on
A system control unit deactivates a self-timer imaging setting in a case where an imaging mode of panning imaging is set, an attitude detection unit has detected a movement of a main body corresponding to the panning imaging, or a panning imaging setting is ON. |
| US10136050B2 |
Image acquisition and management using a reference image
A reference image of one or more objects is displayed on the display of a mobile device in a manner that allows a user of the mobile device to simultaneously view the reference image and a preview image of the one or more objects currently in a field of view of a camera of the mobile device. An indication is provided to the user of the mobile device whether the camera of the mobile device is currently located within a specified amount of a distance at which the reference image was acquired. In response to a user request, the camera acquires a second image of the one or more objects and optionally a distance between the camera and the one or more objects at the time the second image was acquired is recorded. An image management application provides various functionalities for accessing and managing image sequences. |
| US10136049B2 |
System, method and computer program product for contextual focus/zoom of event celebrities
A contextual zoom control method, system, and computer program product, includes detecting faces in an area of interest when a user is performing an image capturing action, extracting a facial image for each of a set of key individuals attending an event where the user is performing the image capturing action, creating a ranked list of the set of key individuals according to a predetermined parameter of each key individual, pairing each detected face with a matching extracted facial image to label an identity of each key individual in the area of interest, and in a single individual capturing mode, performing a camera function to assist the user in performing the image capturing action on the identity that is paired with a highest ranked individual on the ranked list within the area of interest. |
| US10136043B2 |
Speech and computer vision-based control
The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a digital photography system. The method includes obtaining, by a device, image data and audio data. The method also includes identifying one or more objects in the image data and obtaining a transcription of the audio data. The method also includes controlling a future operation of the device based at least on the one or more objects identified in the image data, and the transcription of the audio data. |
| US10136040B2 |
Capacitive auto focus position detection
Some embodiments include an electrically conductive capacitor plate mounted to a chassis supporting an actuator using one or more suspension wires. In some embodiments, the first electrically conductive capacitor plate is electrically connected with an electrically conductive coil of the actuator. Some embodiments include the electrically conductive coil. In some embodiments, a capacitance between the first electrically conductive capacitor plate and the electrically conductive coil varies as function of the position of the electrically conductive coil relative to the first electrically conductive capacitor plate. |
| US10136036B2 |
Control flap
An apparatus can include a processor; memory; a touchscreen display; a network interface; a camera that includes a lens; an operating system executable by the processor to establish an operating system environment; applications that execute within the operating system environment to establish corresponding application states where the applications include a camera application to establish a camera state; a housing that houses at least the processor and the camera and that includes a surface where the surface includes an opening for the lens of the camera; a cover that includes a flap where the flap includes a closed orientation with respect to the opening and an open orientation with respect to the opening; and circuitry that switches from an existing application state to the camera state responsive to a transition of the flap from the closed orientation to the open orientation. |
| US10136035B2 |
Interchangeable mounting platform
A platform for interchangeably mounting a payload to a base support is provided. In one aspect, the platform comprises: a support assembly configured to be releasably coupled to a payload via a first coupling and configured to control a spatial disposition of the payload; and a mounting assembly configured to be releasably coupled via a second coupling to a plurality of types of base supports selected from at least two of the following: an aerial vehicle, a handheld support, or a base adapter mounted onto a movable object. |
| US10136034B2 |
VLC-based video frame synchronization
A VLC signal representing an alignment identifier is detected by cameras (4) of multiple user devices (1, 2, 3) filming a scene. Encoded video frames (91, 92, 93) from the user devices (1, 2, 3) are decoded and light patterns representing the captured VLC signal are identified in at least some of the video frames following decoding. The light patterns are decoded into alignment identifiers that are used in order to time align video frames (91, 92, 93) from different user devices (1, 2, 3) to thereby achieve video frame synchronization of video data from multiple user devices (1, 2, 3) recording a scene. The embodiments thereby enable video frame synchronization without the need for accurate clock synchronization between the user devices (1, 2, 3) and a video synchronization system (10). |
| US10136033B2 |
Techniques for advanced chroma processing
Image and video processing techniques are disclosed for processing components of a color space individually by determining limits for each component based on the relationship between each component in a color space. These limits may then be used to clip each component such that the component values are within the determined range for that component. In this manner, more efficient processing of images and/or video may be achieved. |
| US10136030B2 |
Method and system for managing image forming apparatus through network
A method of managing an image forming apparatus through a network, the method including: logging in to a server through a diagnostic control unit application from a user terminal; receiving, by the user terminal, device information of an image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus; requesting for and receiving, by the user terminal, diagnostic control unit information corresponding to the received device information from the server; performing a diagnostic control on the image forming apparatus through the diagnostic control unit application by using the received diagnostic control unit information; and uploading results of performing the diagnostic control on the server. |
| US10136028B2 |
Control device performing error diffusion process using modified evaluated density value
In an error diffusion process, a control device determines a dot value of a target pixel by using a gradation value of the target pixel, and an error value. The control device determines distribution error value by comparing a gradation dependent value with a first evaluated density value indicating a density of a first dot. The control device determines the distribution error value by using the first evaluated density value when the dot value of the target pixel indicates formation of the first dot and when the gradation dependent value is smaller than or equal to the first evaluated density value. The control device determines the distribution error value by using a modified evaluated density value greater than the first evaluated density value when the dot value indicates formation of the first dot and when the gradation dependent value is greater than the first evaluated density value. |
| US10136026B2 |
Image forming apparatus, method, and storage medium storing a program
A first conversion into pixels of an obtained object, for which the processing for widening the width of the object is performed, is performed, and a second conversion into pixels of the object, for which the processing for widening the width of the object is not performed, is performed. When the first conversion is performed, a pixel is filled or is not filled with color depending on a position of a boundary of the object in the pixel. When the second conversion is performed, a pixel is filled with color if the position of the boundary of the object exists in the pixel. |
| US10136025B2 |
Image processing apparatus capable of generating image, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus capable of generating printed matter desired by a user. An MFP as the image processing apparatus generates or changes print data for printing print contents on a recording sheet to generate printed matter. Print data including information on pages is acquired from an external apparatus. Information designating ones of the pages, which are to be rotated through 180 degrees, is acquired. Based on the print data, image data for a surface of a sheet is generated by arranging two or more pages on the surface of the sheet. If a page is not to be rotated through 180 degrees, image data is generated by arranging the pages in a predetermined layout, whereas if all pages are to be rotated through 180 degrees, image data is generated by arranging the pages in a different layout from the predetermined layout. |
| US10136019B2 |
Illumination apparatus, sensor unit, and reading apparatus
An illumination apparatus includes a light source and an elongated light guide, wherein the light guide includes an emission surface that emits light from the light source and a reflection surface that reflects the light to the emission surface, the reflection surface includes a plurality of diffusion portions that diffuse the light, the diffusion portions have a shape of part of a sphere recessed from the reflection surface, a depth of the diffusion portions from the reflection surface is equal to or greater than 16.5% and equal to or smaller than 50% of a diameter of the sphere, and a width of the diffusion portions is equal to or greater than 0.1 mm and equal to or smaller than 50% of a width of the reflection surface. |
| US10136014B2 |
Image processing apparatus and control method therefor, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus that is capable of calculating an appropriate replacement guide value of a part even in a case where the image processing apparatus operates under different operating modes. The image processing apparatus is capable of operating in a plurality of operating modes of different image forming speeds and has a replacement guide default value showing a guide for replacement of a part for each of the operating modes. A degree of wear of the part for each of the operating modes is calculated based on the replacement guide default value. The calculated degree of wear is, in a case where the operating mode is changed, converted to a degree of wear for the operating mode after the change, and a replacement guide value of the part in the operating mode is calculated after the change based on the converted degree of wear. |
| US10136012B2 |
Image reading apparatus equipped with automatic document feeder and image forming apparatus having a blank-page determination feature
An image reading apparatus that is capable of determining whether an original is a blank-paper original without stopping a reading operation. A feeding unit feeds an original to a read position. A read unit is equipped with a plurality of line sensors that read the original at the read position. An obtaining unit obtains dust-position information about dust adhering to the read position based on image information that is obtained by reading a guide member arranged corresponding to the read position with the read unit before reading the original. A determination unit determines whether the original is a blank-paper original using image information corresponding to pixels without being affected by the dust that is obtained by excluding image information corresponding to the dust-position information from image information read by the line sensors of the read unit. |
| US10136009B2 |
Image reading apparatus
An image reading apparatus includes a sensor unit configured to move, a first driven pulley and a second driven pulley disposed apart from each other in a movement direction of the sensor unit, a drive pulley and a third driven pulley disposed between the first driven pulley and the second driven pulley in the movement direction, and a belt wound around the first driven pulley, the second driven pulley, the drive pulley, and the third driven pulley. The belt is bent at positions where each of the first driven pulley, the second driven pulley, and the drive pulley contacts an inner surface of the belt and is bent at a position where the third driven pulley contacts an outer surface of the belt. |
| US10136006B2 |
Image processing device that processes an image by acquiring processing information based on a processing identifier
An image processing device including a reception unit, an acquisition unit, an image reading unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives a processing identifier associated with image reading processing. The acquisition unit acquires processing information associated with the processing identifier, the processing information including at least information regarding a storing location. The image reading unit reads an image on the basis of the processing information. The transmission unit transmits data of the read image to the storing location according to the processing information. |
| US10136003B2 |
Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing guide program
Upon detecting an internal error, an image forming apparatus displays a 2-dimensional code obtained by encoding guide data corresponding to an error type of the detected internal error, the guide data indicating (a) a distance and a direction to a guide object and (b) a guide text. A mobile terminal apparatus (a) photographs the 2-dimensional code, (b) decodes the photographed 2-dimensional code to guide data, (c) detects a direction of the mobile terminal apparatus using a direction detecting device, and (d) displays a scene image being photographed by an imaging device and notifies a user of a location of the guide object by displaying a guide marker with the guide text onto the scene image, the guide marker corresponding to (dl) a difference between the detected direction of the mobile terminal apparatus and the direction to the guide object and (d2) the distance to the guide object. |
| US10136001B2 |
Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium
An image forming apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive image data obtained by reading the document by a first reading unit or a second reading unit, a storage unit configured to store the image data received by the reception unit, a determination unit configured to, while the reception unit is receiving the image data of the document obtained by the first reading unit, determine whether the second side is a blank page from the image data of the document read by the second reading unit, and a control unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the second side is a blank page, control the reception unit not to reserve a storage area for storing the image data of the document read by the second reading unit in the storage unit. |
| US10135999B2 |
Method and system for digitization of document
A method and a system for digitization of a document are disclosed. The document is scanned to generate an electronic document. One or more characters in a first set of portions of the electronic document are identified, based on a character recognition technique. Each portion in the first set of portions is classified in one or more groups based on at least a status of identification of the corresponding one or more characters. Further, one or more tasks are created for each of the one or more groups. The one or more tasks are transmitted to one or more crowdworkers, based at least on the respective type of the one or more tasks. Further, a response for each of the one or more tasks is received. Based on the received response, a digitized document is generated. |
| US10135997B2 |
Technologies for converting mobile communications network billing records
Technologies for converting mobile communications network billing records include a billing record converter system. The billing record converter system receives a data usage billing record associated with a mobile computing device communicatively coupled to a long term evolution wireless communications network. The received data usage billing record is formatted according to a real-time data usage billing record format. The received data usage billing record is converted into a new data usage billing record formatted according to a roaming data usage billing record format that corresponds to a legacy wireless communications network. The new data usage billing record is transmitted to a billing system of the legacy wireless communications network for processing. In some embodiments, the billing record converter system cumulates and converts multiple data usage billing records associated with the mobile computing device into the new data usage billing record. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10135995B1 |
Display dependent analytics
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for display dependent analysis of call data in an IBPX. In an example embodiment, an apparatus communicatively coupled to an IPBX server is configured to route VoIP calls in the IPBX. An interface circuit is configured to selected parameters of interest based on capabilities of a set of devices and generate subscription requests to subscribe the devices to the parameters of interest. A first processing circuit is configured to generate call summary metrics from call event messages for calls routed by the IPBX server. A second processing circuit subscribes a device identified in the subscription request to the selected set of parameters of interest identified in the subscription request. The second processing circuit evaluates call summary metrics for each parameter of interest subscribed to by the devices and provides results of the evaluation to devices that are subscribed to the parameter of interest. |
| US10135994B2 |
Method, device, and system for managing a conference
A method can include the steps of logging in of mobile devices of participants when they are located in the same physical conference environment and managing the resources of these devices such that the resources of the logged-in devices are combined into an audio system to output audio conference information using a sound output process in the conference environment. The conference environment may be a conference room. The audio conference information may be audio to be output to the participants at the conference environment. The formed audio system can include speakers of the user devices for outputting such audio. The microphones of the user devices may also be used to form an audio input system for the conference for allowing audio of the participants to be received and transmitted during the conference. A communication system can be configured to implement embodiments of the method. |
| US10135993B2 |
Systems and methods for mitigating and/or avoiding feedback loops during communication sessions
Methods and systems for facilitating a communication session receive a sound signal and determine at least one contributing source to the received sound signal from among a plurality of communication endpoints, wherein each respective communication endpoint of the plurality of communication endpoints is associated with a corresponding participant in the communication session and includes a microphone and loudspeaker. Based on a determination of multiple communication endpoints being co-located, one or more embodiments perform at least one of processing the received sound signal by selectively altering the received sound signal, or initiating an instruction to inhibit further contribution, to the sound signal, from at least one of the co-located multiple communication endpoints. |
| US10135991B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of call notifications to active communication devices
An apparatus, system and method for call notifications to active communication devices are provided. At an apparatus comprising a processor and a communication interface, a call for a first device is received via the communication interface. When it is determined that a second device is active, a notification of the call is transmitted to the second device. |
| US10135987B1 |
Systems and methods for routing callers to an agent in a contact center
Techniques for handling contacts and agents in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for handling contacts and agents in a contact center system including determining a first caller grade for a first call, determining a first agent grade for a first agent, and matching the first caller and the first agent based on a comparison of the first caller grade with the first agent grade. |
| US10135978B1 |
Originating calls in a contact center either in a voice dialing mode or a text dialing mode
A dialing list comprising call records can be processed by a call handling component(s) in a contact center in various dialing modes. A call record may be processed to originate a voice call, where the agent manually dials the call as a voice telephone call. In another embodiment, the call record can be processed to originate a SMS text call, where the agent also determines when the call originates. In each embodiment, the agent is presented with a graphical user interface tailored to the dialing mode. The dialing mode used may be defined by the dialing list the call record is retrieved from, information from within the call record itself, application of a rule, or input from the agent. Once the dialing mode is selected, it may be altered under certain conditions. When the call is originated, various compliance oriented tests, including calling windows and call attempts, are performed. |
| US10135977B1 |
Systems and methods for optimization of interactive voice recognition systems
Methods and systems for optimization of interactive voice recognition (IVR) system processes are provided. One or more desired optimization parameters can be determined based on an IVR transaction log that includes a plurality of IVR journeys. The IVR journeys can be filtered, transformed into vectors and/or clustered. |
| US10135974B1 |
Client-specific control of shared telecommunications services
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing remote services for endpoint devices of a plurality disparate client entities. In an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a computing server configured to provide VoIP communications for a plurality of endpoint devices respectively associated with a plurality of disparate client entities according to and responsive to client-specific sets of control data. The apparatus also includes a processing circuit configured to adjust routing of the VoIP communications by the computing server, in response to call event data generated by the computing server, by generating the client-specific sets of control data for each client entity according to a respective set of directives. |
| US10135968B2 |
System and method for acoustic echo cancellation
A system and method for acoustic echo cancellation is provided. Embodiments may include receiving, at one or more microphones, an audio reference signal from an audio speaker. Embodiments may also include filtering the audio reference signal using one or more adaptive audio filters. Embodiments may further include analyzing a level of signal energy of the audio reference signal with regard to time, frequency and audio channel to identify at least one maximum error contribution point. Embodiments may also include updating the one or more adaptive audio filters based upon, at least in part, the analyzed audio reference signal. |
| US10135967B2 |
Invalid area specifying method for touch panel of mobile terminal
A touch-panel cellular phone specifies an invalid area not accepting a user's input operation on a touch panel in advance. The cellular phone detects a user's touch area on the touch panel so as to execute a function pre-assigned to the touch area not encompassed by the invalid area. Additionally, it is possible to reduce and display menu icons in the display area precluding the invalid area on the touch panel. Thus, it is possible to prevent an error operation when a user holding a cellular phone inadvertently touches the touch panel. |
| US10135966B2 |
Mobile service information display method and apparatus, mobile service information server and system, and terminal
Disclosed are a mobile service information display method and apparatus, a mobile service information server and system, and a terminal, which can avoid a waste of resources of the mobile service information system. The method includes: determining mobile service information according to obtained location information of a mobile terminal at a current moment and obtained location information of the mobile terminal within preset duration prior to the current moment; and sending the determined mobile service information to the mobile terminal for display. |
| US10135963B2 |
Mobile terminal and control method for the mobile terminal
A mobile terminal that may take images and a control method for the mobile terminal are disclosed. The mobile terminal comprises a display module; a camera provided with a plurality of lenses; and a controller configured to receive images through the plurality of lenses and outputting the received images on the display module, wherein the controller generates one moving image data by using an image received from the first lens of the plurality of lenses and an image received from the second lens different from the first lens. |
| US10135959B2 |
Electronic device housing and manufacturing method thereof by die-casting an aluminum alloy
An electronic device housing (100) comprises outer frame (10) and a die casting inner frame (20). The die casting inner frame is shaped by means of die casting and is jogged in the outer frame. The present invention also comprises a method for manufacturing the electronic device housing. |
| US10135945B2 |
Methods and systems for boundary placement in a data stream
A method can include detecting a cadence-changing event for a stream of data, the stream of data being provided in chunks having associated chunk boundaries according to an established cadence. An adjusted chunk boundary can be established at a location corresponding to the cadence-changing event to replace a closest scheduled chunk boundary in the stream of data. |
| US10135942B2 |
Differentiated priority level communication
Provided are methods, apparatuses and systems for providing prioritized data distribution at a customer premise. A network access component may determine a particular hardware identifier associated with data received from a communication entity. The hardware identifier may uniquely identifying a piece of hardware originating data. The network access component may also determine a particular priority level associated with the data based on the particular hardware identifier. The network access component may also prioritize at least a portion of the data on a basis of the particular priority level. |
| US10135940B2 |
Subscribing to event notifications using object instances
A method of handling event subscriptions and notifications may include receiving a request from a client system to subscribe to an event type, and receiving a template from the client system. The template may define data that should be returned to the client system when an event of the event type occurs. In response to the event of the event type occurring, the method may also include packaging data associated with the event according to the template received from the client system to generate an event notification. The method may further include sending the event notification to the client system. |
| US10135939B2 |
Method and apparatus for sending delivery notification of network application-related product
A method and apparatus for sending a delivery notification of a network application-related product are provided. The method includes: selecting a delivery executing server in advance from multiple delivery servers of an application; acquiring quality of service information of the delivery executing server of the application; judging, according to a predefined judging rule, whether the quality of service information meets a requirement; and if the requirement is met, retaining the delivery executing server unchanged; otherwise, setting another delivery server of the application as a delivery executing server; and sending a delivery notification to a current delivery executing server of the application upon detecting the delivery notification of the application to be sent. |
| US10135937B2 |
Personalized notifications
Personalized notifications are provided to a user. The notifications correspond to events, which can include information items, unaddressed or unnoticed by a user. The unaddressed events may be determined based on sensor data provided by a user device associated with the user including user activity pattern information. Further, an urgency level of the unaddressed event and user availability for responding to the event may be determined. The availably may comprise a model with score(s) corresponding to the user's capability for carrying out tasks associated with addressing the event. Additionally, notification content may be generated based on information about availability and the unaddressed event, and used to provide notification(s). The notification content may include a recommendation to present a notification to the user at a time determined likely to be convenient for the user to be notified of the event or where the user likely has capacity to address the event appropriately. |
| US10135936B1 |
Systems and methods for web analytics testing and web development
A computer system for analyzing page tags of a website. The system may include a processor in communication with a database; and a storage medium. The storage medium may store instructions that, when executed, configure the processor to: access the website, the website comprising plurality of page tags; generate a collected tag record by aggregating the page tags, the collected tag record comprising collected elements; request, from the database, a benchmark tag record, the benchmark record comprising benchmark elements, the benchmark tag record being based on historic page tags stored in the database; generate a result tag record, the result tag record indicating at least one of matches or mismatches between the benchmark tag record and the collected tag record; and display at least one of the result tag record or an analysis result, the analysis result representing an aggregation of the result. |
| US10135933B2 |
Apparatus and method for generating dynamic similarity audiences
A first plurality of data points related to visitors to at least one website is received. The data points comprise at least an identification of the visitor and an interaction of the visitor with the website. A target audience comprising at least some of the visitors having a known, desired interaction and a plurality of selection rules defining tolerances for a similarity audience are received. The selection rules include a correlation score and an audience composition index. A similarity audience from a plurality of clusters defined by a number of unique visitors is selected wherein at least some of the unique visitors share at least one interaction in common, and the similarity audience comprises at least one cluster of the plurality of clusters satisfying the plurality of selection rules. Digital content is generated for electronic transmission to a plurality of computing devices associated with members of the similarity audience. |
| US10135931B2 |
Recommendations based on geolocation
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing geolocation data indicating a current geolocation of a client device of a user; identifying one or more categories of interest to the user based at least in part on social information of the user; identifying one or more objects based at least in part on the current geolocation; and determining one or more recommendations for the user based at least in part on a calculated interest value of each identified object. The calculated interest value is based at least in part on the identified categories of interest to the user. The method also includes providing the recommendations for transmission to the client device. The recommendations include one or more of the identified objects. |
| US10135923B2 |
Data transfer method and system
A data transfer method is provided for a terminal coupled to a server by one or more networks. The method includes detecting a connection type of a current network between the terminal and the server and performing data transfer between the terminal and the server when it is detected that the connection type of the current network is a wireless fidelity (WiFi) connection. Further, the method includes suspending data transfer between the terminal and the server when it is detected that the connection type of the current network is a non-WiFi connection. |
| US10135922B2 |
Granular sync/semi-sync architecture
Data consistency and availability can be provided at the granularity of logical storage objects in storage solutions that use storage virtualization in clustered storage environments. To ensure consistency of data across different storage elements, synchronization is performed across the different storage elements. Changes to data are synchronized across storage elements in different clusters by propagating the changes from a primary logical storage object to a secondary logical storage object. To satisfy the strictest RPOs while maintaining performance, change requests are intercepted prior to being sent to a filesystem that hosts the primary logical storage object and propagated to a different managing storage element associated with the secondary logical storage object. |
| US10135921B2 |
System and method for announcing cryptographic keys on a blockchain
A method and apparatus is presented for announcing the existence of cryptographic key pairs within a distributed ledger system in which no central trusted authority is available, consisting of sending a key announcement message by a network connected device to other network connected devices over a peer-to-peer network for inclusion in the distributed ledger. Once a valid key announcement message for a public key is included in the ledger, any future transactions that reference an address associated with the public key or other messages concerning said public key are accepted by other network connected devices on the peer-to-peer network and are included in the distributed ledger. If transactions or other messages reference an address not associated with an announced public key, they may be rejected by the peer-to-peer network and may not be included in the distributed ledger. |
| US10135919B2 |
Peer to peer browser content caching
Facilitating browser access to cached content available from a peer to peer network by receiving a request for content from a content server, receiving from the content server content metadata indicating that the requested content is available from at least one alternative user computing device via a peer to peer network, instantiating on the user computing device a browser helper application which facilitates access to the peer to peer network, and receiving from the content server a lookup table comprising a list of alternative user computing devices from which the requested content is available. The lookup table can be parsed to select an alternative user computing device from which the content, or portions thereof, is requested. The received content can the be stored for later use or presented to the user via the browser. |
| US10135916B1 |
Integration of service scaling and external health checking systems
Systems and methods are described to enable integrating operation of a service record system with operation of a hosting system. The service hosting system can maintain a set of servers to provide a network-accessible service, and the service record system can maintain records identifying the set of servers as endpoints for the service. The service record system can periodically transmit health check data to servers within the set, to verify their health status. When the service record system determines that a server is unhealthy, it can notify the hosting system. If the hosting system removes the server from the pool, it can notify the service record system, so that the service record system can halt further health checking of the server. |
| US10135914B2 |
Connection publishing in a distributed load balancer
A connection publishing method for a distributed load balancer in which a router receives packets from at least one client and routes packet flows to multiple load balancer (LB) nodes, which in turn distribute the packet flows among multiple server nodes. A load balancer (LB) module on each server node determines and publishes a list of active connections between client(s) and the server (a connection publishing packet) back to the LB nodes. The LB module may randomly select a LB node to receive the packet. Upon receiving the packet, the LB node processes the connection information in the packet, distributing the connection information among appropriate LB nodes. Receiving the connection publishing information from the server nodes refreshes leases for the connections on the LB nodes. |
| US10135912B2 |
Integrated experience for applications within a mobile application
A system and method that supports an integrated user interface experience with third party hosted applications selected and installed by a user within a user-installed native application of a user communication device. |
| US10135910B2 |
Cross-platform document presentation
An application executing on a target platform renders one or more widgets of one or more widget types that are specified by a document including, for each respective widget type from the one or more widget types: render, by a first widget renderer for the respective widget type, the one or more widgets of the respective widget type upon determining that the application includes the first widget renderer for the respective widget type, and render, by a second widget renderer for the respective widget type, the one or more widgets of the respective widget type upon determining that the application does not include the first widget renderer for the respective widget type. The second widget renderer may be different from the first widget renderer. |
| US10135907B2 |
Maintaining control over restricted data during deployment to cloud computing environments
Releases to the production environment of a cloud computing environment are deployed in a manner that maintains control over restricted data and the data plane of the cloud computing environment. A DevOps personnel is tasked with developing the release. However, the DevOps personnel is not authorized to deploy the release to the cloud computing environment because the DevOps personnel does not have access to restricted data in the cloud computing environment or the ability to modify the cloud computing environment to gain access to restricted data. Operating personnel who has access to restricted data and the right to modify the cloud computing environment is notified of the release and given release specifications providing details of the release. If the operator approves the release, the release is transferred to the cloud computing environment. A deployment engine then automatically deploys the release to the production environment of the cloud computing environment. |
| US10135903B2 |
Game for guessing whether a name is registered or available for registration
A game is provided that may be run on a client device of a customer. The game identifies one or more registered domain names and generates one or more available domain names for use in the game. In preferred embodiments, all of the registered and available domain names are linked in some manner to the customer and/or are in one or more categories selected by the customer. The domain names may be displayed one at a time and in a mixed order to the customer. The customer may guess whether each displayed domain name is registered or available for registration. The customer may be provided the correct answer after each guess and a “Results” page may display the results of all of the customer's guesses. The customer may be given the option at various points in the game to register any of the displayed and guessed upon available domain names. After registering one or more of the available domain names, the customer may be taken back into the game at the same point the customer left the game. |
| US10135898B2 |
Method, terminal, and system for reproducing content
A method of reproducing content is provided. The method includes, when a sync terminal reproduces content by receiving the content from a source terminal via a certain network, reproducing the content in a mirroring mode during a certain time, buffering image data corresponding to the content to be reproduced after the certain time, during the certain time, and reproducing the content in a streaming mode after the certain time by using the buffered image data. |
| US10135896B1 |
Systems and methods providing metadata for media streaming
Media devices streaming video from a server may use techniques to maintain presentation of content to one or more users. Described herein are systems and methods for determining which metadata to provide to the media devices for maintaining presentation of the content. The determination of which metadata to provide may be based on various factors such as the capabilities of the media device, the expected quality of service, and the amount of bandwidth between the server and the media device. |
| US10135895B2 |
Method and apparatus for repeatedly transmitting segment based broadcasting contents
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcasting contents which repeatedly transmits segment based broadcasting contents to easily develop next generation broadcasting service and system so that it looks as if the contents are continuously reproduced even when contents having a limited capacity are repeatedly reproduced and a test environment which is the same as an actual broadcasting environment is provided. |
| US10135889B2 |
Multiple subscriber videoconferencing system
A system, method, and device for use in videoconferencing. The method typically includes installing a videoconferencing services switch at an access point to an IP network, and registering a plurality of subscribers for videoconferencing services. Each subscriber typically has a plurality of endpoints. The method further includes receiving subscriber-specific settings to be applied to multiple videoconferencing calls from the plurality of endpoints associated with each subscriber. The method further includes storing the subscriber-specific settings at a location accessible to the switch, and configuring the switch to connect calls from the plurality of endpoints at each subscriber based on the corresponding subscriber-specific settings. |
| US10135887B1 |
Shared multimedia annotations for group-distributed video content
Synchronized multi-media annotations for shared video content is provided. According to embodiments, viewers of video content may be enabled to create multimedia annotations such as simple text comments, short videos, audio snippets, links to websites or other online content, etc., and associate the annotations with certain points or sections in the source video. When a user “shares” these annotations with a community of friends, the friends can then watch the source video and simultaneously view and/or listen to the comments their friend(s) have made. Friends may respond back with their own annotations, and again share those out to the group of friends. Later, users who have previously left comments may be able to go back and see other users' comments/annotations. |
| US10135886B2 |
Method and device for retaining robust header compression (ROHC) compressor state
A method for retaining a Robust Header Compression (ROHC) state in a User Equipment (UE) during switching from a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) call to a video call or vice versa is provided. When the VoLTE call is in progress and if a user switches the VoLTE call to the video call, then the RTP header information is sent to an Application Processor (AP) from a Communication Processor (CP). The ROHC compressor continues the compression of the RTP packets using the existing built context for the video call. Further, when the video call is in progress and if the user switches the video call to the VoLTE call, then the RTP header information is sent to the CP from the AP. The ROHC context is reused by exchanging the RTP header information between the AP and the CP. |
| US10135882B1 |
Multiple-master DNS system
In some particular embodiments, DNS servers are operated to maintain consistency of DNS records between the multiple master servers in response to certain types of communication situations. Each master DNS server monitors network connectivity by periodically testing or checking network connections of the master server (e.g., to another server). In one such exemplary context and particular embodiment, a first DNS master server operates by maintaining consistency of DNS records with at least one other DNS server. In this manner DNS records are updated using communications over a network and between the servers. Network isolation is detected and, after other related steps, restoration of connections to the at least one second DNS server is detected, and then queued DNS update requests are sent to the second DNS server. This approach is used to establish consistency of the DNS records between the DNS servers. |
| US10135881B2 |
Virtual private meeting room
A conference session is established. Different unique identifications and persistent dedicated virtual private network conference rooms are assigned to different recipients. A conference session using one of the persistent dedicated virtual private network conference rooms assigned to a recipient is established using a communication device with a processor and memory and in response to an instruction from the recipient assigned the persistent dedicated virtual private network conference room. A network resource is allocated to the conference session established, based on a participant in the conference session logging in to the conference session using one of the unique identifications. |
| US10135873B2 |
Data sharing method and apparatus, and terminal
The present invention provides a data sharing method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method includes: acquiring shared data, where the shared data is data used to be shared with another person; determining a privacy degree of the shared data; determining a sharing group of the shared data according to the privacy degree, where the sharing group is a group that receives the shared data and includes a terminal allowed to obtain the shared data; and sending the shared data to the sharing group. In this way, in a case in which privacy degrees are different, that is, shared data is different, the shared data is sent to different sharing groups. |
| US10135871B2 |
Service oriented software-defined security framework
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for service oriented software-defined security framework are disclosed. In one aspect, a system includes a security control device, one or more assets, and a security controller that communicates with the security control device and the one or more assets. The security controller includes a processing engine configured to register the security control device by creating a physical-logical attribute mapping for the security control device, and generating a security service description associated with the security control device. The processing engine is further configured to register the one or more assets by creating a physical-logical attribute mapping for each of the one or more assets, and generating security service requirements for each of the one or more assets. The processing engine is further configured to generate a security service binding based on a request for service. |
| US10135867B2 |
Dynamically updated computing environments for detecting and capturing unauthorized computer activities
Disclosed is a computerized system for dynamically updating a honeypot computer environment. The system typically includes a processor, a memory, and a honeypot management module stored in the memory. The system for is typically configured for: creating a honeypot environment within a computer network, the honeypot environment comprising a software application, wherein the computer network has one or more other environments, the honeypot environment being isolated from the other environments of the computer network; receiving an update to the software application for implementation in at least one of the other environments of the computer network; and, based on receiving the update to the software application for implementation in at least one of the other environments of the computer network, automatically implementing the update to the software application within the honeypot environment. |
| US10135865B2 |
Identifying a potential DDOS attack using statistical analysis
Embodiments can identify requests that may be tied to a DDOS attack. For example, the primary identifiers (e.g., a source address) of requests for a network resource (e.g., an entire website or a particular element of the website) can be tracked. In one embodiment, a statistical analysis of how often a particular source address (or other primary identifier) normally makes a request can be used to identify source addresses that make substantially more requests. A normal amount can correspond to an average number of request that a source address makes. According to some embodiments, a system can use statistical analysis methods on various request data in web server logs to identify potential attacks and send data concerned potential attacks to an HBA system for further analysis. |
| US10135864B2 |
Latency-based policy activation
Techniques for latency-based policy activation are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for latency-based policy activation includes collecting a plurality of latency measures associated with monitored network communications; correlating the plurality of latency measures associated with the monitored network communications to detect anomalous network activity based on a profile; and performing a mitigation response to the anomalous network activity based on a policy. |
| US10135862B1 |
Testing security incident response through automated injection of known indicators of compromise
Disclosed are various embodiments for testing the security incident response of an organization through automated injection of a known indicator of compromise. A stream of event data generated by a network monitoring system of an organization is received. The stream of event data is modified to include data embodying a fabricated indicator of compromise. The stream of event data that has been modified is then provided to an intrusion detection system of the organization. Metrics are then generated that assess the response of the organization to the fabricated indicator of compromise. |
| US10135859B2 |
Automated security enclave generation
Creating security enclaves includes determining one or more parameters of one or more applications and one or more services operating in the network. An optimal number of clusters for grouping the one or more applications and the one or more services is determined based on the one or more parameters. Then, the one or more applications and the one or more services are grouped into the clusters and one or more security enclaves are applied to each of the clusters so as to maximize operational security of the network. |
| US10135851B2 |
Method for pattern processing
The invention relates to a method for pattern processing on a processor platform, the method comprising: compiling a plurality of patterns into a plurality of data structures using the first processing unit, wherein the compiling is such that at least head data parts of the plurality of data structures fit into local memories of computation units of a second processing unit; and uploading the plurality of data structures into the second processing unit such that at least the head data parts of the plurality of data structures are uploaded into the local memories of the computation units of the second processing unit and remaining data parts of the plurality of data structures not fitting into the local memories are uploaded into a global memory of the second processing unit. |
| US10135844B2 |
Method, apparatus, and device for detecting e-mail attack
A method, an apparatus, and a device for detecting an E-mail attack. The device receives a data flow; obtains an E-mail traffic parameter of each statistic period within a predetermined number of statistic periods, where within each statistic period, the E-mail traffic parameter of each of the statistic periods is determined according to a protocol type of the received data flow; and determines that an E-mail attack is detected when the E-mail traffic parameter of each statistic period within the predetermined number of statistic periods matches a first threshold. By applying the disclosed embodiments, a detection result of the E-mail attack is more accurate. |
| US10135835B1 |
Passwordless and decentralized identity verification
Techniques include receiving request for verification of an identity, where the request includes no authentication information associated with the identity; determining, based on a ledger shared by a plurality of decentralized verification services, a credibility score for the identity; where the ledger is developed based on receiving information associated with a plurality of different types of credibility-building actions taken by the identity in an environment; determining whether the credibility score for the identity can be validated by consensus by at least a subset of the plurality of decentralized verification services; and determining whether to verify the identity, where the determination of whether to verify the identity is performed without using authentication information associated with the identity. |
| US10135834B1 |
System and method of executing operations in a social network application
Embodiments are directed to improving social network applications using the power of the blockchain (or other repository of facts as a service). The embodiments include methods and systems that register users with a social network application coupled to the blockchain, including providing respective user identifiers recorded in the blockchain. The methods and systems, for each user, configure a set of verification parameters enabled to filter the participation of the respective user identifier in operations. The methods and systems initiate, by a querying user, an operation that causes the social network application to: (a) query the blockchain to locate attested-to facts specific to user identifiers of the registered users and (b) filter participation of at least one user identifier in the operation based on the attested-to facts meeting the verification parameters. The methods and systems execute the operation based on the filtering and return results based on the attested-to facts meeting an operation parameter of the executed operation. |
| US10135832B1 |
Privileged communication indication
Systems and methods, which can provide for an indication of a privileged communication, are provided. A method, according to an embodiment, uses at least one processor of a communication server device. Addressee information of one or more addressee(s) of a communication, sender information of a sender of the communication, or a combination thereof is received. The sender information, the addressee information, or a combination thereof is compared to registered user information maintained in a database. The registered user information corresponds to registered users to or from whom privileged communications may be sent or received. An indication that the communication is privileged is provided when the sender information, the addressee information, or the combination thereof corresponds to respective registered user information maintained in the database. |
| US10135830B2 |
Utilizing transport layer security (TLS) fingerprints to determine agents and operating systems
A computer system receives, from a first set of computing devices, a first information. The computer system creates a model based on the first information, wherein the model correlates one or more TLS fingerprints to one or more agents. The computer system receives a second information, wherein the second information includes a TLS fingerprint and a declared agent. The computer system determines a predicted agent based on comparing the TLS fingerprint included in the second information to the model. The computer system determines whether the predicted agent matches the declared agent included in the second information. |
| US10135829B2 |
System and method for secure machine-to-machine communications
Embodiments of the present invention include a method for providing a secure domain name system (DNS) for machine to machine communications. In one embodiment, the method includes storing policy information for machine to machine communications in a global DNS registry database server. The method further includes communicating the policy information for machine to machine communications from the global DNS registry database server to a machine DNS registry server located in an Internet service provider (ISP) network, wherein a control signaling gateway located in the ISP network is configured to utilize the policy information for machine to machine communications to allow only registered controllers associated with a machine to communicate with the machine. |
| US10135820B2 |
Server based biometric authentication
A server-side biometric authentication system is disclosed that can split data knowledge and processes, so that extensive collusion would be required in order for a fraudster to compromise the system. Biometric data provided by a user during authentication can be matched with a combination of pieces of a biometric template stored across two or more server(s), rather than on a consumer device as is typically done. More specifically, at the time of enrollment, a biometric template can be split into two or more fragments. Each of the fragments can be encrypted and stored on a template storage server. At a later point in time, during authentication, biometric data provided by a user (e.g., from a fingerprint) can be compared against a reconstructed version of the biometric template where each fragment of the template is retrieved from a matcher computer and combined together. |
| US10135817B2 |
Enhancing authentication and source of proof through a dynamically updatable biometrics database
The present invention provides for biometric authentication of users using current, updatable biometric data/standards. In this regard, the present invention provides for creation of a registry of authentication information that dynamically, over time, receives biometric authentication-related information (e.g., photographs, voice samples, fingerprints, signatures and the like) from diverse devices configured to capture/sense such. The devices may be devices associated with the user, such as mobile communication devices, devices locate in the user's residence or the like, or the devices may be public devices, such as security cameras, point-of-sale devices or the like, which are configured to capture and electronically communicate biometric authentication-related information. In response to invoking a biometric authentication application and receiving a user's biometric credentials/identifier, the registry is accessed so that a comparison may be made between the user's current biometric credentials and the biometric data stored within the registry. |
| US10135812B2 |
Authenticating system, information processing device, authenticating method and non-transitory computer readable recording medium
An authenticating system comprises an information processing device and an authentication server connected over a network. The information processing device includes: a storage part for storing user registration information with which the identification information of each user and authentication information other than a password are registered; an authentication information acquiring part for acquiring the authentication information based on receiving a user's instruction; an identification information acquiring part for acquiring the identification information corresponding to the authentication information by running a search through the user registration information; an authentication requesting part for generating the authentication request including the identification information and sending the generated authentication request to the authentication server; a receiving part for receiving the result of the authentication from the authentication server; and a controlling part for putting the information processing device into a logged-in state in accordance with the result of the authentication. |
| US10135811B2 |
Using temporary credentials in guest mode
A method may receive, over a network and at a host's media player that is logged in to a host's media account, a play request from a guest's device. The play request may include a request to play a guest's media item from the guest's media account and may be compliant with a first protocol. In response to receiving the play request, the method may initiate a guest mode on the host's media player, log out the host's media account, and securely store the host's credentials. The method may log in the guest's media account with fewer permissions than the host's permissions. The method may play the guest's media item and establish a connection between the host's media player and the guest's device in accordance with a second protocol. Upon completion of playback, the method may log out the guest's media account and log in the host's media account. |
| US10135806B2 |
Method and system for creating a virtual SIP user agent by use of a WEBRTC enabled web browser
A method for creating a virtual SIP user agent by use of a webRTC enabled web browser (200) comprises a user logging in to a web application server (400) via a webRTC enabled web browser (200). The web application server (400) uses the logged on user identity to lookup an associated SIP user identity along with a registrar server address and the web application server (400) initiates a SIP registration procedure using its IP address as the registered contact. |
| US10135805B2 |
Connected authentication device using mobile single sign on credentials
Systems and methods for device-based authentication are disclosed. In some implementations, a device receives a Single Sign On PIN from a backend server. The device transmits, to a token server, the Single Sign On PIN and credentials of a subscriber identity module (SIM) to request a token for accessing a network resource via a computer different from the device. The token is associated with a user account. The device receives the token from the token server. The device stores the token at a local memory of the device. |
| US10135803B2 |
Dynamic identity switching
Techniques are disclosed for dynamically switching user identity when generating a web service request by receiving, at a client application, an invocation of a web service, the invocation associated with a first authenticated user identity of a first user, identifying a second user identity, verifying that a switch from the first user identity to the second user identity is permitted by switching rules, including the second user identity in a service request when the switch is permitted, and communicating the service request to the web service. The switching rules can include associations between initial user identities and permitted user identities. Verifying that a switch is permitted can include searching the associations for an entry having an initial user identity that matches the first authenticated user identity and a new user identity that matches the second user identity, wherein the switch is permitted when the entry is found. |
| US10135800B2 |
Electronic discovery insight tool
An electronic discovery insight tool is presented. The tool is implemented in an apparatus comprising one or more processors, one or more memories communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions which, when processed by the one or more processors, cause: displaying, on a user display device: an interactive object for selecting one or more data collections, a selectable search object for selecting search functionalities, a selectable report object for selecting report functionalities, and a selectable tag management object for selecting tag management functionalities; receiving, from a user via the interactive object, a selection of a data collection from the one or more data collections; in response to receiving the selection of the data collection: accessing the data collection to make the data collection available a user invoking one or more of: to the search functionalities, the report functionalities, or the tag management functionalities. |
| US10135797B2 |
Method and system for the supply of data, transactions and electronic voting
A method and system for supply of data, including generating a first digital certificate referred (empowerment certificate) signed with a first signing entity's electronic signature. The empowerment certificate includes attributes of the described entity, information identifying the first signing entity, indication of data relating to the described entity, indication of a source of the data, and identification of a relying entity to which the data can be supplied. The relying entity forwards the empowerment certificate to a source supplying the data indicated in the empowerment certificate. The data may be supplied to the relying entity by a second digital certificate (custom certificate), signed with a second signing entity's electronic signature. Custom certificates may appear in custom certificate revocation lists. A system and method for transfer of ownership of electronic property from a first entity to a second entity, and a method and system for electronic voting are also provided. |
| US10135796B2 |
Masking and unmasking data over a network
An apparatus with one or more masking rules stored in a memory receives unmasked data associated with a first session identifier via a network and converts the received unmasked data into masked data by applying the one or more masking rules to the unmasked data. The apparatus generates a first mapped identifier associated with the unmasked data and first session identifier. The apparatus also receives, via a network, a second mapped identifier associated with a second session identifier. Upon receiving the second mapped identifier and second session identifier, the apparatus determines whether the second session identifier corresponds to the first session identifier and finds the first mapped identifier corresponding to the received second mapped identifier. The apparatus retrieves and sends the unmasked data associated with the first mapped identifier. |
| US10135794B2 |
Cryptographic communication device, cryptographic communication method, and non-transitory storage medium storing program
When a device is connected to a home gateway, if a common connection method is selected, a not-high-security connection method is inevitably selected even for a connection of a high-capability device. In a cryptographic communication system according to the present disclosure, it is possible to select a high-security connection method taking into account a processing capability of the device. Furthermore, the connection method is allowed to be updated and thus when the security level of the connection method hitherto selected is imperiled, the connection method may be updated so as to maintain a high security level. |
| US10135792B2 |
Secure communications with internet-enabled devices
A network device allows inbound connections from external addresses to a computer on a local network while forbidding output connections from the computer to that external address unless preceded by an inbound connection therefrom. In some embodiments, the computer is allowed to accept inbound connections from external addresses but is not permitted to initiate outbound connections to other computers in the local network unless preceded by an inbound connection. In some embodiments, a request from an external address is processed by the network device by transmitting network information for the computer to the external address and temporarily changes network rules to allow connections from the external address. In some embodiments, if the computer attempts a disallowed connection, the connection attempt is routed through a proxy server by providing network data for the proxy server to the computer. |
| US10135790B2 |
Secure communications with internet-enabled devices
A network device allows inbound connections from external addresses to a computer on a local network while forbidding output connections from the computer to that external address unless preceded by an inbound connection therefrom. In some embodiments, the computer is allowed to accept inbound connections from external addresses but is not permitted to initiate outbound connections to other computers in the local network unless preceded by an inbound connection. In some embodiments, a request from an external address is processed by the network device by transmitting network information for the computer to the external address and temporarily changes network rules to allow connections from the external address. In some embodiments, if the computer attempts a disallowed connection, the connection attempt is routed through a proxy server by providing network data for the proxy server to the computer. |
| US10135786B2 |
Discovering and selecting candidates for sinkholing of network domains
Techniques for discovering and selecting candidates for sinkholing of network domains are provided. In some embodiments, a process for discovering and selecting candidates for sinkholing of network domains includes collecting passive DNS data from a plurality of security devices to discover candidates for sinkholing of domain names; selecting one or more domain names that are most commonly queried by distinct client devices based on the passive DNS data, wherein each of the one or more domain names is not yet registered; and automatically registering each of the one or more domain names with a domain registry to a sinkholed IP address in order to sinkhole each of the one or more domain names. |
| US10135784B2 |
Verifying source addresses associated with a terminal
Verifying source addresses associated with a terminal is disclosed, including: receiving a packet from a terminal, wherein the packet comprises a source Internet Protocol (IP) address and a source Media Access Control (MAC) address associated with the terminal; determining whether a matching entry associated with the terminal is found in a local verification table storing valid source IP addresses and valid source MAC addresses; determine that the matching entry associated with the terminal is not found in the local verification table; generating a request based on the source IP address and the source MAC address; transmitting the request to a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server; and determining whether the source IP address and the source MAC address associated with the terminal are valid based at least in part on a response from the DHCP server. |
| US10135782B2 |
Determining close contacts using communication data
One embodiment provides a method including: accessing, using a processor, communication data received at an electronic device of a first entity; identifying, using a processor, a communication between the first entity and a second entity; determining, using a processor, a strength of the communication between the first entity and the second entity; determining, using a processor, a directionality of the communication between the first entity and the second entity; and assigning, using a processor, the second entity as a close contact of the first entity based on the strength of the communication and directionality of the communication. Other aspects are described and claimed. |
| US10135775B1 |
Dynamic re-configuration of a user interface based on transaction information
A device may receive transaction information that identifies a set of third parties. The device may process messages in an electronic messaging account using a set of processing techniques after receiving the transaction information. The device may identify, in the electronic messaging account, a first set of messages associated with the set of third parties. The device may determine a manner in which to configure a user interface of an application associated with a user device to display the first set of messages based on the transaction information. The device may provide a set of instructions to the user device to configure the user interface of the application to display the first set of messages. |
| US10135763B2 |
System and method for secure and efficient communication within an organization
The present disclosure relates to system(s) and method(s) for enabling secure and efficient communication between user devices within an organization. Cloud-based messaging services are popular, but organizations hesitate to use them due to the risk of private data residing on public cloud servers. Organizations prefer to host the servers within the organization (on-premise). However, this approach is neither efficient nor cost-effective. The disclosure describes a system and method for secure and efficient communication within an organization that uses an on-premise server to tokenize user messages, i.e. replacing user data in messages with token to generate a tokenized message and sending the tokenized message to the cloud server. In response, the cloud server returns a processed tokenized message, which is then de-tokenized by the on-premise server before forwarding the message to the user. The proposed system is both secure and efficient. |
| US10135762B2 |
Bidirectional group text messaging system and method
A bidirectional group text messaging system is disclosed having a group owner that initiates a group by obtaining a provisioned telephone number, the group owner establishes a list of group members using identifying information for each group member, text messages from any group member are sent to the provisioned telephone number and from that provisioned telephone number sent to each group member, wherein the group members' identifying information is not available to any other group member except the group owner. The group owner may add and delete members at any time. Further, a text message sourced from a group member may be prevented from being sent to the sourcing member. In addition, a billing member can create logic sets to calculate a value prior to the message being transmitted to each group member. |
| US10135761B2 |
Switch device, control method, and storage medium
A switch device includes a plurality of ports respectively including a queue and transmits a flow including packets; and a processor configured to detect congestion in one of the plurality of ports, based on an amount of packets stored in the queues, receive, from another switch device, congestion information relating to the another switch device, specify a port coupled to a link where the congestion is not occurred, the link being one of a plurality of links coupled to the another switch device, based on the congestion information received from the another switch device, extract a target flow to which no packet stored in a queue of the specified port, from among a plurality of flows scheduled to be transmitted from the port in which the congestion is detected, and transmit a plurality of packets included in the extracted target flow from the specified port to the another switch device. |
| US10135760B2 |
Flexible Ethernet chip-to-chip inteface systems and methods
A Chip-to-Chip (C2C) interface utilizing Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) includes circuitry configured to provide a packet interface on a single card or over backplane/fabric links between two devices, wherein the circuitry comprises flow control and channelization for the FlexE. Each of the two devices can include any of a Network Processor (NPU), a Fabric Interface Card (FIC), a framer, and a mapper. A rate of the FlexE can be increased to support additional information for the flow control and the channelization. |
| US10135759B2 |
Context and power control information management for proximity services
Management of context and power control information enables different power control schemes for point-to-point or point-to-multipoint based on proximity services or applications. Context information may be defined as situation data about a service or application that is used to help define a power control scheme to be implemented. Power control information may be defined as control or status data for power control, which can be used for reporting or controlling the transmitting power of a peer in a P2P network. Context and power control information may be managed across multiple layers such as the application layer, service layer, media access control layer, or physical layer. Context and power control information is updated and exchanged between or among peers for context-related power control in proximity services. |
| US10135754B2 |
Method for coordinating web communications
Method for coordinating web communications, executable at a browser coordination server in communication with a first electronic device and a second electronic device via a network, first electronic device executing a first browser and second electronic device executing a second browser, comprising receiving, from first electronic device, an indication that first browser obtained a first version of a web resource from a web server; receiving, from second electronic device, an indication that second browser obtained a second version of web resource from web server; determining that second version of web resource is an updated version of web resource relative to first version of web resource; and sending, to first electronic device, an indication that first version of web resource is out of date. Also described is a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions executable by a browser coordination server to carry out the method. |
| US10135752B2 |
Expansion device for virtual interface and network server system thereof
An expansion device for a virtual interface is provided. The expansion device is disposed on a mainboard of a server and is configured to acquire control of a plurality of physical resources of the server. The expansion device includes a virtual interface demand control module and a resource management module. The resource management module includes a transmission unit and a physical resource protocol unit. The virtual interface demand control module is configured to acquire control of a plurality of client facilities and arrange a demand timing of each of the client facilities to generate a plurality of interface operation signals. The transmission unit is configured to manage datastreams of the interface operation signals transmitted from the mainboard to the physical resources to decrease central processing unit (CPU) usage on the server. The physical resource protocol unit is configured to control the physical resources according to the interface operation signals. |
| US10135741B2 |
Distribution of synchronization packets over WIFI transport links
This disclosure provides methods and an access point node for ensuring proper and correct packet based synchronization in data communications systems and networks at distribution of synchronization packets from one Access Point over a WIFI transport link to another Access Point. The access point node provides dynamic transmission rate adaption with different coding and modulation schemes. The access point node comprises an identifier unit to identify each received synchronization packet, and further comprises a controller configured to set the transmission rate for said synchronization packet according to a predetermined synchronization packet transmission rule. |
| US10135739B2 |
Network-based computational accelerator
A data processing device includes a first packet communication interface for communication with at least one host processor via a network interface controller (NIC) and a second packet communication interface for communication with a packet data network. A memory holds a flow state table containing context information with respect to multiple packet flows conveyed between the host processor and the network via the first and second interfaces packet communication interfaces. Acceleration logic, coupled between the first and second packet communication interfaces, performs computational operations on payloads of packets in the multiple packet flows using the context information in the flow state table. |
| US10135737B2 |
Distributed load balancing systems
Some embodiments provide a novel method for load balancing data messages that are sent by a source compute node (SCN) to one or more different groups of destination compute nodes (DCNs). In some embodiments, the method deploys a load balancer in the source compute node's egress datapath. This load balancer receives each data message sent from the source compute node, and determines whether the data message is addressed to one of the DCN groups for which the load balancer spreads the data traffic to balance the load across (e.g., data traffic directed to) the DCNs in the group. When the received data message is not addressed to one of the load balanced DCN groups, the load balancer forwards the received data message to its addressed destination. On the other hand, when the received data message is addressed to one of load balancer's DCN groups, the load balancer identifies a DCN in the addressed DCN group that should receive the data message, and directs the data message to the identified DCN. To direct the data message to the identified DCN, the load balancer in some embodiments changes the destination address (e.g., the destination IP address, destination port, destination MAC address, etc.) in the data message from the address of the identified DCN group to the address (e.g., the destination IP address) of the identified DCN. |
| US10135736B1 |
Dynamic trunk distribution on egress
A method, apparatus, and system are directed toward managing network traffic over a plurality of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Level 2 switch ports. A network traffic is received over the plurality of OSI Level 2 switch ports. At least a part of the network traffic is categorized into a flow. The categorization may be based on a IP address, an OSI Level 4 port, a protocol type, a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) number, or the like, associated with the network traffic. One of the plurality of OSI Level 2 switch ports is selected based on a load-balancing metric. The load-balancing metric may be a priority of the flow, a congestion characteristic, a prediction of a load usage for the flow, a combination thereof, or the like. A frame associated with the flow is sent over the selected one of the plurality of OSI Level 2 switch ports. |
| US10135732B2 |
Remotely updating routing tables
A network device may receive an instruction to update a data structure implemented by the network device and update the data structure based on receiving the instruction. The data structure may include a routing instruction to direct the network device to provide a data flow to a server device for processing. The network device may receive the data flow destined for a destination device; determine the routing instruction based on at least a portion of an internet protocol (IP) address associated with the data flow and based on the data structure; execute the routing instruction to provide the data flow to the server device and to cause the data flow to be processed by the server device to form a processed data flow; and receive the processed data flow and provide the processed data flow towards the destination device. |
| US10135729B2 |
Distributed gateway for local subnet
A computer readable medium storing instructions with functionality for: receiving a first request, from a first client device in a particular IP subnet, to identify a MAC address that corresponds to a particular IP address in the particular IP subnet; transmitting a first response to the first client device that identifies a first MAC address, of a first network device in the particular IP subnet, as the MAC address that corresponds to the particular IP address; receiving a second request, from a second client device in the particular IP subnet, to identify the MAC address that corresponds to the particular IP address; transmitting a second response to the second client device that identifies a second MAC address, of a second network device in the particular IP subnet, as the MAC address that corresponds to the particular IP address, the second MAC address being different than the first MAC address. |
| US10135728B2 |
Partial switching of network traffic
Various embodiments of systems, computer program products, and methods to provide partial network traffic switching are described herein. In an aspect, a request addressed to a computer application is received for routing to a computing environment hosting the application. The computer application is provided simultaneously at a productive computing environment and a backup computing environment. In another aspect, a triggering associated with the application is executed in response to the request to determining whether the request is test request. The request determined as test request is routed for processing by the application provided at the backup computing environment. In yet another aspect, the request is determined as a test request based on a predefined correspondence between the application and a client application sending the request. |
| US10135722B2 |
Technique for ethernet access to packet-based services
An Ethernet Metropolitan Area Network provides connectivity to one or more customer premises to packet-bases services, such as ATM, Frame Relay, or IP while advantageously providing a mechanism for assuring security and regulation of customer traffic. Upon receipt of each customer-generated information frame, an ingress Multi-Service Platform (MSP) “tags” the frame with a customer descriptor that specifically identifies the recipient customer. In practice, the MSP tags each frame by overwriting the Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identifier with the routing descriptor. Using the customer descriptor in each frame, a recipient Provider Edge Router (PER) or ATM switch can map the information as appropriate to direct the information to the specific customer. In addition, the customer descriptor may also include Quality of Service (QoS) allowing the recipient Provider Edge Router (PER) or ATM switch to vary the QoS level accordingly. |
| US10135713B2 |
Layer-3 performance monitoring sectionalization
A method is disclosed for the collection of performance metrics by establishing service operations administration and maintenance (OAM) sessions between an actuator and a plurality of reflectors in a communication network. Test packets from an actuator simultaneously reach a plurality of reflectors along a test path. Each single test packet results into a plurality of test results, one per reflector, with quasi-synchronous performance metrics to sectionalize a network and more efficiently isolate fault or performance problems without the need for additional test packets to isolate the issue. Another method is disclosed wherein an actuator generates and transmits a plurality of simultaneous test packets, one per NID device, resulting into a plurality of test results, one per reflector, with quasi-synchronous performance metrics to sectionalize a network and more efficiently isolate fault or performance problems without the need for additional test packets to isolate the issue. |
| US10135712B2 |
Auto-scaling software-defined monitoring platform for software-defined networking service assurance
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to an auto-scaling software-defined monitoring (“SDM”) platform for software-defined networking (“SDN”) service assurance. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, an SDM controller can monitor event data associated with a network event that occurred within a virtualized IP SDN network that is monitored by a virtualized SDM resources platform. The SDM controller can measure, based upon the event data, a quality of service (“QoS”) performance metric associated with the virtualized SDM resource platform. The SDN controller can determine, based upon the QoS performance metric, whether an auto-scaling operation is to be performed. The auto-scaling operation can include reconfiguring the virtualized SDM resources platform by adding virtual machine capacity for supporting event management tasks either by instantiating a new virtual machine or by migrating an existing virtual machine to a new hardware host. |
| US10135711B2 |
Technologies for sideband performance tracing of network traffic
Technologies for tracing network performance include a network computing device configured to receive a network packet from a source endpoint node, process the received network packet, capture trace data corresponding to the network packet as it is processed by the network computing device, and transmit the received network packet to a target endpoint node. The network computing device is further configured to generate a trace data network packet that includes at least a portion of the captured trace data and transmit the trace data network packet to the destination endpoint node. The destination endpoint node is configured to monitor performance of the network by reconstructing a trace of the network packet based on the trace data of the trace data network packet. Other embodiments are described herein. |
| US10135710B2 |
Information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus includes a transmission module to transmit data quantity information and data frame sequences at a first transmission rate and a reception module to receive the information and data frames and to transmit a reception buffer free capacity value. The transmission module includes a unit to set the data quantity information according to the reception buffer free capacity value and a transmission unit to transmit a sequence of data frames after the data quantity information for the sequence has been transmitted. The reception module includes a buffer to store the data frame sequences from the transmission module and a unit to calculate an expected free capacity for the buffer with the transmitted data frames stored therein. The expected free capacity is calculated using the data quantity information and is transmitted as the reception buffer free capacity value at a second transmission rate. |
| US10135707B2 |
Playout delay adjustment method and electronic apparatus thereof
An electronic apparatus and a playout delay adjustment method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a target playout delay estimator configured to estimate an initial target playout delay of a current frame by using network status information of a played packet and estimate a final target playout delay of the current frame by updating the estimated initial target playout delay based on real delay information of an unplayed packet, and an adaptation controller configured to determine an adaptation method for adjusting a playout delay of the current frame based on the final target playout delay. |
| US10135706B2 |
Managing a communications system based on software defined networking (SDN) architecture
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to managing a communications system based on software defined networking (SDN) architecture. An SDN controller is provided in the communications system to manage a wireless distribution system (WDS) and a local area network (LAN) based on SDN architecture. The SDN controller is communicatively coupled to a WDS control system in the WDS and a LAN control system in the LAN via respective SDN control data plane interfaces (CDPIs). The SDN controller analyzes a WDS performance report and a LAN performance report and provides a WDS configuration instruction(s) and/or a LAN configuration instruction(s) to the WDS control system and/or the LAN control system to reconfigure a WDS element(s) and/or a LAN element(s) to improve quality-of-experiences (QoEs) of the communications system. Monitoring and optimizing the WDS and the LAN based on a unified software-based network management platform can improve performance at reduced operational costs and complexity. |
| US10135698B2 |
Resource budget determination for communications network
Resources (10, 20, 30) of a communications network (40), are used to provide services, some are superordinate services (A, B) which depend on contributory services (C, D, E, F). Key performance indicators R-KPI are received based on measurements from the resources, of contributory services contributing to a corresponding key performance indicator KPI of the corresponding superordinate service. A selection (120) is made of the received R-KPIs which correspond to the normal operation of the superordinate service and a characteristic division is generated (130) of relative contributions of the R-KPIs to the KPI of the corresponding superordinate service for the times that the service was operating normally. This can be used as a basis for identifying differences with other R-KPIs to determine anomalies in behavior of contributory services for root cause analysis or in managing the network. Convergence evaluation and validation can be used to improve accuracy of the characteristic division. |
| US10135688B2 |
Active panel demarcation
In general, this disclosure describes a configurable cable patch panel, or “active panel,” that serves as a demarcation point between a customer area of a communication facility and a provider area of the communication facility. As described herein, the active panel may be dynamically configured to interconnect existing customer-side and provider-side connections to active panel ports in order to facilitate on-demand virtual connections within the communication facility between facility customers and/or between a facility customer and communication facility services. In some examples, a programmable network platform for the communication facility exposes a collection of interfaces by which customers may request virtual connections, which the programmable network platform provisions, in part, by configuring the active panel to interconnect select customer-side ports of the active panel with select provider-side ports of the active panel. |
| US10135684B2 |
Differential staging of devices in bulk enrollment
Disclosed are various examples for differential staging of devices in bulk enrollment. In one example, a computing environment can detect a network connection event where a client device establishes a connection with a network device that is communicatively coupled to the computing environment. A configuration file can be copied from a data store of the at least one computing device to local memory of the client device. The configuration file can comprise one or more predefined configuration settings. A configuration of the at least one client device can be caused using the configuration file. The configuration can include automating user interface events on the client device to cause a setting of the client device to conform to the predefined configuration settings. |
| US10135679B2 |
Network offering in cloud computing environment
A cloud system may create and support multiple network offerings for virtual machines in a cloud zone. Physical networks comprising sets of network elements, such as routers, gateways, firewalls, load balancers, and other network hardware, may be created and updated within a zone. Network offerings may be defined and associated, using tags or other techniques, with virtual machine networks, physical networks and/or network elements. Cloud end users may request specific network offerings when creating virtual machines, or may request to move existing virtual machines from one network offering to another. The cloud system may use the requested network offering to identify the virtual machine network, physical network, and/or network elements corresponding to the requested network offering. The cloud system may allocate a new virtual machine network and configure the network elements within the associated physical network to provide network services to the virtual machine. |
| US10135678B2 |
Mobile network IOT convergence
A method in a network device coupled with a packet data network (PDN) gateway of a mobile operator is described. The method includes transmitting configuration information to a low powered device gateway coupled with a plurality of low powered devices based on a received configuration request, wherein the low powered device gateway does not include a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). The method further includes communicating with an AAA server to authenticate a selection of the plurality of low powered devices and establishing a GPRS Tunnel Protocol (GTP) tunnel with the PDN gateway. The method further includes receiving from the low powered device gateway collected data from the selection of the plurality of low powered devices and sending to the PDN gateway the collected data. |
| US10135674B2 |
Wireless communication system with single-subband user equipment
A radio network node is configured to operate within a system bandwidth comprising multiple subbands and to serve a user equipment limited to operating within only one subband during any given subframe. The radio network node is configured to generate configuration information and to send that configuration information to the user equipment. In some embodiments, the configuration information indicates a location within the system bandwidth of a single subband within which the user equipment is to be operated during a subframe. Alternatively or additionally, the configuration information indicates a mode according to which the user equipment is to feedback channel state information to the radio network node. According to the indicated mode, in a subframe where CQI is reported, the user equipment shall report one wideband CQI value which is calculated assuming transmission on the subband within which the user equipment is configured to operate in that subframe. |
| US10135672B2 |
Log data collection system, terminal device, and log data collection method
A log data collection system includes a terminal device accumulating log data; and a collection device collecting the log data from the terminal device through a network, wherein the terminal device includes transmission determination unit which determines a timing of transmitting the log data to the collection device, within a permissible transmission period, being a time span in which transmission of the log data is permitted, based on a state of the terminal device, a state of the network, and a remaining time of the permissible transmission period. |
| US10135670B2 |
Response to an inoperative network device managed by a controller
In an example, a computer-readable medium may store executable instructions. The executable instructions may be to detect an inoperative network device in a communication network managed by a controller, determine a network switching function assigned to the inoperative network device, and provide the network switching function through the controller itself instead of the inoperative network device. |
| US10135668B2 |
Method, device, system and network architecture for handling a service request
The present invention relates to a method for handling a service request within a local area network. First a service request is received from a user device. The service request comprising information regarding one or more requirements needed to perform the service. Then a download location is localized by means of a localization service within a public network to obtain computer executable information on the basis of the information in the service request. The computer executable information is then retrieved for performing the service from the download location and installed on a networked device within the local area network. Finally, a message is sent to the user device regarding the availability of the service within the local area network. |
| US10135667B1 |
System and method for increased indoor position tracking accuracy
A method and system for increased position tracking resolution in a localized environment for use in GPS-denied areas such as within buildings or enclosed structures, comprising: multiple reference nodes each transmitting a synchronization pulse to a multitude of body-worn or device-mounted receiving units; a high speed clock circuit in each receiver capable of measuring the Time Difference of Arrival of said sync pulses to the resolution needed for precise positioning; a central processing computer used to calculate actual position of the receiving units relative to some fixed reference point; and a display system to monitor the position of the receiving units in real time as they move around within the target area overlaid onto available GIS data or building CAD drawings. |
| US10135665B2 |
Transceiving method and apparatus for modulation signal transmission in filter bank multi-carrier communication system
The present invention relates to a transceiving method and apparatus that enable QAM signal transmission in a filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) communication system and provides, in particular, a transceiving method and apparatus that enable quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal transmission without intrinsic interference by separating filtering between a sub-carrier having an even index and a sub-carrier having an odd index, and superimposing and transmitting sub-carriers filtered by means of separation. The thus-rendered present invention is a transmission method in the FBMC communication system, the method comprising the steps of: dividing at least two QAM signals into a plurality of groups; performing filtering on each of the plurality of groups; and superimposing and transmitting the QAM signal in the plurality of groups filtered on a time axis. The present invention relates to a transmission method and apparatus, and a corresponding reception method and apparatus. |
| US10135664B2 |
Transmitting apparatus and mapping method thereof
A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme. |
| US10135662B2 |
Method for generating preamble sequence in wireless LAN system
Disclosed is a sequence generation method comprising: generating a basic sequence structure including C48 having 48 tones, X6 having six tones, and X5 having five tones; selecting any one of a plurality of phase rotation factors predetermined for a bandwidth; and generating a sequence to be inputted into a preamble to be transmitted to a terminal, by using the phase rotation factor, applied in basic sequence structural units, and the basic sequence structure. |
| US10135654B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating code sequence in a communication system
A method for transmitting a synchronization signal by a transmitting side device to a receiving side device in a wireless access system. The method includes generating a concatenated code sequence in a frequency domain by concatenating a first code sequence having a first index (M1) and a second code sequence having a second index (M2). Each of the first code sequence and the second code sequence is obtained by cyclic shifting a code sequence. The concatenated code sequence is mapped to subcarriers for transmitting the synchronization signal via a secondary synchronization channel (S-SCH). The method further includes transforming the concatenated code sequence into a time domain signal; and transmitting the time domain signal to the receiving side device as the synchronization signal. The concatenated code sequence indicates a cell group identity (ID). |
| US10135651B2 |
Enhanced clear channel assessment
In an example of multi-user wireless communications, an access point may send a downlink frame to a first station. The first station may generate and transmit an uplink frame. A second station in a same or different basic service set coverage area as that of the access point performs a clear channel assessment of a medium associated with the station for transmitting a frame without interrupting a frame exchange between the access point and the first station. The second station receives the downlink frame and the uplink frame of the frame exchange. The second station determines a signal measurement of the uplink frame, and determines a status of the medium based on the signal measurement and the downlink frame. The first station may update or ignore a network allocation vector timer based on the status of the medium. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US10135650B2 |
Time variant antenna for transmitting wideband signals
A circuit for tuning a resonance frequency of an electrically small antenna. The circuit includes a first source configured for providing a modulation signal, a second source configured for providing a periodic electrical signal, an antenna, and a tuning circuit configured for modulating a resonance frequency of the antenna in response to the modulation signal. The tuning circuit includes first and second capacitors that are alternately coupled to the antenna to change the resonance frequency of the antenna. The capacitor currently coupled to the antenna is decoupled from the antenna and the other capacitor is coupled to the antenna when the voltage across the capacitor currently coupled to the antenna is momentarily zero. In an exemplary embodiment, the tuning circuit comprises first and second inductors rather than capacitors. The inductors are switched into and out of the circuit when the current through the currently coupled inductor is momentarily zero. |
| US10135649B2 |
Systems and methods for performing multi-level coding in a discrete multitone modulation communication system
Embodiments described herein provide a method for performing multi-level coding in a discrete multitone modulation (DMT) communication system. A plurality of data bits are divided into a first number of un-encoded bits and a set of bits to be encoded. The set of bits to be encoded are encoded into a second number of encoded bits. The first number is different from the second number, and the first number is an even number or an odd number. The first number of un-encoded bits and the second number of encoded bits are mapped into a plurality of constellation points. The plurality of constellation points are transmitted as orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. |
| US10135646B2 |
High-speed signaling systems and methods with adaptable, continuous-time equalization
A receiver includes a continuous-time equalizer, a decision-feedback equalizer (DFE), data and error sampling logic, and an adaptation engine. The receiver corrects for inter-symbol interference (ISI) associated with the most recent data symbol (first post cursor ISI) by establishing appropriate equalization settings for the continuous-time equalizer based upon a measure of the first-post-cursor ISI. |
| US10135641B1 |
Far end crosstalk cancellation for serdes links
A serializer-deserializer (SerDes) integrated circuit (IC) chip includes a first SerDes receiver circuit having a first input for coupling to a first SerDes link, and a first output. A second SerDes receiver circuit has a second input for coupling to a second SerDes link. The second SerDes receiver circuit includes a second output. Crosstalk filter circuitry is disposed between the first SerDes receiver circuit and the second SerDes receiver circuit. |
| US10135639B2 |
Multicarrier communication system and channel estimation method thereof
This invention discloses a multicarrier communication system that includes a transmitter equipment and a receiver equipment. According to a timing scheme, the transmitter equipment processes multiple original symbols for transmission on multiple subcarrier channels, and the receiver equipment processes and detects multiple received symbols from the multiple subcarrier channels. During a time frame of data transmission, the initial three of the original symbols for each of the subcarrier channels are three pilot symbols, forming a preamble. The three preambles of every consecutive three of the subcarrier channels form a preamble unit. All the pilot symbols of the preamble unit are expressed as a 3×3 matrix. When the center pilot symbol of the preamble unit is normalized to 1 or j (i.e., the imaginary unit), the matrix is [ - j - j - j j 1 - j - j j - j ] or [ 1 1 1 - 1 j 1 1 - 1 1 ] . A channel estimation method for the multicarrier communication system is also disclosed. |
| US10135637B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting signal in communication system
A method for transmitting a signal in a communication system includes transmitting a signal using pre-generated matrix, wherein the pre-generated matrix is generated by repeating one matrix including zero elements by a predetermined number of times and a particular sequence is allocated to non-zero elements included in the pre-generated matrix. An apparatus for receiving a signal in a communication system includes at least one processor configured to make a control to receive a transmitted signal based on a pre-generated matrix and to receive the signal, wherein the pre-generated matrix is generated by repeating one matrix including zero elements by a predetermined number of times and a particular sequence is allocated to non-zero elements included in the pre-generated matrix. |
| US10135632B1 |
Systems and methods for determining whether a user is authorized to perform an action in response to a detected sound
Systems and methods are described for determining whether a user is authorized to perform an action that meets a goal of a sound. A media guidance application may detect a sound generated by a first device external to a media equipment device. The media guidance application may retrieve, from a lookup table, a known goal that is associated with the sound. The media guidance application may detect a user in a viewing environment. The media guidance application may determine an identity of the user, and may modify playback to encourage or discourage the user from achieving the known goal based on the identity of the user. |
| US10135630B2 |
System and method for coupling a wireless device to social networking services and a mobile communication device
A system enables digital appliances to couple to third party application services directly. The system includes a device regulation/support site configured to generate a script program and a data template, and a digital appliance that selectively couples to the device regulation/support site and receives the script program and data template from the device regulation/support site, the digital appliance executes the script program with reference to the data template to couple directly to a third party application service and query the third party application service for data. |
| US10135629B2 |
Load control device user interface and database management using near field communication (NFC)
An energy control network may include a number of load control devices, such as dimmer switches, multi-button selector switch, occupancy sensors, and remote controllers, among others. These load control devices may be configured for wireless communication. Other wireless devices, such as laptops, tablets, and “smart” cellular phones may be configured to communicate with the load control devices of the energy control network. The load control devices and the other wireless communication devices may also be configured for Near Field Communication (NFC). NFC may be used to provide a load control device with its initial default configuration and/or an application specific configuration. Also, NFC may be used to transfer a configuration from one load control device that may have become faulty, to a replacement load control device. And NFC may be used to provide and trigger commands that may cause a load control load device to operate in a predetermined manner. |