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| US10448548B2 |
Inspection apparatus, component mounting system, and component mounting method
There is provided an inspection apparatus which inspects a board on which a mounting apparatus mounts a component, including a detecting unit (an inspection process unit and an inspection camera) that detects inspection information including a positional deviation amount of the component which is mounted on the board, a determining unit that determines whether the detected positional deviation amount falls within a predetermined first range, a transmission unit that transmits the detected positional deviation amount to the mounting apparatus; and a determination unit that determines whether to transmit the detected positional deviation amount to the mounting apparatus. In addition, in a case where it is determined that the positional deviation amount falls within the first range and it is determined that a predetermined condition is satisfied, the determination unit suspends transmission of the positional deviation amount to the mounting apparatus. |
| US10448546B1 |
Noise suppression sheet
Disclosed is a noise suppression sheet 1 including a resin layer 2, a non-magnetic metal layer 3, and a metal magnetic layer 4 in this order. |
| US10448540B2 |
Ultrathin heat dissipation structure
An ultrathin heat dissipation structure includes a copper clad sheet, a cover, a number of bond blocks, and a phase-change material. The copper clad sheet is given containing grooves and a number of ribs round each containing groove. The containing grooves are formed by stamping. The copper clad sheet includes an insulation layer. The copper clad layer is inner surface of the containing groove. The bond blocks are arranged on the ribs and cover is pressed to the stamped copper clad sheet and secured using the bond blocks. The containing grooves form sealing cavities and the phase-change material in the sealed cavity gathers and transfers out any heat generated by components. |
| US10448538B1 |
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for cooling wireless routers
The disclosed wireless router may include (i) an enclosure, (ii) an antenna, (iii) a printed circuit board assembly, (iv) a radiative heat sink disposed between the antenna and the printed circuit board assembly within the wireless router such that the radiative heat sink is configured to shield the antenna from spurious emissions generated by the printed circuit board assembly, and (v) a fan disposed at a center of the radiative heat sink such that the fan is configured to cool the wireless router by circulating air within the enclosure rather than pushing air through venting in the enclosure. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed. |
| US10448537B2 |
Power supply device, photochemical reaction device and method in which same is used, and lactam production method
Provided is a power supply device, provided for a light source device which has a plurality of light-emitting bodies. The power supply device includes a circuit for controlling a current supplied to the light-emitting body. The power supply device also includes a control circuit for controlling a current from a power supply source, the control circuit being disposed at the central portion of the light source device. The power supply device additionally includes a cooling component capable of cooling surroundings by channeling a refrigerant, where the cooling component is provided on a back side of the light-emitting body. The power supply device also includes a heat transfer component connecting the cooling component and the control circuit to each other. The power supply device further includes an insulating component interposed between the heat transfer component and the control circuit at a state in contact with both. |
| US10448533B2 |
Holder for flat, approximately rectangular devices such as tablet computers or smartphones
A holder for detachably fastening a flat, approximately rectangular device such as a tablet computer or a smartphone to a part, in particular to a motor vehicle part, said holder comprising a holding mechanism for detachably mounting the device, and a fastening element that is connected to the holding mechanism to connect the holder to the part; a rotary bearing that can rotate about an axis of rotation is connected to the holding mechanism, and a pivot bearing is connected to the rotary bearing and to the fastening element; the rotary bearing includes a first portion that is connected to the holding mechanism as well as a second portion that is connected to the fastening element. |
| US10448530B2 |
Housing used for electric component and method for manufacturing same
A housing and a method for manufacturing a housing are disclosed. In an embodiment a housing for an electric component includes a first housing part and a second housing part, wherein the first housing part and the second housing part are connected in a joining region, wherein the joining region is completely or partially covered by a metallic coating on an outside, wherein the first housing part is joined to the second housing part by a connecting agent, wherein the connecting agent is an adhesive or a solder material, wherein the metallic coating covers the first housing part only at an upper side of the first housing part accessible from the outside when the housing parts are joined by the connecting agent, and wherein the metallic coating extends laterally beyond the first housing part and at least partially covers the second housing part. |
| US10448529B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device on which an exterior surface mounting member is mounted is provided. The electronic device includes an external housing including a first plate and a second plate that is directed opposite to the first plate, and at least one electronic component that is included within the external housing. The first plate may include a transparent plate including a first surface that forms an outer surface of the first plate and a second surface that is directed opposite to the first surface, and a structure that is interposed between the transparent plate and the second plate, and includes a third surface that faces the first plate and a fourth surface that is formed opposite to the third surface, the structure containing a transparent or translucent material. |
| US10448518B2 |
Method for manufacturing a circuit having a lamination layer using laser direct structuring process
The present subject matter relates to the method of manufacturing circuit having lamination layer using LDS (Laser Direct Structuring) to ease the application on surface structure for applied product of various electronic circuit and particularly, in which can form circuit structure of single-layer to multiple-layer on the surface of injection-molded substrate in the shape of plane or curved surface, metal product, glasses, ceramic, rubber or other material. |
| US10448515B2 |
Method for reducing the optical reflectivity of a copper and copper alloy circuitry and touch screen device
The present invention relates to a method for reducing the optical reflectivity of a copper and copper alloy circuitry wherein a thin palladium or palladium alloy layer is deposited by immersion-type plating onto said copper or copper alloy. Thereby, a dull greyish or greyish black or black layer is obtained and the optical reflectivity of said copper or copper alloy circuitry is reduced. The method according to the present invention is particularly suitable in the manufacture of image display devices, touch screen devices and related electronic components. |
| US10448513B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display substrate with a display area, a first peripheral area, and a second peripheral area, the display area having first and second sides extending in directions crossing each other, the first peripheral area adjacent to the first side, and the second peripheral area adjacent to the second side, a first driving substrate attached to the first peripheral area, the first driving substrate including a first driving circuit portion and a first link wire connected to the first driving circuit portion, a second driving substrate attached to the second peripheral area, the second driving substrate including a second driving circuit portion and a second link wire connected to the second driving circuit portion, and a flexible circuit board attached to the first driving substrate, the flexible circuit board including a third link wire connected to the first and second link wires. |
| US10448510B2 |
Multilayer substrate and electronic device
A multilayer substrate includes a base in which insulating base material layers including a thermoplastic resin are stacked, a conductor provided on at least one of the insulating base material layers, a ground electrode and a ground conductor, and a metal member connected to the conductor. The metal member is disposed inside the base and includes a portion extending in at least a stacking direction of the insulating base material layers and a portion extending in a planar direction parallel or substantially parallel to a principal surface of the insulating base material layers, and the metal member defines at least a portion of a circuit in contact with the base. |
| US10448505B2 |
Wiring board, method for manufacturing wiring board, and method for manufacturing multi-pattern wiring board
A wiring board includes recesses recessed to an inside of the wiring board, in a plan view, in portions connecting a far end surface to side surfaces, and an outer peripheral electroconductive layer disposed over a surface extending from the far end surface to the recesses. To electrically connect an electroconductive member to the outer peripheral electroconductive layer of the wiring board by, for example, joining such as soldering, the electroconductive member can be disposed in the recesses to be connected to the outer peripheral electroconductive layer. This structure prevents the electroconductive member from excessively protruding outward from the surface of the wiring board. Thus, a device having the wiring board installed therein can be made compact. |
| US10448504B2 |
Method for producing a composite material
A method for producing a composite material comprising a planar base material to which an additional layer is applied on one side or both sides via a solder layer, characterized by: providing the base material, wherein the base material has a first surface on at least one side; providing the additional layer and arranging the solder layer between a second surface of the additional layer and the first surface such that when the additional layer is deposited on the first surface, the first surface of the base material is covered by the solder layer in a planar manner; wherein a thickness of the solder layer between the base material and the additional layer is smaller than 12 μm; heating the base material and the additional layer on the first surface to at least partially melt the solder layer; and connecting the base material to the at least one additional layer. |
| US10448501B2 |
Circuit structure
A circuit structure includes an annular conductor, a conductive via and at least one extension conductor. The annular conductor extends along a direction. The conductive via is disposed in the annular conductor and extending along the direction. The at least one extension conductor is electrically connected to at least one end of the annular conductor and extending toward the conductive via. |
| US10448496B2 |
Superconducting cavity coupler
A cavity coupler comprising of an outer coupler body, at least one shield formed inside the outer coupler body wherein the relationship between the shield and the outer coupler body form at least one chamber, an antenna configured to provide a radio frequency signal, and a flange for connecting the cavity coupler to a superconducting cavity. In an embodiment, the outer coupler body is formed of stainless steel. In an embodiment, the at least one shield is formed of copper. |
| US10448489B2 |
Motion sensitive communication device for controlling IR lighting
A power management system for a lighting circuit may include a grid shifting controller that includes a processor and a connection to an external power source. The power management system may also include a communication interface associated with the grid shifting controller. The grid shifting controller may be configured to provide control information to a processor of at least one grid shifting electrical fixture over the communication interface, the control information being configured to direct the at least one grid shifting electrical fixture on the use of power from the external power source and an energy storage device associated with the at least one grid shifting electrical fixture. |
| US10448480B2 |
LED driver with comprehensive fault protections
The embodiments disclosed herein describe a set of fault detection circuits for LED circuits in an LED channel. A first fault detection circuit is configured to detect a short fault across one or more LEDs. A second fault detection circuit is configured to detect an open fault across an LED. A third fault detection circuit is configured to detect a short across an LED channel transistor. A fourth fault detection circuit is configured to detect an LED channel sense resistor open fault. A fifth fault detection circuit is configured to detect if the LED channel is being intentionally unused. These fault detect circuits can be implemented in a fault detection integrated circuit coupled to the LED channel. |
| US10448478B2 |
LED strip, LED luminaire, and a method of manufacturing thereof
A lighting assembly (100), an LED strip, a luminaire and a method of manufacturing a lighting assembly are provided. The lighting assembly (100) is for emitting substantially white light of a controllable correlated color temperature and comprises groups of a first light source (110), a second light source (120), a third light source (130) and a controller (140). The first light source is for emitting substantially white light having a color temperature larger than 5000 Kelvin. The second light source is for emitting substantially white light having a color temperature smaller than 2250 Kelvin. The third light source is for emitting greenish light. The greenish light has a third color point in the CIE 1931 XYZ color space within an intersection of half spaces y>=1.04 x and y>=−0.0694x+0.4525. The controller is for controlling the light emission of said light sources. |
| US10448476B2 |
Method and apparatus for a signal indicator light
A lighting module is shown and described having a housing with an opening therethrough. A forward portion of the opening may be enclosed by a cap and a rearward portion of the opening may be enclosed by a transparent media. A second media may extend from the opening through a wall of the housing. The cap may be securable to a bar via a mounting apparatus. A PCBA with one or more operational groups of LEDs may be secured within the opening, such that light may be emitted through the media. A second PCBA with one or more operational groups of LEDs may be secured within the opening, such that light may be emitted through the second media. Each operational group may be integrated with a control system of a vehicle, and may be operated individually or collectively. Each operational group may correspond to similar or different colors of light. |
| US10448472B2 |
Function disabler device and system
A function disabler system includes a personal electronic device having at least one component such as a camera, and a processor having pulsed light communication software enabling receipt and transmission of pulsed light communication signals. The processor additionally includes a hosting customer software application, where the personal electronic device receives at least one pulsed light communication signal within a designated area and the pulsed light communication signal includes an instruction signal which instructs the hosting customer software application to disable the at least one component when the personal electronic device is positioned in the designated area. |
| US10448471B1 |
Lighting system with configurable dimming
Certain aspects involve lighting systems in which a dimming curve of the illumination can be selectively modified. For instance, a lighting system includes a light source configured for emitting light at a target color temperature and a switch configured to receive a selection of a dimming curve from a predefined set of dimming curves. When in a first position, the switch configures the light source to adjust a lumen intensity of the light source according to a dimming adjustment signal and a first dimming curve. When in a second position, the switch configures the light source to adjust the lumen intensity according to a dimming adjustment signal and a second dimming curve that is different from the first dimming curve. |
| US10448470B2 |
Systems and methods for dimming control using triac dimmers
System and method for dimming control of one or more light emitting diodes. An example system includes one or more signal processing components configured to receive a first signal associated with a TRIAC dimmer, process information associated with the first signal, determine whether the TRIAC dimmer is in a first condition or a second condition, generate a second signal based on at least information associated with the first signal, and send the second signal to a switch. The one or more signal processing components are further configured to, if the TRIAC dimmer is determined to be in the first condition, generate the second signal to cause the switch to be opened and closed corresponding to a modulation frequency. |
| US10448465B2 |
Multi-line microwave heating system with optimized launcher configuration
A microwave heating system configured to heat a plurality of articles and a process for using the same is provided. The heating system includes at least two laterally-spaced parallel convey lines and two or more groups of microwave launchers configured to heat articles transported along each convey line. The groups of microwave launchers can include pairs of oppositely disposed launchers that are spaced apart from one another along the axis of convey. When the system includes multiple convey lines, adjacent launcher groups are staggered relative to one another in the convey direction. Heating articles, such as foodstuffs or medical fluids or equipment in such a system, minimize undesirable interference between launchers of adjacent groups and provide a more uniform heating field. |
| US10448464B2 |
Microwave oven or a multifunctional oven with microwave heating function
A microwave oven or multifunctional oven with microwave heating function. The oven includes a cavity with an open front side and a front frame enclosing at least partially a front portion of the cavity. The cavity and the front frame include metal sheet. The front frame is connected to the cavity by fixing elements. A gap is formed between the cavity and the front frame. The gap encloses at least partially the front portion of the cavity and the front frame encloses the gap. The oven includes a door covering the open front side and the gap in a closed state of the door. The gap is at least partially filled by a gasket at least part of which includes one or more materials having low heat conductivity, so that the front frame is thermally decoupled from the cavity by the part of the gasket or the gap. |
| US10448460B2 |
Induction heating method and system
An induction heating system includes an electrically conducting load and an inverter circuit having a switching section and a resonant section. The switching section includes switching devices adapted to generate an AC current from an AC input voltage having a plurality of half-waves. The resonant section includes an induction heating coil adapted to receive the AC current for generating a corresponding time-varying magnetic field in order to generate heat in the electrically conducting load by inductive coupling. The amount of heat generated in the load depends on the frequency of the AC current. A method of managing an induction heating system also is disclosed. |
| US10448459B2 |
Light emitting diode heat sink
In some examples, a heating apparatus includes a light emitting diode (LED) array comprising an LED to heat a target object, and a heat sink thermally coupled to the LED array, to dissipate heat from the LED array, the heat sink comprising a plurality of refrigerant paths to pass a refrigerant through the heat sink in a plurality of different directions. |
| US10448456B2 |
Method and apparatus for vaporizing liquids or the like with a concealable vaporizer pen
A compact electronic vaporizer is provided herein with a concealable articulating vaporizer pen for vaporization of liquids that articulates between a closed position inside a protective case and an open position outside of the protective case. The protective case contains a deployable power adaptor configured to charge a battery. The battery may be activated by a battery switch within the protective case. A push button on the exterior of the protective case simultaneously articulates the concealable articulating vaporizer pen and activates the battery switch on the battery to turn on the vaporizer. The vaporizer includes a variable voltage controller configured to select a variable voltage of the battery, providing an improved vaporization experience as the user can select an optimum voltage at which to vaporize. The vaporizer is configured for right-handed users and contains a mouthpiece with round-tip opening to provide for more convenient and ergonomic vaporization by the user. |
| US10448455B2 |
Radio communications gateway and radio communications terminal
A mobile telephone 12 acts as a radio communications gateway between a 3G network 10 and a Bluetooth® network 11. A video conference call in the 3G network 10 is relayed over the Bluetooth® network 11 to and from a Bluetooth® enabled laptop Personal Computer (PC) 13, which therefore acts as a radio communications terminal. A Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) received by the mobile terminal 12 with the video conference content over the 3G network 10 is transmitted by the mobile telephone 12 to the laptop PC 13 over the Bluetooth® network 13 as a Pseudo-CQI (P-CQI). In this example, the P-CQI is sent in a FLOW control field of a header 40 of a Synchronous Connection Oriented (SCO) or extended SCO (eSCO) data packet of the Bluetooth® network 11. A video conference driver application running on the laptop PC 13 is then able to alter the video conference call properties according to the value of the P-CQI, thus responding to call quality conditions in the 3G network 10. |
| US10448451B2 |
Emergency radio communications system incorporating integral public safety radio bridging capability
A communication system and method is provided for handling emergencies wherein public safety radios are used to directly communicate with normally incompatible radios used by organizations such as schools. The system includes a radio communication bridge that is selectively activated by emergency personnel to contact an organization undergoing an emergency. The bridge is activated via a TCP/IP command over an IP network or alternatively sent by a pre-programmed digital radio. Computer software or firmware at communication endpoints, emergency responder locations, and at an emergency call center facilitates functionality of the system to include emergency notifications, dissemination of information associated with a particular emergency, and the status of the system to include activation and deactivation of the radio bridge. |
| US10448450B2 |
Method for continuously providing emergency call service through packet network
A method and a device for maintaining an emergency call service through a packet network in a mobile communication network are provided. UE using VoLTE receives identification information indicating whether an IMS Voice over PS (VoPS) is supported from a network to determine whether the IMS VoPS of the network is supported, and processes paging for a CS voice call according to the determination result if the emergency call service continues through the packet network. |
| US10448445B2 |
Establishing simultaneous radio connection between a user equipment and two eNodeBs
A first radio station (1) requests or instructs a second radio station (2) to prepare for communication with a radio terminal (3) on a second cell (20) while a first radio connection on a first cell (10) with the radio terminal (3) is established. Further, the first radio station (1) instructs the radio terminal (3) or the second radio station (2) to establish a second radio connection on the second cell (20) with the radio terminal (3) while maintaining the radio connection on the first cell (10) with the radio terminal (3). It is thus for example possible to enable a single radio terminal to establish radio connections with cells of a plurality of radio stations, in order to achieve carrier aggregation of cells operated by different radio stations. |
| US10448444B2 |
Using radio resource control (RRC) procedures to access different radio access technologies
A WTRU may send a registration message to a core network (CN) that is associated with a first cell of a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second cell of a second RAT. The WTRU may receive, on the first cell of the first RAT with a first radio resource control (RRC) protocol, a RRC reconfiguration message that includes information for communications with the second cell of the second RAT. The first cell of the first RAT may be utilized for mobility management and a second RRC protocol may be utilized with the second cell of the second RAT. |
| US10448440B2 |
Techniques for wireless communication between a terminal computing device and a wearable computing device
Examples are disclosed for wireless communication between a terminal computing device and a wearable computing device. In some examples, wireless local area network (WLAN) transmissions for packets of various sizes may be transmitted from a terminal computing device to a wearable computing device. At least some of the WLAN transmissions may be used by the terminal computing device to communicate to the wearable computing device based on the wearable computing device having an ability to detect the variable packet sizes. Other examples are described and claimed. |
| US10448439B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication terminal, wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and wireless communication program
A wireless communication apparatus performing wireless communication with a terminal apparatus includes a regular connection control unit making connection to and performing communication with an external access point and a temporary connection control unit that makes connection to the terminal apparatus through an internal access point and receives connection setting information of the external access point from the terminal apparatus through wireless communication based on the connection. The identification information of the internal access point includes a first character string and a second character string, and the temporary connection control unit changes the second character string of the identification information when a predetermined condition is satisfied. |
| US10448438B2 |
Wireless communication between a management controller and one or more drives
According to one embodiment, a computer program embodied on a tangible computer readable medium includes computer code for identifying a wireless communications gateway in communication with a management controller, computer code for establishing a wireless communications connection between one or more drives and the management controller, utilizing the wireless communications gateway, and computer code for communicating one or more of monitoring data and control data between the management controller and the one or more drives, utilizing the wireless communications connection. |
| US10448436B2 |
Multi-egress backhaul
A method for providing increased backhaul capacity in an ad-hoc mesh network is disclosed. The method involves attaching a mobile base station in an ad-hoc mesh network to a macro cell; measuring at least one of a backhaul signal quality with the macro cell and a throughput to the macro cell; reporting information, including a signal quality parameter, a physical position of the mobile base station, a cell identifier of the macro cell, and the measured throughput, to a coordinating node; determining if the connection between the mobile base station and the macro cell is currently in use by the ad-hoc mesh network, and whether the link exceeds a minimum quality threshold; and sending, to the mobile base station, an instruction to advertise a connection from the mobile base station to the macro cell to other nodes in the ad-hoc mesh network. |
| US10448429B2 |
Method for performing, by terminal, random access procedure over network in which multiple communication systems interwork, and apparatus therefor
The method for performing a random access procedure by a user equipment in a network in which a plurality of communication systems interwork may comprise: establishing an association with an access point (AP) of a neighboring wireless LAN communication system if it is impossible to perform a direct uplink transmission to a cellular communication system of the plurality of communication systems or that the UE is located in an area where direct uplink transmission is not possible; transmitting, to the AP, a first message including a random access preamble sequence; receiving a second message from a eNode B of the cellular communication system in response to the first message; transmitting, to the AP, a third message including the received second message and a radio resource control (RRC) connection request; and receiving, from the eNode B, a fourth message related to an RRC connection setup in response to the third message. |
| US10448426B2 |
Enabling time-overlapping communication using CSMA/CA and OFDMA
A method for an access point of a wireless communication network is disclosed. The access point is adapted to use a communication channel resource to communicate with a plurality of first wireless communication devices using orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and to communicate with a plurality of second wireless communication devices using carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA). The communication channel resource comprises a bandwidth of frequencies, the bandwidth of frequencies being dividable into a plurality of sub-carriers for OFDMA and a part of the bandwidth of frequencies forming a primary channel for CSMA/CA. The method comprises transmitting a downlink packet over all frequencies of the bandwidth for triggering one or more of the first wireless communication devices to perform OFDMA based uplink transmission. The downlink packet comprises an indication of an allocation of one or more sub-carriers to each of the triggered first wireless communication devices for the OFDMA based uplink transmission, and the allocated sub-carriers for OFDMA and the primary channel for CSMA/CA are non-overlapping. Corresponding computer program product, arrangement and access point are also disclosed. |
| US10448425B2 |
Systems and methods for traffic-aware medium access selection
Diverse traffic types can be efficiently communicated in a simultaneous manner by dynamically selecting between contention-based and scheduling-based media access control (MAC) communication schemes. Such a mechanism may be particularly beneficial in networks having a contention-based access resources and scheduling based access resources. Contention-based resources and scheduling based resources may occur over a common period, and may be orthogonal in the frequency domain and/or in the code domain. The dynamic selection may be based on a traffic characteristic or a network characteristic, and may be performed on a packet-by-packet basis. The selection criteria may be updated dynamically to adapt to changing network conditions, and may be communicated to the various transmitters via control channels or higher layer signaling. |
| US10448424B2 |
Method and apparatus for use of simultaneous multiple channels in the dynamic frequency selection band in wireless networks
The present invention relates to wireless networks and more specifically to systems and methods for selecting available channels free of radar signals from a plurality of 5 GHz radio frequency channels. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a standalone multi-channel DFS master that includes a switch and embedded processor that are programmed to switch a 5 GHz radio transceiver to a first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels, cause a beacon generator to generate a beacon in the first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels, cause a radar detector to scan for the radar signal in the first channel of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channel, and then repeat these steps for each of the other channels of the plurality of 5 GHz radio channels during a single beacon transmission duty cycle. |
| US10448422B2 |
Uplink grant detection for partial time division multiplexing mode
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for ‘partial’ time division multiplexing (TDM) operation are provided. One example of a method includes transmitting, by a base station, an Enhanced Absolute Grant Channel (E-AGCH) message to one or more user equipment. The E-AGCH message may comprise an indication of one of a first type grant or a second type grant indicating whether a grant is susceptible to grant detection. The first type of grant is considered susceptible to grant detection, and the second type of grant is considered not susceptible to grant detection. |
| US10448413B2 |
Downlink transmission method and user terminal equipment
Disclosed is a downlink transmission method that includes UE receiving configuration information sent form base station and accordingly adjusting CQI table and MCS table; UE measuring and reporting downlink channel quality indicator information to the base station; with the UE reporting the CQI information according to a backward compatible CQI table or a CQI table which supports 256 QAM modulation; and the UE receiving downlink scheduling information sent from the base station, receiving accordingly downlink data sent from the base station, with the UE processing the MCS information according to a backward compatible MCS table or a MCS table which supports 256 QAM modulation. |
| US10448412B2 |
Method whereby user equipment receives downlink control information in wireless communication system, and device therefor
Provided are a method whereby user equipment (UE) receives downlink control information in a wireless communication system and UE using the method. The method comprises: receiving configuration information (MUCC-DCI configuration information) on multi-carrier downlink control information (MUCC-DCI) that may include pieces of scheduling information related to multiple serving cells; and performing blind decoding (BD) on the MUCC-DCI in a shared search space (shared SS) determined on the basis of the MUCC-DCI configuration information. |
| US10448409B2 |
Channel allocation device and method in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Particularly, the present invention relates to an allocation and a user of a channel, and a method for operating a terminal comprises the steps of: receiving channel allocation information; and transmitting a data signal through at least one channel based on the channel allocation information. In addition, the present invention includes other examples different from the aforementioned example. |
| US10448406B2 |
Techniques for allocating user equipment processing capability among multiple access nodes
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to allocating user equipment (UE) processing capability among multiple access nodes. In an aspect, processing capability of a UE may be determined. When the UE is in communication with at least a first access node and a second access node, a first allocation of the UE processing capability for the first access node or a second allocation of the UE processing capability for the second access node may be determined. Resources may be assigned for the UE based at least in part on the first allocation or the second allocation. In an aspect, the first access node and the second access node may negotiate to determine the first allocation or the second allocation. In an aspect, the first allocation or the second allocation may be determined based on a previously-configured rule associated with a category of the UE. |
| US10448402B2 |
Method and apparatus for aggregating carriers in wireless communication systems
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for aggregating carriers in wireless communication systems. In the method, a first carrier is set up, and a second carrier is added in addition to the first carrier. In addition, the first carrier is a time division duplex (TDD) carrier for which an uplink subframe and a downlink subframe are positioned at different times in a frame, and the second carrier is a carrier only for a downlink that consists of downlink subframes. |
| US10448400B2 |
Method and device for monitoring frequency domain-based wireless link in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a technique for radio link monitoring in a wireless communication system, and to operation procedures of the base station and user equipment and a method for radio link quality evaluation on the basis of the technique. In the method, the user equipment divides the downlink channel bandwidth into multiple frequency ranges, measures channel states for each frequency range, and evaluates the radio link quality based on channel state measurement results. Thereafter, the user equipment sends frequency range quality information to the base station, which may then utilize the same for downlink resource allocation. Hence, it is possible to solve the problem of the existing scheme wherein the user equipment enters the physical layer problem detection state or the radio link failure state although a frequency range usable for service provisioning is present within the downlink channel bandwidth. |
| US10448399B2 |
Method for transferring data in wireless communication system that supports device-to-device communication, and apparatus therefor
Disclosed are a method for transferring data in a wireless communication system that supports device-to-device communication, and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for performing, by a device, data transfer in a wireless communication system that supports device-to-device communication, comprises the steps of: broadcasting, at a first sub-carrier, a ready-to-forward (RTF) signal for advertising that the device holds data to transfer; receiving, at a second sub-carrier, a forward-request (FR) signal for requesting transfer of the data from another device; and broadcasting the data after a predetermined time, wherein the first sub-carrier and the second sub-carrier are determined on the basis of sequence numbers of the data, respectively. |
| US10448396B2 |
Methods and apparatus in a wireless communication system for transmitting and receiving user data on a non-legacy carrier
A base station (20A) is configured to transmit user data to a wireless device (16A) upon a first carrier (22). The base station (20A) identifies, from a set of transmission resources that is nominally allocated for transmission of user data upon the first carrier (22), a subset of transmission resources that is also nominally allocated for transmission of a reference or control signal either by the base station (20A) upon a second carrier (24) or by a neighboring base station (20B) upon the first carrier (22). The base station (20A) selectively transmits user data to the wireless device (16A) upon the first carrier (22) exclusive of this identified subset of transmission resources. The device (16A) in some embodiments obtains information indicating that the base station (20A) is selectively transmitting user data upon the first carrier (22) exclusive of the subset in this way. Based on this information, the device (16A) recovers user data received upon the first carrier (22) exclusive of the subset of transmission resources. |
| US10448395B2 |
Method of radio communication in a system comprising a plurality of communicating modules
A method of radio communication in a system including a plurality of communicating modules, each communicating module being able to obtain at least one measured physical value and to transmit a message encapsulating at least one measured physical value to a hub device according to a given radio communication protocol, the sending of the message being performed during a communication time interval, defined by a start instant and an end instant, a waiting time separating two successive communication time intervals of one and the same communicating module. For each communicating module of the plurality of communicating modules, the waiting time is calculated as a function of an updated counter of the communicating module as a function of a receipt of an acknowledgement message originating from the hub device. |
| US10448393B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for enabling provision of an additional special subframe configuration
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for enabling provision of an additional special subframe configuration to one or more communication devices. A method and apparatus may generate one or more parameters defining a new special subframe configuration associated with downlink communications. The new special subframe configuration is generated in addition to one or more other special subframe configurations. The new special subframe configuration includes information indicating a plurality of downlink symbols that exceed a number of downlink symbols of one of the other special subframe configurations which reduces overlap between a first system and a second system, the plurality of downlink symbols minimize interference between the first and second systems and increases utilization of resources. The method and apparatus may provide a message to one or more communication devices to enable at least a first subset of the communication devices to detect the new special subframe configuration. |
| US10448391B2 |
Method and device for transmission and reception of time-frequency resources
A method for performing transmission or reception by a first communication node (511) in at least one of: a first set of time-frequency resources (1201) and a second set of time-frequency resources (1202) in a frame (1200). The first and the second set of time-frequency resources (1201, 1202) are reserved for communication of reference signal and/or control information in a pre-arranged direction of: transmission and reception to or from one or more second communication nodes (512). The first communication node determines (1301) that the direction of communication of at least one of the first and second set is to be switched for at least one frame (1200). The first communication node also performs (1306) transmission or reception of control information in at least one of the first and second set of time-frequency resources (1202) according to the determined switched direction to or from, one or more third communication nodes (513). |
| US10448390B2 |
Transmission techniques for enabling an immediate response
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for enabling an immediate response. In this manner, issues can be avoided where data carried by the last symbol of a frame cannot be entirely decoded by a receiver within a deadline for generating an immediate response. One example method for wireless communications by a first apparatus generally includes determining at least one constraint for communicating with a second apparatus; generating a frame that solicits a response; and outputting the frame for transmission to the second apparatus, wherein at least a last symbol of the frame is transmitted in a manner determined by the constraint to allow the second apparatus to transmit the response within a determined period. |
| US10448389B1 |
Method for transmitting or receiving signal in wireless communication system and device for performing the method
One aspect of the present disclosure provides a method for detecting, by a user equipment, a PDCCH signal, the method including: receiving configurations for a plurality of search space sets from a base station; determining, based on a monitoring periodicity of each of the plurality of search space sets, search space sets for which the user equipment should monitor a PDCCH signal for a specific unit time; and attempting blind-detection selectively for only a part of PDCCH candidates included in the determined search space sets when a number of PDCCH candidates or a number of CCEs included in the determined search space sets exceed a maximum number of candidates or a maximum number of CCEs, wherein in selection of PDCCH candidates for attempting the blind-detection, the user equipment firstly selects PDCCH candidates from a first search space set related to a CSS among the determined search space sets. |
| US10448387B2 |
Mobile station device, radio communication method and integrated circuit
A mobile station device transmits a transport block in an uplink subframe. The mobile station device delivers acknowledgement (ACK) for the transport block to higher layers in a case that the transport block was transmitted by the mobile station device to a base station device and the transport block is disabled based on a physical downlink control channel received in a downlink subframe. |
| US10448385B2 |
Configuration and transmission of a uplink short burst
Various aspects include a method and an apparatus for receiving a uplink (UL) short burst at an eNB, by determining, at the eNB, one or more tone assignments for one or more channels of the UL short burst, wherein the one or more channels of the UL short burst include a sounding reference signal (SRS), a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), transmitting the one or more tone assignments to the UE, and receiving the UL short burst from the UE, wherein the UL short burst is generated at the UE based at least on the one or more tone assignments transmitted from the eNB. Methods may include transmitting a uplink (UL) short burst from a user equipment (UE). |
| US10448384B2 |
High-efficiency Wi-Fi (HEW) station and access point (AP) and method for signaling of channel resource allocations
Embodiments of a high-efficiency Wi-Fi (HEW) station, access point (AP), and method for communication in a wireless network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the HEW AP may transmit a resource allocation message to indicate an allocation of channel resources for uplink transmissions by one or more HEW stations. The channel resources may include multiple channels, each of which may include multiple sub-channels and an extra portion of channel resources. The resource allocation message may include multiple sub-channel allocation blocks to indicate an allocation for a particular HEW station. A length of the sub-channel allocation blocks may be based on various factors, such as a number of channels included in the channel resources and a sub-carrier bandwidth. |
| US10448380B2 |
Split symbol control for aligned numerology
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication provide for split symbol control by varying tone spacing and symbol duration for control channels in a subframe. The control symbols may be transmitted at various locations within the subframe and may be transmitted to different mobile devices. In some examples, multiple control symbols may be transmitted in a subframe to multiple mobile devices depending on the capabilities of each of the multiple mobile devices. |
| US10448379B2 |
Enhanced downlink control channel configuration for LTE
A method of operating a wireless communication system (FIG. 4) is disclosed. The method includes receiving downlink control information (702) for transmission to a user equipment (UE) in enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH). A pseudo-random number generator is initialized (706) for generating a pseudo-random sequence. A plurality of demodulation reference signals (DMRS) are generated with the pseudo-random sequence. The plurality of DMRS is mapped with the EPDCCH and transmitted to the UE (712). |
| US10448374B2 |
Power headroom report method of dual-connectivity UE in mobile communication system
A transmit power capability and power headroom report (PHR) method and an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operating in an Inter-evolved Node B (Inter-eNB) carrier aggregation or dual connectivity mode for use in a mobile communication system are provided. The transmit power capability and PHR method includes receiving configuration information for at least one medium access control (MAC) entity for transmitting and receiving a signal; receiving uplink resource allocation information for a first MAC entity included in the at least one MAC entity; and transmitting, if change of measurement on one of the at least one MAC entity is equal to or greater than a threshold, a power headroom report (PHR) on an uplink resource corresponding to the first MAC entity based on the uplink resource allocation information. |
| US10448373B2 |
Method for transmitting signal for MTC and apparatus for same
A method for receiving system information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting coverage enhancement, the method includes receiving, by the UE, a first system information block (SIB) from a base station, the first SIB including scheduling information indicating resource block information and transport block size information for a second SIB; and repeatedly receiving, by the UE, the second SIB from the base station based on the indicated resource block information and transport block size information. |
| US10448372B2 |
Method of control channel monitoring for reduced latency operation
A user equipment (UE) includes a signal processing unit coupled to a transceiver. The UE is configured to receive a subframe comprising a plurality of time-frequency resources. The UE includes a processor in communication with the signal processing unit. The processor: (i) receives a first indication from a node in a network indicating a plurality of physical resource block sets; (ii) receives control signaling from a node in a network; (iii) determines, from the control signaling, first control information that indicates at least one selected physical resource block set from the plurality of physical resource block sets that may contain a second control information associated with a shortened transmission time interval; and (iv) monitors the at least one selected physical resource block set to identify the second control information. |
| US10448371B2 |
Wireless base station and frequency allocation method
A wireless base station extracts a connection base station which communicates user data with a wireless communication terminal from a plurality of other wireless base stations, and extracts an allocation candidate of a wireless frequency regarding communication of the user data between the connection base station and the wireless communication terminal based on information of an utilization result of a wireless frequency regarding communication of the user data of each of the other wireless base stations. |
| US10448370B2 |
System and method for virtual multi-point transceivers
A method embodiment includes receiving, by a network device, a cooperation candidate set (CCS) and determining a cooperation active set (CAS). The CCS includes a plurality of potential cooperating user equipment (CUEs) for selection to the CAS, and the plurality of potential CUEs is selected from a plurality of user equipment (UEs) in the network. The CAS is a set of CUEs selected from the CCS. A target user equipment (TUE) and the set of CUEs form a virtual multipoint transceiver. |
| US10448366B2 |
Systems and methods for LTE allocation in a shared unlicensed spectrum
A method for allocating aggressive signal carriers in a target band of a wireless communication network is provided. The network includes at least one long term evolution (LTE) node and at least one non-LTE transmission source. The target band includes at least two adjacent pairs of contiguous radio frequency (RF) channels. The method includes steps of scanning each contiguous RF channel of the target band to measure a respective value of non-LTE RF energy therein, determining, from the measured non-LTE RF energy, that a first one of the contiguous RF channels is occupied by a non-LTE carrier, and allocating an LTE carrier to a second one of the contiguous RF channels, different than the first one of the contiguous RF channels, based on the determination. |
| US10448365B2 |
Method and an apparatus for reference signal and mapping for sidelink communications
UE (12) for transmission of a demodulation reference signal, DMRS, for sidelink communications is provided. UE (12) includes processing circuit (26) configured to: determine at least one transmission parameter associated with at least one of data transmission and control information transmission, and generate a DMRS using the determined at least one transmission parameter. UE (12) includes transmitter circuit (22) configured to transmit the DMRS. |
| US10448358B2 |
Wearable device command regulation
Systems and methods for regulating alerts in a wearable device are disclosed. The alerts may be generated from a mobile device or a wearable device communicatively coupled to the mobile device. The system may include an alert storage module that receives alerts of various types, and generate a plurality of alert heaps each including respective one or more alerts. The system may determine for an alert a respective cost value associated with issuing a notification of the alert. The alert heaps may be merged to produce a cost-biased leftist heap including prioritized alerts based on the cost values of the alerts. The system may generate a queue of notification commands based on the prioritized alerts, and transmit the commands to the wearable device. |
| US10448355B2 |
Radio location technique
A technique for locating a radio device within a region covered by a radio access network, RAN is described. The RAN includes a plurality of transmission and reception points, TRPs. As to a method aspect of the technique, reports indicative of measurements performed by the radio device based on radio beams transmitted from different TRPs of the RAN are received. Each of the radio beams correspond to a radio propagation direction from the respective TRP. The radio device is located based on a combination of the radio propagation directions corresponding to radio beams transmitted from at least two of the TRPs of the RAN. |
| US10448352B1 |
Enterprise fabric configured to support cellular mobility
A mobility management entity (MME) controls an enterprise fabric. The MME receives from a mobile device via a cellular network a request to initiate an attach procedure. In response, the MME acquires from the mobile device a unique equipment identifier of the mobile device. The MME generates an enterprise identity for the mobile device based on the unique equipment identifier, and registers the enterprise identity in the enterprise fabric. The MME signals to a user plane function of the cellular network that the mobile device has been registered, to trigger the user plane function to acquire an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the mobile device based on the enterprise identity. The MME receives from the user plane function the acquired IP address. The MME sends to the mobile device, through the cellular network, an attach accept message that includes the acquired IP address for use by the mobile device. |
| US10448351B2 |
Employing neighboring cell assistance information for interference mitigation
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for employing a neighboring cell's assistance information for interference mitigation (e.g., by conveying the information to a user equipment). A base station (BS) may determine assistance information for a neighboring cell and convey it to a user equipment (UE). A UE may receive assistance information for a neighboring cell and use that information for performing interference cancellation or suppression on received signals. The UE may receive the assistance information from a serving cell or a non-serving cell. The assistance information may be valid for a particular transmission instance, for a known period of time, or until updated by a BS. |
| US10448344B2 |
Communication apparatus and communication system
There is provided a communication apparatus and a communication system that reduces communication interference in inter-vehicle communication by considering the emergency degree of the environment around a vehicle and the accident incidence rate in each traveling scene and that raises the communication quality of high-emergency-degree data. The communication apparatus has a communication unit that has a power setting unit and performs inter-vehicle communication and a control unit that has a vehicle information acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle information and a reference vehicle position estimation unit for estimating the present position of a reference vehicle and controls the communication unit; when high-emergency-degree information of the reference vehicle is transmitted by use of vehicle information, the control unit controls the communication unit in such away that transmission is performed with increased transmission power. |
| US10448343B2 |
Transmission Power Management
A transmission power management method is disclosed for a wireless communication device (WCD), wherein the WCD is configured to operate in a simultaneously connected mode in relation to a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) served by respective network nodes. The method comprises dynamically determining a transmission power distribution for the plurality of RATs subject to a maximum transmission power constraint of the WCD and causing application of the determined transmission power distribution for the WCD. Causing application of the determined transmission power distribution may comprise transmitting a respective sounding signal towards the respective network node, wherein a respective signal level of the sounding signal is indicative of the determined transmission power distribution. Alternatively or additionally, causing application of the determined transmission power distribution may comprise transmitting an or implicit explicit request for application of the determined transmission power distribution towards the respective network node. Yet alternatively or additionally, causing application of the determined transmission power distribution may comprise autonomously configuring the WCD to apply the determined transmission power distribution. Corresponding arrangement, wireless communication device and computer program product are also disclosed. |
| US10448338B2 |
Adaptive sleep delay
An example computer-implemented method includes determining, by an electronic device, that the electronic device has not received a user activity for an interval of time. The method also includes determining, by the electronic device, a contextual state of the electronic device, and adapting, by the electronic device, a sleep delay value based on the determined contextual state of the electronic device. The method also includes determining that the interval of time has exceeded the sleep delay value, and responsive to determining that the interval of time has exceeded the sleep delay value, transitioning, by the electronic device, from a first power state to a second power state, where the first power state is higher or lower than the second power state. |
| US10448337B2 |
Digital signal receiver and method for controlling signal processing in such digital signal receiver
A digital signal receiver comprises an iterative decoder configured to decode its input signal using an iterative decoding algorithm, a signal quality detector, configured to detect signal quality of the input signal of the iterative decoder; a power consumption monitor, configured to detect a parameter indicating power consumption of the iterative decoder; a voltage regulator, configured to adjust a supply voltage of the iterative decoder to maintain it within a preset supply voltage range, based on the detected parameter indicating the power consumption of the iterative decoder; and an iteration controller, configured to adjust a maximum iteration number of decoding based on the signal quality of the input signal of the iterative decoder. |
| US10448336B2 |
Systems and methods to vary rate of communication between GPS transceiver and at least one satellite for outputting directions
In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor, a global positioning system (GPS) transceiver accessible to the at least one processor, a motion sensor accessible to the at least one processor, a cellular communication transceiver accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the at least one processor to provide directions to follow a route to a destination and to vary a rate at which the GPS transceiver communicates with at least one satellite for providing the directions. |
| US10448329B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling TCP connections in a wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection close to improve a battery life time of a client such as a smart phone in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a client in a wireless communication system includes determining a data transfer inactivity time of at least one of TCP connections, and closing the at least one of TCP connections at the data transfer inactivity time. |
| US10448327B2 |
Dynamic power management of IoT devices
A method for dynamic power management of electronic devices includes determining, at a server, a remaining battery life of an electronic device, wherein the electronic device is powered by a battery and associated with a power management profile for managing power consumption at the electronic device; and based on the determined remaining battery life, provisioning an updated power management profile for the electronic device. |
| US10448326B2 |
Method and device for routing and scheduling in a multi-hop network
There is provided a wireless device and a method for managing a wireless device for wireless transmission over a multi-hop wireless network, the wireless device comprising a wireless interface and a controller. A schedule of timeslots for transmitting and timeslots for receiving messages is determined based on which layer of the network the wireless device occupies. A transmission from a first node is received during a scheduled timeslot for receiving messages, the transmission comprising a message. The message is added to a queue of messages. In response to a signal being received via the wireless interface indicating that another node in the network has received the message, the message is removed from the queue of messages. During a scheduled timeslot for transmitting messages, at least one message from the queue of messages is transmitted to nodes in a layer closer to the sink than the wireless device. |
| US10448319B2 |
User equipment paging method and MME
A user equipment paging method and a mobility management entity (MME) in order to improve user equipment paging efficiency, where the method includes determining, by the MME before paging user equipment in an idle state, a base station last accessed by the user equipment, determining, by the MME, that the base station last accessed by the user equipment is in a non-overload state, and sending, by the MME, a paging message including an identifier of the user equipment to the base station last accessed by the user equipment. |
| US10448317B2 |
Wireless network access control method, device, and system
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a wireless network access control method, device, and system. The method includes: receiving, by a control device, a wireless access request message sent by user device, where the wireless access request message includes an identifier of at least one wireless network; determining a control policy parameter corresponding to the identifier of the wireless network, where the control policy parameter includes the identifier, an access password, and a preset access condition parameter that are of the wireless network; and sending the control policy parameter to the user device when determining, according to the preset access condition parameter in the control policy parameter, that a current access condition parameter of the wireless network meets the preset access condition parameter, so that the user device accesses the wireless network according to the identifier and the access password that are of the wireless network. |
| US10448312B2 |
Network awareness of device location
Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. One method can comprise detecting a triggering event at a node. Location information of the node can be transmitted to a routing device in response to the triggering event. Location information of the node can be transmitted to a management device. The management device can be configured to control an operation of one or more of the node and the routing device in response to the location information. |
| US10448306B2 |
HetNet Mobility Management
A wireless communication system is presented for robust mobility management in a HetNet communication system. A source cell can prepare a macro cell and a target small cell as handover candidates during handover decision making and/or preparation. The mobile device is informed about the prepared macro cell and target small cell using radio resource control (RRC) messaging. After receiving a handover command or detecting radio frequency (RF) loss, the mobile device can try to connect with the target small cell. If the mobile device is unable to connect to the target small cell, the UE can fall back and connect to the macro cell. |
| US10448305B2 |
Method, system and device for maintaining user service continuity
A method, a system and a device for maintaining user service continuity are provided in an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes prohibiting a UE from accessing a forbidden network before handover is complete when the UE needs to perform network handover if the UE adopts a SIM access technology, thus avoiding service interruption of a SIM user due to access to an incorrect network. A system and a device for maintaining user service continuity are provided in an embodiment of the present invention. |
| US10448299B2 |
Method and system for realizing function by causing elements of hardware to perform linkage operation
A system that stores functional information indicating a capability of each of a plurality of elements located remotely from the system; identities a function capable of being performed by linking a plurality of the elements based on the stored functional information; and transmits information corresponding to the identified function capable of being performed by linking the plurality of elements to a first device remote from the system. |
| US10448298B2 |
Radio communication system, base station, communication method, mobile station, and computer-readable medium
A base station (1) is connectable to a mobile station (4) by a plurality of Radio Access Technologies (RATs) including first and second RATs. The base station (1) is configured to be able to use a communication path (400) that passes through a first upstream network (140) corresponding to the first RAT, when the mobile station (4) performs communication via the second RAT. This enables, for example, efficient use of the upstream networks when the Multi-RAT base station (1) supports a plurality of upstream networks. |
| US10448297B2 |
Network node, mobile terminal, base station and methods performed therein
A first network node (121S) is configured to perform mobility management and bearer management of a plurality of mobile terminals (111) having attached to the core network (120). Further, the first network node (121S) is configured to perform a relocation procedure for relocating the mobility management and the bearer management of the plurality of mobile terminals (111) to a second network node (121T) in the core network (120) in accordance with a relocation command from a control node (142) coupled to the core network (120). This contributes, for example, to relocation of mobility management and bearer management of a plurality of mobile terminals between network nodes regardless of the movement of those mobile terminals. |
| US10448296B2 |
Coding of handover messages between nodes of different radio access technologies
Techniques are provided for efficient handover of a user equipment (UE) between base stations that operate using different radio access technologies (RATs). A handover message to a UE may indicate that the UE is to be handed over from a source base station operating according to a first RAT to a target base station operating according to a second RAT. The handover message may be configured to be transmitted using the first RAT and include embedded information, that is transparent to the first RAT, for the handover to the target base station using the second RAT. |
| US10448290B2 |
User equipment, base station, and connection establishment method
Provided is user equipment of a mobile communication system that supports a function for establishing a connection by reusing context information retained in each of the user equipment and a base station, the user equipment including a transmitter that transmits, to the base station, a first message indicating that the user equipment retains user equipment side context information; a receiver that receives, from the base station, a second message indicating that the base station retains base station side context information associated with the user equipment; and a connecting unit that establishes a connection with the base station using the user equipment side context information after receiving the second message. |
| US10448289B2 |
System and method for handovers in a dual connectivity communications system
A method for operating a first access node in a dual connectivity (DuCo) handover includes receiving an event trigger for a combined event from a user equipment (UE), sending to a second access node, a combined instruction for primary secondary cell (PSCell) addition and a role change with the second access node in accordance with the event trigger, adding as the second access node as a PSCell, and indicating to the UE, a role change between the first access node and the second access node. |
| US10448284B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication node, and channel detection method
A wireless communication apparatus includes, a transceiver module performs data transmission; and a processing module selects a channel whose bandwidth is a to-be-detected bandwidth from a WLAN system. If there is no idle channel, detection is performed again after the to-be-detected bandwidth is reduced. |
| US10448281B2 |
Method and apparatus for communication between an access point and a sensor station
The present disclosure relates to an access point (2) and to a sensor station (4) and methods performed therein. The access point (2) is adapted to communicate with the sensor station (4) and vice versa, over a communication channel using a contention based channel access. The access point (2) monitors (110) the traffic of the communication channel and estimates a congestion level of the communication channel. Information indicating the congestion level is incorporated (125) into a synchronization frame (200; 300) which is transmitted (140) to the sensor station (4). The sensor station (4) uses the congestion information when it selects which modulation and coding scheme it should use when sending data to the access point. |
| US10448271B2 |
Mobility measurement initiation using a triggering link quality measurement signal
The disclosure relates to methods, devices, and computer programs in mobile communications. More specifically, the proposed technique relates to measuring link quality using signals transmitted by the network for use by wireless devices. In particular the disclosure relates to enabling efficient measurements of such link quality measurement signals. This object is achieved by a method for handling link quality measurements, the method being performed by a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises receiving, from a network node in the wireless communication network, measurement parameters defining a triggering link quality measurement signal, detecting the triggering link quality measurement signal, and performing, in response to the detection of the triggering link quality measurement signal, measurements on other link quality measurement signals. |
| US10448269B2 |
Measurement method, cell measurement method, apparatus, and communications node
A measurement method, a cell measurement method, an apparatus, and a communications node are disclosed. A first communications node sends measurement information to a second communications node, where the measurement information includes measurement signal configuration information and/or configuration information of a measurement signal combination, the two pieces of configuration information are respectively used by the second communications node to determine a resource of a measurement signal corresponding to the measurement signal configuration information and a resource of a measurement signal corresponding to the configuration information of the measurement signal combination; and the first communications node receives a measurement report sent by the second communications node, where the measurement report carries a measurement result of measurement performed by the second communications node according to the measurement information. The examples of the present invention implement measurement on a radio link after introduction of a non-backward-compatible cell or carrier. |
| US10448268B1 |
Preservation of policy and charging for a subscriber following a user-plane element failover
Techniques that provide for the preservation of policy and charging for a subscriber following a user-plane element failover are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a user-plane element, at least one data packet of a packet flow associated with a subscriber, wherein the at least one data packet is are received after the user-plane element has recovered from a failure; determining, by the user-plane element, whether restoration information associated with the packet flow is stored at the user-plane element; and applying one or more policies to the packet flow based on a determination that the restoration information associated with the packet flow is stored at the user-plane element, wherein the restoration information comprises a rule associated with the packet flow. |
| US10448262B2 |
Communication system, transmission terminal and reception terminal
A communication system includes a transmission terminal and a reception terminal, and the transmission terminal transmits data to the reception terminal. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores data and management information of the data, and a first communication unit that performs communication using a first radio method having non-directivity and a second radio method having directivity. The reception terminal includes a second communication unit that performs communication using the first radio method having non-directivity and the second radio method having directivity, and a selector that selects the data based on the management information. The first communication unit and the second communication unit communicate with each other using the first radio method having non-directivity when selecting the data to be transmitted, and communicates with each other using the second radio method having directivity when transmitting the selected data. |
| US10448261B2 |
Method for capacity and coverage optimization of a multi-RAT network
A method for optimizing capacity and coverage in a target area of a multi-radio access technology (RAT) cellular network. In some aspects, the performance of the higher-generation RAT and that of the lower-generation RAT are each evaluated in order to optimize the capacity and coverage of the higher-generation RAT. |
| US10448260B2 |
Management apparatus and radio communication system
A management apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire first throughputs of respective first terminals. The first throughputs are throughputs between a base station device and the respective first terminals. The base station device provides a third amount of radio resources. The processor is configured to calculate a first amount of the radio resources used by the first terminals on the basis of the first throughputs. The processor is configured to calculate a second amount of the radio resources used by second terminals on the basis of the first amount and the third amount. The processor is configured to calculate a first after-change amount on the basis of the first amount and the second amount. The first after-change amount is an amount of the radio resources used by after-change terminals. The processor is configured to estimate after-change throughputs on the basis of the first after-change amount. |
| US10448253B2 |
Wireless terminal
The present invention provides a communication method in a wireless communication network in which a first wireless terminal establishes a peer-to-peer wireless connection with a second wireless terminal. The first terminal determines whether or not the second wireless terminal is a universal terminal on the basis of information received from the second wireless terminal. The first wireless terminal controls access to a resource in the first wireless terminal by the second wireless terminal after a connection is established in accordance with the result of the determination. |
| US10448251B1 |
Blockchain authentication for mobile network access
Certain aspects of this disclosure relate to authentication of mobile devices to the public wireless network using blockchains. In some aspects, a system includes a database configured to store blockchains for authenticating mobile devices to access a public wireless network. Each blockchain can be associated with a mobile device. A processor can receive a blockchain record from a mobile device and grant access of the mobile device to the public wireless network when the blockchain record corresponds to the blockchain stored in the database. A new block can be appended to a blockchain to produce a new blockchain for authenticating access of the mobile device to the public wireless network at a future time. The current blockchain record is stored in the mobile device and accessed for authentication to the public wireless network. |
| US10448248B2 |
Methods and devices for controlling authorization to communication information
One method includes receiving, at a first electronic device, communication information via a wireless communication network. The method also includes obtaining, via the first electronic device, user attribute information corresponding to the communication information. The method includes determining, via the first electronic device and based on the user attribute information, whether authorization of the first electronic device to the communication information is to be obtained prior to processing the communication information. The method also includes in response to determining that authorization of the first electronic device to the communication information is to be obtained: sending, from the first electronic device, an authorization request to a second electronic device; and processing, via the first electronic device, the communication information in response to receiving a favorable response from the second electronic device, and not processing the communication information in response to receiving an unfavorable response from the second electronic device. |
| US10448247B2 |
Method and apparatus for information verification
A method and an apparatus includes a terminal device that recognizes a sequence of click operations made by the user according to a maneuver prompted on a terminal device. The sequence of click operations carries operation information from which a click pattern characteristic, such as a characteristic code, can be determined. Upon receiving the determined click pattern characteristic, a server verifies the user input by matching the click pattern characteristic with a verification code set or stored by the server. The click pattern characteristic may be based on recognizing clicking or tapping operations performed by the user at a specified time and/or in a designated area. |
| US10448246B2 |
Network re-convergence point
In an example, a re-convergence point is determined for a convergence point in a network. A host is currently connected to the convergence point for example to access the network. Authentication information and a policy for the host is sent to the re-convergence point prior to the host connecting to the re-convergence point to access the network. |
| US10448237B2 |
RRM requirement for D2D inter-carrier discovery gap
A radio resource management requirement is described for a device-to-device inter-carrier discovery gap. A device to device (D2D) user equipment (UE) interruption requirement can be specified in which the interruption is not allowed. In one example, operations include receiving device-to-device (D2D) discovery data on a D2D discovery data frequency in a receive chain of a user equipment (UE) during a set of subframes, tuning the receive chain of the UE to a wireless access network (WAN) data frequency, and receiving WAN data in the receive chain of the UE on the WAN data frequency from a primary cell (PCell) during the set of subframes, wherein the D2D discovery data is received during a gap in receiving the WAN data without an interruption in the WAN data. |
| US10448236B2 |
Discovery signals and network synchronization signals design in LTE
Base stations (such as small cells) may support active and dormant states. To facilitate state transitions, these cells may transmit discovery signals. The transmission design of both discovery signals and network synchronization signals from small cells should provide for regular periodicity, while supporting the benefit of transitioning between active and dormant states. Disclosed is a method, a computer program product, and an apparatus that determine a first reference signal for at least one of discovery or measurement, and a second reference signal for synchronization, where both the first reference signal and the second reference signal are based on a same type of reference signal. |
| US10448234B2 |
Notification method and device, and acquisition method and device for downlink power adjustment
A notification method and device for downlink power regulation and an acquisition method and device for downlink power regulation are described in the present disclosure. The notification method includes that: adaptive regulation is implemented by at least keeping power of a Discovery Signal (DS) unchanged or at least regulating the power of the DS, and a power parameter configured after adaptive regulation is notified to a terminal, and/or a neighbouring small cell and/or a macro cell. |
| US10448231B2 |
Apparatus and method of determining a status using RFID tag devices
Methods and apparatuses are provided using RFID devices to assist in determining an open status of a container. For example, a first RFID tag is fixed to a first portion of the container and a second RFID tag is fixed to a second portion of the container. Upon a user action to at least partially open the container, the first and second portions will move relative to each other, such that one or more of the RFID tags will no longer be readable by the RFID-tag reader or will now be readable by the reader. The reading or cessation of reading of one or more RFID tags indicates at least one open status of the container. In some embodiments, the open status is at least one of an unsealing confirmation, an open motion initiation status, an open motion confirmation, a partial open status and a fully open status. |
| US10448229B2 |
Device-to-device communication method, method for assigning device-to-device communication resource, and apparatuses thereof
Embodiments of the present application disclose a device-to-device (D2D) communication method, a method for assigning a D2D communication resource, and apparatuses thereof. The D2D communication method comprises: determining a usable resource in a D2D communication resource; and sending scheduling assignment (SA) information correlated to at least one D2D device by using a first control channel resource in a D2D control channel resource, wherein the first control channel resource is only used to transmit control information correlated to first-type D2D communication, and a first physical parameter configuration of the first control channel resource is different from a physical parameter configuration of another control channel resource in the D2D control channel resource. For the methods and apparatuses in the embodiments of the present application, a control channel resource independent of other D2D communication is used, so that at the same time when transmission quality of specific-type D2D communication is improved, use efficiency as the specific-type D2D communication and other D2D communication coexist on a spectrum resource is improved. |
| US10448227B2 |
Mobile database access application development system and method
A system and method are presented that provide a configuration tool on a database gateway. The configuration tool stores configuration data that is used by a mobile app to customize the mobile application user interface. Changes made to the configuration data are accessed by each mobile application to revise the user interface of the mobile application. In one embodiment, the database gateway is an OData gateway that is used by the mobile device to communicate with the database. |
| US10448225B2 |
Device and method
To further improve certainty of security assurance using a cellular system.[Solution] A device including: a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; an acquiring unit configured to acquire, via the wireless communication, information related to a response destination of a message transmitted from a base station via the wireless communication; and a processing unit configured to execute a process related to a response to the response destination on the message on a basis of the acquired information related to the response destination. |
| US10448222B2 |
Reporting terminal capabilities for supporting short message service
A method and apparatus for receiving an IP-based message, by a first UE over a WLAN, is provided. The method may comprise transmitting at least one IP-based registration message and transmitting capability information including at least a terminal type of the first UE. The first UE may receive from a second UE, the IP-based message formatted according to the capability information. The first UE may be addressed using a first MSISDN. In one embodiment, the capability information indicates a memory size of the first UE. In one embodiment, the capability information indicates support for the first UE to receive an animation. |
| US10448218B2 |
Method and apparatus for stopping and restarting MBMS service
Provided are a method and an apparatus for stopping and restarting an MBMS service in a wireless communication system. A terminal receives multicast channel (MCH) scheduling information (MSI) and checks whether a special value is included in the received MSI. If the special value is included in the MSI, then whether to stop or suspend the MBMS service can be determined. That is, MSI can be considered in stopping the MBMS service. Furthermore, stopping is terminating an MBMS service without a consideration for restarting same, and suspending is terminating an MBMS service with a consideration for restarting same. |
| US10448216B2 |
Network broadcast method using unicast and relay node
A network broadcast method using a MAC unicast and an MPR node allows a source node to transmit a data packet to at least one MPR node which is located within one-hop distance from the source node and allows the at least one MPR node to transmit the data packet to each next-ranked MPR nodes. At least one normal node, which is not an MPR node while being located within one-hop distance from the source node, receives the data packet of the source node, which is transferred from the source node to an MPR node or transferred between MPR nodes through overhearing. Although the source node and MPR nodes are in a hidden-node relationship, collision is prevented, thereby minimizing data packet loss to improve the transmission reliability, and enabling the data packet of the source node to be reliably broadcasted on a network. |
| US10448215B2 |
Communicating location change information
A method includes determining to report location change information of a first computing device to a second computing device and sending the location change information to the second computing device utilizing an initial communication approach. The method further includes assigning a priority level of the location change information based on one or more environmental parameters. When the priority level of the location change information is greater than a priority threshold, the method further includes selecting a new communication approach and resending at least a portion of the location change information to the second computing device using the new communication approach. |
| US10448214B1 |
Determining a path of trajectory of a wireless device
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may receive at least one signal from a second wireless device, the at least one signal including one or more of RTP information or inertial sensor information. The apparatus may determine at least one AoA measurement and at least one RTP measurement associated with the at least one signal received from the second wireless device. The apparatus may determine a path of trajectory of the second wireless device based at least in part on the at least one AoA measurement, the at least one RTP measurement, and the inertial sensor information. |
| US10448212B2 |
Community safety, security, health communication and emergency notification system with common short code SMS communication capabilities
A community safety system (CSS) including a notification management entity (NME) comprising servers, the NME communicatively coupled to multiple user devices and one or more administrator devices (collectively, registered user devices). The CSS includes a plurality of registered users, wherein registered users may be associated with an organization, and a user category of a set of user categories. The NME may maintain a list of the registered users and associated information. The registered users may have user devices including a CSS application operating thereon, or SMS messaging program operating thereon. In some embodiments the CSS enables SMS-to-CSS App communications, and vice versa, enriching the CSS with information from users employing disparate communication platforms on their devices. |
| US10448211B1 |
Organizing groups of physical objects using wireless tags
A method includes: receiving, by a first tag and from a second tag, a first message including an identifier of the second tag, the first and second tags configured for coupling to respective first and second physical objects to organize activities; identifying, by the first tag and based on a proximity measure, the second tag for a pairing process to register the second tag as a child tag of the first tag; and providing, by the first tag, a second message with the identifier to a processing device configured to register the second tag as the child tag of the first tag. |
| US10448210B2 |
Determining location via wireless access points
Determining a location of a user device comprises a wireless computing system supported by an access point. The wireless computing system receives a signal from the user device. The system estimates a location of the user device based on RSSI and calculates a boundary around the estimated location. The wireless computing system selects a plurality of sections inside of the boundary and performs a coarse calculation of a location of the user device based on an angle of arrival of the received signal. The system determines sections of the plurality of sections that have results from the coarse calculation that are more likely to be a location of the user device. The system performs a fine calculation of the location based on the angle of arrival of the received signal within each of the sections. The system identifies a particular section as the location of the user device. |
| US10448209B2 |
Wireless network and method with communications error trend analysis
A mobile wireless network and a method of operation provide tracking of mobile devices and case file generation initiated upon detecting communications errors. The case files contain trends corresponding to the communications errors by analyzing parameters of the communications. The trends are compared to stored patterns that represent particular error types and resolutions so that corrective action can be taken on the network. |
| US10448205B2 |
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determining location of a mobile device(s) in a distributed antenna system(s)
Distributed antenna systems provide location information for client devices communicating with remote antenna units. The location information can be used to determine the location of the client devices relative to the remote antenna unit(s) with which the client devices are communicating. A location processing unit (LPU) includes a control system configured to receive uplink radio frequency (RF) signals communicated by client devices and determines the signal strengths of the uplink RF signals. The control system also determines which antenna unit is receiving uplink RF signals from the device having the greatest signal strength. |
| US10448202B2 |
Dynamic boundary setting
A method, a system, and a computer program product provide for changing a boundary between zones. This includes setting a location of a boundary which defines a part of a zone; detecting that an object moves into the zone across the boundary; and in response to the detection, changing the location of the boundary in a direction away from the object, compared to the location of the boundary before the change. |
| US10448198B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for presence identification
According to one embodiment, a network device includes an uplink port, a downlink port, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured for providing a webserver; receiving a request from a mobile device of a user to establish a connection with the downlink port; establishing a first connection between the mobile device and the webserver via the downlink port; determining a media access control (MAC) address of the mobile device; receiving, from a server, user history information associated with the MAC address; and providing targeted information to the mobile device based on the user history information. The processor may be further configured for querying the server using the MAC address to obtain the user history information, collecting new user information and transmitting updated user history information to the server. |
| US10448196B2 |
System and method with automatic radius crossing notification for global positioning system (GPS) tracker
Systems and methods with automatic radius cross notification for a GPS tracker are provided. Some methods can include receiving user input requesting a dynamic creation of a geo-fence, and, responsive thereto, creating the geo-fence. Some methods can include determining when a GPS tracker device has been stationary for a predetermined period of time, and responsive thereto, dynamically creating a geo-fence. |
| US10448194B2 |
Spectral correction using spatial calibration
Example techniques may involve performing aspects of a spectral calibration using an applied spatial calibration. An example implementation may include receiving data representing spatial filters that correspond to respective playback configurations. The implementation may also involve causing the audio drivers to output calibration audio that is divided into a repeating set of frames, the set of frames including a respective frame for each playback configuration. Causing the audio drivers to output the calibration audio may involve causing an audio stage to apply, during each frame, the spatial filter corresponding to the respective playback configuration. The implementation may also include receiving data representing spectral filters that correspond to respective playback configurations, the spectral filters based on the calibration audio output by the audio drivers. When playing back audio content in a given playback configuration, the audio stage may apply a particular spectral filter corresponding to that configuration. |
| US10448193B2 |
Providing an audio environment based on a determined loudspeaker position and orientation
The aspects disclosed herein are related to providing a stereoscopic audio environment that is based on speaker position and/or orientation. Once the speaker (or groups of speakers) are identified by the above-described techniques, the audio signal uniquely delivered to each of the speakers may be customized to produce an optimal sound environment. |
| US10448189B2 |
Virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality systems with spatialized audio
A spatialized audio system includes a sensor to detect a head pose of a listener. The system also includes a processor to render audio data in first and second stages. The first stage includes rendering first audio data corresponding to a first plurality of sources to second audio data corresponding to a second plurality of sources. The second stage includes rendering the second audio data corresponding to the second plurality of sources to third audio data corresponding to a third plurality of sources based on the detected head pose of the listener. The second plurality of sources consists of fewer sources than the first plurality of sources. |
| US10448187B2 |
Active room compensation in loudspeaker system
A method for compensating for acoustic influence of a listening room on an acoustic output from an audio system including at least a left and a right loudspeaker, the method comprising determining a left frequency response and a right frequency response, designing a left compensation filter FL, and a right compensation filter FR, and during playback applying the left and right filters to left and right channel inputs. According to the invention, a target response in the listening position is simulated, and the left and right compensation filters are designed to filter transfer functions based on the simulated target function multiplied by an inverse of the left/right frequency responses. By relying on a simulated target instead of relying on an empirical approach, the general impact of a room can be more accurately captured by the target functions. |
| US10448183B2 |
Method of fabricating a miniature device having an acoustic diaphragm
A method of forming a device having a compliant member includes applying heat to a thermoplastic elastomer to maintain the thermoplastic elastomer in a softened state. The thermoplastic elastomer is extruded in the softened state as a film of thermoplastic elastomer. One or more of a bobbin and a housing, each having and end, is positioned such that the end extends at least partially into the film of thermoplastic elastomer. The positioning occurs when the thermoplastic elastomer is in the softened state and/or the bobbin and/or housing is at a temperature that is greater than a temperature of the film of thermoplastic elastomer. The film is cooled so that the bobbin and/or housing are secured to the film and so that the thermoplastic elastomer is in a state that exhibits rubber-like properties. |
| US10448181B2 |
Method of manufacturing a low density underwater accelerometer
A method of manufacturing a low density accelerometer comprises the steps of: providing a rigid hollow housing having an upper member and a lower member and forming a groove circumferentially along an inner surface of the rigid hollow housing about a location where the upper member is configured to meet the lower member; providing a sensor assembly including a sensing element affixed to a solid proof mass; disposing the sensor assembly in the lower member of the rigid hollow housing, such that an outer edge of the sensing element engages and is in physical contact with the groove defined in the inner surface of the rigid hollow housing; and placing the upper member of the rigid hollow housing over the lower member of the rigid hollow housing, to enclose the sensor assembly within the rigid hollow housing, wherein the sensor assembly is in physical contact with the rigid hollow housing at the groove. |
| US10448176B2 |
Hearing aid adapted for embedded electronics
A hearing aid comprising a microphone, a receiver, hearing aid electronics coupled to the microphone and the receiver, and conductive traces overlaying an insulator, the conductive traces configured to interconnect the hearing aid electronics and to follow non-planar contours of the insulator. Examples are provided wherein the insulator includes a hearing aid housing. |
| US10448171B2 |
Microphone
A microphone is provided, including a backplate, a base supporting the backplate, and a diaphragm spaced apart from the backplate and forming a capacitor with the backplate. The base includes a top surface abutting against the backplate and a recess recessed from the top surface in a direction facing away from the backplate, the diaphragm is arranged in the recess, and the recess has a recess bottom. The base further includes a through hole penetrating through the recess bottom. The microphone provided by the present disclosure has an advantage of high reliability. |
| US10448170B2 |
Sound generator and sound generation system
A sound generator includes at least one piezoelectric vibrator including a piezoelectric element, a vibration unit in one of a non-contact state not contacting the at least one piezoelectric vibrator and a contact state contacting the at least one piezoelectric vibrator. While in the contact state, the at least one piezoelectric vibrator generates vibration in response to a signal, and causes a contact surface contacted by the vibration unit to vibrate and generate a sound to be emitted from the contact surface. The sound generator can detect driving allowed and driving denied states, and control application of a sound signal in accordance with the two states to the piezoelectric element. |
| US10448169B2 |
Sound producing device
A sound producing device includes a diaphragm, an armature extending parallel to the diaphragm, a coil having a wire wound around the armature in multiple turns, multiple magnets facing the armature, a yoke supporting the multiple magnets, a transmitting body configured to transmit a vibration of the armature to the diaphragm, a driving-side frame on which the armature, the coil, and the yoke supporting the multiple magnets are mounted, and a vibration-side frame including an opening in which the diaphragm is vibratably supported. The driving-side frame and the vibration-side frame are placed one over the other. |
| US10448166B2 |
Ultra-thin planar magnetic film full-frequency speaker
An ultra-thin planar magnetic film full-frequency speaker comprises a vibration system, a magnetic system, a frame, and an acoustic foam. The vibration system and the magnetic system are received and fixed in the interior of the frame. The vibration system comprises a vibration film and a planar voice coil, the vibration film forming a contiguous inward recess structure in the middle thereof, the planar voice coil being provided with a bar-like aperture, and the planar voice coil being adhered and fixed to the vibration film The magnetic system comprises a U-shaped soft iron and a bar-shaped magnet, the bar-shaped magnet being disposed above the U-shaped soft iron and disposed beneath the bar-shaped aperture, the U-shaped soft iron being connected to the frame by means of injection molding, and the acoustic foam being adhered to a bottom face of the U-shaped soft iron. |
| US10448163B2 |
Acoustic reproduction of a digital audio medium in a motor vehicle
A method is provided for acoustically reproducing a digital audio medium, in particular an audiobook, in a motor vehicle, in particular a two- or four-wheel motor vehicle, which has a navigation system that determines the current geographical position of the vehicle, wherein at least first information on the roadway section currently being traversed is assigned to the geographical position. In order to reproduce a digital audio medium in a motor vehicle in a user-friendly manner, the following steps are proposed: a first comparison is carried out in order to determine whether the information on the roadway section currently being traversed, the information being assigned to the current geographical position, indicates a roadway section which requires increased attention from the operator of the motor vehicle; in the event of a positive first comparison, the reproduction of the audio medium is interrupted; a second comparison is carried out in order to determine whether the information on the roadway section currently being traversed, the information being assigned to the current geographical position, continues to indicate a roadway section which requires increased attention from the operator of the motor vehicle; in the event of a positive second comparison, the reproduction of the audio medium is further interrupted; and in the event of a negative second comparison, the reproduction of the audio medium is continued. |
| US10448159B2 |
Playback device pairing
Technology for grouping, consolidating, and pairing individual playback devices with network capability (players) to stimulate a multi-channel listening environment is disclosed. An example method includes receiving an audio signal containing a range of audio frequencies; amplifying, according to a gain parameter, the audio signal to be reproduced by at least one speaker. The example method includes automatically increasing the gain parameter to a higher gain parameter responsive to a determination that no more than a subset of the range of audio frequencies is to be reproduced by the at least one speaker. The example method includes amplifying, according to the higher gain parameter, the audio signal containing no more than the subset of the range of audio frequencies to be reproduced by the at least one speaker. |
| US10448153B2 |
Interfacing a microphone or headset with multiple computing devices
In one embodiment, a circuit includes an audio jack that receives a connector of an external transducer. The circuit also includes an amplifier coupled to the audio jack and configured to amplify a signal associated with the external transducer. The circuit further includes a plurality of connection lines coupled to the amplifier and configured to relay the signal between the amplifier and a plurality of audio jacks of independent computing devices. The circuit additionally includes one or more resistors that provide resistance to each of the connection lines. A resistance of a particular one of the connection lines is sufficient to cause the computing device coupled to the particular connection line to recognize the particular connection line as an external transducer. |
| US10448152B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring and classifying marine animals based on acoustic signals
Disclosed herein are apparatus, devices, and methods for monitoring marine animals, such as whales, and other marine mammals, and fish groups within a marine environment. A marine animal monitoring system may include an acoustic receiver array having a high-resolution directional sensing capacity using large-aperture densely-sampled coherent ocean acoustic receiver arrays operative to enhance detection range and localization accuracy of marine mammal vocalizations and fish acoustic signals. The acoustic receiver array may generate acoustic signal information based on acoustic signals sensed at the array. The marine monitoring system may operate to generate marine animal information based on the acoustic signal information, such as marine animal location, species, call type, and/or the like. |
| US10448149B2 |
Non-axisymmetric and non-horn phase plugs
Phase plugs (70) and related audio devices (100, 105) and methods comprise various compression members (2), and guides (120) extending from the compression members (2) to tips (84), are configured such that central axes (93, 99) defined perpendicular to compression members (2) and/or diaphragms (94) are asymmetric and/or non-axisymmetric to the central axes (93, 99). |
| US10448148B1 |
Hanging speaker system
A speaker system broadly comprises a plurality of speaker assemblies each including a speaker housing, an input circuit, a low range speaker, and a higher-range speaker. The input circuit receives audio signals from a sound system or other controller and actively or passively sends the audio signals to the speakers. The low-range speaker is positioned in the upper section and the higher-range speaker is positioned in the lower section. Each speaker assembly is configured to be suspended from an elevated structure and spaced from the other speaker assemblies within a listening area with each speaker assembly generating low frequency soundwaves and higher-frequency soundwaves. This reduces or eliminates out-of-phase crossover frequency wave cancellation effects within the listening area. The speaker housings are compact while allowing the low-range speaker and higher-range speaker to effectively produce and project desired soundwaves from the suspended speaker housing into the listening area. |
| US10448142B2 |
Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method
Disclosed is a signal processing apparatus including a surrounding sound signal acquisition unit, a NC (Noise Canceling) signal generation part, a cooped-up feeling elimination signal generation part, and an addition part. The surrounding sound signal acquisition unit is configured to collect a surrounding sound to generate a surrounding sound signal. The NC signal generation part is configured to generate a noise canceling signal from the surrounding sound signal. The cooped-up feeling elimination signal generation part is configured to generate a cooped-up feeling elimination signal from the surrounding sound signal. The addition part is configured to add together the generated noise canceling signal and the cooped-up feeling elimination signal at a prescribed ratio. |
| US10448140B2 |
Headphone off-ear detection
Disclosed is a signal processor for headphone off-ear detection. The signal processor includes an audio output to transmit an audio signal toward a headphone speaker in a headphone cup. The signal processor also includes a feedback (FB) microphone input to receive a FB signal from a FB microphone in the headphone cup. The signal processor also includes an off-ear detection (OED) signal processor to determine an audio frequency response of the FB signal over an OED frame as a received frequency response. The OED processor also determines an audio frequency response of the audio signal times an off-ear transfer function between the headphone speaker and the FB microphone as an ideal off-ear response. A difference metric si generated comparing the received frequency response to the ideal off-ear frequency response. The difference metric is employed to detect when the headphone cup is disengaged from an ear. |
| US10448136B2 |
Electromechanical transducer with mechanical advantage
A vibratory apparatus including a lever arm apparatus including a living hinge, wherein the vibratory apparatus is configured such that at least a portion of the lever arm moves about the living hinge when the vibratory apparatus is generating vibrations. |
| US10448132B2 |
MEMS microphone system with low pressure gap and back volume
A MEMS microphone system comprises a transducer die having a pierce-less diaphragm and a motion sensor suspended from the diaphragm. The system further comprises a housing and the diaphragm divided a volume inside the housing into a front volume and a back volume. The motion sensor suspended from the diaphragm is located in the back volume having a gas pressure that is substantially equal or lower than an ambient pressure. |
| US10448129B2 |
Optically-switched data network
An optically-switch data network includes an optical data bus, an optical wavelength bus, and multiple nodes connected by the optical data bus and the optical wavelength bus. A first node determines that it has communication information to transmit to a second node, and determines if a first subscription signal is present on the optical wavelength bus. The first subscription signal includes a target frequency. If the first subscription signal is not present on the optical wavelength bus, the first node injects an optical communication signal onto the optical data bus. The optical communication signal includes the communication information and a carrier wave. The carrier wave includes the target frequency. The second node receives the optical communication signal using the optical data bus. If the first subscription signal is present on the optical wavelength bus, injection of the optical communication signal onto the optical data bus is postponed. |
| US10448128B2 |
Optical switch device
A wavelength routing SW is a large-scale optical switch device of a conventional technique, and it requires as many wavelength-tunable light sources as the number of input ports. For the wavelength-tunable light sources to achieve a stable oscillating operation across a wide wavelength range, a complicated control mechanism is necessary. This has been an obstacle in providing a large-scale optical switch device in terms of cost and circuit scale. A wavelength routing SW in the present disclosure includes N wavelength group generators, a splitting-selection unit, and MN tunable filters. Each wavelength group generator includes M fixed-wavelength light sources. Inexpensive general-purpose devices that require no control mechanism for wavelength tuning can be used as the fixed-wavelength light source. The channel loss in the optical switch device can also be reduced by using light sources with a limited narrow range of tunable wavelengths and the wavelength-dependent output port selecting function of an AWG. |
| US10448127B1 |
Network base signal distribution system
Communication systems include network nodes that distribute an electrical or optical base signal to remote nodes for modulation at the remotes nodes. A first waveguide is coupled to transmit data to a corresponding remote node, a second waveguide is coupled to receive remotely modulated data from the remote node, and a third waveguide is coupled to deliver the base signal to the remote node. Typically, the base signal is an optical signal from a laser diode, and optical fibers communicate modulated data signals and the base signal. A portion of the base signal can also be modulated for communication with remote nodes. |
| US10448123B1 |
Methods and apparatus to extend a timestamp range supported by a watermark
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to extend a time range supported by a watermark are disclosed. Example watermark encoding apparatus disclosed herein include a timestamp cycle evaluator to determine which one of a plurality of timestamp cycles is to be represented by a timestamp of a watermark, the timestamp including a set of timestamp symbols. Disclosed example watermark encoding apparatus also include a symbol modifier to modify a subset of data symbols of the watermark based on a further timestamp symbol not included in the set of timestamp symbols of the timestamp, the further timestamp symbol identifying the one of the timestamp cycles to be represented by the timestamp of the watermark. Disclosed example watermark encoding apparatus further include a watermark embedder to embed the watermark in a first piece of media. |
| US10448116B1 |
Methods and systems for digital data transmission through satellite TV channels
A system for data transmission comprises an encoder for encoding a data file into a TS stream, and a broadcaster for broadcasting the TS stream, wherein a receiver receives the TS stream, and a decoder decodes the received TS stream and extracts the data file. A system for receiving data comprises a receiver for receiving a broadcast TS stream, wherein a data file is encoded and embedded into the TS stream, a storage device for storing the TS stream, and a decoder for decoding the TS stream and extracting the data file. |
| US10448115B1 |
Speech recognition for localized content
A system capable of generating and storing program data associated with localized content, such as over-the-air television broadcasts. The system may update a knowledge base with the program data to improve natural language understanding (NLU) processing associated with the localized content. For example, a voice enabled device may receive a voice command and the system may perform NLU processing to interpret the voice command, determine content based on the program data and send an instruction to an output device to output the content. The program data may include information about localized content such as channels detected by the output device and/or content broadcast on the channels, including information about an output device, a channel number, call sign, station name, signal strength, etc. associated with a detected channel, and/or a program name, genre, actors, directors, producers, etc. associated with content broadcast on the channel or stored in a local storage device. |
| US10448113B2 |
Display apparatus and method of controlling the same
A display apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to display a user interface (UI) comprising a plurality of display items corresponding to a plurality of broadcast contents and being displayed on a time axis which is formed of different time units, an input unit configured to receive a user command, and a controller configured to control the UI according to a user command received through the input unit. |
| US10448104B1 |
Method and apparatus for programming a remote control using a device identifier received through an interface
A method of programming a remote control and a set top box to control the same includes a network communication module at the set top box receiving a device identifier from an electronic device through an interface. The set top box also includes a communication module obtaining remote control programming code based on the device identifier. A controller controls programming a remote control to control the electronic device based on the remote control programming code. |
| US10448097B2 |
Audience rating survey apparatus and audience rating survey system using the same
A display device for audience rating survey is provided. The display device for audience rating survey includes: a power supply unit configured to be synchronized with a power supply unit of a surveying target equipment; a receiving unit configured to receive a signal for a viewing entity; a light emitting unit comprising a plurality of light emitting elements configured to emit light according to the signal received; a storage unit configured to match the signal received and each of the plurality of light emitting elements and store the matched result; a control unit configured to allow a matched light emitting element to emit light according to the received signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit information for the light emitting element, which is emitting the light, to an external device. |
| US10448095B2 |
Systems, methods and computer-readable media for local content storage within a media network
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for storing or caching targeted content on a receiver device using existing bandwidth within a media network are described. For example, unused bandwidth within a transport stream may be detected and targeted content may be inserted into the transport stream within the unused bandwidth. The targeted content may include targeted advertisements for a household addressable media network. The transport stream may be transmitted to the receiver device which may access and store the targeted content responsive to various targeted content signals. For instance, the transport stream may include targeted content signals configured to trigger the receive device to access and store the targeted content. The transport stream may include a commercial feed transport stream. |
| US10448092B2 |
Set-top box with enhanced content and system and method for use of same
A set-top box with enhanced content and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless transceiver is located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a television input, television output, a processor, and memory. The set-top box may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display. Content, such as the Internet, movies, music, or games, for example, may be imported from the programmable device and reformatted at the set-top box for display on a television via the television output, thereby creating an experience on the television parallel to the experience on the programmable device. Virtual remote control functionality may then be provided by a spoken sequence of words. |
| US10448085B2 |
User interface with video frame tiles
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the provisioning of a user interface with video frame tiles. Specific content sources or pieces of content may be identified according to various parameters, and media renderings of the associated content may be generated. The media renderings may be processed at a device receiving the content, and a user interface including one or more of the media renderings may be generated. The media renderings may be organized within the user interface as individual video frame tiles. |
| US10448082B2 |
Information exchanging method and device, audio terminal and computer-readable storage medium
An information exchanging method, an information exchanging device, and a terminal are provided. The information exchanging method is applied to an audio terminal. The method includes: receiving an input instruction from a user; generating a content request message according to the input instruction and a connection state identifier of the audio terminal, and sending the content request message to a server, wherein the connection state identifier indicates whether the audio terminal is connected to the video display device; and receiving a content request response message returned by the server. Thus, voice instructions input by the user can be more accurately performed according to the connection state of the audio device. |
| US10448079B2 |
Vehicle console capable of wireless reception and transmission of audio and video data
A console for a vehicle comprises an assembly housing capable of being mounted in an interior of the vehicle, a wireless receiver, houseable in the assembly housing, adapted to wirelessly receive audio and video data from at least one input device, a recording device, houseable in the assembly housing for recording the audio and video data received from the at least one input device, and a wireless transmitter, houseable in the assembly housing, adapted to wirelessly transmit the audio and video data to at least one receiving device. |
| US10448076B2 |
Method and apparatus to deliver a personalized media experience
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising encoding, by a server comprising a processor, media content to generate a plurality of media content files each having a filename and a uniform resource locator. The method also comprises receiving a channel request from a client media processor and generating a playlist. The playlist is mapped to the requested channel, and includes a filename and uniform resource locator for a personalized content file that is not included in the media content files. The method further comprises receiving a file request from the client media processor in accordance with the playlist, multicasting the plurality of media content files so that the client media processor receives the plurality of media content files, and delivering the personalized content file to the client media processor to enable presentation of personalized content in accordance with the playlist. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10448060B2 |
Multitree subdivision and inheritance of coding parameters in a coding block
A better compromise between encoding complexity and achievable rate distortion ratio, and/or to achieve a better rate distortion ratio is achieved by using multitree sub-divisioning not only in order to subdivide a continuous area, namely the sample array, into leaf regions, but using the intermediate regions also to share coding parameters among the corresponding collocated leaf blocks. By this measure, coding procedures performed in tiles—leaf regions—locally, may be associated with coding parameters individually without having to, however, explicitly transmit the whole coding parameters for each leaf region separately. Rather, similarities may effectively exploited by using the multitree subdivision. |
| US10448058B2 |
Grouping palette index at the end and index coding using palette size and run value
A device for decoding video data is configured to determine, based on first entropy encoded data in the bitstream, a set of run-related syntax element groups for a current block of a current picture of the video data; determine, based on second entropy encoded data the bitstream, a set of palette index syntax elements for the current block, the first entropy encoded data occurring in the bitstream before the second entropy encoded data, wherein: each respective run-related syntax element group of the set of run-related syntax element groups indicates a respective type of a respective run of identical palette mode type indicators and a respective length of the respective run and each respective palette index syntax element of the set of palette index syntax elements indicates an entry in a palette comprising a set of sample values; and reconstruct, based on the sample values in the palette, the current block. |
| US10448057B2 |
Image processing device and method
The present invention relates to image processing device and method which can suppress block noise. A filter strength determination unit determines the filter strength for every four lines under the control of a control unit. In other words, if a block boundary determination unit has determined to perform filtering, the filter strength determination unit determines at which strength of the strong filter or the weak filter the filtering process is performed, and outputs the determination result to a filter calculation unit. On this occasion, the filter strength determination unit uses the Bs value in the determination formula of the strong filter. For example, in the case of using the Bs value, the threshold of the determination is set in accordance with a linear function of the Bs value from the control unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device. |
| US10448056B2 |
Signaling of quantization information in non-quadtree-only partitioned video coding
A video decoder receives local quantization information for a current quantization group. The video decoder determines a partitioning of a coding tree unit (CTU) of a picture of the video data into a plurality of coding units (CUs). Additionally, the video decoder derives, based at least in part on the local quantization information for the current quantization group, a quantization parameter. The current quantization group is defined as a group of successive CUs so that boundaries of the current quantization group must be boundaries of the CUs. The current quantization group may or may not be square. Additionally, the video decoder inverse quantizes, based on the quantization parameter, at least one transform coefficient of a current CU being in the current quantization group. The video decoder reconstructs, based on inverse quantized transform coefficients of the current CU, a coding block of the current CU. |
| US10448053B2 |
Multi-pass non-separable transforms for video coding
An example method of decoding video data includes determining, by a video decoder and based on syntax elements in an encoded video bitstream, a plurality of values for a current block of the video data; performing, by the video decoder, a multi-pass non-separable inverse transformation on the plurality of values to derive residual data that represents pixel differences between the current block of the video data and a predictive block of the video data; and reconstructing, by the video decoder, the current block of the video data based on the residual data and the predictive block of the video data. In some examples, performing a pass of the multi-pass non-separable inverse transformation includes performing a plurality of Givens orthogonal transformations. |
| US10448051B2 |
Method and system for encoding and transmitting high definition 3-D multimedia content
One particular implementation of the present invention may take the form of a method and system for encoding decoding 3-D multimedia content. In one example, visual content having a plurality of source frames may be processed to create a plurality of first and second type frames from each of the plurality of source frames. The plurality of first and second type frames may be arranged to create modified content, and generating a distinguishing signal for the visual content, which may distinguish the first type frame from the second type frame. In another examples, the present invention may take the form of a method decoding 3-D multimedia content encoded with at least content frames and null frames. The method may operate to receive the 3-D multimedia content, extract at least one content frame, at least one null frame, and display information. The method may further operate to reconstruct the content and null frames in a display-sequential manner using the display information to indicate the display order of the at least one content frame. In some examples, the method and system for encoding and decoding multimedia content may encode the multimedia content such that the at least one null frame may not be displayed by a display device. |
| US10448050B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing buffer for encoding and decoding multilayer video
Provided are multilayer video encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses. A multilayer video decoding method may comprise obtaining, from a bitstream, information indicating a maximum size of a decoded picture buffer (DPB) with respect to a layer set comprising a plurality of layers; determining a size of the DPB with respect to the layer set based on the obtained information indicating the maximum size of the DPB; and storing a decoded picture of the layer set in the DPB of the determined size. |
| US10448045B2 |
Video encoding method and video decoding method
Provided is a video encoding/decoding technique for improving the compression efficiency by reducing the motion vector code amount. In a video decoding process, the prediction vector calculation method is switched from one to another in accordance with a difference between predetermined motion vectors among a plurality of motion vectors of a peripheral block of a block to be decoded and already decoded. The calculated prediction vector is added to a difference vector decoded from an encoded stream so as to calculate a motion vector. By using the calculated motion vector, the inter-image prediction process is executed. |
| US10448043B2 |
Motion estimation method and motion estimator for estimating motion vector of block of current frame
A motion estimation method and a motion estimator are provided. The motion estimation method includes the following steps of for each respective block of the current frame, selecting a candidate set associated with the current frame and a previous frame, and determining a motion vector according to the candidate set for the each respective block of the current frame. The candidate set includes at least one spatial candidate block in the current frame and temporal candidate blocks in the previous frame. The step of selecting the candidate set includes: selecting the spatial candidate block directly adjacent to the each respective block from the current frame and selecting the plurality of temporal candidate blocks directly adjacent to a reference block from the previous frame. |
| US10448042B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding video by motion prediction using arbitrary partition, and method and apparatus for decoding video by motion prediction using arbitrary partition
An apparatus for decoding a video by parsing asymmetric partition information indicating whether partition types include asymmetric partition types, from a bitstream of an encoded image, determining at least one coding unit included in a maximum coding unit by using split information parsed from the received bitstream, determining at least one prediction unit of a coding unit among the at least one coding unit, by using the asymmetric partition information and information about a partition type of the coding unit parsed from the received bitstream, and performing motion compensation using the prediction units for the coding unit. |
| US10448025B1 |
Method and apparatus for video coding
Aspects of the disclosure provide method and apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a chroma coding unit in a segment (such as a slice, a tile, a group of tiles) of a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The segment lacks a temporal reference picture and having separate coding tree structures for luma and chroma components. Then, the processing circuitry detects a prediction mode flag associated with the chroma coding unit from the coded video bitstream, and determines, based on the prediction mode flag, a prediction mode from an intra prediction mode and an intra block copy mode for the chroma coding unit. Further, the processing circuitry reconstructs at least one sample of the chroma coding unit according to the determined prediction mode. |
| US10448022B2 |
Method and system to improve the performance of a video encoder
Method and system to improve the performance of a video encoder. The method includes processing an initial video signal in a front-end image pre-processor to obtain a processed video signal and processor information respecting the signal, providing the processed video signal and the processor information to a video encoder, and encoding the video signal in the video encoder according to the processor information to provide an encoded video signal for storage. The system includes a video pre-processor connectable to receive an initial video signal. The video encoder in communication with the video pre-processor receives a processed video signal and a processor information. A storage medium in communication with the video encoder stores an encoded video signal. |
| US10448020B2 |
Intelligent MSI-X interrupts for video analytics and encoding
Video analytics may be used to assist video encoding by selectively encoding only portions of a frame and using, instead, previously encoded portions. Previously encoded portions may be used when succeeding frames have a level of motion less than a threshold. In such case, all or part of succeeding frames may not be encoded, increasing bandwidth and speed in some embodiments. |
| US10448019B2 |
Using multiple probability models for entropy coding in video compression
Entropy encoding and decoding a sequence of symbols using probability mixing is disclosed. A method includes selecting models that include a first model and a second model, for at least a symbol, at a position of the symbols, determining a mixed probability using the first model and the second model, and coding the symbol using the mixed probability. Determining the mixed probability for the symbol includes determining, using the first model, a first conditional probability for coding the symbol, determining, using the second model, a second conditional probability for coding the symbol, and determining, using the first conditional probability and the second conditional probability, the mixed probability for coding the symbol. The first conditional probability is a conditional probability of the symbol given a sub-sequence of the sequence up to the position. The second conditional probability being a conditional probability of the symbol given the sub-sequence. |
| US10448017B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method for image decoding based on non-square quantization matrix
There is provided an image processing device including a decoding section that decodes an encoded stream and generates quantized transform coefficient data, and an inverse quantization section that, taking transform coefficient data as transform units to be used during inverse orthogonal transform, inversely quantizes the quantized transform coefficient data decoded by the decoding section, such that in a case where a non-square transform unit is selected, the inverse quantization section uses a non-square quantization matrix, corresponding to a non-square transform unit, that is generated from a square quantization matrix corresponding to a square transform unit. |
| US10448015B2 |
Method and device for performing adaptive filtering according to block boundary
The present invention relates to a method for performing adaptive filtering according to a block boundary, comprising the steps of: determining whether a current pixel is within a block boundary; determining the shape of a filter depending on the location of the current pixel, when the current pixel is within the block boundary; calculating a filter coefficient based on the shape of the filter; and performing an adaptive loop filtering using the filter coefficient. |
| US10448013B2 |
Multi-layer-multi-reference prediction using adaptive temporal filtering
Encoding or decoding blocks of video frames using multiple reference frames with adaptive temporal filtering can include generating one or more candidate reference frames by applying temporal filtering to one or more frames of a video sequence according to relationships between respective ones of the one or more frames and a current frame of the video sequence. A reference frame to use for predicting the current frame can be selected from the one or more candidate reference frames, and a prediction block can be generated using the selected reference frame. During an encoding operation, the prediction block can be used to encode a block of a current frame of the video sequence. During a decoding operation, the prediction block can be used to decode a block of a current frame of the video sequence. |
| US10448012B2 |
System and method for data reduction based on scene content
A production system determines which areas or portions of a video file (e.g., for a scene) are static and which areas contain motion. Instead of steaming redundant image data for the static areas of the video, the production only sends image data for or updates the areas of each frame that contain motion to minimize an amount of data being streamed to a head mounted display (HMD) without compromising image quality. |
| US10448007B2 |
Discovery and identification of layer 2 coax problems in MoCA networks
The operation of testing device for troubleshooting failures in a MoCA LAN system is disclosed that discovers devices on a MoCA LAN. These automatically discovered devices are then sent a large number of data packets that elicit a response from the recipient. The packets transmitted for which no corresponding response is received are counted as lost packets, and the packet loss results for each tested device enables identifying the source of a failure in the network. |
| US10448001B2 |
Display device and displaying method for glass free stereoscopic image
Provided is a glass-free stereoscopic image display device herein. The glass-free stereoscopic image display device may include: a display module that displays a stereoscopic image through a cover including a lenticular lens including multiple convex lenses; and a processor that controls the display module, wherein the processor provides a stereoscopic image by controlling a left-eye image pixel and a right-eye image pixel of the display module on the basis of a lens pitch indicating a distance between the multiple convex lenses, and the cover is provided on a front surface of the user device to be combined with the user device. |
| US10447998B2 |
Power efficient long range depth sensing
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for detecting a snapshot request to conduct a long range depth capture, wherein the snapshot request is associated with a short range depth capture. Additionally, an infrared (IR) projector may be activated at a first power level for a first duration in response to the snapshot request, wherein the first power level is greater than a second power level corresponding to the short range depth capture and the first duration is less than a second duration corresponding to the short range depth capture. |
| US10447993B2 |
Stereoscopic 360 degree digital camera systems
Stereoscopic 360° video recording devices are adapted to facilitate capture of stereoscopic 360° images. According to one example, a stereoscopic 360° video recording device may include an enclosure with three sides of equal length in a triangular configuration. Six digital camera slots may be included within the enclosure, with each of the three sides including two digital camera slots. A fan may be coupled to a surface of the enclosure to facilitate cooling of digital cameras retained within the enclosure. A digital video camera may be secured within each of the digital camera slots, wherein each digital video camera includes a predefined interaxial distance from a respective digital video camera on its left and a respective digital video camera on its right. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included. |
| US10447991B1 |
System and method of mapping elements inside walls
According to one or more embodiments, a system of generating a two-dimensional (2D) map of an environment includes a 2D scanner and a wall sensor positioned at a fixed position with respect to the 2D scanner, the wall sensor detects a presence of an internal element inside a wall in the environment. Further, the system includes one or more processors operably coupled to the 2D scanner and the wall sensor. The processors generate a wall map of a wall in the environment, the wall map including an occupancy grid with a plurality of cells, a cell representative of a corresponding portion of the wall, and the cell indicative of the occupancy of an internal element in the corresponding portion. Further, the processors associate the wall map with a location of the wall in the 2D map of the environment. |
| US10447989B2 |
Method and device for synthesizing depth images
Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and a device for synthesizing depth images, which relate to the technical field of image processing. The method includes: obtaining depth images to be synthesized, which are shot by real depth cameras respectively, wherein y-axes of respective camera coordinate systems of the real depth cameras are parallel to each other; calculating a mapping pixel point in a camera coordinate system corresponding to a virtual depth camera for each of pixel points in the depth images to be synthesized, according to pre-obtained pixel point mapping relationship, wherein camera parameters of the virtual depth camera are determined according to camera parameters of the real depth cameras, a lens optical center of the virtual depth camera is located in a connecting line of lens optical centers of the real depth cameras, an x-axis of the camera coordinate system corresponding to the virtual depth camera is parallel to the connecting line of lens optical centers of the real depth cameras; and generating a target synthesized depth image corresponding to the depth images to be synthesized, according to calculated mapping pixel points. By applying the solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application, a depth image with a large field of view can be obtained by image synthesis. |
| US10447985B2 |
Method, system and computer program product for adjusting a convergence plane of a stereoscopic image
First and second views of a stereoscopic image are received. In response to determining that the stereoscopic image has a predominance of foreground features, a convergence plane of the stereoscopic image is adjusted to improve a depth resolution of at least one foreground feature within the stereoscopic image for display to a human by a display device. In response to determining that the stereoscopic image has a predominance of background features, the convergence plane is adjusted to position at least most of the stereoscopic image as background features for display to the human by the display device. |
| US10447984B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium
An image capturing unit captures an image including an embedded image that is printed on the basis of image data in which at least a color component has been modulated according to additional information. An adjustment unit adjusts a white balance of the image captured by the image capturing unit on the basis of an adjustment value associated with the embedded image. A processing unit processes image data of the image captured by the image capturing unit whose white balance has been adjusted by the adjustment unit to read the additional information in the image captured by the image capturing unit. |
| US10447976B2 |
Solid state imaging device having a shared pixel structure and electronic apparatus
A solid state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which color filters of a plurality of colors are arrayed with four pixels of vertical 2 pixels×horizontal 2 pixels as a same color unit that receives light of the same color, shared pixel transistors that are commonly used by a plurality of pixels are intensively arranged in one predetermined pixel in a unit of sharing, and a color of the color filter of a pixel where the shared pixel transistors are intensively arranged is a predetermined color among the plurality of colors. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a solid state imaging device such as a back-surface irradiation type CMOS image sensor. |
| US10447975B2 |
CCTV automatic selection monitoring system, and CCTV automatic selection monitoring management server and management method
Provided are a CCTV automatic selection monitoring system, and a CCTV automatic selection monitoring management server and management method. The CCTV automatic selection monitoring system includes: at least one CCTV camera for photographing at least one CCTV image; a CCTV automatic selection monitoring management server; and at least one controller monitor, wherein the CCTV automatic selection monitoring management server comprises: a server communication unit for receiving at least one piece of CCTV image data from the at least one CCTV camera; and a server control unit for analyzing the at least one piece of CCTV image data input from the server communication unit to calculate a selection score of the at least one piece of CCTV image data according to automatic selection elements corresponding to the at least one piece of CCTV image data, and classifying the at least one piece of CCTV image data according to the calculated selection score and then outputting the same to the at least one controller monitor. |
| US10447961B2 |
Luminance management for high dynamic range displays
Managing luminance of video streams for display on HDR displays is provided. The luminance values of frames of a video stream can be monitored, and an over-bright frame can be determined if a luminance increase greater than a given luminance change within a given period of time. When a brightness jump exceeding given parameters is detected, the luminance values of the over-bright frame can be reduced. For example, luminance values can be reduced by reducing the luminance values of the over-bright frame such that the change in the average luminance is brought below the given value, and the luminance values of the modified frame can maintain relative luminances among pixels. A modified frame can be determined from the over-bright frame based on the reduced luminance values. The modified frame can be inserted into the video stream and transmitted to an HDR display to be displayed. |
| US10447960B2 |
Eye tracking enabled smart closed captioning
Systems and methods for controlling closed captioning using an eye tracking device are provided. The system for controlling closed captioning may comprise a display device, a closed captioning controller configured to display closed captioning text for a media item during playback on the display device, and an eye tracking device configured to detect a location of a user's gaze relative to the display device and send the location to the closed captioning controller. The closed captioning controller may be configured to recognize a predetermined gaze pattern of the user's gaze and, upon detecting the predetermined gaze pattern, partially or completely deemphasize the display of the closed captioning text. |
| US10447957B2 |
Unit pixel and operating method thereof and CMOS image sensor using the same
This technology relates a unit pixel and an operating method thereof and a CMOS image sensor using the same. The unit pixel may include a photo sensitive device; a reset transistor; a selection transistor including a gate terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal, suitable for operating in response to a selection control signal applied to the gate terminal and outputting a voltage applied to the first terminal to a first terminal of the reset transistor through the second terminal; and a drive transistor including a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the selection transistor, a second terminal and a gate terminal, suitable for generating an electrical signal corresponding to charges accumulated in a floating diffusion node coupled to the gate terminal, and outputting the electrical signal as a pixel signal through the second terminal. |
| US10447956B2 |
Analog-to-digital converter circuitry with offset distribution capabilities
Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuitry may receive multiple analog signals and output corresponding digital signals. During the conversion process, comparators may receive the analog signals and a ramp waveform and compare the two inputs to generate logic signals. The logic signals correspond to digital signals that are outputted by ADC circuitry. To enable offset distribution capabilities, offset distribution circuitry may be selectively coupled to the inputs of the comparators. The offset distribution circuitry may include switches that couples a voltage supply providing reference voltages to the comparators. The reference voltages may be conveyed via a capacitor to the comparators as offset voltages. The offset voltages may provide may be different for different ADC units to offset power consumption of different ADC units and reduce power surges in power sources coupled to ADC circuitry. |
| US10447955B2 |
Unit pixel apparatus with noise reduction function, operation method thereof, and CMOS image sensor using the same
A unit pixel apparatus includes a unit pixel suitable for supporting initialization an output node and outputting a pixel signal corresponding to incident light through the output node; and a switching block suitable for initializing the output node and deciding an initial voltage of the output node. |
| US10447949B2 |
Endoscope apparatus, method of operating endoscope apparatus, and recording medium
An endoscope apparatus includes an imaging element, a video signal generating circuit, an illuminator, a light quantity detector, and one or more controllers. An imaging area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed includes a scanning area. The one or more controllers control the imaging element such that at least parts of exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other, in a case in which the light quantity is less than a predetermined quantity. The one or more controllers control the illuminator such that the light source is turned on in a period in which at least parts of the exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other, in a case in which the light quantity is less than the predetermined quantity. |
| US10447947B2 |
Multipurpose imaging and display system
A multi-purpose imaging and display system includes a display; a detector coupled to the display and having a field of view; and a filter communicating with the detector. The field of view is imaged by the detector through the filter, the filter configured to be sensitive to a first frequency spectrum, so the detector displays only objects within the field of view on the detector that emit one or more frequencies within the first frequency spectrum. The detector and filter can work together in different operational states or modes for acquiring image data of a target object under investigation. A computing device can be included to process acquired image data, and communication interfaces can be employed to achieve networking of multiple systems. A peripheral interface allows a plurality of peripheral devices to be selectively added to tailor the data acquisition and display capabilities of the imaging and display system. |
| US10447945B2 |
Methods, systems, and products for telepresence visualizations
Methods, systems, and products generate telepresence visualizations for a remote participant to a videoconference. A central server superimposes the remote participant onto images or video of the teleconferencing environment. The central server thus generates an illusion that the remote participant is in the same conferencing environment as other conferees. |
| US10447941B2 |
Image capture apparatus and method of controlling same
In an interval capturing mode for performing automatic image capturing each set capturing interval, exposure settings including a shutter speed and capturing sensitivity are determined based on information relating to the capturing interval. Specifically, the exposure settings are determined by prioritizing a low shutter speed over a high capturing sensitivity when the capturing interval is a second capturing interval that is longer than the first capturing interval. |
| US10447938B2 |
Camera housing arrangement
A camera housing arrangement comprising a camera housing member having a camera housing member extension plane, a camera housing mounting member defining a mounting plane, an abutment, and a pivot joint comprising: a hook portion associated with the camera housing member and a pivot axis portion associated with the camera housing mounting member. The camera housing member is movable by means of articulation about the pivot joint between a first end position in which the camera housing member extension plane is tilted with respect to said mounting plane, and a second end position in which the camera housing member extension plane is aligned with said mounting plane. The abutment is associated with the camera housing member and cooperates with the camera housing mounting member when the camera housing member is in said first end position such that the abutment engages the camera housing mounting member to preventing disconnection. |
| US10447933B2 |
Camera-based side mirror function of a motor vehicle
A motor vehicle includes a motor vehicle body having an interior forming a passenger compartment. At least one camera is arranged on the outside of the motor vehicle body for imaging an area to the side and behind of the motor vehicle. In the interior of the motor vehicle, particularly in the region of an instrument panel, a monitor or display is arranged in or on an air outlet. The monitor is connected to the camera for continuously displaying the imaged area to occupants, and in particular a driver, in the passenger compartment. |
| US10447926B1 |
Motion estimation based video compression and encoding
A video capture device may include multiple cameras that simultaneously capture video data. The video capture device may include one or more motion sensors that track the motion of the video capture device during video capture. Using the motion data, motion vectors can be calculated and used by an encoder to compress and encode a stream of video data. The motion vectors calculated for one stream of video data can then be used to compress and encode a second stream of video data due to the symmetry of a first camera that captured the first video stream and a second camera that captured the second video stream. The video capture device and/or remote computing resources may stitch together the first and second video streams to generate a panoramic video. |
| US10447919B2 |
Imaging device, external device, imaging system, imaging method, operating method, and computer-readable recording medium
An imaging device includes: a capture control unit configured to control the imaging device to execute movie capture while performing capture parameter alternation control based on capture parameter control information received from an external device, the capture parameter control information instructing alternation of a capture parameter, the alternation being changed in time series. |
| US10447917B2 |
Portable device and method for taking images therewith
A portable device adapted to enable its user to manually adjust the focus and photometry locations during photography and a method for taking images with the device is disclosed. A GUI for indicating the focus or photometry location is provided on the screen so that the user can manually move the GUI on the screen with a keypad or a touch panel. In this manner, a desired object is taken at the focus or photometry location. |
| US10447913B2 |
Focusing methods and apparatuses, and photographing devices
The present application discloses various focusing methods and apparatuses, and various photographing devices. The focusing method includes: controlling deformation of an image sensor so that reference points of at least two imaging sub-areas of the image sensor after the deformation form a first relative position relationship in a staggered arrangement along a depth direction; acquiring contrast data of a sampling image of an object in the at least two imaging sub-areas; and determining and/or adjusting, according to at least the first relative position relationship and the contrast data, a focusing state of the image sensor. The present application can improve a speed and/or accuracy for determining and/or adjusting the focusing state of the image sensor. |
| US10447909B2 |
Lens control apparatus, lens control method, image capturing apparatus, information processing apparatus, information processing method, image capturing system, and computer readable storage medium
A lens control apparatus includes an operation input unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The operation input unit is configured to accept a user operation. The communication unit is configured to perform communication with an external apparatus. The control unit is configured to perform driving control of a zoom lens in response to a zoom operation accepted by the operation input unit or a zoom control signal received by the communication unit. The control unit is also configured to selectively set a zoom position changing speed for driving control performed in response to the zoom operation and a zoom position changing speed for driving control performed in response to the zoom control signal, the zoom position changing speeds being different from each other. |
| US10447907B2 |
Imaging apparatus with moving image sensor
The imaging device comprises a movable image sensor; a circuit board connected to the image sensor; an optical module comprising a lens group on an optical axis, the optical module being movable along the optical axis between at least a retracted position and an extended position. The device also includes an activating actuator configured to move the movable image sensor and the circuit board in a plane between an active position and an inactive position. In the active position the image sensor is stacked under the optical module on the optical axis, and the optical module is in an extended position. In the inactive position the image sensor is positioned off the optical axis and away from the optical module, and the optical module is in a retracted position. |
| US10447879B1 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method
An image forming apparatus includes a sensor configured to detect an object within a predetermined range, a storage unit that stores information about the detected object, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the sensor to detect the object when the image forming apparatus is in a first mode, and in response to the detection of the object, store the information indicating that the object is detected. In response to transition from the first mode to a second mode in which power consumption is higher than the first mode, when the information indicates that the object is detected, the controller performs authentication of a developer cartridge attached to the image forming apparatus, and when the information does not indicate that the object is detected, the controller skips the authentication of the developer cartridge. |
| US10447874B2 |
Display control device and display control method for automatic display of an image
A display control device includes: a display signal output unit configured so as to output a display image signal on a display unit so as to execute normal display, zoom-in display, scroll display, and zoom-out display regarding data to be displayed as display operation for data to be displayed; and a control unit configured to instruct the display signal output unit to perform, regarding data to be displayed, output of a display image signal for sequentially executing zoom-in display in a scroll start position from the normal display, scroll display from the scroll start position, and zoom-out display from a scroll end position to the normal display at a display unit. |
| US10447873B2 |
Display device for displaying a variety of data elements in a list form
A display device, comprises: a manipulation input part that receives user operation; a display part on which a list screen showing a plurality of data elements in a list form is displayed; and a hardware processor that: obtains the data element to display on the list screen; and creates the list screen based on the obtained data element and displays on the display part. The hardware processor obtains a number of the data element that is more than a number that can be displayed on the list screen and that enables a time required until completion of displaying the list screen to be less than a predetermined period of time and outputs the number of the data element that can be displayed on the list screen, and stores the data element exceeding the number that can be displayed on the list screen as cache. |
| US10447868B2 |
Portable electronic device with creative artworks picture application operating in response to geofencing
A photography system includes a remote server to store a database of geofence regions within a geographical area, and themed photograph overlays, with at least one themed photograph overlay corresponding to each respective geofence region within the database. A portable electronic device (PED) includes a processor to execute a creative artworks picture application, a geographic position determining to determine a geographic location of the PED, and a transceiver. The transceiver is configured to transmit the geographic location of the PED to the remote server, and receive the themed photograph overlay from the remote server when the geographic location of the PED is within one of the respective geofence regions. A camera takes a photograph within the geofence region the PED is located in, and a display displays the photograph with the at least one themed photograph overlay. |
| US10447851B2 |
Instant and cohesive user access to diverse web services
Techniques described herein may be used to enable a user to obtain services from multiple organizations in a seamless, automated, and efficient manner. A network device may cause a user device to automatically access a web service by, for example, downloading a mobile application or accessing a web page designed to provide the web service. The network device may automatically identify a second web service that is logically related to the first web service and offer the second web service to the user. If the user accepts the second web service, the network device may cause the user device to automatically access the second web service via a mobile application, a webpage, etc. Identification and authentication issues for accessing the first or second web services may be automatically resolved by network device based on the mobile device number (MDN) of the user device and/or other profile information. |
| US10447850B2 |
Facilitating arrangement in a communication system
A method for determining the availability of at least one target user for a specific type of communication is described. The method comprises: retrieving contact information of at least one target user from a memory of a requesting user terminal; sending a request for communication status information of the at least one target user to a status network element, the status network element being arranged to provide the communication status information regarding the availability of the target user for the specific type of communication, wherein the request comprises at least a portion of the contact information of the at least one target user and identifies the specific type of communication; receiving, as a response to the request, a response message from the status network element, wherein the response message comprises the communication status information of the at least one target user; and modifying at least a portion of stored contact information when the received status information indicates that the target user is available for communication via the specific communication type, such that the modified contact information indicates on the requesting user terminal the current availability of the at least one user for communication via the specific communication type. |
| US10447847B2 |
Terminal device and incoming call processing method
A terminal device and an incoming call processing method to reduce user operations, where the terminal device includes a touch display screen, a pressure sensor, and a processor, where the touch display screen is configured to display an incoming call interface when the terminal device receives an incoming call, where the incoming call interface includes an incoming call number and a rejection icon. The pressure sensor is configured to determine a value of first pressure generated by the first touch operation when the terminal device detects a first touch operation on the rejection icon, and the processor is configured to reject the incoming call and initiate a first additional operation when the value of the first pressure that is determined by the pressure sensor exceeds a first threshold. |
| US10447842B1 |
Push-to-talk to messaging application graphical interface
A method and device for performing push-to-talk and text communications. The device includes a display and an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the display. The electronic processor is configured to generate a graphical user interface, generate, on the display, a first push-to-talk button having a first dimension and located proximate to a conversation thread window including a historical view portion and a new-entry portion, and receive, on the display, a first user input selecting the new-entry portion. The electronic processor is further configured to generate on the display, in response to receiving the first user input, a text-entry portion, replace, in response to receiving the first user input, the first push-to-talk button with a second push-to-talk button at a same or different first location, receive, via the display, a second user input selecting the text-entry portion, and alter, in response to the second user input, the second push-to-talk button. |
| US10447841B2 |
Wireless pairing and control using spatial location and indication to aid pairing
Aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for wireless communication, at least one processor configured to determine a spatial location for a discovered wireless device, a user interface configured to output an indication of the discovered device and its spatial location, a receiver configured to receive a user input, and a communication unit configured to interact with the selected device. The at least one processor is further configured to select the discovered wireless device for interaction based on a relationship between the user input and the outputted indication. |
| US10447839B2 |
Device locator disable authentication
A device locator mode or find my device (FMD) mode can allow a lost, stolen, or misplaced mobile device to be located. The FMD mode can be enabled or disabled on a mobile device. Sometimes thieves or unauthorized parties attempt to disable the FMD mode. To prevent this, the mobile device can transmit a unique device identifier to a remote server. The remote server can link the device identifier to a cloud-based user account associated with the user of the mobile device. Before an FMD mode is disabled on the mobile device, before the content or settings can be erased, and/or before a mobile device is permitted to be activated/reactivated, a user of the mobile device can be challenged for the credentials of the cloud-based user account. If valid credentials are provided, FMD can be disabled, the content or settings can be reset, and/or the device can be activated/reactivated. |
| US10447837B2 |
International one-way recorded transmitter over a cellular network
Agencies oftentimes desire to monitor personnel in the field during the course of their duties. To provide flexible monitoring capabilities to agencies, a common mobile device such as a mobile phone is converted for use as a radio-based listening system to collect and transmit audio data. A relay is implemented within the system to pass message communications between the mobile device and a server such that the server can facilitate establishment of sessions for monitoring the mobile device. |
| US10447835B2 |
Entertainment systems and methods
A method, device, system, and media are directed to controlling a multi-tuner radio. A voice command may be received and/or filtered. An operation of the radio may be modified based on the voice command. A gesture input may be received through a gesture pad. Another operation of the multi-tuner radio may be modified based on the received gesture input. A fingerprint may be recognized with a gesture pad. A user may be authenticated based on the recognized fingerprint. The operation or the other operation may be personalized based on the fingerprint. User training may be provided for the gesture input. |
| US10447831B2 |
Ergonomic accessory for smartphones and other hand-held portable electronic devices
Injury to the digits, hand and wrist are associated with the frequent usage of portable hand-held electronic devices (“PEDs”), including but not limited to smartphones. This is true as well for injury to the neck and shoulder areas. The potential for injury to the digits, hand and wrist in particular is anticipated to be exacerbated by the larger smartphones, and especially the tablet-like smartphones. The ergonomic accessory of the invention has several embodiments whose design is intended to ameliorate if not prevent such injuries. Certain embodiments are partially or fully case-like in form so that they envelope to a greater or lesser degree, such hand-held electronic devices. Another embodiment attaches to a PED through an element of the PED such as the charging socket. The accessory also removably attaches the hand of the user or provides a secure holding surface for the user. |
| US10447828B2 |
Cross-application service-driven contextual messages
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to cross-application service-driven dynamic contextual messages. In one aspect, content is retrieved from a server computing device. The content may include at least one rule and at least one contextual message. The content retrieved from the server computing device may be stored. A dynamic background application may detect an action associated with a client application. In response to detecting the action associated with the client application, a contextual message may be identified from the at least one contextual message based on a rule from the at least one rule. The dynamic background application may display the identified contextual message within the client application. |
| US10447820B2 |
System interfacing architecture
Disclosed is a system interfacing architecture, and includes a system server, a communication network, and a plurality of client devices. The system server includes a virtual machine and performs a server operation, and each of the client devices executes a respective client operation. The client devices running an android operation system are connected to the system server running an X86 windows operation system by TCP/IP through the communication network. The server operation includes steps of logging in, entering regional disk, invoking the virtual machine, linking to the network, and executing a server window application. The client operation includes steps of executing a specific android application package, keying in an account number, displaying a window environment, and performing a client window application. In particular, the client device employs the client window application to communicate with the system server running the client window application for mutual operation. |
| US10447813B2 |
Mobile application acceleration via fine-grain offloading to cloud computing infrastructures
Apparatuses, Methods and Storage Media associated with offloading aspects of processing of mobile devices are disclosed. In embodiments, a mobile computing device may comprise one or more processors; memory coupled with the one or more processors; and a shim layer to compressively replicate memory blocks of the memory to a cloud server, compressively offload invocations of object methods of objects resident in a memory block of the memory to the cloud server, and to receive execution results of the invoked object methods. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US10447804B2 |
File type association in a remote computing session
A system and method for enhancing operability of client-server computing system is herein disclosed. A system includes a first computing device. The first computing device includes a file type association module. The file type association module determines, as part of a remote computing session, whether to associate a file type with an application program on the first computing device or an application program on a second computing device. The file type association module causes the file type to associate with the application program on one of the first and second computing devices. |
| US10447803B2 |
Predictive local pre-cache for reduced latency digital content access rights determination
To reduce the latency introduced by network communications, the access rights to digital content of various users is locally cached, and such a local cache is referenced without incurring network communication latency. The local cache is predictive in that it can comprise users which a user editing the digital content is more likely to reference in the future, thereby triggering a determination as to whether such users have access rights to the digital content. The predictive aspects of the local cache are informed by a social graph delineating relationships between a user editing the digital content and other users. The social graph can be further refined based on metadata about the digital content, or based on the digital content itself. In addition to comprising users who have access rights to the digital content, the local cache can also comprise users that have been determined to not have access rights. |
| US10447797B2 |
Method and system for a uniform resource identifier (URI) broker
A system provides the ability for developers to create and embed a URI in HTML, a document, or an application to invoke another application or functionality according to a URI scheme name. The invoked application does not natively react to URI selections. Rather, a URI Broker can redirect the URI selection to the desired application and conduct any pre-processing to allow the URI to invoke any application, even those that do not include URI capability. |
| US10447793B2 |
Detecting shared access
A method and a device for detecting shared access are provided in the present disclosure. The method comprises: receiving an application layer packet from a user terminal; extracting a public network IP accessed by the user terminal and a data stream feature from the received application layer packet, where the data stream feature uniquely identifies the user terminal; determining a number of user terminals which access the public network IP according to the data stream feature; and determining that there is shared access for the public network IP if the number of user terminals accessing the public network IP is greater than a first threshold. |
| US10447790B2 |
Information push
An information push method comprises: receiving a distance parameter reported by a client terminal; determining whether a distance to the client terminal satisfies a preset distance condition according to the distance parameter; and when the distance to the terminal satisfies any preset distance condition locally, pushing information corresponding to the preset distance condition to the client terminal, wherein different distance conditions correspond to different information locally and respectively. The techniques of the present disclosure respectively push different information to a user based on different distances to client terminals, and adapt to different user application scenarios, thereby improving the user experience. |
| US10447788B2 |
Collaboration techniques between parties using one or more communication modalities
In one embodiment, a collaboration node prioritizes each modality of communication accessible by at least a first user and a second user based on one or more communication characteristics in a collaboration profile, monitors communication characteristics of a communication session conducted in a first modality of communication between the first user and the second user, and determines a second modality of communication accessible to the first user and the second user having a higher priority than the first modality of communication based on the collaboration profile and the communication characteristics for the communication session. The collaboration node further notifies at least one of the first user or the second user when the second modality of communication has the higher priority than the first modality of communication. |
| US10447785B2 |
Digital device and method for controlling same
A method for controlling a digital device according to one embodiment of the present specification may comprise the steps of: detecting a first control input for executing a first operation which is associated with a first configuration value and which is executable by utilizing a main device; transmitting, to the main device, a first triggering signal for executing the first operation on the basis of the first control input; detecting a second control input for executing a first operation which is associated with a second configuration value and which is not executable by utilizing the main device alone; detecting a cooperative device associated with the first operation; and providing a notification for the cooperative device. |
| US10447779B2 |
Synchronizing document replication in distributed systems
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for document synchronization. The method may include generating, by a controller, a first proxy object for a first document at a first system, the first system including the controller and the first proxy object; updating, by the controller, the first proxy object to include a replication status of the first document, when a creation, an update, and/or a deletion occurs at the first document. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. |
| US10447777B1 |
Method and system for providing a dynamically updated expertise and context based peer-to-peer customer support system within a software application
Users of a software system are provided the opportunity to participate as members of a peer-to-peer support community for the software system. Profile data is obtained indicating areas of expertise associated with members and each member can designate their status as active or non-active. Context criteria data indicating a context status for each active status member is generated. The profile data and the context criteria data for each active status member of the peer-to-peer support community is used to identify one or more sub-sets of active status members of the peer-to-peer support community who share a common context to dynamically match one or more active status members within the peer-to-peer support community and allow the matched members to provide support to each other through the software system. |
| US10447776B2 |
Method and apparatus for distributing media content
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, initializing a boundary estimate for an optimization of a linear programming model describing a network of media servers for servicing requests for media content items from subscriber devices, where the boundary estimate is an estimate of an infeasible solution of the linear programming model, and calculating iteratively, using an exponential potential function, additional boundary estimates for the linear programming model, wherein the calculating resolves to an improved boundary estimate that corresponds to placement of copies of the media content items at the media servers subject to a set of constraints on storage capacity of media servers and on bandwidth for communication links in the network. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10447774B2 |
Server load management for data migration
A system and method for controlling a migration of data items in a data directory from a source system to a destination system by setting one or more target properties for implementing the migration are disclosed. A migration controller can be employed to obtain statistical information regarding the migration. The statistical information can then be used to compute the one or more target properties. For example, a target number of network connections for achieving an optimal total throughput and concurrency can be computed based on an average throughput per network connection. The target number of network connections may be determined by a migration monitor, which may set the determined target number of network connections as a policy to be enforced by the migration controller. |
| US10447773B2 |
Aggregating vehicle-related big data
A private computer network associated with a vehicle data service center and a method of aggregating vehicle data using the private computer network. The method includes the steps of: receiving from a first subscriber vehicle one or more upload messages at a load balancing computer (LBC), wherein each of the one or more upload messages comprise unencrypted data; based on the unencrypted data, selecting at the LBC at least one telematics server of a telematics server farm to send the one or more upload messages; and providing the one or more upload messages to the at least one telematics server for upload message aggregation, wherein the LBC and the telematics server farm are associated with the private computer network. |
| US10447768B1 |
Sidecar ad server for linear broadcast
One or both of a metadata associated with content to be integrated into a linear broadcast and a content data comprising content to be integrated into the linear broadcast is received via a network. A trigger to integrate content into said linear broadcast is received from a broadcast automation system associated with the linear broadcast. Based at least in part on said metadata a content item is determined to be integrated into the linear broadcast in response to the trigger. The determined content item is integrated into the linear broadcast, including by providing to a mixing node associated with the linear broadcast a broadcast-ready audio output. |
| US10447766B2 |
Information sharing method and system
An information sharing method and the system thereof are provided. The method includes obtaining an information exported file by exporting the information to be shared, and storing the information exported file according to an assigned network address; generating a two-dimensional code according to the network address of the stored information exported file; sharing the generated two-dimensional code, and importing the information exported file by scanning the shared two-dimensional code. The system include an export processing module, a two-dimensional code generating module, a two-dimensional code sharing module, and an importing module. By the above method and system, the operation will be more convenient. |
| US10447764B2 |
Mapping selections between a browser and the original fetched file from a web server
A selection in a browser in an integrated development environment can be mapped back to the original document that was fetched from a web server by uniquely identifying elements in the original document. A DOM can be created from the original document where the DOM retains the unique identifiers associated with the elements. Block lists for the original document and the DOM can be created. A differencing algorithm can be run on the two block lists. A selection in a browser can be mapped to a location in the DOM block list and the location in the DOM block list can be mapped to the original document. |
| US10447762B2 |
Remote localization platform
A remote localization server enables application or website developers to revise and update presentation content for different target localities without having to reprogram an application for each locality. Such presentation content can include, for example, text, images, audio/video, and user interface (“UI”) elements. The updated content can then be synchronized (i.e., “pushed”) in real-time, in a remote fashion, to apps installed and running on end user devices, allowing app developers to be agile and responsive to the dynamic demands of a growing user base. |
| US10447755B2 |
Video stream transmission over IP network
A system includes a first buffer that stores first media packets therein received from a first media stream. A second buffer stores second media packets therein received from a second media stream. The first media stream and the second media stream include redundant media content. A combiner reads media packets from each of the first and second buffers, and the combiner discards a given duplicate media packet read from one of the first or second buffers that has been identified as being identical to another of the media packets read from the other of the buffers based on analysis of a predetermined identifier in each of the media packets read from the first and second buffers. The combiner provides an output stream of media packets that includes only one of the identical media packets read from the first and second buffers. |
| US10447753B2 |
Encoding scalability with brokers
A scalable architecture is provided for decentralized scaling of resources in a media content encoding platform. The scalable architecture is comprised of a first slicing tier, a second broker tier, and a third encoding tier. Each tier can be horizontally and vertically scaled independent of one another. The second broker tier receives media content slices from the first slicing tier. The second broker tier retains the slices directly in main memory of different brokers without writing the slices to a database or disk. The brokers distribute the slices from main memory across the third encoding tier for encoding based on availability of different encoders in the third tier. This architecture improves overall encoding performance as some of the delays associated with managing and distributing the slices at the second tier are eliminated by operation of the brokers. |
| US10447751B2 |
Parallel transcoding directly from file identifier
Transcoding a file located within a network directly from a file identifier, including: retrieving the file using the file identifier; segmenting the file into a plurality of chunks; and transcoding the plurality of chunks using a distributed transcoder. Key words include segmenting and distributed transcoding. |
| US10447750B2 |
Detecting events from ingested communication signals
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting events from ingesting communication streams. A communication stream is ingested. A first score is computed from a portion of the communication stream. The first score indicates a likelihood of the communication stream including event information. Computing resources are allocated to further process the communication stream portion based on the first score indicating that further processing is warranted. A second score is computed from parameters of the communication stream portion. An event is detected based on the second score. |
| US10447748B2 |
Sharing media information between applications on client devices
A media process may receive, from a client application, a request for media information about a range of media items in a queue of a media application, the request being sent while the media application is executing. The queue includes a previous set of media items that have been played by the media application, a current item (e.g., currently playing), and a future set of items that are to be played The request may specify the range to include the current item and at least one item from the previous set and/or future set. The daemon sends a request to the media application and receives media information from the application. The received media information may include an order of media items and an identifier for each item in the range of items. The received information may be sent to the client application for displaying information about the range of items. |
| US10447744B2 |
Simultaneous input system for web browsers and other applications
In a computing environment having a multiple input detection system including a detector that detects and transmits multiple simultaneous user inputs from different users at a same time, a method for processing inputs from different users across multiple application windows of one or more applications displayed on a single display of a user interface, resulting in a multi-user graphical user interface (GUI), the computing environment running an operating system (OS) designed to run with a single user GUI, the method including determining, in a primary application, separate from the OS, that a first user input corresponds to a first window and a second user input corresponds to a second window, the primary application sending the first and second user inputs to first and second secondary applications that run in parallel with the primary application, the first and second secondary applications being designed to run with the OS. |
| US10447740B2 |
System and method for call termination via an over-the-top (OTT) call service, based on connection characteristics
A system and method for connecting a call from an originating endpoint of a calling party to a terminating endpoint of a called party. The system comprises: a first computer system configured to i) receive, from a second computer system, a plurality of subscriber identifiers for a first over-the-top (OTT) call service, comprising a subscriber identifier of the called party, ii) receive, from a third computer system, a first series of plural updates for a predetermined connection characteristic and corresponding to the subscriber identifier of the called party, and iii) generate a signal for controlling the call, wherein the signal indicates to route the call either a) via the first OTT call service or b) via a different call service, based the first series of plural updates; and a networking device configured to route the call to the terminating endpoint, based on the signal. |
| US10447739B2 |
Network entities comprising interworking functions, methods of controlling same, and computer programs
A network entity comprises an interworking function. The network entity is between an endpoint and a registrar in a telecommunications network. A message is received for the registrar from the endpoint, the message comprising data identifying an endpoint characteristic of the endpoint. A message is received for the endpoint. A processing action to be used to process the received message for the endpoint is determined based on the data identifying the endpoint characteristic of the endpoint comprised in the received message for the registrar from the endpoint. The received message for the endpoint is processed in accordance with the determined processing action. |
| US10447737B2 |
Delegating administration rights using application containers
A computer implemented method for delegating administration duties using application containers may include associating, by a database system, a custom object to a delegated administrator; associating, by the database system, an application container with a custom object; and enabling, by the database system, the delegated administrator to manage the custom object based on permissions included in the application container, wherein the application container includes a subset of permission included in an application permission. |
| US10447733B2 |
Deception network system
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing deception networks. One of the systems includes a threat information server configured to monitor and control security threats, a management process orchestration server configured to receive one or more identified security threats from the threat information server and develop a response process applicable to each identified security threat, a network switching controller in communication with one or more network switching devices, a target computing device connected to one of the network switching devices, and an indicator analytics processor configured to generate threat intelligence based on activity observed on the target device and provide the observed threat intelligence to the threat information server. The threat information server can receive threat intelligence information, identify key indicators, and generate identified security threats. The network switching controller can implement network topology changes in response to received instructions. |
| US10447726B2 |
Mitigating attacks on server computers by enforcing platform policies on client computers
In an embodiment, a computer system is configured to receive, from a client computer, a request with one or more values; determine, based on the one or more values, whether the request is from a platform-specific application compiled for a first computer platform; determine, based on the one or more values, whether the platform-specific application is being executed within an emulator being executed by a second computer platform, wherein the second computer platform is different than the first computer platform. |
| US10447723B2 |
Creating notes on lock screen
Creating a note on a lock screen may be provided. In some examples, an application, such as a communication application, may detect an input to generate a note on a lock screen. The communication application may provide a note interface to capture the note. Next, the note may be captured on the note interface. In response, the note may be saved at a first storage location. The first storage location may be isolated by an operating system of the computing device to prevent an execution of a malicious code. |
| US10447722B2 |
Proactive intrusion protection system
An application associated with a remote device executes logic to receive, from a remote system, data identifying a plurality of compromising entities, identify an incoming communication initiated by the remote device, and identify information regarding a source of the incoming communication. Additionally, the logic determines an entity associated with the source of the incoming communication and determines that the entity associated with the source matches at least one of the plurality of compromising entities based on comparing the data identifying the plurality of compromising entities and the entity associated with the source of the incoming communication. In addition, the logic generates a signal configured to block the incoming communication. |
| US10447721B2 |
Systems and methods for using multiple lateral movement strategies in penetration testing
Methods and systems for carrying out multiple campaigns of penetration testing using different lateral movement strategies for discovering and reporting security vulnerabilities of a networked system, the networked system comprising a plurality of network nodes interconnected by one or more networks. |
| US10447720B1 |
Systems and methods for performing application container introspection
The disclosed computer-implemented method for performing application container introspection may include (1) identifying a request issued by an application launched from an application container, (2) determining that the request calls a function that facilitates transferring data between the application container and at least one external data source, and then in response to determining that the request calls the function, (3) directing the request to a function library that includes a custom version of the function that facilitates both (A) transferring, between the application container and the external data source, an encrypted version of the data that is unintelligible to an external application running outside the application container and (B) providing an unencrypted version of the data to the external application to enable the external application to inspect the data. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US10447718B2 |
User profile definition and management
A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing a security analysis operation within a security environment, comprising: monitoring electronically-observable user behavior about a particular entity; maintaining a state about the particular entity, the state representing a context of a particular event; converting the electronically-observable user behavior into electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior; generating a user behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the electronically-observable user behavior; and, analyzing the event using the state of the entity and the user behavior profile. |
| US10447713B2 |
Internet traffic classification via time-frequency analysis
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to internet traffic classification via time-frequency analysis. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a security classification scheme can be implemented to identify potentially malicious activities from normal internet traffic. The security classification scheme can exploit the distinctive characteristics of different types of traffic in both frequency domain and time domain to identify four different cases. Due to the separation of different types of traffic, the security classification scheme can lower the false alarm rate and improve network security. The security classification scheme can utilize a recursive discrete Fourier transform (“DFT”) implementation to enhance computational efficiency. The security classification scheme can be deployed for real-time network traffic monitoring due to an efficient streaming design and can be effectively used to detect and predict when and where the suspicious activities occur within a monitored network. |
| US10447711B2 |
System and method for identification of automated browser agents
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for evaluating web browser behavior to report on human versus non-human activity, based on varying analyses of detectable properties. By passively detecting the code of a webpage engaged by a browsing user, the present invention evaluates the browsing user's activity in order to predict the type of user with a degree of confidence. The predictions are formed by acquiring information on how a user loads, navigates, and interacts with a webpage and comparing that information with known and unknown properties in various control groups. If the prediction yields a high likelihood of automated activity, additional active detection may be performed. Reports are compiled by analysis servers and made available to the operators of webpages. By compiling performance metrics and informing operators of fraudulent versus normal activity, the invention combats malicious automated traffic directed at any aspect of a given webpage. |
| US10447705B2 |
Cloud-based device information storage
Device information for each of multiple devices associated with a user account is maintained by a cloud service. The device information can include credential information allowing the device to be accessed by other ones of the multiple devices, remote access information indicating how the device can be accessed by other ones of the multiple devices on other networks, and property information including settings and/or device drivers for the device. The device information for each of the multiple devices is made available to other ones of the multiple devices, and can be used by the multiple devices to access one another and provide a consistent user experience across the multiple devices. |
| US10447694B2 |
Identity verification method and device
A method and a device of identity verification are disclosed. The method includes: receiving by a server, an identity verification request sent from a terminal, where the identity verification request contains a specified user identifier; based on a user relationship chain of the specified user identifier, obtaining a verified user information set which includes user's information on the user relationship chain; providing the verified user information set to the terminal in order to subsequently receive returned selected user's information; determining whether the received selected user's information from the terminal matches the user's information on the user relationship chain; if the selected user's information received matches the user's information on the user relationship chain, confirming that the identity verification being successful. To pass the identity verification, the only requirement is that the selected user's information received from the terminal matches the user's information on the user relationship chain. |
| US10447693B2 |
Selectively permitting a receiver device to access a message based on authenticating the receiver device
A device may receive an indication to generate a link associated with accessing a message. The message may be intended for a shared device identifier of a receiver device identified by a receiver device identifier, where the shared device identifier is shared by multiple receiver devices. The device may generate the link using information associated with the message. The device may provide the link to the receiver device after generating the link. The device may receive a request, from a requesting device, to access the message, the request including a device identifier associated with the requesting device. The device may selectively permit or prevent access to the message, by the requesting device, based on the receiver device identifier and the device identifier associated with the requesting device. |
| US10447689B2 |
Systems and methods for authenticating a user device for a web service
An instant access device may receive a request from a user device to access secure content corresponding to a particular web service. The instant access device may create a hash code based on a telephone number of the user device and a hash code, and may communicate the hash code to an authentication system. The authentication system may authenticate the user device by comparing the hash code to a hash table that includes a list of hash codes associated with user devices that are authorized to access the secure content. Based on whether the user device is authenticated by the authentication system, the instant access device may cause the user device to access the secure content, whether by accessing the secure content directly (when the user device authentication is successful) or by creating a new user account (when the user device authentication is unsuccessful). |
| US10447688B1 |
System for secure communications
A system and method provides security features for inter-computer communications. A user identifier of the user that cannot be used to log the user in to a data consolidating system is received by a matching system from the data consolidating system. The validity of the user is checked at the matching system and, in response to the checking, the user identifier is converted to a different user identifier and the different user identifier is provided to a data providing system by the matching system. The data providing system provides the data of the user in response, and the matching system forwards the data to the data consolidating system. |
| US10447685B2 |
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media facilitating mobile device guest network access
Mobile device access to a guest network is facilitated. A method comprises: detecting a home network having an associated access point based on the device being within a first defined proximity of the associated access point; and transmitting information indicative of a request to establish a guest network via the associated access point of the home network and providing authentication information for an entity associated with the device. The method also comprises establishing the guest network according to one or more assigned resources based on receipt of an acknowledgement message received from a cloud device, wherein receipt of the acknowledgment message from the cloud device is based on cloud device determination that the entity associated with the device is authenticated and based on receipt of an authorization by an entity associated with the home network. |
| US10447684B2 |
Hosted application sandbox model
An application host (such as a web application server) may execute a set of applications on behalf of a set of users. Such applications may not be fully trusted, and a two-way isolation of the distributed resources of an application (e.g., the executing application, the application user interface on the user's computer, and server- and client-side stored resources) from other applications may be desirable. This isolation may be promoted utilizing the cross-domain restriction policies of each user's computer by allocating a distinct subdomain of the application host for each application. The routing of network requests to a large number of distinct subdomains may be economized by mapping all distinct subdomains to the address of the domain of the application host. Moreover, the application user interfaces may be embedded in an isolation construct (e.g., an IFRAME HTML element) to promote two-way isolation among application user interfaces and client-side application resources. |
| US10447675B2 |
Method for delivering primary information that exists in at least one electronic form
A method for delivering primary information that exists in at least one electronic form, includes transmission of the primary information via at least one communication network to at least one communication system allocated to an addressee of the primary information; creation of verification information relating to the acknowledgement of the primary information by the addressee; and saving and/or transmission of the verification information via at least one communication network. Individualized data is thus made available which not only documents the receipt of the primary information by the addressee but also the acknowledgement of the receipt of the primary information by the addressee. A telecommunication arrangement and a telecommunication unit which are suitable for carrying out the method are also disclosed. |
| US10447674B2 |
Key exchange through partially trusted third party
A system may transmit, to a first entity, data to indicate an association between the first entity and a public key, wherein the public key is to be used to establish a cryptographically protected communications session between the first entity and a second entity, receive the data in response to a request to verify the association, and transmit, to the second entity, an indication that the data is valid. The system may be a cryptography service that is partially by the first and second entities. A partially trusted system can a computer system that is trusted in some respects but not trusted in other respects. A partially trusted cryptography service may be trusted to generate digital signatures and verify authenticity of digital signatures, but not trusted with access to a cryptographic key that can be used to access a cryptographically protected communications between a first entity and a second entity. |
| US10447672B2 |
Facilitating encrypted persistent storage in browsers
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for encrypting and securely storing session data during a browser session using a session-based cryptographic key. The session data may be decrypted during the browser session or other browser sessions using the session-based cryptographic key or other backwards compatible session-based cryptographic keys. In addition, session-based cryptographic keys may be shared among browser sessions to enable encrypted session data to be decrypted across page refreshes and browser tabs. |
| US10447671B1 |
Systems and methods for recovering encrypted information
The disclosed computer-implemented method for recovering encrypted information may include (i) identifying an untrusted application that uses a known cryptographic function, (ii) hooking the known cryptographic function used by the untrusted application to execute decryption-facilitation code when the untrusted application attempts to encrypt data, where the decryption-facilitation code reduces the difficulty of later decrypting data encrypted by the untrusted application, (iii) detecting encrypted data produced by the untrusted application, and (iv) recovering unencrypted data from the encrypted data produced by the untrusted application using a decryption technique facilitated by having executed the decryption-facilitation code that reduced the difficulty of later decrypting the encrypted data encrypted by the untrusted application. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US10447664B2 |
Information masking using certificate authority
An apparatus for use in a digital messaging system includes a storage device and a processor coupled to the storage device. The storage device storing software instructions for controlling the processor that when executed by the processor configured the processor to: generate a first message comprising a payload portion; encrypt the payload portion of the message; derive a first session key from a domain-specific key; and sign the message using the first session key. |
| US10447663B2 |
Decrypting network traffic on a middlebox device using a trusted execution environment
Decrypting network traffic on a middlebox device using a trusted execution environment (TEE). In one embodiment, a method may include loading a kernel application inside the TEE, loading a logic application outside the TEE, intercepting, by the logic application, encrypted network traffic, forwarding, from the logic application to the kernel application, the encrypted network traffic, decrypting, at the kernel application, the encrypted network traffic, inspecting, at the kernel application, the decrypted network traffic according to a sensitivity policy to determine whether the decrypted network traffic includes sensitive data, forwarding, from the kernel application to the logic application, filtered decrypted network traffic that excludes the sensitive data, processing, at the logic application, the filtered decrypted network traffic, forwarding, from the logic application to the kernel application, the filtered decrypted network traffic after the processing by the logic application, and forwarding, from the kernel application, the encrypted network traffic. |
| US10447657B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving secure and non-secure data
A communications system, and a method suitable for use therein, are described which are suitable for transmitting and receiving both secure and non-secure data. The system comprises: means for transmitting data comprising both ciphered secure data and unciphered non-secure data; means for receiving transmitted data; means for deciphering the received data to produce deciphered data; and means for: validating the deciphered data to produce a first validation result and outputting the deciphered data depending upon the first validation result; or validating the received data to produce a second validation result and outputting the received data depending upon the second validation result; or validating the deciphered data to produce a first validation result and outputting the deciphered data depending upon the first validation result, and also validating the received data to produce a second validation result and outputting the received data depending upon the second validation result. |
| US10447654B2 |
System and method for facilitating data leakage and/or propagation tracking
In some embodiments, a set of hashes that are associated with files of a user system, and a reference set of hashes that are associated with files of a reference system, may be obtained. An additional subset of hashes (included in the set of hashes and not included in the reference set of hashes) may be obtained based on a comparison between the set of hashes and the reference set of hashes. A file may be predicted to be exclusive for certain users or user systems, where the file is associated with a hash included in the additional subset of hashes. Other user systems may be scanned to determine what files are on the other user systems, where each of the other user systems is assigned to another user or is not one of the user systems. An alert indicating unauthorized activity may be generated based on the scan. |
| US10447650B2 |
Method of dynamic updating of information obtained from a DNS server
A method of dynamically updating DNS information in an IP network. A first entity of the IP network, distinct from DNS servers of the IP network, receives a request from a second entity of the network, likewise distinct from the DNS servers but possessing a copy of DNS information, constituting a record in at least one DNS server of the IP network. The first entity responds to the request by sending a message to the second entity, including an indication about the need to modify the copy. On receiving the message, the second entity determines whether the indication includes at least one additional instruction. If so, the second entity: performs a DNS interrogation, and on receiving a response, modifies its copy of the DNS information based the response and the additional instruction; or modifies its copy of the DNS information based on the additional instruction without performing a DNS interrogation. |
| US10447649B2 |
Incompatible network gateway provisioned through DNS
A first packet of a first protocol version type that includes an incoming request for an action to be performed on an identified resource is received from a client at a proxy server as a result of a DNS request resolving to a network address of the proxy server. The proxy server transmits an outgoing request for the action to be performed on the identified resource to a network address of the destination origin server in a second packet that is of the second protocol version type. The proxy server receives a third packet that includes an incoming response from the destination origin server, the third packet being of the second protocol version type. The proxy server transmits a fourth packet to the client, the fourth packet being of the first protocol version type, wherein the fourth packet includes an outgoing response that is based on the incoming response. |
| US10447642B2 |
Techniques for augmenting entity references in a messaging system
Techniques for augmenting entity references in messages are described. In one embodiment, a method may comprise receiving a message from a referencing client device at a messaging system intended for a third-party receiving user account; determining that the message includes an entity reference referencing an entity; selecting an augmentation element associated with the entity reference; generating an augmented entity reference by augmenting the entity reference with the augmentation element; and sending the augmented entity reference to the one or more client devices associated with the third-party receiving user account. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10447640B2 |
Communication device, control method, and control program
In one aspect, a communication device that sends mail including a destination address entry field, a subject entry field, and a message body entry field includes a controller that moves a character group entered in the destination address entry field or a character group entered in the subject entry field to the message body entry field if the character group satisfies a predetermined condition. If the predetermined condition is satisfied, the communication device determines that the character group presumed to be the message body of the mail has been entered in the entry field for the destination address or the subject of the mail, and moves the entered character group to the message body entry field. |
| US10447637B2 |
Method and platform for sending a message to a communication device associated with a moving object
To send a message to a communication device (17) associated with a moving object (16) a method comprising several steps is proposed. In a first step, a first location trajectory (3) of this object (16) is obtained by a first party (1). In a second step, this trajectory (3) is sent (9) from this first party (1) to a second party (2). Then, the second party (2) obtains (8) a set of second location trajectories (6) of tracked communication devices (19) and compares the first location trajectory (3) with this set. Next, the second party (2) selects a selected location trajectory (5) of a selected communication device (17) from the set if this selected location trajectory (5) is substantially the same as the first location trajectory (3). This selected communication device (5) corresponds to the communication device (5). At the end, the message is sent to the selected communication device (5) by the second party (2). |
| US10447635B2 |
Filtering electronic messages
Improved systems and methods for automatically discovering and filtering electronic messages. These systems and methods improve the operation of computer apparatus to achieve dramatic reductions in processing resources, data storage resources, network resources, and filter production times compared to conventional approaches. In some examples, improvements result from configuring computer apparatus to perform a unique sequence of specific electronic message processing rules in a network communications environment. In this regard, these examples are able to automatically learn the structures and semantics of machine generated electronic message headers, accelerating the ability to support new message sources and new markets. These examples provide a purchase related electronic message discovery and filtering service that is able to identify and filter purchase related electronic messages with high accuracy across a wide variety of electronic message formats. |
| US10447633B2 |
Method and system for optimizing and preventing failure of sender policy framework (SPF) lookups
The present invention circumvents the standard SPF lookup limit by allowing an administrator to create a secondary SPF record that includes all the desired SPF records even if it exceeds the 10 recursive lookups that would result in a standard failure. The administrator would then then create or modify their main SPF record to include an entry that points to the SPF Proxy that is the subject of this invention. |
| US10447632B2 |
Filtering notifications from a third party application to a user of a social networking system based on an action of the user
A method for filtering a notification being provided from an application to a user of a social networking system based on an action of the user is described. The method starts by receiving the notification from the application to the user. If the notification is a first notification sent from the application to the user, the notification is displayed to the user with (i) a prompting message that includes a selectable opt in image, and (ii) a selectable opt out image. The prompting message includes a request to opt in to receiving notifications from the application. If the notification is not the first notification sent from the application to the user, the method determines whether to display the notification to the user by determining whether the user previously opted in to notifications from the application and whether click-through rate (CTR) of notifications from the application is greater than CTR threshold. |
| US10447628B2 |
Controlling electronic messaging communication sessions based on document containers
At least one electronic document is requested from one or more participants of the electronic messaging session in accordance with a series of rules that is associated with actions for the messaging session. In response to receiving the requested at least one electronic document into the electronic messaging session, actions associated with the series of rules for the electronic messaging session are performed. |
| US10447626B2 |
Control of messages in publish/subscribe system
Control of messages in a publish/subscribe system is described. A publishing system creates a message for publishing to multiple subscribers via a broker system. The message and associated metadata are provided. The metadata defines control of the message and relates to control of publishing of the message, by the broker system, and/or control of use of the message, by a subscribing system. The message is published with the metadata. A broker system receives the message and analyzes the metadata with respect to a subscriber. Based on the analysis, restrictions are applied to delivery of the message to the subscriber. A subscribing system receives the message and analyzes the metadata with respect to the subscriber. Based on this second analysis, restrictions are applied to use of the message by the subscriber. |
| US10447616B2 |
Broadcast services platform and methods for use therewith
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a broadcast services platform includes a memory that stores operational instructions. A processor executes the operational instructions to: receive user data, the user data including a list of users and performance metric data corresponding to individual ones of the users; sort the list of the users in order of the performance metric data to generate a sorted list of the users; partition the sorted list of the users to generate a plurality of user groups; and generate network resource allocation data that allocates network resources to provide broadcast services to the users. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10447615B2 |
Enhanced real-time linking methods and systems
Systems and methods for enabling links between various devices is provided. The systems and methods may include a platform that enables different devices to access spatial models of a resource. The platform may enable the different devices to define and/or modify assignment conditions for access rights to resources. Further, the platform may enable definition of assignment conditions before or after the access rights are available for assignment. |
| US10447614B2 |
Providing high availability for a thin-provisioned container cluster
A system and method for providing high availability for a thin-provisioned container cluster includes a memory, one or more processors in communication with the memory, a scheduler executing on the one or more processors, and a spot instance market monitor. The spot instance market monitor receives market information about spot instances in a cloud system at a first time. The spot instances are available to a client at the first time. The spot instance market monitor determines, based on the market information, a respective reliability value for each of the spot instances at the first time. Then, the scheduler selects one spot instance among the spot instances based on the reliability value of the spot instance. In response to the selection of the spot instance, the scheduler schedules a container on the spot instance and executes the container on the spot instance. |
| US10447612B2 |
Migrating encoded data slices in a dispersed storage network
A method begins by a processing module of a dispersed storage network (DSN) identifying a change in DSN memory of the DSN. For a set of encoded data slices effected by the change, the method continues with the processing module ascertaining updated properties of the DSN memory and performing an updating scoring function using properties of DSN access information and the updated properties of the DSN memory to produce an updated storage scoring resultant. The method continues with the processing module utilizing the updated storage scoring resultant to identify an updated set of storage units affiliated with a given storage pool of a plurality of storage pools of the DSN memory and sending at least one data migration request to at least one storage unit of the updated set of storage units regarding migration of at least one encoded data slice of the set of encoded data slices. |
| US10447609B2 |
Preemptive packet transmission
Disclosed herein is technology to reduce latency of frames through a network device supporting various priorities. In an implementation, a method comprises configuring one or more priorities with a preemptive right over other one or more of said plurality of priorities; receiving frames in a sequence, each of the frames having a frame priority comprising of one of said plurality of priorities; queuing the received frames in a predetermined order based on a frame arrival time and the frame priority; transmitting a current frame based on a current frame priority and current frame arrival time; stopping transmission of the current frame when a later frame in the sequence is received that has a later frame priority with preemptive right over the current frame priority; transmitting an invalid frame check sequence; transmitting the later frame; and restarting the transmission of the current frame after transmitting the later frame. |
| US10447606B2 |
Time-sensitive networking differentiation of traffic based upon content
According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided, comprising receiving one or more data frames at a Time Sensitive Network (TSN) module; determining a classification for each data frame via the TSN module; generating a schedule for the one or more data frames to transmit the data frame through a communication network based on the classification; transmitting the one or more data frames based on the schedule; and controlling one or more operations of an installed product based on the transmitted one or more data frames. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US10447599B2 |
Packet forwarding method, system, and apparatus
A packet forwarding method, system, and apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining that a total number of links is an integral power of 2, wherein the total number of links is a sum of a number of added virtual link and a number of actual links for forwarding a data packet; calculating a hash value of the data packet, and calculating a remainder of the hash value divided by the total number of links; and if the remainder corresponds to a virtual link, calculating another hash value of the data packet, returning back to the step of calculating a remainder, performing the above operations cyclically until the remainder corresponds to an actual link, and forwarding the data packet on the actual link. |
| US10447598B2 |
User datagram protocol (UDP) receive offloading
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for providing UDP receive offloading using the communications systems. For example, a method generally includes grouping, into a container, the datasets from the same source and destination arriving at a receiver based on datasets metadata, and ungrouping the datasets from the container once network layer processing on the container is completed and datasets are ready to traverse to a next destination. |
| US10447596B2 |
Congestion control for LTE-V2V
Improvements may be made for the congestion control considering different technologies, types of radio resources, and priorities of different packets. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE determines a channel busy ratio (CBR). The UE determines one or more channel resource utilization limits based on the CBR, wherein each channel resource utilization limit of the one or more channel resource utilization limits corresponds to a respective packet priority. The UE controls transmission of a plurality of packets based on the one or more channel resource utilization limits, each packet of the plurality of packets being associated with a respective packet priority. |
| US10447594B2 |
Ensuring predictable and quantifiable networking performance
The ensuring of predictable and quantifiable networking performance includes adaptively throttling the rate of VM-to-VM traffic flow. A receiving hypervisor can detect congestion and communicate messages for throttling traffic flow to reduce congestion at the receiving hypervisor. |
| US10447590B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamic connection paths for devices connected to computer networks
Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamically selecting a connection path between a client device and a server. One method includes receiving, over a network at a server, a connection request from a client device; authenticating, by the server, the connection request from the client device; determining, by the server, a connection path for the authenticated client device based on the connection request; determining, by the server, whether the connection path for the authenticated client device is a new connection path based on the connection request; and storing, by the server, the connection path to a connection database in association with the authenticated client device when the connection path is determined to be new, the connection database including a plurality of connection paths between the client device and the server. |
| US10447588B1 |
Decentralized integrated modular avionics (IMA) processing
A decentralized Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) architecture configured for onboard avionics processing eliminates centralized computing cabinets and distributes avionics processing capabilities to a network of smart switching devices positioned throughout the aircraft, each smart switch including a multicore processing environment (MCPE) for generalized application hosting in addition to the switching elements. The smart switching network can be scaled up or down for smaller or larger aircraft, or organically grown by adding more processing components. Additional real-time multicore processors may be located in smart remote data concentrators (RDC) for handling I/O and routing of network data between external remote units and aircraft systems and the hosted applications on the smart switches. The real-time environments executing on the smart RDCs may be reserved for low-latency closed-loop functions, or may host additional general-purpose avionics processing. |
| US10447587B2 |
Computing label-switched data communication paths
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for computing label-switched data communication paths are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, by a path computation element (PCE) implemented on at least one processor, synchronization status information for routing nodes in a label-switched network. The method includes receiving, by the PCE, a request for a label-switched path (LSP) from a client. The method includes determining, by the PCE, a responsive LSP based at least in part on the synchronization status information. The method includes sending, by the PCE, an explicit route object (ERO) for the responsive LSP to the client. |
| US10447585B2 |
Programmable and low latency switch fabric for scale-out router
A router device comprises a memory storage storing a database with network path information and a plurality of network interface line cards. The plurality of network interface line cards receive data through a network interface of a first line card addressed to a second line card; determine a path through at least one switch from the first line card to the second line card based on the network path information stored in the database; and forward the data, the address of the second line card, and the path information to the second line card from the first line card through the at least one switch. |
| US10447584B2 |
Memory network and system including the same
A memory network includes a first local memory group, a second local memory group, and multiple first channels. The first local memory group includes multiple first memory devices that are not directly connected to each other. The second local memory group includes multiple second memory devices that are not directly connected to each other. The first channels are configured to connect the first memory devices to the second memory devices in a one to one relationship. |
| US10447580B2 |
Financial network
A network system that facilitates financial transactions. A software defined network may operate to provide a variety of trading related services to a variety of customers with a low latency. Core or processor affinity for routing processes may improve speeds of routing. Data capture through a shared memory space may allow for a variety of analytics without introducing unacceptable delay. |
| US10447578B1 |
Redistribution policy engine
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for assigning paths to network packets. The path assignment techniques utilize path state information and/or other criteria to determine whether to route a packet along a primary candidate path selected for the packet, or one or more alternative candidate paths selected for the packet. According to an embodiment, network traffic is at least partially balanced by redistributing only a portion of the traffic that would have been assigned to a given primary path. Move-eligibility criteria are applied to traffic to determine whether a given packet is eligible for reassignment from a primary path to an alternative path. The move-eligibility criteria determine which portion of the network traffic to move and which portion to allow to proceed as normal. In an embodiment, the criteria and functions used to determine whether a packet is redistributable are adjusted over time based on path state information. |
| US10447575B1 |
Routing methods, systems, and computer program products
In various embodiments, an apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable media, and a method are provided, involving a technique to: receive, from a network node located in a second region of the network, a packet along with a header having network path information that includes an outside-scope identifier that identifies the first region without identifying a single particular network node, a single particular interface, nor a single particular link; responsive to receiving the packet, identify a next indicator that identifies a next identifier in the network path information for the border node; modify the next indicator to identify, for another node, another identifier in the network path information; and forward the packet according to the next identifier to deliver data in the packet to the another node via the at least one network interface in the first region. |
| US10447573B2 |
Method and system for aggregating diagnostic analyzer related information
A method for communicating information related to a diagnostic analyzer includes receiving user identification information from a portable computer. A user associated with the user identification information operates the diagnostic analyzer. First diagnostic analyzer information is retrieved from at least one database that relates analyzer information to the user of the diagnostic analyzer. The first diagnostic analyzer information is related to the diagnostic analyzer. The first diagnostic analyzer information is communicated to the portable computer. Second diagnostic analyzer information from the diagnostic analyzer is retrieved. The second diagnostic analyzer information is generated by the diagnostic analyzer. The first and the second diagnostic analyzer information is communicated to the portable computer. The portable computer is configured to display the first and the second diagnostic analyzer related information. |
| US10447572B2 |
Auditing of content related events
At times, it may be desirable to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content. One manner of making the determination may include accessing presentation time information that indicates the time(s) at which one or more client systems present particular dynamic content and accessing event time information indicating the time(s) at which one or more auditable events occur in the dynamic particular content. Based on the presentation time information and the event time information, it may be possible to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content. |
| US10447569B2 |
Switch monitoring statistics gathering at servers and gateways for overlay networks
In one embodiment, a system includes a hardware processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the hardware processor. The logic is configured to create statistics about overlay-encapsulated packets which are received by or sent by the hardware processor across an overlay network. The logic is also configured to record the statistics with a virtual network identifier and a tunnel identifier associated with at least one overlay-encapsulated packet for which the statistics are created. Moreover, the logic is configured to maintain a table indexed for the virtual network identifier and the tunnel identifier. The table includes the virtual network identifier, the tunnel identifier, and statistic bucket identifiers pointing to locations where statistics associated with the virtual network identifier and the tunnel identifier are stored. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed according to more embodiments. |
| US10447568B2 |
Activity stream based collaboration
An activity stream based interaction model is disclosed. To cause a desired application level action to be performed at a remote system, such as automatically retrieving and displaying a document in a viewer or other portion of a user interface at the remote system, a text-based tag, such as a hash tag, is inserted into an activity stream. The activity stream is sent to the remote system, which is configured to respond to the text-based tag by performing, at least in part automatically, the corresponding application level action. |
| US10447565B2 |
Mechanism for analyzing correlation during performance degradation of an application chain
The present invention relates to a device comprising at least one computer machine and a software for executing a correlation analysis mechanism during performance degradation of an application chain comprising a hardware and software arrangement for storing a measuring repository, said measuring repository comprising a hardware and software arrangement for measuring, by consumption probes, the level of use of each resource on the set of servers constituting the application chain during periods of performance degradation, then storage in a memory of these levels in the measuring repository, in association with the period, said device being characterized in that it further comprises an editing hardware and software arrangement of a configuration repository, a categorization module of the performance problems as a function of the measuring and configuration repositories. |
| US10447556B2 |
End user on demand network resource instantiation
End user on demand network resource instantiation in software-defined networks (SDN) may be provided by an SDN controller that receives an indication from a physical boost device operated by a network user. The boost device may indicate to the SDN controller that an improvement in network performance is desired by the network user. Once the indication is received, the SDN controller may implement network configuration changes for the improvement and cause the network user to be billed for the improvement. |
| US10447552B2 |
System and method for predictive maintenance
A system and method for predictive maintenance of multifunction peripherals includes a data collection agent configured to receive and store simple network management protocol (SNMP) data including metered data from one or more multifunction peripherals, and a service prediction system configured to selectively perform linear regression analysis on one or more of the metered data to predict one or more service events for at least one multifunction peripheral based on the linear regression analysis. Notifications for each predicted service event are sent to service technicians associated with the associated multifunction peripheral. Service technicians can preemptively perform service and maintenance functions on the multifunctional peripherals before error or faults occur on the multifunction peripherals. |
| US10447549B2 |
Neighbor establishment method and system, and device
A method for establishing a neighbor relationship, where corresponding authentication information is added to packets that are sent from a first network device and a second network device to each other. The first network device sends a hello packet to the second network device. The second network device receives the hello packet, performs authentication, and responds to the hello packet using an extended unidirectional link (UDL) link state packet (LSP) when the authentication succeeds. The first network device receives the extended UDL LSP, and performs authentication. When an authentication result includes that both the first network device and the second network device enable authentication and the authentication succeeds, a neighbor relationship between the first network device and the second network device may be established. |
| US10447548B2 |
Methods and arrangements relating to communication between a radio access network and wireless devices
A head-end system and radio head apparatuses are connected to a cable network for wired transmission of radio signals. The head-end system obtains information identifying available IFs, and receives, from a RAN, information identifying communication RFs. The head-end system sends, to the radio head apparatuses, configuration instructions. The head-end system communicates data between the RAN and said radio head apparatuses, via broadcast of one or more radio signals in the cable network, located within the one or more communication IF bands. The radio head apparatuses communicate the data between the head-end system and wireless devices, via the cable network and wirelessly to/from the wireless devices using the communication RFs. |
| US10447547B2 |
Method and apparatus for NFV management and orchestration
Systems and methods for network functions virtualization (NFV)-management and orchestration (MANO) are provided where a virtualized network function (VNF)-forwarding graph (FG) including a plurality of VNFs is generated based on a customer request. The plurality of VNFs are instantiated at corresponding NFV infrastructure (NFVI)-points of presence (PoPs). A network service (NS) request including the generated VNF-FG may be constructed and added to a NS catalog. |
| US10447545B1 |
Communication port identification
A system adapted to identify a router port corresponding to a DWDM device port is disclosed. A port identification server gathers and accumulates time series traffic data for a port of a DWDM device and plurality of router ports. The port identification server compares the time series traffic data for the port of the DWDM device with the time series data for router ports in order to determine which one of the router ports has data transmitted therefrom and received thereat that best fits or corresponds to the data received at and sent from the DWDM port. The port identification server identifies the router port that has time series data traffic that most closely matches the data traffic at the DWDM port as connected to the DWDM port. |
| US10447542B2 |
Group isolation in wireless networks
Methods and systems here may be used for managing a wireless network including associating a first and second wireless access device to an access point (AP), assigning the first and second wireless access device to respective first and second isolation groups, providing local communication via the AP within the isolation group, and prohibiting local communication via the AP between the first and second isolation groups. |
| US10447541B2 |
Policy driven network QoS deployment
Some embodiments provide a method for dynamically implementing quality of service (QoS) for machines of a network. The method identifies a QoS policy rule that defines a QoS policy to be implemented for machines that meet a set of criteria specified by the QoS policy rule. The method dynamically identifies a set of machines that meet the set of criteria. The method configures a set of managed forwarding elements of the network to implement the QoS policy rule for network traffic associated with the set of machines. In some embodiments, the method monitors network events (e.g., user logins, addition of new machines, etc.) and identifies a corresponding QoS policy rule to be enforced at corresponding locations in the network based on the detected event. |
| US10447539B2 |
System for provisioning racks autonomously in data centers
A provisioning system autonomously and asynchronously brings up data center racks. In an embodiment, the provisioning system determines presence of a first and second device connected to a network. The provisioning system generates a first and second thread for validation of the first and second devices, respectively. Responsive to determining by the first thread that the first device is not validated, the provisioning system notifies a detection system that the validation of the first device has not passed. Responsive to determining by the second thread that the second device is validated, the provisioning system provisions the second device for integration with one or more provisioned devices on the network. |
| US10447525B2 |
Validating correlation between chains of alerts using cloud view
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for evaluating a chain of alerts. Historical alerts may be grouped together to form sets of alerts based on a predetermined relationship between the alerts. A score is determined for each set of alerts representing a statistical likelihood that one alert in the set is correlated to another alert in the set, generating a plurality of scores for the sets of alerts. The scores may be placed into a model containing a score for each set of alerts. After the model is formed, a received chain of alerts may be evaluated by examining whether the chain of alerts, or a sub-chain of alerts, corresponds to a score in the model through an iterative process. If the chain of alerts corresponds to a score in the model and meets a predetermined criteria, a system administrator can be alerted of the chain of alerts. |
| US10447518B2 |
Methods for configurable non-orthogonal multiple access transmission
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a scheme for generating a multiple access (MA) signal that include mapping each of at least one stream of bits to generate a set of modulated symbols and transmitting the set of modulated symbols. The spreading signatures that are selected to map the at least one stream of bits are selected, at least in part, based on a set of compatibility rules. The spreading involves mapping each stream of bits using a respective spreading signature from a set of spreading signatures to generate a respective set of modulated symbols, wherein real spreading signature components of the spreading signatures are orthogonal to each other and imaginary spreading signature components of the spreading signatures are orthogonal to each other. |
| US10447517B2 |
Methods and apparatus for using synchronization signals as reference for demodulating multi-port broadcast channel
Various features related to using a multi-port synchronization signal as reference for demodulating a multi-port broadcast channel are described. In an aspect, a synchronization signal, e.g., SSS, may be repurposed to serve as a demodulation reference for a downlink channel, e.g., PBCH, thereby obviating the need for a base station to send an additional reference signal for PBCH demodulation. A base station may select two or more logical antenna ports to transmit a synchronization signal, transmit the synchronization signal from the selected two or more logical antenna ports, and transmit information on the PBCH, from at least the selected two or more logical antenna ports. A UE may receive the synchronization signal from the two or more logical antenna ports at the base station, receive information on the PBCH from the at least the two or more logical antenna ports, and demodulate the information based on the received synchronization signal. |
| US10447512B2 |
Channel equalization for multi-level signaling
A memory interface may include a transmitter that generates multi-level signals made up of symbols that convey multiple bits of data. The transmitter may include a first data path for a first bit (e.g., a least significant bit (LSB)) in a symbol and a second data path for a second bit (e.g., the most significant bit (MSB)) in the symbol. Each path may include a de-emphasis or pre-emphasis buffer circuit that inverts and delays signals received at the de-emphasis or pre-emphasis buffer circuit. The delayed and inverted data signals may control de-emphasis or pre-emphasis drivers that are configured to apply de-emphasis or pre-emphasis to a multi-level signal. |
| US10447508B2 |
Multi-bias level generation and interpolation
A device includes a first bias level generator to generate a first bias level of a plurality of bias levels and transmit the bias level having a first voltage value, a second bias level generator to generate a second bias level of the plurality of bias levels and transmit the second bias level having a second voltage value. The device also includes a voltage divider that interpolates a subset of bias levels of the plurality of bias levels between the first bias level and the second bias level and supplies a selected bias level of the plurality of bias levels a control signal to an adjustment circuit of a decision feedback equalizer to compensate for inter-symbol interference of a bit due to a previously received bit of a bit stream. |
| US10447505B2 |
Method for performing self-interference cancellation in FDR environment and device for same
A method for performing self-interference cancellation by a device using an FDR mode comprises a step for performing nonlinear digital self-interference cancellation on the basis of a condition defined for the nonlinear digital self-interference cancellation, wherein the defined condition can comprise information about the order of a self-interference component to be considered for the nonlinear digital self-interference cancellation in correspondence with transmission power of the device. |
| US10447503B2 |
Method and system for data flow management of user equipment in a tunneling packet data network
A data replication system of a communication network is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the data replication system includes a replication gateway node and a replication control system located in one or more of a visited network and a home network. The replication gateway node is configured to create a first replication tunnel between a first gateway node and the replication gateway node and a second replication tunnel between the replication gateway node and a second gateway node. The replication gateway node replicates data streams between the first gateway node and the second gateway and delivers the replicated data stream to a management node for further analysis. |
| US10447499B2 |
Virtual private network interworking
Methods and systems may use a software-defined network (SDN) based approach for interworking different types of nodes. In an example, an SDN controller may include components that assist in building pseudowires across Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) nodes and Border gateway protocol-virtual private local area network (LAN) service (BGP-VPLS) nodes. |
| US10447496B2 |
Multicast traffic steering using tree identity in bit indexed explicit replication (BIER)
Methods and network devices are disclosed for multicast traffic steering in a communications network. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a first tree connecting a source node for a multicast flow through a communications network to each of multiple destination nodes for the multicast flow. The communications network is configured to forward a multicast message based on bit values in a message bit array carried by the message, and the first tree comprises a first set of unicast paths from the source node to the destination nodes. The method further includes allocating a first tree identifier to the first tree and communicating the first tree identifier and associated forwarding information to each of multiple forwarding nodes within the communications network. An embodiment of a network device includes a processor operably coupled to one or more network interfaces and adapted to perform steps of the method. |
| US10447493B2 |
MAC and physical layer techniques for enabling communications on shared physical medium with multi-drop capability
An apparatus includes at least one transceiver configured to transmit or receive at least one data signal over a shared physical medium. The physical medium includes a bus configured to be coupled to multiple devices including the apparatus and provides a multi-drop capability. The at least one transceiver is configured to transmit or receive the at least one data signal at a rate of more than 10 Mbps. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a MAC driver configured to route network layer data over the physical medium. In other embodiments, the apparatus includes a MAC driver configured to control transmissions and receptions of network layer data over the physical medium by the at least one transceiver and a logic device configured to control physical layer signaling, interface with the MAC driver, enable the transmissions and receptions of the network layer data on the physical medium, and implement collision detection and avoidance. |
| US10447492B1 |
Residential management system for use with a plurality of home automation systems
In one embodiment, a technique is provided managing a plurality of home automation systems in different residential structures. The plurality of home automation systems are bound to a cloud-based residential management system (RMS). The RMS periodically receives status and diagnostics information from home automation systems, and displays, on a web-enabled device, a plurality of RMS user interface (UI) screens. The RMS UI screens provide an all systems view which lists each the plurality of home automation systems, a system details view which shows a summary of status information for a selected one of the plurality of home automation systems, and an equipment level view which shows status information for individual devices of the selected home automation system. At least some of the individual devices are non-network available devices that lack a direct connection to an Internet Protocol (IP)-based network. |
| US10447491B2 |
Premises system management using status signal
Methods and systems for managing a security system are described. A remote device located external to a premises may be in communication with a security system and a gateway device located at the premises. A heartbeat signal may be sent to the remote device. The remote device may send one or messages based on a failure of the heartbeat signal. |
| US10447489B2 |
Communication method and system for MBMS interest indication communication
A system is provided in which a user device communicates control data with a first base station and communicates user data with a second base station. The user device receives, from the first base station, configuration data specific to the first base station and configuration data specific to the second base station for configuring the user device to handle in-device coexistence interference. When the user device detects interference, it identifies the base station to which the interference relates, and controls the operating of its transceiver circuitry: i) using the first base station specific configuration data if it identifies that the interference is related to the first base station; and ii) using the second base station specific configuration data if it identifies that the interference is related to the second base station. |
| US10447479B2 |
Method of providing a hash value for a piece of data, electronic device and computer program
A hash value provides for a time-stamp for a piece of data upon verification. Providing the hash value includes deriving one-time signing keys of signer's one-time signing key hash chain by a one-way function of a secret key of the signer and a function of an index of the one-time signing key, and providing the hash value for the piece of data by a hash function including the piece of data and the derived one-time signing key. An electronic device having a processor arranged to implement a functional module for deriving a one-time signing key and providing a hash value for a piece of data by a hash function including the piece of data and the derived one-time signing key is also disclosed. The functional module is arranged to perform the method. A computer program for implementing the method on the electronic device is also disclosed. |
| US10447478B2 |
Cryptographic applications for a blockchain system
A method is provided for delegating behavior of a smart contract associated with a blockchain to code that is not part of the blockchain. A system directs execution by a virtual machine of the smart contract. During execution of the smart contract, the smart contract sends to a cryptlet container service, via a cryptodelegate, a request to delegate a behavior to a cryptlet that executes on an attested host. During execution the cryptlet container service identifies a host for executing code of the cryptlet in an appropriate cryptlet container. The cryptlet container service directs the identified host to execute the code of the cryptlet to perform the delegated behavior. After the delegated behavior is performed, the cryptlet container service receives from the cryptlet a response to the requested behavior. The cryptlet container service sends the response to the smart contract on the blockchain that is verified by the cryptodelegate. |
| US10447477B2 |
Method for on-board prime number generation
The present invention relates to a method to generate prime numbers on board a portable device, said method comprising the steps of, each time at least one prime number is requested: when available, retrieve results from previously performed derivation calculation or, if not, select a start point for derivation; process derivation calculation to converge towards a prime number; if a prime number is found, store it and restart derivation calculation from a new start point; stop the derivation calculation after a predetermined amount of time; store intermediate results to be used a next time a prime number will be requested; output a stored prime number. |
| US10447469B2 |
Management apparatus, computer program product, system, device, and method
According to an embodiment, a management apparatus connectable to a plurality of devices through a network includes storage, one or more processors, and an assignment transmitter. The storage stores therein management tree information in which node keys are respectively assigned to nodes and devices are respectively assigned to leaf nodes. The processors calculate similarity between attribute information representing an attribute of a new device and attribute information of devices already assigned in the management tree information. The processors determine a first leaf node to which the new device is to be assigned in the management tree information, based on the similarity. The assignment transmitter transmits, to the new device, at least one node key of node keys assigned to nodes on a path from a root node to the first leaf node in the management tree information. |
| US10447466B2 |
Transceiver and clock generation module
A transceiver and a clock generation module are provided. The transceiver includes a receiver and the clock generation module. The receiver receives a receiving-input-data and a receiving-input-strobe. The receiver includes a data-receiving circuit for delaying the receiving-input-data and a strobe-receiving circuit for delaying the receiving-input-strobe. The clock generation module includes a calibration circuit, a phase-compensation module, and a multi-phase signal generator. The phase-compensation module compensates one of the data-receiving circuit and the strobe-receiving circuit according to a data-phase-compensation signal and a strobe-phase-compensation signal generated by the calibration circuit. The multi-phase signal generator generates shifted system-clock signals. A phase difference between the first and the second shifted system-clock signals is equivalent to a phase difference between the receiving-path-data and the receiving-path-strobe. |
| US10447465B2 |
Signaling system with adaptive timing calibration
A signaling system is disclosed. The signaling system includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chip to receive a data signal and a strobe signal. The first IC includes circuitry to sample the data signal at times indicated by the strobe signal to generate phase error information and circuitry to output the phase error information from the first IC device. The system further includes a signaling link and a second IC chip coupled to the first IC chip via the signaling link to output the data signal and the strobe signal to the first IC chip. The second IC chip includes delay circuitry to generate the strobe signal by delaying an aperiodic timing signal for a first time interval and timing control circuitry to receive the phase error information from the first IC chip and adjust the first time interval in accordance with the phase error information. |
| US10447462B2 |
Optimised line synchronisation
This invention relates to a method of determining an optimum point at which to synchronize a digital subscriber line in a telecommunications network, with the aim of maximizing the resulting synchronization rate while maintaining a stable line. For many lines, the signal to noise ratio (SNR) varies over the course of a day, and recurs on a daily basis. The phenomenon is often referred to as the “diurnal effect”. The SNR history for the line is monitored, and the minimum SNR for the line is determined over a 24 hour period to take into account the diurnal effect. The current target SNR margin imposed by DLM on the line is determined, for example, by interrogating the DLM system or by noting the SNR margin on the line immediately after the most recent line synchronization. The optimum point at which a resynchronization is to be performed is calculated as point when the SNR on the line is equal to the minimum SNR plus the current target SNR margin. Synchronizing when the SNR is at this point should maximize the synchronization rate, while still maintaining a stable line. |
| US10447455B2 |
Enabling higher-order modulation in a cellular network
A method for using a high order modulation (HoM) mode for communications with a wireless device in a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes receiving downlink channel quality indicator (CQI) information from an uplink transmission of the wireless device and determining a downlink channel quality estimate from the CQI information. When a measurement of the downlink channel quality estimate satisfies the predetermined criteria for a first predetermined number of consecutive uplink transmissions from the wireless device, a downlink transmission mode of the wireless device is switched from a first modulation mode to the HoM mode. |
| US10447445B2 |
Device and method for transmitting reference signal
In a system supporting narrowband Internet of things (NB-IoT), a terminal maps an uplink reference signal to a plurality of resource elements in a scheduled resource allocation unit, and transmits the uplink reference signal mapped to the plurality of resource elements. Here, the scheduled resource allocation unit includes a first number of contiguous slots in a time domain and a second number of contiguous subcarriers in a frequency domain. |
| US10447438B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving downlink data in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor
A method for transmitting and receiving downlink (DL) data performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system according to the present disclosure includes receiving a first DL grant from a base station (BS); receiving first DL data based on the first DL grant from the BS; transmitting a HARQ response in response to the first DL data to the BS; and receiving one or more second DL data from the BS, and a specific frequency shift pattern is set in a frequency region between a resource in which the second DL data is received and a resource in which the first DL data is received, or between resources in which the second DL data are received. |
| US10447436B2 |
Polar code generating method, and electronic device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium therefor
A method for generating a polar code includes the steps of: establishing a plurality of polarization matrices that receive a plurality of first input bits via a plurality of first input channels and provide a plurality of first output bits on a plurality of first output channels; selecting at least one to-be-enhanced input channel from the first input channels of the polarization matrices; providing a re-polarization matrix that receives a plurality of second input bits via a plurality of second input channels and provides a plurality of second output bits on a plurality of second output channels, wherein a part of the second output bits is used as the first output bit(s) on the at least one to-be-enhanced input channel; and providing a polar code that comprises the first output bits and a remaining part of the second output bits. |
| US10447435B2 |
Reduced-stage polar decoding
In reduced-stage polar decoding, a received word that is based on an N-bit codeword of a polar code is decoded using fewer than log2N Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) stages. Decoding uses a reduced stage decoding configuration. In an embodiment, such a configuration includes at least one higher-order LLR stage with nodes implementing functions that are based on a combination of lower-order polar code kernels. |
| US10447431B2 |
Robust line coding scheme for communication under severe external noises
A system to implement a communication line coding scheme using a non-complex bit-to-symbol mapping, a forward error correction (FEC) coding, and an additive bit scrambler after the FEC at the PHY layer is provided. The system may be a part of or implemented by an automobile component. The system may be a PHY device configured to convert data from the MAC layer into 2D-PAM3 symbols that are transmitted across a communication link at a predetermined transmission rate, such as to be compliant with a communication standard. The PHY device may select characteristics of the conversion, such as the FEC coded symbol, based on the target transmission rate. The PHY device may include a transceiver, and may convert the data from MAC layer to PHY layer and back. |
| US10447427B2 |
Baseline wander correction
A receiver frontend having a high-frequency AC-coupled path in parallel to a low-frequency feed-forward path for baseline correction. The low-frequency path blocks the DC common-mode voltage of the input differential signal pair, but passes low-frequency differential signal components (e.g., long strings of a single value, or disparities in the number of 1's and 0's over a long period of time.) The low-frequency path can include a passive network for level shifting and extending the range of acceptable common-mode input voltages. The low-frequency path can also include a differential (e.g., transconductance) amplifier to isolate the common-mode input voltage from the output of the baseline wander correction circuit. |
| US10447423B2 |
Bidirectional, multi-wavelength gigabit optical fiber network
A bidirectional, multi-wavelength fiber optical network that enables communication between electrical components (such as line replaceable units) at high data transmission rates. The proposed fiber optical network in accordance with some embodiments comprises a single plastic or glass optical fiber capable of transmitting data at rates faster than 1 Gbits/sec. In accordance with some embodiments, the number of fiber cables between line replaceable units onboard an airplane can be reduced by a factor of eight or more by substituting one gigabit plastic or gigabit glass optical fiber for four or more plastic or glass optical fibers. |
| US10447417B2 |
Synchronized transmission on shared channel
Simultaneous transmission on a shared channel by a plurality of collocated radios is provided herein. The two or more radios are collocated with one another and are communicating with two far radios over a pair of long range wireless links. The two or more radios are configured to transmit and receive in synchronization with one another on a same channel. An off-axis response for each of the two or more radios is reduced compared to their on-axis response for improved signal to noise ratio, and the on-axis response the two or more radios are substantially equal to one another. |
| US10447414B2 |
Device obfuscation of position tracking
A user of a device desires that geographic position information of the device be kept private. A network may track a geographic position of a device using timing advance (TA) data and also a passive attacker may attempt to track the geographic position of the device by observing base station TA commands. In embodiments provided herein, a device diminishes or obfuscates geographic position information by using a timing change value while not disturbing synchronization of uplink signals from multiple devices arriving at a base station. To resist an averaging solution by an observer, the device in some embodiments adjusts the timing change value based on an internal timer. In an emergency call situation, the method permits the base station to obtain geographic position information based on TA procedures. |
| US10447412B2 |
Communications device and method
A device comprises a coupling configured to couple signals to and from a communications path including at least a part of a human or animal body; a data transmitter coupled to the coupling and configured to transmit, from time to time, a data signal of at least a predetermined temporal duration via the communications path; and a data receiver coupled to the coupling and configured to detect the presence of a signal on the communications path at sets of one or more successive detection instances disposed between successive transmissions of the data signal by the data transmitter, the data receiver being configured so that the successive detection instances of a set are temporally separated by no more than the predetermined temporal duration; the device being configured to initiate a processing operation in response to a detection by the data receiver of the presence of a signal on the communications path. |
| US10447405B2 |
Optical receiver with optical demultiplexer
An optical receiver includes: an optical demultiplexer to demultiplex an optical signal in which a plurality of wavelengths is multiplexed and divide the optical signal into optical signals corresponding to the plurality of wavelengths, respectively; a reflector to change a progress direction of the divided optical signals; an optical coupling lens including, in an array form, light transmission lenses through which the divided optical signals are transmitted, respectively; a plurality of photodetectors to mount on a photodiode (PD) substrate provided on the optical coupling lens, receive the divided optical signals that are transmitted through the light transmission lenses of the optical coupling lens, respectively, and convert the received optical signals to electrical signals; and a plurality of trans impedance amplifiers provided at desired intervals to electrically connect to the plurality of photodetectors through wire bonding and amplify the received plurality of electrical signals to be a desired magnitude. |
| US10447399B2 |
Method and system for restoring optical layer service
The present document discloses a method and a system for restoring an optical layer service. The method includes: determining wavelength resource occupancy information of an inner-link of the node and an optical layer link where the node is located; herein the wavelength resource occupancy information includes resource occupancy state information of a wavelength resource corresponding to a Hold Priority; and flooding the wavelength resource occupancy information in a network where the node is located. |
| US10447398B1 |
Upstream scheduling for optical networking unit (ONU)
In one embodiment, a method analyzes a size of a grant included in an upstream transmission from the device using a radio frequency over an optical network. When the size of the grant is less than a threshold, scheduling the upstream transmission on a first type of channel. The first type of channel includes characteristics of transmission such that an optical transmitter of an optical networking unit that receives the upstream transmission from the device will turn on when transmitting the upstream transmission via the optical network. When the size of the grant is greater than the threshold, scheduling the upstream transmission on a second type of channel. The size of the grant is such that the optical transmitter that receives the upstream transmission from the device is predicted to turn on when transmitting the upstream transmission via the optical network. |
| US10447393B2 |
Vehicle-mounted visible light emission systems and reception systems, and communication networks
The present disclosure provides a vehicle-mounted visible light emission system and reception system and a communication network. The vehicle-mounted visible light emission system comprises: a vehicle information acquisition unit configured to acquire vehicle information to be transmitted; a processing unit configured to process the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit; and a visible light emission unit configured to transmit a visible light signal in a manner of switching between dimming and brightening over time based on the processed vehicle information. |
| US10447389B2 |
Managing data flow in VCSEL-based optical communications system
Methods according to the disclosure include methods for managing data flow in an optical communications system having a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs). The method generally includes determining whether operation of the system exceeds a thermal threshold for a thermal parameter of the system, and switching from a first data bandwidth to a second data bandwidth when the thermal threshold is exceeded. Operation at the second data bandwidth further includes determining whether further operation of the system demands the first data bandwidth, and resuming operation of the system at the first data bandwidth only when the thermal parameter during operation at the second data bandwidth does not exceed the thermal threshold. |
| US10447380B1 |
Phased array with independently steerable beams
Various antenna systems are presented that have independently steerable receive and transmit beams. The antenna system may include multiple antenna element systems. Each antenna element system may include multiple phase shifters that alter the phase of received signals and signals to be transmitted. Directions of a first transmit beam, a second transmit beam, a first receive beam, and a second receive beam may be steered independently using the phase shifters. Each antenna element system may include a polarization system. |
| US10447376B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus and method using transmission line for transferring signal
A communication method in a wireless communication system includes receiving, by a resonator unit of a first signal transfer apparatus, a wireless signal transmitted from a transmission apparatus, acquiring resonance energy from the wireless signal using at least one of a matcher unit and the resonator unit of the first signal transfer apparatus, transferring the wireless signal to one end of a transmission line via the matcher unit of the first signal transfer apparatus using the acquired resonance energy, transferring the wireless signal to a second signal transfer apparatus connected to an opposite end of the transmission line, and transmitting the wireless signal to a reception apparatus having a wireless link established with the second signal transfer apparatus using a matcher unit and a resonator unit of the second signal transfer apparatus. |
| US10447374B2 |
Beam sweep or scan in a wireless communication system
A user equipment is configured for use in a wireless communication system. The user equipment in this regard is configured to detect an orientation of an equipment coordinate frame defined for the user equipment relative to an earth coordinate frame defined for Earth. The user equipment is also configured to determine, based on the detected orientation, a set) of beams defined in the equipment coordinate frame which does not include any beam pointing in one or more predefined directions in the earth coordinate frame. The user equipment is further configured to perform a beam sweep or scan on the determined set of beams. |
| US10447372B2 |
Amplitude and phase calibration at a transmitter chip in an antenna array
Select, from transmit paths within the transmitter chip, a first transmit path for a first transmit signal and a second transmit path for a second transmit signal. The transmit paths are associated with a plurality of antenna elements of an antenna array. Determine of an added signal and/or a subtracted signal associated with the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal. Determine at least one of a first signal strength value of the added signal or a second signal strength value of the subtracted signal. Adjust a first signal parameter of the second transmit signal relative to a corresponding first signal parameter of the first transmit signal until the first signal strength value is a first value or the second signal strength value is a second value. Calibrate an offset of the corresponding first signal parameter based on the adjusted first signal parameter in the second transmit path. |
| US10447370B2 |
Systems, methods and devices for using s-Measure with new radio
A new radio (NR) capable user equipment (UE) to determine whether to skip cellular measurements using s-Measure configuration based on measurements of a synchronization signal (SS) block (SSB) and/or Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) using an s-Measure configuration. For example, an s-Measure configuration can include a reference signal received power (RSRP) value and an indicator whether to apply the value to an NR SS block or a CSI-RS. If the value meets or exceeds the measurement for the indicated signal measurement, the s-Measure is satisfied. For example, in an embodiment, the network configures a single s-Measure configuration (e.g., either an NR SS s-Measure configuration or a CSI-RS s-Measure configuration), which when satisfied the UE does not perform further measurements. |
| US10447366B2 |
Techniques for reception beam refinement
Techniques for synchronized reception beam refinement are described herein. A base station may indicate to a user equipment (UE) a time when a reception beam refinement event may occur. The UE may initiate a synchronized reception beam refinement procedure based on receiving the indication from the base station. The UE may identify a new reception beam configuration based on data stored locally by the UE and ongoing background calculations that the UE carries out based on periodic beam reference signals. At the time indicated, the UE may adjust the reception beam configuration of a reception beam. The base station may initiate one or more link maintenance procedures based on a reception beam refinement event occurring. Such techniques may reduce the loss of data due to link degradation related to channel state feedback inconsistency (CSF) after a reception beam refinement event. |
| US10447364B2 |
Device, system and method of simultaneously communicating with a group of wireless communication devices
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of simultaneously communicating with a group of wireless communication devices. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit to communicate with at least one group of a plurality of wireless communication devices over a wireless communication medium, wherein the wireless communication unit is to reserve the wireless communication medium for a time period, during which the wireless communication unit is to simultaneously transmit two or more different wireless communication transmissions to two or more wireless communication devices of the group, respectively. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10447361B2 |
Hierarchical beamforming method and system thereof
A hierarchical beamforming method is provided, which comprises the following steps. Firstly, the vectors of the transmitter and the receiver are hierarchically indexed by using the codebooks with different coding methodology to generate hierarchical coding structures. Then, the corresponding vector fields between the transmitter and the receiver are switched according to the hierarchical coding structures. Thereafter, at least two aligning vector fields with greatest gain are detected. Finally, the corresponding aligning index pairs are used to build the channels. |
| US10447354B2 |
Signal transmission method, network device, and terminal device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a signal transmission method, network device, and terminal device. The method includes: determining a first time-frequency resource; obtaining a second time-frequency resource and a third time-frequency resource based on the first time-frequency resource and a preset rule, where the third time-frequency resource includes at least one resource element (RE) at a predefined location in the first time-frequency resource, the second time-frequency resource includes a resource other than the third time-frequency resource in the first time-frequency resource, the preset rule indicates the predefined location, the second time-frequency resource is used to carry a beamformed control channel, and the third time-frequency resource is used to carry a reference signal of the beamformed control channel. |
| US10447350B2 |
High-speed circuits for active load modulation and related methods
Circuits and methods for active load modulation is described. These circuits and methods may be employed in connection with near field communication (NFC) systems, for example in the proximity inductive coupling card (PICC). The methods described herein may be used to synchronize the operations of the system to the carrier clock provided by a reader with typical operation frequency of 13.56 MHz±7 KHz. The synchronization may be performed by locking an internal clock to the carrier clock when the transmission of data is disabled, by locking the internal clock to a local clock when data transmission is enabled, and by compensating the phase or frequency of the active load modulation clock to track the carrier clock. |
| US10447333B2 |
Method and apparatus for radio antenna frequency tuning
A matching network of a communication device that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller that executes instructions facilitating an identifying a subset of usage scenarios based on a usage condition of the communication device and adjusting the matching network device based on a subset of different tuning scenarios corresponding to the subset of usage scenarios. A group of operational parameters is obtained via parametric measurements for each tuning scenario change between the tuning scenarios corresponding to each of the subset of usage scenarios. Multiple operational parameters are averaged corresponding to each of the tuning scenarios to identify an average operational parameter for each tuning scenario, and a tuning scenario is selected from among the subset of different tuning scenarios based on a determination as to which of the average operational parameters correlates with a desired performance goal. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10447331B2 |
Ambient backscatter transceivers, apparatuses, systems, and methods for communicating using backscatter of ambient RF signals
Apparatuses, systems, ambient backscatter transceivers, and methods for modulating a backscatter of an ambient RF signal are described. An example system may include an ambient backscatter transceiver comprising an antenna that is configured to receive a backscattered ambient radio frequency (RF) signal. The ambient backscatter transceiver is configured to demodulate the backscattered ambient RF signal to retrieve first data. The backscattered ambient RF signal is generated by backscattering an ambient RF signal at a first frequency. The ambient RF signal is encoded with modulated to provide second data at a second frequency. |
| US10447330B2 |
Multilayer printed circuit board and electronic device including the same
A multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) including a plurality of substrate layers formed in stack is provided. The multilayer printed circuit board includes a first substrate layer located on an outer side of the plurality of substrate layers, and a second substrate layer located on another outer side of the plurality of substrate layers that is opposite to the first substrate layer. The multilayer printed circuit board further includes a transmission line, connecting a first point of the first substrate layer and a second point of the second substrate layer, which passes through the first and second substrate layers, and includes a sub-transmission line disposed between and extended along at least two adjacent substrate layers among the plurality of substrate layers. |
| US10447325B2 |
Metallic shell, method for manufacturing the same and mobile terminal having the same
A metallic shell, a method for manufacturing the metallic shell and a mobile terminal including the metallic shell are provided. The metallic shell includes a body and an insulator. The body has a slot. The insulator is formed in the slot and includes an insulating material. The insulating material includes a plastic material, a first coating and a second coating. The first coating is configured to color the plastic material to make the insulator exhibit a same color as that of the body. The second coating is configured to improve luster of the plastic material to make the insulator exhibit a same metallic luster as that of the body. |
| US10447323B2 |
Bypass path loss reduction
Aspects of this disclosure relate to reducing insertion loss associated with a bypass path. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first switch having at least two throws, a second switch having at least two throws, a bypass path between the first switch and the second switch, and at least one inductor. The at least one inductor is configured to compensate for capacitance associated with the bypass path to cause insertion loss of the bypass path to be reduced. |
| US10447322B2 |
Integrous signal combiner
A front-end module (FEM) is disclosed that includes an integrous signal combiner. The integrous signal combiner can process received signals and use a set of resonant circuits to filter signal noise prior to recombination of a plurality of signal bands that form an aggregate carrier signal. These resonant circuits may be placed after a set of low noise amplifiers and can be used to more efficiently reduce noise and parasitic loading within each of a set of signal paths. Each resonant circuit may be configured to filter noise relating to a bandwidth for a signal that is to be combined with the signal of the signal path that includes the resonant circuit. In some implementations, the integrous signal combiner can be a tunable integrous signal combiner with resonant circuits that may be reconfigurable or dynamically configurable. |
| US10447316B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for pipelining memory operations with error correction coding
Apparatuses and methods for pipelining memory operations with error correction coding are disclosed. A method for pipelining consecutive write mask operations is disclosed wherein a second read operation of a second write mask operation occurs during error correction code calculation of a first write mask operation. The method may further including writing data from the first write mask operation during the error correction code calculation of the second write mask operation. A method for pipelining consecutive operations is disclosed where a first read operation may be cancelled if the first operation is not a write mask operation. An apparatus including a memory having separate global read and write input-output lines is disclosed. |
| US10447312B2 |
Method of performing interleaving using LDPC and communication apparatus therefor
A method of performing interleaving, which is performed by a communication apparatus using a low-density parity-check code (LDPC), includes outputting LDPC encoded bits to a block interleaver, and performing block interleaving on the LDPC encoded bits inputted to the block interleaver in a unit of a size of one time transport block based on the a position of redundancy version. |
| US10447309B2 |
RS error correction decoding method
A decoding method includes that when encoding at a sending terminal, for a m-order primitive polynomial P(x), a primitive field element in galois field GF(2m) is represented by α; a lookup table f(αj) for different power exponents of α is established, where the value of j is selected from all the integers ranging from 0 to 2m−1, with a total number of 2m; a generator polynomial G(x) is expanded to obtain a polynomial with respect to x, with coefficients being an addition or subtraction of the power exponents of α; a remainder polynomial R(x), obtained by dividing code word polynomial Q(x) by the generator polynomial G(x), is a polynomial with respect to x, with coefficients being an addition or subtraction of the power exponents of α; and the coefficients of the generator polynomial G(x) and the remainder polynomial R(x) are both calculated using data found in the lookup table f(αj). |
| US10447308B2 |
Bit interleaver for low-density parity check codeword having length of 16200 and code rate of 3/15 and 256-symbol mapping, and bit interleaving method using same
A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 16200 and a code rate of 3/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 256-symbol mapping. |
| US10447297B1 |
Electronic device and method for compressing sampled data
An electronic device for compressing sampled data comprises a memory element and a processing element. The memory element is configured to store sampled data points and sampled times. The processing element is in electronic communication with the memory element and is configured to receive a plurality of sampled data points, a slope for each sampled data point in succession, the slope being a value of a change between the sampled data point and its successive sampled data point, and store the sampled data point in the memory element when the slope changes in value from a previous sampled data point. |
| US10447295B2 |
Coding method, coding device, decoding method, and decoding device
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a coding program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes coding a numerical value to be coded, into a numeric code of base-2n representation; and generating code data that have been added with an instantaneous code indicating the number of digits of the base-2n representation of the numerical value to be coded, wherein “n” is a natural number equal to or greater than 1. |
| US10447292B1 |
Multiple-bit parallel successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuits
Multiple-bit parallel successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuits are disclosed. In one aspect, a multiple-bit parallel SAR ADC circuit includes a number of SAR controller circuits, each of which includes SAR register circuits. Each SAR register circuit receives and stores a corresponding digital bit that is based on a comparison of an analog input signal and a corresponding digital-to-analog converter (DAC) analog signal. Each SAR register circuit also provides a corresponding digital signal based on the digital bit. A DAC circuit receives a reference voltage, and uses the reference voltage and a subset of digital signals generated by SAR controller circuits to generate multiple DAC analog signals. A compare circuit generates the digital bit corresponding to each SAR controller circuit, wherein a number of the digital bits are generated in parallel. Each digital bit collectively forms a digital representation of the analog input signal. |
| US10447289B1 |
Analog-to-digital converter noise reduction techniques
Improvements in analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit accuracy are described that can utilize a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit with one or more redundant unit elements, or one or more bits redundancy or non-binary weighted capacitors, and can reuse the existing DAC circuit for noise reduction to save power and die area. An ADC circuit can use redundancy bit(s), e.g., one or more DAC unit elements of a main DAC, and the remaining lower bits of the main DAC for repeated bit trials, and can average the data from the repeated bit trials to suppress noise from conversions. |
| US10447286B2 |
Vapor cell comprising electro-optic function for chip-scale atomic clock, and method for manufacturing sealed container for chip-scale instrument
According to the present invention, since a silicon body itself supporting first and second glass substrates also has a role of an electric heating device, the temperature of the inside of a through-part can be maintained to be constant. In addition, since it is unnecessary to comprise a separate electric heating device such as a heater or to form an additional heating pattern in order to control the temperature of the inside of the through-part, a process for manufacturing a vapor cell can be simplified. According to the present invention, only a reactive material in a gas state and a buffer gas can be injected into a sealed container without the intervention of other materials, and the size of the sealed container can be reduced since it is unnecessary to prepare e separate space for mounting a pill of the reaction material in a vapor cell region itself. |
| US10447282B2 |
Phase locked loop (PLL)
A phase locked loop (PLL) includes a first charge pump coupled to a filter. The first charge pump may feed the filter a first current. A second charge pump is coupled to the filter. The second charge pump may feed the filter a second current. A first gate is coupled to an input of the second charge pump. The first gate selectively gates the second current. |
| US10447280B2 |
Delay-locked loop (DLL) with differential delay lines
An integrated circuit is disclosed that implements a delay-locked loop with differential delay lines. In an example aspect, the integrated circuit includes a first delay line, a second delay line, and control circuitry. The first and second delay lines are coupled to a reference clock source to receive a reference clock. The first delay line produces a first delayed signal that is delayed relative to the reference clock by a first delay amount. The second delay line produces a second delayed signal that is delayed relative to the reference clock by a second delay amount. The control circuitry is coupled to the first and second delay lines. The control circuitry is configured to receive the first delayed signal, to receive the second delayed signal, and to adjust the first delay amount or the second delay amount based on the first delayed signal and the second delayed signal. |
| US10447279B1 |
Inverting phase-mode logic flip-flops
An inverting reciprocal quantum logic (RQL) phase-mode D flip-flop accepts a data input and a logical clock input. The flip-flop includes a stacked Josephson junction and a comparator. The triggering or untriggering of the stacked Josephson junction by positive or negative single flux quantum (SFQ) pulses can switch a direction of DC bias current through a component of the comparator, such as an output Josephson junction, which can then either pass or suppress logical clock SFQ pulses. When so passed, the data input is captured to the output upon clocking the flip-flop via the provision of the logical clock SFQ pulses, e.g., as reciprocal pulse pairs. |
| US10447278B1 |
JTL-based superconducting logic arrays and FPGAs
Superconducting logic arrays (SLAs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that are based on Josephson transmission lines (JTLs) accommodate reciprocal quantum logic (RQL) compliant binary input signals and provide RQL-compliant output signals that are evaluations of generalized logic functions. Each JTL-based superconducting FPGA (JTLBSFPGA) incorporates multiple JTL-based SLAs (JTLBSLAs) connected together. Each JTLBSLA includes an array of software-programmable and/or mask-programmed logic cells that output products of inputs and cell states, such that the JTLBSLAs output evaluations of sum-of-products functions. New JTLBSLA logic cells are described, including some that provide programmable cell states via magnetic Josephson junctions (MJJs). JTLBSFPGAs provide area efficiency and clock speed advantages over CMOS FPGAs. Unlike SLAs based on Josephson magnetic random access memory (JMRAM), JTLBSLAs do not require word line drivers, flux pumps, or sense amplifiers. Because JTLBSLAs and JTLBSFPGAs are RQL-compliant, they can also include RQL gates connected within or between them, without signal conversion circuitry. |
| US10447271B2 |
Memristor-based dividers using memristors-as-drivers (MAD) gates
Memristor-based dividers using memristors-as-drivers (MAD) gates. As a result of employing MAD gates in memristor-based dividers, such as binary non-restoring dividers and SRT dividers, the number of delay steps may be less than half than the number of delay steps required in traditional CMOS implementations of dividers. Furthermore, by using MAD gates, memristor-based dividers can be implemented with less complexity (e.g., fewer memristors and drivers). As a result, by the memristor-based dividers using MAD gates, the speed and complexity of a wide variety of arithmetic operations is improved. |
| US10447269B1 |
Level shifter
A level shifter circuit to translate a first voltage level and a second voltage level of a signal is disclosed. The level shifter circuit includes a comparator. The comparator includes an input differential transistor pair with a matched current mirror load. The level shifter also includes a parallel signal path circuit to reduce the voltage transition lag caused by the comparator, a hysteresis adjusting device and a reference voltage generator circuit to provide a reference voltage to the comparator. |
| US10447262B2 |
Cooking appliance and knob assembly removably mounted to a control panel of the cooking appliance
A cooking appliance and knob assembly are generally provided herein. The knob assembly may include a control panel and a control knob disposed thereon. The knob assembly may further include one or more of an attractor plate, a lighting assembly, and a repelling assembly that operably engage the control knob at a knob body. |
| US10447260B2 |
Programmable current for correlated electron switch
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to programmable current for correlated electron switches. |
| US10447257B2 |
Semiconductor device
Related-art back bias generation circuits cause a problem where a long time is required for transition between an operating state and a standby state because driving power is lowered to reduce the power consumption in the standby state. A back bias generation circuit outputs a predetermined voltage. The predetermined voltage is the back bias voltage of a substrate in a standby mode. A bias control circuit stores an electrical charge while a circuit block is in an operating mode, supplies the stored electrical charge to the substrate of a MOSFET included in the circuit block when the circuit block transitions from the operating mode to the standby mode, and subsequently supplies the output of the back bias generation circuit to the substrate of the MOSFET. |
| US10447255B2 |
Resistor controlled timer circuit with gain ranging
A timer circuit is provided comprising: a resistor; a programmable gain circuit coupled to amplify the reference level based upon a resistor and a selected gain; a detection circuit coupled to identify the amplified reference level based upon a resistor; a selection circuit configured to select the gain based at least in part upon the identified amplified reference level based upon a resistor; a comparator circuit configured to transition between providing a signal having a first value and providing a signal having a second value based at least in part upon comparisons of a reactive circuit element excitation level with the amplified reference level based upon a resistor and with a second reference level; and reactive circuit element excitation circuit configured to reverse excitation of the reactive circuit element in response to the comparator circuit transitioning between providing the signal having the first value and providing the signal having the second value. |
| US10447250B2 |
Multi-stage frequency dividers and poly-phase signal generators
An electronic latch circuit, a 4-phase signal generator, a multi-stage frequency divider and a poly-phase signal generator are disclosed. The electronic latch circuit comprises an output circuit comprising a first output and a second output. The electronic latch circuit further comprises an input circuit comprising a first input, a second input and a clock signal input. The electronic latch circuit is configured to change state based on the input signals' level at the inputs of the input circuit and a present state of the output circuit. The 4-phase signal generator is built with two electronic latch circuits. The multi-stage frequency dividers and poly-phase signal generators comprise a plurality of the electronic latch circuits and 4-phase signal generators. |
| US10447249B2 |
Hold violation free scan chain and scanning mechanism for testing of synchronous digital VLSI circuits
A sequential state element (SSE) is disclosed. In one embodiment, an SSE includes a differential sense flip flop (DSFF) and a completion detection circuit (CDC) operably associated with the DSFF. The DSFF is configured to generate a differential logical output. During a normal operational mode, the DSFF is synchronized by a clock signal to provide a differential logical output in a differential output state in accordance with a data input or in a precharge state based on the clock signal. The differential logical output is provided in a differential output state in accordance with a test input during a scan mode. The CDC is configured to generate a test enable input during the scan mode that indicates the scan mode once the differential logical output is in the differential output state. Accordingly, another SSE can be asynchronously triggered to operate in the scan mode without a separate scan clock. |
| US10447248B2 |
Semiconductor circuit
A semiconductor circuit includes a first logic gate that receives inputs of a first input signal, a clock signal and a feedback signal and performs a first logical operation to output a first output signal. A second logic gate that receives inputs of the first output signal of the first logic gate, the clock signal, and an inverted output signal of the first input signal and performs a second logical operation to output the feedback signal. |
| US10447246B1 |
Low voltage differential signaling circuit
A low voltage differential signaling circuit includes an output driver circuit configured to provide a differential signal pair based on a first signal and a second signal. A peak detect circuit is coupled to receive the differential signal pair and configured to provide a feedback signal based on the differential signal pair and the first and second signals. An amplifier circuit has a first input coupled to the peak detect circuit, a second input coupled to receive a reference voltage, and an output coupled to provide a bias voltage to the output driver circuit. |
| US10447241B2 |
Wave separator
A wave separator includes an n number (n being a natural number of 3 or larger) of band pass filters having an n number or larger of mutually different pass bands, and a common terminal. For a first of the band pass filters that is one of a band pass filter having a center frequency of a pass band at a lowest side and a band pass filter having a center frequency of a pass band at a highest side and that has a larger or equal difference in a center frequency of a pass band from an adjacent band pass filter as compared with the other band pass filter satisfies a predetermined configuration for a second band pass filter having a pass band adjacent to the first band pass filter. |
| US10447240B2 |
Elastic wave device and filter device
An elastic wave device includes IDT electrodes stacked on a piezoelectric thin film. The IDT electrode includes a plurality of first electrode fingers and a plurality of second electrode fingers. A line connecting the distal ends of the first electrode fingers or the distal ends of the second electrode fingers extends obliquely with respect to a propagation direction of an elastic wave at an oblique angle ν. The oblique angle ν is about 0.4° or more and about 10° or less. |
| US10447239B2 |
Filter and multiplexer
A filter includes: a piezoelectric substrate; input and output pads located on the piezoelectric substrate; a series resonator located in a region sandwiched between the input and output pads and located on the piezoelectric substrate and electrically connected in series between the input and output pads; a parallel resonator located in the region and electrically connected in parallel between the input and output pads; a longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator located on the piezoelectric substrate and located at a side, at which one pad of the input and output pads is located, with respect to the region; a first wiring line located on the piezoelectric substrate and connecting the one pad to the longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator; a second wiring line located on the piezoelectric substrate and connecting another pad of the input and output pads to the longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator; and a separation part located in one of the first and second wiring lines and separating the one of the first and second wiring lines into first and second parts in a planar direction, a distance between the first and second parts being greater than a shortest distance among distances between the first and second wiring lines and the series resonator and the parallel resonator. |
| US10447237B2 |
Piezoelectric blank, piezoelectric vibration element and piezoelectric vibration device
A crystal blank includes a vibrating arm which extends in a direction intersecting the polarization direction. In at least one of the upper surface and lower surface which are parallel to the direction of extension of the vibrating arm and run along polarization direction, the vibrating arm is provided with two recesses (grooves) in the width direction of the surface thereby having a pair of outer walls which are positioned on the two sides of the two recesses and a middle wall which is positioned between the two recesses. In the middle wall, the apex part is located at a position lower than the apex part of each of the pair of outer walls and is thinner than each of the pair of outer walls at the same heights. |
| US10447230B2 |
Transformer of the balanced-unbalanced type
A transformer of the balanced-unbalanced type includes a primary inductive circuit and a secondary inductive circuit housed inside an additional inductive winding connected in parallel to the terminals of the secondary circuit and inductively coupled with the primary circuit and the secondary circuit. |
| US10447229B2 |
Matching module
A matching module includes an inductor pattern including a first inductor pattern and a second inductor pattern, each respectively provided in a spiral shape, and a connection pattern connecting the first inductor pattern and the second inductor pattern and provided in a central region of a dielectric sheet, and a capacitor pattern provided in an edge region of the dielectric sheet and configured to form mutual capacitance with the inductor pattern, wherein rotational directions of the first inductor pattern and the second inductor pattern that are provided in the spiral shape are the same. |
| US10447226B2 |
Three dimensional inductor-capacitor apparatus and method of fabricating
Some aspects pertain to an apparatus that includes a plurality of stacked metal layers configured in a spiral shape. The plurality of stacked metal layers include a first metal layer including a first inductor, a second metal layer including a plurality of first pads and a plurality of second pads, a third metal layer including a plurality of third pads and a plurality of fourth pads, a fourth metal layer including a second inductor, a plurality of first vias configured to couple the first metal layer to the second metal layer, a plurality of second vias configured to couple the second metal layer to the third metal layer, a plurality of third vias configured to couple the third metal layer to the fourth metal layer; and a dielectric layer at least partially surrounding the apparatus. |
| US10447225B2 |
Filter apparatus and power supply system
A filter apparatus, which includes a feedback active common-mode filter and a feed-forward active common-mode filter, the feedback active common-mode filter includes a common-mode noise detection component and a first filter circuit, and the feed-forward active common-mode filter includes the common-mode noise detection component and a second filter circuit, where the first filter circuit is connected between the common-mode noise detection component and the device, and performs feedback filtering on a first common-mode noise signal, to obtain a second common-mode noise signal; the common-mode noise detection component is connected between the first filter circuit and the second filter circuit, detects the second common-mode noise signal, and provides the second filter circuit with the second common-mode noise signal; and the second filter circuit is connected between an external power source and the common-mode noise detection component, and performs feed-forward filtering on the second common-mode noise signal. |
| US10447224B2 |
Line filter and method of installing a line filter onto a system cable
The present invention concerns a line filter (1), which is configured to be installed onto a system cable (2), wherein the line filter (1) comprises a magnetic component (4), wherein the line filter (1) defines a cable path (6) through the line filter (1), wherein the line filter (1) is configured to allow a placement of the system cable (2) along the cable path (6) at the time of an installation, thereby providing a magnetic coupling of the system cable (2) to the magnetic component (4), and wherein the line filter (1) comprises an insulation displacement connector (16) and a shunt component (5) wherein the insulation displacement connector (16) is configured to be tightened at the time of the installation, thereby providing a galvanic connection of the system cable (2) to the shunt component (5). Further, the present invention concerns a method of installing a line filter (1) onto a system cable (2). |
| US10447217B2 |
Amplifier with configurable final output stage
An amplifier may include a first stage configured to receive an input signal at an amplifier input and generate an intermediate signal which is a function of the input signal, and a final output stage configured to generate an output signal which is a function of the intermediate signal at an amplifier output, and a signal feedback network coupled between the amplifier output and input. The final output stage may be switchable among a plurality of modes including at least a first mode in which the final output stage generates the output signal as a modulated output signal which is a function of the intermediate signal, and a second mode in which the final output stage generates the output signal as an unmodulated output signal which is a function of the intermediate signal. Structure of the feedback network and the first stage may remain static when switching between modes. |
| US10447216B1 |
Lumped compensated outphasing power combiner
A power combiner for an outphasing amplifier system comprises an output terminal, a first input terminal, a first inductor, and a first capacitor, wherein the first input terminal is connected to ground via the first inductor and the first input terminal is connected to the output terminal via the first capacitor. The power combiner further comprises a second input terminal, a second capacitor, and a second inductor, wherein the second input terminal is connected to ground via the second capacitor and the second input terminal is connected to the output terminal via the second inductor. The first capacitor can have a same capacitance as the second capacitor and the first inductor has a same inductance as the second inductor. |
| US10447211B2 |
Least mean squares adaptation of a concurrent multi-band pre-distorter using overlapping spines
A method and system for digital pre-distortion of an input signal to compensate for non-linear operation of a power amplifier. According to one aspect, some embodiments provide overlapping spline functions that are defined for two adjacent bins, where any two spline functions overlap in only one bin. Each spline function is computed as a function of one of an input signal envelope and a delayed signal envelope. According to another aspect, a tap weight evaluator includes a least mean squares, LMS, tap correlator updater configured to modulate a step size of an adaptation process to update each tap weight, the step size being modulated based on an approximate logarithm of the average power of the input to a tap weight computation. |
| US10447206B2 |
Radio frequency (RF) receiver circuit
An integrated circuit includes a first high-pass filter having an input coupled to receive a first signal and an output coupled to a first input of a first differential pair of transistors. A second high-pass filter includes an input coupled to receive a second signal and an output coupled to a second input of the first differential pair of transistors. The second signal may be a complementary signal of the first signal. A second differential pair of transistors includes control electrodes coupled to a first voltage supply terminal. A boost circuit is coupled between the second differential pair of transistors and the first voltage supply terminal. A low-pass filter is coupled between the first differential pair of transistors and the second differential pair of transistors. |
| US10447204B2 |
Switchable inductor network for wideband circuits
The present disclosure describes aspects of a switchable inductor network for wideband circuits. In some aspects, the switchable inductor network provides selectable inductance. The switchable inductor network includes a first coil and a second coil that includes a first inductive segment and a second inductive segment. Connection points of the second coil connect the second coil across a portion of the first coil. The switchable inductor network also includes a switch connected between the first inductive segment and the second inductive segment of the second coil. The switch is configured to change the selectable inductance of the switchable inductor network by selectively coupling the first inductive segment to the second inductive segment of the second coil in response to a control signal. |
| US10447203B2 |
Local oscillator generation system and generation method thereof
A local oscillator generation system includes a first frequency divider configured to divide frequencies of a first voltage controlled oscillator signal and a second voltage controlled oscillator signal by 2, and output a first divided signal and a second divided signal; a mixer configured to mix the first voltage controlled oscillator signal, the second voltage controlled oscillator signal, the first divided signal, and the second divided signal, and output a first frequency mixed signal and a second frequency mixed signal; a transimpedance amplifier configured to amplify the first frequency mixed signal and the second frequency mixed signal, and output a first amplified signal and a second amplified signal; and a band-pass filter configured to filter the first amplified signal and the second amplified signal, and output a first filtered signal and a second amplified signal. |
| US10447200B1 |
Solar photovoltiac cell system
A solar photovoltaic cell system used for supply of electrical power for various uses. The cell system includes photovoltaic cells received around a tubular shaped, elongated tank. The tank is disposed in front of a concave light reflector. The light reflector is rotatably mounted on a latitude adjustable stand. The stand is also used to hold opposite ends of the tank. The light reflector is used for reflecting increased sun light onto the photovoltaic cells. Electrical energy from the photovoltaic cells is used to power various types of electrical applications. |
| US10447196B2 |
Motor bridge driver circuit
A motor bridge driver integrated circuit comprises a first set of input ports arranged to receive control signals from a first microprocessor, a second set of input ports arranged to receive control signals from a second microprocessor, and at least one set of output ports arranged to output motor phase switching signals to the switches of a motor bridge. A diagnostic circuit receives and monitors the control signals received from the two microprocessors and from those signals determines which microprocessor is to be treated as a master and which is to be treated as a slave at any given time by the motor bridge driver. An arbitration circuit selectively enables only the master microprocessor to the take control of the motor bridge at any given time while preventing the slave microprocessor from taking control of the motor bridge. |
| US10447191B2 |
Power conversion device
Disclosed herein is a technique for reducing harmonics resulting from the rotation of a motor and generated in a power supply current. This power converter device includes a compensation current generator (52) configured to control compensation currents (Icr, Ics, Ict) flowing between itself (52) and an AC power supply (12), and a compensation controller (60; 260) configured to obtain output voltage instruction values (Vid, Viq) such that the compensation currents (Icr, Ics, Ict) cancel a harmonic component in load currents (Ir, Is, It) flowing from the AC power supply (12) into a rectifier (22) and resulting from the rotation of the motor (16) and a harmonic component in the load currents (Ir, Is, It) and dependent on a period (Ts) of a voltage of the AC power supply (12). |
| US10447189B2 |
Electric motor control device, electric motor system and electric motor control method
An electric motor control device includes a drive waveform generating unit configured to generate a drive waveform (a sine wave or a pseudo-trapezoidal wave) to an electric motor. A plurality of photo interrupters detect a rotational phase of an electric motor, and a information of rotational speed is detected by an encoder circuit based on a detected signal of the rotational phase of the electric motor. The control unit controls the drive waveform generating unit on the basis of detection information of the rotational phase of the electric motor and performs control so that a phase relationship between the rotational phase of the electric motor and the phase of the drive waveform is kept constant. Furthermore, the control unit sets an amplitude value of the drive waveform generated by the drive waveform generating unit in accordance with a difference between a target speed and the detected information of rotational speed and performs speed control so that a speed of the electric motor is kept constant. The control unit calculates an amplitude setting value with which correction for suppressing non-linearity is performed in a region in which an amplitude setting value of the drive waveform and actual work given to the electric motor is non-linear and controls the speed. |
| US10447188B2 |
Brushless direct current electric motor driving control method and system of electrical water pump
A method and system of controlling driving of a brushless DC electric motor (BLDC) of an electric water pump are provided. The method includes estimating an initial position of a rotor using a magnitude of a current detected in a three-phase coil wound on a stator and converting a current magnitude that reflects a rotational angle of the rotor with respect to the initial position into two direct currents based on the three-phase current. The converted direct currents are output and a rotational angle, a speed, a flux and a torque of the rotor are acquired based on values of the three-phase current, a voltage generated according to flow of the three-phase current, a predetermined coil resistance, and an inductance input. A speed of the motor is then adjusted based on the acquired rotational angle, speed, flux, and torque of the rotor. |
| US10447187B2 |
Mutual inductance voltage offset compensation for brushless DC sensorless motors
A control circuit controls the operation of a brushless DC (BLDC) sensorless motor having a first terminal connected to a first winding, a second terminal connected to a second winding and a third terminal connected to a third winding. A driver circuit applies drive signals to the first and second terminals and places the third terminal in a high-impedance state. The drive signals include first drive signals at a first current amplitude and second drive signals at a second, different, current amplitude. A differencing circuit senses a first mutual inductance voltage at the third terminal in response to the first drive signals and senses a second mutual inductance voltage at the third terminal in response to the second drive signals. The differencing circuit further determines a difference between the first and second mutual inductance voltages and produces a difference signal that is used for zero-crossing detection and rotor position sensing. |
| US10447185B2 |
Starting method and apparatus for permanent magnet synchronous motor, power system, and unmanned aerial vehicle
Implementations of the present application relate to a starting method and apparatus for a permanent magnet synchronous motor, a power system, and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The method includes: obtaining a current motor rotational speed and motor position information of the permanent magnet synchronous motor; determining whether the current motor rotational speed is less than a preset minimum rotational speed, and if the current motor rotational speed is less than the preset minimum rotational speed, using the preset minimum rotational speed as a feedback rotational speed; otherwise, using the current motor rotational speed as a feedback rotational speed; and performing closed-loop control on the permanent magnet synchronous motor according to the feedback rotational speed and the motor position information. In this way, the starting method is simplified and simpler. Potential failure risks in various states in the prior art are avoided, thereby effectively improving reliability of a starting process. |
| US10447181B2 |
Motor control device, motor unit including said motor control device, automobile including motor unit, and motor control method
Motor controller of the present invention is used in an automobile including wheel drive motor, wheel drive inverter, and cooling fan being an accessory. Wheel drive inverter drives wheel drive motor by PWM control at a primary carrier frequency. Cooling fan has fan motor being an accessory drive motor. Motor controller includes accessory drive inverter and frequency switch. Accessory drive inverter drives fan motor by PWM control at a secondary carrier frequency. Frequency switch switches a frequency of the secondary carrier frequency based on the primary carrier frequency. |
| US10447180B2 |
Control of large electromechanical actuators
A method of operating an electromechanical actuator (EMA) system includes determining a command time remaining for an actuator to attain a commanded position and determining a stop time required to stop movement of the actuator. The command time is compared to the stop time, and an electric motor driving the actuator is decelerated if the stop time is equal to or greater than the command time. An electromechanical actuator system includes an actuator and an electric motor operably connected to the actuator, the electric motor configured to drive movement of the actuator. A controller is operably connected to the electric motor to control operation of the actuator. The controller is configured to determine a command time remaining, determine a stop time, compare the command time to the stop time, and decelerate the electric motor if the stop time is equal to or greater than the command time. |
| US10447175B2 |
Inverter and control method for an inverter
The disclosure relates to an inverter for supplying a power provided as a DC voltage at a DC input to an AC mains connectable to an AC output. In this case, the inverter includes a switching network with a plurality of semiconductor switches and a digital control unit for producing a digital switching pattern for digitally operated semiconductor switches of the switching network that are able to be used to produce a first output voltage (Uout,dig). The inverter additionally includes a linear control unit for producing signals for actuating at least one semiconductor switch of the switching network in a linear mode, wherein the linear control unit is set up to produce a voltage drop (Uout,lin) across and/or a current (Iout,lin) through the at least one linearly operated semiconductor switch to a target value that is dependent on an instantaneous difference between the first output voltage (Uout,dig) and a voltage (UAC) of the AC mains. The disclosure additionally relates to a control method for such an inverter and a photovoltaic (PV) installation having such an inverter. |
| US10447174B1 |
Additive synthesis of interleaved switch mode power stages for minimal delay in set point tracking
An apparatus utilizing additive interleaved switchmode (PWM) power conversion stages, having minimal or no output filter, to achieve high bandwidth or even ideally instantaneous power conversion. The additive process may involve voltage stacking of isolated PWM converters, which are interleaved in time, or may involve a single input power supply and inductively combining output currents of PWM power converters interleaved in time, with either additive circuit having minimal or no output filtering. This circuit may overcome limitations for the frequency of feedback control loops once thought to be physical limitations, such as, fundamental switching frequency, output filter delay and the Nyquist criteria. |
| US10447168B2 |
Electronic converter and related method of operating an electronic converter
An electronic converter comprising a switching stage comprising at least one electronic switch, wherein the switching stage is adapted to provide a current via a terminal; a first capacitor, wherein the first capacitor provides a first voltage. Specifically, converter further comprises: a second capacitor, wherein the second capacitor provides a second voltage, comparison means configured to detect the difference between the first voltage and the second voltage, and determine a comparison signal which indicates whether this difference is greater than a threshold, and switching means configured to transfer selectively current to the first capacitor or the second capacitor as a function of the comparison signal. |
| US10447161B2 |
Inverting buck-boost power converter
In an example, a dual-phase inverting buck-boost power converter for use with at least first and second energy storage elements includes an inverting buck-boost power converter and an inverting boost converter. In an example, the inverting buck-boost power converter is coupled between an input node and an output node of the dual-phase inverting buck-boost power converter and includes a first plurality of switches operable to couple to the first energy storage element, wherein the inverting buck-boost power converter is operable to supply a first load current. In an example, the inverting boost converter is coupled in parallel with the inverting buck-boost power converter between the input node and the output node of the dual-phase inverting buck-boost power converter and includes a second plurality of switches operable to couple to the first and the second energy storage elements, wherein the inverting boost converter is operable to supply a second load current. |
| US10447160B2 |
Pulse width control for switching mode power converters
A circuit generates an output voltage from an input voltage and includes a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controller. The PWM controller initiates a PWM pulse according to a first comparison that uses a Current Sense and Ramp (CSR) signal and an error signal. The PWM controller ends the PWM pulse according to a second comparison that uses the CSR signal and a threshold signal. The CSR signal is generated using a current sense signal and a ramp signal according to the input voltage. The error signal is generated from the output voltage and a reference voltage. In an embodiment, the circuit is one of a plurality of substantially identical modules, wherein one module is a master module. The master module generates an error signal used by each module. A clock input of each module is respectively connected to a clock output of another module to sequentially activate each of the modules. |
| US10447159B2 |
DC-DC converter block, DC-DC converter comprising same and associated system envelope tracking system
Disclosed is a high-power and high-frequency DC-DC converter block for the envelope tracking technique including a step-down power circuit whose output constitutes the output of the DC-DC converter block, the step-down power circuit including at least one HEMT depletion-mode transistor, the DC-DC converter block further including a gate driving circuit of the at least one HEMT depletion-mode transistor of the step-down power circuit. The driving circuit has HEMT depletion-mode transistors configured to drive the gate of the at least one HEMT depletion-mode transistor of the step-down power circuit, and the step-down power circuit is powered by two positive and non-zero power supply voltages, namely a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage, the first power supply voltage being greater than the second power supply voltage. |
| US10447158B2 |
Reducing voltage rating of devices in a multilevel converter
A method for operating a multi-level converter is disclosed. A multi-level converter is provided with a plurality of switches connected in series and a flying capacitor connected to switch nodes of the plurality of switches. The switch nodes are biased initially to a fraction of an input voltage when the input voltage is initially applied to the plurality of switches. The flying capacitor is then precharged to a flying capacitor operating voltage. The multi-level converter is then operated after the flying capacitor is precharged by activating control signals to the plurality of switches. Diversion of precharge current by the plurality of switches may be performed while the flying capacitor is being precharged. |
| US10447157B2 |
Synchronous sensing of inductor current in a buck converter control circuit
A sense resistor is placed in series with an output capacitor of a buck converter. The buck converter operates in a discontinuous mode such that there is a dead time in each switching cycle. A control circuit senses a voltage across the sense resistor and thereby generates a first signal ICS. The control circuit detects an offset voltage in ICS, where the offset voltage is the voltage of ICS during the dead time in a first switching cycle. The control circuit level shifts the entire ICS by the offset voltage, thereby generating a second signal ICLS. ICLS has the same waveform as the waveform of the inductor current. In a second cycle, ICLS is used to determine when to turn off the main switch and when the start of the dead time occurs. ICLS and the offset voltage are used together to determine when to turn the main switch on. |
| US10447154B2 |
PWM control scheme for providing minimum on time
According to certain aspects, the present embodiments are based on an improved switched-capacitor (SC) converter topology that typically does not include an inductor. In particular, the topology includes a ladder SC circuit configured as a cap divider. The cap divider can be used to provide an unregulated output voltage Vout that is a certain fraction (e.g. 2) of input voltage Vin, such as Vin/2 (i.e., duty cycle≈50%). In some embodiments of a PWM control scheme for this topology, the PWM OFF pulse is free running, determined by the logic combination of timer and VOUT comparator. The PWM OFF pulse width is measured and used as the reference for a minimum PWM ON timer. The PWM ON pulse is therefore forced to be at least a minimum width that is proportional to the PWM OFF pulse. A UVOV protection window can be added to ignore the minimum PWM ON timer during a load transient. |
| US10447153B2 |
VBOOST signal generation
A VBOOST generator includes, for example, a voltage regulator for generating a first power rail VX between the supply voltage VCC and ground. A clock generator is arranged to generate a clock signal oscillating between the supply voltage VCC and the voltage VCC−VX. A charge pump is arranged to couple the voltage VCC−VX to a first terminal of an on-substrate flyback capacitor during a first half-cycle of the first clock signal and is arranged to couple the voltage VCC to the first terminal of the flyback capacitor during a second half-cycle of the first clock signal. A pin is coupled to the substrate couples the voltage VCC+VX developed on a second terminal of the flyback capacitor during the second half-cycle of the first clock signal to an external bucket capacitor. A second charge pump is optionally included to increase the charging capacity of the VBOOST generator. |
| US10447152B2 |
Driving charge pump circuits
A method and system of driving a switched capacitor converter having a plurality of switches. A first driver coupled to a first switch is powered by providing a first reference voltage level VCC to a first supply and a GND reference to a second supply node of the first driver. A second driver coupled to a second switch is powered by providing a unidirectional path between the first supply node of a first driver and the first supply node of the second driver and by keeping OFF the second switch while turning ON the first switch. A third driver coupled to a third switch is powered by providing a unidirectional path between the first supply node of a second driver and the first supply node of the third driver and by keeping OFF the first and third switch while turning ON the second switch. |
| US10447151B2 |
Circuits, devices, and methods for operating a charge pump
Circuits, devices, and methods for operating a charge pump. In some implementations, a charge pump module includes a clock circuit configured generate to a first clock signal and a second clock signal, the first clock signal having a lower frequency than the second clock signal. The charge pump module also includes a driving circuit configured to generate a first set of clock signals based on the first clock signal and a second set of clock signals based on the second clock signal, the driving circuit coupled to the clock circuit. The charge pump module further includes a charge pump core including a set of capacitances, the charge pump core configured to charge the set of capacitances based the first set of clock signals and the second set of clock signals. |
| US10447149B2 |
Introducing jitter to a switching frequency by way of modulating current limit
A controller includes a switch controller, a current limit generator, a jitter modulator, and an arithmetic operator circuit. The switch controller is coupled to generate a drive signal to control switching of a power switch in response to a current sense signal and a modulated current limit signal to control a transfer of energy from an input of a power converter to an output of the power converter. The current limit generator is coupled to generate a current limit signal. The jitter modulator is coupled to generate a jitter signal for jittering a switching period of the drive signal without an oscillator. The arithmetic operator circuit is coupled to receive the current limit signal and the jitter signal and is coupled to generate a modulated current limit signal in response to the current limit signal and the jitter signal. |
| US10447148B2 |
DC/DC resonant converters and power factor correction using resonant converters, and corresponding control methods
Various improvements are provided to resonant DC/DC and AC/DC converter circuit. The improvements are of particular interest for LLC circuits. Some examples relate to self-oscillating circuit and others relate to converter circuits with frequency control, for example for power factor correction, driven by an oscillator. |
| US10447145B1 |
SMPS power-on with energy saver
In an embodiment, a method for soft-starting an SMPS includes: asserting an enable signal; disabling an output stage of the SMPS; after asserting the enable signal, measuring a feedback voltage of the SMPS; receiving a first reference voltage at an input reference node; comparing the measured feedback voltage with the first reference voltage; and, when the measured feedback voltage is lower than the first reference voltage, storing the feedback voltage in a soft-start capacitor, connecting an output reference node to the soft-start capacitor, enabling the output stage of the SMPS, and switching a transistor of the output stage to regulate the output voltage based on the feedback voltage and a second reference voltage at the output reference node, and injecting a current into the soft-start capacitor. |
| US10447141B2 |
Waveform shaping circuit, semiconductor device, and switching power supply device
A waveform shaping circuit includes a first parallel circuit including a first capacitance element and a first resistance element coupled in parallel with each other, a positive pulse voltage being applied to a first terminal of the first capacitance element and a second terminal of the first resistance element, a first rectifier circuit disposed between a point of coupling between a third terminal of the first capacitance element and a fourth terminal of the first resistance element and an output terminal. |
| US10447139B2 |
Load driving apparatus
A load driving apparatus supplies an electric power to a load via a full-bridge circuit. The load driving apparatus detects a load current by a current sensing resistor. A controller in the load driving apparatus generates a drive signal by switching between a first reference circuit outputting a first reference signal with a first reference cycle and a second reference signal outputting a second reference signal with a second reference cycle. A calculator in the load driving apparatus is used to supply a drive signal to the full-bridge circuit for supplying power to the load. When the controller 13 detects that the value of the load current is not reaching predetermined current threshold values, within either of the first reference cycle or the second reference cycle due to temperature fluctuations, the controller switches to either the first reference circuit or the second reference circuit to stabilize the value of the load current around an average value. |
| US10447135B2 |
Device for generating electrical power from low frequency oscillations
An energy harvesting device for generating electrical power from low-frequency oscillations includes a high-frequency cantilever, a plurality of low-frequency cantilevers each configured to contact the high-frequency cantilever in response to environmental vibrations having a frequency within a near-resonance frequency range associated with said low-frequency cantilever, an a generator that produces electrical power in response to contact between at least one of the plurality of low-frequency cantilevers and the high-frequency cantilever. The energy harvesting device may also include an impact mass coupled to a free end of each of the plurality of low-frequency cantilevers. Some aspects may include a common base to which the high-frequency cantilever and the plurality of low-frequency cantilevers are coupled. Other aspects may include the generator comprising one or more of an induction coil and magnet, a variable distance capacitor, or a piezo-electric material. |
| US10447132B2 |
Electromechanical transducer
An electromechanical transducer of the invention comprises a structural unit, an armature, and the first and second elastic units. The structural unit includes magnets, a yoke and a coil. The armature includes an inner portion disposed to pass through inside the structural unit and two outer portions protruding from the inner portion in a first direction, and the armature constitutes a magnetic circuit with the structural unit via two regions through which components of the magnetic flux flow in reverse directions in the inner region. The elastic units give restoring forces to the outer portions in response to displacement of the armature due to magnetic forces of the magnetic circuit. In the armature, a cross-sectional area at a predetermined position between the two regions is smaller than that at the two regions, and magnetic flux flowing in the first direction within a range of displacement of the armature. |
| US10447131B2 |
Linear vibration motor
A linear vibration motor includes a vibration unit including a first side wall and a second side wall; a housing with an accommodation space for accommodating the vibration unit; a stator unit accommodated in the accommodation space; an elastic piece suspending the vibration unit in the accommodation space. The elastic piece includes a first elastic member and a second elastic member, each of the first and second elastic members including a first spring arm and a second spring arm overlapped across each other. Both the first elastic member and the second elastic member have a connection piece abutting against the vibration unit. |
| US10447130B2 |
Linear vibration motor
The present disclosure provides a linear vibration motor, including a housing having accommodating space, a vibrating unit and a stator unit accommodated in the housing, and an elastic member suspending the vibrating unit in the housing, the elastic member comprises a first elastic arm and a second elastic arm which are arranged at two ends of the vibrating unit, and a connecting arm connecting the first elastic arm with a second elastic arm as a whole. The linear vibration motor provided by the present disclosure effectively improves support strength of the elastic member in Z axis direction, and the vibrating unit will not offset in Y axis direction during vibrating. The elastic member is integrated as a whole, during assembling, only one elastic member is necessary, which is easy to assemble, and the positioning is accurate, thereby further improving vibration stability of the linear vibration motor. |
| US10447126B2 |
Induction motor including rotor teeth having an inclined surface
According to one embodiment, an induction motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has a stator coil disposed at a stator core having a plurality of stator slots. The rotor has a rotor core rotatably provided with respect to the stator. The rotor core includes a plurality of rotor teeth and a rotor slot formed between the plurality of rotor teeth and having a rotor conductor disposed therein. The rotor teeth include a teeth main body and a flange. The teeth main body extends in a radial direction of the rotor core. The flange extends in a rotating direction of the rotor core from a distal end of the teeth main body. Then, a recessed surface is formed on at least part of an outer circumferential surface of a radial outer side in the flange. |
| US10447123B2 |
Apparatus for inserting magnet into rotor iron core
An apparatus for inserting a magnet into a rotor iron core includes a magnet inserting unit configured to insert a permanent magnet into a magnet-insert hole formed along a lamination direction of a rotor iron core body in which a plurality of iron core pieces are laminated, and a guide member to be attached to the magnet inserting unit, and arranged in a space formed between the magnet inserting unit and the rotor iron core body and configured to communicate the magnet-insert hole of the rotor iron core body to a supply part for the permanent magnet formed in the magnet inserting unit. |
| US10447120B2 |
Motor, gimbal and mechanical arm having same
The present invention relates to the field of motor technologies, and provides a motor, a gimbal and a mechanical arm having same. The motor includes a rotary shaft, a first magnetic element, a first circuit board and a second circuit board. The first magnetic element is mounted on the rotary shaft and is capable of rotating with the rotary shaft. The first circuit board is mounted on the rotary shaft and disposed opposite to the first magnetic element. The first circuit board includes a coil circuit and the coil circuit faces toward the first magnetic element. The second circuit board is mounted on the rotary shaft, the second circuit board including an electronic speed control circuit, the second circuit board being electrically connected to the first circuit board. In the motor in the present invention, the second circuit board including the electronic speed control circuit is mounted on the rotary shaft, so that space of the motor can be properly used, thereby making a structure of the motor compact. |
| US10447114B2 |
Choke for interleaved switching
When performing interleaved switching, a power generation system may include chokes for filtering out a high-frequency ripple. However, because the chokes are interconnected, a common mode current can flow between the different parallel converters. Instead of connecting all the outputs of a parallel converter to the same choke, the same phase of each of the parallel converters is sent to one of the chokes. For example, the first phase signals are sent to a first choke, the second phase signals are sent to a second choke, and so forth. By doing so, air gaps in the chokes can be manipulated in order to provide a different inductance for the common mode current than a grid current. For example, the air gaps may be arranged such that the inductance corresponding to the common mode current is greater than the inductance corresponding to the grid current. |
| US10447110B2 |
Halbach-array radial stabilizer for a passive magnetic bearing
A radial stabilizer is provided for stabilizing levitation passive bearing elements against lateral displacements. The stabilizer provides a means to introduce anisotropy in the radial stiffness of the stabilizer. The presence of anisotropic stiffness has a strongly stabilizing effect on whirl-type rotor-dynamic instabilities. The stabilizer design also provides a means for continuously monitoring the state of health of the rotor by signaling the onset of changes of balance that would be expected to precede any major failure. |
| US10447108B2 |
Distributed connection ring assembly for stator assembly
A distributed connection ring assembly can be used in a stator assembly and can integrate a neutral connector and jumping winding connections in an overmolded assembly for insulation. The stator assembly including a stator core defining a plurality of slots spaced apart from each other, a plurality of bar conductors disposed in each of the slots, and a distributed connection ring assembly secured to the jumping winding connections. The distributed connection ring assembly includes an overmolded neutral connector. The distributed connection ring assembly also includes a plurality of overmolded couplers circumferentially spaced apart from one another. The overmolded couplers are coupled to the overmolded neutral connector. Each of the plurality of overmolded couplers includes a support body and a plurality of stator conductors partially disposed inside the support body. The stator conductors are electrically connected to the jumping winding connections. |
| US10447107B2 |
Motor drive cover for protection against contaminants
A cover for a motor drive is provided. The cover includes an opening (often at the bottom of the cover) to allow air to pass to an air inlet of the motor drive and an opening (often near the top of the cover) to allow air from an air outlet of the motor drive to exit the cover. A hood provides rain protection for the drive and a separator (such as a baffle) within the enclosure prevents air flowing within the enclosure from the air outlet to the air inlet of the drive. The hood and/or the separator are shaped to direct air from the air outlet away from the enclosure in order to substantially reduce the re-circulation of air from the air outlet to the air inlet of the drive. |
| US10447104B2 |
Spindle structure, electric motor, and machine tool formed with through hole for passage of fluid
A spindle structure capable of accelerating the flow of a fluid in through holes of a rotor. The spindle structure includes a rotatable rotation part. The rotation part includes a tool holding part provided at an axial direction one end of the rotation part and through holes that penetrate the rotation part and open at the end in the axial direction. Further the spindle structure includes a vane provided in the through holes. When the rotation part rotates, the vane rotates with the rotation part to allow a fluid in the interior of the through holes to flow toward the end in the axial direction. |
| US10447100B2 |
Motor
A motor includes a stationary unit and a rotary unit. The rotary unit includes a shaft, a magnet, and a rotor holder for holding the magnet on an inner circumferential surface thereof The rotor holder includes a top surface portion extending in a direction orthogonal to a center axis, a first surface portion extending radially outward from a radial outer end portion of the top surface portion, a second surface portion positioned axially below the top surface portion and having an outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of the first surface portion, a first connecting portion arranged to connect a radial outer end portion of the first surface portion and a radial outer end portion of the second surface portion, and a second connecting portion arranged to connect the radial outer end portion of the top surface portion and a radial inner end portion of the second surface portion. |
| US10447097B2 |
Method for producing an electric metal sheet for an electric machine
In a method for producing an electric metal sheet for an electric machine, an individual sheet is punched out from a magnetizable sheet blank. A plurality of cut-outs are formed in the individual sheet; and a web is applied in each of the cut-outs by a 3-D printing process from a non-magnetizable material, such that the webs are arranged either in parallel relation to a first q-axis at a pre-determined spacing from the first g-axis, or a first plurality of the webs is arranged exclusively on a first circular segment defined by a first radius and a second plurality of the webs is arranged exclusively on a second circular segment defined by a second radius which is different in relation to the first radius. |
| US10447095B2 |
Simplified motor module
A motor module includes a stator formed of a main plate of a first thickness on which is mounted a rotor The stator has at each end a receiving zone, the thickness of which is less than the first thickness. |
| US10447089B2 |
Wireless power transfer systems, methods and transmitters therefor
A transmitter comprises a power source; a transmit resonator electrically connected to the power source via an electrically small transmission line; and a metamaterial transmission line (MMTL) electrically connected between the power source and the electrically small transmission line. The transmit resonator comprises at least two electrodes; and at least one inductive coil electrically connected to the electrodes. The transmit resonator is configured to generate an electric field when excited by the power source. The electrically small transmission line is shorter in length than a wavelength of excitation of a power signal generated by the power source. The MMTL is configured to counteract an effect of the electrically small transmission line. The MMTL has a negative phase velocity (NPV). |
| US10447088B2 |
Apparatus and method for wireless power transfer
A device that wirelessly transfers power to an external device is provided. The device for wirelessly transferring power to an external device includes a resonant circuit including an adaptive circuit including at least one variable capacitor and a first inductor inductively coupled to the external device and configured to transfer the power to the external device using inductive coupling, and a first direct current (DC) power supply configured to apply a DC voltage to the adaptive circuit based on a control signal, wherein capacitance of the at least one variable capacitor is adjusted based on the DC voltage applied to the adaptive circuit. |
| US10447087B2 |
Wireless power transmission apparatus for high efficiency energy charging
A wireless power transmission apparatus for high efficiency energy charging, includes a resonator configured to transmit power, and a power supply unit configured to supply power to the resonator. The apparatus further includes a first switching unit configured to connect the resonator to the power supply unit, and disconnect the resonator from the power supply unit, and a controller configured to control the first switching unit based on an amount of current flowing into the resonator. |
| US10447086B2 |
Power transmission device, method for manufacturing the same, power reception device and method for manufacturing the same
A power transmission device that transmits electric power to a power reception device in a contactless manner includes a power transmission coil unit, an electrical device connected to the power transmission coil unit, and an enclosure storing the power transmission coil unit and the electrical device. The enclosure includes an installation wall, an outer wall, a partitioning wall, and a cover portion closing an opening formed in a power transmission surface of the outer wall and allowing transmission of electric power by the power transmission coil unit. The partitioning wall is provided to partition the space in the enclosure into a coil-unit storing portion in which the cover portion is located and the power transmission coil unit is stored, and an electrical-device storing portion in which the electrical device is stored. The outer wall and the partitioning wall are made of metal. |
| US10447084B2 |
Wireless charging mat with dynamic surface texture
A wireless charging mat has a surface area for receiving an electronic device to be charged. The surface area of the charging mat includes an inner region having a rough surface texture and an outer region having s smooth surface texture, and the outer region is elevated relative to the inner region. |
| US10447082B2 |
Wireless power transmitter circuit and control circuit and control method thereof
A wireless power transmitter circuit includes a power inverter circuit, a resonant transmitter circuit and a control circuit. The power inverter circuit converts a DC power to an AC output power which includes an AC output current. The resonant transmitter circuit, including a variable capacitor circuit, converts the AC output power to a resonant wireless power which includes a resonant current. The control circuit generates an impedance control signal according to a resonant current related signal and a current reference signal, for controlling the impedance of the variable capacitor circuit to regulate the resonant current or the AC output current substantially at a predetermined current level. |
| US10447079B2 |
Multi-coil induction
Methods and apparatuses for improved efficiency of power transfer across an inductive charging interface by selectively activating, deactivating, or modifying one or more of a plurality of transmit coils associated with an inductive power transmitter are disclosed. |
| US10447068B2 |
Power management circuit
One example discloses a power management circuit, wherein the power management circuit is configured to cause a device to be operated at a first power level and a second power level. The circuit includes: an RF transmitter configured to generate an RF signal having a set of transmitted RF signal attributes; an RF receiver configured to detect the RF signal having a set of received RF signal attributes; and a proximity detection circuit configured to transition the device from the first power level to the second power level in response to a preselected difference between the transmitted set of RF signal attributes and the received set of RF signal attributes. |
| US10447064B2 |
Wireless charging system and wireless charging method
The invention provides a wireless charging system and a wireless charging method. The method includes: sending a first control signal by a processor; moving a wireless charging apparatus to a first position near an electronic apparatus according to a first control signal by a moving platform; and wirelessly charging the electronic apparatus by the wireless charging apparatus. |
| US10447054B2 |
Staircase charging
A battery management system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the battery management system to estimate one or more states of the battery by applying a battery model to account for physical parameters of a chemical composition of the battery based on one or more measured characteristics of the battery and the one or more estimated characteristics of the battery and regulate a first charging mode of the battery based on the estimation of the one or more states of the one or more battery cells and switch between the first charging mode and a second charging mode based on the estimation of the one or more states of the battery to allow for rapid charging of the battery. |
| US10447051B2 |
Electric fan-type power generating device with low energy consumption
An electric fan-type power generating device with low energy consumption includes a housing receiving an electric motor connected to a first fan. A generator is mounted in the housing and is connected to a second fan. The first and second fans are offset from each other. A power device includes a chargeable battery for supplying electricity to the electric motor that drives the first fan to generate wind power close to the second fan. Air flows around in a housing and generates turbulence to proceed with input and output of air, increasing the heat dissipating effect of the electric motor and the generator. Furthermore, the second fan drives the generator to generate electricity supplied to the chargeable battery. The chargeable battery recycles the electricity and supplies the electricity to the electric motor that operates to generate wind power. Furthermore, the wind energy drives the generator to continue generation of electricity. |
| US10447049B2 |
Self-powered electronic shelf label and power manager thereof
A self-powered electronic shelf label (ESL), comprising: a processing circuitry; a display communicatively coupled to the processing circuitry; a communication circuit communicatively coupled to the processing circuitry, wherein the communication circuit is configured to receive and transmit data from a control device; and a power manager connected to the processing circuitry, the display, an energy storage, and a plurality of photovoltaic (PV) cells, the power manager including a maximum power point tracker (MPPT) circuit, wherein the MPPT circuit is configured to continuously determine a maximum power point of the PV cells, wherein the power manager is configured to connect, based on the determined maximum power point, at least a portion of the plurality of PV cells to a load such that the plurality of PV cells produce a voltage equal to the continuously determined maximum power point. |
| US10447046B2 |
Secondary battery management system with remote parameter estimation
A battery system, having a battery management system configured to determine the state of charge and state of health of a secondary battery. The battery management system may export data to and receive inputs from a remote computer which calculates at least a portion of the state of health of the battery. |
| US10447045B2 |
Power control device, power control method, and power control system
[Object] To provide a power control device capable of equalizing power between storage batteries in supplying direct-current power through three wires, that is, the positive electrode wire, the neutral wire, and the negative electrode wire. The storage batteries are connected in series between the positive electrode wire and the neutral wire and between the neutral wire and the negative electrode wire.[Solution] The power control device including: a comparison unit configured to acquire a charging condition of a first battery and a charging condition of a second battery from the first battery and the second battery and to compare the charging conditions with each other, the first battery being provided between a positive electrode wire to which a positive potential is applied and a neutral wire to which a ground potential is applied, the second battery being provided between the neutral wire and a negative electrode wire to which a negative potential is applied; and a power control unit configured to control power interchange between the first battery and the second battery such that the charging condition of the first battery and the charging condition of the second battery are balanced against each other on the basis of a comparison result obtained by the comparison unit. |
| US10447041B2 |
Dynamic line rating determination apparatus and associated method
A dynamic line rating determination apparatus configured to control the current applied to a power line conductor by determining a dynamic maximum current rating for said power line conductor, based on measured voltage and current phase vectors taken at two temporally spaced sample times, the phase vectors including a voltage and current phase vector for each phase of electrical power carried by the power line conductor at a first and second end of the power line conductor; and determining the dynamic maximum current rating by; applying the phase vectors to a power line model to estimate the conductor temperature, applying the estimate to a thermal model to predict a steady state temperature that the power line conductor will reach, and calculate the dynamic maximum current rating based on the prediction of the steady state temperature, a power line conductor current, and a maximum temperature limitation value. |
| US10447039B2 |
Control system for power transmission within a structure
A system of electrical distribution within a building, which selectively energizes power sockets only when an appliance is connected to the socket and in need of power. |
| US10447038B2 |
Microgrids with dynamically configurable boundaries including multiple main grid feeder coupling locations and methods of operating the same
An energy system includes a microgrid including a network of at least one distributed energy resource and a plurality of loads, the at least one distributed energy resource being configured to supply power to the plurality of loads. The microgrid is configurable to connect to one of a plurality of feeder circuits of a main power grid at one of a plurality of coupling interface locations, respectively. The microgrid is also configurable to expand or shrink its power supply area according to the available power generation capabilities. |
| US10447033B2 |
High holding voltage clamp
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device with a high holding voltage is disclosed including at least an ESD clamp coupled to a holding voltage tuning circuit. The ESD clamp may be coupled to the holding voltage tuning circuit through a connection circuit such as a diode. The ESD clamp may be implemented by a first silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) and the holding voltage tuning circuit may be implemented as a second SCR. |
| US10447031B2 |
Fault current limiter with modular mutual reactor
Embodiments of the disclosure include a fault current limiter having a first current splitting device including a primary winding and secondary winding wound around a first core, and a second current splitting device including a primary winding and a secondary winding wound around a second core. The fault current limiter may further include a fault current limiter module (e.g., a switching module) electrically connected in series between the secondary winding of the first current splitting device and the secondary winding of the second current splitting device. The fault current limiter may further include a second fault current limiter module electrically connected in series with the secondary winding of the second current splitting device. By splitting the fault current limiter into parts with fault current limiter modules interspersed between the windings, the fault current limiter may be to be built with less insulation between the windings. |
| US10447028B2 |
Bipole voltage source converter and control and operation thereof
A converter apparatus and methods of operation thereof are disclosed. In an example, a converter unit of a bipole converter apparatus comprising a neutral connection having a breaker switch is disclosed. In the event of a DC fault, the fault condition may be monitored and it is determined whether a breaker switch operation condition is met. The breaker switch is opened when the breaker switch operation condition is met. In one example, the breaker switch operation condition may comprise a current level. |
| US10447027B1 |
Method and apparatus for reverse over current protection
The present embodiments relate to methods and apparatuses for providing fault protection in a power controller such as a voltage regulator, and particularly protection against reverse over current fault conditions. Some embodiments are capable of distinguishing between different types of reverse over current conditions, such as a high-side short or a normal over voltage condition. In these and other embodiments, fault protection is performed in favor of a load connected to the voltage regulator, rather than components of the voltage regulator itself. |
| US10447025B2 |
Device for distributing hybrid cable and transitioning from trunk cable to jumper cable with overvoltage protection
An OVP module that connects with a hybrid trunk cable includes: a mounting frame; an overvoltage unit mounted in the mounting frame and configured to create an open electrical circuit when experiencing a voltage higher than a predetermined threshold; a first contact configured to receive a first set of power conductors from a hybrid trunk cable; a second contact configured to receive a second set of power conductors from the hybrid trunk cable; a first OVP conductor connected between the first contact and the overvoltage unit; a second OVP conductor connected between the second contact and the overvoltage unit; a third contact configured to receive a first set of power cords; a fourth contact configured to receive a second set of power cords; a third OVP conductor connected between the overvoltage unit and the third contact; and a fourth OVP conductor connected between the overvoltage unit and the fourth contact. |
| US10447021B1 |
Switch boxes and outlet boxes with no wire nuts
A switch box or outlet box with no wire nuts having three bus bars, one for each of the hot, neutral, and ground wires of a three conductor wire. Separate conductors are connected between the bus bars and an electrical component, such as an outlet or switch thereby eliminating the need for wire nuts. |
| US10447017B2 |
Electric storage device
An electric storage device includes an electric storage module, a bracket, an electric junction box, and a wire harness. The electric storage module includes electric storage components. The electric storage module includes an end surface and peripheral surfaces perpendicular to the end surface. The bracket is mounted to the electric storage module and includes a first surface opposed to the end surface of the electric storage module and a second surface opposite from the first surface. The electric junction box is mounted to the bracket to be opposed to the second surface of the bracket with a gap between the electric junction box and the second surface of the bracket. The wire harness is connected to the electric storage module and disposed in a section of the gap in which the end surface of the electric storage module is opposed to the electric junction box. |
| US10447014B1 |
Spark plug and manufacturing method therefor
A spark plug comprising: a first electrode including a tip containing 1r as a main material, and a base member to which the tip is joined; and a second electrode opposed to the tip with a spark gap therebetween. The number of crystal grains appearing in a range of 0.25 mm2 on an arbitrary cross-section of the tip in a first direction connecting the tip and the second electrode within the spark gap, is not less than 20. When a length of each of the crystal grains in the first direction is denoted by Y, and a length of each of the crystal grains in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction is denoted by X, 5 μm≤X≤100 μm and Y/X≥1.5 are satisfied. |
| US10447007B2 |
Method and system for controlling laser modulation
A system comprising drive circuitry configured to apply in a start-up phase a first drive current and then a second different drive current to a laser diode, the first drive current and second drive current being such that the laser diode is configured to provide a first optical output and a second optical output respectively. The system further comprising an optical sensor configured to provide a first sensor output corresponding to the first optical output of the laser diode and a second sensor output corresponding to the second optical output. The system further comprises a controller configured to use a value of the first drive current, a value of the second drive current, the first sensor output, the second sensor output and at least one supplied input value to provide control values for the drive circuitry to control an operating current of the laser diode, wherein the system is arranged to be used in a communication system wherein information is transmitted in at least one burst. |
| US10447006B2 |
Electro-optical device with asymmetric, vertical current injection ohmic contacts
The present invention is notably directed to an electro-optical device. This device has a layer structure, which comprises a stack of III-V semiconductor gain materials, an n-doped layer and a p-doped layer. The III-V materials are stacked along a stacking direction z, which is perpendicular to a main plane of the stack. The n-doped layer extends essentially parallel to the main plane of the stack, on one side thereof. The p-doped layer too extends essentially parallel to this main plane, but on another side thereof. A median vertical plane can be defined in the layer structure, which plane is parallel to the stacking direction z and perpendicular to the main plane of the stack. Now, the device further comprises two sets of ohmic contacts, wherein the ohmic contacts of each set are configured for vertical current injection in the stack of III-V semiconductor gain materials. |
| US10447002B2 |
Monomode optical fiber designed to compensate for a refractive index variation related to thermal effects and laser using such an optical fiber as a gain medium
A monomode optical fiber, and a process for manufacturing such a fiber, that comprises a monomode core and at least one cladding encircling the core. The monomode core comprises at least two zones, a first zone with at least one first refractive index and a second zone with at least one second refractive index different from the first refractive index. The difference between the first refractive index and the second refractive index is of the same order of magnitude as the variation in the refractive index of the second zone between the inactive state and the active state of the fiber. |
| US10446999B2 |
Molding method using mold structure
A molding method includes: setting a bus bar at a first mold main body portion of a fixed mold by supporting a terminal base of a tuning-fork terminal with a terminal base receiving portion of the fixed mold in a state where the tuning-fork terminal is protruded outside a cavity formed by the first mold main body portion of the fixed mold and a second mold main body portion of a movable mold being joined together; joining the movable mold together with the fixed mold by abutting an abut step portion of the movable mold to a receiving abut step portion of the fixed mold and nipping the terminal base of the tuning-fork terminal with the terminal base receiving portion and a terminal base abut portion of the movable mold; and injecting resin into the cavity in the nipped state. |
| US10446997B2 |
Method for manufacturing terminal with electric wire
A method for manufacturing a terminal with an electric wire includes: forming a conductor exposed portion by removing a resin coating of an electric wire; forming a wire-terminal connection portion by connecting a terminal fitting to a position of the conductor exposed portion; supplying a sealing material made of ultraviolet-curing resin from a nozzle to form a sealing portion covering the wire-terminal connection portion; and curing the sealing material by irradiation with ultraviolet rays from a UV light. During curing of the sealing material, a reflector is used to allow the ultraviolet rays to be reflected toward the sealing material supplied to the wire-terminal connection portion. |
| US10446994B1 |
Lighting system with ceramic socket arrangement
A lighting system includes an electrical arrangement, a reflector housing and a ceramic socket arrangement. The ceramic socket arrangement includes at least one socket housing and at least one sliding connector received in the socket housing. The sliding connector includes a resilient terminal, a base configured from ceramic material and having an engagement track adapted for accommodating the electrical terminal of the illuminating element, and a sliding member configured from ceramic material and connected to the base in a slidably movable manner. The sliding member is arranged to slide between an unlocked position and a locked position. In the unlocked position, the sliding member is slid to expose the engagement track to an exterior of the sliding connector. In the locked position, the sliding member is slid and retained to cover the engagement track and to electrically connect the resilient terminal to the electrical terminal of the illuminating element. |
| US10446992B2 |
Power units with power outlets and USB ports
A power unit is disclosed that includes a first surface with one or more power outlets, and a second surface angularly disposed with respect to the first surface. The second surface has one or more universal serial bus (USB) ports, and a power switch disposed thereon. The angled nature of the second surface provides ease of access to the USB port(s) and power switch. |
| US10446990B2 |
Cord disconnect apparatus and methods
A power cord disconnect apparatus and methods of disconnecting a power cord. An ejection mechanism may include a scotch yoke assembly, the scotch yoke being reciprocatable to engage and eject a power cord plug out of a receptacle. The apparatus may include a power circuit with a normally-open first switch closing in response to the plug being inserted into the receptacle and a normally-closed second switch opening in response to a signal, power being transferred between the power cord and the power circuit when the first switch and second switch are closed, power being prevented if either the first or second switch opens. |
| US10446987B2 |
Connector device
A connector device includes: a connection terminal including a first terminal connection portion electrically connected to a first counterpart terminal, a second terminal connection portion electrically connected to a second counterpart terminal, and a coupling portion having a flat plate shape, disposed between the first terminal connection portion and the second terminal connection portion electrically connected between the first terminal connection portion and the second terminal connection portion; a current sensor configured to measure current flowing in the coupling portion on the basis of magnetic flux according to the current; and a casing including a first housing portion housing the second terminal connection portion, and a second housing portion housing the coupling portion and the current sensor. |
| US10446986B2 |
Electrical connector with additional shielding
A electrical connector includes an insulative elongated housing and first and second metallic shells covering the housing. The housing includes a top surface, a bottom surface, two sides surfaces and a middle surface between the top surface and the bottom surface so as to form a step structure thereof. The primary shell covers the top surface, the bottom surface and two side surfaces, and the secondary shell covers the middle surface and the rear surface which is roughly joined with the middle surface, and further the primary shell on the bottom surface in an overlapped manner so as to avoid any electrical leaking along the front-to-back direction between the primary shell and the secondary shell. |
| US10446984B2 |
Electrical connector with transverse linkage behind neighboring mating tongues
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts embedded within the housing. The housing includes a base and at least two mating tongues extending forwardly from the base in a same front-to-back direction and spaced from each other in a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction. Each mating tongue includes two mating surfaces. The housing includes an inner insulator which is integrally formed with the contacts via an insert-molding process, and an outer insulator which is further applied upon the inner insulator via another/successive insert-molding process. The inner insulator includes the two inner mating tongues and the bridge therebetween, and the outer insulator covers all the two inner mating tongues and the bridge. |
| US10446977B2 |
Lens surrounded by magnet
A coupling system includes a first connecting unit and a second connecting unit adapted to be connected to each other. Each of the first connecting unit and a second connecting unit includes an enclosure with a substantial even mating surface and a pair of lens module. Each lens module includes a lens enclosed within a magnet, and the magnets of the coupled lens modules have opposite magnet poles around the corresponding mating surfaces. The pair of lens modules are further equipped with a transmitting chip and a receiving chip in aligned with the corresponding lens, respectively. |
| US10446976B2 |
Shield connector and connector connection structure
A shield connector can easily suppress contact failure between terminal metal fittings due to vibration, and a connector connection structure can include the shield connector. In a large-diameter part in the natural state, a direction dimension passing through a tip of a protrusion is larger than a fastening direction dimension from an abutting part to a first clamping part in the shield case, a fastening member inserted into a fixed part is fastened, and the inner housing is thus hard to vibrate in the shield case. Therefore it is possible to suppress poor contact between a terminal fitting held by the inner housing and a mating terminal fitting. At this time, it is unnecessary to add a new process in order to suppress vibration of the inner housing, easily suppressing a contact failure between the terminal fittings. |
| US10446974B2 |
Electrical connector having an arc suppression element
An electrical connector matable to and unmatable from a separable mating electrical connector includes a housing having a terminal channel and a secondary channel. The electrical connector also includes a female terminal received in the terminal channel. The female terminal is matable with and unmatable from a mating male terminal of the mating electrical connector. An arc suppression element is received in the secondary channel. The arc suppression element configured to electrically couple between the female terminal and the male terminal immediately after the female terminal is disengaged from the male terminal, the arc suppression element providing a bypass between the female terminal and the male terminal so that arcing does not occur when the female terminal is disconnected from the male terminal of the mating electrical connector. |
| US10446972B2 |
Electrical connector
An electrical connector can have improved productivity, as well as a reduced size and thickness. The electrical connector includes an insulating housing including a plate-like portion and a main body portion provided at the rear of the plate-like portion so as to protrude laterally relative to the plate-like portion; a conductive contact held by the housing, the contact including connection portions exposed at the plate-like portion so as to be connected to a mating contact of a mating connector and terminal portions protruding from the main body portion; and an elastically deformable seal member provided in the main body portion. |
| US10446952B2 |
Mountable terminal blocks for contactors and operator elements
A wire connection accessory is disclosed that includes a mounting structure formed thereon configured to mate with an existing mounting feature provided on a “host” electrical switching component or “host” operator switch present within an electrical enclosure/assembly is disclosed. The wire connection accessory comprises a component whose mechanical and electrical state does not change response to functioning of the host device to which it is mounted. The host electrical switching component or operator switch includes a first mounting feature formed on an external surface thereof so as to serve as a host device. The wire connection accessory includes a second mounting feature mateable with the first mounting feature to selectively affix the wire connection accessory to the host device. |
| US10446950B2 |
Method for forming a shielded electrical terminal and an electrical terminal formed by said method
A method of forming a shield terminal from sheet metal having a tubular first portion having a single seam and aligned with a first axis and a second tubular portion having two seams radially opposed to one another and aligned with a second axis that is oriented at a right angle to the first axis, an inner insulator disposed within the shield terminal, and an outer housing defining a cylindrical cavity in which the tubular first portion of the shield terminal is disposed. Edges of the single seam and edges of the two seams are joined solely by the disposition of the tubular first portion in the cylindrical cavity. The shield terminal formed by this method is also presented. |
| US10446948B2 |
Connectors with movable magnetic components and method of connecting devices
A connector for an electronic device has a housing with a peripheral surface and guides defining first and second paths. The second path extends from a first location proximate the peripheral surface to a second location farther from the peripheral surface and closer to the first path. A magnetic contact assembly in the housing is magnetically movable along the first path between a first position for joining the connector in data communication with an adjacent connector, and a second position withdrawn from the peripheral surface. A magnet in the housing and is movable by attraction to an adjacent connector along the second path, to magnetically hold the connector to an adjacent connector. The guides are configured so that the magnet and the magnetic contact assembly magnetically bias one another inwardly along the first and second paths. |
| US10446946B2 |
Conductive component structure for wire connection terminal
A conductive component structure for wire connection terminal has higher electro-conductive performance and is more securely assembled with the conductive wire. The conductive component includes a main body in the form of a plate body and a restriction body connected on the main body. The restriction body has a base section, a bow section connected with the base section and a free section connected with the bow section, which together provide elastic effect for the restriction body. When the conductive wire is plugged in to contact the conductive component, the restriction body guides the conductive wire and the rear end of the conductive wire is securely pressed and restricted between the main body and the restriction body. |
| US10446936B2 |
Multi-feed dielectric antenna system and methods for use therewith
In accordance with one or more embodiments, an antenna system includes a dielectric antenna having a feed point, wherein the dielectric antenna is a single antenna. At least one cable having a plurality of conductorless dielectric cores is coupled to the feed point of the dielectric antenna, wherein electromagnetic waves that are guided by differing ones of the plurality of conductorless dielectric cores to the dielectric antenna result in differing ones of a plurality of antenna beam patterns. |
| US10446935B1 |
System and method for launching guided electromagnetic waves with impedance matching
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a system includes an impedance matching circuit that includes one or more adjustable circuit elements, wherein the impedance matching circuit receives an input signal and generates an output signal in response to the input signal. A guided wave launcher is configured to generate, in response to the output signal, a first guided electromagnetic wave along a surface of a transmission medium, wherein the first guided electromagnetic wave propagates along the surface of the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. A controller is configured to generate one or more control signals in response to a channel quality indicator, wherein the one or more control signals adjust the one or more adjustable circuit elements of the impedance matching circuit, wherein adjustment of the one or more adjustable circuit elements facilitates reducing an impedance mismatch of the guided wave launcher. |
| US10446934B2 |
Folded UWB monopole antenna for body mounted transmitter and manufacturing method
Systems and methods improve tracking performance of an ultra-wide-band (UWB) tracking tag positioned on a player on a sporting field. A UWB antenna is formed with power radiated disproportionately in forward and backward directions as compared to sideways. The UWB tracking tag is aligned with the UWB antenna when positioned on the player such that less power is absorbed by the player than radiated away from the player. The UWB antenna is monopole and may be folded from a single metal sheet forming: a flat top; a first side folded at an acute angle from one edge of the top; a second side folded at an acute angle from another edge of the top; a first solder tab folded at an obtuse angle from the first side; and a second solder tab folded at an obtuse angle from the second side, to join in parallel with the first solder tab. |
| US10446933B1 |
Magnetic antenna structures having improved gain bandwidth performance
Magnetic antenna techniques and devices are disclosed for operating at an RF or microwave frequency by using a magnetic antenna structure that is configured to have a spatially varying property that varies spatially from one location to another location in at least a portion of the magnetic antenna structure. Such a spatial varying property can be reflected in various ways, e.g., a resonator located in part of the magnetic antenna structure, or a spatially varying geometry profile in part of or the entirety of the magnetic antenna structure. |
| US10446932B2 |
Contactless communications antenna for payment terminals
The disclosure relates to a flexible printed circuit board of longitudinal shape comprising at least one conductive track extending over the length of the flexible printed circuit, the flexible printed circuit board comprising at least one folding area shaped so as to allow said flexible printed circuit board to pass from an unfolded state to a folded state in which the conductive track forms at least one antenna loop. |
| US10446926B2 |
Base station antenna
The present invention provides a base station antenna, including power dividers, network calibration modules, and connectors. The base station antenna further includes at least two phase shifters. At least one phase shifter is integrated with a combiner, the connectors are connected to the network calibration modules, and the network calibration modules are connected to the phase shifters. The one phase shifter integrated with the combiner is connected to the power divider, and at least one output port of the at least one other phase shifter is connected to the phase shifter integrated with the combiner. The base station antenna has an integrated design of phase shifters and combiners, which allows cables in different bands to be shared, reduces a quantity of used cables, is easy to implement in an actual layout and production, facilitates the layout and heat dissipation on the whole, satisfies user requirements, and reduces costs. |
| US10446925B2 |
Method for beamforming a beam using an active antenna
The present invention relates to a method for beamforming a beam using an active antenna having predetermined aperture data predetermined aperture data comprising M×N dual polarized antenna subarrays within an aperture, each dual polarized antenna subarray comprising a first antenna subarray having a first polarization and a second antenna subarray having a second polarization non-parallel with the first polarization. The method comprises: selecting number of antenna ports, each antenna port being adapted to generate a separate beam using a combination from the first antenna subarray and/or the second antenna subarray; selecting port properties, comprising target beamwidth for each separate beam and desired polarization between beams; and determining port partitioning based upon aperture data and port properties for each antenna port, to adjust an effective length of the aperture over which the beam is created and thereby defining which first antenna subarray(s) and/or second antenna subarray(s) to use for each antenna port. |
| US10446923B2 |
Antenna array with reduced mutual coupling effect
A mutual coupling reduction circuit is provided for an antenna array. The antenna array includes first and second antenna elements having first and second radiating bodies, respectively. The mutual coupling reduction circuit is disposed between the first and second radiating bodies to reduce mutual coupling between the antenna elements. Multiple mutual coupling reduction circuits may be provided between multiple radiating bodies. The impedance of the mutual coupling reduction circuit is configured to reduce the mutual coupling. The mutual coupling reduction circuit may be disposed in parallel with a polarization of the antenna elements. |
| US10446920B1 |
Aerogel-based antennas for aerospace and terrestrial applications
Systems and methods for lightweight, customizable antenna with improved performance and mechanical properties are disclosed. In some aspects, aerogels can be used, for example, as a substrate for antenna fabrication. The reduced weight and expense, as well as the increased ability to adapt antenna designs, permits a systems to mitigate a variety of burdens associated with antennas while providing added benefits. |
| US10446918B2 |
Body-mountable device with antenna forming external sidewall
Techniques and mechanisms to provide wireless communication with a body-mountable device comprising a single-loop antenna. In an embodiment, distal ends of the single-loop antenna are disposed on opposite sides of a slit structure, wherein the single-loop antenna extends around a controller configured to provide any of multiple modes of high-frequency communication with the single-loop antenna. Different operational modes each provide for operation of the single-loop antenna with both a proximity-coupled feed structure and a first contact at or near a distal end of the single-loop antenna. In another embodiment, the single-loop antenna forms a hole or a recess structure which is aligned with a sensor or an input/output (I/O) mechanism of the body-mountable device. |
| US10446917B1 |
Deformable magnetic antennas
Deformable magnetic antennas are provided to include a plurality of flexible magnetic antenna layers stacked to form a layered magnetic antenna structure that is bendable. Each flexible magnetic antenna layer includes a magnetic material that confines a magnetic field to concentrate a magnetic flux of the magnetic field inside the magnetic antenna layer. A lubricating material is applied between adjacent flexible magnetic antenna layers to allow adjacent magnetic layers to move relative to one another when the layered magnetic antenna structure is bent so as to reduce a stress in each flexible magnetic antenna layer caused by bending the layered magnetic antenna structure. |
| US10446914B2 |
Antenna structure
An antenna structure includes a dielectric substrate and a metal element. The metal element is disposed on the dielectric substrate, and includes a transmission element and a radiation element. A first triangular hollow region and a second triangular hollow region are formed on the radiation element. |
| US10446912B2 |
Electronic device and method of improving antenna performance thereof
A method of improving antenna performance and an electronic device configured to improve the antenna performance are provided. The electronic device include: a housing; an antenna located inside the housing or formed as part of the housing; a radio frequency (RF) interface configured to transmit/receive wireless signals via the antenna; a groove formed inside an opening in part of the housing; an electrical connector placed inside the groove; a ground member placed inside the housing; a processor electrically connected to the RF interface and the electrical connector; and a memory electrically connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions which enable the processor to detect an external electrical connector inserted into the electrical connector, and select at least one of a plurality of electrical paths between the RF interface and the ground member, in response to at least part of the inserted external electrical connector. Various embodiments are provided. |
| US10446911B2 |
Cover of device acting as antenna of the device
A cover of a device acting as an antenna of the device is disclosed. The device comprises a first body and a second body, wherein the first body comprises: a first conductive portion of a first cover of the device configured as an antenna of the device; a second conductive portion of the first cover configured as a ground of the antenna; and a dielectric slot of the first cover; wherein the second body comprises: a first conductive portion of a second cover of the device; a second conductive portion of the second cover; and a dielectric slot in the second cover; wherein a shape of the first and the second conductive portion of the first body and the dielectric slot of the first body aligns with a shape of the first and the second conductive portion of the second body and the dielectric slot of the second body. |