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| US10856460B2 |
Surface mounter for mounting a component on a substrate
A surface mounter comprising a stage including a mounting portion at which a component is mounted on a substrate, a substrate transferring device to transfer the substrate to the mounting portion, a component feeding device to feed the component toward the mounting portion, a component mounting device including a mounting head and that mounts the component on the substrate, a pickup nozzle that picks up and holds the component and releases the component on the substrate, a shaft member that switches a pressure applied to the pickup nozzle between negative pressure and positive pressure, and a drive unit that includes a drive source, a movable portion that moves using power from the drive source, and a cam follower, wherein the drive unit moves the movable portion to perform first and second movement operations of the shaft member. |
| US10856459B2 |
Component supplying device
A component supplying device supplying a component while using a component supply tape having components thereon includes a reel support portion rotatably supporting a reel around which the component supply tape is wound, a feeder transferring the component supply tape drawn out from the reel toward a component pick-up position and transferring the component supply tape from which the component is picked up at the component pick-up position S1 toward a tape discharge path, and a correction member arranged on a transfer path of the component supply tape between the reel support portion and the tape discharge path. The correction member is configured to correct curl of the component supply tape. |
| US10856457B2 |
Electromagnetic shielding film for cable
An electromagnetic shielding film for a cable, which relates to the field of wire manufacturing, for use in resolving the problem of easiness of break of the existing electromagnetic shielding film and the great consumption of time and power in the preparation process. The electromagnetic shielding film comprises a first metal layer (11,21,31,41), a conductive layer (12,22,32,42), and a protective film (13,23,33,43). The first metal layer covers the outer part of a conductor of a cable, and is used for shielding electromagnetic interference and is used as a medium. The conductive layer is disposed on the first metal layer, and is used for shielding electromagnetic interference, and the conductive layer comprises a curing agent, metal particles and polyurethane for carrying the metal particles. The protective film is disposed on the conductive layer and protects the electromagnetic shielding film. |
| US10856449B2 |
Dynamic cooling system
One technique for improving cooling system efficiency is to operate cooling for a data center with a dynamic and distributed cooling system. A distributed cooling system may include multiple compressors operating cooperatively for cooling the data center. A dynamic cooling system may adjust operation of the compressors based on one or more parameters, such as inside temperature, outdoor temperature, inside humidity, outside humidity, and load on the data center. By appropriately controlling speeds of the compressors, the power efficiency of the cooling system may be improved by ensuring that all activated compressors are operating within their efficient operating range. By doing so, the cooling system may be controlled to obtain an approximately linear power consumption as a function of cooling load. |
| US10856448B1 |
Compressed air cooling
Compressed air cooling is disclosed. In an embodiment, an assembly includes an input configured to receive compressed air. The assembly also includes an expansion chamber configured to at least in part contain an expansion of the compressed air. The assembly also includes a base configured to be thermally cooled via the expansion of the compressed air and configured to be coupled to an electronic component. |
| US10856439B2 |
Rotatable water-cooling tube and electronic device with same
A rotatable water-cooling tube and an electronic device with the water-cooling tube are provided. The water-cooling tube includes a first tube body, a second tube body, a third tube body, a first connector and a second connector. The first tube body is in communication with the second tube body and the third tube body through the first connector and the second connector. The first tube body is rotatable with the first connector and the second connector. Consequently, the first tube body can be freely rotated to a proper position. The technology of the present invention is helpful to assemble and disassemble the heat generation component under the rotatable water-cooling tube. |
| US10856438B2 |
Fan control circuit and fan control system
A fan control circuit comprises: a fan controller connected with at least one fan connector, connected with a baseboard management controller (BMC) via integrated circuit bus communication lines and outputting a BMC fan signal wherein said fan controller is powered by a main power supply, and a baseboard status detection circuit connected with the BMC and the fan controller respectively, detecting a heartbeat signal of the BMC, and controlling an output of a fan pulse signal according to the heartbeat signal so as to control a fan connected with the fan controller to operate normally. |
| US10856437B2 |
System for automatically classifying electrical devices for fan control application
A system and method to control fan power for an electronic device based on cooling requirements is disclosed. The electronic device includes a power supply unit and a fan coupled to the power supply unit. A controller is coupled to the fan. The device includes at least one electronic component cooled by the fan. The controller is operable to classify the at least one electronic component, and regulate the power supplied to the fan based on the classification of the at least one electronic component. |
| US10856436B2 |
Multilevel enclosure cooling
A system including an enclosure including a data storage enclosure. The data storage enclosure includes multiple storage levels and a shared cooling area. The system further includes data storage devices positioned within each of the multiple storage levels and a first and second set of air movers positioned within the data storage enclosure in the shared cooling area. The first and second sets of air movers are arranged to cool the data storage devices. |
| US10856432B1 |
Socket connector and cable assembly for a communication system
A socket connector assembly includes a socket connector and a cable assembly coupled to the socket connector. The socket connector includes a socket frame having a socket opening and a socket substrate received in the socket opening. The socket substrate includes lower socket conductors electrically connected to a host circuit board and upper socket contacts having deflectable spring beams. The cable assembly includes an outer housing and a paddle card received in a pocket having paddle card contacts at a mating end on a lower surface interfacing with the upper socket contacts. The cable assembly includes cables terminated to the paddle card communicatively coupled to corresponding paddle card contacts. The side walls of the outer housing engage an outer surface of the socket frame to locate the paddle card relative to the socket substrate. |
| US10856431B2 |
Carrier assembly for carrying an electronics housing
A carrier assembly for carrying an electronics housing includes: a base; a carrier element that locks to the base; a slot on which the electronics housing is put; and a locking element that is adjustably arranged on the carrier element, locks the base to the carrier element when in a locked position, and is blocked in the locked position when an electronics housing is put onto the slot such that the locking element cannot be moved out of the locked position. |
| US10856430B2 |
Electronic device including flexible display
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an electronic device may comprise a first housing including a first surface and a second surface facing in a direction opposite the first surface, a second housing including a third surface and a fourth surface facing in a direction opposite the third surface, a hinge disposed between the first housing and the second housing configured to provide rotational motion between the first housing and the second housing, and a flexible display disposed from the first surface of the first housing across the hinge to the third surface of the second housing, at least part of the flexible display configured to form a curved surface as the hinge structure is folded, wherein the hinge may include dual-axis hinges configured to provide a first rotational axis allowing the first housing to rotate about the second housing and a second rotational axis allowing the second housing to rotate about the first housing and slides coupled with the first housing and the second housing and configured to provide sliding motion perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the first housing and the second housing. |
| US10856429B2 |
Magnetic server latching system
A slam latch for mounting and unmounting a server in a rack holding a computing system is disclosed. The slam latch includes a permanent magnet. The slam latch further includes at least one magnetically attractive plate separated by a first distance from the permanent magnet, wherein the permanent magnet has a first force of attraction to the at least one plate. The permanent magnet has a second force of attraction to the at least one plate lower than the first force of attraction when the at least one plate is forceably separated from the permanent magnet by a second distance that is greater than the first distance. |
| US10856426B2 |
Rollable display device
The present disclosure provides a rollable display device that can prevent a step between a roller and a display panel and can prevent damage to a printed circuit board and an IC etc. for driving and controlling the display panel, by forming a protrusion radially protruding on the outer side of the roller formed in a cylindrical shape for rolling the display panel and by forming a seat radially recessed on the outer side. |
| US10856424B2 |
Electronic assembly that includes void free holes
A method that includes electroplating both sides of a core and the through hole of a core with a conductive material to cover both sides of the core with the conductive material and to form a conductive bridge in the through hole, wherein the core has a thickness greater than 200 microns; etching the conductive material that covers both sides of the core to reduce the thickness of the conductive material to about 1 micron; applying a film resist to the core; exposing and developing the resist film to form patterns on the conductive material on both sides of the core; and electroplating additional conductive material on the (i) conductive material on both sides of the core (ii) conductive material within the through hole; and (iii) conductive bridge to fill the through hole with conductive material without any voids and to form conductive patterns on both sides of the core. |
| US10856421B2 |
Circuit board
A circuit board is disposed on a substrate and includes a dielectric layer and a circuit layer. The dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate. The circuit layer is embedded in the dielectric layer and has plural traces. Each of the traces has a first top surface and a first bottom surface which are opposite to each other, and the first bottom surface faces toward the substrate. The first top surface is exposed from the dielectric layer, and an area of a vertical projection of the first top surface on the substrate is smaller than an area of a vertical projection of the first bottom surface on the substrate. |
| US10856418B2 |
Power supply for a camera
A camera includes a circuit board, an image sensing chip, a package base, a lens module, a flexible circuit board, and a first carrier plate. The circuit board includes a first surface and an opposite second surface. The circuit board defines a window through the first surface and the second surface. The image sensing chip is mounted to the second surface and includes a photosensitive area viewable through the window. The package base is mounted to the first surface and defines a light hole. The lens module is mounted to the package base. The first carrier plate is mounted to the second surface and covers the image sensing chip. The circuit board further includes an end portion not covered by the first carrier plate. The flexible circuit board is mounted to the second surface of the end portion and is electrically coupled to the image sensing chip. |
| US10856417B2 |
Power supply module used in a smart terminal and power supply module assembly structure
The present disclosure provides a power supply module used in a smart terminal and a power supply module assembly structure, the power supply module includes a substrate having first and second surfaces opposite to each other; a power passive element, an active element and a plurality of first conductive parts disposed at the substrate; the power passive element being independently disposed on the first surface of the substrate as a whole; wherein a maximum height of the power passive element disposed on the first surface of the substrate is greater than a sum of a maximum height of an element disposed on the second surface of the substrate and an half of the thickness of the substrate. |
| US10856416B2 |
Flexible printed circuit electrical connector
Disclosed herein is an electrical connector. The electrical connector comprises a flexible printed circuit comprising electrical elements on a flexible substrate. The electrical elements each comprises a solder pad and contact pad connected by a link. The electrical connector also comprises a base to at least partially surround the flexible printed circuit. The base comprises a connection interface to facilitate electrical connection with the flexible printed circuit through the base. The electrical connector further comprises a receptacle to couple to the base to partially enclose the flexible printed circuit. The receptacle exposes a portion of the flexible printed circuit to facilitate selective electrical connection with the flexible printed circuit through the receptacle. |
| US10856410B2 |
Stretchable structure comprising a conductive path and a method for manufacturing the structure
A stretchable structure comprises or is configured to receive a conductive path and an interface region. The interface region comprises a peripheral line comprising at least one inwardly curved portion, such as an “inverted teardrop” or a fjord like recess pointing essentially towards the center area of the interface region. The interface region is arranged to receive said stretchable conductive path via said inwardly curved portion of said peripheral line of said interface region. In this way the interface region minimizes strains or other twisting or stretching forces directed to the conductor entering into the opening of the inwardly curved portion of the interface region. |
| US10856409B1 |
Foldable board with flexible PCB coupling
A junction between two circuit board segments can be made using a flexible printed circuit board (PCB), permitting the two circuit board segments to be movably positioned with respect to one another, while maintaining electrical connections between the board segments through the junction. Such a design with flexible PCB junctions can allow a single, foldable board with multiple board segments to be used in place of a set of multiple circuit boards that must couple together using connectors and cables. |
| US10856407B2 |
Transmission line design with routing-over-void compensation
Apparatus and methods are provided for ameliorating distortion issues associated with a conductor that passes over a void in a reference plane. In an example, the conductor can include a first part routed over a major surface of a first side of the reference plane structure and that approaches a first edge of the reference plane structure with a first trajectory, a second part routed over the major surface of a second side of the reference plane structure and that approaches a second edge of the reference plane structure with a second trajectory in-line with the first trajectory, and a third portion connecting the first portion with the second portion and having a third trajectory departing from the first trajectory and the second trajectory, the third portion configured to span the void. |
| US10856405B2 |
3D electromagnetic bandgap circuit
A 3D electromagnetic bandgap circuit includes: a dielectric layer having a first surface and an opposing second surface; a spiral element positioned on the first surface; a first surrounding element positioned on the first surface and surrounding the spiral element, but does not touch with the spiral element; a plane element positioned on the second surface and including a notch; a second surrounding element positioned on the second surface and surrounding the plane element, but does not touch with the plane element, wherein the second surrounding element further includes a protruding portion extending toward the notch; a first via passing through the dielectric layer, the spiral element, and the protruding portion; a second via passing through the dielectric layer, the plane element, and the first surrounding element; and a third via passing through the dielectric layer, the plane element, and the first surrounding element. |
| US10856403B2 |
Power electronics module and a method of producing a power electronics module
A power electronics module and a method of producing a power electronics module. The power electronics module includes multiple of power electronic semiconductor chips incorporated in a housing and attached to a substrate, and a heat transfer structure attached to the substrate and having a bottom surface which forms an outer surface of the module and which is adapted to receive a surface of a cooling device, wherein the heat transfer structure includes a compressible base plate. |
| US10856399B2 |
Device for generating an atmospheric-pressure plasma
A device for generating an atmospheric-pressure plasma is disclosed. In an embodiment the device includes a piezoelectric transformer comprising an input region and an output region, wherein the input region is designed to convert an applied alternating voltage into a mechanical oscillation, wherein the output region is designed to convert a mechanical oscillation into a voltage, and wherein the output region adjoins the input region in a longitudinal direction, a contact element fastened to the piezoelectric transformer, the contact element being designed to apply the alternating voltage to the input region and a holder, wherein the contact element is connected to the holder by a form-fit connection, in such a manner that a movement of the piezoelectric transformer in the longitudinal direction, relative to the holder, is prevented. |
| US10856398B2 |
High voltage generator
Disclosed is a high-voltage generator for an x-ray apparatus. The generator comprises a voltage multiplier having a high-voltage output terminal and first and second alternating-current input terminals, an output transformer coil (12) having first and second output terminals respectively electrically connected to the first and second input terminals of the voltage multiplier, and an input transformer coil (11) having first and second input terminals and being arranged coaxially with and inductively coupled to the output transformer coil. The input and output transformer coils are relatively axially movable. Disclosed is also an x-ray apparatus using the high-voltage generator, a method of configuring a high-voltage generator and a method of configuring a high-voltage apparatus. |
| US10856396B2 |
Battery-powered control device including a rotating portion
Provided herein are examples of a remote control device that provides a retrofit solution for an existing switched control system. The remote control device may comprise a control circuit, a rotatable portion, a magnetic ring coupled to the rotatable portion, and first and second Hall-effect sensor circuits configured to generate respective first and second sensor control signals in response to magnetic fields generated by the magnetic elements. The control circuit may operate in a normal mode when the rotatable portion is being rotated, and in a reduced-power mode when the rotatable portion is not being rotated. The control circuit may disable the second Hall-effect sensor circuit in the reduced-power mode. The control circuit may detect movement of the rotatable portion in response to the first sensor control signal in the reduced-power mode and enable the second Hall-effect sensor circuit in response to detecting movement of the rotatable portion. |
| US10856395B1 |
Lighting load classification and dimmer configuration based thereon
A machine learning model for classifying different lighting loads based on properties of electrical current through the loads is built. The model is applied to electrical data gathered based on powering a target lighting load in order to classify the load. Based on load classification, operating parameter(s) to control operation of a dimmer to control power to the load are selected and the dimmer is configured with the selected parameter(s) to achieve desired dimmer operation in dimming the load. |
| US10856393B2 |
Smart light switch with integrated scheduling
A smart light switch includes a housing, a light actuator located within the housing, and a processor and memory. The processor and memory are operably connected and located within the housing. The processor is adapted to selectively turn an electrical load on and off in accordance with a program schedule stored in memory. The smart light switch further includes a data communications module operable to provide data communication across a wireless network to a remote device. The program schedule includes time periods and a set of light activation rules for each time period. The smart light switch is operable to receive the time periods from a remote device having a different set of rules than the set of light activation rules for the smart light switch. |
| US10856391B2 |
Method to correct signal light intensities measured by a detector of a detection unit in a laboratory instrument
A method to correct signal light intensities measured by a detector of a detection unit in a laboratory instrument is presented. The detection unit comprises a light source, a sample plane comprising a sample holder configured to hold at least one sample vessel comprising a test sample to be illuminated, a reference light sensor, and the detector. Based on a basic light intensity of a newly manufactured light source and an initial light intensity measured by the reference light sensor the sensitivity of the reference light sensor can be determined. And signal light intensities measured by the detector can be corrected based on the determined sensitivity and subsequently measured reference light intensities of the reference light sensor in order to generate comparable test results. |
| US10856390B2 |
Synchronization of dimmer controls
Various embodiments include a lighting system comprising: a first light; a second light; a first controller for adjusting a first brightness of the first light; a second controller for adjusting a second brightness of the second light; and a generator for generating a trigger signal. The first controller and the second controller are initiated by the trigger signal, to simultaneously start a control computation procedure. |
| US10856382B2 |
Active preload for TRIAC dimmers
An active preload circuit includes: a rectifier configured to receive an AC input from a TRIAC dimmer and to generate DC power; a preload; and a phase angle controller configured to selectively couple the preload to the DC power. |
| US10856381B2 |
Power delivery system for a light tower
A light tower includes a generator assembly including a prime mover, an alternator operably connected to the prime mover, the alternator configured to produce alternating current electrical energy, and a rectifier operably connected to the alternator and configured to convert alternating current electrical energy produced by the alternator to direct current electrical energy. At least one light emitting diode matrix is electrically connected to the generator assembly by an electrical connection, and a regulator is operably connected to the alternator and configured to detect a current of the direct current electrical energy in the electrical connection. In response to a detected current of the direct current electrical energy in the electrical connection, the regulator controls the alternator to adjust the current supplied to the at least one light emitting diode matrix. |
| US10856379B2 |
Privacy glass system
The disclosure relates in general to privacy glass, and more particularly, to a privacy glass system containing a light source, a diffuser, and a control and power circuitry combined in such a fashion as to make the level of visibility through the privacy glass system controllable. |
| US10856378B2 |
Intelligent power supply and auxiliary monitoring method for intelligent power supply
An intelligent power supply includes: constant current/constant voltage module; dimming control module which is located at a rear end of the constant current/constant voltage module and is electrically connected thereto; switching circuit for electrically connecting the constant current/constant voltage module and load, which is controlled by the dimming control module; the intelligent power supply further including voltage sampling module disposed between the constant current/constant voltage module and the dimming control module; and the power supply voltage of the voltage sampling module is provided by the constant current/constant voltage module, and the dimming control module detects the voltage signal of the sampling resistance of the voltage sampling module in real time; the operating power of the dimming control module is provided by the power supply voltage of the voltage sampling module. |
| US10856371B2 |
Wireless sensor in a microwave oven
A microwave oven is described herein. In some instances, such a microwave oven may include a housing; a rotating turntable assembly disposed in a cooking cavity of the housing; a probe powered by the turntable assembly, where the probe is configured to measure an environmental condition during a cooking cycle and where the probe is configured to transmit a signal regarding the environmental condition; and a controller disposed in the housing and configured to receive the signal regarding the environmental condition from the probe. A method of operating a microwave oven for sous vide cooking is also disclosed. |
| US10856367B2 |
Electrical connector
An electrical connector for a glazing including a first connector foot and a second connector foot for soldering to the glazing, and a bridge portion comprising sheet metal having a thickness in a specified range linking the first connector foot and second connector foot. The first connector foot and the second connector foot each are shaped so that most of the perimeter of each foot is curved, the first connector foot and the second connector foot are connected to the bridge portion by a first neck portion and a second neck portion respectively, and the first neck portion and the second neck portion each have a narrower width than a width of the bridge portion. |
| US10856365B2 |
Self regulating flexible heating device
An improved resistive heating device includes multiple printed heating elements joined through a flexible film substrate to bus bars printed on an opposite side of the flexible film. The heating elements may be printed using a positive temperature coefficient ink to provide a self-regulated maximum temperature based on a given input voltage. This printing of electrical components on both sides of a flexible film, referred to herein as double-sided polymer circuitry (D/SPC®), provides various additional advantages over single-sided printing, such as an increased heat per unit surface area. This also provides a more concentrated and evenly distributed heat pattern, and will reduce or eliminate the exhibition of hot spots or varying patterns of heat throughout the heating element. This printing on both sides of the flexible film results in an improved, fault-tolerant bus bar topology, which may be used in fault-critical medical applications or other mission-critical applications. |
| US10856364B2 |
Heat generating apparatus
The heat generating apparatus according to the present invention includes: a positive temperature coefficient thermistor heat generating element including an electrode layer; a first electrode terminal; a second electrode terminal; a holder configured to house the positive temperature coefficient thermistor heat generating element; and a heat conductive sheet, in which the heat conductive sheet includes a graphite particle and a polymer compound, a major axis direction of the graphite particle is substantially orthogonal to the surface of the positive temperature coefficient thermistor heat generating element, and the positive temperature coefficient thermistor heat generating element and the holder are assembled in a state in which they are biased so as to apply pressure to the heat conductive sheet. |
| US10856360B1 |
System and method for sharing multi-access edge computing resources in a wireless network
An orchestration device may receive a request to register available multi-access edge computing (MEC) resources to be shared with a network operator. For example, the available MEC resources may be provided by a provider operating a MEC host located in an edge region of a radio access network (RAN) associated with the network operator. The orchestration device may receive information related to a requested MEC session to support an application workload for a user equipment in communication with a base station located in the edge region of the RAN and assign at least a portion of the application workload to the MEC host based on a profile for the MEC host and a service level agreement specifying one or more performance requirements associated with the application workload. Accordingly, the orchestration device may cause the portion of the application workload to be transmitted to the MEC host. |
| US10856358B2 |
Hierarchical CDRX configuration for dynamic bandwidth part management and power saving
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a base station to perform a method construct dynamic hierarchical sub-configurations of bandwidth parts (BWPs) for use in a connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) communication session with a user equipment (UE) device. The base station may configure a first BWP at a baseband frequency associated with the CDRX communication session as a default BWP, a second BWP with a wider bandwidth than the first BWP as a transmission BWP, and one or more third BWPs as resting BWPs. The transmission BWP and the one or more resting BWPs may be configured to periodically override the default BWP as the active BWP for a predetermined number of CDRX cycles. The transmission BWP may be utilized, when activated to perform data transmission by UE device, and the one or more resting BWPs may be utilized, when activated, for performing channel measurements. |
| US10856348B2 |
Methods and apparatus for determining a number of connections to use at a given time and/or the level of error correcting coding to use based on connection scores
A first communications device may use one or a plurality of communications connections in parallel for a communications session between the first communications device and the second communications device. The first device makes decisions as to the number of connections to use, the level of error correcting code to use, and/or the level of packet redundancy to use based on test scores corresponding to one or more communications session connections. The first communications device generates a first test score corresponding to a first communications session connection based on a test performed over a first test path between the first communications device and a test server, said first communications session connection and the first test path sharing a common link, e.g., a common wireless link between the first device and an access point. The first device may generate and use an overall connection score corresponding to a plurality of session connections. |
| US10856347B2 |
Wireless communications method, apparatus, device, and storage medium
A wireless communications method includes: obtaining a first wireless universal model corresponding to a target device, wherein the first wireless universal model comprises a scanning rule applicable to wireless devices, and the scanning rule comprises identification information of the target device; scanning peripheral devices, and determining identification information of a scanned peripheral device based on the scanning rule; determining whether the identification information of the target device matches the identification information of the scanned peripheral device; and in response to that the identification information of the target device matches the identification information of the scanned peripheral device, pairing the scanned peripheral device with the primary device, to establish a communication connection between the scanned peripheral device and the primary device. |
| US10856346B2 |
Neighboring network devices
Example implementations relate to neighboring network devices. For example, a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource can cause a computer to determine a characteristic affecting a subset of a plurality of network devices. The instructions can cause the processing resource to determine that at least two of the subset of the plurality of network devices that are affected by the characteristic are neighbors. The instructions can cause the processing resource to indicate a region to be associated with each network device of the subset based on the determination that at least two of the subset of the plurality of network devices are neighbors. |
| US10856345B2 |
Methods and apparatus for device-to-device feedback
Wireless communication apparatus and methods related to wireless communication, for example, device-to-device feedback are described. In aspects, a method of wireless communication may include communicating a sidelink traffic communication using a sidelink communication structure, and communicating an allotting for sidelink feedback using at least one feedback symbol of the sidelink communication structure. In aspects, the method includes communicating, by a first wireless communication device, a sidelink feedback communication using at least one feedback symbol of the sidelink communication structure, wherein the sidelink feedback communication is associated with the sidelink traffic communication. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US10856341B2 |
Wireless communication method, user equipment, and access network device
The present disclosure discloses a wireless communication method, user equipment, and an access network device. The method includes: when user equipment (UE) is to transmit an uplink first data flow, if the first data flow is a new data flow and the first data flow belongs to a service pre-authorized to the UE, sending, by the UE, a bearer setup request to an access network device; and receiving, by the UE, a bearer setup response sent by the access network device, where the bearer setup response includes a bearer identifier, and the bearer identifier is an identifier of a bearer that is set up. |
| US10856336B2 |
Communication system
A communication system is disclosed in which a communication device communicates with communication apparatus that operates a cell within which the communication device is located. The cell is operated as a licensed assisted access (LAA) cell and has an associated physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The communication device has a controller that is adapted to: generate a control signal for transmitting to said communication apparatus; perform a clear channel assessment (CCA) on said PUCCH before the control signal is transmitted; and block transmission of the control signal on said PUCCH when said CCA indicates that said channel is not clear. The communication device is further adapted, when said controller has not blocked said transmission of the control signal, to transmit the control signal to said communication apparatus in said PUCCH. |
| US10856329B2 |
Methods and devices for transmitting and receiving signals
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. Embodiments of the present disclosure provides method for transmitting signals on an Unlicensed Frequency Band (UFB), comprising: performing, by a transmitting node, a first type of Listen Before Talk (LBT) on a direction i; transmitting, by the transmitting node, signals on a direction j after passing the first type of LBT, wherein the direction i is omnidirectional, or one or multiple beam directions corresponding to the direction j. The technical scheme of the present disclosure may be applied to high-frequency-band signal transmission and LBT and avoid interference with other nodes on the UFB. |
| US10856325B2 |
System access method and apparatus of a narrowband terminal in a wireless communication system supporting wideband and narrowband terminals
Apparatuses (including base stations and terminals), systems, and methods for supporting both wideband and narrowband communications are described. In one aspect, a base station supporting first type terminals operating on a first bandwidth and second type terminals operating on a second bandwidth is described, having an information formatter, a transceiver, and a controller. The information formatter generates a Low-end Master Information Block (L-MIB) and a Low-end System Information Block (L-SIB), which are transmitted by the transceiver to first type and second type terminals. The L-MIB includes control information on an L-subframe configuration for supporting a second type terminal and a sub-band configuration of the L-subframe, while the L-SIB includes information on downlink reception and uplink transmission of the second type terminal. When the base station receives a Random Access Channel (RACH) preamble request from one of the terminals, the base station performs the random access procedure. |
| US10856324B2 |
Scheduling method and device
This application relates to a scheduling method and a device. In the scheduling method, a base station sends, at a first moment, uplink grant (UL GRANT) information to a terminal that is to perform uplink data transmission; the base station sends, at a second moment, downlink data to a terminal that is determined by the base station and that is to perform downlink data transmission, where the second moment is a moment at which the terminal that is to perform uplink data transmission sends uplink data after receiving the uplink grant information at the first moment. |
| US10856322B2 |
Telecommunications apparatus and methods
A terminal device in a wireless telecommunication system which transmits a master information block and a first and a second system information block the first and second system information block comprising first and second scheduling information relating to the timing of at least one additional block of system information. The terminal device configured to receive the master information block of system information that comprises a marker instructing the terminal device to ignore the first scheduling information and process only the second scheduling information. |
| US10856320B2 |
Configuring for bandwidth parts
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for configuring bandwidth parts. One method includes: receiving a first bandwidth part configuration for a first downlink bandwidth part and a second bandwidth part configuration for a second downlink bandwidth part; receiving an indication to receive downlink signals and channels in the first downlink bandwidth part; identifying a control resource set and a corresponding search space for a type of physical downlink control channel common search space within a bandwidth of the first downlink bandwidth part from the second bandwidth part configuration; monitoring physical downlink control channel candidates on the control resource set; and receiving a physical downlink control channel on the control resource set, wherein the physical downlink control channel includes downlink control information associated with the type of physical downlink control channel common search space. |
| US10856318B2 |
Base station, terminal, and wireless communication system
A base station includes a licensed band transmitting unit, a determining unit, and an unlicensed band transmitting unit. The licensed band transmitting unit transmits, to a terminal, a control signal for specifying a resource in a shared band to be used for data transmission by the terminal. The determining unit determines whether the resource in the shared band is idle or busy. The unlicensed band transmitting unit transmits a permission signal for permitting transmission in the shared band when the determining unit determines that the resource in the shared band is idle. The control signal or the permission signal includes an offset indicating a time from the permission signal to a start of transmission of data from the terminal to the base station with reference to the permission signal transmitted from the unlicensed band transmitting unit. |
| US10856316B2 |
Method and apparatus for downlink data buffering considering cross carrier scheduling in a wireless communication system
The UE receives configuration of a first serving cell and a second serving cell from a network. The UE receives and/or monitors a first PDCCH transmitted on a scheduling CORESET of the second serving cell, wherein the first PDCCH schedules a first PDSCH transmitted on the first serving cell. The UE receives and/or monitors a second PDCCH transmitted on a scheduling CORESET of the second serving cell, wherein the second PDCCH schedules a second PDSCH transmitted on the second serving cell. The UE receives and/or buffers the second PDSCH via a TCI state used for PDCCH quasi co-location indication of the CORESET with the lowest CORESET-ID in the latest slot in which one or more CORESETs are configured for the UE, before the UE decodes successfully the second PDCCH. The UE does not receive and/or buffer the first PDSCH before the UE decodes successfully the first PDCCH. |
| US10856315B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus therefor, the method including determining a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources for transmitting a plurality of pieces of uplink control information (UCI), multiplexing UCI related to (1) a first PUCCH resource among the determined plurality of PUCCH resources and (2) one or more second PUCCH resources overlapped with the first PUCCH resource on a time axis, based on the first PUCCH resource, and determining a third PUCCH resource for transmitting the multiplexed UCI. The first PUCCH resource is a PUCCH resource having an earliest starting symbol among the determined plurality of PUCCH resources. |
| US10856313B2 |
Network node, wireless device and methods therein for managing uplink resources
A first network node (110; 111; 112; 130), a wireless device (120) and methods thereof, for managing one or more uplink resources between the wireless device (120) and a wireless communication network (100) are provided. The first network node (110; 11; 112; 130) compiles (204; 401) resource information about uplink resources available for the wireless device (120) to select and request for uplink scheduling. Said resource information associates each one of multiple such uplink resources with one or more downlink reference signals. The first network node (110; 111; 112; 130) sends (205; 402) the compiled resource information to the wireless device (120). The wireless device (120) 10 is thereby enabled to select, based on the resource information and said one or more downlink reference signals, at least one of said uplink resources to request for uplink scheduling. |
| US10856312B1 |
Data transmission method and device, and computer storage medium
A data transmission method and device and storage medium are provided. The method comprises a non-access stratum of a terminal device obtains description information of data to be transmitted; the non-access stratum determines, according to a mapping relationship between preset data description information and reliability transmission indication information, and the description information of the data to be transmitted, the reliability transmission indication information corresponding to the data to be transmitted, the reliability transmission indication information being used for indicating whether to perform reliability transmission on the data to be transmitted; in response to the feature that the reliability transmission indication information indicates to perform reliability transmission on the data to be transmitted, after the non-access stratum transmits the reliability transmission indication information corresponding to the data to be transmitted to an access stratum of the terminal device, the access stratum sends a reliability transmission request message to a network device. |
| US10856308B2 |
Methods and systems for performance enhancement of downlink shared channels
A method performed by a wireless device (WD) comprises receiving a control message. The control message indicating at least a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) and a scaling factor for a downlink shared channel. The scaling factor indicates a value less than 1. The method further comprises determining a transport block size (TBS) based on the MCS and the scaling factor indicated in the control message. A method performed by a network node comprises indicating in a control message at least a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) and a scaling factor for a downlink shared channel. The scaling factor indicating a value less than 1. The method further comprises sending the control message to a User Equipment (UE), the control message enabling determination of a Transport Block Size (TBS) for a shared downlink channel. |
| US10856305B2 |
Multi-user MIMO systems and methods
A method and system are provided for scheduling data transmission in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The MIMO system may comprise at least one MIMO transmitter and at least one MIMO receiver. Feedback from one or more receivers may be used by a transmitter to improve quality, capacity, and scheduling in MIMO communication systems. The method may include generating or receiving information pertaining to a MIMO channel metric and information pertaining to a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in respect of a transmitted signal; and sending a next transmission to a receiver using a MIMO mode selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the MIMO channel metric, and an adaptive coding and modulation selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the CQI. |
| US10856304B2 |
Base station apparatus, control apparatus, and storage medium for transmitting data
A quality score calculator calculates first quality information indicating a degree of quality of a signal received from a terminal apparatus. A communication interface acquires second quality information indicating a degree of quality of a signal received by another base station apparatus from the terminal apparatus. A controller compares the first quality information calculated and the second quality information acquired and determines which indicates a higher quality. A communication interface and a wireless transmitter transmit the signal received from the terminal apparatus when it is determined that the quality of the first quality information is higher. |
| US10856303B2 |
Method for performing measurement and device supporting the same
Provided are a method for performing measurement and a device supporting the method. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises: receiving a reference signal (RS); receiving a measurement configuration including a set of filter coefficients from a network, wherein each filter coefficient in the set of filter coefficients is configured per periodicity of the RS; performing a measurement based on the RS; selecting a filter coefficient in the set of filter coefficients based on the periodicity of the RS; and reporting a result of the measurement filtered based on the selected filter coefficient. |
| US10856300B2 |
Per-TTI rank control within transmission opportunity for downlink comp
A per-transmit time interval (TTI) rank control within a transmission opportunity (TxOP) is described for downlink coordinated multiple point (CoMP) operations. In operation, a base station may determine rank and data rate for communication during a transmission opportunity (TxOP) at the beginning of the TxOP. Each TxOP may include a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs). For each TTI of the TxOP, the base station computes one or more channel quality indicator (CQI) back-offs using one or more outer loop adaptation processes per TTI, and updates rank and the data rate using the CQI back-offs. Once updated, the base station transmits the downlink data during each TTI according to the updated rank and the data rate. |
| US10856296B2 |
Techniques and apparatuses for determining channels for frequency hopping in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band
Some techniques described herein assist a user equipment with acquiring and/or reacquiring, from a base station, a dynamic list of channels to be used for frequency hopping when communicating over an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, thereby increasing communication reliability and promoting coexistence in the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. Some techniques described herein also assist the user equipment in obtaining the list of channels with low latency (e.g., shortly after the list has changed) and with low power consumption. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US10856291B2 |
Method and apparatus for wireless communication in wireless communication system
A method of transmitting uplink data is provided. The method includes establishing connections with a first serving cell and a second serving cell, determining, by a user equipment (UE), a time period for a device-to-device (D2D) discovery signal communication via the second serving cell, determining, by the UE and based on an uplink grant received via the first serving cell, a first subframe associated with an uplink signal to an evolved NodeB (eNB) associated with the first serving cell, and in response to determining that the first subframe overlaps in time with the time period, refraining from transmitting the uplink signal in the first subframe, and transmitting, based on a retransmission timing, the uplink signal. |
| US10856290B2 |
Subframe configuration method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present application relate to the communications field, and provide a subframe configuration method and apparatus. The method includes: classifying, by a base station, user equipments UEs in a first cell into N user groups, and determining an uplink-downlink subframe configuration required by each user group; determining a primary uplink-downlink subframe configuration of the first cell according to the uplink-downlink subframe configuration of each user group; determining configuration indication information of each user group according to the primary uplink-downlink subframe configuration and the uplink-downlink subframe configuration required by each user group; and sending, to each user group in the N user groups, the primary uplink-downlink subframe configuration and configuration indication information including at least the configuration indication information of the user group. The embodiments of the present application are applied to a full duplex scenario of a base station. |
| US10856287B2 |
Frame structure, communication devices and methods for communication
The application relates to a frame structure for network communication, in particular for device-to-device (D2D) network communication, comprising a control channel, wherein the control channel comprises a first control channel portion associated with a network-assisted communication mode and a second control channel portion associated with an ad-hoc communication mode, and a data channel, wherein the frame structure is configured to communicate control data within the control channel over a first communication resource, the first communication resource being associated with the first control channel portion, wherein the frame structure is configured to communicate control data within the control channel over a second communication resource, the second communication resource being associated with the second control channel portion, and wherein the frame structure is configured to communicate payload data within the data channel over a further communication resource. |
| US10856286B2 |
Data transmission method and apparatus
In a data transmission method, a terminal device receives control information, and receives data of a transport block (TB); and the terminal devices obtains m code block (CB) groups in the TB, where m is a positive integer, m=min(NCB_re, NGroup_max), NCB_re is a quantity of CBs in the TB, NGroup_max is a maximum value of a quantity of CB groups, each of the m CB groups includes at least one CB, NCB_re is determined based on a TB size (TBS) and a maximum value of a data size of a CB, and the TBS is determined based on the control information. |
| US10856285B2 |
Method and apparatus for allocating control channel candidates
The present application provides a method and an apparatus for allocating control channel candidates, which relate to the communications field, and can allocate control channel candidates at different aggregation levels to K ePDCCH sets and reduce complexity of blind detection performed by a UE. The method includes: determining K sets for transmitting a control channel, where each set in the K sets includes at least one physical resource block pair; and allocating control channel candidates at each aggregation level to at least one set in the K sets according to at least one of aggregation levels supported by the control channel to be transmitted, the number of control channel candidates corresponding to each aggregation level, the K sets for transmitting the control channel, and types of the sets. |
| US10856283B2 |
Data transmission method, terminal device, and network device
Disclosed are a data transmission method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: the terminal device determining a basic parameter set for transmitting data; the terminal device detecting, according to the basic parameter set, downlink control information DCI sent by the network device for scheduling data; the terminal device detecting, according to the basic parameter set and the detected DCI, data sent by the network device, or sending data to the network device. The data transmission method, the terminal device and the network device of the embodiments of the present invention can realize the scheduling using different DCI formats for the data transmission on the basis of different basic parameter sets, and increase the flexibility of the control signaling design. |
| US10856282B2 |
Interlaces allocation and indication
An apparatus for use in an eNB, the apparatus includes circuitry to generate an assignment of one or more interlaces to a UE within a cell managed by the eNB, where the one or more interlaces are selected from a total number of interlaces, and an interlace of the total number of interlaces may include multiple resource blocks spanning within a system bandwidth. The circuitry included in the apparatus is further to encode the assignment by a bit string including one or more bits, which may be a bitmap or an encoding bit string. The circuitry included in the apparatus is further to transmit the bit string to the UE. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed. |
| US10856279B2 |
Terminal device, base station device and radio communication method
In a radio communication system using OCC for DMRS, a base station apparatus correctly receives PUSCH. If a first mode is set in which a demodulation reference signal of a physical uplink shared channel is multiplied by an orthogonal code determined in advance or if a temporary C-RNTI was used for a transmission of downlink control information, the demodulation reference signal of the physical uplink shared channel is multiplied by the orthogonal code determined in advance, and if a second mode is set in which the demodulation reference signal of the physical uplink shared channel is multiplied by an orthogonal code determined on the basis of cyclic shift information in the downlink control information and moreover, if an RNTI other than the temporary C-RNTI was used for the transmission of the downlink control information, the demodulation reference signal of the physical uplink shared channel is multiplied by the orthogonal code determined on the basis of the cyclic shift information in the downlink control information. |
| US10856274B2 |
Power headroom reporting method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application provide a power headroom reporting method and apparatus. Impact of introduction of multi-beam transmission, a plurality of time-frequency resource configurations, or an uplink multi-waveform technology on a power headroom is considered, so that the power headroom is calculated and reported more accurately, to help a network side make a scheduling decision, thereby improving communication performance. |
| US10856273B2 |
Method for measuring and reporting channel state information in wireless communication system and device therefor
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for measuring and reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, a method for reporting CSI by a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises: a step of receiving CSI reporting setting information related to CSI reporting; a step of receiving one or more CSI-reference signals (CSI-RSs); and performing the CSI reporting by using a measurement value estimated by at least one specific CSI-RS among the one or more CSI-RSs, wherein the CSI reporting setting information includes gap information for setting a measurement gap for estimating the measurement value, and the at least one specific CSI-RS can be determined on the basis of the gap information and the time point of performing the CSI reporting. |
| US10856271B2 |
Multiplexing control and data information from a user equipment in a physical data channel
Methods and apparatus are described for transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bit in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) by a user equipment (UE) in a communication system. A method includes acquiring information on at least one offset for HARQ-ACK; obtaining at least one HARQ-ACK bit, based on a number of cells and a number of transport blocks for each of the cells; determining a number of coded symbols for the at least one HARQ-ACK bit, based on a number of the at least one HARQ-ACK bit and one offset of the at least one offset, wherein the one offset is identified according to the number of the at least one HARQ-ACK bit; obtaining coded HARQ-ACK bits based on a (32,O) block code, wherein O is the number of the at least one HARQ-ACK bit; and transmitting the coded HARQ-ACK bits in the PUSCH, based on the number of coded symbols for the at least one HARQ-ACK bit. |
| US10856267B2 |
Information indication method and related device
This application discloses example information indication methods and related devices. In one example method, a terminal device receives first information used to instruct the terminal device to receive a first channel in a first time unit, and second information used to instruct the terminal device to receive a second channel in a second time unit. The terminal device receives the first channel based on the first information. When the first time unit is equal to the second time unit, the terminal device receives the second channel based on the first information, where the second information is a first indicator value. When the first time unit is not equal to the second time unit, the terminal device receives the second channel based on the second information where the second information is a second indicator value. |
| US10856264B2 |
Cross band carriers
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Downlink carriers in the millimeter wave spectrum may be paired with one or more carriers in a lower frequency spectrum, such as one or more uplink carriers in a sub-6 GHz band. |
| US10856261B2 |
Method and apparatus for receiving a synchronization signal
The present invention discloses a method for a terminal to receive a synchronization signal in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method includes the steps of receiving a synchronization block including a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcasting channel (PBCH) and receiving a DMRS (demodulation reference signal) via resource region in which the PBCH is received. In this case, an index of the synchronization block can be determined in consideration of a sequence of the DMRS. |
| US10856259B2 |
RAN paging transmission by a base station
A first base station receives an uplink signal from a wireless device. The first base station receives a packet for the wireless device: after a duration from receiving the uplink signal; and when the wireless device is in a radio resource control inactive state. A determination is made that the duration is larger than a value. Based on the determining, the first base station sends a radio access network (RAN) paging to a second base station of a RAN notification area of the wireless device. The first base station sends the packet. |
| US10856257B2 |
Timing advance command for uplink transmission
Provided are a method for skipping contention resolution. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes leaving radio resource control (RRC) connected state, while leaving RRC connected state, receiving information on timing advance in a paging occasion, adapting the timing advance and performing transmission based on the adapted timing advance. |
| US10856249B2 |
Method and system for transmission of SUSI in the NAS procedure
The present disclosure is related to sending of a one time identifier of a UE during the NAS procedure. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to determining whether to use same one time identifier or different one time identifier during registration retry procedure. |
| US10856248B2 |
Method for selecting network providing restricted local operator service in wireless communication system and apparatus thereof
A method for selecting, by a user equipment (UE), a public land mobile network (PLMN) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes attempting a registration on a PLMN selected by a user in a manual network selection mode, if the registration on the PLMN selected by the user cannot be achieved, finding one or more PLMNs offering access to restricted local operator service (RLOS), selecting a specific PLMN of the found one or more PLMNs among PLMNs contained in a RLOS PLMN list configured to a universal subscriber identity module (USIM) of the UE, and initiating a registration for an access to RLOS on the specific PLMN, thereby using RLOS with high quality and high security. |
| US10856247B2 |
Transmission timing adjustment method and device
A transmission timing adjustment method and device are provided. The method includes: determining, by a base station, a transmission delay between user equipment (UE) and the base station; generating, a timing advance (TA) quantized value according to the transmission delay, where the TA quantized value includes a base value and an offset value, quantization precision of the base value is first quantization precision MTs, quantization precision of the offset value is second quantization precision NTs, M is a positive integer less than or equal to 16, N is a nonnegative integer less than M, and Ts is a minimum time unit in a LTE system and has a value of 1/30.72 μs; and sending, by the base station, the TA quantized value to the UE, where the TA quantized value is used for uplink transmission timing adjustment of the UE. The embodiments facilitate network planning and optimization. |
| US10856239B2 |
Power control for retransmissions
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Wireless communications between a base station and one or more wireless devices are described. A wireless device may use power ramping for transmissions and/or retransmissions. Power ramping may be used during a random access procedure. A wireless device may fail a listen before talk procedure before sending a preamble or a transport block on an unlicensed band. The wireless device may use power ramping to determine a power of transmission of the preamble and/or transport block based on the prior preamble or a transport block transmission. Power ramping may be determined using a power ramping counter value and/or a power ramping step value, which may be shared or associated with the preamble and/or a transport block. |
| US10856236B1 |
Fallback procedures when the path loss or spatial transmit quasi-collocation (QCL) reference from neighboring cells is failing for sounding reference signals (SRS) for positioning
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a UE receives a positioning configuration, the positioning configuration including at least an identifier of a first downlink reference signal from a neighboring cell to be used for estimating a downlink path loss or determining an uplink spatial transmit beam, determines that a first downlink reference signal received from the neighboring cell cannot be used for estimating the downlink path loss or determining the uplink spatial transmit beam, in response to the determination, estimating the downlink path loss or determining the uplink spatial transmit beam based on a second downlink reference signal received from the neighboring cell or a serving cell, and transmits an uplink reference signal for positioning based on the estimated downlink path loss, the determined uplink spatial transmit beam, or a combination thereof. |
| US10856231B2 |
Optimizing mobile network traffic coordination across multiple applications running on a mobile device
Systems and methods for prediction of activity session for mobile network use optimization and user experience enhancement are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system for enhancing user experience with a mobile application on a mobile device including, using user activity characteristics at a mobile device and server activity characteristics of a host server to anticipate a future activity session at the mobile device and transferring impending content from the host server the mobile device to pre-cache content on the mobile device to support predicted data activity for the future activity session that has been predicted. |
| US10856226B2 |
Service set compression
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to service set compression. A device may determine a wake-up frame comprising one or more fields, wherein the one or more fields indicate an action to be taken on a receiving device. The device may determine an identifier to be indicated in the wake-up frame. The device may determine a size of the identifier. The device may cause to compress the identifier forming a compressed output, wherein the identifier is compressed by applying a cyclic redundancy code (CRC) computation. The device may identify a portion of the compressed output. The device may cause to send the wake-up frame to a receiving device, wherein the wake-up frame comprises the portion of the compressed output based on the size of the identifier. |
| US10856224B2 |
Method and system for enabling discontinuous reception (DRX) over an unlicensed band in cellular networks
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as a Long Term Evolution (LTE).The present disclosure provides a method and system for enabling discontinuous reception (DRX) over an unlicensed band in cellular networks. In one embodiment, the method comprises of monitoring, by a user equipment (UE), an unlicensed channel at a pre-configured on period of a DRX cycle, wherein the UE wakes up during a DRX on period and sleeps during DRX off period, receiving an indication of extension of the DRX on period from an associated evolved node B (eNB) when the associated eNB is unable to acquire an unlicensed channel during a DRX on period of the licensed channel and continuously monitoring the unlicensed band for the extended DRX on period. The time period for extension of the DRX on period of the unlicensed channel is selected from a set of pre-specified extension values. The present disclosure further enables the UE to terminate monitoring of the DRX on period of the unlicensed channel upon receiving a stop monitoring indication from the associated eNB. |
| US10856223B2 |
Method of, and transceiver station and mobile terminal for, distributing system information in a cellular telecommunications network
The invention is directed at a method of distributing system information to one or more mobile terminals in a cellular telecommunications network. The network comprises at least one signaling cell serving a first coverage area, and one or more data cells associated with said signaling cell, each one of said data cells serving a respective partial coverage area covering at least a part of the first coverage area. For each one of said data cells, the respective data cell is operated in either an active or inactive communication mode depending on whether there is at least one of said mobile terminals present in the partial coverage area of said respective data cell, and whether said at least one mobile terminal operates in an active terminal mode and is not served by other data cells. |
| US10856222B2 |
Preambles for wake-up receivers
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for indicating a data rate of a packet. The transmitting device may select the data rate of a data field of the packet to be transmitted to the receiving device, and may select a pattern to embed within a preamble of the packet based on the selected data rate. In some implementations, the transmitting device may select a first structure including a first number of instances of a sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a low data rate, and may select a second structure including a second number of instances of the sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a high data rate. |
| US10856219B2 |
Communication device, communication method, and computer program product
According to one embodiment, a communication device includes one or more processors. The one or more processors configured to function as a plurality of communication control units and a selection unit. The plurality of communication control units control communication in accordance with a plurality of control schemes that differ from each other. The selection unit selects a communication control unit for use in communication from the communication control units based on selection criteria. |
| US10856216B2 |
Communication apparatus, control method, and recording medium
A communication apparatus is provided and is capable of selecting between a mode in which a service search is performed in a single network and a mode in which a service search is performed in a plurality of networks selects which mode to perform a service search in based on a predetermined condition, and performs a service search in the selected mode. |
| US10856214B2 |
Method and user equipment (UE) for provisioning minimum system information (MSI) in wireless communication system
Accordingly the embodiments herein provide a method for provisioning Minimum System Information (MSI) for User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes decoding Primary Broadcast Channel (PBCH) to acquire a first Master Information Block (MIB) periodically transmitted by base station. Further, the method includes determining to perform one of bar a cell from which the first MIB is acquired for a pre-determined period of time and acquire second MIB transmitted on Secondary Broadcast Channel (SBCH) by base station based on cell barring indication received in the first MIB. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting a request message to the base station to obtain at least one SI block of the OSI. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a list of system configuration indexes (SCIs) and corresponding configuration of SI blocks, from the base station based on SI storage capability of the UE indicated to the base station. |
| US10856212B2 |
Access management to multi-user uplink random resource units by a plurality of BSSs
A physical Access Point (AP) manages a plurality of BSS groups through Virtual APs. The AP periodically sends beacon frames informing of the profile of each BSS of the plurality of BSSs. To improve channel utilization, the trigger frame identifies a plurality of BSS groups, stations of which are allowed to access the resources units to transmit data during the reserved TXOP. The AP receives, during the reserved TXOP, data from one station of a first group identified in the trigger frame and data from one station (separate from the first one) of a second and separate group identified in the trigger frame. First group and second group use the same joint set of random access parameters for the random access procedure, thus ensuring equivalent fairness in accessing the offered the resources units to transmit data during the reserved TXOP to several BSSs. |
| US10856211B2 |
D2D operation method performed by terminal in wireless communication system and terminal using same
Provided are a device-to-device (D2D) operation method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system and a terminal using the method. The method comprises: determining whether the terminal is located within network coverage; and transmitting information notifying a result of the determination to another terminal. Using this information, said another terminal can know whether the terminal is located within the network coverage and perform the D2D operation on the basis thereof. |
| US10856200B2 |
Reporting cell band information in a communication network
Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method and a communications device. The method includes: sending, by a base station, a message including measurement configuration to UE, where the measurement configuration is used to request the UE to report a cell global identifier of a cell; obtaining, by the base station, a measurement report reported by the UE, where the measurement report corresponds to the measurement configuration and includes the cell global identifier of the cell and band information of the cell; and performing, by the base station, cell handover based on the band information and the cell global identifier of the cell. By means of the present invention, the base station obtains complete and accurate band information of the cell, so that the base station can perform accurate handover decision, thereby avoiding handover failure. |
| US10856198B2 |
Selecting a network gateway based on a number of supported bearers
A mobility management entity (MME) receives a first message for a wireless device supporting a first number of bearers. In response to receiving the first message, the MME selects a network gateway from a plurality of network gateways, based on a second number of bearers supported by the network gateway. The MME sends, to the network gateway, a create session request message for creating an internet protocol-connectivity access network (IP-CAN) session for the wireless device supporting the first number of bearers. The create session request message comprises an address of the network gateway. The MME receives, from the network gateway, a create session response message confirming creation of the IP-CAN session. |
| US10856197B2 |
Apparatus, system and method for dual connectivity
An SeNB informs an MeNB that it can configure bearers for the given UE. At this time, the MeNB manages the DRB status, and then sends a key S-KeNB to the SeNB. The MeNB also sends a KSI for the S-KeNB to both of the UE and the SeNB. After this procedure, the MeNB informs an EPC (MME and S-GW) about the new bearer configured at the SeNB, such that the S-GW 50 can start offloading the bearer(s) to the SeNB 30. Prior to the offloading, the EPC network entity (MME or S-GW) performs verification that: 1) whether the request is coming from authenticated source (MeNB); and 2) whether the SeNB is a valid eNB to which the traffic can be offload. |
| US10856191B1 |
User equipment configuration
A network apparatus may include a memory and processing circuitry configured to receive first connection metrics of a connection with a user equipment that is using a first configuration during a first connected state; receive second connection metrics of the connection with the user equipment during a transition to a second connected state; choose a selected configuration as (i) the first configuration or (ii) a second configuration for the second connection state based on the first connection metrics and the second connection metrics; and send the selected configuration to the user equipment. |
| US10856187B2 |
Communication apparatus, communication system, notification method, and program product
There is provided a communication apparatus including: a first communication unit having a first communication range; a second communication unit having a second communication range wider than the first communication range; a control unit which transmits a request signal for starting communication via the second communication unit from the first communication unit to another communication apparatus, and transmits authentication information from the second communication unit to the another communication apparatus in the case where it is determined that communication with the another communication apparatus via the second communication unit is possible based on a response signal after the first communication unit receives the response signal in response to the request signal; and a notification unit which notifies a user after the second communication unit receives a result of authentication based on the authentication information. |
| US10856182B1 |
Controlling voice-over-packet service where base stations provide overlapping coverage on overlapping RF carriers
Given first and second base stations that have at least partially geographically-overlapping coverage on at least partially frequency-overlapping carriers, a determination could be made that the first base station supports voice-interworking service in which served UEs could separately receive voice-over-circuit service but that the second base station does not support voice-interworking service. And in response to at least that determination, the second base station could be given priority over the first base station for providing voice-over-packet service. |
| US10856177B2 |
Mitigation of negative delay via half CP shift
A receiver performing a half cyclic prefix (CP) shift on received subframes is disclosed, comprising: an analog to digital conversion (ADC) module; a cyclic prefix (CP) removal module coupled to the ADC module configured to retain a portion of cyclic prefix samples; a fast Fourier transform (FFT) module configured to receive samples from the cyclic prefix removal module, and to perform a FFT procedure on the received samples using a FFT window, the FFT window being shifted ahead based on the retained portion of cyclic prefix samples, to output an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbol; and a rotation compensation module coupled to the FFT module, the rotation compensation module configured to perform phase de-rotation of the OFDM symbol. |
| US10856175B1 |
Method and system for managing congestion in inter-band carrier aggregation
When a base station is serving a plurality of UEs, the base station detects that a load level on a first RF carrier is greater than a threshold load level. The base station then decides, based at least in part on whether a UE is capable of being served by the base station on a second RF carrier, whether to limit allocation of resource blocks on the first RF carrier to the UE. The base station may then establish or modify an air interface connection with the UE to encompass resource blocks on the first RF carrier and/or resources blocks on one or more other RF carriers, in accordance with the limited allocation. |
| US10856174B2 |
Buffer status report control
A wireless device receives configuration parameters comprising: first parameters of logical channel(s) indicating that each logical channel of the logical channel(s) is mapped to corresponding first transmission duration(s); and a second parameter indicating a first value for a buffer status report timer. The buffer status report timer is started with the first value in response to: receiving at least one uplink grant associated with a second transmission duration; and at least one logical channel, with data, of the logical channel(s) mapped to the second transmission duration. A buffer status report is transmitted in response to the buffer status report timer expiring. |
| US10856173B2 |
Method and SMF for supporting QOS
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method by which a session management function (SMF) supports quality of service (QoS). The method can comprise the steps of: determining, on the basis of a QoS flow not being a guaranteed bit rate (GBR) QoS flow in a multi-access (MA) protocol data unit (PDU) session, that a QoS profile is transmitted to both a third generation partnership project (3GPP) access and a non-3GPP access; determining, on the basis of the QoS flow being the GBR QoS flow in the MA PDU session, that the QoS profile is transmitted to only one of the 3GPP access and the non-3GPP access; and transmitting the QoS profile on the basis of the determinations. |
| US10856172B2 |
Method and apparatus for user distribution to sub bands in NOMA systems
A mechanism for attributing users to a plurality of sub bands in a time slot t in a multiple access communications system, said method comprising assigning a combination of users to a sub band on a Proportional Fairness basis, that is to say whichever combination of users maximizes a Proportional Fairness performance metric for that channel, where the performance metric is weighted by a weighting factor reflecting the difference for that user between a target throughput and a projected throughput. |
| US10856166B1 |
Wireless relay measurement reporting in a wireless communication network
A wireless relay serves wireless User Equipment (UEs). In the wireless relay, a user transceiver exchanges user signaling and user data with the UEs and exchanges access signaling and the user data with a network transceiver. The network transceiver determines wideband radio measurements and wirelessly exchanges the user data and relay signaling with a wireless data network over the wideband. The relay signaling includes the access signaling and the wideband radio measurements. The network transceiver determines when communication quality for the UEs falls below a quality threshold. In response, the network transceiver determines sub-band radio measurements for the sub-bands within the wideband and wirelessly exchanges additional relay signaling with the wireless data network over the sub-bands. The additional relay signaling has the sub-band radio measurements. The network transceiver may receive instructions to determine sub-band radio measurements instead of wideband radio measurements. |
| US10856165B2 |
Method of reporting channel state information, communication device and computer program
A communication device is arranged to operate in a cellular communication system and report Channel State Information, CSI, including a channel quality by a Channel Quality Indicator, CQI, which reports a CQI set. The communication device comprises a receiver arranged to receive antenna-specific reference signals, a channel estimator arranged to evaluate channel conditions from the reference signals to determine values of a CQI set, a reporting processor arranged to determine whether a bounded differential reporting format prevents values of the CQI set to be accurately reported, and to determine a CQI set such that the bounded differential reporting format allows the values of the CQI set to be reported to reduce under-reporting or over-reporting errors that arise from the use of the bounded differential reporting format, and to form a CSI report including the values of the CQI set using the bounded differential reporting format, and a transmitter arranged to send the CSI report. A method and computer program for implementing the method are also disclosed. |
| US10856164B2 |
Method for scheduling resources in unlicensed frequency band, base station and terminal
The present disclosure discloses a method for scheduling resources in an unlicensed frequency band, a base station and a terminal. The method includes: receiving a data transmission request from a mobile communication network device; and when a transmission indicated by the data transmission request is a transmission that needs to be responded to, scheduling time-frequency resources for the mobile communication network device in accordance with a predetermined resource scheduling manner, so as to improve a transmission success rate at a specified resource location in the time-frequency resources. According to the present disclosure, the existing technical problem of lowering the channel access priority of the entire cell due to part of terminals which are affected by significant interference can be solved. |
| US10856162B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting indication of cell coverage in wireless communication system
A method for receiving, by a first base station, coverage modification information in a wireless communication system, includes receiving, by the first base station, the coverage modification information which informs the first base station that modifying at least one cell managed by a second base station is planned, from the second base station, wherein the at least one cell managed by the second base station is modified by the second base station, after the second base station transmits the coverage modification information to the first base station. |
| US10856155B2 |
WLAN extender placement
In wireless local area networks (WLANs) having a wireless access point and a plurality of client devices, the range of the WLAN is affected by obstructions and sources of interference. This may result in coverage gaps in the WLAN. A method is described for operating a mobile wireless device to simulate the behavior of a WLAN extender to improve the coverage of the WLAN. The performance of a data link between the simulated extender device and the wireless access point, and performance of a data link between the simulated extender device and the plurality of client devices, is measured at various locations within the user premises. The results are processed to determine the benefit provided at the various locations by an extender device and a recommended location is provided to a user. |
| US10856153B2 |
Virtual 360-degree view modification of a telecommunications site for planning, engineering, and installation
Systems and method for creating, modifying, and utilizing a virtual 360-degree view of a telecommunications site obtaining data capture from the telecommunications site, wherein the data capture comprises one or more of photos and video; processing the data capture to create a three-dimensional (3D) model of the telecommunications site in a first state, buildings, and constructions therein; importing the 3D model into modification software and adding one or more objects to the 3D model utilizing the modification software, wherein the one or more objects comprise one or more of geography, buildings, and constructions planned as possible additions to the telecommunications sites; creating a modified 3D model with the one or more objects and the 3D model in the first state such that the modified 3D model represents the telecommunications site in a second state; and utilizing the modified 3D model for one or more of planning, engineering, and installation. |
| US10856152B2 |
Controlling access to protected functionality of a host device using a wireless device
A wearable device can establish a verified session with a host device (e.g., by establishing that the wearable device is present in the vicinity of the host device and is currently being worn). The existence of such a verified session can be used to control user access to sensitive information that may be stored in or otherwise accessible to a host device. For example, the host device and/or application programs executing thereon can be configured to restrict a user's ability to invoke program functionality that accesses sensitive information based on whether a verified session with a wearable device is currently in progress. |
| US10856148B2 |
Methods and apparatus for user authentication and human intent verification in mobile devices
Methods and apparatus for user authentication and human intent verification of administrative operations for eSIMs of an eUICC included in a mobile device are disclosed. Certain administrative operations, such as import, modification, and/or export, of an eSIM and/or for an eUICCs firmware can require user authentication and/or human intent verification before execution of the administrative operations are performed or completed by the mobile device. A user of the mobile device provides information to link an external user account to an eSIM upon (or subsequent to) installation on the eUICC. User credentials, such as a user name and password, and/or information generated therefrom, can be used to authenticate the user with an external server. In response to successful user authentication, the administrative operations are performed. Human intent verification can also be performed in conjunction with user authentication to prevent malware from interfering with eSIM and/or eUICC functions of the mobile device. |
| US10856146B2 |
Electronic device verification
A method for verifying whether an electronic device is one of a group of known devices comprises receiving verification information indicative of a first device identifier accessible from storage circuitry by a predetermined process executed by the electronic device and a second device identifier inaccessible from the storage circuitry by the predetermined process. A device database retains valid pairings of the first and second device identifiers for the group of known devices. The device database is looked up based on the verification information to determine whether the first and second device identifiers correspond to one of the valid parings. |
| US10856145B2 |
Method and device for identifying visited and home authentication servers
Authentication problems often occur when a user of a terminal visits a communications network while roaming. A method is therefore provided for authorizing an authenticated user of a communications terminal. The terminal is configured to connect to a packet-switching network via an access gateway over a current network to which the terminal is connected. The method is implemented by a current authentication server over the current network and includes: receipt of a user authorization request from the access gateway, including an identifier of the user; transmission of a user authorization response to the access gateway, including parameters for authorizing the user, and a unique identifier of an authentication server that authenticated the user. |
| US10856135B2 |
Method and apparatus for network access
A method at a Fast Identity Online, FIDO, server for facilitating a terminal device without a Subscriber Identity Module, SIM, card to access a first network via a second network. Association information for the terminal device without a SIM card is obtained indicative of an association between the terminal device without a SIM card and a user subscription account and authentication information for the terminal device without a SIM card and causes the terminal device without a SIM card to be registered with the FIDO server according to a set of FIDO Alliance specifications based at least on the association information and the authentication information. Registration information for the terminal device without a SIM card is provided to an Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting, AAA, server, in response to receipt at the AAA server of an authentication request from the terminal device without a SIM card. |
| US10856128B2 |
Method and device for inter-device communication
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided in order to support a higher data transmission rate following 4G communication systems such as LTE. Disclosed are a method and device for improving device searching in a D2D communication system supporting direct communication between devices. The method comprises the steps of: generating a search signal including search information; selecting a transmission resource to transmit the search signal; transmitting the search signal through the selected transmission resource; and when a request signal requesting additional information on the search from a counterpart device that has received the search signal is received, transmitting a confirmation signal including the requested additional information to the counterpart device. The present disclosure relates to a communication technique and system which combine a 5G communication system, for supporting a higher data transmission rate following 4G systems, with IoT technology. |
| US10856127B2 |
Method and system for an emergency location information service (E-LIS) for water-based network devices
An emergency location information service (E-LIS) for water-based network devices. The E-LIS includes a server application and server network devices that accepts emergency messages from water-based network devices. The water based network devices comprise one or more sensors or one or more actuators, a wireless connection interface including a wireless low power wide-area ultra-narrowband network interface and a wireless low earth orbit satellite network connection interface and is an automated network device capable of sensing is own environment and automatically sending out the one or more emergency messages or one or more emergency text messages without operator input to an E-LIS server network device when an emergency event occurs on a body of water. The E-LIS server network device provides a current physical geographic location for such water-based network devices and/or users of the water-based network devices in an emergency situation on the body of water such as a river, lake, sea, ocean, etc. |
| US10856125B2 |
Communication device
A communication device may execute a wireless communication of object data with a mobile device via a first target network using a second type of interface after executing a sending process of sending a wireless setting, for causing the mobile device to belong to the first target network, to the mobile device using a first type of interface in a case where the communication device is determined as currently belonging to the first target network. The communication device may execute the wireless communication of the object data with the mobile device via a second target network using the second type of interface after executing a specific process of causing both the communication device and the mobile device to belong to the second target network in a case where the communication device is determined as currently not belonging to the target network. |
| US10856122B2 |
System, apparatus and method for scalable internet of things (IoT) device on-boarding with quarantine capabilities
In one embodiment, a domain controller includes: a quarantine logic to quarantine unknown devices from unrestricted network access, the quarantine logic comprising a first quarantine point at a first layer of a multi-layer communication model; a first logic to communicate with a domain name system (DNS) service to self-allocate and register a domain name with the DNS service, the domain name associated with a domain to be managed by the domain controller; a second logic to manage a group of devices of the domain; and a third logic to receive a provisioning request for a first device via an access point, wherein the access point comprises a second quarantine point at a second layer of the multi-level communication model. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10856121B1 |
Methods, systems, and devices for providing subscription services to a communication device that shares an operational profile with another communication device
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a first bootstrap profile on a first communication device, and detecting a second bootstrap profile on a second communication device. Further aspects can include determining the first bootstrap profile and the second bootstrap profile are a same bootstrap profile, and providing limited services to the second communication device according to the first communication device and the second communication device having the same bootstrap profile. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10856118B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting information using V2X communication in a wireless communication system
Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting information for a neighboring vehicle UE of a first vehicle UE using V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication in a wireless communication system.The method includes receiving a first V2X message from at least one the neighboring vehicle UE; generating a second V2X message based on the received first V2X message when an accident triggering an eCall (emergency call) occurs, checking whether the second V2X message is ready to be transmitted to the first network entity; and transmitting at least one of the eCall, a minimum set of data (MSD) forming the data component of the eCall, or the second V2X message to the first network entity according to the result of the check. |
| US10856116B1 |
Blockchain system and method for calculating location of time-crucial shipments according to expectation and smart contracts
A client-server system and a blockchain method for calculating whether a time-crucial shipment is located according to an expectation comprising a client device adapted for being adhered to or placed within a time-crucial package shipment; and a remote special purpose computer server comprising a transit plan schedule database based on pickup time and location stored in memory, the remote special purpose computer server being programmed to calculate a location of the client device based on data accessed from a Wi-Fi access point location database, the transmitted identification data, and the transmitted signal strength data, and compare the calculated location to an expected location based on common carrier schedule transit plan pickup time and delivery location received from third party database sources. |
| US10856115B2 |
Systems and methods for aggregating media related to an event
A system for aggregating media is provided which includes a server equipped with a processor and memory and having an event database associated with it which contains a plurality of events, wherein each of the plurality of events has a temporal window and geofence associated with it; and a plurality of users, each having associated therewith a mobile technology platform equipped with a display and a memory which communicates with the server. The memory of each mobile technology platform has an instance of a software application is installed which monitors the current location of the user, prompts the user to check into events present in the event database when the user enters a geofence associated with an event within the temporal window associated with the event, associates, with one of the plurality of events, media which was captured by the user while the user was checked into the one of the plurality of events and within the temporal window and geofence associated with the one of the plurality of events, and uploads the captured media to the server. |
| US10856106B1 |
Mobile device and automotive device interface for geolocation searching
A method of presenting data on a mobile device is provided, comprising reading a compass and an accelerometer for sensing orientation and movement of the mobile device, initiating a local geographic search or query by pointing the mobile device in a desired direction, determining a boundary for search results, the boundary based on a current location of the mobile device, providing the boundary to a server, storing (a) search rules for a given location, (b) localized storage of POI data, and (c) logic for switching the search from a macro database to a micro database, and initiating a geographic query for points of interest (POIs) that have an associated geographic position within the boundary. |
| US10856102B2 |
Sharing of environmental data for client device usage
Embodiments are generally directed to sharing of environmental data for client device usage. An embodiment of a client device includes a processor; an environmental sensor to sense an environmental condition, an output of the sensor being a local environmental sensor value; and a wireless receiver to receive environmental data for a certain proximity area from a second client device according to an environmental data sharing protocol via a wireless network. The environmental data sharing protocol allows receipt of the environmental data without requiring pairing, bonding, or other relationship of client devices. |
| US10856098B1 |
Determination of an acoustic filter for incorporating local effects of room modes
Determination of an acoustic filter for incorporating local effects of room modes within a target area is presented herein. A model of the target area is determined based in part on a three-dimensional virtual representation of the target area. In some embodiments, the model is selected from a group of candidate models. Room modes of the target area are determined based on a shape and/or dimensions of the model. The room mode parameters are determined based on at least one of the room modes and the position of a user within the target area. The room mode parameters describe an acoustic filter that as applied to audio content, simulates acoustic distortion at the position of the user and at frequencies associated with the at least one room mode. The acoustic filter is generated at a headset based on the room mode parameter and is used to present audio content. |
| US10856097B2 |
Generating personalized end user head-related transfer function (HRTV) using panoramic images of ear
Left and right ear HRTF coefficients are determined for an end user, one each for each of a plurality of head orientations, and provided to the end user on a portable recording medium, or via the Internet, etc. The user can then implement the files on audio played on the user's headphones, with the file corresponding to the user's head orientation being selected as the user moves his head to ensure the sound as perceived by the user remains emanating from a fixed external location. The user's personal HRTF may be generated using panoramic images of the ears, such as multiple 2D images or 3D imaging. |
| US10856095B2 |
Mixed reality system with spatialized audio
A dual source spatialized audio system includes a general audio system and a personal audio system. The general system includes a general audio processor and general speakers to produce general sound. The personal system includes a frame to be worn on a head of a user and a plurality of personal speakers attached to the frame. The personal system also includes a head pose sensor to collect head pose data of the user. The personal system further includes a head pose processor to determine a head pose of the user from the head pose data. Moreover, the personal system includes a personal audio processor to generate personal audio data based on the head pose of the user. The personal speakers generate personal sound corresponding to the personal audio data. The personal processor receives timing information/metadata from the general audio processor to synchronize the personal sound with the general sound. |
| US10856094B2 |
Method and device for sound source localization
A method and an apparatus for locating a sound source are provided. The method includes: obtaining M channels of audio signals of a preset format by microphone arrays located in different planes (S100); preprocessing the M channels of audio signals of the preset format, and projecting them onto the same plane, so as to obtain N channels of audio signals, where M≥N (S200); performing a time-frequency transformation on each of the N channels of audio signals, so as to obtain frequency domain signals of the N channels of audio signals (S300); further calculating a covariance matrix of the frequency domain signals and performing a smoothing process (S400); performing an eigenvalue decomposition of the smoothed covariance matrix (S500); estimating the sound source direction according to an eigenvector corresponding to the maximum eigenvalue, so as to obtain a sound source orientation parameter (S600). |
| US10856093B2 |
System and method for handling digital content
The invention refers to a system for handling digital content including an input interface, a calculator, and an output interface. The input interface receives digital content and includes a plurality of input channels. At least one input channel receives digital content from a sensor or a group of sensors belonging to a recording session. The calculator provides output digital content by adapting received digital content to a reproduction session in which the output digital content is to be reproduced. The output interface outputs the output digital content and includes a plurality of output channels, wherein at least one output channel outputs the output digital content to an actuator or a group of actuators belonging to the reproduction session. Further, the input interface, the calculator, and the output interface are connected with each other via a network. The input interface is configured to receive digital content via by Ni input channels, where the number Ni is based on a user interaction, and/or the output interface is configured to output the output digital content via by No output channels, where the number No is based on a user interaction. The invention further refers to a corresponding method. |
| US10856091B2 |
Electromagnetic transducer with expanded magnetic flux functionality
An apparatus, including an external component of a medical device including an electromagnetic actuator configured such that static magnetic flux of the electromagnetic actuator removably retains the external component to a recipient thereof. |
| US10856090B2 |
Speaker unit for a hearing aid device system, and hearing aid device system
A speaker unit detachably mountable to a hearing aid device body configured to be positioned behind an ear of a wearer is disclosed. Further, hearing aid device system comprising the speaker unit is disclosed. The speaker unit comprises a contacting unit comprising at least one contact element and configured to be detachably mountable to a hearing aid device connector of said hearing aid device. The speaker unit further comprises a speaker unit body configured to be positioned at least partly in an ear canal of the wearer and comprising an output transducer unit configured to provide an acoustic signal based on an electrical signal input to said output transducer unit via said at least one contact element. The speaker unit further comprises a connecting unit provided between said speaker unit body and said contacting unit and including at least one wire configured to electrically connect said speaker unit body and said contacting unit. Further, the speaker unit comprises a memory unit configured to store data relating to said speaker unit. |
| US10856089B2 |
Method for operating a hearing aid, and hearing aid
A method operates a hearing aid where the hearing aid generates an input signal from acoustic signals from the environment. The hearing aid has a signal processor which is configured to modify the input signal and thereby generate an output signal. The signal processor has an automatic gain control for modifying the input signal, and has a compressor that can be operated with a compression scheme. The environment is divided into a plurality of directions of which one is selected by a direction determination unit as a relevant direction. The input signal is modified in a direction-dependent manner by the compressor being operated with a compression scheme, which is set dependent on the relevant direction, so that acoustic signals from the relevant direction are emphasized compared to acoustic signals from other directions. |
| US10856083B2 |
Diaphragm and miniature speaker comprising same
The present invention discloses a diaphragm and a miniature speaker comprising the diaphragm. The diaphragm has a multi-layer composite structure comprising alternately stacked thermoplastic elastomer layers and adhesive film layer(s). The diaphragm and the miniature speaker comprising the same solve the technical problems such as an unstable F0 and high total harmonic distortion of the miniature speaker in the prior art. The diaphragm and the miniature speaker according to the invention have low total harmonic distortion, low damping coefficient, higher F0 stability and high sound quality, satisfying requirements for high sound quality of an electronic device. |
| US10856082B1 |
Audio system with sound-field-type nature sound effect
An audio system with sound-field-type nature sound effect includes: a first primary channel playing device for playing a primary audio signal generated according to a left channel audio signal and/or a right channel audio signal; a first secondary signal circuit for generating a first secondary audio signal according to the left channel audio signal and the right channel audio signal; and a first sound field control playing device connected to the first secondary signal circuit and adapted to play the first secondary audio signal; wherein a first playing delay period exists between the playing of the first secondary audio signal and the playing of the primary audio signal; wherein the first secondary audio signal played by the first sound field control playing device does not undergo audio mixing with the primary audio signal by a first audio mixing circuit. |
| US10856081B2 |
Spatially ducking audio produced through a beamforming loudspeaker array
A method for adjusting audio being outputted through a beam forming loudspeaker array. Program audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array to produce sound beams having i) a main content pattern that is aimed at a listener, superimposed with ii) several diffuse content patterns that are aimed away from the listener. In response to receiving an alert message that refers to alert audio, the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is moved into the diffuse patterns, and the alert audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array so that the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is replaced with the alert audio. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US10856080B2 |
Audio signal echo reduction
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for reducing echo in an audio signal. One representative embodiment involves obtaining an input signal, an estimate of a system-characterizing function, and a reference signal, each at a corresponding sample rate and each divided into a plurality of sub-bands; separately processing such sub-bands, where for a given sub-band the estimate of the system-characterizing function and the reference signal are processed to generate an echo-estimation signal and then the echo-estimation signal is subtracted from the input signal to provide an echo-corrected signal for such given sub-band; and combining the echo-corrected signal from each of different ones of the plurality of the sub-bands to provide a final output signal, with the echo-estimation signal generated using a processing sample rate that is lower than the sample rate for the input signal. |
| US10856078B1 |
Systems and methods for audio feedback elimination
An audio system and method for eliminating audio feedback including a first audio input arranged to receive a first audio signal, a first audio output arranged within a first predefined zone, the first audio output arranged to receive the first audio signal, a second audio output arranged within the first predefined zone, the second audio output arranged to receive the first audio signal, and one or more processors connected to a virtual matrix including a plurality of virtual channels connecting the first audio input, the first audio output, and the second audio output, and the one or more processors arranged to receive the first audio signal and attenuate or eliminate the first audio signal to the first audio output or the second audio output if an audio feedback is detected. |
| US10856071B2 |
System and method for improving hearing
A system and method for improving hearing is disclosed. The system includes a microphone array that includes an enclosure, a plurality of beamformer microphones and an electronic processing circuitry to provide enhanced audio signals to a user by using information obtained on the position and orientation of the user. The system is preferably in the form of a smartphone having a retractable piece having the beamformer microphones mounted thereon. The system may also include a corresponding method for improving hearing and a non-transitory computer storage media having instructions stored thereon which, when executed, execute the method. |
| US10856070B2 |
Throat microphone system and method
A throat microphone system and method are disclosed. Certain people may have difficulty vocalizing, such as those suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. The throat microphone system includes a microphone unit that wirelessly communicates with an external device, such as a receiver unit in combination with a smartphone or a smartphone. The microphone unit includes a microphone and a wireless transceiver to wirelessly transmit sound data generated by the microphone. The smartphone processes the sound data in order to increase the intelligibility and/or the volume. Further, the microphone unit may attach to the neck of the wearer and may encircle the neck less than the entire perimeter of the neck. In this way, the microphone unit may be easily removed in the event the wearer is in distress. Moreover, the throat microphone system may include a non-audio sensor, such as a vibration sensor or an electromyograph sensor, in order to determine whether the wearer is voicing speech. |
| US10856067B2 |
Dosimetry hearing protection device with time remaining warning
A hearing protection device configured to measure the noise exposure of a user and to provide a time remaining estimate until a maximum noise exposure level is achieved. Generally, the hearing protection device may comprise a sound sealing section, a microphone configured to generate a detected sound signal indicative of the measured sound level at the user's ear canal, a memory/storage configured to record the detected sound signal as sound exposure history, a timer configured to measure the amount of time the hearing protection device is exposed to sound, and a processor configured to receive a timer signal from the timer and the detected sound signal to calculate a time remaining estimate until reaching the maximum noise exposure level. Additionally, the maximum noise exposure level may be based on industry regulations or personalized hearing thresholds. |
| US10856056B2 |
Sensor network for measuring soil moisture
Described herein are embodiments of a system comprising an underground sensor network that measures soil moisture by quantifying how changes in soil water content affect the attenuation of radio signals between buried sensor nodes. Also disclosed herein are methods of using the described system for measuring soil moisture and using the measurement for various control aspects including for example controlling irrigation in agricultural and urban settings. |
| US10856053B1 |
Midroll breaks feedback system
A computer-implemented method for optimizing the placement of previously selected breaks in a media item is provided herein. Embodiments of the method include steps of identifying a break in a media item, the break being associated with a first break point at a first time during playback of the media item. The method may also include steps of dynamically adjusting the placement of the breaks within the media item based on the performance of the media item. |
| US10856046B2 |
Video playback buffer control
A buffer status metric representing a current amount of video packets in a video playback buffer (303) of a user device (300). A buffer status action is triggered based on the buffer status action and at least one of a mobility metric representing a mobility pattern of the user device (300) and a radio quality metric representing a signal strength of a radio channel carrying video packets towards the user device (300). The embodiments also relate to determination of a buffer control model (142) that can be used in order to control the video playback buffer based on the input metrics. The embodiments achieve a more efficient control of video playback buffers (303) and may reduce the risk of freezes during video playback. |
| US10856044B2 |
Environment object recognition
Methods, systems, and devices for displaying additional or targeted content to a user are disclosed. An image or data capture device associated with a display device may capture an image of a space associated with the user or capture data related to what is being viewed by the viewer's eyes. Objects in the captured image or objects being viewed may be recognized, including any identifiable image, item, detail, or article and the like. A recognized object may then be compared to a target list to determine a match. If matched, and if there is additional content associated with the target object, the additional content may be presented to the user. |
| US10856040B2 |
Video rendering system
An apparatus for improved rendering includes a number of processing channels to receive multiple input content sources and to process that input content. A compositor can composite processed input content to generate a composite output signal. An output adaptation block can adapt the composite output signal along with dynamic metadata for display by a display device. Each processing channel includes a statistics generator and an input adaptation block. |
| US10856037B2 |
Augmented reality apparatus and method
A live broadcast is depicted, in this case a golf tournament. The broadcast is depicted on a television screen of a user, substantially in real time. In a television studio, which may be close to the site of the live broadcast, or may be remote therefrom, a commentator or pundit records segments of video analysis. The video image is sent to a server. The video clip of the commentator is then downloadable by the user using a device such as a mobile phone or tablet. The user can then view the additional content—the video segment of the commentator—on his device. Using the techniques of positioning and anchoring as described herein, the user can enjoy the video segment as though the commentator were present in the room, by viewing the room through a camera of the device. |
| US10856032B2 |
System and method for enhancing content using brain-state data
A computer system or method may be provided for modulating content based on a person's brainwave data, including modifying presentation of digital content at at least one computing device. The content may also be modulated based on a set of rules maintained by or accessible to the computer system. The content may also be modulated based on user input, including through receipt of a presentation control command that may be processed by the computer system of the present invention to modify presentation of content. Content may also be shared with associated brain state information. |
| US10856027B2 |
Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from different marginal rating unions
Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate population reach for different unions based on marginal ratings. An example apparatus includes an association controller to generate a tree association corresponding to a union of a first and second margin of time; and one or more commercial solvers to perform parallel computations on a processor to determine first multipliers corresponding to a total number of panelists exposed to media at the first margin, the second margin, and the union by solving first equations corresponding to the tree association; discard a first multiplier and a second multiplier of the first multipliers corresponding to the first margin and the second margin; perform parallel computation on the processor to determine second multipliers corresponding to a total audience exposed to the media at the first margin and the second margin by solving second equations corresponding to the tree association, the second system of equations including a subset of the first multipliers; and determine an estimate for a population reach of the union based on the second multipliers. |
| US10856026B2 |
Video broadcasting system
A mobile system that resolve the communication and engagement challenge that companies face on a daily basis including a mobile video app that compliments existing employee communication of large multinational companies to provide immediate and direct communication to employees in several languages. The system includes a local server that communicates with a mainframe during off peak band width periods and distributing the content locally through a private WiFi network. The system may also be configured as a plug in to a software based inventory system utilizing bar codes that may be scanned to provide video content regarding a particular product. |
| US10856024B2 |
Audio synchronization of correlated video feeds
Systems and methods are provided for synchronizing audio feeds. A system obtains a plurality of audio feeds and identifies a base feed, a first feed, a base segment, and a first segment. The system also determines a plurality of time-shifted first segments that are each temporally offset from the first segment by a unique multiple of a granularity parameter. A plurality of correlation values between the base segment and each of the plurality of time-shifted first segments are also determined, as well as a first offset value corresponding to a particular time-shifted first segment of the plurality of time-shifted first segments having the highest correlation value. The first feed and/or supplemental content of the first feed is then synchronized with the base feed by at least temporally offsetting the first feed and/or supplemental content of the first feed by a temporal offset comprising/based on the selected first offset value. |
| US10856020B2 |
Systems and methods for distributing content using a common set of encryption keys
Systems and methods for performing adaptive bitrate streaming using alternative streams of protected content in accordance with embodiments of the invention are described. One embodiment of the invention includes a processor, and memory containing a client application. In addition, the client application configures the processor to: request a top level index file identifying a plurality of alternative streams of protected content, where each of the alternative streams of protected content are encrypted using common cryptographic information; obtain the common cryptographic information; request portions of content from at least the plurality of alternative streams of protected content; access the protected content using the common cryptographic information; and playback the content. |
| US10856015B2 |
Method for operating a cache arranged along a transmission path between client terminals and at least one server, and corresponding cache
Cache (DANE) located along a transmission path between client terminals (CT) and at least one server (SE) and configured to receive requests from client terminals (CT) for segments of a multimedia content available at several representations, which comprises: —an interface of connection (1) for receiving, from a first client terminal, a first request for a preferred representation and at least one alternative representation of a given segment of said multimedia content; —a matching module (5) configured to determine if at least one ongoing representation of said given segment, already requested by the cache from a server for a further client terminal, matches the preferred representation or an alternative representation of the first request. |
| US10856010B2 |
Device and method for coding video data based on multiple reference lines
A method of decoding a bitstream by an electronic device is provided. A directional mode of a block unit is determined from the bitstream. A plurality of reference lines neighboring to the block unit are determined based on the block unit. Each of the reference lines includes a plurality of neighboring samples. A plurality of reference samples are determined along an orientation of the directional mode based on the neighboring samples in at least one of the reference lines. A smoothed sample is generated for reconstructing an image frame including the block unit based on the reference samples. |
| US10856008B2 |
Enhanced intra-prediction coding using planar representations
The present invention provides low complexity planar mode coding in which a value of a bottom-right pixel in a prediction block is calculated from a value of at least one pixel in at least one of an array of horizontal boundary pixels and an array of vertical boundary pixels. Linear and bi-linear interpolations on the value of the bottom-right pixel and values of at least some of the horizontal and vertical boundary pixels to derive values of remaining pixels in the prediction block. A residual between the prediction block and an original block is signaled to a decoder. |
| US10856007B2 |
Decoded picture buffer management
Techniques are described related to output and removal of decoded pictures from a decoded picture buffer (DPB). The example techniques may remove a decoded picture from the DPB prior to coding a current picture. For instance, the example techniques may remove the decoded picture if that decoded picture is not identified in the reference picture set of the current picture. |
| US10856005B2 |
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory, in which using the memory, the circuitry, in affine motion compensation prediction in inter prediction for a current block, places a limit on a range within which motion estimation or motion compensation is performed, and performs the motion compensation for the current block. |
| US10856002B2 |
Method, device and system for method of encoding a sequence of frames in a video stream
The present teachings relate to the field of video encoding. In particular, the present teachings relate to a method, device, and system for encoding a sequence of frames wherein a motion level of image data of an initial frame in the sequence of frames is determined to be below a motion level threshold. The encoding method described herein may reduce the bit rate for the encoded sequence of frames, while avoiding that the encoded video stream looks unnatural or frozen when decoded and displayed. |
| US10856001B2 |
Polygon unit-based image processing method, and device for same
A polygon unit-based image processing method, and a device for the same are disclosed. Specifically, a method for decoding an image on the basis of a polygon unit can comprise the steps of: deriving a motion vector predictor for a polygon apex forming the polygon unit; deriving a motion vector for the polygon apex on the basis of a motion vector difference for the polygon apex and the motion vector predictor; and deriving a prediction sample for the polygon unit from a division unit, which is specified by the motion vector, in a reference picture. |
| US10855997B2 |
Secondary transform kernel size selection
A method and apparatus related to secondary transform operations. In which, the non-zero transform coefficients in a particular subset of the transform coefficients of the block of pixels is counted and compared with a particular threshold so as to determine whether or not to perform the secondary transform on the block of pixels. Besides, the optimal secondary transform kernel size is derived implicitly based on the size of the block, or derived explicitly based on a flag coded by using an adaptive code word. |
| US10855995B2 |
Inter-plane prediction
A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane. |
| US10855986B2 |
Bandwidth compression for neural network systems
Techniques and systems are provided for compressing data in a neural network. For example, output data can be obtained from a node of the neural network. Re-arranged output data having a re-arranged scanning pattern can be generated. The re-arranged output data can be generated by re-arranging the output data into the re-arranged scanning pattern. One or more residual values can be determined for the re-arranged output data by applying a prediction mode to the re-arranged output data. The one or more residual values can then be compressed using a coding mode. |
| US10855984B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method
Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes a setting unit assigning a control block, which is a control unit of a filter process that is locally performed with respect to an image, to an initial position of the image determined based on a predetermined reference point; a movement unit moving the control block, which has been assigned to the initial position of the image by the setting unit, up to a position in which the result of the filter process is improved; and a filter processing unit performing the filter process for the respective control blocks which has been moved by the movement unit. |
| US10855980B2 |
Medical-image display control device, medical image display device, medical-information processing system, and medical-image display control method
[Problem] Both the synchronization between multiple devices for the timing in which a left-eye image and a right-eye image forming a medical image are displayed and the suppression of the delay in presenting an image to a predetermined viewer are enabled.[Solution] A medical-image display control device includes: a display controller that controls a medical image so as to be displayed on a slave-side display unit; and an acquiring unit that acquires, from another device including a master-side display unit different from the slave-side display unit, a synchronization signal that corresponds to timing in which the other device displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image on the master-side display unit, and the display controller controls a left-eye image and a right-eye image so as to be displayed on the slave-side display unit in a time-division manner in accordance with the acquired synchronization signal. |
| US10855979B2 |
Interpreting eye gaze direction as user input to near-eye-display (NED) devices for enabling hands free positioning of virtual items
A Near-Eye-Display (NED) device utilizes eye tracking to interpret gaze direction as user input for hands free positioning of virtual items. The NED device includes an eye tracking system to monitor gaze direction and a display component that renders virtual items within a user's view of a physical real-world environment. The NED device receives an indication that the user desires to adjust a position of the virtual item. In response, the NED device uses tracks the user's eye movements to dynamically change the position at which the display component is rendering the virtual item. In this way, a NED device may identify when a user desires to adjust a position at which a virtual item is being rendered and then may enable the user to make the desired adjustments simply by “dragging” the virtual item with deliberate and controlled eye movements. |
| US10855976B2 |
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. |
| US10855973B1 |
Depth mapping using fringe interferometry
A depth camera assembly (DCA) determines distances between the DCA and objects in a local area within a field of view of the DCA. The DCA projects a series of sinusoidal patterns into the local area DCA and captures images of the sinusoidal patterns via a sensor. The DCA determines a distance between the DCA and locations in the local area based on a phase shift each of the sinusoidal patterns captured by each pixel of the sensor. Initially, a calibration offset is determined for each pixel of the sensor by emitting the sinusoidal patterns onto a target at a predetermined distance from the DCA and using phase shifts for a pixel and the predetermined distance to determine the pixel's calibration offset. |
| US10855968B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting stereoscopic video content
A method for transmitting stereoscopic video content according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: generating, on the basis of data of a stereoscopic video which includes a plurality of omnidirectional videos having parallax, a first frame comprising a plurality of first views projected from the plurality of omnidirectional videos; generating a second frame comprising a plurality of second views by packing, on the basis of region-wise packing information, a plurality of first regions included in the plurality of first views; and transmitting data on the generated second frame, wherein the plurality of second views include a plurality of second regions corresponding to the plurality of first regions, and the region-wise packing information includes information on shape, orientation, or transformation for each of the plurality of second regions. |
| US10855964B2 |
Hue map generation for highlight recovery
Embodiments relate to generation of hue maps for highlight recovery of an input image. An image having a plurality of color channels is obtained at a first resolution lower than a resolution of the input image. A hue for each color channel for each pixel is determined, using a pixel value for that color channel and pixel values for the plurality of color channels in the first image. Weights are determined for each pixel for each color channel, based on hues for the pixel and pixel values for the pixel in the first image. A plurality of candidate hue maps are generated, based on the weights and pixel values in the first image in a patch surrounding the pixel for the plurality of color channels. |
| US10855963B2 |
Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus
A counter substrate of an electro-optical device incluedes a first lens, a first optical path length adjustment layer, a second lens, and a second optical path length adjustment layer. A first partition portion is provided between the first lens and the first optical path length adjustment layer. A second partition portion is provided between the first optical path length adjustment layer and the second lens. The second partition portion includes, across the entire second partition portion in an extending direction thereof, a plurality of first openings bored through the second partition portion. Thus, the ITO film can be formed in a region, where the first optical path length adjustment layer is covered by the second partition portion, under a condition similar to the condition for a region, where the first optical path length adjustment layer is not covered by the second partition portion. |
| US10855958B1 |
System and method for managing service and non-service related activities associated with a waste collection, disposal and/or recycling vehicle
Systems and methods are provided for using video/still images captured by continuously recording optical sensors mounted on waste collection vehicles used in in the waste collection, disposal and recycling industry for operational and customer service related purposes. Optical sensors are integrated into the in-cab monitor as well as the onboard computer, digital video recorder and other external devices. |
| US10855957B2 |
Wireless augmented video system and method to detect and prevent insurance billing fraud and physical assault for remote mobile application
The present invention discloses a wireless augmented video system and method to monitor medical insurance billing fraud, drug or other theft and elder patient or child abuse by the caregivers. The wireless augmented system comprises; a wireless augmented monitoring devices, a cloud system monitoring center and a caregiver employing agency. The wireless wearable augmented monitoring devices further includes a smart wearable nametag apparatus and smart wearable wristband. A wireless cellular transceiver configured within the nametag apparatus to stream the augmented video stream in response to an event detected. The nametag apparatus also incorporates a memory element to buffer the augmented data prior to transmission, a SIM card to connect to any data cellular network, a Bluetooth to connect peripheral devices, a Wi-Fi component, color LCD screen for displaying current caregiver's name and photograph on the name tag, and LED power status display, a microphone, speaker and a micro USB port. |
| US10855952B1 |
User engagement computer system and method of using same
A user engagement computer system for enhancing user engagement via video chats and methods of using same are disclosed. The system includes one or more modules that provide enhanced video chat features such as one of the following: detecting user presence at the user devices, automating the establishment and/or scheduling of video chat sessions based on user presence, controlling the available functionality of the video chat application during a video chat session based on user presence, providing a kids mode with safeguards for children who video chat, providing visualization of storytelling, providing shared digital interactions via a shared interactive digital screen overlaid onto the video chat display, providing user controls via unspoken words, motions and gestures, actively measuring user engagement during a video chat session, and utilizing state machines to dynamically change between system states. |
| US10855949B2 |
Methods and systems for customizing skip forward functionality
In some aspects, control circuitry receives and stores a user-specified time duration to associate with a skip-forward command. When the user later issues a skip-forward command to advance playback of a media asset to a desired location, the control circuitry retrieves the stored time duration, and determines an expected overshoot value associated with the skip-forward command. The control circuitry then compensates for the expected overshoot by calculating a new location in the media asset based on both the retrieved time duration and expected overshoot value. Upon advancing to the new location, the media asset is played back in a fast-forward mode, e.g., at a speed higher than normal speed. |
| US10855942B2 |
White balance and fixed pattern noise frame calibration using distal cap
The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for producing an image in light deficient environments and correction of white balance and/or fixed pattern noise at startup or at any other time during a procedure. |
| US10855941B2 |
Solid-state imaging element and electronic device
A solid-state imaging element of the present disclosure includes a pixel. The pixel includes a charge accumulation unit that accumulates a charge photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit, a reset transistor that selectively applies a reset voltage to the charge accumulation unit, an amplification transistor having a gate electrode electrically connected to the charge accumulation unit, and a selection transistor connected in series to the amplification transistor. Additionally, the solid-state imaging element includes a first wiring electrically connecting the charge accumulation unit and the gate electrode of the amplification transistor, a second wiring electrically connected to a common connection node of the amplification transistor and the selection transistor and formed along the first wiring, and a third wiring electrically connecting the amplification transistor and the selection transistor. |
| US10855932B2 |
Processing holographic videos
An example holographic video recording system comprises: a first group of cameras positioned at a first position, a second group of cameras positioned at a second position, and a third group of camera including a third infrared camera. The first group of cameras includes a first infrared camera and a first color camera; the second group of cameras includes a second infrared camera and a second color camera; and the third group of camera includes a third infrared camera spatially positioned between the first and second infrared cameras. A depth map may be calculated using the first infrared camera and the second infrared camera in accordance with determining that an object is beyond a predefined distance from the holographic video recording system; or the first infrared camera and the third infrared camera in accordance with determining that the object is within the predefined distance from the holographic video recording system. |
| US10855931B1 |
High dynamic range image sensing method for image sensing device
A high dynamic range image sensing method for an image sensing device is provided. The high dynamic range image sensing method comprises: calculating a brightness sum value of a pixel block to obtain a long exposure value; calculating a brightness average value of the pixel block to obtain a short exposure value; calculating a block average value of a plurality of adjacent pixel blocks; obtaining a weight value according to the block average value; and outputting a high dynamic range pixel value of one pixel according to the long exposure value, the short exposure value and the weight value. |
| US10855930B2 |
Video system, video processing method, program, camera system, and video converter
This video system includes a camera system and a video converter. The camera system includes an image pickup unit that captures a subject and obtains a pixel signal thereof, and a first processing circuit that generates two video signals from the pixel signal while respectively carrying out mutually-different adjustments and transmits transmission information obtained by adding information related to the respective adjustments of the video signals to one of the video signals. The video converter extracts the information related to the respective adjustments of the video signals from the transmission information and includes a second processing circuit that generates, on a basis of these pieces of information related to the adjustments, a restoration pixel signal by inverse-transforming one of the video signals included in the transmission information, and also generates a video signal corresponding to the other one of the video signals by performing an adjustment for the other one of the video signals on this restoration pixel signal. |
| US10855923B2 |
Method and device for acquiring and displaying an immunofluorescence image of a biological sample
A method is used for acquiring and displaying an immunofluorescence image of a biological sample. During a first operating state, the sample is continuously illuminated using the excitation radiation. A relative position between the sample and an optical system, which guides the fluorescent radiation to an image sensor, is changed in dependence on a movement gesture of a user, and a corresponding digital image is displayed. Upon detection of a termination of the movement gesture, a change is made from the first operating state to a second operating state. In the second operating state, the sample is firstly illuminated using the excitation radiation to excite the fluorescent radiation of the fluorescent pigment. An acquisition of fluorescent radiation emitted by the sample then takes place and a corresponding, further digital image is generated. In the second operating state, the acquisition of the emitted fluorescent radiation and the illumination of the sample are terminated after lapse of the second acquisition duration. |
| US10855918B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, image pickup apparatus, and program storage medium that calculates a matching degree between an estimated target of interest and tracked feature points, then selects a feature point to which tracking is continued according to the matching degree
An image processing apparatus to perform tracking control of feature points estimated to a target of interest of a user. An image processing apparatus of the present invention acquires an image, extracts feature points of the image, tracks the feature points, estimates a target of interest in the image, calculates a matching degree indicating a degree of matching between the estimated target of interest and a distribution of the tracked feature points, and selects a feature point for which tracking will continue from the feature points according to the matching degree. |
| US10855912B2 |
Capturing a stable image using an ambient light sensor-based trigger
A method and apparatus for capturing stable images are disclosed. An ambient light sensor makes measurements of ambient light. A change in ambient light between two measurements is determined. If the change in ambient light measurements falls in a predefined range, then the change may be attributable to ambient light sensor being blocked by a user to trigger image capturing. Consequently, a camera is triggered to capture an image. Conversely, if the change in ambient light measurement is outside the range, image capturing is not triggered as the change may be attributable to other factors. |
| US10855906B2 |
Camera apparatus for vehicle, and vehicle
The present invention relates to a vehicle camera device comprising: a lens unit for inducing respective focal lengths of a plurality of image acquisition regions, divided in the horizontal direction, to be different from each other; an image sensor including a plurality of pixel arrays formed to correspond to the plurality of image acquisition regions, and converting, into an electrical signal, light introduced into each of the plurality of pixel arrays through the lens unit; and a processor for generating an image on the basis of the electrical signal. |
| US10855904B2 |
Focusing method and apparatus, image photographing method and apparatus, and photographing system
A focusing method includes obtaining a first image, determining a focusing area from the first image, performing a digital zoom process on the focusing area according to a zoom-in ratio to obtain a second image, and performing a focus process on the second image. |
| US10855901B2 |
Device adjustment based on laser microphone feedback
A method of capturing video includes instructing a microphone to initiate an audio scan of different areas of interest to detect audio activity. The method also includes receiving a feedback signal from the microphone in response to initiating the audio scan. The feedback signal indicates audio activity in a particular area of interest. The method further includes adjusting targeting characteristics of a device based on the feedback signal to focus the device on the particular area of interest. |
| US10855898B2 |
Lens apparatus and imaging system including the same
A lens apparatus includes an imaging optical system, a movable member holding at least one of lenses and configured to move in a direction including a component perpendicular to an optical axis of the imaging optical system, a fixed member whose movement in the direction is restricted, a coil provided at one of the movable member and the fixed member, a magnet provided at the other of the movable member and the fixed member, and a first shield member configured to cover at least a part of the coil as viewed in a direction parallel to the optical axis and as viewed in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis. At least a part of the first shield member being arranged closer to an image plane than the coil, and a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied. |
| US10855896B1 |
Depth determination using time-of-flight and camera assembly with augmented pixels
A camera assembly for determining depth information for a local area includes a light source assembly, a camera assembly, and a controller. The light source assembly projects pulses of light into the local area. The camera assembly images a portion of the local area illuminated with the pulses. The camera assembly includes augmented pixels, each augmented pixel having a plurality of gates and at least some of the gates have a respective local storage location. An exposure interval of each augmented pixel is divided into intervals associated with the gates, and each local storage location stores image data during a respective interval. The controller reads out, after the exposure interval of each augmented pixel, the image data stored in the respective local storage locations of each augmented pixel to generate image data frames. The controller determines depth information for the local area based in part on the image data frames. |
| US10855895B2 |
Light source module with adjustable diffusion
A light source module includes an array of illumination elements and a light diffusing material. The light source module is configured to receive a control signal for adjusting diffusion of light emitted from the light source module and in response adjust the amount of diffusion of light emitted from the light source module. A light source module may include a segmented light diffusing material where each segment is associated with an illumination element. And individual segments may have light diffusing properties that are different than other segments of the light diffusing material. Some illumination elements may emit light of a different color spectrum than other illumination elements, and a light diffusing material may scatter the different colored light to illuminate a scene with combinations of light of different colors. A light source module may be embedded in a mobile computing device. |
| US10855889B2 |
Imaging device for capturing images of moving objects
There is described an imaging device for capturing images of at least portions of moving objects. The system comprises a stationary camera lens configured for reproducing an image of at least a portion of each moving object in an imaging plane when said object moves across a capturing region. The device further comprises at least one image sensor located in the imaging plane for receiving the reproduced image of the at least a portion of the corresponding moving object and converting said image into electronic signals. The at least one image sensor is mounted on a sensor support adapted to be actuated in a manner that the at least one image sensor is moved in the imaging plane relative to the stationary camera lens, and in a manner that the motion of said at least one image sensor is synchronized with the motion of the moving object to be captured. This ensures that there is substantially no relative movement between the reproduced image in the imaging plane and the image sensor when said moving object moves across the capturing region. As a result motion blur of the captured image of the at least a portion of each moving object is prevented or significantly reduced. |
| US10855888B2 |
Sound syncing sign-language interpretation system
A computer system for providing on-demand sign-language translation services receives a first audio recording of ambient noise. The computer system then accesses a database of audio fingerprints. Using the audio fingerprints, the computer system identifies within the first audio recording a particular audio fingerprint from the database of audio fingerprints. The computer system then identifies within the particular audio fingerprint a particular timestamp associated with the first audio recording. The computer system accesses a database of translated audio. The computer system accesses a portion of the translated audio that corresponds with the particular time stamp. The computer system then displays on a user interface the portion of the translated audio. |
| US10855882B2 |
Image processing to set an output gradation number based on an information-loss evaluation value
An image processing apparatus processes input image data and generates output image data. The image processing apparatus includes a feature-value calculating unit, an output-gradation-number setting unit, and an image processor. The feature-value calculating unit calculates a feature value from the input image data. The output-gradation-number setting unit sets, as the number of output gradations, any one gradation number of candidates for the number of output gradations based on the feature value calculated by the feature-value calculating unit. The image processor processes the input image data and generates the output image data having the number of output gradations which is set by the output-gradation-number setting unit. |
| US10855880B2 |
Image forming apparatus that determines whether a cartridge must be authenticated, control method thereof, storage medium, and cartridge
This image forming apparatus determines, in accordance with state information indicating the state of the image forming apparatus, whether or not a timing for executing an authentication process of a removable cartridge has arrived. Furthermore, if the timing for executing a cartridge authentication process has arrived, this image forming apparatus obtains authentication information regarding authentication from the cartridge, and determines, from the authentication information, whether or not an authentication process is required to be executed. When an authentication process has been executed, an authentication result is written in a storage area of the cartridge. |
| US10855879B2 |
Method for establishing wireless connection of image forming device by using mobile terminal, and image forming device for performing same
A wireless connection establishment method of an image forming apparatus using a mobile terminal is provided. The wireless connection establishment method includes, while the image forming apparatus is operating in a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) Direct mode, receiving a request to switch to a wireless setup mode, terminating the Wi-Fi Direct mode and connecting to a mobile terminal by entering the wireless setup mode, receiving access point (AP) connection information from the mobile terminal, establishing a connection to an AP by using the received AP connection information, and starting the Wi-Fi Direct mode. |
| US10855875B2 |
Image forming apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
An apparatus including a control device, a first processing device, a second processing device, and one or more memories, wherein the first processing device issues a signal based on the first processing device having processed a predetermined amount of data in received image data so that an engine controller starts to obtain image data from the one or more memories, wherein the control device provides dummy data to the first processing device so that the first processing device processes the dummy data and issues the signal, wherein the control device provides to the one or more memories, not via the first or second processing device, image data to be printed, wherein the second processing device discards the dummy data processed by the first processing device, and wherein the engine controller obtains the image data to be printed from the one or more memories. |
| US10855874B2 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus
An optical scanning device includes plural sets of optical paths, and in each set of optical paths, first and second light beams emitted from the two light sources having an opening angle in the main scanning direction are orthogonal to a deflection axis of a deflector and are deflected and scanned by the same surface of the deflector at different positions deviating from each other in a deflection axis direction. A first imaging optical element gives positive optical power to the deflected light beams to converge the light beams. A focal position exists between the first imaging optical element and a second imaging optical element arranged on the optical paths in front of first and second surfaces to be scanned on two photoconductive drums. A separation distance exists between the light beams. |
| US10855870B2 |
Digital video camera
A digital video camera, including a heat management system, which includes at least one inlet and at least one outlet in the housing to enable air to flow through the housing. The heat management system also includes a first heat sink thermally connected to an image sensor(s), and a second heat sink thermally connected to a data processing unit(s), and a centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan is configured to draw air into the front of the fan in an axial direction and push air radially out in a sideways direction, whereby air travels through the inlet(s) over the first heat sink and then over the second heat sink to the outlet(s). |
| US10855868B1 |
Systems, processes, and computer program products for detecting and verifying invisible information in documents
Embodiments identify documents with invisible or hidden information such as tracking codes and extract the tracking codes, which may be leveraged for different applications. Aspects may protect an individual's right to privacy by extracting “invisible” codes from a document. Other aspects preserve the authenticity of documents by converting the information of an extracted tracking code into other metadata which may accompany the document and copies of the document. In an embodiment, a blockchain ledger may be used to verify the authenticity of a document using information from the original tracking code. |
| US10855866B2 |
Document size detection device, image reading device, image forming apparatus, and document size detecting method
A document size detection device includes: a light source to irradiate a document with light; an imaging device to receive light reflected at the document; and circuitry to control switch on and off of the light source and movement in a sub-scanning direction of the light source, and determine a size of the document based on image data acquired by the imaging device. The circuitry is to determine a size in a main-scanning direction of the document based on: first image data acquired when the light source is switched off while the light source is at a first reading position; second image data acquired when the light source is switched on while the light source is at the first reading position; and third image data acquired when the light source is switched on while the light source is being moved from the first reading position to a second reading position. |
| US10855865B2 |
Reading device, image forming apparatus, position detecting method, and recording medium storing program code
A reading device including a reader, a position reference member, and circuitry. The position reference member has a reference pattern along a first direction of the position reference member. The circuitry is configured to detect the reference pattern of the position reference member; determine coordinates of at least two pixels in the second direction, based on the detected reference pattern; calculate a first correction value based on the coordinates determined for the at least two pixels of the reader in the second direction; detect an outer shape and a position of an image pattern on the conveyed object based on data read by the reader; obtain a difference between an image of the conveyed object, of which a shape has been corrected, and an image of the conveyed object, of which a shape has not been correction; and set a second correction value based on the obtained difference. |
| US10855862B2 |
Reading device and image forming apparatus
A reading device (100) includes a reading section (143), a casing (160), a cover section (110), a conveyance section (130), an interposed member (170), a controller (153), a cable (180), and a linking member (190). The casing (160) houses the reading section (143) therein. It is possible to place the cover section (110) on the casing (160). The conveyance section (130) is housed in the cover section (110) and conveys a sheet. The interposed member (170) is interposed between the cover section (110) and the casing (160). The controller (153) is housed in the casing (160) and controls the conveyance section (130). The cable (180) is connected to the controller (153), is also connected to the conveyance section (130), and transfers a control signal output by the controller (153) to the conveyance section (130). The linking member (190) is linked to the cover section (110) and is also linked to the casing (160). |
| US10855861B2 |
Reflective sheet coupling
One example includes a device that is comprised of a cover housing, a reflective sheet, a coupler, and a fastener. The reflective sheet may hold media against a planar transparent scanning area of the device. The coupler may removably attach the reflective sheet to the cover housing, the coupler having a resilient member to exert an axial restoring force between the reflective sheet and the cover housing. The fastener may fix the coupler to the reflective sheet. |
| US10855860B2 |
Image forming apparatus with a touchpanel, image forming method, and non- transitory computer readable medium
An image forming apparatus includes a touchpanel, and a controller that pops up a screen, on the touchpanel automatically without an operation instruction from a user, information that identifies a job ready for execution and a button that is adapted to stop the execution of the job. |
| US10855859B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for outputting information to change a setting item
An information processing apparatus includes: a transmission unit that transmits an object to a particular external device connected to the apparatus; and a guidance output unit that predicts a setting item that should be changed in a case where the object is not transmitted to the particular external device, and that outputs guidance information that suggests changing the setting item. |
| US10855858B1 |
Method and system for sales recommendations with graphical analysis of multifunctional printer and customer data using demographic, economic, multifunctional printer usage characteristics
A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for recommending products based on usage of one or more multifunctional printers. The method includes collecting usage data from a multifunctional printer; classifying the usage data from the multifunctional printer into one or more categories; comparing the usage data from the multifunctional printer in each of the one or more categories to usage data from one or more other multifunctional printers; determining one or more usage patterns for the multifunctional printer from the comparison of the usage data between the multifunctional printer in each of the one or more categories to the usage data from one or more other multifunctional printers; identifying one or more products or services based on the one or more usage patterns for the multifunctional printer; and recommending one or more products or services for the multifunctional printer on a graphical user interface (GUI). |
| US10855857B2 |
Information processing system to register a service to a target device
An information processing system includes an intermediary apparatus communicable with a target apparatus, and an information processing apparatus, communicable with the intermediary apparatus, including circuitry. In response to reception of identification information from an operation terminal that has received the identification information from an external source, the circuitry provides information on a candidate service to be associated with the target apparatus to the operation terminal when the received identification information is not registered in association with any service. In response to reception of a selection result of a specific service from the operation terminal at the information processing apparatus, the circuitry registers the target apparatus that is identified based on information identifying the target apparatus to be associated with the specific service selected at the operation terminal, the specific service corresponding to the selection result, and the identification information in association with each other in a memory. |
| US10855855B2 |
Image processing apparatus eliminating redundancy in scanned text data
An image processing apparatus includes an image reading unit and a controller. The image reading unit reads an image on a document to create image data. The controller executes a character conversion process on the image data created by the image reading unit to extract information on a character string included in the image and creates first document data corresponding to the extracted character string based on the extracted information on the character string. When the character string successively includes a first character string and at least one second character string identical to the first character string, the controller creates second document data where document data corresponding to the second character string has been deleted from the first document data using the first document data. |
| US10855853B2 |
Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium for transmission of image data
An image processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit configured to accept an input of user information, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an e-mail address of a user identified based on the user information accepted by the acceptance unit, a first setting unit configured to set a destination of a first e-mail transmitted with an attachment of image data, a second setting unit configured to set a destination of a second e-mail for making notification of completion of transmission of the first e-mail, and a control unit configured to perform control such that a destination of the first e-mail is restricted to the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit, but a destination of the second e-mail is not restricted to the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit. |
| US10855852B2 |
Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising: a memory device that stores a set of instructions; and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to: detect alteration of an application held in the image processing apparatus; determine, upon detecting alteration, whether or not an application in which alteration has been detected is a pre-installed application; and enabling, as a result of the determination, in a case where the application in which alteration has been detected is a pre-installed application, the use of the application by installing the application using pre-held information. |
| US10855851B2 |
Charging control with SMF
An SMF receives from an AMF a PDU session create request message requesting establishment of a PDU session for a wireless device. In response to the PDU session create request message, the SMF sends to a CHF a charging policy request message requesting charging policy information for the PDU session. The SMF receives from the CHF a response message comprising the charging policy information for the PDU session. The charging policy information comprises a first charging method. Based on the charging policy information, the SMF determines a charging control rule for the PDU session. The SMF enforces the charging control rule. |
| US10855850B2 |
Data processing
Data is processed in a telecommunications network. First and second notifications are received, via an input interface, from first and second Charging Trigger Functions, CTFs, in the telecommunications network. The first and second notifications relate to network resource usage in the telecommunications network. A scalable transformation function is used to transform data derived from the first and second notifications into a first usage detail report in a first detail report format and a second usage detail report in a second, different detail report format. The first and second usage detail reports are output, via an output interface, to at least one recipient system. |
| US10855849B1 |
Analysis of data metrics in IPBX networks
Apparatuses and methods concerning routing of calls in an IPBX server are disclosed. As an example, one apparatus includes a first processing circuit communicatively coupled to an IPBX server. The IPBX server is configured to generate call event messages for the VoIP calls routed by the IPBX server. The first processing circuit is configured to generate call summary metrics from the call event messages. The call summary metrics indicate respective sets of call data for participants of the calls routed by the IPBX server. A second processing circuit is configured to identify organizations associated with the participants of the calls. The second processing circuit aggregates call summary metrics of the participants associated with at least one identified organization and identifies, based on the aggregated call summary metrics, needs of the organization that can be satisfied by a set of capabilities of an entity. |
| US10855848B2 |
Network apparatus comprising a base station and a docking station, and respective base station and docking station
A network apparatus (1) including —a base station (10) having a first interface (12); —a docking station (20) connectable with the base station (10) and having a second interface (22); and —at least one transmission module of a plurality of interchangeable transmission modules (13a, 13b) configured to be connected to the base station (10) or to the docking station (20), wherein the transmission modules (13a, 13b) have network interfaces compatible with both the first interface (12) and the second interface (22). |
| US10855847B2 |
Mobile electronic communications using internet protocol
A database stores unique associations between account identifiers and mobile-network telephone numbers assigned by a mobile network to mobile communications devices. The account identifiers are also associated with voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephone numbers. Voice calls between the mobile communications devices are made as voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls using respective VoIP telephone numbers. Tracking of the VoIP calls is performed through the mobile network using respective mobile-network telephone numbers, so that a prepaid balance can be enforced. |
| US10855843B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring and remediating trouble conditions using machine learning techniques
A system described herein may use automated techniques, such as machine learning techniques, to analyze device snapshots from a group of User Equipment (“UEs”), and determine trouble conditions that are experienced by the UEs. The system may identify markers of the trouble conditions based on the snapshots, and may use these markers to predict or identify trouble conditions at other UEs based on snapshots received from the other UEs. Further, once a trouble condition is predicted or identified at the other UEs, the trouble condition may be proactively addressed, without requiring an explicit request from the other UEs to address the trouble condition. |
| US10855837B2 |
Call recording system and method of reproducing recorded call
The sections of the call unnecessary for reproduction are grasped without wasting time and labor. The call recording system includes a call information entry unit to enter operation information of call terminals which is acquired by a call control unit into a terminal operation information table; a recorded information entry unit to enter recorded information of the call which are acquired by a call recording unit into a recorded information table; and a call information reproduction unit to recognize sections unnecessary for reproduction of the recorded information based on the operation information of the call terminals so as to display a reproduction screen including a result on the recognized sections on a display section. |
| US10855835B1 |
Predicted location offers leveraging community based cost of living recommendations
A computing system predicts a need of a customer based at least in part on a location of the customer, recommend a physical location to the customer based on the predicted need using location-based costs of living, and recommending offers to merchants based on historical activities of a plurality of customers. |
| US10855833B2 |
Options presented on a device other than accept and decline for an incoming call
A data processing system that, in one embodiment, uses smart reminders to allow a user to decline an incoming phone or messaging call and to cause the system to set a smart reminder about the call. In one embodiment, the system can use the system's current state or context (e.g. the system is in a car or is playing a movie) to determine the type of reminder options to present to the user and to determine when to trigger the reminder based on the reminder option that is selected by the user. |
| US10855831B2 |
Control method for electronic device, electronic device, computer-readable storage medium
Disclosed is a control method for an electronic device, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. An electronic device includes a transparent display screen and an infrared sensor. The transparent display screen includes a display area. The infrared sensor is stacked below the display area. The infrared sensor is configured to emit infrared light and receive infrared light reflected by an object, to detect a distance between the object and the electronic device. The control method includes operations as follows. It is determined whether the electronic device is in an outgoing call state. Control is performed to reduce the brightness of the transparent display screen in a case that the electronic device is in the outgoing call state. Control is performed to turn on the infrared sensor to detect a distance between the object and the electronic device. |
| US10855827B2 |
Speakerphone configuration for conferencing
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a speakerphone configuration for audio and/or video conferencing that includes a cavity underneath the speakerphone where cable ports are arranged. The arrangement of the cable ports are such that when a power plug is installed in the speakerphone, a telecommunication port is blocked, and vice versa. In addition, the port arrangement allows cables to attach to opposite walls in the cavity such that cables run parallel to each other within the cavity. The disclosed speakerphone may be daisy-chained together and function as a single unit. Therefore a speakerphone according to the disclosure may function as either a master unit, a mid unit, or an end unit in a string of speakerphones depending on how the speakerphone is wired. The port arrangement in the cavity increases ease for setup and daisy-chaining of multiple speakerphone units. |
| US10855820B2 |
Ejection assembly and electronic device
An electronic device includes a screen assembly, a back cover, a middle frame, and an ejection assembly. A length of the middle frame in a first direction is less than those of the screen assembly and the back cover in the first direction, and a mounting portion is formed by the screen assembly, the middle frame, and the back cover. The ejection assembly includes at least one driving mechanism, a first decorative member, a second decorative member, and at least one lifting mechanism. Driven by the at least one driving mechanism, the at least one lifting mechanism is capable of driving the first decorative member and the second decorative member to move away from each other, such that the first decorative member is substantially flush with the screen assembly, and the second decorative member is substantially flush with the back cover. |
| US10855817B2 |
Method and apparatus for network encoding based on low-complexity algorithms for network coding using matrix decomposition
Provided are a network encoding method and apparatus, and a network decoding method and apparatus that performs network encoding and decoding through a transposed matrix of a unitary matrix decomposed from an encoding coefficient matrix by an eigen-decomposition. The network encoding method may include generating a random symmetric matrix indicating a binary square matrix, extracting an encoding coefficient matrix by decomposing the generated random symmetric matrix, generating encoding data by encoding source data using the extracted encoding coefficient matrix, forming a data packet including the generated encoding data and the encoding coefficient matrix, and converting the formed data packet from a real number field to a Galois field. |
| US10855815B2 |
Security-oriented compression
A method of data nibble-histogram compression can include determining a first amount of space freed by compressing the input data using a first compression technique, determining a second amount of space freed by compressing the input data using a second, different compression technique, compressing the input data using the compression technique of the first and second compression techniques determined to free up more space to create compressed input data, and inserting into the compressed input data, security data including one of a message authentication control (MAC) and an inventory control tag (ICT). |
| US10855807B2 |
Systems and methods for semi-automatic workload domain deployments
A system and method for semi-automatic workload domain deployment in a computing environment uses a user host selection of at least one host computer for a workload domain to automatically recommend candidate host computers for the workload domain from available host computers using relative and absolute selection criteria. The relative selection criteria include criteria that are based on properties of any manually selected host computers, while the absolute selection criteria include criteria that are not based on properties of any manually selected host computers. Another user selection of at least one of the candidate host computers can then be made for the workload domain. The workload domain is deployed using the user host selections of the at least one hot computer and the at least one of the candidate host computers. |
| US10855805B2 |
Centralized storage-connected switch port auto-configuration system
A centralized storage-connected switch port auto-configuration system includes an SDN controller device that receives, from an SDN switch device subsequent to a storage device being connected to a switch port on the SDN switch device, discovery information and uses it to identify the switch port. The SDN controller device then provides SDN communications to the SDN switch device that include a port packet data unit size configuration, a port traffic suppression configuration, and a port loop prevention configuration. The SDN switch device applies the port packet data unit size configuration to configure a packet data unit size transmittable via the switch port, the port traffic suppression configuration to configure the amount of bandwidth of the switch port that will be available to transmit at least one type of data traffic, and the port loop prevention configuration to configure loop prevention designations that will be available for the switch port. |
| US10855803B2 |
Performance evaluation in a network community
Techniques for evaluating performance of reviewing events in a network community are described herein. The disclosed techniques include authorizing a first user account to review the events in the network community for a first valid period; monitoring information associated with the first user account reviewing the events in the network community; generating data indicative of review behaviors associated with the first user account during at least a part of the first valid period based at least in part on the information and predetermined parameters of evaluating performance; determining values of a plurality of evaluation coefficients based on the generated data and predetermined rules; and determining a performance evaluation result for the first user account based on the generated data and the values of the plurality of evaluation coefficients. |
| US10855799B2 |
Management of network connections and priorities based on device profiles
Systems and methods for managing network connections and priorities based on device profiles are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive instrumentation data from a plurality of devices coupled to the IHS via a network; receive observation data from the plurality of devices; correlate the observation data with the instrumentation data; and configure communications between the IHS and one or more the plurality of devices based, at least in part, upon the correlation. |
| US10855797B2 |
Server-machine-driven hint generation for improved web page loading using client-machine-driven feedback
Embodiments seek to improve web page loading time using server-machine-driven hint generation for based on client-machine-driven feedback. For example, client computers having page renderers are in communication with content servers and hinting processors. The hinting processors can use hinting feedback from multiple page rendering instances to automatically generate hints for optimizing loading and/or rendering of those pages. In some implementations, in response to page requests from the page renderers, content servers can request hints from hinting processors and send those hints to the requesting page renderers for use in improving the page loading experience. In other implementations, in response to page requests from the page renderers, content servers can instruct the requesting page renderers to contact an appropriate hinting processor and to retrieve appropriate hints therefrom for use in improving the page loading experience. |
| US10855795B2 |
Systems and methods for power saving in directed multicast service
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a transmitter for communicating with a client, a receiver, and a controller coupled with the transmitter and receiver, wherein the controller is operable to receive a proxy from the client for traffic from a source and transmit a join to the source on behalf of the client. |
| US10855793B2 |
Proxying hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) requests for microservices
In various embodiments, a gateway application generates an outgoing Hypertext Transmission Protocol (HTTP) request based on an incoming HTTP request. In operation, the gateway application receives the incoming HTTP request and identifies an upstream service based on at least one of an HTTP method and a header included in the incoming HTTP request. Subsequently, the gateway application generates an outgoing HTTP request based on the upstream service and the incoming HTTP request. Finally, the gateway application issues the outgoing HTTP request. The outgoing HTTP request causes the upstream service to perform an action requested in the incoming HTTP request. Advantageously, the gateway application enables underlying upstream services to perform actions specified via incoming HTTP requests without directly exposing the upstream services to users. |
| US10855791B2 |
Clustered storage system path quiescence analysis
A request that indicates a component that can be quiesced is received at a first node. It is determined that quiescence of the component might impact an endpoint. A request for identification of at least one path between a second node and the endpoint is sent to the second node. It is determined, based on a response received from the second node, whether the endpoint will be accessible to the second node if the component is quiesced. In response to a determination that the endpoint will be accessible to the second node if the component is quiesced, a positive analysis outcome is indicated. In response to a determination that the endpoint will not be accessible to the second node if the component is quiesced, a negative analysis outcome is indicated. |
| US10855788B2 |
Methods and systems for priority-based notifications for mobile devices
A method comprising of receiving, by a user system that includes at least a processor system having at least one processor and a memory system, a first push notification associated with a first priority level for display on the user system; receiving, by the user system, a second push notification associated with a second priority level for display on the user system, the second priority level being higher than the first priority level; and displaying, by the user system, the second push notification prior to the first push notification based on the first and second priority level. |
| US10855787B2 |
Systems and methods for generating content
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive, for a first user, a user status from a set of pre-determined user statuses. A set of media content items associated with the user status is identified. The first user is provided with the set of media content items for creating a visual status content item. |
| US10855784B2 |
Entity based search retrieval and ranking
In an example embodiment, one or more query terms are obtained. Then, for each of the one or more query terms, a standardized entity taxonomy is searched to locate a standardized entity that most closely matches the query term, with the standardized entity taxonomy comprising an entity identification for each of a plurality of different standardized entities. A confidence score is then calculated for the query term-standardized entity pair for the standardized entity that most closely matches the query term, and the query term is tagged with the entity identification corresponding to the standardized entity that most closely matches the query term and the calculated confidence score. |
| US10855781B2 |
Data transmission method and system
The present invention relates to a data transmission method including injecting signals into a communications channel between a predefined hardware device for a computing system and an application executing on the computing system, for receipt by the application. A data transmission system is also disclosed. |
| US10855780B2 |
Apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
In response to a request from an external device, information related to a server that provides a service related to an apparatus is set. The set information related to the server is transmitted. |
| US10855774B2 |
Communication with home dialysis machines using a network connected system
This disclosure relates to remote control of dialysis machines. In certain aspects, a method includes receiving a request for a network connection from a dialysis machine and establishing the network connection with the dialysis machine. The method also includes receiving, from a client device, a request to access the dialysis machine, authorizing the client device to access the dialysis machine, receiving, from the dialysis machine, information pertaining to an operation of the dialysis machine, and providing, to the client device, the received information. |
| US10855772B2 |
Vehicle, hub apparatus, and communication system including the same
A communication system comprises: a hub apparatus configured to communicate with at least one external device; a terminal configured to establish a connection with the hub apparatus to control the at least one external device; and a vehicle configured to establish a connection with the hub apparatus to control the at least one external device, determine whether there is an overlapped control target with a control target of the terminal among the at least one external device, and when it is determined that there is the overlapped control target, take priority to control the overlapped control target. |
| US10855770B2 |
Deploying and managing containers to provide a highly available distributed file system
A device can receive information indicating a set of instructions associated with a microservices application, where the microservices application is associated with one or more microservices. The device can generate a deployment specification. The device can deploy one or more containers and one or more replicate containers. The one or more containers and the one or more replicate containers are associated with the one or more microservices. The one or more containers and the one or more replicate containers can be associated with a distributed file system. The device can receive information associated with modifying the one or more microservices. The device can modify the one or more microservices, as one or more modified microservices, based on receiving the information associated with modifying the one or more microservices. The device can deploy the one or more modified microservices. |
| US10855765B2 |
Content atomization
Organizing and publishing content in a content management system wherein content, including text, images and video, is received and segmented into content atoms. One or more tags are associated with the content atoms to allow device specific presentation of the content atoms. |
| US10855762B2 |
Adopting data across different sites
Systems and methods of adopting data across different sites are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a data adoption system configures a first networked site to adopt data from one or more other networked sites, detects new data on the other networked site(s), with the new data being associated with a data item on the other networked site(s), determines that a record of the data item is being stored on the first networked site, and stores the new data from the other networked site(s) on the first networked site in association with the data item based on the detecting of the new data on the other networked site(s) and the determining that a record of the data item is being stored on the first networked site. |
| US10855761B1 |
Techniques for in-place directive execution
Techniques for in-place directive execution are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a local network component operative to receive a directive package at a messaging client on a client device, the directive package formatted according to a serialized directive schema; and store the directive package in a memory of the client device in the serialized directive schema; and a local database synchronization component operative to execute the directive package using in-place access of the directive package in the memory of the client device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10855757B2 |
High availability and high utilization cloud data center architecture for supporting telecommunications services
The concepts and technologies disclosed herein provide high availability and high utilization cloud data center architecture for supporting telecommunications services. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 4-site model of application placement within the cloud computing environment provides 37.5% resource utilization with site availability of five 9s (99.999%) and virtual machine availability of five 9s. According to another aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 3-site model of application placement within the cloud computing environment provides 66% resource utilization with site availability of five 9s and virtual machine availability of five 9s. According to another aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 4-site model of application placement within the cloud computing environment provides 75% resource utilization with site availability of five 9s and virtual machine availability of five 9s. |
| US10855741B2 |
System and method for multiplexed video stream decoding in web browser
A system and method for real time streaming and decoding of multiple simultaneous streams within a web browser is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a stream manager of the web browser stores decoder context data for each of the streams. The stream manager then provides the frames in conjunction with the decoder context data for consumption by a decoder of the web browser, which decodes the frames, presents the frames for display, and updates the decoder context data with the frame data of the decoded frames. In another embodiment, the stream manager is integrated within the decoder. |
| US10855738B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting or receiving broadcast signal
A method for transmitting a broadcast signal is disclosed. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes performing delivery layer processing of a broadcast service data and signaling information with respect to the broadcast service data, performing UDP/IP encapsulation of a broadcast service data and signaling information with respect to the broadcast service data and performing physical layer processing of a broadcast service data and signaling information with respect to the broadcast service data. |
| US10855737B2 |
Control of media transcoding during a media session
There is provided mechanisms for controlling media transcoding of a media session between at least two media transceiver devices. The method is performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining, from at least one of the media transceiver devices, an indication of current allocation of energy for performing playback of the media session in the at least one of the media transceiver devices. The method comprises controlling transcoding of the media session according to the current allocation of energy of the at least one media transceiver device. The transcoding comprises either conversion from a first media format to a second media format of same media type, or conversion from a first media type to a second media type. |
| US10855729B2 |
Extending communication services to a consumption device using a proxy device
A system for data communications comprising a handset having a processor, a wireless communications device, a speaker and a microphone and one or more software applications operating on the processor that are configured to interface with a voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE) service. A wireless access point coupled to the handset through a local wireless communications media and the wireless communications device, the wireless access point further coupled to a long range wireless communications media and configured to interface with a server that provides VoLTE calling functionality. |
| US10855724B2 |
Securely establishing key-based SSH communications between virtual machines during cloud marketplace provisioning
Virtual machines are launched in a public cloud software marketplace by a user purchasing a software product. The virtual machines are automatically provisioned and configured upon launching. One virtual machine generates a public/private key pair, and key-based SSH communications is securely established between the virtual machines without the necessity of insecurely transferring the private key over an insecure public communications channel. |
| US10855723B2 |
Enforcing a secure transport protocol with dynamically updated stored data
In one example embodiment, a proxy server obtains, from a client, a query regarding a server with which the client is attempting to establish a communication session. Based on the query, the proxy server evaluates dynamically updated stored data to determine whether the dynamically updated stored data indicates that the server supports a secure transport protocol. Based on determining that the dynamically updated stored data indicates that the server supports the secure transport protocol, the proxy server provides a response to the client. The response causes the client to provide, to the server, an initial secure transport protocol message in the communication session. |
| US10855717B1 |
Systems and methods of intelligent and directed dynamic application security testing
Disclosed are systems, methods and computer readable mediums for intelligent and directed dynamic application security testing. The systems, methods and computer-readable mediums can be configured to receive an attack location and an attack type for a web-application, transmit the attack location and attack type to a ID-DAST platform, receive from the ID-DAST platform a payload, attack the web-application using the payload, and receive results of the attack. |
| US10855716B2 |
Systems and methods for performing or creating simulated phishing attacks and phishing attack campaigns
A method for establishing a campaign for a simulated phishing attack includes receiving, via a campaign manager, specification of a plurality of parameters for a campaign including at least an identifier of a campaign and identification of users to which to send the campaign, establishing, via the campaign manager, a type of exploit for the campaign and one or more types of data to collect via the type of exploit, storing, by the campaign manager, the campaign comprising the plurality of parameters, and identifying, by a simulation server, the campaign stored in the database to create a simulated phishing email, to be sent to email accounts of the users, using the plurality of parameters of the campaign, wherein the simulated phishing email is to be created to have a link to a landing page comprising the type of exploit and configured to collect the one or more types of data. |
| US10855714B2 |
Systems and methods for an artificial intelligence driven agent
A system and method is described that sends multiple simulated phishing emails, text messages, and/or phone calls (e.g., via VoIP) varying the quantity, frequency, type, sophistication, and combination using machine learning algorithms or other forms of artificial intelligence. In some implementations, some or all messages (email, text messages, VoIP calls) in a campaign after the first simulated phishing email, text message, or call may be used to direct the user to open the first simulated phishing email or text message, or to open the latest simulated phishing email or text message. In some implementations, simulated phishing emails, text messages, or phone calls of a campaign may be intended to lure the user to perform a different requested action, such as selecting a hyperlink in an email or text message, or returning a voice call. |
| US10855707B2 |
Security system using automatic and scalable log pattern learning in security log analysis
A security system using automatic and scalable log pattern learning in security log analysis is provided. The security system includes one or more management services configured to generate security logs, and a security log analysis service operatively coupled to the one or more management services. The security log analysis service is configured to collect the security logs generated by the one or more management services, implement an incremental learning process to generate a set of log patterns from the collected security logs, parse the collected security logs using the set of log patterns, and analyze the parsed security logs for one or more security applications. |
| US10855705B2 |
Enhanced flow-based computer network threat detection
In one example embodiment, a threat detection server receives metadata of a network flow in a network; a zone definition that correlates the metadata of the network flow with a first zone of network devices in the network and a second zone of network devices in the network, where the network flow was transmitted from the first zone to the second zone; and a security policy for the network flow, where the security policy is enforced on the basis of the first zone and the second zone. Based on the zone definition, the threat detection server annotates a flow record that includes the metadata with an indication of the first zone and the second zone. Based on the annotated flow record and the security policy, the threat detection server determines whether to generate a notification associated with a detection of a security threat associated with the network flow. |
| US10855701B2 |
Methods and devices for automatically detecting attack signatures and generating attack signature identifications
Network traffic management apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer-readable media for automatically detecting attack signatures and generating attack signature identifications, involving: collecting a stable dataset during a stable time; determining whether a cyber-attack is detected; when a cyber-attack is detected, periodically generating attack signatures and updating an enforcer with the attack signatures, the attack signatures representing dynamic rules to be enforced; validating the dynamic rules via a long-time validation mechanism, validating involving considering behavior of each dynamic rule after the cyber-attack and during a new cyber-attack and ranking each dynamic rule using the stable dataset, thereby generating persistent rules having a dynamic rule; exporting the persistent rules to a security enforcer; introducing the persistent rules to a persistent rule revocater; determining whether export of an unrevoked persistent rule is requested; and if requested, exporting the unrevoked persistent rule of the persistent rules through a mitigator and collecting statistics. |
| US10855700B1 |
Post-intrusion detection of cyber-attacks during lateral movement within networks
A method and system to detect cyber-attacks by analyzing client-server or other east-west traffic within an enterprise network is disclosed. East-west traffic comprises communications between network devices within the enterprise network, in contradistinction to north-south traffic which involves communications intended to traverse the periphery of the enterprise network. The system includes a network interface to receive the network traffic; analysis logic to analyze communications within the received network traffic to identify a set of indicators; correlation logic to assemble one or more groups of weak indicators from the set of indicators, and conduct an analysis to determine whether each of the groups of weak indicators is correlated with known malicious patterns or sequences of indicators, thereby producing at least one strong indicator from which a determination can be made of whether a cyber-attack is being conducted. |
| US10855699B2 |
Digital safety and account discovery
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may assist a consumer in keeping track of a consumer's accounts in order to prevent unauthorized access or use of the consumers identified subscription and financial accounts. The discovered subscriptions and financial accounts may be displayed to the consumer along with recommendations and assistance for closing unused or unwanted financial accounts and subscriptions to prevent unauthorized access or use. |
| US10855698B2 |
Leveraging endpoint and network environment inferences for malware traffic classification
In one embodiment, a device obtains simulation environment data regarding traffic generated within a simulation environment in which malware is executed. The device trains a malware detector using the simulation environment data. The device obtains deployment environment characteristics of a network to which the malware detector is to be deployed. The device configures the malware detector to ignore data in the simulation environment data that is associated with one or more environment characteristics that are not present in the deployment environment characteristics. |
| US10855697B2 |
Threat intelligence system
Systems and methods for providing a threat intelligence system include a system provider device that downloads, through communication over a network and from one or more targeted websites, a plurality of images of a first environment. Based on an OCR process, the system provider device may extract a set of textual data corresponding to a subset of images of the plurality of images, where the subset of images depict text. The system provider device stores the set of textual data in an indexed and searchable database. The system provider device assigns a threat assessment score to each image based on the set of textual data, and the threat assessment score may be updated based on comparison of the set of textual data with other sets of textual data. Based on the threat assessment score being greater than a threshold value, the system provider device may generate a security alert. |
| US10855696B2 |
Variable runtime transpilation
In an approach, an apparatus comprises: one or more processors; a processor logic coupled to the one or more processors and configured to: intercept, from a client computer, a request directed to a server computer that identifies a purported user agent executing on the client computer; send, to the server computer, the request from the client computer; intercept, from the server computer, one or more original instructions to be executed by the purported user agent of the client computer; determine one or more features supported by the purported user agent that are not utilized by the one or more original instructions; transform the one or more original instructions into one or more revised instructions which, when executed by the purported user agent, cause the purported user agent to utilize the one or more features; send, to the client computer, the one or more revised instructions. |
| US10855694B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for monitoring encrypted packet flows within a virtual network environment
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for packet monitoring in a virtual environment are disclosed. According to one method executed at a virtual tap element residing in between a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine in a virtual network environment, the method includes obtaining cryptographic key information from either the first virtual machine or the second virtual machine and detecting an encrypted packet flow being communicated in the virtual network environment between the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine via the virtual tap element. The method further includes decrypting the encrypted packet flow using the cryptographic key information, generating a decrypted packet flow set comprising at least a portion of the decrypted packet flow, and sending the decrypted packet flow set to a packet analyzer. |
| US10855692B2 |
Adaptive trust profile endpoint
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for generating an adaptive trust profile via an adaptive trust profile operation. In various embodiments the adaptive trust profile operation includes: monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity, the monitoring comprising monitoring at least one of the plurality of electronically-observable actions via a protected endpoint; converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity; and generating an adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity. |
| US10855690B2 |
Management of secrets using stochastic processes
A secret is stored in a computing device. The device generates a value determined based at least in part on a substantially random process. As a result of the value satisfying a condition, the device causes the secret to be unusable to perform cryptographic operations such that the device is unable to cause the secret to be restored. The secret may be programmatically unexportable from the device. |
| US10855688B2 |
Multi-tenant security in the cloud
A cloud asset manager can securely provide multi-tenant access to remote assets while preserving isolation across tenants. The remote asset manager defines various roles for legitimate users of the remote asset manager. The roles are associated with credentials that provide access to the remote assets and/or information about the remote assets maintained by a service provider. And the users map to roles based on attempted actions that access the service provider. Thus, a user's requested action is attempted with credentials associated with a role that maps to the requested action. |
| US10855681B2 |
Data communication method
Communication devices to an IP network through communication lines to each of which a unique identification number is assigned and, in each communication device, the identification numbers of other communication devices allowed to communicate with the each communication device are registered, and the communication lines are uniquely connected for data communication by a three-way handshake based on the identification numbers. A communication line activates another communication line. When a connection is established, the connection is disconnected. It is determined at the activated communication line if a response signal from the activating communication line as a response to a call back signal sent to the activating communication line at a predetermined timing arrives, and it is determined at the activating communication line if a call back signal from the activated communication line arrives. Data communication is performed only when both the activating and activated communication lines are validated. |
| US10855678B2 |
Temporary biometric templates for maintaining a user authenticated state
Temporary biometric templates for maintaining a user authenticated state are described herein. In some implementation, an electronic device receives an input to unlock using a first secure authentication technique to initiate a current unlock session. A temporary biometric template of a biometric feature of a user unlocking the electronic device is created effective to initiate a user authenticated state. The biometric feature of the user associated with the temporary biometric template is tracked during the current unlock session. The user authenticated state is maintained based on a comparison of the tracked biometric feature of the user with the biometric feature of the temporary biometric template. When the biometric feature of the user can no longer be tracked, the user authenticated state is terminated and the temporary biometric template is invalidated. |
| US10855677B2 |
Voice-based verification for multi-factor authentication challenges
The application describes an authentication process that incorporates voice commands with an HTTP interface module to perform a multifactor authentication (MFA) process. For example, a first computer system may initiate the MFA process by sending, with a HTTP interface module maintained by the first computer system, a request to initiate the MFA process to the second computer system. The MFA process may also transmit an one-time password (OTP) to a first user device. The first computer system may receive an audible recitation of the OTP from a second user device. The OTP may be parsed and used to generate an HTTP request. The HTTP interface module may send the HTTP request to the second computer system. When the second computer system authenticates the user based at least in part on the non-audible file, the first computer system may receive confirmation of authentication of the user to initiate the transaction. |
| US10855673B2 |
Automated production of certification controls by translating framework controls
A compliance application automatically produces certification controls by translating framework controls. The framework controls are common certification controls used in production of the certification. The application retrieves framework controls including metadata from a compliance framework data store. Metadata of the framework controls map the framework controls to the certification. In addition, the application retrieves certification parity data associated with the metadata. Certification controls are produced based on the framework controls and the certification parity data. A view of the certification including the certification controls is provided to a customer requesting the certification. |
| US10855672B2 |
Establishing a trusted login procedure
A first login request for the first service is received at a first server that provides a first service and from a terminal. Device identifier information of the terminal is generated by a hardware processor at the first server. The device identifier information of the terminal is associated, by the hardware processor at the first server, with first login state information. The first login state information indicates that the terminal has logged into the first server. The device identifier information and the first login state information are transmitted to a second server. The second server provides a second service that has a trusted login relationship with the first service. |
| US10855670B2 |
Polling service
Disclosed are various approaches for polling federated services for notifications. A request for an access token for a federated service is sent to an authentication service. The access token for the federated service is received from the authentication service. A query is sent to the federated service for a notification, the query comprising the access token. The notification is received from the federated service. |
| US10855669B2 |
Authentication service
Disclosed are various approaches for relaying and caching authentication credentials. A single sign-on (SSO) token is received, the SSO token representing a user account authenticated with an identity manager. An authentication request is then sent to a service that is federated with the identity manager in response to receipt of the SSO token, the authentication request including the SSO token. An access token is received in response to the authentication request, the access token providing access to the service for the user account authenticated with the identity manager for a predefined period of time. The access token and a link between the access token and the SSO token are then cached. |
| US10855667B2 |
Using keys with targeted access to the blockchain to verify and authenticate identity
Systems and methods for accessing credentials from a blockchain are provided. A computing device requests for a server to process a transaction. In response to the request, the server transmits a server public key to the computing device. A key generator of the computing devices uses the user private key and the server public key to generate a user public key. The user public key includes permissions to access credentials that are stored on blockchain. The server receives the user public key and generates a request for credentials to blockchain. The request includes the user public key and the server private key. The blockchain receives the request and generates an identity token. The identity token includes credentials that are specified in the user public key. The blockchain transmits the identity token to the server and the server uses the identity token to processes the transaction. |
| US10855663B2 |
Dynamic offline encryption
A method for encrypting data when a device is offline is disclosed. In the method, a determination is made as to whether a successful connection with a remote server computer can or cannot be made. If a connection cannot be made, then data can be encrypted with an ephemeral public key. Later, then a connection is available, the encrypted data can be transmitted to the remote server computer for processing. |
| US10855660B1 |
Private virtual network replication of cloud databases
A network device communication system can configure network devices (e.g., a primary and secondary database) to send and receive sequences messages, such as replication data, over a channel comprising a plurality of private network nodes. The messages can be generated and encrypted using one or more key pairs and changing wrapping replication keys to send and receive the messages between different types of database deployments. |
| US10855659B2 |
Commanding a new device into a provisioning state
An apparatus for securely configuring a tenant VLAN includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to detect connection of a new device to a computing system. The new device is designated for use by a new tenant and the new device in a default state prior to configuration for use by the new tenant. The computing system is a multi-tenant system. The code is executable by the processor to command the new device to enter a provisioning state in response to detecting connection of the new device. The new device in the provisioning state is unable to access operational equipment of the computing system and data stored by tenants of the computing system. |
| US10855655B2 |
System and method for providing secure and redundant communications and processing for a collection of internet of things (IOT) devices
A system for providing a system for providing network communications organized using communities of interests defined by a common encryption key. IoT devices are located at the edge of a network while providing secure and isolated communications for its applications and data through a common network infrastructure. The system's functionality provides the IoT network with secure communications to obtain data from devices by host applications over public networks. The data may be organized and segmented in a manner that isolates and protects the data with only authorized applications gaining access the data to see its existence and read its contents. |
| US10855654B2 |
Session identifier for a communication session
Techniques for a session identifier for a communication session are described. According to various implementations, a session identifier that is usable for initiating a communication session is allocated prior to the communication session being initiated. The session identifier can then be activated to enable the session identifier to be used for routing data packets of a communication session. |
| US10855653B2 |
Method and device for maintaining transport address associations for an address translation entity
A method of maintaining transport address associations in a transport address translation entity connected in series between a first device and a second device is disclosed. The first device can use a first transport protocol to send a first message to cause the transport address translation entity to make a first association of a first public address with a first private address. On receiving a response to the first message from the second device, the first device can use a second transport protocol to send a second message to cause the transport address translation entity to make a second association of a second private address with a second public address and with the second transport protocol. The second message can contain correspondence information that is also contained in the first message and/or in the response to the first message. |
| US10855649B2 |
Control component and method for registering device names assigned to industrial automation devices or communication devices in a name service system
Control component and method for registering device names assigned to industrial automation devices or communication devices in a name service system, wherein in order to register device names assigned to industrial automation devices or communication devices in a name service system, at least selected automation or communication devices each comprise a name service component where the selected automation or communication devices control transmission of a registration request containing an assignment between their respectively assigned device name and at least one respectively configured communication network address to a name service server via their name service component, and where a control component is respectively assigned to the name service components and enables or blocks transmission of a registration request. |
| US10855647B2 |
Systems and methods for providing ENUM service activations
A method and apparatus performing operations including instantiating at least one ENUM physical server instance or vENUM virtual machine, wherein the at least one vENUM virtual machine initiating an IMSI session for at least one of a service and a record. The operations further include determining when the at least one of the service and the record is operating. When the at least one of the service and the record is operating, determining if the service was disabled, and if the service was disabled, clear any alarm and announcing service disabled via input/output device. When the at least one of the service and the record is not operating, the operations may include generating an alarm via input/output device, determining if automatic disablement is permitted, and if permitted, automatically disable the at least one of the service and the record. When automatic disablement is not permitted, the operations may include prompting for a disablement instruction via an input/output device and disabling the at least one of the service and the record upon receiving the disablement instruction. |
| US10855646B2 |
DNS rendezvous localization
A method of generating a routing table containing information as to the weighted distance between client's that use a resolver and each rack gateway, taking into account how traffic to each client can egress from the CDN AS. The routing table is generated from matrix multiplication of two matrices. One matrix contains information as to the proportion of each client's use of each resolver in a first autonomous system. The second matrix contains information as to the distance between each client and each rack, with respect to an egress gateway, in a second autonomous system. The resulting routing table is used to identify a gateway from which to serve content to a client. |
| US10855642B2 |
Asynchronous messaging and communication in a social networking system
The present disclosure is for systems and methods for asynchronous communication within a social networking system. Specifically, the present invention is for receiving capsuled data that is directed to a recipient. The capsuled data may be partially viewable by a recipient within the social networking system, but may not become fully viewable until a trigger condition is met. The systems and methods disclosed herein enable a determination of whether a trigger condition is met, and, if it is met, the capsuled data may be fully viewable by a recipient. |
| US10855641B1 |
Updating event posts
Implementations generally relate to updating events in a social network system. In some implementations a method includes generating one or more event objects having an event information section associated with a first user. The method also includes sending a post from the first user to one or more target users in a social network system, updating the one or more event objects based on the event information section, and causing the one or more updated event objects to be displayed along with the post to the one or more target users in the social network system. |
| US10855640B1 |
Interface for sharing posts about a live online event among users of a social networking system
An external system (e.g., a website) is associated with an event and includes an interface that allows users to interact with streams of content associated with a social networking system. The interface allows a user to provide posts about the event via the interface, where the posts are displayed in the interface and also in a social networking interface on social networking system in connection with the user and other users associated with that user. The user can view, via the interface on the external system, posts from all users that are provided via the interface (e.g., everyone watching the event), thereby increasing the likelihood that the posts are relevant to the event. The user can also view, via the interface, posts from users associated with the user via the social networking system (e.g., friends of the user), regardless of where those are posted. |
| US10855639B2 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method for selection of a target user
Provided is an information processing apparatus including a selecting unit that selects a second user to be a target of notification of information on the basis of a result of behavior recognition with respect to a first user. |
| US10855635B2 |
Electronic mail (e-mail) system support for messages with different traffic types
An electronic mail (email) message is received at in email transport infrastructure and has a traffic type identifier identifying a traffic type. Function processing logic in the email transport infrastructure conditionally processes the email message based on the traffic type. |
| US10855628B2 |
Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method
An information processing apparatus configured to receive message information from a terminal device, and transmit responding message information to the terminal device based on setting information in which query information and answer information are associated with each other, switch a state between a first state and a second state, the first state being a state in which the message information is to be received from the terminal device and a change of the setting information is to be received, the second state being a state in which the message information is not to be received and a change of the setting information is to be received, and when switching from the second state to the first state is performed, transmit the responding message information based on the setting information for which the change has been received in the second state before the switching is performed. |
| US10855626B2 |
Transcription bot for group communications
A group communication service receives user node communications from and distributes user node communications to members of a communication group. The communication group members comprise a plurality of user nodes. The group communication service then receives an audio transcription request from one or more of the plurality of user nodes. In response to receiving the request, group communication service launches a bot node member of the communication group configured to deliver transcribed content messages to one or more destination services. The group communication system then receives an audio content message from one or more of the plurality of user nodes and delivers a transcribed content message of the audio content message to the one or more destination services over the bot node member of the communication group. |
| US10855625B1 |
Intelligent, adaptable, and trainable bot that orchestrates automation and workflows across multiple applications
The present disclosure relates to an intelligent, adaptable, and trainable bot that orchestrates automation, event data integration, and application programming interfaces across multiple applications. The technology may include receiving event data describing events from distributed software applications and processing the event data describing the events to generate notifications, the event data being received based on execution of a software recipe. The bot may transmit the notifications for display to a user using a conversational interface and receive a command from the user via the conversational interface, the command including a requested operation respective to at least one delivered notification. In response to receiving the command, the method may generate recommendations for additional commands respective to the at least one notification based on metadata associated with an event corresponding to the at least one notification. |
| US10855615B2 |
Device and method for sharing content using the same
A method for sharing content of a device is provided. The method includes receiving, by an inputter, an input of a share command of a selected content, recommending at least one service to share the content among a plurality of services that are available in the device and a share target, and sharing, by a controller, the content with the share target selected through the selected service based on a selection input with respect to the at least one recommended service and the share target. |
| US10855610B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to determine whether a size of data is equal to a predetermined threshold or less when degradation occurs on a communication path to a destination information processing apparatus of the data; transmit the data to another information processing apparatus different from the destination information processing apparatus and coupled to the destination information processing apparatus when it is determined that the size of the data is more than the predetermined threshold; and transmit the data to the destination information processing apparatus through the communication path when it is determined that the size of the data is the predetermined threshold or less. |
| US10855606B2 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing system
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire a feature amount related to a flow composed of a plurality of packets. The processor is configured to control a transmission of the plurality of packets based on the acquired feature amount. |
| US10855605B2 |
Throttling to control thermal properties through a node
The invention relates to a method for controlling thermal properties of a node. The method steps include calculating, using a temperature reading, a transmission duty cycle of the node, calculating a data amount capable of being transmitted with the transmission duty cycle, and transmitting, from a network interface of the node, a plurality of available data at a rate less than the data amount based on a priority of the plurality of available data. |
| US10855600B2 |
System, apparatus and method for traffic shaping of data communication via an interconnect
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a transmitter to send first data to a device coupled to the apparatus via a physical link; a receiver to receive second data from the device via the physical link; and a control circuit to control the transmitter to send the first data at a first effective rate during a link activation interval of a data transfer interval and to control the receiver to receive the second data at a second effective rate during the link activation interval, the second effective rate different than the first effective rate. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10855599B2 |
Methods and systems for dynamic policy based traffic steering over multiple access networks
Methods and systems for individual forward-link and return-link policies for network communication are disclosed. In some aspects, the individual forward-link and return-link policies define how data is routed over a plurality of access networks between a client-side enforcement unit and a provider-side enforcement unit. In some aspects, the individual policies may be based on metrics collected by the client-side and provider-side enforcement units, which may be positioned on each end of one or more access networks. |
| US10855594B2 |
Fibre Channel Forwarder load balancing system
A Fibre Channel Forwarder (FCF) load balancing system includes a Fibre Channel Forwarder (FCF) device that is coupled to a Fibre Channel (FC) networking device and the first server device. The FCF device groups a first link between the FC networking device and the FCF device with a second link between the FC networking device and the FCF device in response to receiving both a first fabric login accept on the first link that includes a first Worldwide Name (WWN) and a second fabric login accept on the second link that includes the first WWN. The FCF device provides at least a portion of traffic, received from the first server device that is logged in through the first link, through the second link. |
| US10855592B2 |
Flow based session drain director
To accommodate graceful offloading of connections from a port of a network element, thereby allowing the port to be decommissioned, both existing and new connections allocated to that port according to a load balancing protocol are replicated on a backup port. Thereafter, or concurrently therewith, the port is configured to drop acknowledgements of the new connections, and the port is monitored so as to eventually identify an absence of connections thereon. At that time, the port may be decommissioned inasmuch as all new connections will have been established on the backup port and no previously existing connections on the original port will remain. |
| US10855591B2 |
System and method for determining capacity of a telecommunications network
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for determining an estimated capacity for providing data from a telecommunications network to a plurality of end users. In one implementation, the estimated capacity for delivering the data to the end users is per transmission path or per access network connected to the telecommunications network. This information may be aggregated into a traffic flow table that illustrates the traffic flow and available capacity to one or more end user networks. Through analysis of the traffic flow table, the system determines an estimated available capacity to provide the data to the end users. The traffic flow table thus provides a more accurate estimate of the capacity of the telecommunications network to provide the data to the end users over previous capacity estimates. |
| US10855585B2 |
Session initiation protocol stack optimisation
A SIP node obtains a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message comprising a SIP header. The SIP node adds a description of the SIP header into a body of the SIP message. The description comprises an offset field and a length field indicating a position and a size, respectively, of a text string in the SIP header. The SIP node transmits the SIP message with the description added via a network. |
| US10855576B2 |
Information transmission method and device
An information transmission method and device, comprising: when being connected to a virtual network, a network edge node encapsulates the virtual network identifier of the connected virtual network in a multicast protocol packet; the network edge node sends the multicast protocol packet to network edge nodes other than itself. The information transmission method can implement delivery of a virtual network identifier, thereby implementing highly efficient transmission of virtual network data. |
| US10855574B2 |
Method and network device for computing forwarding path
This application discloses a method for computing a forwarding path. The method includes: receiving, by a network device, notification packets separately sent by a plurality of forwarding nodes, where each notification packet includes interface forwarding delay information of the forwarding node that sends the notification packet, device forwarding delay information of the forwarding node, and a transmission delay of a link connected to the forwarding node; obtaining the interface forwarding delay information and the device forwarding delay information of each of the plurality of forwarding nodes, and obtaining a transmission delay of a link between the plurality of forwarding nodes; and computing a forwarding path between a first forwarding node and a second forwarding node, where a forwarding delay of the forwarding path meets a delay requirement of a service. |
| US10855573B2 |
Hierarchical hardware linked list approach for multicast replication engine in a network ASIC
A multicast rule is represented in a hierarchical linked list with N tiers. Each tier or level in the hierarchical linked list corresponds to a network layer of a network stack that requires replication. Redundant groups in each tier are eliminated such that the groups in each tier are stored exactly once in a replication table. A multicast replication engine traverses the hierarchical linked list and replicates a packet according to each node in the hierarchical linked list. |
| US10855571B2 |
Measurement device and measurement method
A measurement device and a measurement method capable of performing measurement on a device under test while maintaining a desired high data rate even under poor communication conditions such as occurrence of retransmission of a frame from a device under test in a wireless communication connection are provided. The measurement device includes a reception unit 14 that receives a frame transmitted from a DUT 1, a determination unit 16 that determines whether or not a header of the frame has been normally received by the reception unit 14, an acknowledgment transmission unit 13b that transmits the acknowledgment frame to the DUT 1 when the determination unit 16 determines that the header has been normally received by the reception unit 14; and a measurement unit 17 that performs the measurement on the frame determined by the determination unit 16 that the header has been normally received by the reception unit 14. |
| US10855570B2 |
Selectively forwarding flow of packets in a network appliance
A network appliance described herein allows the user to selectively forward the flow of packets received through a network port, to a particular egress port. The network appliance creates virtual ports, which can be assigned to the one or more egress ports. The network appliance assigns the flow of packets to the one or more virtual ports in the network appliance. The network appliance decides a forwarding treatment to be applied to the flow of packets, for forwarding the flow of packets to the egress tool ports, based on the virtual port to which the flow of packets is assigned and based on a detected network characteristic. The forwarding treatment can be a decision to drop the flow of packets, or to send the flow of packets to the egress port assigned to the virtual port. |
| US10855568B2 |
Automated survey generator for provisioning infrastructure
An automated security survey generator for provisioning services in a cloud environment. Services, including infrastructure services, provided by the cloud are provisioned from blueprints. A survey is attached to each of the blueprints. When a service is provisioned, the attached survey is executed such that questions are presented to a requestor. Responses to the questions and actions are evaluated and actions associated with the responses are performed. The survey can prevent the service from being provisioned. |
| US10855567B1 |
Dynamic capacity assessment of devices in a data center
In some examples, a computing device comprises at least one computer processor; and a memory comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one computer processor cause the at least one computer processor to: receive feature usage data indicating respective usages of a plurality of network device features configured for the network device; receive resource utilization data indicating resource utilization of the network device resource by each of the network device features at different usages; determine, based on the features usage data and the resource utilization data, respective resource utilizations of the network device resource by the plurality of network device features; combine the respective resource utilizations of the network device resource to determine a total network device resource utilization for the network device resource; and output an indication of the total network device resource utilization for the network device resource. |
| US10855564B2 |
Visualization of network data as a three-dimensional hierarchical data structure in a mixed reality environment
A mixed reality device includes a mixed reality display and a controller disposed in electrical communication with the mixed reality display. The controller is configured to display a hierarchical data structure as a virtual object in a 3D space on the mixed reality display, the hierarchical data structure constructed from topology data associated with a network and three-dimensional (3D) embedded network data associated with the network; receive a hierarchy traversal command relative to at least one node of a first level of the hierarchical data structure; and, in response to receiving the hierarchy traversal command, display at least one node of the second level of the hierarchical data structure on the mixed reality display. |
| US10855560B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing user quality of experience (QoE) in mobile communication system
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for managing quality in a mobile communication system and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for managing user quality of experience (QoE) between various wired and wireless networks. A method for managing user quality of experience by means of an apparatus for managing user quality of experience in a mobile communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: setting a quality measurement request message by using a quality measurement condition received from a user; transmitting the quality measurement request message to a quality measurement device; and receiving information on the quality which is measured by using the quality measurement condition, wherein the quality measurement request message and the information on the quality are transmitted while being included in an OpenFlow message. |
| US10855556B2 |
Methods for facilitating adaptive quality of service in storage networks and devices thereof
Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that assign a quality of service (QoS) policy to an instantiated storage object. The assigned QoS policy includes a throughput parameter including a number of input/output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS) based on a storage operation block size. Storage operations are executed with the storage object according to the throughput parameter. Metadata is monitored including a size attribute of the storage object. The QoS policy is then automatically modified to adjust the throughput parameter based on the size attribute. This technology configures, manages, and scales performance provided to storage objects based on a monitored used or allocated size of the storage objects. Accordingly, this technology provides more performance for applications as storage object space is increasingly consumed by the applications, thereby improving the functionality and efficiency of storage nodes or controllers that are executing storage operations and managing I/O in storage networks. |
| US10855554B2 |
Systems and methods for determining service level agreement compliance
Iteratively determining compliance of a backup system with a service level agreement (SLA) of service level policies (SLPs), including receiving an SLP having a data management schedule and indicating a first backup time of a first backup job; determining an SLP schedule type of windowed or continuous based on the SLP, and a first compliance analysis time based on the SLP schedule type and the first backup time; determining a first monitoring event associated with the first compliance analysis time and with a first compliance analysis type; performing a first compliance analysis of the first compliance analysis type to generate a first compliance status of the first monitoring event; and creating a second monitoring event associated with a second analysis time based on the first compliance status, and with a second compliance analysis type, and being based on the first compliance status. |
| US10855549B2 |
Network data processing driver for a cognitive artificial intelligence system
Techniques are disclosed for processing data collected from network components for analysis by a machine learning engine of a Cognitive AI System. A network data processing driver receives a stream of data from a data collector which obtains data from one or more network data sources. The driver normalizes the stream of data to one or more feature values each corresponding to the network data sources and generates a sample vector from the feature values. The sample vector is formatted to be analyzed by the machine learning engine. |
| US10855538B2 |
Single management connection automatic device stack configuration system
An automatic device stack configuration system includes a master stack unit coupled to a management device and member stack devices. The master stack device receives member stack device addresses from the management device, identifies a first subset of member stack device addresses received via its respective ports, and configures each of those respective ports as stack ports. The master stack device then transmits a second subset of member stack device addresses that were not received via its ports to the member stack devices associated with the first subset of member stack device addresses. When the master stack device receives identifications that ports on the member stack devices that received the second subset of the member stack device addresses have been configured as stack ports, it reboots the master stack device and member stack devices. Following the reboot, a stack including the master stack device and member stack devices is provided. |
| US10855530B2 |
Method and apparatus for implementing composed virtual private network VPN
This disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for implementing a composed virtual private network (VPN). The method includes: obtaining a service type and a customer site that are input by a user; determining an access point corresponding to the customer site; determining one or more segment VPNs according to the service type and the access point corresponding to the customer site; obtaining a composed VPN according to the one or more segment VPNs; and outputting an access point list and a segment VPN list of the composed VPN to the user. |
| US10855524B2 |
Method for NaaS device configuring service
This application provides a method and an apparatus for configuring a service, which help to implement automatic configuration of a service and improve efficiency. The method provided in this application includes: obtaining, by an NaaS device, a contract of a service, where the contract includes identifier information and a condition, the identifier information is used to identify a first device group, the first device group includes a device that provides the service, and the condition is a communication requirement corresponding to the service; obtaining, by the NaaS device, information about a network device group according to the identifier information and the condition; obtaining, by the NaaS device, a first forwarding rule according to the condition, where the first forwarding rule corresponds to the network device group; and sending, by the NaaS device, the first forwarding rule and the information about the network device group to a controller. |
| US10855519B2 |
MAC-sync based mechanism for bridge port failover
A computer-implemented method for a media access control (MAC) address synchronization mechanism for a bridge port failover is disclosed. The method comprises: detecting a failover of a previously active bridge node; for each MAC address stored in a MAC-SYNC table: generating a first reverse address resolution protocol (“RARP”) packet having a source MAC address; broadcasting the first RARP message to a virtual extensible LAN (“VXLAN”) switch via a bridge port to register the source MAC address on the bridge port; and storing an association of the MAC address and an identifier of the bridge port in a forwarding table; for each MAC address stored in the forwarding table but not stored in the MAC-SYNC table: generating a second RARP packet with a MAC address to be the source MAC address; causing a physical switch to update a forwarding table maintained by the physical switch; and forwarding traffic via the bridge port. |
| US10855517B2 |
Redundancy support for control and user plane separation
In one embodiment, a method is performed. A first user plane entity may be associated with a user plane group comprising a plurality of user plane entities. The first user plane entity may be associated with a second user plane entity. A failure of the second user plane entity may be detected. In response to detecting the failure of the second user plane entity, the first user plane entity may be activated. |
| US10855515B2 |
Implementing switchover operations between computing nodes
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for determining whether to perform a switchover operation between computing nodes. A first computing node and a second computing node, configured as disaster recovery partners, may be deployed within a computing environment. The first computing node and the second computing node may be configured to provide operational state information (e.g., normal operation, a failure, etc.) to a cloud environment node state provider and/or cloud persistent storage accessible through a cloud storage service. Accordingly, a computing node may obtain operational state information of a partner node from the cloud environment node state provider and/or the cloud storage service notwithstanding a loss of internode communication and/or an infrastructure failure that may otherwise appear as a failure of the partner node. In this way, the computing node may accurately determine whether the partner node has failed. |
| US10855512B2 |
Dynamic account updating
A method and apparatus for dynamically updating settings of an electronic mail client of a client device is disclosed. In one embodiment, as the client device moves to different network environments, the settings of the electronic mail client are automatically updated to account for each network's characteristics and operational requirements. In another embodiment, the settings of the electronic mail client are automatically updated to account for changes (e.g., upgrades) at a particular server. The settings can be updated based on network information or server information from received from another device. |
| US10855511B2 |
Car audio output control device and method therefor
A car audio output control device and a method therefor are disclosed. When an acoustic source is generated by the peripheral device, the control device controls a car audio output such that when a device acoustic source and an identification code are received while a source acoustic source self-generated by a car audio is outputted, the control device selects one output mode matched with the received identification code from among the plurality of output modes and controls the source acoustic source and the device acoustic source according to the selected output mode so as to change the car audio output. |
| US10855510B2 |
Apparatus and method for superposition transmissions
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are described concerning a new type of superposition multiplexing transmission constellation (super-constellation): the Gray-mapped Non-uniform-capable Constellation (GNC). Apparatuses, systems, and methods for generating GNC super-constellations are described, as well as apparatuses, systems, and methods for receiving, demapping, and decoding transmissions using GNC super-constellations. Apparatuses, systems, and methods for selecting a type of superposition multiplexing transmission constellation based on various conditions are also described. |
| US10855508B2 |
Resource configuration method and apparatus
A resource configuration method and an apparatus are provided. The resource configuration method includes: receiving, by user equipment, configuration information sent by a network device, where the configuration information is used to indicate at least one time interval and at least one time-frequency resource unit within the time interval, and the time-frequency resource unit includes a first time-frequency resource subunit and/or a second time-frequency resource subunit; and reconfiguring, by the user equipment, a resource mapping manner and/or a rate matching manner based on the configuration information, so that no downlink receiving or uplink sending is performed by the user equipment on the first time-frequency resource subunit, and adjusting a timing offset of the second time-frequency resource subunit to perform downlink receiving or uplink sending on the second time-frequency resource subunit obtained by adjusting the timing offset. Resource utilization can be improved while ensuring that the user equipment correctly receives data. |
| US10855507B2 |
Broadcast signal transmitting apparatus, broadcast signal receiving apparatus, broadcast signal transmitting method, and broadcast signal receiving method
Disclosed herein is a method of receiving a broadcast signal. The method comprises receiving the broadcast signal; an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) demodulating on the received broadcast signal; parsing at least one signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signal to extract service data or service component data; converting the service data or service component data into bits; decoding the converted bits; and outputting a data stream comprising the decoded bits. |
| US10855505B2 |
Digital encoder and method of encoding
An encoder architecture for UF-OFDM is provided, in which samples are first processed sub-band wise, and then resorted for sub-carrier-wise processing. The sub-carrier processing may comprise separate processing for the two extremity parts of the base band signal corresponding to the transient state of the UF-OFDM data stream and for a core part of the base band signal corresponding to the non-transient state of the UF-OFDM data stream, and then concatenated to obtain a UF-OFDM data stream. In certain embodiments a first extremity part of the base band signal corresponding to the transient state of the UF-OFDM data stream is calculated directly, and the other extremity part inferred from the core part and the first extremity part. The core and extremity part processors may be implemented with filters adapted to multiply each sample by a respective filter coefficient. Modifying these coefficients can introduce a frequency shift or convert the encoder for OFDM encoding. |
| US10855502B2 |
Systems and methods for improvements to training field design for increased symbol durations
Methods, devices, and computer program products for improving training field design in packets with increased symbol durations are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of transmitting a packet on a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a preamble of the packet over one or more space-time-streams, the preamble including one or more training fields configured to be used for channel estimation, the one or more training fields each comprising one or more symbols of a first symbol duration. The method further includes transmitting a payload of the packet over the one or more space-time-streams, the payload comprising one or more symbols of a second symbol duration, the second symbol duration greater than the first symbol duration. |
| US10855500B2 |
Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit
A method for enabling a PUCCH with a TTI equal to or less than 1 ms. A terminal apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit an uplink signal on a PUCCH corresponding to a single SC-FDMA symbol, and a controller configured to determine transmit power for transmission on the PUCCH, wherein the uplink signal is generated based on a first sequence and a second sequence, the first sequence is given by applying a first cyclic shift to a third sequence, the second sequence is given by applying a second cyclic shift to the third sequence, and transmit power for transmission on the PUCCH is given based on a value of the first cyclic shift and a value of the second cyclic shift. |
| US10855497B2 |
Semiconductor device including a high-speed receiver being capable of adjusting timing skew for multi-level signal and testing equipment including the receiver
A semiconductor device including a signal generator and decoding and timing skew adjusting circuit is provided. The signal generator is configured to receive n multi-level signals having m signal levels and convert the n multi-level signals into n*(m−1) single level signals having two signal levels. The decoding and timing skew adjusting circuit is configured to receive the single level signals, perform a predefined operation on the single level signals to generate an output signal, and compensate for timing skew between the n multi-level signals, using the single level signals. The n and m are natural numbers, where n>=2 and m>=3. |
| US10855491B2 |
Method for implementing GRE tunnel, access point and gateway
A method for implementing a GRE tunnel, an access point (AP), and a gateway (GW). The method includes: the AP receives a first packet, where the first packet carries an address of the GW; configures a GRE tunnel to the GW, where a source destination of the GRE tunnel is an address of the AP, and a destination address of the GRE tunnel is the address of the GW; the AP receives a second packet sent by user equipment; performs GRE tunnel encapsulation for the second packet to form a third packet; and the AP sends the third packet to the GW by using the GRE tunnel, where the third packet carries the address of the AP. The embodiments of the present application enable efficient establishment of the GRE tunnel between the AP and the GW if there are a large quantity of APs. |
| US10855490B2 |
Transmission duration report and transmission target time allocation for controller area network synchronization
A CAN network synchronization method identifies a sync master node from a plurality of nodes, and designates each of the remaining nodes as a sync slave node. The method further designates a message from the sync master node as a sync message, and assigns a lowest number to the message ID of the sync message. The method further assigns a unique node ID to each sync slave node, and assigns a unique message ID to a transmission duration report message from a sync slave node. The method further assigns a unique message ID to a transmission target time allocation message from the sync master node. The method also performs a handshake operation between the sync slave nodes and the sync master node to exchange message burst transmission durations (Tsst), transmission target times (TTXtarget), and a common time reference point, and conducts time adjustment on each sync slave node. |
| US10855489B2 |
Point of entry (POE) splitter circuitry
The present invention is directed to a CATV & MoCA® device, such as a passive, point of entry (POE) splitter or a RF amplifier. In the passive, POE splitter, a resistive splitter network connects plural “MoCA® only” ports, e.g., four, five or eight, to two or more “MoCA® and CATV” ports. The MoCA® only ports and MoCA® and CATV ports are connected to a MoCA® rejection filter, which is in turn connected to an input connected to a service provider. In the passive, POE splitter or the RF amplifier, an intuitive female coaxial port layout and marking scheme assists technicians with correctly connecting the POE splitter or RF amplifier to the correct coaxial cables at a customer's premises. The port layout also simplifies the circuitry design parameters on a printed circuit board (PCB) by orienting the “CATV & MoCA®” output ports at similar distances from a CATV input port of the POE splitter or RF amplifier. |
| US10855475B1 |
Systems and methods for securing data to an immutable distributed ledger
The disclosed computer-implemented method for securing data on blockchains may include receiving a smart contract from a third-party for a designated party and a data set, transmitting, to a network of nodes, a request to add the smart contract and the data set to an immutable distributed ledger, receiving a digital signature from the third-party, receiving a digital signature from the designated party, validating the smart contract, the digital signature from the third-party, and the digital signature from the designated party, and in response to validating the smart contract, the digital signature from the third-party and the digital signature from the designated party, adding the smart contract and the data set to the immutable distributed ledger. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US10855474B2 |
Authorized operations in electronic systems
A method of authorizing an operation on a remote device with a cryptographic signature verification component, the remote device being operable in a communications network having human-readable messages with message signatures, comprising receiving at an arbitrator an authorization request to perform an operation requiring authorization on the remote device; retrieving from the request an operation identifier and plaintext data; sending a human-readable request with the identifier and the plaintext data to an authorizer; receiving a reply from an authorizer, the reply message comprising at least the plaintext data and a verifiable cryptographic signature identifying the authorizer derived from the request; and on receiving the reply, sending a request to perform the operation to the remote device with an authorization derived from at least the cryptographic signature, the cryptographic signature being suitable for verification by the cryptographic signature verification component on the remote device. |
| US10855467B2 |
Detecting vulnerable encryption keys in network communication systems
Techniques for determining whether a public encryption key is vulnerable as the result of deficiencies in pseudorandom number generation algorithms are provided. In some embodiments, a system may compile a database of cryptographic information received from a plurality of sources, including databases, and network traffic monitoring tools. RSA public keys extracted from the cryptographic information may be stored in an organized database in association with corresponding metadata. The system may construct a product tree from all unique collected RSA keys, and may then construct a remainder tree from the product tree, wherein each output remainder may be determined to be a greatest common divisor of one of the RSA keys against all other unique RSA keys in the database. The system may then use the greatest common divisors to factor one or more of the RSA keys and to determine that the factored keys are vulnerable to being compromised. |
| US10855465B2 |
Audited use of a cryptographic key
Methods and apparati for auditing uses of cryptographic keys. In a method embodiment of the present invention, a set of audited uses for a cryptographic key is defined; the key is generated inside a protected execution environment of a digital computer; all software and firmware that is usable in the execution environment to access the key is demonstrated to an auditor; and, for each audited use of the key, a non-tamperable audit record describing said use is released. |
| US10855464B2 |
Methods and apparatus to manage credentials in hyper-converged infrastructures
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture manage credentials in hyper-converged infrastructures are disclosed. An example method includes establishing, by executing an instruction with at least one processor, a communication between a software defined data center manager of the hyper-converged infrastructure and a component of the hyper-converged infrastructure using first credentials included in a known hosts file. The example method also includes generating, by executing an instruction with the at least one processor, second credentials at the component in response to a power-on event detected by the software defined data center manager. The example method also includes recording, by executing an instruction with the at least one processor, the second credentials at the known host file. |
| US10855463B2 |
System and method for providing quality of service during transport key rotation at a distributed management controller group
Methods and systems for providing quality of service to an information handling system may involve generating a new transport encryption key for a management controller group, notifying nodes in the management controller group to negotiate for the new transport encryption key, and encrypting a first message to be sent to a first node in the management controller group using a current transport encryption key. The new transport encryption key for encrypted communications in the management controller group and to replace a current transport encryption key. The first message encrypted after notifying the nodes in the management controller group to negotiate for the new transport encryption key. The nodes of the management controller group including the first node. |
| US10855460B2 |
In-vehicle computer system, vehicle, key generation device, management method, key generation method, and computer program
In a secure hardware extension (SHE)-B, an initial key is set to a KEY_N key usable in a verification process and a generation process for a message authentication code. In an SHE-A, a master key is set to a KEY_N key usable in the verification process and the generation process for the message authentication code, the master key being used together with an identifier of an authenticated electronic control unit (ECU) for generating the message authentication code to be used as the initial key. A central processing unit (CPU) causes the message authentication code for the identifier of the authenticated ECU to be generated using the master key through the SHE-A and executes a process of authenticating validity of the authenticated ECU by using the generated message authentication code. |
| US10855457B1 |
Systems and methods for single chip quantum random number generation
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for quantum random number generation (QRNG). An example method includes generating, by encoding circuitry of a QRNG chip, a series of photons and transmitting the series of photons over an optical line. The example method further includes determining, by decoding circuitry of the QRNG chip, a set of quantum bases to use for measurement. The example method further includes receiving, by the decoding circuitry of the QRNG chip, the series of photons over the optical line and decoding the series of photons based on the determined set of quantum bases to generate a decoded set of bits. In some embodiments, the example method further includes generating, by session authentication circuitry, a session key based on the decoded set of bits. |
| US10855450B1 |
Secured and robust wireless communication system for low-latency applications
There is provided a physical layer security (PLS) system for enhanced cryptographic security and diversity of transmitted data, the system comprising a transmitter for first, converting the data into a plurality of OFDM symbols; second, multiplexing the plurality of OFDM symbols into parallel M OFDM streams; and third, performing spatial interleaving (SI) on the parallel M OFDM streams using a secret key. The system further comprises a receiver for receiving and de-scrambling the transmitted plurality of data samples, wherein software-defined radio (SDR) units are used as the system transmitter and receiver. |
| US10855449B2 |
Blockchain system and data storage method and apparatus
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are provided. One of the methods includes: sending, by a first node to a computing system, a transaction request comprising transaction data for forwarding to a target blockchain network among one or more first blockchain networks connected to the computing system, the first node being excluded from one or more consensus processes associated with the one or more first blockchain networks; receiving, by the first node from a second node associated with the target blockchain network, a block generated based on consensus validation of the transaction data by the target blockchain network and stored in a blockchain associated with the target blockchain network; and storing, by the first node, the received block in a blockchain associated with a second blockchain network, the first node participating in a consensus process associated with the second blockchain network. |
| US10855448B2 |
Apparatus and method for using blockchains to establish trust between nodes in industrial control systems or other systems
An apparatus includes at least one processor configured to determine whether a blockchain identifies a valid smart contract indicating that communication with a specified node is permitted. In response to determining that the blockchain does identify the valid smart contract, the at least one processor is configured to establish a secure communication session with the specified node. In response to determining that the blockchain does not identify the valid smart contract, the at least one processor is configured to generate a new smart contract associated with the specified node, establish the secure communication session with the specified node in response to user approval of the new smart contract, and not establish the secure communication session with the specified node in response to user rejection of the new smart contract. |
| US10855447B2 |
Request approval using blockchain technology
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for request approval using blockchain technology are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes initiating creation of a blockchain network comprising multiple devices corresponding to required sub-requests configured for a particular request for approval transaction; implementing, at a given one of the devices, a distinct block in the blockchain network, wherein the block comprises cryptographic information pertaining to the particular request for approval transaction, a decision value for one or more of the sub-requests, and a count of the cryptographic tokens remaining in the blockchain network; broadcasting, from the given device to the remaining devices, information pertaining to the block; removing at least one cryptographic tokens from the blockchain network in response to each implemented block that corresponds to approval of a required sub-request; and granting the particular request in response to removal of all of the cryptographic tokens from the blockchain network. |
| US10855444B2 |
QoS assisted AES engine for SSD controller
A flow controller selects a direction (encryption/decryption) for an AES core according to quality of service parameters and a number of data words in encryption and decryption data buffers. A direction ratio may be calculated as a function of the quality of service parameters and the number of data words in the encryption and decryption data buffers. The flow controller selects the direction to reduce a cost function. The cost function may be at a minimum when a ratio of words in the encryption and decryption data buffers is the same as the direction ratio. A key management unit supplies keys according to the selected direction to the AES cores. Multiple AES cores may be used. |
| US10855442B2 |
Efficient encrypted data management system and method
A method for performing an encrypted data operation may include generating an encrypted hierarchical path identifier corresponding to a hierarchical data space for at least one plaintext data operation that preserves the hierarchy of the hierarchical data space. The at least one plaintext data operation may correspond to at least one subdivision of the hierarchical data space. The method may further include encrypting the at least one plaintext data operation, and sending a request to perform an encrypted data operation to a server. The request may include the encrypted data operation and the encrypted hierarchical path identifier. |
| US10855439B2 |
Adaptive synchronous protocol for minimizing latency in TDD systems
Systems and methods are presented that offer significant improvements in the performance of time division duplex (TDD) systems by utilizing an adaptive synchronous protocol. Conventional TDD systems are limited because data is transmitted during discreet and limited intervals of time, and because TDD transceivers may not simultaneously transmit and receive for reasons of insufficiently separated frequencies and limited receiver selectivity. Typically, TDD systems have significant latency due to the time to change from transmission to reception and the propagation delay time. By synchronizing the master nodes and the one or more remotes and by scheduling the traffic loads between these nodes, remote nodes may begin transmitting before the master node is finished with its transmission, and vice versa. This method reduces latency and improves the frame efficiency. Further, the frame efficiency may improve as the distance from the master node to the remote node increases. |
| US10855438B2 |
Methods and devices for transmitting a continuous bit stream in a digital network non-synchronous with the bit stream
Methods and devices for transmitting a continuous bit stream in a digital network non-synchronous with the bit stream are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes digitizing a continuous bit stream implemented by a transmitting apparatus and restoring the continuous bit stream implemented by a receiving apparatus. A processor of the transmitting apparatus digitizes the initial continuous bit stream into a binary data sequence to be transmitted at a nominal frequency corresponding to a set clock period, the binary data to be transmitted being encapsulated in at least one transport frame sent to the receiving apparatus. The digitization includes estimating a mean emission clock period value of the data sequence, and inserting, in a predetermined field of the transport frame, information making it possible to restore, in the receiving apparatus, the mean emission clock period value of the data sequence. |
| US10855437B1 |
Clock data recovery apparatus and operation method thereof
The present invention provides a clock data recovery apparatus and an operation method thereof. The clock data recovery apparatus includes an equalizer, a phase detector, a charge pump, and an oscillation circuit. The equalizer is configured to equalize raw data to generate equalized data. The phase detector is coupled to the equalizer to receive the equalized data. The phase detector is configured to generate a detection result according to the equalized data. The phase detector performs pattern-filtering on the equalized data to filter out at least one pattern. The charge pump is coupled to the phase detector to receive the detection result. The charge pump is configured to generate a control signal according to the detection result. The oscillation circuit is coupled to the charge pump to receive the control signal. The oscillation circuit is configured to generate a clock signal according to the control signal. |
| US10855435B2 |
Communication apparatus, generated data size controlling method, and program
There are provided a communication apparatus, a generated data size controlling method, and a program for bringing a time required for a round-trip half-duplex communication close to a predetermined target time. A video data transmission section transmits data generated by a video data generation section to an HMD. A sensing data reception section receives data transmitted from the HMD. A required time identification section identifies the time required for the round-trip half-duplex communication between a repeating apparatus and the HMD. A generation control section controls a size of the data generated per unit time by the video data generation section on a basis of the identified time, the size of the data exchanged with the HMD in a round-trip communication, and a predetermined target time for the round-trip communication. |
| US10855424B2 |
Method for transmitting frame type indication information in wireless LAN system and device therefor
Provided is a method for a first station (STA) transmitting a frame to a second STA in a wireless LAN system. To this end, the first STA generates a wireless frame comprising a first part (L-part) for a first-type STA and a second part (HE-part) for a second-type STA, wherein the first part comprises a legacy short training field (L-STF), a legacy long training field (L-LTF) and a legacy signaling field (L-SIG), and the length of the L-SIG is set so as to indicate that the wireless frame is a frame of different types according to the remainder when the length of the L-SIG is divided by a predetermined natural number. |
| US10855417B2 |
Control channel signaling techniques in wireless systems with multiple possible transmission time intervals
Control information may be transmitted for different TTI lengths. Different control information for the different TTIs may be transmitted using control channel resources that are established for communication of control information, such as a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), for example. Control information for a first TTI may be located in a first set of resources, and control information for a second TTI may be located in a second set of resources. The first set of resources may be located within a first search space that may be searched by a user equipment (UE) to identify the first control information. The second set of resources may be located within a second search space that may be searched by the UE to identify the second control information. |
| US10855416B2 |
Segmentation of control payload for channel encoding
A method of wireless communication of a UE is provided. The UE determines K1 information bits carrying one or more CSI reports, the one or more reports including a first CSI report, K1 being an integer greater than 0. The UE selects K2 information bits from the K1 information bits, the K2 information bits excluding a part of information bits of the first CSI report, K2 being an integer greater than 0 and smaller than K1. The UE determines that the K2 information bits are in a first predetermined relationship with a threshold. The UE transmits E2 encoded bits derived from the K2 information bits in a physical up-link channel to a base station, E2 being an integer greater than 0. |
| US10855414B2 |
Cross-subband or cross-carrier scheduling method, base station and user equipment
A cross-subband or cross-carrier scheduling method, a base station and a user equipment are provided. The method includes: determining a first start symbol and a first end symbol for scheduling a user equipment to transmit and receive data using a time-frequency resource on a second subband or carrier, based on two numerologies corresponding to two subbands or carriers; and transmitting downlink control information to the user equipment on the first subband or carrier, so that the user equipment can transmit and receive data using the time-frequency resource on the second subband or carrier according to the downlink control information, where the downlink control information includes an identification number of the second subband or carrier allocated for the user equipment and the first start symbol and the first end symbol for scheduling the user equipment to transmit and receive data using the time-frequency resource on the second subband or carrier. |
| US10855413B2 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating and optimizing a signaling system
A method and apparatus for evaluating and optimizing a signaling system is described. A pattern of test information is generated in a transmit circuit of the system and is transmitted to a receive circuit. A similar pattern of information is generated in the receive circuit and used as a reference. The receive circuit compares the patterns. Any differences between the patterns are observable. In one embodiment, a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) is implemented to produce patterns. An embodiment of the present disclosure may be practiced with various types of signaling systems, including those with single-ended signals and those with differential signals. An embodiment of the present disclosure may be applied to systems communicating a single bit of information on a single conductor at a given time and to systems communicating multiple bits of information on a single conductor simultaneously. |
| US10855409B2 |
Media access control header and transport block formats
Various aspects described herein relate to encoding or decoding a media access control (MAC) layer transport block having an enhanced MAC header format, a split and partial MAC header, and a MAC transport block design. A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The techniques described herein may apply to different communications technologies, including 5th Generation (5G) or New Radio (NR), wireless communications technology. |
| US10855407B2 |
Extended physical broadcast channel design for 5G standalone system
Devices and methods of receiving a PDCCH-less xSIB are generally described. A UE receive a xPBCH that occurs in a 0th or a 25th subframe and an ePBCH in an ePBCH transmission block. The ePBCH has the xSIB and is received on different Tx beams. The ePBCH spans consecutive symbols on the same subcarrier and with the same ePBCH symbol. The frame number, subframe number and symbol number of the ePBCH is dependent on a subframe number and symbol number of the xPBCH. The number of beams received for a particular symbol is dependent on a total number of beams, a beam sweeping time for the beams and a transmission periodicity of the xPBCH and ePBCH. The UE also uses different OCCs to demodulate a DMRS from different APs, in a same PRB as the ePBCH. |
| US10855404B2 |
Systems and methods for carrier aggregation
A User Equipment (UE) for performing carrier aggregation is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines a duplex method of each serving cell for frequency-division duplexing (FDD) and time-division duplexing (TDD) carrier aggregation. At least one serving cell is a TDD cell and at least one serving cell is a FDD cell. The UE also determines physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmission timing for a serving cell. When a primary cell is a TDD cell, the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing for the serving cell is determined based on a downlink (DL) association set for the serving cell. The UE further sends PDSCH HARQ-ACK information based on the PDSCH HARQ-ACK transmission timing. |
| US10855403B2 |
Method and apparatus for reducing uplink overhead in mobile communications
Various solutions for reducing uplink overhead with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may determine whether to multiplex hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. The apparatus may determine whether only a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is received. The apparatus may generate only the HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the PDSCH in an event that only the PDSCH is received. The apparatus may transmit the HARQ-ACK information in the PUSCH transmission. |
| US10855401B2 |
Method for determining retransmission numbers of sidelink data in wireless communication system and a device therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for determining number of retransmissions of sidelink data in wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining number of retransmissions of sidelink data when the sidelink data is available for transmission; transmitting the sidelink data via direct interface between UEs; and retransmitting the sidelink data as many as the determined number of retransmissions. |
| US10855397B2 |
Downstream data frame transmission method and device
A downstream data frame transmitting method includes: generating, by an optical line terminal (OLT), a downstream data frame, where the downstream data frame includes a frame header and a payload, the frame header includes a physical synchronization sequence (Psync) field, and the Psync field is used to identify the downstream data frame, where when a value of the Psync field is a first value, the Psync field is further used to indicate that payload data is protected by forward error correction (FEC); or when a value of the Psync field is a second value, the Psync field is further used to indicate that payload data is not protected by FEC; and sending, by the OLT, the downstream data frame. Embodiments of the present invention can reduce a bit error rate of a FEC indication status and improve reliability of the FEC indication status. |
| US10855396B2 |
Semi-persistent channel state information report
A wireless device receives a DCI from a base station. The DCI comprises a power control command of an uplink shared channel, a CSI request field, a hybrid automatic repeat request process number, and a redundancy version. Validation of the DCI for an activation of a semi-persistent CSI reporting is performed based on: a radio network temporary identifier of the semi-persistent CSI reporting, the hybrid automatic repeat request process number being set to a first value, and the redundancy version being set to a second value. The semi-persistent CSI reporting indicated by the CSI request field is activated in response to the validation being achieved. A semi-persistent CSI report is transmitted, based on the activated semi-persistent CSI reporting, via the uplink shared channel with a transmission power determined based on the power control command. |
| US10855389B1 |
Modified time division multiple access (TDMA) network
A system and a method. The system may include a node of a network of nodes, wherein the network is configured as a modified time division multiple access (TDMA) network. The node may include a processor and a transceiver communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor may be configured to: collect data received from each other node of the network during a data collection phase of a given modified TDMA cycle, the collected data including information of connectivity between pairs of nodes of the network; and output the collected data for transmission to each other node of the network during a data distribution phase of the given modified TDMA cycle. |
| US10855388B2 |
Wireless communication enhancements for transparent and boundary clocks
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In an example ingress point of a wireless communication network, a method includes receiving a first ethernet frame comprising a precision time protocol (PTP) message at a first node and determining an ingress time for the PTP message, generating a packet data unit (PDU) for transmission to a second node of the wireless communication network based at least in part on the first ethernet frame by overwriting a field in the PTP message with a value corresponding to the ingress time, and sending the PDU to the second node. An egress point method may include receiving a PDU comprising a PTP message, determining an ingress time from a field in the PTP message overwritten with a value corresponding to the ingress time, and determining an adjustment for a timing parameter based at least in part on the ingress time. |
| US10855385B2 |
System and method for controlling broadcast multimedia using plural wireless network connections
Digital multimedia is broadcast to wireless receivers on a unidirectional wireless broadcast channel, while control data necessary for presentation of the multimedia is provided on a bidirectional, point-to-point wireless link. |
| US10855384B2 |
Mechanisms for reporting a faulty antenna port
There is provided mechanisms for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device. A method is performed by a receiving radio device. The method comprises receiving at least one reference signal transmitted at an antenna port of the transmitting radio device. The method comprises determining whether the antenna port is deemed faulty or not by subjecting the at least one reference signal to an evaluation criterion. The method comprises transmitting, when the antenna port is deemed faulty, a report to the transmitting radio device. The report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty. |
| US10855383B2 |
Calibration of active electronically steered antennas using trim bits and non-volatile memory
A system and a method for calibrating an antenna using trim bits and non-volatile memory is disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a power amplifier configured to at least amplify the output signal of the first antenna. The power amplifier includes multiple stages. The apparatus further includes a trim control circuit configured to adjust a bias of one of the stages of the power amplifier, using trim bits from non-volatile memory. The trim control circuit is further configured to scale the bias of one of the plurality of stages of the power amplifier by an integer between 0 and 2n−1 corresponding to a binary number formed by the first plurality of trim bits, wherein n corresponds to the number of trim bits. |
| US10855379B2 |
Communication device and communication system
A communication device includes a transmitter configured to generate a data signal, and a controller configured to stop an operation of the transmitter in response to an optical transmission stop instruction. The optical transmission stop instruction preferably has a predetermined bit pattern. |
| US10855377B2 |
Optical transmission apparatus, optical reception apparatus, optical communication apparatus, optical communication system, and methods of controlling them
An optical transmission apparatus (1_1) according to the present invention includes a first transmission unit (11_1) that transmits a first optical transmission signal (21_1), a second transmission unit (11_2) that transmits a second optical transmission signal (21_2), and an output unit that outputs, when the first optical transmission signal (21_1) and the second optical transmission signal (21_2) share a set of information, both the first optical transmission signal (21_1) and the second optical transmission signal (21_2) to a first path (26_1) and outputs, when the first optical transmission signal (21_1) and the second optical transmission signal (21_2) do not share the set of information, one of the first optical transmission signal (21_1) and the second optical transmission signal (21_2) to a second path (26_2). |
| US10855376B1 |
Reflection engineering / wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) geometric optical isolator
The present invention reduces the level of optical reflections created in a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) going back into an integrated laser through Reflection Engineering; optimizing the phase/timing and position of optical reflections inherent to a PIC design while adding engineered reflections to the PIC to allow inherent reflections to be reduced or eliminated. The Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) geometric optical isolator of the present invention combines an array of closely spaced WDM lasers with an array of modulators in a novel geometry in order to provide effective optical isolation of the lasers. |
| US10855371B2 |
Device, system and method for visible light communication, and display device
A visible light communication device is a visible light communication device capable of communicating with an other communication device, and includes an image acquisition unit and an image processing unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a first image signal including an R component, a G component, and a B component, the first image signal being output based on a communication signal of a visible light communication. The image processing unit outputs a second image signal in which an influence of the R component of the first image signal is reduced during the visible light communication with the other communication device. |
| US10855364B2 |
Terrestrial based high speed data communications mesh network
A network for providing high speed data communications may include multiple terrestrial transmission stations that are located within overlapping communications range and a mobile receiver station. The terrestrial transmission stations provide a continuous and uninterrupted high speed data communications link with the mobile receiver station employing a wireless radio access network protocol. |
| US10855359B2 |
Priority of beam failure recovery request and uplink channels
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A wireless device may distribute power for various transmission types based on a priority, which may be received from a base station. |
| US10855358B2 |
Channel state information feedback method, communications apparatus, and system
This application provides a channel state information feedback method and an apparatus. The method includes: generating first frequency domain indication information and M1 pieces of first precoding indication information, where the first frequency domain indication information is used to indicate L1 frequency domain subbands in T frequency domain subbands, the T frequency domain subbands are a system bandwidth or a part of the system bandwidth, 1≤L1 |
| US10855353B2 |
System and method for downlink channel sounding in wireless communications systems
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a base station configured to communicate with at least one user device includes transmitting a reference signal to the at least one user device, receiving channel quality information from the at least one user device, and forming a beam based on the channel quality information received from the at least one user device. |
| US10855351B1 |
Hybrid directional antenna system
A wireless device includes a radio, a first directional antenna, a second directional antenna, an omnidirectional antenna, and a switch selectively coupled between the radio and the first directional antenna, the second directional antenna, and the omnidirectional antenna. A processor is coupled to the switch and to, for a frame: determine, based on an arbitration table, a destination medium access control address of a client wireless device and identifiers of antennas for transmitting the frame and receiving acknowledgement data; cause the switch to couple the radio to the first directional antenna; transmit the frame to the client wireless device via the first directional antenna, wherein the first client wireless device is located along a first direction with respect to the wireless device; cause the switch to couple the radio to the omnidirectional antenna; and receive an acknowledgment, corresponding to the frame, from the client wireless device via the omnidirectional antenna. |
| US10855347B2 |
Base station and transmission antenna deciding method
A base station according to this disclosure includes a plurality of antennas used for transmission and reception, an adaptive array processing unit that performs adaptive array processing on reception signals received by the plurality of antennas, and a control unit that decides a transmission antenna used for the transmission from the plurality of antennas at a time when a transmission signal is transmitted, and the control unit decides the transmission antenna based on transmission weight vectors respectively corresponding to the plurality of antennas obtained from a processing result of the adaptive array processing unit. |
| US10855344B1 |
Reducing massive multiple-input multiple-output/5G interference with an adjacent band
Systems and methods are provided for reducing massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO)/5G out-of-band-emission. After detecting interference with an adjacent band, the mMIMO unit (MMU) determines the best corrective action based on calculations to determine if the equivalent isotropically radiated power would still lead to emissions in the adjacent band and, if required, apply one or more corrective actions. In one corrective action, the MMU reduces the overall power by turning off certain power amplifiers driving the dipoles. In another corrective action, the MMU changes the antenna beam width automatically to sway away from the target. In yet another corrective action, the MMU alternates the output power control range. In each of the aspects, the analysis is based on distance and boresight azimuth, as well as location factors. In some aspects, a topographic map of the affected area is utilized to determine clutter so that the selected corrective action is most effective. |
| US10855343B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for acquiring codebook by channel state information report type
Provided are a method, apparatus and system for acquiring a codebook, the method including: generating, by a base station, a codebook corresponding to Nt ports and r layers transmission according to a first preset condition, the codebook being for feeding back a preceding matrix, the first preset condition being a common set condition between the base station and a terminal, Nt being a port number, and r being a transmission layer number; determining, by the base station, a signaling indication method for selecting a codebook subset corresponding to the codebook according to a second preset condition; and acquiring, by the base station, Codebook Subset Selection (CSS) signaling for selecting the codebook subset correspondingly according to the signaling indication method, and notifying the selected codebook subset to a terminal through the CSS signaling. |
| US10855339B2 |
Information processing method and apparatus
An information processing method is provided and applied to a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications system, where a plurality of data demodulation reference signal ports are allocated to UE, and the method includes: obtaining, in a scheduled time-frequency resource, information about whether the plurality of data demodulation reference signal ports allocated to the UE meet a particular port relationship, where meeting the particular port relationship means that signals sent by using any ports experience same or similar large-scale properties; and sending an indication of the information about whether the particular port relationship is met, so that for at least two data demodulation reference signal ports that meet the particular port relationship, the UE performs channel estimation, frequency offset estimation, or demodulation by using same parameters. |
| US10855338B2 |
Master reference for base station network interface sourced from distributed antenna system
A distributed antenna system (DAS) includes: a base station network interface; and a remote antenna unit communicatively coupled to the first base station interface, the remote antenna unit including an antenna. The remote antenna unit configured to: receive a radio frequency band signal from a subscriber unit; convert the radio frequency band signal into a data stream; and communicate the data stream with the first base station network interface. The first base station network interface is configured to: convert the data stream or a signal derived from the data stream into a communication signal, wherein a mater reference clock is distributed between various components of the DAS to keep the various components of the DAS locked to a single clock; and communicate the communication signal and the master reference clock to an external device, the external device configured to lock its clock to the master reference clock. |
| US10855333B2 |
Crosstalk reduction in receiver inductive loop using capturing loop in transmitting inductive loop
An inductively coupled multi-channel digital isolator where the transmitter and receiver inductive loops of a given channel are coplanar. In the case where two adjacent channels flow data in opposite directions, the receiver inductive loops of a given channel include a large, generally conventional loop portion and a small loop portion that is located inside the transmitter inductive loops of the adjacent channels. The sizes of the small loop portion and the conventional loop portion are generally in the ratio of the magnetic flux in the conventional loop portion to the magnetic flux in the transmitter inductive loop. This size relationship results in the voltage of the small loop portion being very close but opposite in sign to the voltage in the conventional loop portion. As a result, there is minimal crosstalk from the transmitter inductive loop of one channel to the receiver inductive loop of the adjacent channel. |
| US10855331B1 |
Apparatuses and systems for improved copper connections
Apparatuses, systems, and associated methods are described that provide signal transmission over copper media. An example module includes a number of electrical signal generators that each generate an electrical signal, and a signal modulation system that receives the electrical signals generated by the electrical signal generators. The signal modulation system further modulates each of the electrical signals such that each modulated electrical signal is distinguishable from the other modulated electrical signals. The module further includes an active copper multiplexer in electrical communication with the electrical signal generators that receives the modulated electrical signals from the signal modulation system. The active copper multiplexer further combines the multiple modulated signals into a single combined electrical signal and transmits the single combined electrical signal through a single copper cable. |
| US10855320B2 |
Antenna aperture tuning
An antenna system includes: a radiating element; a feed coupled to the radiating element at a first point on the radiating element and configured to convey energy to the radiating element; and a radiation-adjustment device coupled to the radiating element at a second point, configured to alter a radiation characteristic of the radiating element, and including: coarse-adjustment elements; an integrated-circuit chip including: switches, each coupled to a respective one of the coarse-adjustment elements where the coarse-adjustment elements are disposed external to the integrated-circuit chip; and a fine-adjustment circuit; the antenna system further including a controller communicatively coupled to the switches and to the fine-adjustment circuit, the controller configured to alter the radiation characteristic of the radiating element by selectively causing one or more of the switches to couple one or more of the coarse-adjustment elements to the radiating element, and by adjusting a value of the fine-adjustment circuit. |
| US10855316B2 |
Error correction code (ECC) operations in memory
Apparatuses and methods for performing an error correction code (ECC) operation are provided. One example method can include generating a codeword based on a number of low density parity check (LDPC) codewords failing a LDPC decoding operation and performing a BCH decoding operation on the codeword. |
| US10855312B2 |
Transmission apparatus and associated method of encoded data
A transmission apparatus includes an encoder that codes a data sequence with a parity check matrix, wherein the data sequence includes a final information bit sequence and virtual information bits, and outputs the final information bit sequence and a parity sequence, as LDPC codes, and a transmitter that transmits the LDPC codes as a transmission data. A column length of the parity check matrix is longer than a total length of the final information bit sequence and the parity sequence, by a length of the virtual information bits that are set to “0” and are not transmitted. The total length of the final information bit sequence and the parity sequence has a sequence length corresponding to a length from a first column to a determined column of the parity check matrix. The encoder generates the LDPC codes by using the first column to the determined column among one or more column(s) of the parity check matrix. |
| US10855311B2 |
Method and device for determining features of error correcting code system
A method for determining features of an error correcting code system, comprising independent error correcting codes and a polarization module, allowing transmitting a binary input vector on block fading sub-channels, the independent error correcting codes generating components of the binary input vector and a channel polarization being applied to the binary input vector by the polarization module. The method comprises: obtaining characteristics of the block fading sub-channels; and, determining features of said error correcting code system, comprising, for each error correcting code, a rate of said error correcting code, adapted to the obtained characteristics and minimizing a function of a probability that an instantaneous equivalent channel capacity of the block fading sub-channels is below a transmission rate transmitted on the block fading sub-channels. |
| US10855307B2 |
Systems with pairs of voltage level shifter switches to couple voltage level shifters to anti-aliasing filters
A battery-operated device comprises: a first battery cell having a voltage; a second battery cell having a voltage; a first anti-aliasing filter operable to be coupled to the first battery cell; a second anti-aliasing filter operable to be coupled to the second battery cell; an analog-to-digital converter operable to be coupled to the first anti-aliasing filter during a first period of time or the second anti-aliasing filter during a second period of time different than the first period of time; and wherein the second anti-aliasing filter is charged during the first period of time and the first anti-aliasing filter is charged during the second period of time. |
| US10855303B1 |
Propagation delay compensation and interpolation filter
Various embodiments provide a filter for propagation delay compensation and interpolation in encoder digital signal processing. The filter can include a first low pass filter configured to reduce noise of a digital input comprising a measured angular position; a first differentiator configured to receive a filtered digital input and to calculate a speed from a difference in time of the measured angular position and a previous angular position; a second low pass filter configured to reduce noise from the speed; a second differentiator configured to receive a filtered speed and to calculate acceleration using a difference in time of the filtered speed and a previous speed; a third low pass filter configured to reduce noise of the acceleration; and a delay compensator configured to receive the filtered digit input, the filtered speed, and a filtered acceleration, and to calculate a propagation delay compensated digital output. |
| US10855301B2 |
Digital to analog converter device and calibration method
A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) device includes a DAC circuitry and a calibration circuitry. The DAC circuitry includes first and second DAC circuits which generate first and second signals according to an input pattern. The input pattern includes at least one of first logic value and at least one of second logic value that have different numbers. The calibration circuitry performs a calibration operation according to first and second comparison results, to generate a control signal for controlling the second DAC circuit. The first comparison results are comparison results of the first and the second signals when the input pattern is a first pattern, the second comparison results are comparison results of the first and the second signals when the input pattern is a second pattern, and the first pattern is inverse to the second pattern. |
| US10855294B2 |
High linearity phase interpolator
A high linearity phase interpolator (PI) is disclosed. A phase value parameter indicative of a desired phase difference between an output signal and an input clock signal edge may be provided by control logic. A first capacitor may be charged for a first period of time with a first current that is proportional to the phase value parameter to produce a first voltage on the capacitor that is proportional to the phase value parameter. The first capacitor may be further charged for a second period of time with a second current that has a constant value to form a voltage ramp offset by the first voltage. A reference voltage may be compared to the voltage ramp during the second period of time. The output signal may be asserted at a time when the voltage ramp equals the reference voltage. |
| US10855290B1 |
Delay locked loop
Embodiments disclose a delay locked loop. The delay locked loop including a main delay circuit configured to generate initial clocks by delaying an internal clock, and sub-delay lines configured to generate phase clocks having a phase difference corresponding to a desired initial delay by respectively delaying the internal clock and the initial clocks. The phase difference among the phase clocks may be adjusted according to delay values of the sub-delay lines. |
| US10855288B2 |
Logic design with unipolar memristors
Logic gates are made from first and second resistive elements connected together to form a voltage divider. One or both of the resistive elements is a unipolar memristor. OR and NOT gates may be constructed to make a digital logic system. |
| US10855285B2 |
Field programmable transistor arrays
Illustrative embodiments provide a field-programmable transistor array and a method of making an integrated circuit comprising a field-programmable transistor array. The field-programmable transistor array comprises a plurality of logic cells. Each of the plurality of logic cells comprises a plurality of columns of transistors. Each of the plurality of columns of transistors comprises a plurality of first transistors and a plurality of second transistors. Each of the plurality of first transistors are individually programmable to be either always on, always off, or to be controlled by a logic signal to be on or off. Each of the plurality of second transistors are configured to be programmed to be always on or always off. |
| US10855282B2 |
Buffer circuit
Apparatuses for providing buffer circuits a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes a plurality of inverters and a transistor having one diffusion region coupled to a diffusion region of a transistor of one inverter of the plurality of inverters, another diffusion region coupled to a diffusion region of a transistor of another inverter of the plurality of inverters. The transistor having a gate coupled to one power supply voltage and diffusion regions coupled to another power supply voltage functions as a power voltage compensation capacitor. |
| US10855279B2 |
Data interface, chip, and chip system
A data interface is disclosed, which includes an electrostatic discharge circuit, and a charge transmitting circuit connected to a binding wire through the electrostatic discharge circuit; the charge transmitting circuit includes a first capacitor, the charge transmitting circuit transfers charges in the first capacitor to a parasitic capacitor of the electrostatic discharge circuit and a parasitic capacitor of the binding wire, to generate a first voltage signal and output the first voltage signal through the binding wire. According to the data interface, charges in a charging capacitor and a parasitic capacitor are redistributed, which could not only reduce a power consumption loss caused by a parasitic capacitor in a communication channel but also effectively reduce time delay. In addition, the use of dual-wire communication is avoided by using single-wire communication, and the manufacturing costs are reduced relative to low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS). |
| US10855277B1 |
Mitigating reliability issues in a low-voltage reference buffer driven by a high-voltage circuit
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide circuitry connecting an output of voltage reference circuitry powered by a relatively high voltage to an input of a voltage buffer configured to generate a voltage lower than the high voltage. The connecting circuitry prevents the high voltage from reaching the input of the voltage buffer. One example electronic circuit generally includes a voltage reference circuit configured to be powered by a relatively higher voltage, a buffer circuit configured to generate a relatively lower voltage as compared to the relatively higher voltage, and circuitry coupled between an output of the voltage reference circuit and an input of the buffer circuit, the circuitry being configured to prevent the higher voltage from reaching the input of the buffer circuit. |
| US10855266B2 |
Semiconductor device, load drive system and method of detecting inductor current
A monitor circuit monitors a gate potential applied to a gate of a high-side transistor or monitors an output potential generated at an output terminal and generates either one or both of a high-side sampling timing and a high-side holding timing based on the monitored result. A current detection circuit detects an inductor current flowing in an inductor and generates a first detection voltage proportional to the inductor current. A sample-and-hold circuit starts a sampling operation of the first detection voltage in response to the high-side sampling timing and starts a holding operation of the first detection voltage in response to the high-side holding timing so as to output a second detection voltage. |
| US10855261B2 |
Level shifter with deterministic output during power-up sequence
Level-shifting circuits including a plurality of p-type metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) devices and n-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) devices may be used to level-shift an input voltage signal between a low voltage domain having a low voltage level and a high voltage domain having a high voltage level, to obtain an output voltage signal having an output voltage level at an output node. A current-controlled tie circuit may be connected between the output node and the output voltage level, to conduct a current that causes the output node of the level-shifting circuit to be in a pre-defined logic state during a power-up sequence of the level-shifting circuit. Accordingly, spurious, non-deterministic output levels are avoided during the power-up sequence. |
| US10855258B1 |
Voltage control
This application relates to methods and apparatus for voltage control, and in particular to maintain safe voltages for components of audio driving circuits that are operable in a high voltage mode. An audio driving circuit (100) may include a power supply module (106) and may be operable such that, in use, a voltage magnitude at a source terminal of at least a first transistor (306, 309, 603, 605) of the audio driving circuit can exceed its gate-source voltage tolerance. A voltage generator (111P) is configured to output a first intermediate voltage (VSAFEP) to an intermediate voltage path for use as a gate control voltage for at least the first transistor, to maintain its gate-source voltage below tolerance. An intermediate path voltage clamp (114P) is provided for selectively clamping the intermediate voltage path to a voltage level, so as to maintain the magnitude of the gate-source voltage of the first transistor below tolerance. The voltage clamp (114P) is enabled by a reset condition (RST) for the audio driving circuit. |
| US10855257B2 |
Pulsed latch system with state retention and method of operation
An integrated circuit includes a pulse generator having at least one delay circuit with an input that receives a clock signal and an output that provides a delayed clock pulse. The delayed clock pulse has a width proportional to an amount of time required to maintain a magnitude of the clock signal. A pulse latch circuit includes a clock input coupled to receive the delayed clock pulse, a data input coupled to receive a data value, and a data output, wherein the pulse latch circuit outputs and holds the data value at the data output each time the delayed clock pulse is provided at the clock input, and the pulse latch circuit operates on a continuous voltage source that supplies power during power on and power off modes. |
| US10855252B2 |
Acoustic wave device and method of fabricating the same, filter, and multiplexer
An acoustic wave device includes: a support substrate; a single piezoelectric substrate that is located on the support substrate and is single-crystal; first electrodes located on a first surface of the piezoelectric substrate; second electrodes located on a second surface of the piezoelectric substrate; and an acoustic mirror that is bonded on the support substrate, is located between the support substrate and the first electrodes in resonance regions where the first electrodes and the second electrodes face each other across at least a part of the piezoelectric substrate, is not located between the support substrate and the first electrodes in at least a part of a region between the resonance regions, and reflects an acoustic wave propagating through the piezoelectric substrate. |
| US10855251B2 |
Unreleased plane acoustic wave resonators
Unreleased plane acoustic wave (PAW) resonators are disclosed. An example unreleased PAW resonator includes a substrate, a first acoustic reflector disposed on the substrate, and a piezoelectric layer disposed on the first acoustic reflector, wherein the first acoustic reflector and the piezoelectric layer are unreleased from the substrate. |
| US10855249B2 |
Bulk acoustic wave resonator and filter including the same
A bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the substrate, and a piezoelectric layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. Either one or both of the first electrode and the second electrode include a molybdenum-tungsten alloy having a weight ratio of molybdenum to tungsten in a range of 3:1 to 1:3. |
| US10855246B2 |
Enhancing isolation in hybrid-based radio frequency duplexers and multiplexers
A radio frequency (RF) duplexer may comprise quadrature hybrid couplers and RF filters. The isolation and insertion loss of such RF duplexer, often limited by practical imperfections such as component mismatches and layout asymmetries, may be improved by including capacitors in the RF duplexer. A tunable or reconfigurable RF duplexer with high isolation and low insertion loss, under all desired settings, may be realized by adding tunable capacitors to the tunable RF duplexer which includes the quadrature hybrid couplers and tunable RF filters. |
| US10855239B2 |
Amplifier class AB output stage
An amplifier includes an input stage, a folded cascode stage, and a class AB output stage. The folded cascode stage is coupled to the input stage. The class AB output stage is coupled to the folded cascode stage. The class AB output stage includes a high-side output transistor, a low-side output transistor, and a high-side feedback circuit that is coupled to the high-side output transistor. The high-side feedback circuit includes a high-side sense transistor and a high-side feedback transistor. The high-side sense transistor includes a control terminal that is coupled to a control terminal of the high-side output transistor. The high-side feedback transistor is coupled to an output of the high-side sense transistor and to the folded cascode stage. A first output of the folded cascode stage is coupled to the control terminal of the high-side sense transistor and to the control terminal of the high-side output transistor. |
| US10855237B1 |
Method for changing audio limiter settings under low alternating-current (AC) line voltage condition
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are generally directed to circuitry and techniques for adjusting an audio signal to avoid undesirable system behavior under low alternating-current (AC) line voltage and high volume conditions. For example, certain aspects provide an apparatus for audio amplification. The apparatus generally includes an amplifier, a supply voltage generation circuit having an input coupled to an input voltage node of the apparatus and an output coupled to a supply voltage terminal of the amplifier, the supply voltage generation circuit having a transformer, a primary winding of the transformer being coupled to the input voltage node, a peak voltage detector circuit configured to detect a peak voltage at a secondary winding of the transformer, and a controller circuit configured to adjust an input audio signal of the amplifier based on the detected peak voltage. |
| US10855236B2 |
Device stack with novel gate capacitor topology
Systems, methods and apparatus for practical realization of an integrated circuit comprising a stack of transistors operating as an RF amplifier are described. As stack height is increased, capacitance values of gate capacitors used to provide a desired distribution of an RF voltage at the output of the amplifier across the stack may decrease to values approaching parasitic/stray capacitance values present in the integrated circuit which may render the practical realization of the integrated circuit difficult. Coupling of an RF gate voltage at the gate of one transistor of the stack to a gate of a different transistor of the stack can allow for an increase in the capacitance value of the gate capacitor of the different transistor for obtaining an RF voltage at the gate of the different transistor according to the desired distribution. |
| US10855226B1 |
Quadrature passive mixer and frequency down converter for enhancing IIP2
Proposed is related to a quadrature passive mixer and a frequency down-converter for enhancing an input referred second-order intercept point (IIP2). More particularly, proposed is related to a quadrature passive mixer and a frequency down-converter for enhancing the IIP2 capable of improving the IIP2 by reducing a mismatch component of a mixer block used for frequency downconversion of a wireless communication system. Here, the frequency down-converter for improving the IIP2 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes an RF quadrature signal generator, an LO IQ signal generator, a 25% LO signal generator, an LO buffer, an I-quadrature mixer, and a Q-quadrature mixer. In addition, the I-quadrature mixer and the Q-quadrature mixer receive RF quadrature signals from the RF quadrature signal generator and selectively downconvert and output the RF quadrature signals according to the 25% duty-cycle LO signals applied from the LO buffer. |
| US10855225B1 |
Radio frequency low power differential frequency multiplier
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a low power differential frequency multiplier. An example frequency multiplier circuit generally includes a first set of transistors, a second set of transistors, and a resonant circuit. The first set of transistors comprises a first transistor and a second transistor, wherein each of the transistors in the first set is a first type of transistor. The second set of transistors comprises a third transistor and a fourth transistor, wherein each of the transistors in the second set is a second type of transistor. The resonant circuit has a first terminal coupled to the first set of transistors and a second terminal coupled to the second set of transistors, wherein the resonant circuit comprises an inductive element and a capacitive element coupled in parallel with the inductive element. |
| US10855220B2 |
Hinged building integrated photovoltaic roof tile modules
Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems provide for solar panel arrays that can be aesthetically pleasing to an observer. BIPV systems can be incorporated as part of roof surfaces as built into the structure of the roof, particularly as multi-region roofing modules that have photovoltaic elements embedded or incorporated into the body of the module, in distinct tiles-sized regions. Such multi-region photovoltaic modules can replicate the look of individual roofing tiles or shingles. Further, multi-region photovoltaic modules can include hinged support structures along the upper edge of the modules, allowing for lifting of portions of an installed module, giving access to the underlying roof deck for more efficient installation, maintenance, or removal of roofing structures down-roof of the installed module. |
| US10855207B2 |
Electric linear repetitive pulsed drive for operating equipment
An electric linear repetitive pulsed drive for an operation of apparatuses, in particular for an operation of apparatuses for improving an efficiency of which a working energy that is output in a pulsed manner, with at the same time low repetition frequencies, is advantageous, includes a magnetic circuit with an air gap and an electric coil, a magnetic shape-memory adjustment element and a reset unit, and a control electronics unit, wherein the electric linear repetitive pulsed drive outputs its energy in discrete-time fashion, bundled in short time intervals, that is in pulses. |
| US10855204B2 |
Electrostatic induction type power generation element
An electrostatic induction type power generation element is capable of increasing the amount of generated power while suppressing a parasitic capacitance between electrodes between which induced electromotive force is generated. An electrostatic induction type power generation element in one embodiment includes: substrates which are opposed to each other and which move relative to each other in a direction parallel to the opposing surfaces of the substrates; a charge retaining unit and conductors which are respectively formed on the opposing surfaces of the substrates; and a substance which is interposed between the substrates opposed to each other and between the charge retaining unit and the conductors, and which has an anisotropic dielectric constant in which a relative dielectric constant in the direction parallel to the opposing surfaces is higher than a relative dielectric constant in a direction orthogonal to the opposing surfaces. |
| US10855202B2 |
Inverter circuit, inverter, and control method and apparatus of an inverter circuit
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an inverter circuit, an inverter, and a control method and apparatus of an inverter circuit, which are used to solve the problem of direct connection of bridge arms of an inverter circuit. The inverter circuit comprises an inverter module and a filter module that are sequentially connected, wherein the inverter module comprises: a first bridge arm, comprising a first switch tube, a first inductor, a second inductor and a second switch tube that are sequentially connected in series; a second bridge arm, comprising a third switch tube and a first diode that are connected in series; a third bridge arm, comprising a fourth switch tube and a second diode that are connected in series; a first freewheeling branch; and a second freewheeling branch. |
| US10855201B1 |
Cascaded multilevel inverter
The cascaded multilevel inverter utilizes a delta polyphase circuit and transformers in each leg using cross-phase connection windings. Transformers corresponding to a number of phases of the inverter use an in-phase connection winding and a cross-phase connection winding to respective other legs, so that the respective transformers having the in-phase connection windings are connected in series with a DC power supply. |
| US10855199B2 |
Voltage balancing in a Modular Multilevel Converter having delta configuration
A method of discharging a Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) includes a plurality of phase legs connected in delta configuration. Each leg includes a plurality of series connected submodules, each submodule including an energy storage. The method includes disconnecting the MMC from an electrical grid, discharging the energy storages by means of a circulating current, and reconnecting the MMC to the electrical grid. The discharging includes, for each phase leg, setting a voltage reference, and sequentially selecting submodules in zero state by means of a sorting algorithm for switching each of the selected submodules to plus or minus state until the voltage deviation from the set voltage reference of the energy storage of each submodule in the phase leg is within a predefined range. |
| US10855196B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device including a main board; a first board provided on the main board; first and second semiconductor elements provided on the first board; a first positive terminal provided on the first board; a first negative terminal provided on the first board; a first output terminal provided on the first board; a second board provided on the main board; third and fourth semiconductor elements provided on the second board; a second positive terminal provided on the second board; a second negative terminal provided on the second board; a second output terminal provided on the second board; a first terminal plate connecting the first positive terminal and the second positive terminal, a second terminal plate connecting the first negative terminal and the second negative terminal, and a third terminal plate connecting the first output terminal and the second output terminal. |
| US10855194B2 |
High frequency power supply system with closely regulated output for heating a workpiece
A high frequency power supply system provides highly regulated power and frequency to a workpiece load where the highly regulated power and frequency can be independent of the workpiece load characteristics by inverter switching control and an inverter output impedance adjusting and frequency control network that can include precision variable reactors with a geometrically-shaped moveable insert core section and a stationary split-bus section with a complementary geometrically-shaped split bus section and split electric terminal bus section where the insert core section can be moved relative to the stationary split-bus section to vary the inductance of the variable reactors. |
| US10855189B2 |
Control apparatus for resonant converter
A control apparatus for a resonant converter that receives a direct current (DC) voltage of a bulk capacitor. The control apparatus includes a forced turn-off control circuit that receives a resonance current detection signal, which has been produced by shunting a resonance current flowing through the resonant converter and converting the shunted resonance current to a voltage, outputs a forced turn-off signal in response to the resonance current detection signal falling between a first variable threshold and a second variable threshold that is smaller than the first variable threshold, and varies the first variable threshold and the second variable threshold in accordance with an input voltage inputted to the forced turn-off control circuit by dividing the DC voltage of the bulk capacitor. |
| US10855187B1 |
Dynamic discharge current control for improving power supply output regulation
A flyback converter controller is provided with secondary-side controller that adjusts a discharge current form an output voltage rail during a communication period with a primary-side controller to maintain the output voltage within regulation. |
| US10855184B2 |
Load current measurement
A switch-mode power supply includes a DC-DC converter and metering circuitry that is coupled to the DC-DC converter. The metering circuitry includes scaling circuitry, a current source, a capacitor, switching circuitry, and a comparator. The scaling circuitry is configured to generate a reference current scaled to be a predetermined fraction of a peak current flowing in an inductor of the DC-DC converter. The current source is configured to output a first current that is one-half of the reference current. The capacitor is coupled to the current source. The switching circuitry is configured to switchably connect the current source to the capacitor. The comparator is coupled to the capacitor. The comparator is configured to generate a signal indicating that a voltage across the capacitor exceeds a threshold voltage. |
| US10855180B2 |
Control techniques in voltage regulation systems, and related methods and circuits
Devices and techniques for controlling voltage regulation are disclosed. A voltage regulation system may include one or more loads disposed on an integrated circuit, a DC-to-DC voltage regulation device at least partially disposed on the integrated circuit, and a second device disposed external to the integrated circuit and comprising circuitry configured to communicate with the controller of the voltage regulation device. The voltage regulation device may include one or more voltage regulation modules and a controller configured to control the one or more voltage regulation modules. The one or more voltage regulation modules may be configured to supply one or more voltage levels, respectively, to the one or more loads. The controller may be configured to disable at least one of the one or more voltage regulation modules based on a determination that the second device is not suitable for use with the voltage regulation device. |
| US10855179B2 |
Fast charge sharing between capacitors of a dual input path DC/DC converter
A power converter may be adapted to provide an output voltage from one of two input voltages. The power converter may include two or more buck converters that share a plurality of power converter components and each converts an individual input voltage to the output voltage. The power converter may include any of a variety of charge equalizing components that may be coupled between input terminals and optional input capacitors, which are coupled between the input terminals and ground. The charge equalizing component(s) provide(s) a fast conduction path for the equalization of input voltages and charge/voltage of the optional input capacitors. The charge equalizing component(s) can mitigate large currents created by differential voltages between the input terminals, which currents would otherwise flow through and potentially damage or destroy the power converter's switching devices. |
| US10855176B1 |
Negative voltage generation circuit without low-dropout regulator
A negative voltage generation circuit includes a clock generation circuit configured to generate a first clock signal, a first voltage control circuit configured to vary a first resistance value based on a magnitude of a power supply voltage and further configured to control a magnitude of a voltage in a first charge node, based on the varied first resistance value, and a first charge pump circuit configured to charge a voltage, controlled by the first voltage control circuit, in a charge mode, based on the first clock signal, and further configured to output a first voltage, generated by the charging, as a first negative voltage. |
| US10855175B2 |
High voltage generator with precharge controller
A high voltage generator includes a voltage converting device configured to increase a level of an input voltage and output an output voltage having a level higher than the level of the input voltage. The high voltage generator also includes a precharge controller configured to gradually increase the level of the input voltage up to a level of an external voltage based on a reference voltage and the output voltage. |
| US10855168B2 |
Power conversion device having bypass circuit protection
Each arm circuit of a power conversion device includes a plurality of cascaded cell blocks and a plurality of bypass circuits connected in parallel to the respective cell blocks. Each cell block includes: a first connection node on a high potential side and a second connection node on a low potential side for connection to another cell block; and a plurality of converter cells cascaded between the first and second connection nodes, each converter cell containing an energy storage. The plurality of converter cells include at least one first converter cell of a full-bridge (or hybrid) configuration and at least one second converter cell of a half-bridge configuration. |
| US10855165B2 |
Switched capacitor converter topology using a compensation inductor for charge transfer
Circuits and methods are provided for soft switching within a switched-capacitor DC/DC converter, so as to reduce switching losses and improve efficiency. This is accomplished, in preferred converters, by coupling a compensation inductor between one half-bridge of an output rectifier and another half-bridge of the output rectifier. The compensation inductor functions to transfer charge from or to the capacitance of switches within the converter while the switches are off, such that the voltage across each switch is reduced to zero before that switch is turned on. This provides zero-voltage switching (ZVS) and its associated high efficiency. The efficiency associated with the ZVS makes ideal zero-current switching (ZCS) less important, such that high-precision capacitors and inductors forming the resonant tanks required by near-ideal ZCS are not required. The resultant circuits are physically smaller and less expensive than other converters that require near-ideal ZCS, but achieve similar or better efficiency. |
| US10855164B2 |
Zero current detector
A switch-mode power supply and a zero current detector for use therein. A zero current detector includes an input stage and an output stage. The output stage is coupled to the input stage. The output stage includes a detector output terminal, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first transistor includes an input terminal and a control terminal. The input terminal is coupled to the detector output terminal. The control terminal is coupled to the input stage. The second transistor includes an input terminal, a control terminal, and an output terminal. The input terminal is coupled to the control terminal of the first transistor. The control terminal is coupled to the input terminal of the second transistor. The output terminal is coupled to ground. |
| US10855163B2 |
Supply method of dual-chip power circuit and dual-chip power circuit
A supply method of a dual-chip power circuit, and a dual-chip power circuit are provided. The dual-chip power circuit includes an inductor, a conduction element, a first chip and a second chip. The first chip includes a control circuit and a supply circuit. The second chip includes a first switch and a drive control circuit, and the drive control circuit is connected to a control end of the first switch. The supply method includes the following steps. When starting, the drive control circuit controls the power circuit to operate in an open-loop state; and if the output voltage of the supply circuit is detected to be established, the supply circuit supplies power to the control circuit, the drive control circuit of the second chip receives an output voltage of the first chip, and then the power circuit operates in a closed-loop state. |
| US10855162B2 |
Secondary of linear motor
The present invention provides a secondary side of a linear motor, which mainly includes a base, a combining mechanism and multiple magnetic members, wherein the base has multiple plates that are sequentially stacked into a block; the combining mechanism is configured to combine the plate-shaped bodies; and the magnetic members are disposed on the base in a separated manner. |
| US10855161B2 |
Hybrid step motor with greater number of stator teeth than rotor teeth to deliver more torque
A step motor comprises both a rotor and a stator winding assembly. The rotor has a plurality Nr of rotor teeth. The rotor fits within the stator winding assembly and is seated by bearings on an axial shaft to rotate within the stator winding assembly. The stator winding assembly includes a stator with a plurality of stator poles and is wound with coils that can be driven in a series of phases to magnetically interact with the rotor. Each stator pole has a plurality of stator teeth. The total number Ns of stator teeth on all poles of the stator is equal to or greater than the number of rotor teeth (Ns≥Nr) to deliver more torque. Various embodiments of two-phase, three-phase and five-phase bipolar step motors having 8, 9 and 10 stator poles, respectively, and different numbers of teeth are provided, including two embodiments with nonuniform stators. |
| US10855160B2 |
Repelling electric generator
An electric generator includes a first magnet, a second magnet, and a first electric conductor. The first magnet may include a first surface. The second magnet may include a second surface having a same polarity as the first surface of the first magnet, wherein the first magnet and the second magnet are oriented such the first surface of the first magnet is opposite of the second surface of the second magnet. The first electric conductor may be positioned in a space between the first surface of the first magnet and the second surface of the second magnet such that the electric generator provides an electric current as a result of a movement of the second magnet relative to the first magnet. |
| US10855149B2 |
Starter, and formation of graphite cover layer for commutator surface
A starter includes a motor configured with a direct current motor. The direct current motor has a brush and a commutator. The brush is a sintered material formed of graphite and a copper powder. The commutator is formed of either copper or a copper alloy that has a copper content of 99% or more. A surface of is a sliding portion of the commutator which has sliding movement with the brush is provided with a graphite cover-layer that contains graphite as a main component. The graphite cover-layer contains a hard compound which has a Vickers hardness higher than 10 GPa and a metal sulfide solid lubricant. |
| US10855146B2 |
Motor drive unit
A motor assembly for driving a pump or rotary device features a power plane with a circular geometry to be mounted inside a space envelope having a similar circular geometry formed on an end-plate between an inner hub portion and a peripheral portion that extends circumferentially around the space envelope of the end-plate. The power plane is a multi-layer circuit board or assembly having: a power layer with higher temperature power modules for providing power to a motor, a control layer with lower temperature control electronics modules for controlling the power provided to the motor, and a thermal barrier and printed circuit board layer between the power layer and the control layer that provides electrical connection paths between the power modules of the power plane and the control electronics modules of the control layer, and also provides insulation between the power layer and the control layer. |
| US10855136B2 |
Cooling unit of drive motor
A cooling unit of a drive motor includes: a fixing member installed on an inner wall surface of a motor housing and configured to fix a stator core of the drive motor, wherein the fixing member has a ring shape, includes a flow path formed therein in order to allow a cooling medium to flow, and includes a cooling medium inlet and a cooling medium outlet formed to be connected to the flow path, the flow path includes a first path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at one side and a second path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at another side, and the first and second paths have different flow cross sections and are connected to each other. |
| US10855131B2 |
Potting and insulation system for a concentrated coil soil stator
An assembly for an electric machine including a core with a plurality of teeth extending radially inward from the core, the plurality of teeth defining a plurality of slots for receiving coils, a plurality of coils, each coil wrapping around a respective tooth, a separator in one of the slots including a first leg joined at an angle to a second leg for separating adjacent coils within the slot, an insert between the first leg and the second leg for at least partially filling a space between the first leg and the second leg, and a potting filling space within the slot between the separator, the plurality of coils, and the insert. |
| US10855129B1 |
Printed circuit board layout
A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a first plurality of conductive paths having first ends at an inner radius of the PCB and second ends at an outer radius of the PCB. The PCB further includes a second plurality of conductive paths having first ends at an outer radius of the PCB and second ends at an inner radius of the PCB. The PCB further includes a first plurality of conductive vias that pass through the PCB at the outer radius of the PCB and couple second ends of the first plurality of conductive paths to first ends of the second plurality of conductive paths. The PCB further includes a second plurality of conductive vias that pass through the PCB at the inner radius of the PCB and electrically couple second ends of the second plurality of conductive paths to first ends of the first plurality of conductive paths. |
| US10855128B2 |
Method for producing a stator
Described is a method for producing a stator, in particular for electric motors. In a first step, a plurality of flexible electrical conductors are combined to form a conductor bundle. In a second step, two end regions of the conductor bundle are pressed in such a way that a central region of the conductor bundle formed between the two end regions remains flexible. Also described is a corresponding stator. |
| US10855127B2 |
Electric machine stator cooling systems and methods
A stator for an electromagnetic machine having a plurality of electromagnets. Some or all of the electromagnets include a stack of laminations defining a tooth and a yoke segment, and an insulating bobbin surrounding a portion of the tooth of each lamination such that each lamination is held against adjacent laminations by the bobbin. The electromagnets also include electrically conductive windings surrounding a portion of the bobbin and a stator encapsulant fully encapsulating the bobbin and windings of the electromagnets. |
| US10855126B2 |
Electric motor and air conditioner
An electric motor includes a stator and a consequent-pole-type rotor including an annular rotor core disposed on an inner side of the stator and a plurality of permanent magnets disposed inside the rotor core and arrayed in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The rotor core includes at least one slit provided inside the rotor core and disposed on an outer side of each of the permanent magnets in a radial direction of the rotor core, and at least one slit provided on an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core and disposed between the permanent magnets adjacent to each other. |
| US10855125B2 |
Rotor, motor and electrical device including the motor
A motor includes a stator including wound multiphase coils and stator slots that accommodate the multiphase coils, and a rotor provided at an inner side of the stator. Poles are provided in a direction of rotation, and sets of flux barriers are provided on the rotor, each of the poles respectively corresponding to a set of the flux barriers. A ratio between a total number of the stator slots and a product of a total number of poles of the rotor and a phase number of the multiphase coils is a non-integer. With the structure of the motor, a torque ripple is reduced while an output torque is kept unchanged. |
| US10855123B2 |
Rotating electrical machine and producing method of rotating electrical machine
A rotating electrical machine includes a plurality of core pieces forming a stator core. Each of the core pieces includes contact surfaces on one side end and another side end in a peripheral direction, a tapered protrusion on the contact surface of the one side end, the protrusion including first inclined surfaces outside and inside, and a recess on the contact surface of the other side end, the recess including second inclined surfaces contacting the first inclined surfaces outside and inside to receive the protrusion of adjacent core piece. A cross-sectional shape of the protrusion is a shape such that, inside a circle centered on a first end portion with a distance being a radius between a second end portion located on an opposite side of the first end portion and the first end portion, at least a part of the first inclined surfaces contact the second inclined surfaces. |
| US10855122B2 |
Stator for rotating electrical machine having components for reinforcing laminations
Provided is a stator for rotating electrical machine that can avoid the sagging of teeth stacked at the distal ends under the self-weight. A stator core is a laminate of metal foil members stacked in a direction of a rotation axis of the rotating electrical machine. Each tooth has a pair of side walls facing the neighboring teeth in the circumferential direction. The stator includes a pair of insulating reinforcing members so as to become a bridge between the corresponding tooth and a part of the yoke and sandwich the corresponding tooth from both sides in the direction of the rotation axis while exposing the pair of side walls; insulating fixing members, each fixing member fixing the corresponding pair of reinforcing members to the corresponding tooth while wrapping around the pair of reinforcing members and tooth; and coils formed as distributed windings at the teeth fixed with the fixing members. |
| US10855117B2 |
Extended foreign object detection signal processing
Systems and methods are described for extended foreign object detection (FOD) signal processing. In aspects, an oscillator reset is implemented in a FOD system to mitigate the effects of intermodulation products. In addition, dynamic frequency allocation is implemented to avoid high noise desensitizing the FOD system. Also, a slow sampling mode is implemented to increase a tolerance to transient foreign objects. Reference tracking and auto-recovery is implemented to bridge power outages. Additionally, the FOD system is configured to support position finding for determining an alignment between the vehicle pad and the base pad using a passive beacon transponder circuit and to perform beacon response cancellation as needed in concurrent FOD operation. |
| US10855114B2 |
Wireless power transmission system using patch antenna
Disclosed is a wireless power transmission system including a microstrip patch antenna. More particularly, a microstrip patch antenna according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate, a patch disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of protrusions with a conical shape disposed on the patch. |
| US10855112B2 |
Wireless high power transfer
In a system for wirelessly transferring power from a primary side across an airgap to a secondary side, the secondary side includes two parallel resonating circuits (27) each including two parallel resonating paths with a series connection of a resonating inductor (28), and a resonating capacitor 29. A rectifier (21) is connected to the output of each resonating path for converting the AC output (12′) of the resonating paths to a DC output (13′). The outputs of the rectifiers (21) are connected in parallel to provide the AC output power (13) to a load such as a battery or the like. Each resonating path further includes a symmetry inductance connected in series to improve current sharing among the resonating paths and to reduce the higher harmonic portion in the resonating paths. For balancing the flux each resonating circuit 27 includes in a preferred embodiment of the invention a symmetry winding (30) wound on the same core as the resonating inductor 28 of that resonating path where all symmetry windings (3) are connected in parallel to ensure optimal flux sharing. |
| US10855111B2 |
Wireless charging coil apparatus
A wireless charging coil apparatus is provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a substrate; a wireless charging coil disposed on said substrate, said wireless charging coil comprising a coil section and a connection terminal; wherein said connection terminal comprises an enlarged end and a connection hole, said enlarged end having an outer width and said connection hole having an inner width, said inner width being less than said outer width, said substrate having an etched portion partially exposing said connection terminal on a bottom side. The apparatus of the present invention reduces the overall thickness thereof, while also maintaining a high operating performance, having good cooling performance and provides a robust connection. |
| US10855106B2 |
Enclosure monitoring devices having battery backup
One example of a system includes a DC powered monitoring device and a battery backup power supply. The DC powered monitoring device is to monitor the status of an information technology (IT) enclosure environmental infrastructure. The monitoring device is to receive main DC power and backup DC power. The monitoring device is to operate using the backup DC power in response to a loss of the main DC power. The battery backup power supply is to provide the backup DC power to the monitoring device. |
| US10855102B2 |
Method for monitoring a source changeover switch and source changeover switch implementing such a method
A method for monitoring an electric power source changeover switch, including a step of identifying all of the combinations of operating modes and availability states of the power sources, a step of associating a configuration of a state of switches with each combination, a step of watching for a change in configuration. Upon a change in configuration, a step of controlling the switches is executed in order to place the switches in a state complying with the configuration. In the absence of a change in configuration, a step monitors the compliance of the configuration with the actual state of the switches. A method further including monitoring a source changeover switch implemented in a test device, and to a source changeover switch implementing such a method. |
| US10855101B2 |
Apparatus for harvesting energy using dual environment energy source and method thereof
An apparatus for harvesting energy includes an AC harvester having an AC harvesting capacitor and configured to extract power from an AC environment energy source, a DC harvester configured to extract power from a DC environment energy source, and a power transferrer configured to control a transfer path of power extracted from the DC harvester based on a magnitude of a voltage of the AC harvesting capacitor and a magnitude of a voltage applied from the DC harvester. |
| US10855095B2 |
Battery impedance detection using voltage and current measurements
A method is disclosed, which includes driving an alternating input current into a battery, measuring a voltage across the battery by a first measurement circuit to obtain a voltage measurement value, measuring a current through the battery by a second measurement circuit to obtain a current measurement value, and measuring a current through the battery using the first measurement circuit to obtain a further current measurement value. Further, the method includes calculating an impedance of the battery based on the current measurement value, the further current measurement value, and the voltage measurement value. |
| US10855091B1 |
Docking system for smart home apparatus
In one aspect, an electronic apparatus may include a base and an electrode. In one embodiment, the electrode can be cylindrical with a threaded portion on top of the electrode, and the threaded portion can be used to secure another electronic device with corresponding threads. For example, the electrode can be used to connect with a camera having an electrode and a corresponding threaded portion. More specifically, the camera can be secured on the electrode through the threaded portions and when the camera is fully secured on the electrode, the electrode can be in contact with the electrode to electrically connect with the camera. |
| US10855089B2 |
Charging control device for suitably performing charging regardless of charger type
A charging control device includes a detector detecting a temperature of a battery; a controller causing the charger to stop charging the battery in response to the temperature of the battery falling outside a first range during the charging of the battery; an obtainer obtaining, from the charger, information that is capable of identifying a charging characteristic of the charger; a range setter setting the first range to be a temperature range that corresponds to the charging characteristic of the charger based on the information obtained in the obtainer. |
| US10855088B2 |
Self-healing charging device
Self-healing charging devices and techniques for identifying and/or troubleshooting causes of performance degradation in user devices are described. The self-healing charging devices described herein can leverage performance logs associated with user devices to identify problems on the user devices while the user devices are charging. Additionally or alternatively, the self-healing charging devices can leverage predictive models learned from a collection of data derived from a plurality of users associated with a network to identify usage and/or performance patterns for predicting issues that can arise based on usage patterns of the user of the user device. In some examples, the self-healing charging devices can be communicatively coupled to at least one network for offloading some of the processing. The self-healing charging devices can enable users to easily identify issues causing and/or leading to performance degradation on their user devices and remedy and/or prevent problems that cause the performance degradation. |
| US10855085B2 |
Energy storage devices and methods for fast charging of energy storage devices at very low temperatures
A charger for charging an energy storage device having a core with an electrolyte, the charger including: a controller comprising hardware, the controller being configured to: obtain a measurement and/or approximation of a temperature of the electrolyte; determine whether the obtained temperature is below a predetermined threshold considered to at least reduce the charging efficiency of the energy storage device; and input a predetermined voltage and/or current input to terminals of the energy storage device causing internal components of the energy storage device to generate heat if the temperature is determined to be less than the predetermined threshold, wherein the energy storage device includes an internal surface capacitance, which can store electric field energy between internal electrodes of the energy storage device, and the controller is configured to input an AC current to the terminals with a frequency high enough to effectively short the internal surface capacitance. |
| US10855083B2 |
Generator system
A generator system, including first and second generators each having an inverter circuit outputting AC, a connection circuit connecting the generators through a power line, a master-slave determining unit determining one of the generators as a master generator, and to determine other of the generators as a slave generator, a data acquiring unit acquiring an output data of the master generator, and a synchronization controlling unit controlling switching operation of the inverter circuit of the slave generator based on the output data of the master generator to synchronize an output data of the slave generator with the output data of the master generator, wherein the master-slave determining unit determines one of the generators that starts earlier as the master generator, and when the generators start simultaneously, to determine one of the generators as the master generator in accordance with a predefined rule. |
| US10855082B2 |
Operating a wind turbine generator during an abnormal grid event
Aspects of the present invention relate to a method for controlling an amount of power to be delivered from a wind turbine generator to a power grid during an abnormal power grid event, the method comprising the steps of detecting an abnormal power grid event; controlling an active current delivered to the power grid in response to a measured or determined total active current; and controlling a reactive current delivered to the power grid in response to a measured or determined total reactive current. Aspects of the present invention further relate to a computer program product for carrying out the method as well as a wind turbine generator being capable of carrying out embodiments of the invention. |
| US10855077B2 |
System and method for utility management
A utility management device, comprising an input for receiving a utility consumption signal for a premises, an output for outputting utility management information, and a processor configured to monitor the input utility consumption signal for a change in magnitude. If a change is detected, the processor is configured to identify an appliance event corresponding to the change, obtain information relating to the projected utility consumption of the appliance for an upcoming time period, update a projected utility consumption of the premises based on the obtained information, determine whether any projected stored and/or generated utility amount at the premises is sufficient for the projected utility consumption of the premises, and, if not sufficient, cause the device to output a request to receive a utility amount from one or more other premises connected to the premises via a communication network. |
| US10855074B2 |
Filter component having ESD protection function
A filter component having an ESD protection function that includes a mounting inductor component and a base board. An ESD protection element and a capacitor are formed in the base board, which includes a semiconductor substrate, and front and back rewiring layers. First and second mounting component connection terminal conductors to which the mounting inductor component is connected are formed on an outer surface of the front rewiring layer. Moreover, a first, second and third external connection terminal conductors are formed on an outer surface of the back rewiring layer. The ESD protection element is formed in the semiconductor substrate and the capacitor is formed in one of the front rewiring layer or the back rewiring layer. |
| US10855068B2 |
Ground fault monitoring system and method
A ground fault monitoring system for an electrical service panel is provided. The ground fault monitoring system includes a current transformer coupled to a primary bonding location of the electrical service panel. The ground fault monitoring system also includes a current monitoring device in communication with the current transformer to detect ground fault electrical current returning to the electrical service panel. The ground fault monitoring system also includes a ground fault output interface in communication with the current monitoring device to provide ground fault status of the electrical service panel. |
| US10855067B2 |
Electrical units with onboard electronic monitoring and related methods
AFCI and/or GFCI units (10) with onboard trip monitoring and/or wiring error monitoring circuit (100) with an opto-isolator (50) and a controller (60) in electrical communication with the opto-isolator (50). The controller (60) monitors the opto-isolator (50) to identify a TRIP or RESET state of the circuit (100) such as one associated with a receptacle and/or a wiring error of the unit (10), e.g., receptacle. |
| US10855066B2 |
Adjustable mounting assembly
Disclosed herein is an adjustable mounting assembly for mounting an electrical module relative to a supporting surface. The assembly comprises: mounting means adapted for embedded anchorage relative to the supporting surface; a holder having an aperture for receiving and holding the electrical module, the holder being adapted for moveable engagement with the mounting means to facilitate adjustment of a position of the electrical module relative to the supporting surface; and fastening means for fastening the holder to the mounting means, the fastening means being accessible for unfastening and refastening via the aperture to facilitate re-adjustment of the position of the electrical module relative to the supporting surface. |
| US10855059B2 |
Compartment-partitioning and busbar-supporting device in a cabinet for a low voltage electrical switchboard
A compartment-partitioning and busbar-supporting device for a cabinet for a low voltage electrical switchboard an insulating body having a substantially rectangular shape with a first surface configured for coupling with one or more busbars and a second surface configured for coupling with one or more electrical apparatuses, said first and second surfaces being delimited by a first and a second opposite side substantially parallel to each other and configured for coupling with a vertical uprights or horizontal crossbars of the supporting structure of the low voltage electrical switchboard, and a third and a fourth opposite sides substantially parallel to each other and perpendicular to said first and second opposite sides and configured for allowing vertical stacking of a plurality of said compartment-partitioning and busbar-supporting devices in correspondence of said third and fourth opposite sides, said first surface being provided with a plurality of retaining pairs of first and second retaining means facing each other and defining a retaining space for a busbar among them, the retaining pairs for a given busbar being aligned in a direction parallel to said first and second opposite sides and the retaining pairs for different busbars being spaced apart in a direction parallel to said third and a fourth opposite sides, said second surface being provided with a plurality of openings configured for allowing insertion of connection means between said electrical apparatuses and said busbars through said compartment-partitioning and busbar-supporting device. |
| US10855058B2 |
Method for testing a semiconductor spark plug
In order to test a semiconductor spark plug, a test method comprises a step consisting of depositing water on the head of the spark plug, between the two electrodes of same, so that the water forms a water meniscus covering the semiconductor element of the head, a step consisting of applying, between the first terminal and the second terminal of the spark plug, a voltage equal to the operating voltage of the spark plug, a step consisting of identifying at least a first characteristic of electric arcs induced between the electrodes during the application of the voltage, and a step consisting of determining the operational or defective character of the spark plug according to the first characteristic of the electric arcs. This test method is particularly reliable and does not require constraining provisions in order to ensure the safety of the operators implementing the method. |
| US10855057B2 |
Spark plug for internal combustion engine
In a spark plug for an internal combustion engine, a cylindrical insulator is arranged radially inside a cylindrical ground electrode, and includes an insulator protruding portion protruding further toward a distal end side in an axial direction than a distal end of the ground electrode. A center electrode is held radially inside the insulator, and includes an exposed portion exposed from a distal end of the insulator protruding portion. The spark plug generates a discharge from the exposed portion to the ground electrode, in a discharge gap formed along a surface of the insulator protruding portion. At least one of the exposed portion and the insulator protruding portion includes a flow inlet that is open on an outer circumferential surface thereof, a flow outlet that is open toward the discharge gap, and a communication passage communicating between the flow inlet and the flow outlet. |
| US10855055B2 |
VCSEL array with common wafer level integrated optical device
A VCSEL array has VCSELs on a semiconductor substrate and has a prismatic or Fresnel optical structure, which is arranged to transform laser light to provide a continuous illumination pattern in a reference plane. The optical structure increases a size of the illumination pattern in comparison to an untransformed illumination pattern. The optical structure is arranged such that each VCSEL illuminates a sector of the pattern. Sub-surfaces of the optical structure with different height above the semiconductor substrate are arranged next to each other. Each VCSEL is associated with a sub-surface. A distance between each VCSEL and a size of its sub-surface is arranged such that the VCSEL illuminates only a part of the sub-surface without illuminating one of the steps. The VCSEL array has an array of microlenses, each VCSEL being associated with a microlens arranged to collimate the laser light after traversing the optical structure. |
| US10855054B2 |
Semiconductor laser device and method for manufacturing semiconductor laser device
A semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor substrate, a resonator unit formed on the semiconductor substrate and having an active layer, a diffraction grating formed on or underneath the active layer, a front facet of an inverted mesa slope, and a rear facet, an anti-reflection coating film formed on the front facet, a reflective film formed on the rear facet, an upper electrode formed on the resonator unit, and a lower electrode formed underneath the semiconductor substrate, wherein a length in a resonator direction of the resonator unit is shorter than a length in the resonator direction of the semiconductor substrate, and a laser beam is emitted from the front facet. |
| US10855051B2 |
Semiconductor light source and method for manufacturing a semiconductor light source
What is shown is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor light source. The semiconductor light source has a substrate and a layer sequence arranged above the substrate, the same having a light-emitting layer and an upper boundary layer arranged above the light-emitting layer. The layer sequence is patterned in order to form a light-emitting stripe for defining the semiconductor light source and an alignment stripe, extending in parallel thereto, as a horizontal alignment mark at the same time. Then, a cover layer is applied on the patterned layer sequence and a part of the cover layer is removed in order to expose the alignment stripe and expose a region of the layer sequence outside the light-emitting stripe and spaced apart from a light-entrance edge or a light-exit edge of the light-emitting stripe as a vertical alignment mark. |
| US10855046B2 |
Nonlinear optical imaging
Phase modulated Optical Parametric Amplification Imaging (p-OPA), can be used to determine the magnitude and the sign of the second-order nonlinear susceptibility of a material, and its spatial variation. |
| US10855045B2 |
Dynamically-distributable multiple-output pump for fiber optic amplifier
A multiple-output laser component is described with a plurality of diode lasers in a common package, each of the diode lasers having distinct electrical control and optically coupled to a distinct output fiber, the component configured such that up to a maximum total output power can be selectively and dynamically partitioned among said diode lasers. The dynamic allocation can be based on demand for laser power in a fiber optic coupled to each diode laser. The multi-output laser component can be used to drive amplifiers associated with a multicast switch in some embodiments. |
| US10855044B2 |
Optical amplifier
An optical amplifier includes an input port for receiving an input optical signal; a wavelength division multiplexer (204) having a first input coupled to the input port, a second input coupled to a pump source (206), and an output coupled to an amplification fiber (208); and an integrated component (210) configured to provide output monitoring and isolation, wherein the integrated component (210) is configured to separate a first portion of a light signal received from the amplification fiber (208), direct the first portion to a photo detector, direct a second portion of the input light from the amplification fiber (208) to an output port, and attenuate light signals received from the output port. |
| US10855042B2 |
Multiple diameter wire connection
A method of connecting a fine wire to an ultrafine wire, the fine wire exhibiting a first cross-section and the ultrafine wire exhibiting a second cross-section, the second cross-section smaller than the first cross-section, the method constituted of: providing an uninsulated portion of the fine wire exhibiting a flat surface; depositing a conductive material on the flat surface of the provided uninsulated portion of the fine wire; providing an uninsulated portion of the ultrafine wire; and bonding the provided uninsulated portion of the ultrafine wire to the deposited conductive material on the flat surface of the provided uninsulated portion of the fine wire by thermocompression. |
| US10855041B2 |
Optical to electrical adapter
The present invention provides an optical to electrical converter, which comprises an optical transmission unit, an electrical transmission unit and a rotating mechanism. The optical transmission unit is connected to the electrical transmission unit via the rotating unit, and the optical transmission unit and the electrical transmission unit can be rotated relative to each other by the rotating mechanism. Further, the electrical transmission unit is able to connect to a system end, such as a computer, and perform electrical signal transmission with the system end (computer), thereby enabling the system end (computer) having an optical transmission function via the optical to electrical converter. |
| US10855040B2 |
Flexible electrical connectors for electrolytic cells
A flexible electrical connector assembly is adapted to connect a bus bar of an electrolytic cell to a collector bar of the electrolytic cell. The assembly includes an electrical connector including a plurality of conductive metal sheets, the electrical connector having a collector bar end and a bus bar end. The electrical connector may be adapted for being joined, at the collector bar end, to the collector bar and, at the bus bar end, to the bus bar. The electrical connector may be adapted to implement a change in direction, at a bend along a current-carrying path between the bus bar end and the collector bar end, the bend assisting to define the change in direction as greater than 90 degrees. |
| US10855039B2 |
Vehicular security bypass
An illustrative electrical harness for bypassing a vehicular security module includes first, second, and third connectors, and electrical conductors. The electrical conductors electrically couple a first pin of the first connector to a third pin of the third connector, a second pin of the first connector to an eleventh pin of the third connector, a first pin of the second connector to a fourteenth pin of the third connector, and a second pin of the second connector to a sixth pin of the third connector. When the first connector is mated with a connector of a first communication bus of a vehicle and the second connector is mated with a connector of a second communication bus of the vehicle, the third connector is configured to bypass the vehicular security module by providing access to a diagnostic port of electrical modules coupled to the first or second communication buses. |
| US10855038B1 |
Hybrid electrical connector
A hybrid electrical connector includes a housing, a first power module, a negative power module, and a signal module. The housing has a guide module having guide surfaces for guiding mating with a mating electrical connector. The guide module is approximately centered between first and second sides and remote from the first and second sides. The first power module includes first power contacts and the negative power module includes negative power contacts. The signal module includes signal contacts and ground shields providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The signal module is located between the first power module and the negative power module. |
| US10855033B2 |
Electrical connector with stability assurance for internal shielding plate and the attachment of an external electrical component
An electrical connector is used to electrically connect a first component and a second component. The electrical connector includes: an insulating block; multiple terminals provided to form two rows including an upper row and a lower row; and a shielding sheet, fixed to the insulating block and located between the two rows of the terminals. Each terminal has a connecting portion fixed in the insulating block, a first conduction portion extending forward from the horizontal section to be electrically connected to the first component, and a second conduction portion extending backward from the horizontal section. The second conduction portion has a bending portion, and the bending portion is connected to the horizontal section. A rear end of the shielding sheet has an abutting portion to abut the second component. The abutting portion extends backward out of an insulating body and does not pass beyond the bending portion. |
| US10855031B2 |
Securing a memory card
Apparatuses for securing a memory card. One example apparatus can include a slot coupled to a printed circuit board (PCB), wherein the slot is configured to receive a memory card to provide electrical connection between the PCB and the memory card and a cover coupled to the PCB and configured to enclose the memory card when in a closed position and maintain electrical connection between the memory card and the PCB when in the closed position. |
| US10855029B2 |
Electrical connector assembly
An electrical connector includes: an insulating body; multiple terminals respectively accommodated in the insulating body; a cover covering the insulating body in a front-rear sliding manner and having a hollow portion to accommodate a mating plug including a substrate and multiple conducting portions; and a driving member. Each terminal has a contact portion. The hollow portion has a virtual center line extending in a left-right direction. The cover ihas a pulling portion located in front of the virtual center line to abut the substrate forward. The driving member has a driving portion located in front of the hollow portion. After the substrate is mounted downward into the hollow portion, the driving portion drives the cover to move horizontally forward relative to the insulating body, and the pulling portion pulls the substrate forward, such that the conducting portions move forward to be in contact with the contact portions of the terminals. |
| US10855028B1 |
Plug connector
A plug connector includes a plug housing having a mating end at a front of the plug housing for mating with a mating connector. The plug housing has an upper wall, an end wall extending from the upper wall, and side walls extending from the upper wall. The plug housing has a mating chamber defined by the upper wall, the end wall and the side walls. The mating chamber is open at the front. The end wall is opposite the front at a rear of the mating chamber. The plug connector includes a circuit card held by the plug housing. The circuit card extends into the mating chamber for mating with the mating connector. The circuit card has plug contacts. The plug connector includes a mating spring coupled to the end wall. The mating spring has a spring arm extending into the mating chamber. The spring arm has a mating interface configured to engage a mating end of the mating connector to bias the end wall away from the mating end of the mating connector. |
| US10855027B2 |
Card-type storage device having heat dissipation structure and slot device
A card-type storage device and a slot device, which are capable of preventing lowering of the reliability due to repeated insertion and removal of the storage device. A card medium includes card thermal contacts each having a contact surface which intersects with a thickness direction of the card medium. A first card upper guide surface restricts the position of the card medium in the thickness direction to a first position. An escape portion restricts the position of the card medium in the thickness direction to a different position from the first position. A second card upper guide surface links the first card upper guide surface and the escape portion. |
| US10855025B2 |
Connector position assurance device, connector system and method for operating the connector system
A connector position assurance device having multiple features for assuring a full coupling and locking of a female housing with a male housing in a connector system, such that the female housing and male housing are placed into a fully coupled and locked position when the connector position assurance device is moved from a pre-lock position to a full-lock position. When the connector position assurance device is at a full-lock position, a first member on the connector position assurance penetrates a window formed on the female housing, and at least one ledge extending from the connector position assurance device prevents a flexible member of the female housing from being moved downward, providing assurance that the female and male housings are fully coupled and locked together. |
| US10855021B2 |
Connector
A connector includes a first housing including a receptacle, a second housing capable of being engaged with or disengaged from the receptacle, a locked portion provided in the first housing, a locking portion provided in the second housing capable of locking an engaged state of the first housing and the second housing by locking the locked portion, and a rib provided in one of the first housing and the second housing, which includes an inclined surface and a flat portion in sequence along the connecting direction of the first housing and the second housing. A position and a length of the rib and a position of the locking portion are set in such a manner that the first housing and the second housing start to be engaged in the order of the inclined surface of the rib, the locking portion, and the flat portion of the rib. |
| US10855020B1 |
Card edge connector having a contact positioner
A card edge connector includes a housing including a card slot open to a cavity and a contact assembly received in the cavity. The contact assembly has a contact positioner holding upper contacts in an upper contact array and lower contacts in a lower contact array. The contact positioner has a positioner card slot. The contacts include intermediate portions extending between mating beams and contact tails. The contact arrays include separate and discrete front and rear contact holders. The front contact holder is positioned between the mating beams and the intermediate portions. The rear contact holder is positioned between the intermediate portions and the contact tails. |
| US10855010B2 |
Fixing structure of cable to wiring substrate, and cable, and manufacturing method of cable
A transmission line includes an insulator as a base member, a transmission conductor, and a ground layer. A connector is provided at a wiring substrate to fix the transmission line. The transmission line includes a signal columnar conductor having a solid columnar shape integrated with the transmission conductor, and ground columnar conductors having solid columnar shapes integrated with the ground layer. The connector has a through hole corresponding to the signal columnar conductor, and through holes corresponding to the ground columnar conductors. Conductive films are respectively provided on the inner peripheral surfaces of the through holes. The signal columnar conductor is inserted into the through hole, and the ground columnar conductors are respectively inserted into the through holes. |
| US10855008B2 |
Mobile terminal, power interface, and method for manufacturing power interface
A power interface may include a housing, a connection body, and a second stopping plate. A first stopping plate may be arranged in the housing. The connection body may be arranged in the housing. An engaging flange may be arranged on the connection body. A second stopping plate may be attached on an inner face of the housing along a circumference direction of the housing. The second stopping plate may be spaced apart from the first stopping plate. The engaging flange may be sandwiched between the first stopping plate and the second stopping plate. A mobile terminal and a method for manufacturing a power interface are also provided. |
| US10855007B2 |
Electrical plug-in connection that can be quickly disconnected, fixable plug-in connection, and method for establishing contact between an electrical contact element and an electrical
A plug-in connection includes a first and second coupling part. The first coupling part includes a first contact element, an electrical cable, an insulation sleeve, and a first housing. The first contact element includes a base region and an outer region with an edge region, an external shell surface, and a slot. The electrical cable includes an electrical conductor, a connection region, and an insulation for the electrical conductor. The insulation sleeve surrounds the outer region and includes an external and internal shell surface. The first housing surrounds the base region, the insulation sleeve's external shell surface, and the connection region. The second coupling part includes a second contact element with an external shell surface over which the first contact element's outer region is slidable, and a second housing which encloses the second contact element and together therewith forms an annular space into which the first housing is insertable. |
| US10855004B2 |
Coaxial cable connector
A coaxial cable connector comprising a sleeve, nut, post, and annular flange is provided. When the post is assembled to the nut, the annular flange to the post, and post, annular flange and nut to the sleeve, a proximal post engagement portion of the post is near to a protrusion ridge of the nut, and a proximal flange engagement end of the annular flange is flush with an annular inward protrusion of the nut and post ridge and post outer surface of the post. An annular space is formed between the proximal flange engagement end and a distal flange end of the annular flange and post outer surface and a distal post tapered end of the post. A plurality of deformed indentations is formed on an inner surface of the sleeve via a plurality of engagement protrusions of the nut, each having a tapered side and a distal side. |
| US10855000B1 |
Grounding terminal
An embodiment is directed to a grounding terminal for mounting on a grounding surface. The grounding terminal has a top wall having a first mounting opening and a bottom wall having a second mounting opening. The second mounting opening is in alignment with the first mounting opening to receive mounting hardware therethrough. A first side wall extends between the top wall and the bottom wall at angles other than 90 degrees. A second side wall extends between the top wall and the bottom wall at angles other than 90 degrees. As the mounting hardware is tightened, the shape and positioning of the side walls relative to the top wall and bottom wall reduces the amount of torque required to move the top wall toward the bottom wall to allow for the mounting hardware to be tightened without the need for special tooling. |
| US10854999B1 |
Angled electrical header connectors
Angled electrical header connectors comprise a housing with a first electrical terminal port and a second electrical terminal port oriented apart from one another. A first electrical terminal is disposed within the first electrical terminal port, and a first electrical insulator is interposed between the first electrical terminal port and the first electrical terminal. A second electrical terminal is disposed within the second electrical terminal port, and a second electrical insulator is interposed between the second electrical terminal port and the second electrical terminal. A passage exists between the first electrical terminal port and the second electrical terminal port, and one of the first electrical terminal or the second electrical terminal extends into the electrical terminal port of the other of the first electrical terminal or the second electrical terminal to make an electrical-mechanical connection therebetween in situ within the housing. |
| US10854993B2 |
Low-profile, wideband electronically scanned array for geo-location, communications, and radar
An antenna element including a base plate, a first ground clustered pillar projecting from the base plate, a second ground clustered pillar projecting from the base plate and spaced apart from a first side of the first ground clustered pillar is provided. The ground clustered pillars, the signal ears, and the ground ears can be shapes so that the capacitive coupling between the ears and the pillars is sufficient to allow them to be spaced further apart, thereby reducing the number of elements required in the phased array. In some embodiments, the ground ear can be directly machined with the base plate thereby obviating the need for the ground ear to be overmolded into the base plate with the signal ear. In other embodiments the phased array antenna can utilize elastomeric connectors to further improve the mechanical and electrical reliability of the connections of the phase array antenna. |
| US10854990B2 |
System and method for radio frequency penetration imaging of an object
A system and methods for RF (Radio Frequency) penetration imaging of one or more objects in a medium, the system including a generation and reception subsystem configured to generate and receive a plurality of RF signals, an RF antenna array including a plurality of antennas, the antennas being configured to transmit the RF signals towards the medium and receive a plurality of RF signals reflected from the medium, a data acquisition subsystem configured to receive and store the reflected RF signals, and a processor configured to estimate the distance between the surface of the target medium and the antenna array, the delay between the transmitted signals and the plurality of signals reflected from the object using a dedicated frequency sub-band of the received signals, the location of the antennas at each transmitting time, and determine whether there is an object within the medium. |
| US10854988B2 |
Microwave system
A microwave system and method comprising a center fed parabolic reflector; a radio transceiver, said transceiver disposed on a circuit board and coupled to a radiator, said radiator disposed on the circuit board and extending orthogonally from a surface of the circuit board. Embodiments also include directors on the circuit board and a sub-reflector comprising a thin plate disposed on a weather proof cover and said sub-reflector having a substantially concave surface with a focus directed towards the radiator. The circuit board may be physically integrated within the feed mechanism of the center fed parabolic reflector and the radio transceiver is configured to provide OSI layer support. |
| US10854978B2 |
Antenna apparatus and antenna module
An antenna apparatus includes a ground layer having a through-hole; a feed via disposed to pass through the through-hole; a patch antenna pattern disposed on the ground layer and electrically connected to one end of the feed via; a first coupling patch pattern disposed on the patch antenna pattern; a second coupling patch pattern disposed between the first coupling patch pattern and the patch antenna pattern; and a dielectric layer disposed in at least of a portion a space between the first coupling patch pattern and the second coupling patch pattern so that a dielectric constant of at least a portion of a space between the patch antenna pattern and the second coupling patch pattern is lower than a dielectric constant of the space between the first coupling patch portion and the second coupling patch pattern. |
| US10854975B2 |
Antenna unit, multi-array antenna system and base station thereof
An antenna-unit (110) for at least dual-FDD bands includes a first combiner (100) splitting its input (101) into at least two outputs (102, 103). Each output (102, 103) operates in at least two narrow-bands from two different FDD systems, and is respectively connected to a second and third combiners (200, 300). The second and third combiners (200, 300) are respectively connected with a first RF circuit (800, 900) enabling separation of two different FDD channels in an inverted Transmitter/Receiver fashion. An antenna system (700) based on the antenna unit (110) includes a set of columns of dual-polarized radiating elements (500) arranged on a reflector (702), and the first RF circuit (800,900) is connected with a second RF circuit (10) of the Base Station processing, SDR is set along with the RF circuit (10) to enable 3D beamforming features as well as independent system link control for optimization purpose. |
| US10854970B2 |
Phased array antenna
A phased array antenna includes several antenna elements and a signal feed entry from or to which a signal is transmitted to or from the antenna elements. A phase shifting device modifies a phase difference of the signal that is transmitted from the signal feed network to the respective antenna element or that is transmitted from the respective antenna element to the signal feed network to adjust the preferred direction of radiation of the phased array antenna. A bias voltage is applied to each phase shifting device via two bias voltage electrode lines that are connected to a bias voltage driver. The bias voltage driver has several output channel terminal pairs with two output channel terminals to apply a tunable output channel voltage difference to each terminal pair. The two bias voltage electrode lines of each phase shifting device are connected to a respective terminal pair. |
| US10854965B1 |
Ground shield to enhance isolation of antenna cards in an array
A ground shield is connected to a princted circuit board or antenna card in an antenna unit cell to cover a balun to prevent or inhibit the ability of a differential signal flowing towards or through the balun from coupling with a similar differential signal flowing through an adjacent antenna card in the antenna unit cell. This ground shield may be one of a pair of ground shields on the antenna card. Two ground shield can be positioned on opposing sides of the balun to enhance isolation thereof by shielding the differential signals flowing towards and through the balun from coupling with adjacent differential signals to thereby increase bandwidth performance of the antenna unit cell. The ground shields may be generally or substantially or totally planar so as to be conformal with a substrate or dielectric layer of the antenna card or printed circuit board. |
| US10854964B2 |
Antenna apparatus and vehicle including the same
An antenna apparatus includes a circuit board disposed on a base, a first antenna part disposed on the circuit board, an inner cover configured to cover the first antenna part, and a second antenna part disposed on a surface of the inner cover. A vehicle can utilize the antenna for communication. |
| US10854960B2 |
Electromagnetic energy harvesting devices and methods
An electromagnetic energy harvesting device includes an emitting body at least partially embedded within a dielectric medium, and a receiving antenna disposed in proximity to the emitting body, where the receiving antenna is configured to collect thermal electromagnetic energy emitted by the emitting body. The device also includes a rectifier electrically coupled to the receiving antenna, where the rectifier is configured to convert the thermal electromagnetic energy to direct current electrical energy. |
| US10854959B2 |
Cloaking arrangement for low profile telecommunications antenna
A telecommunications antenna comprising a plurality of unit cells each including at least one radiator which transmits RF energy within a bandwidth range which is a multiple of another radiator. The radiators are proximal to each other such that a resonant condition may be induced into the at least one radiator upon activation of the other radiator. At least one of the radiators is segmented into capacitively-connected radiator elements to suppress a resonance response therein upon activation of the other of the radiator. |
| US10854957B2 |
Electronic device including antenna
An electronic device in accordance with an example embodiment of the disclosure includes a first non-conductive cover defining a first surface of the electronic device, a second non-conductive cover including a first portion defining a second surface of the electronic device, and a second portion defining one portion of a lateral surface of the electronic device, a conductive frame defining an other portion of the lateral surface of the electronic device, and an antenna module, wherein the antenna module is positioned so that the one surface is substantially perpendicular to the second surface at a position within a specified proximity to the lateral surface of the electronic device and is configured to transmit and/or receive a signal through the lateral surface. |
| US10854956B2 |
Electronic device including antenna
Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device according to an embodiment includes an antenna element configured to receive a signal in at least one frequency band of a first frequency band and a second frequency band, a signal distributor electrically connected with the antenna element, and including a first filter corresponding to the first frequency band and a second filter corresponding to the second frequency band, a matching circuit electrically connectable with the second filter, a transceiver electrically connected with the signal distributor, a switch connecting the second filter with the matching circuit or the transceiver, and a processor electrically connected with the transceiver. Moreover, various embodiments found through the present disclosure are possible. |
| US10854955B2 |
Electronic device, mobile terminal and antenna assembly
The present disclosure provides an electronic device, a mobile terminal and an antenna assembly. The electronic device includes: a case defining an accommodating groove; a movable support slidably connected to the case, and capable of moving out of or retracting into the accommodating groove; and a first antenna installed on the movable support. Since the first antenna may be ejected out of the accommodating groove along with the movable support, influence of other components disposed inside the electronic device on the first antenna may be reduced. Thus, the implementation of the present disclosure may improve antenna performance of the electronic device. |