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US11116117B2	System and method for elecromagnetic interference mitigation for an antenna element and speaker co-located within a cavity formed behind a speaker grill An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data may include a base chassis including a metal C-cover and metal D-cover to house a processor, a memory, and a wireless adapter, the metal C-cover to house a speaker grill, the speaker grill covering a speaker to emit audio waves; the speaker grill formed within the C-cover to emit a target radio frequency (RF) including a slot formed around a portion of the speaker grill forming a peninsula on the speaker grill that is physically separated from the C-cover; an antenna element placed behind the speaker grill and operatively coupled to the wireless adapter; an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield forming a cavity enclosing the speaker and the antenna element, including a plurality of metallic shielding walls extending from the C-cover to a D-cover of the information handling system; and a conductive rubber gasket placed between the plurality of conductive walls and the D-cover to shield the cavity from EMI sources.
US11116115B1	High power density power supply A high power density power supply includes at least one power module and a cooling fan in a casing. A first filter circuit board facing upward is provided below the cooling fan. A second filter circuit board facing downward is provided above the cooling fan. The back of the second filter circuit board is provided with a plurality of buffer pads. An insulating plate is disposed on the buffer pads to completely cover the top of the second filter circuit board. Thereby, the insulating plate provided an insulating effect between an upper cover of the casing and the second filter circuit board to prevent the second filter circuit board from directly contacting the upper cover to form a short circuit, so as to improve the safety of the power supply.
US11116112B2	Cold energy recovery apparatus for a self-powered data centre A cold energy recovery apparatus for a self-powered data centre is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a fluid storage tank having at least a pair of inlet and outlet, the inlet configured to receive a coolant; and a heat exchanger arranged in the tank, the heat exchanger having a pair of inlet and outlet, the inlet configured to receive liquefied natural gas. The apparatus is operable to permit the coolant to flow from the inlet to the outlet of the tank causing the coolant to be in fluid contact with the heat exchanger, in which the coolant is progressively cooled to a lower temperature by heat transfer to the liquefied natural gas via fluid contact with the heat exchanger. The liquefied natural gas is vaporized into natural gas due to the heat transfer and is directed out from the outlet of the heat exchanger.
US11116111B2	Method and arrangement for air-conditioning a cold aisle A method and an arrangement for air-conditioning a cold aisle which is partially bounded by heat-generating devices and is arranged in a hot room, the hot room being separated from a second room by a boundary wall, and a region of the boundary wall is formed by a heat exchanger, such that air that is conveyed through the heat exchanger by the fan is supplied to the cold aisle. An opening with a fan is provided in the boundary wall. The cold aisle is connected to the boundary wall so that the opening is surrounded by the cold aisle.
US11116108B2	Electronic device with removable module An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a case for accommodating at least one electronic part; an upper cover for covering at least one part of an upper end of the case; and a connector, which is arranged on the upper cover, for electrically connecting an external module and the at least one electronic part, wherein the upper cover can guide heat generated from the at least one electronic part such that the heat is discharged to the outside along a side part of the upper cover. Additional other embodiments are possible.
US11116105B2	Liquid-cooling termination structure having temperature sensing function A liquid-cooling termination structure having temperature sensing function is disposed on a liquid-cooling system which is used for performing a heat dissipating operation to a heat source of equipment. The liquid-cooling termination structure includes a water cooling head and a temperature sensing unit. The water cooling head is formed with an adhering surface used for being adhered on the heat source. The temperature sensing unit includes a sensing terminal, and a signal transferring cable extended from the sensing terminal. The sensing terminal is combined with the water cooling head from the exterior of the water cooling head, and the signal transferring cable is connected to the equipment for obtaining the temperature of the heat source through the water cooling head.
US11116104B2	Server chassis A server chassis includes a housing and two support portions. A bottom plate of the housing includes a loading surface and a three-dimensional reinforcing pattern integrally formed on the loading surface for reinforcing the structural strength of the bottom plate. The support portions are respectively located on an outer surface of the sidewall of the housing. A coverage area of the three-dimensional reinforcing pattern is greater than 10% of the total area of the loading surface. The three-dimensional reinforcing pattern includes a plurality of texture patterns regularly reproduced on the loading surface toward a linear axial direction. A maximum height of each of the texture patterns is 0.5-0.8 mm.
US11116098B2	Dynamically bendable automotive interior display systems Embodiments of a dynamically bendable automotive interior display system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a display, a dynamically bendable cover substrate assembly disposed over the display, wherein the cover substrate assembly comprises a cover substrate with a bend axis, and a reversible support attached to at least a portion the cover substrate that dynamically bends the cover substrate along the bend axis in a cycle from a first radius of curvature to a second radius of curvature and from the second radius of curvature to the first radius of curvature. In one or more embodiments, the system includes one or more frames that partially house the display and are attached to the cover substrate.
US11116094B2	Supporting device Embodiments of the present application disclose a supporting device, which relates to the field of display technologies. The supporting device includes: a supporting frame configured to support a display screen, the supporting frame defining a supporting chamber therein; at least one storing chamber for storing a flowing medium, the storing chamber being communicated with the supporting chamber through a channel; and an assisting member, configured to make the flowing medium flow between the supporting chamber and the storing chamber. In the embodiments of the present application, the supporting device can facilitate the display screen to realize functions of touch and support, and realize the portability of a large-screen display device.
US11116091B1	Flexible display screen and display device The present invention provides a flexible display screen and a display device. The flexible display screen includes a display panel, a reel mechanism, and a support structure. The display panel includes a display surface and a support base away from the display surface. The support base is a stepped structure. The reel mechanism is disposed on a side of the display panel. A part of the display panel is wrapped around inside the reel mechanism. The support structure includes a plurality of support plates.
US11116090B2	Electronic devices incorporating flexible component layers with interlocking devices Electronic Devices Incorporating Flexible Component Layers with Interlocking Devices At least some aspects of the present disclosure directs to an electronic device 100 comprising a rigid member 100A, 100B, a flexible component layer 130, and an interlocking device 110A, HOB disposed between the flexible component layer and the rigid member. The flexible component layer has at least two sections when the flexible component layer is flexed. The interlocking device comprises a first interlocking component attached to or integrated with the flexible component layer, and a second interlocking component attached to or integrated with the rigid member configured to engage with the first interlocking component, such that the engagement prevents the separation of the flexible component layer from the rigid member along a direction generally perpendicular to a surface of the rigid member.
US11116087B2	Display module and display device Disclosed are a display module and a display device. The display module includes a display panel having a light emitting surface and a back surface opposite to the light emitting surface; a drive circuit board disposed adjacent to an edge at a side of the display panel, and a wiring gap is formed between the drive circuit board and the display panel; a chip-on-film, a first connecting end of which is disposed on the light emitting surface and connected to the display panel, and a second connecting end of which passes through the wiring gap and extends to the back surface of the display panel; and an adapter structure disposed on a side of the second connecting end of the chip-on-film facing away from the display panel, connected between the chip-on-film and the drive circuit board.
US11116085B2	Display device A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a housing, a display screen, a driving device, and a measuring component, wherein an opening is arranged on the housing, at least a part of the display screen is located in the housing, the display screen is connected with the driving device, the driving device is configured to drive the display screen to extend out of the housing, and/or to retract into the housing through the opening, and the measuring component is configured to measure a length of the display screen extending out of the housing.
US11116080B2	Wiring substrate A wiring substrate includes a core layer, first conductor layers including first inner, outer and intermediate layers, second conductor layers including second inner, outer and intermediate layers, interlayer insulating layers interposed between the first conductor layers and between the second conductor layers, and via conductors formed in the insulating layers such that each via conductor connects two conductor layers and is integrally formed with one of the conductor layers on side away from the core layer. The first and/or second inner conductor layers has a first conductor layer structure including metal foil and plating film layers, the first and/or second outer conductor layers has the first structure, the first and/or second intermediate conductor layers has a second conductor layer structure including metal foil and plating film layers, and the via conductors include a group integrally formed with the first structure and including constricted via conductors each having a constricted portion.
US11116070B2	Interconnect circuit methods and devices Provided are interconnect circuits and methods of forming thereof. A method may involve laminating a substrate to a conductive layer followed by patterning the conductive layer. This patterning operation forms individual conductive portions, which may be also referred to as traces or conductive islands. The substrate supports these portions relative to each other during and after patterning. After patterning, an insulator may be laminated to the exposed surface of the patterned conductive layer. At this point, the conductive layer portions are also supported by the insulator, and the substrate may optionally be removed, e.g., together with undesirable portions of the conductive layer. Alternatively, the substrate may be retained as a component of the circuit and the undesirable portions of the patterned conductive layer may be removed separately. These approaches allow using new patterning techniques as well as new materials for substrates and/or insulators.
US11116067B2	Renal failure therapy system having electrically floating fluid pathway A renal failure therapy system (10) includes a dialyzer (102); a blood circuit (100) in fluid communication with the dialyzer (102); a dialysis fluid circuit (30) in fluid communication with the dialyzer (102); and an electrically floating fluid pathway (140) comprising at least a portion of the blood circuit (100) and at least a portion of the dialysis fluid circuit (30), wherein the only electrical path to ground is via used dialysis fluid traveling through machine (12) to earth ground (28), and wherein at least one electrical component (46, 90, 82, 66, 102, 116) in the at least a portion of the dialysis fluid circuit (30) of the electrically floating fluid pathway (140) is electrically bypassed.
US11116065B2	Ground leakage current power supply A ground leakage current power supply is provided that includes a hot node coupled to a hot wire of an AC power source, and an earth ground node coupled to an earth ground, where a neutral wire is not present. The supply also has an energy storage component and a low voltage power supply. The energy storage component is coupled in series to a current limiter that is coupled to receive rectified power from the AC power source, where the current limiter enables the energy storage component to charge to a voltage value at a rate that limits ground leakage current. The low voltage power supply includes a linear voltage regulator and is coupled to the energy storage component and to a return node, the return node providing a return reference voltage, and is configured to receive the voltage value, and is configured generate a regulated output voltage that is referenced to the return reference voltage.
US11116063B2	Identification of load control devices A load control system may include a load control device for providing power to an electrical load and a control device that may send instructions to the load control device for providing the power to the electrical load. The control device may communicate with the load control device using a link address assigned to the load control device. The load control device may provide power to the electrical load in a manner that causes the electrical load to indicate the link address assigned to the load control device. The link address may be identified by a user or a user device. The identified link address may be associated with a load control device identifier that may identify a physical location of a load control device that is assigned the link address. A user may control a load control device at a physical location by sending instructions via the link address.
US11116062B1	Streetlight-based power tap A power tap includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, and at least one side surface. A first male connector is integrated with a substantially planar portion of the bottom surface and arranged for substantially permanent electromechanical coupling to a first female connector that is integrated with a streetlight luminaire. A second female connector is integrated with a substantially planar portion of the top surface and arranged to receive a second male connector that is integrated with an electronic control device. Each male connector and each female connector is compliant with a roadway area lighting standard promoted by a standards body. The power tap also includes power conversion circuitry arranged to receive a higher voltage input signal and to produce at least one lower voltage output signal. A power input circuit electrically couples the first male connector to the power conversion circuitry, and a power output interface electrically coupled to the power conversion circuitry is arranged to expose the at least one lower voltage output signal.
US11116056B1	LED lighting panel with translucent insulating diffuser A translucent insulating material providing a decorative wall covering; at least one lighting element combined on an underside of the translucent insulating material; and a controller combined to the at least one lighting element for synchronizing an output of the at least one lighting element to at least one characteristic of a media input.
US11116050B1	High heat in-situ camera systems and operation methods An imaging system for a high-heat cooking appliance, including a camera system including an optical sensor, a lens, and a set of light emitters; and a camera cooling mechanism thermally connected to the camera system.
US11116049B2	Door opening speed controller and automatic opening structure for an appliance An appliance includes a hinge module between a main body and a pull-down door. The hinge module includes a housing, a rotational axis member disposed in the housing serving as a center of rotation between the pull-down door and the main body, an inner link housing movably disposed in the housing that moves with the opening of the pull-down door in a direction of the rotational axis member, and a damper installed in the inner link housing, the damper including a piston and a cylinder and providing damping force according to a relative movement of the piston and the cylinder. Any one of the piston and the cylinder of the damper moves with the inner link housing and the other of the piston and the cylinder of the damper moves by a predetermined distance as the inner link housing moves and then is interfered by the housing so as not to move further, and the piston and the cylinder of the damper starts damping, wherein the predetermined distance corresponds to an opening angle of the pull-down door in which the damping is started.
US11116042B1	Method of forming cooking plate with temperature sensing element A cooking plate includes a metal plate for cooking; a heating element, which is in contact with the metal plate and is configured to heat the metal plate; and a temperature sensing element which is integrated with the metal plate and which is configured to sense a temperature of the metal plate and outputs a sensing signal for control heating of the heating element.
US11116040B2	Method of coordinating a communication network A method of coordinating a communication network comprising a self-coordination network coordinator is provided, wherein the method comprises receiving dynamic context information at the self-coordination network coordinator and performing a coordination of at least one self-organising network function instance based on the received dynamic context information.
US11116034B2	Wi-Fi communication of wireless emergency alerts A device includes a first network connection for connecting to a wireless local area network, a processor communicatively coupled to the first network connection, and a display communicatively coupled to the processor. The device includes memory storing instructions that cause the processor to effectuate operations. The operations include receiving, via the first network connection, a WEA message comprising an alert and an indication of a geographic area associated with the alert and causing the display to render an alert indication based at least on the WEA message.
US11116033B2	Method and apparatus for disassociating from a network A method and apparatus for quickly disassociating/unpairing a device from a PAN is describe herein. During operation a charger identification is utilized as a trigger to disassociate/unpair a device from a PAN. Thus, a device will sense proximity to a charging device. Once proximity to a particular charging device is detected, the device will disassociate/unpair from the PAN.
US11116031B2	Handling of inactive parameters upon release and re-suspend Systems and methods are disclosed herein for updating stored User Equipment (UE) context information upon re-suspend of the UE in response to a resume request from the UE. In some embodiments, a method in a UE comprises transmitting a Radio Resource Control (RRC) resume request message and, in response to the RRC resume request message, receiving an RRC connection release message with an indication for suspend. The method further comprises, in response to receiving the RRC connection release message with an indication for suspend, replacing information in a stored Access Stratum (AS) context of the UE with new information.
US11116030B2	5G wireless network connection symbol policy Techniques for presenting a symbol on a display of a wireless device indicative of wireless resources based on network states and device states are discussed herein. For example, the network state may indicate whether the wireless device is operating in a cellular network that has areas of dual signal coverage. A device state may include whether the device is actively communicating via a connection or is idle. The techniques may further determine a frequency of wireless resources associated with the dual connectivity environment. A network identifier can be presented via a display of the wireless device. Network identifiers might include, for example, symbols that indicate 3G, 4G, LTE, 5G, dual connectivity, and so forth, corresponding to different wireless network standards and/or connections.
US11116029B2	Mobility management entity, network entity, and method and computer readable medium therefor A network entity (5) sends, to a mobility management entity (6) or a subscriber server (9), a request message in order to configure the mobility management entity (6) to report a second identifier to be used by a radio access network node (2) for identifying a radio terminal (1). Further, the network entity (5) receives the second identifier from the mobility management entity (6) directly or through the subscriber server (9) and communicates with the radio access network node (2) by using the second identifier. It is thus, for example, possible to allow an MEC server (or an MEC application hosted on the MEC server) and the radio access network (RAN) node to directly exchange therebetween control messages regarding a specific radio terminal.
US11116024B2	Control mechanism for packet duplication in multi-connectivity communication An apparatus for use by a packet duplication control element or function, the apparatus including processing circuitry, and memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the memory and the instructions are configured to, with the processing circuitry, cause the apparatus at least: to receive assistance information indicating communication conditions of at least one communication link between a communication element and at least two communication network access points, to process the assistance information for preparing a packet duplication control, to generate transmission control information on the basis of the result of the processing of the assistance information, the transmission control information indicating settings for a packet duplication process in the established multi-connectivity communication, and to send the transmission control information to at least one transmission control element or function being involved in the packet duplication process in the established multi-connectivity communication.
US11116021B2	Communication apparatus and terminal apparatus There is provided a communication apparatus including a setting unit that sets a resource for device-to-device communication, in which the setting unit sets a resource pool including a plurality of sub resource pools as a resource for the device-to-device communication. One of the sub resource pools is an anchor sub resource pool that stores control information for monitoring by the device that performs the device-to-device communication.
US11116020B2	Power efficient tunneled direct link setup apparatus, systems and methods An emulated wireless access point (AP) at a first PMC device (PMC1) establishes a first tunneled direct link setup (TDLS) session between a first station module (STA1) incorporated into the PMC1 and a second station module (STA2) incorporated into a second PMC device (PMC2). Following establishment of the TDLS session, the wireless AP is allowed to sleep; and most infrastructure management duties are handled by the STA1 during the session. PMC device battery charge may be conserved as a result. The emulated wireless AP may also establish a second TDLS link to a third station module (STA3) incorporated into a third PMC device (PMC3). The STA1 may then bridge data traffic flow between the STA2 and the STA3. Such bridging operation may enable communication between two PMC devices otherwise unable to decode data received from the other.
US11116016B2	Resource assignment for general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP) entities in 5G A wireless cellular network system comprising MME configured to send a first create session request to SGW-C, the SGW-C configured to select SGW-U and transmit a first resource request to the selected SGW-U, and the SGW-U configured to, upon a receipt of the first resource request, allocate an IP address and TEIDs of the SGW-U, and transmit a resource message including the IP address and the TEIDs of the SGW-U to SGW-C. A method of SGW-C in a wireless communication system, the method comprising receiving, from MME, a first create session request, selecting SGW-U among a plurality of SGW-Us, wherein the selection is based on a location of a terminal, transmitting a first resource request to the selected SGW-U, receiving, from the selected SGW-U, a resource message including an IP address and TEID of the SGW-U, the IP address and TEIDs being allocated by the selected SGW-U.
US11116012B2	Data transmitting method and apparatus 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. The present invention provides a method performed by a terminal comprising, transmitting, to a base station, an uplink signal, identifying hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) related information corresponding to the uplink signal, and adjusting a contention window (CW) for performing an LBT mechanism based on the identified HARQ related information. According to the method provided by the present disclosure, the flexibility that the base station controls the LBT mechanism of the uplink transmission of the UE can be improved, the waste of uplink resources and downlink resources can be avoided, and coexistence with another device can be ensured.
US11116011B2	Channel access method, access point and station Provided are a channel access method, an access point (AP) and a station. The method includes that the access point sends a radio frame to a station. The radio frame carries a predefined identifier or a partial predefined identifier for indicating one or more Basic Service Sets (BSSs) in a BSS set of the access point.
US11116009B2	Synchronous clear to send signaling Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some wireless communications systems, some user equipment (UEs) may be configured for sidelink communications using a first radio access technology (RAT) (e.g., via a cellular network) and other wireless devices may be configured for sidelink communications using a second RAT (e.g., via a wireless local area network (WLAN)). In order to mitigate interference between communications using the first and second RAT, when a first UE is scheduled to transmit or receive a data transmission on a set of resources using the first RAT, the first UE may transmit a message using the second RAT indicating that the data transmission is to occur on the set of resources. Accordingly, the second device may receive the message and determine to refrain from communicating on the set of resources.
US11116007B2	Method of transmitting uplink signal from user equipment in a wireless communication system supporting unlicensed band and apparatus supporting the same Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting a UL signal from a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting an unlicensed band and apparatuses for supporting the same. More specifically, the present invention provides an embodiment in which the UE performs autonomous uplink transmission and scheduled uplink transmission through the unlicensed band, a method of adjusting contention window size when the UE perform the autonomous uplink transmission through the unlicensed band, and an embodiment of performing the autonomous uplink transmission based on the method.
US11116006B2	Uplink transmission parameter selection for random access initial message transmission and retransmission Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for selecting different uplink transmission parameters for transmission or retransmission of a random access message. A user equipment (UE) may retransmit a random access message to a base station during a random access procedure if an initial transmission of the random access message was unsuccessfully received by the base station. The UE may select a different transmission beam, uplink resource, or transmission power for retransmission of the random access message. The selection may be based on path loss associated with synchronization signals or previous transmissions. The selection may also be based on a maximum number of retransmissions.
US11116003B2	Communication method, access point, and station for improving bandwidth utilization A communication method disclosed in the present disclosure includes: receiving, by an access point, a sending request sent by a first station, and sending clear to send information to the first station; when the access point receives feedback information sent by the first station, allocating, by the access point, a channel to the first station, and allocating a channel to a second station based on remaining bandwidth; generating a first trigger frame, and sending the first trigger frame to the first station and the second station; and receiving uplink data sent by the first station and the second station. The present disclosure further provides an access point and a station that can implement the communication method. According to the present disclosure, bandwidth utilization of the access point and data transmission efficiency can be improved.
US11116002B2	Gap configuration for multiple transport blocks Some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide for the determination of a gap for a scheduled communication involving multiple, different TBs. For example, some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide for the determination of a gap between two or more PDSCHs that are scheduled by a same DCI based at least in part on a UE capability, such as a processing time or a processing mode. Some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide for the determination of a gap between a last PDSCH and a next PDCCH based at least in part on the UE capability. The gap(s) may permit the UE to successfully receive and/or decode multiple PDSCHs and/or PDCCHs in view of the limitations imposed by the UE's processing time or processing mode. In this way, efficiency of PDSCH/PDCCH resource utilization may be improved, the likelihood of a failed PDCCH transmission is reduced, and network efficiency is improved.
US11116000B2	Proactive PUSCH grants to prevent rate throttling One embodiment is directed to transmitting user data to a UE from a base station on a shared downlink channel and determining if a throughput for the user data transmitted to the UE on the shared downlink channel is greater than a threshold amount. If the throughput for the user data transmitted to the UE on the shared downlink channel is greater than the threshold amount, the base station provides the UE with a minimum amount of access to a shared uplink channel by making proactive grants of uplink resources when such UE is more in need of a proactive grant than other UEs. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11115998B2	Scheduling offset management for wireless communications Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques adjusting scheduling offset for wireless communications. For example, certain aspects provide techniques for modifying the time domain resource allocation configuration to prevent any configurations being used to indicate a scheduling offset of at least a first value.
US11115997B2	Method and apparatus for time division LTE transmission in unlicensed radio frequency bands Apparatus and methods for time division based communication between a wireless device and a wireless network in a licensed radio frequency (RF) band and an unlicensed RF band are disclosed. The wireless device receives downlink control information (DCI), via a primary component carrier (PCC) of a primary cell (Pcell) in the licensed RF band, indicating downlink (DL) data transmission via a secondary component carrier (SCC) of a secondary cell (Scell) in the unlicensed RF band. The wireless device receives via the SCC part of the DL data transmission and transmits a control message via the PCC in response. The wireless device sends a scheduling request (SR) to the eNodeB and receives uplink (UL) transmission opportunities in a combination of the licensed RF band and the unlicensed RF band. The wireless device performs a clear channel assessment before reserving and transmitting to the eNodeB in the unlicensed RF band.
US11115989B1	Primary component carrier selection in a wireless access node that uses multiple radio frequency bands A wireless access node serves a wireless User Equipment (UE) over a Primary Component Carrier (PCC) and Secondary Component Carriers (SCCs). The wireless access node receives a report from the wireless UE indicating radio frequency bands and their received signal strengths. The wireless access node identifies the radio frequency bands that have adequate received signal strength. The wireless access node determines electrical down-tilt angles for the identified radio frequency bands. The wireless access node selects one of the identified radio frequency bands that has a smaller electrical down-tilt angle. The wireless access node exchanges user data and network signaling with the wireless UE over the selected frequency band to serve the PCC to the UE. The wireless access node transfers additional user data to the UE to serve the SCCs to the UE.
US11115988B2	Method and apparatus for avoiding interference A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method that determines at least one threshold for detecting signal interference in a first plurality of segments occurring in a first radio frequency spectrum of a first wireless communication system, detecting a pattern of recurrence over time of signal interference in a segment of the first plurality of resource blocks according to the at least one threshold, and performing one or more mitigation steps to mitigate the signal interference without filtering the signal interference where the one or more mitigation steps include at least one of transmitting signals out of phase from the signal interference, adjusting transmit power, increasing power in a resource block of a long term evolution communication session, performing beam steering, or changing time parameters for the resource block without changing to a new resource block. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11115987B2	Method and apparatus for controlling network devices providing network services for a plurality of over-the-air areas The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a network device, a method and an apparatus for sending control information, and a method and an apparatus for data. According to technical solutions provided in the present disclosure, network devices providing network services for different over-the-air areas are scheduled to different time grids, so that the terminal devices located in different over-the-air areas send data to respective corresponding network devices within different time grids, thereby avoiding signal interference and improving network quality.
US11115980B2	Base station and radio terminal A base station performs radio communication with a radio terminal using at least one narrow frequency band where the number of resource blocks is limited to a predetermined resource block number. The base station comprises a transmitter configured to transmit, to the radio terminal, configuration information for frequency hopping where the radio communication is performed while switching the narrow frequency band; and a controller configured to allocate, to the radio terminal, a first frequency band of the frequency hopping and a frequency band of a hopping destination. The first frequency band and the frequency band of the hopping destination respectively include the narrow frequency band and fraction resource blocks. The fraction resource blocks are resource blocks, the number of which is smaller than the predetermined resource block number. The controller is configured to make the number of the fraction resource blocks included in the frequency band of the hopping destination equal to the number of the fraction resource blocks included in the first frequency band.
US11115977B2	Uplink data channel design for narrowband devices Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for uplink (UL) data channel design. An example method is provided for operations which may be performed by a first apparatus. The example method generally comprises determining a number of pilot symbols to transmit for one or more slots of a first subframe based, at least in part, on a coverage enhancement (CE) level, and transmitting at least one uplink data channel having the determined number of pilot symbols in the one or more slots of the first subframe.
US11115976B2	Method for transmitting/receiving uplink control channel in frame structure of short transmission time interval and device therefor Provided is a method and a device for transmitting an Ack/Nack of sPUCCH in response to the reception of short TTI-based sPDSCH in a 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced system. A base station may set, for each terminal, an offset value for setting a link between sPDSCH and sPUCCH, and transmit the set offset value to the terminal through upper layer signaling (RRC signaling), thereby enabling a terminal to use the offset value to allocate sPUCCH resources for transmitting an Ack/Nack in response to the reception of sPDSCH.
US11115975B2	Method for wireless communication between subscribers and base stations In a wireless communication method, base stations having an identical number of channels for receiving narrowband modulation (UNB) are divided into groups. Data transmission channels of all base stations have identical time and frequency characteristics. All subscribers split into groups are periodically sent messages with subscriber group numbers by all the base stations. When a group number of a corresponding subscriber coincides with a group number in a message received by the subscriber, all the subscribers of the group send response messages to the base stations using UNB, wherein response messages are sent sequentially from all subgroups of subscribers of the group, and subscribers of a subgroup send response messages on different frequencies. The base stations receive the response messages on all frequencies corresponding to subscribers, decode the messages and generate a database of response messages, which can be used for generating subsequent messages with corresponding subscriber group numbers.
US11115972B2	Techniques for updating resource types A parent access node may establish a first link with a child access node. In some cases, the parent access node may determine to release a resource of the first. The parent access node may transmit downlink signaling indicating release of the resource. As such, the child node may schedule a child link resource (e.g., a parent-controlled resource) corresponding to the released resource. The child node may then communicate with a child node of its own in accordance with the scheduling of the child link resource. In some cases, the resource release indication may be associated with a one-time resource release, or may be associated with a semi-persistent release (e.g., until the parent node reclaims the released resources). In some examples, the child node may transmit an uplink message to request resources from the parent node (e.g., and the resource release may be based on the request).
US11115964B2	System and method for auto-detection of WLAN packets using header A system and method of auto-detection of WLAN packets includes transmitting in a 60 GHz frequency band a wireless packet comprising a first header, a second header, a payload, and a training field, the first header carrying a plurality of bits, a logical value of a subset of the plurality of bits in the first header indicating the presence of the second header in the wireless packet.
US11115963B2	Method and device for multiplexing uplink grant resources The present application provides a method and device for multiplexing uplink grant resources, including: determining, by a network device, control information, where the control information includes uplink grant resources information and multiplexing manner information, where the uplink grant resources information is used for indicating uplink grant resources configured by the network device for a terminal device, the multiplexing manner information is used for indicating a multiplexing manner of remaining uplink grant resources, and the remaining uplink grant resources are uplink grant resources in the uplink grant resources except a part of uplink grant resources used for carrying data in one or more logical channels corresponding to the uplink grant resources; and transmitting, by the network device, the control information to the terminal device. The method for multiplexing uplink grant resources of the present application can improve a use efficiency of uplink grant resources.
US11115961B2	Methods and devices for transmission of control data to a user equipment A method for transmission of control data to a user equipment in a mobile telecommunication system, wherein the method comprises sending control data to the user equipment in a data transmission, and performing, by the user equipment, a blind decoding of transmission elements within the data transmission in order to detect the control data in a data region in the data transmission.
US11115958B2	Method whereby terminal transmits and receives sidelink signals in wireless communication system One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method whereby a first terminal transmits and receives sidelink signals in a wireless communication system, the sidelink signal transmission and reception method comprising the steps of: selecting a resource for executing a second transmission, the selection of which is restricted by the position of a resource selected for a first transmission; and executing the second transmission in the resource selected for the second transmission.
US11115942B2	Scheduling for a time-synchronized wireless network Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an access node may synchronize a clock of the access node which is associated with communication on a local area network to a frame structure of a time-synchronized wireless network. The access node may receive configuration information relating to a quality of service profile and a first set of time intervals for the clock of the access node. The access node may map the first set of time intervals for the clock of the access node to a second set of time intervals of the frame structure of the time-synchronized wireless network. The access node may communicate on the time-synchronized wireless network during one or more of the second set of time intervals. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11115939B2	NR PHR design for mmWave deployment New radio (NR) power headroom report (PHR) design for millimeter wave (mmWave) deployment is discussed. The power control process for mmWave may include beam-specific periodic PHR reporting and user equipment (UE)-specific event-trigger PHR reporting. The periodic PHR reporting may either provide a single PHR that includes power headroom information for each of the serving beams, or the UE may be configured to measure and report PHR for different beams in different slots. When reporting a single PHR with power headroom information for multiple serving beams, a beam index may be included in the reserved bits of the PHR. For the event-trigger PHR, the PHR reported based on a detected event trigger may provide power headroom information only for the current serving beam, or for all serving beams.
US11115934B2	Radio network node, user equipment and methods therein Some embodiments herein relate to method in a user equipment for determining a transmit power to be used by the user equipment when transmitting in a radio communications network, which user equipment is served by a radio network node in the radio communications network. The user equipment receives, from the radio network node, an indication indicating a set of power control parameters out of multiple sets of power control parameters, which multiple sets of power control parameters are stored at the user equipment. The user equipment determines a transmit power based on the indicated set of power control parameters.
US11115931B2	Uplink interference avoidance under closed loop power control conditions Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating uplink interference avoidance. According an embodiment, a system can comprise receiving a request to adjust an uplink power limit of a first communication device that is generating an uplink interference above a threshold and a power adjustment value employable to adjust the uplink power limit of the first communication device. The system can further facilitate identifying a packet flow in an uplink communication with the first communication device, wherein use of the packet flow results in generating of the uplink interference above the threshold. The system can further facilitate determining whether the uplink power limit of the first communication device is able to be adjusted based on a quality of service allocated to the packet flow. The system can further facilitate transmitting a message to update the uplink power limit of the first communication device using the power adjustment value.
US11115928B2	Systems and methods for wearable initiated handshaking Systems and methods for device handshaking are described. Embodiments for client device and associated wearable device initiated handshaking are described. In certain embodiments, a device such as wearable camera eyeglasses having both high-speed wireless circuitry and low-power wireless circuitry communicates with a client device. The low-power wireless circuitry is used for signaling and to manage power on handshaking for the high-speed circuitry in order to reduce power consumption. An analysis of a high-speed connection status may be performed by a client device, and used to conserve power at the glasses with signaling from the client device to indicate when the high-speed circuitry of the glasses should be powered on.
US11115919B2	Network selection method and base station A network selection method is provided that includes acquiring, by a first base station, core network type information of a core network node from UE, a second base station or a first core network node; and selecting, by the first station, a core network node for the UE according to the acquired core network type information and information about a second core network node provided by the UE.
US11115917B2	Device and method A device includes: N communication modules, a selector that selects one communication module, an obtainer that obtains a reception strength of a signal, a generator that generates an image that includes 2N display regions associated with the N communication modules in order of communication speed from slower to faster per two display regions counted from a reference position along one direction, and a display. The generator generates, as the image, an image displaying (i) a graphic of a first type in, among the two display regions associated with the one communication module, more display regions counted from proximity to the reference position along the one direction, with an increase in the reception strength of the one communication module, and (ii) the graphic of the first type in each of two display regions associated with a communication module that communicates at a slower speed than the one communication module.
US11115916B2	Data transmission method, terminal, and access-network network element A data transmission method, a terminal, and an access-network network element are disclosed. An interface is disposed on a policy client of UE and an operating system or an application layer of the UE. The interface is used to provide the operating system or the application layer with a policy related to the operating system or the application layer, and collect, from the operating system or the application layer, information required for a report. In this way, a dedicated transport channel is implemented by a bottom layer of the UE, reports and policies are transmitted on the dedicated transport channel, and during implementation, a protocol is not coupled with the application layer or the operating system, so that the system is simple to implement.
US11115913B2	Wireless communication core network and method for analyzing user equipment mobility in the same In a wireless communication core network, an Application Function (AF) make an analysis request for a mobility analytics report of a UE, which includes first UE mobility information of the UE. In the wireless communication core network, a Network Data Analysis Function (NWDAF) obtains an identity of an Access and Mobility ManagementFunction (AMF) serving the UE from a Unified Data Management (UDM), on its own or via a Network Exposure Function (NEF), based on the request. Then, the NWDAF obtains second UE mobility information of the UE from the AMF according to the identity of the AMF, and generates and transmits the mobility analytics report to the AF according to the first and second UE mobility information.
US11115912B1	Distributed ledger directory service for wireless communication networks In a wireless communication network, network circuitry executes wireless network slices that store values for network attributes in distributed ledgers. Access circuitry authorizes directory access for a user and transfers a directory access token to the user. Directory circuitry serves information to the user like slice, ledger, and attribute that are within the scope of the directory access token. The access circuitry authorizes ledger access for the user and transfers a ledger access token. The network circuitry serves attributes and values from the distributed ledgers to the user that are within the scope of the ledger access token.
US11115909B2	Method for providing band scanning prioritization, and a mobile communications device incorporating the method The disclosure relates to a method for providing band scanning prioritization in a mobile communications device, the mobile communications device (100) being associated with a user, the method (200) comprising: retrieving (202), in a communication entity (106) information pertaining to present time and intended location of the user at a specific time from an application entity (104), determining (204), in the communication entity (106), a probable location of the mobile communications device (100) taking into account the information pertaining to present time and intended location of the user at a specific time, and performing in the modem entity (102) and/or the communication entity (106) (208) a band scanning prioritization taking into account the probable location of the mobile communications device (100). The disclosure also relates to a mobile communications device (100).
US11115906B2	Static memory device with shared memory for an instrument and a wireless radio A static memory device including an instrument, a wireless radio, a shared memory, an outgoing memory portion and an incoming memory portion. The instrument includes an environmental sensing device, a hazard detection device, and/or an industrial safety device. The wireless radio sends and receives information on a wireless mesh network. The shared memory is connected to the instrument and wireless radio and includes static message memory having static messages related to the instrument. The outgoing memory portion receives outgoing information from the instrument and transmits the outgoing information to the wireless radio for transmission on the wireless mesh network. The incoming memory portion receives incoming information from the wireless radio and transmits the incoming information to the instrument. The shared memory restricts the wireless radio and the instrument from both raising grant lines and granting data to either the incoming memory portion or the outgoing memory portion simultaneously.
US11115899B1	Extended star luminaire network formed using heartbeat messages An example method for a radio frequency (RF) communication system, such as a lighting system, includes receiving, at a non-connected RF node via an extended star wireless network, a gateway heartbeat message that a gateway RF node transmits. The method further includes, in response to receiving the gateway heartbeat message from the gateway RF node, transmitting, via the extended star wireless network, a non-connected registration message to the gateway RF node. The method additionally includes in response to receiving a gateway acknowledgement message from the gateway RF node, configuring the non-connected RF node to act as a respective connected RF node.
US11115896B2	Handling QoS rules on QoS operation errors A method of enhanced error handling for 5G QoS operations associated with a PDU session is proposed. A QoS operation can be received via a PDU session modification procedure. In one example, the QoS operation is to create a new QoS rule for a PDU session, however, there is an existing QoS rule having the same QoS rule ID (QRI). The UE detects whether the QoS operation will causing the PDU session have no default QoS rule or have more than one default QoS rules. If the existing QoS rule is a default QoS rule, or if the new QoS rule have a default QoS rule (DQR) indication bit set to be true, then the UE rejects the QoS operation and indicates a QoS operation error to the network.
US11115895B2	Flood fill mesh radio network Disclosed is an improved implementation of a flood fill mesh network that utilizes low power and does not require any network addressing or routing protocol for network message delivery. Network messages are only communicated to a network node's correspondents using broadcast network messages over a wireless network. Network messages propagate throughout the network based on each correspondent node rebroadcasting received messages to its correspondent nodes, and so on. Coordinated synchronization across network nodes can be achieved by each network node broadcasting synchronization frames to its correspondents within a synchronization window time period and thereafter adjusting its own start time for the next synchronization period to converge synchronization. A guard band may also be utilized to account for any clock drift and signal path delays between any two communicating network nodes.
US11115893B2	Information transmission method, base station, and user equipment The present application provides an information transmission method. A first base station sends a context of a terminal to a second base station according to a request of the second base station. The request message of the second base station includes a first identifier, the first identifier is an identifier of the terminal in a non-connected mode in an area configured by the first base station, and the context of the terminal includes a core network-related context. The second base station may perform a corresponding RRC configuration based on the obtained context of the terminal. The first base station uses a RAT different from the second base station.
US11115892B2	Beam failure information for radio configuration A wireless device may detect a beam failure on at least one beam. The at least one beam may be of a first cell. A beam failure recovery procedure may be started in response to the beam failure. The beam failure recovery procedure may comprise transmitting a recovery request for a first beam. A beam failure recovery timer for the beam failure recovery procedure may be started. The wireless device may determine a connection failure based on expiration of the beam failure recovery timer. The wireless device may transmit a radio link failure report to a first base station based on the connection failure. The radio link failure report may comprise an index of the first beam.
US11115886B2	Method for obtaining radio capability information of terminal, core network entity, base station, and terminal Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for obtaining radio capability information of a terminal, a core network entity, a base station, and a terminal. When a first terminal changes from a first communication path for the first terminal to directly access a network to a second communication path for the first terminal to access the network by using a second terminal, the first terminal receives a first message that is sent by a base station to obtain radio capability information of the first terminal; and then sends the radio capability information of the first terminal to the base station, where the radio capability information includes information about a manner of connection between the first terminal and the second terminal and identification information of the second terminal.
US11115885B2	Audio synchronization during handover Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for initiating, at a first wireless audio device, a handover interval including one or more extended synchronous connection-oriented (eSCO) windows, buffering a set of one or more audio (e.g., microphone) data packets during the handover interval, discarding at least a portion of the set of one or more audio data packets during the handover interval, receiving a handover indication from a second wireless audio device during an extended retransmission portion of a first eSCO window of the handover interval, and transmitting one or more audio data packets during a second eSCO window that is subsequent to the handover interval.
US11115882B2	Data transmission method, apparatus, and system A joint transmission (JT) method and apparatus, the method including selecting, by a network device of a serving cell, a JT user equipment and a coordinated neighboring cell of the JT user equipment, sending, by the network device of the serving cell, a JT user equipment request to a network device of the coordinated neighboring cell, scheduling the JT user equipment and sending scheduling information to the network device of the coordinated neighboring cell, and sending, by the network device of the serving cell, a reference signal and data to the JT user equipment according to the scheduling information, where the reference signal sent by the network device to the JT user equipment by the network device of the serving cell is the same as a reference signal sent by the network device of the coordinated neighboring cell of the JT user equipment to the JT user equipment.
US11115881B2	Heterogeneous networks using two channel hopping protocols Systems and methods are disclosed for facilitating communications in heterogeneous networks that include different data networks. A gateway device is configured to communicate with a first network using a TSCH protocol and with a second network using a channel hopping CSMA protocol. The gateway device can determine, during a first part of a TSCH timeslot, whether a message is received from the first network. If no message is received, the gateway device switches to the second network during a second part of the timeslot. If the gateway device receives a message from the second network, the gateway device may continue to receive the message. The receipt of the message in the second network may continue into a subsequent TSCH timeslot or may be interrupted if certain conditions are met.
US11115880B2	Path switch method between LTE and 5G node Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for user-plane switching of traffic for dual connectivity. In some example embodiments, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at a serving gateway, an indication to persist a first tunnel identifier located at a master base station, while the serving gateway sends, towards a second tunnel identifier located at a secondary node, user plane traffic for a user equipment in dual connectivity with the master base station and the secondary node; and switching, at the serving gateway, the user plane traffic between the second tunnel identifier and the first tunnel identifier, when the serving gateway receives, via a user plane, an error indication and/or a switch indication. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US11115873B1	Dynamic policy exchange Dynamic policy mapping is provided via mapping, by an Access Point (AP), a plurality of applications to a set of privilege groups for Quality of Service (QoS) levels in a network; transmitting the mapping of the privilege groups to a client device; receiving packets from the client device including QoS markers; and in response to determining that the QoS markers received from the client device do not match the privilege groups for the packets, performing a corrective action on the client device, wherein the corrective action includes one or more of: disassociating the client device from the network; and retransmitting the set of privilege groups to the client device. In some embodiments, the privilege groups are transmitted before the client device is associated with the AP, enabling the client device to select what AP to associate with based on the privilege groups.
US11115872B2	Hierarchical and intelligent distributed controllers for an access network Aspects include identifying an application executed by a communication device, identifying a first edge device capable of providing a first portion of a service in accordance with a first access technology and a second edge device capable of providing the first portion of the service in accordance with a second access technology that is different from the first access technology, selecting one of the first edge device or the second edge device as a first selected edge device, wherein the selecting is based on the identifying of the application, and establishing a communication session between the first selected edge device and the communication device in accordance with the access technology of the first selected edge device to facilitate a transfer of first data associated with the first portion of the service from the first selected edge device to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11115870B2	Service-aware utilization of shared wireless resources Systems, methods, and devices can be used to perform service-aware utilization of shared wireless resources. In various instances, a quality metric (e.g., a Bit Error Rate (BER)) of a shared wireless resource is determined. Requested services can be provided based at least partly on the quality metric and the type of services being requested. For example, when the quality metric exceeds a threshold and the requested services are for Quality of Service (QoS)-sensitive services (e.g., Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) services), the services can be provided at least partially via a licensed wireless resource. However, when the quality metric does not exceed the threshold, and/or the requested services are for non-QoS-sensitive services (e.g., non-GBR services), the services can be provided via the shared wireless resource.
US11115868B2	Method and apparatus for control resource set configuration and monitoring of downlink control channel in wireless communication system A communication method and a system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology are provided. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method includes transmitting, to a terminal, configuration information for configuring a plurality of bandwidth parts for the terminal, wherein at least one control resource set is configured for each of the plurality of bandwidth parts, respectively, transmitting, to the terminal, information for changing a first bandwidth part activated for the terminal to a second bandwidth part, and transmitting, to the terminal, downlink control information in at least one control resource set corresponding to the second bandwidth part.
US11115867B2	Method and system for managing utilization of slices in a virtual network function environment Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a first group of virtual network functions of a first network slice instantiated within a software defined network and adapted to perform a first activity that facilitates delivery of a service to wireless equipment of a first user. Access is facilitated to a second group of virtual network functions of a second network slice responsive to a determination of an occurrence of a condition. The second group of virtual network functions, when instantiated within the software defined, network are configured to deliver the service to the wireless equipment of the first user. The second network slice is further adapted to perform another activity that facilitates delivery of another service. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11115865B2	Load balancing among bands and access points in a wireless network During operation, an access point communicates with one or more electronic devices. Based at least on the communication, the access point determines an available capacity metric of the access point. Then, the access point provides the determined available capacity metric to one or more second access points, and receives available capacity metrics of the one or more second access points. Moreover, the access point compares the available capacity metric and a parameter corresponding to the available capacity metrics. Based at least in part on the comparison, the access point dynamically and selectively performs load balancing, where performing the load balancing involves providing a recommendation to at least a first electronic device of the one or more electronic devices, and where the recommendation indicates that the first electronic device, which is associated with the access point, transition to a different communication channel.
US11115863B2	Connection establishement in a cellular network A method for communications is proposed. The method may comprise obtaining, by a terminal device, network addresses of another terminal device from a message broker to which the terminal device and the another terminal device are registered. At least one of the terminal device and the another terminal device is connected to a cellular network. The method may further comprise initiating a connectivity check procedure to determine one or more candidate paths through which the terminal device has connectivity to the another terminal device. The one or more candidate paths are from at least two paths associated with the network addresses of the another terminal device. The method may further comprise selecting a path for the terminal device and the another terminal device among the one or more candidate paths, based at least in part on a predefined criterion.
US11115861B1	Selecting a modulation table to mitigate 5G message faults Wireless networks, such as 5G (and future 6G) networks, can recognize opportunities to enhance message performance by analyzing fault types in real-time, and selecting an appropriate mitigating modulation table accordingly. Noise patterns causing adjacent-amplitude faults and adjacent-phase faults indicate the need for different modulation schemes, while the large non-adjacent faults from pulsed external interference lead to yet a different choice. Disclosed examples show how to select an appropriate mitigating modulation table through fault analysis of failed messages. By selecting and switching to different modulation tables according to the types of message faults experienced by user messages, network operators can reduce message failure rates and increase overall throughput while reducing average delay per message, according to some embodiments.
US11115859B2	Method and apparatus for autonomous transmission A method and an apparatus for autonomous transmission in an unlicensed band are provided. The method and apparatus comprising: a wireless device receiving a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration for first uplink transmission, wherein the SPS configuration includes information regarding an SPS window indicating a time section in which the first uplink transmission is allowed; the wireless device receiving on a DL channel downlink control information (DCI) having an uplink grant that instructs second uplink transmission, wherein the uplink grant includes a second hybrid automatic repeat request process identifier (HARQid) for the second uplink transmission; and the wireless device performing the first uplink transmission in the SPS window when it is confirmed that a wireless medium is in an idle state by performing a listen before talk (LBT) in the SPS window, wherein a first HARQid for the first uplink transmission is not the same as the second HARQid.
US11115854B2	Adjusting bandwidth utilization of wireless network based on potential issues being predicted Monitoring activities of wireless devices connected to a wireless network (e.g., when connected and to what access points, what activities, bandwidth utilized). Processing monitored activities to develop trends for wireless devices (e.g., likely time for connecting to which access points, likely activities performed, likely bandwidth usage, likely movement patterns). Predicting potential issues with the wireless network based on current network activities and predicted activities based on the developed trends. The potential issues may include congestion of an access point. Taking actions, including modifying activities of one or more wireless devices, to avoid the potential issues, reduce impact of the potential issues and/or prevent any performance degradation to high priority wireless devices. The activity modifications may include, for example, restricting/changing access point connectivity, limiting/modifying functions performed, modifying bit rate, changing frequency band, and delaying/restricting activities. Parameters associated with wireless devices may be identified, including identifying high priority wireless devices.
US11115850B2	Service indication method, base station, terminal, and system Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a service indication method, a base station, a terminal, and a system. The method includes: sending, by the base station, first service indication information to the terminal, where the first service indication information includes an identifier of a first frequency channel number and an identifier of a first service associated with the first frequency channel number; determining, by the base station, a second service associated with a second frequency channel number; and sending second service indication information to the terminal, where the second service indication information includes the identifier of the first frequency channel number and an identifier of the second service. In the solution in the embodiments of the present disclosure, after indicating a service associated with a frequency channel number, a service identifier may further indicate a service associated with another frequency channel number with a same physical frequency.
US11115849B2	First unit, second unit and method In order to make it possible to report an amount of data from a secondary node (SN) to a master node (MN) in dual connectivity, there is provided a first unit according to the present disclosure which is a first unit of a central unit of a first base station. The first unit includes a controller and a transceiver. The central unit is configured to host at least PDCP layer in the first base station; and is connected to a distributed unit via a first interface, the distributed unit hosting RLC, MAC and PHY layers in the first base station. The controller is configured to host at least a user plane of the PDCP layer hosted by the central unit; and the transceiver is configured to transmit, to a second unit via a second interface, first information indicative of a volume of data processed by the first unit. The second unit is configured to host at least a control plane of the PDCP layer hosted by the central unit.
US11115845B2	Citizens broadband radio service network interference management using dual subscriber identification module devices Methods and systems for citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) interference management using dual subscriber identification module (SIM) devices are described. The method includes assigning a physical cell identity (PCI) to each CBRS device (CBSD) granted unlicensed spectrum by a spectrum access system (SAS). Each spectrum granted CBSD may exchange PCIs with neighbor spectrum granted CBSDs to resolve PCIs and maintains a PCI table. A dual SIM device may be connected to a CBSD via a first SIM. Each spectrum granted CBSD having a connected dual SIM device reports a number of PCIs detected by the dual SIM device(s). A SAS designated dual SIM device may use a second SIM to measure power values of PCIs detected by the designated dual SIM device which are absent from a provided PCI table. The measured power values may be used by the SAS to make cluster interference decisions.
US11115843B2	Method and device for managing multiple remote radio heads in communication network Disclosed is a method for managing multiple remote radio heads (RRHs) in a communication network, including, in response to an occurrence of an alarm indicating that a value of an operation parameter of an RRH among the multiple RRHs is beyond a predetermined range, determining whether the RRH is faulty by using a model for detecting a fault in the RRH, based on one or more pieces of operation information of the RRH which respectively correspond to multiple timestamps, and issuing a notification indicating that the RRH is faulty when it is determined that the RRH is faulty.
US11115840B2	Apparatus and method for radio link monitoring in a wireless communication system An apparatus and method for radio link monitoring in a wireless communication system are provided, in which a transmission point communicating with a network where a Base Station (BS) and at least one Remote Radio Head (RRH) coexist within a cell receives Reference Signal Configuration Information (RSCI) from the network to which the transmission point belongs, receives RSs of at least one RS type indicated by the received RSCI from the BS and the at least one RRH that coexist within the cell, and performs radio link monitoring using the received RSs of the at least one RS type.
US11115839B1	Distribution of MIMO layers among carriers based on carrier bandwidth A method and system for controlling wireless transmission to a user equipment device (UE) while the UE is served on a plurality of carriers each having a respective downlink bandwidth. An example method includes determining that a first carrier of the plurality of carriers has a wider downlink bandwidth than a second carrier of the plurality of carriers. And the method then includes, based at least on the determining, causing transmission to the UE on the first carrier to use a greater quantity of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) layers than transmission to the UE on the second carrier.
US11115837B2	Method and device for transmitting data unit, and method and device for receiving data unit A radio link control (RLC) entity can be used for multiple radio bearers (RBs). In other words, one RLC entity can be associated with multiple packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entities, where the multiple PDCP entities are associated with the multiple RBs, respectively. An identifier of a PDCP or RB can be provided with a PDCP PDU in order to inform the RLC entity or a receiving device which RB or which PDCP entity the PDCP PDU is associated with. The RLC entity shared by more than one RB can be configured according to configuration information for RB(s).
US11115835B2	Method and device for performing device-to-device communication by sharing uplink resource and sidelink resource in wireless communication system Provided are a method and a device for performing device-to-device communication by sharing an uplink resource and a sidelink resource in a wireless communication system. Particularly, a first terminal receives, from a base station, beam scanning signals and a first threshold value. The first terminal generates first reception beam information including beam information of a signal received at a signal intensity greater than or equal to the first threshold value, among the beam scanning signals. The first terminal receives second reception beam information from the base station. The second reception beam information includes beam information of a first uplink signal received by the base station from a second terminal. The first terminal transmits a sidelink signal through the sidelink resource by using a beam obtained by excluding a third reception beam from a first reception beam. The third reception beam is a beam of the first terminal for receiving a signal transmitted using a transmission beam of the base station in the same direction as a second reception beam. The sidelink resource is overlapped with the uplink resource in time and frequency domains.
US11115833B1	Determining placement of a small cell Systems and methods are provided for facilitating the placement of a small cell, wherein at least one of a first set of parameters is determined at each of a first and a second location, at least one of a second set of parameters is determined at each of the first and the second location, and a recommended small cell placement location is generated based on at least one of the determined first set of parameters and the determined second set of parameters.
US11115828B2	Network management method and system for a shared radio access network, RAN, infrastructure A method for performing network management for a shared Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure provided by a mobile network operator includes managing the shared RAN infrastructure by a master operator network manager of the mobile network operator; and allocating, by the master operator network manager upon receiving service requests from one or more tenants, resources to accommodate the service requests. The master operator network manager cooperates with a capacity or resource broker residing inside the network of the mobile network operator that considers information on mobility of a user or a set of users involved in a particular service request for deciding on resource allocations to the particular service request.
US11115823B1	Internet-of-things device classifier Methods and systems for classifying a device on a network. The systems and methods may receive network activity data associated with an unknown device. A classifier executing one or more machine learning models may then classify the device as an internet of things (IoT) device or a non-IoT device.
US11115820B2	Facilitating a secure session between paired devices A host device can establish a verified session with a wearable device. The host device can determine whether the verified session is in progress. In accordance with a determination that the verified session is in progress, the host device can provide a user interface to request confirmation that the identifier is to be provided to the wearable device. The host device can receive an input at the user interface and, in accordance with a determination that the input indicates a confirmation that the identifier is to be provided to the wearable device, the host can identify a user identifier to provide to the wearable device, and transmit the user identifier to the wearable device.
US11115819B2	Local authentication of communications device A device and method for locally authenticating an accessor device to access an operable device. The method comprises receiving reservation information at a validation device from an access granting device, the reservation information identifying one or more accessor devices as having permission to utilize the operable device, where the operable device is local to (e.g., within a predetermined proximity) of the validation device. The method further comprises receiving a request from an accessor device requesting permission to utilize the operable device, the request including an identifier of the requesting accessor device, validating the request based on the reservation information and the identifier, and when validation is successful, granting to the requesting accessor device permission to utilize the operable device. The method may further include receiving an instruction from the access granting device to revoke such permission from the requesting accessor device, and revoking such permission from the requesting accessor device.
US11115818B2	Techniques for enabling computing devices to identify when they are in proximity to one another The embodiments set forth a technique for securely identifying relevant computing devices that are nearby. The technique can be implemented at a first computing device, and include the steps of (1) receiving, from a second computing device, an advertisement packet that includes: (i) a network address that is associated with the second computing device, and (ii) a hash value that is calculated using the network address and an encryption key that is associated with the second computing device, and (2) for each known encryption key in a plurality of known encryption keys that are accessible to the first computing device: (i) calculating a temporary hash value using the network address and the known encryption key, and (ii) in response to identifying that the temporary hash value and the hash value match: carrying out an operation associated with the second computing device.
US11115814B2	Use of encryption to provide positioning support services A method is disclosed, comprising: holding available, by a first apparatus, encrypted first positioning support data, wherein said encrypted first positioning support data are decryptable by a first decryption key, and wherein said encrypted first positioning support data are configured to enable one or more mobile devices receiving said encrypted first positioning support data and having access to said first decryption key to determine their position at least partially based on said first positioning support data; and automatically and repeatedly sending or triggering sending, by said first apparatus, said encrypted first positioning support data.
US11115813B1	Software defined wireless local area network for fault tolerance Techniques are described for providing fault tolerance for wireless communications in a wireless network (e.g., wireless local area network (LAN)). A client establishes a first connection with a first access point (AP) of multiple APs via first radio of the client and a second connection with a second AP of the multiple APs via a second radio of the client. The first AP and the second AP are connected to the same wireless LAN. Data associated with a communication session is communicated via the first and second connections. In response to detecting that the second connection satisfies one or more criteria, a third connection is established with a third AP of the multiple APs via the second radio of the client.
US11115811B2	Address management for Bluetooth devices Two devices (e.g., two wireless Bluetooth earbuds) may exchange device address information (e.g., Bluetooth address information) and may identify a primary address. When either of the devices connect to a source device (e.g., a phone), the primary address may be used by the connecting device such that the pair of devices appear as a single device (e.g., a Bluetooth-pairable device) to the source device, regardless of the device connecting to the source device as the primary device. The primary device may then send identity information (e.g., that has been exchanged with the secondary device) to the source device, such that the source device may connect to either of the two devices. Further, once a primary device connects to the source device, the primary device may transmit, to the secondary device, connection information such that the secondary device may connect to the source device and operate in the primary role.
US11115809B2	Indication method of terminal capability and terminal A terminal capability indication method and a terminal are provided. The method includes sending, to network side, capability indication information indicating whether the terminal supports uplink dual-transmission per band combination; wherein the capability indication information includes at least one: first indication information of a band combination supported by the terminal; second indication information of a channel combination if the channel combination exists in the band combination; third indication information indicating RF characteristic of the terminal, the first indication information includes type information of the band combination or information about whether the band combination must support uplink dual-transmission, the second indication information includes type information of the channel combination or information about whether the channel combination must support uplink dual-transmission, the third indication information includes indication about whether the RF characteristic of the terminal supports uplink dual-transmission.
US11115808B2	Consolidated control plane routing agent In one embodiment, a method comprises communicating with a plurality of network elements via a first communication protocol to obtain state information of the plurality of network elements; receiving a request via a second communication protocol for a communication session to be established for a client computing device; selecting one or more network elements, wherein the selection is based on at least a portion of the state information of the network elements; and communicating identification information of the one or more network elements selected for use in the communication session.
US11115805B2	Method for performing service parameter provisioning to UE and network in 5G system A method for providing a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) service in a 5G mobile communication system. In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, a method performed by a device for performing a network exposure function (NEF) in a communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from a server, a request message including request information related to service-specific information; changing data in a unified data repository (UDR) on the basis of the request message; and performing provisioning of the changed data to a user equipment (UE) via a policy control function (PCF) is provided.
US11115804B2	Subscription to dependencies in smart contracts The disclosed technology is generally directed to smart contract technology. In one example of the technology, responsive to a smart contract subscription request from a requestor to a first smart contract, a registry entry is added to a first smart contract registry such that the added registry entry includes requestor information associated with the requestor, and subscription information associated with at least one exposed interface of the first smart contract. Responsive to a change occurring that is associated with at least one exposed interface of the first smart contract, based on the registry, any subscribers to the first smart contract that have a subscription to which the change pertains are determined. Responsive to determining subscribers to the first smart contract that have a subscription to which the change pertains, the determined subscribers are caused to be notified of the change.
US11115803B2	Method and apparatus for cellular capable secondary wireless device compatibility with multi-SIM wireless device Apparatus and methods to improve compatibility between a primary wireless device including multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMs) and a cellular capable secondary wireless device are disclosed. The cellular capable secondary wireless device pairs with the primary wireless device, which provides a configurable option to allow mobile terminated connections and/or messages to be received at the cellular capable secondary wireless device for multiple SIMs when the cellular capable secondary wireless device is not within proximity of the primary wireless device and is being worn. The primary wireless device indicates conditional forwarding to a second wireless network associated with a second SIM and adjusts notification alerts to reduce time for forwarding when the cellular capable secondary wireless device is separated from the primary wireless device and in use.
US11115800B2	Communication management for core network Systems and methods for managing communications among a central entity and multiple local entities in a telecommunication core network are disclosed. Localized central entities may be established across the core network based on localization patterns of telecommunication devices. The localized central entities may duplicate a portion of central entity data and provide local entities more efficient access to the data.
US11115799B1	IoT device discovery and identification Techniques for performing Internet of Things (IoT) device identification are disclosed. Information associated with a network communication of an IoT device is received. A determination of whether the IoT device has been classified has been made. In response to determining that the IoT device has not been classified, a two-part classification process is performed, where a first portion includes an inline classification, and a second portion includes a subsequent verification of the inline classification. A result of the classification process is provided to a security appliance configured to apply a policy to the IoT device.
US11115798B2	Pairing a beacon with a mobile robot A method performed by a mobile lawn mowing robot includes pairing a beacon with the mobile lawn mowing robot. Pairing the beacon with the mobile lawn mowing robot includes determining a distance between the beacon and the mobile lawn mowing robot and confirming that the beacon is within a pairing distance from the mobile lawn mowing robot based on a comparison of the determined distance to a pairing distance. Pairing the beacon with the mobile robot lawn mowing robot further includes, subsequent to confirming that the beacon is within the pairing distance from the mobile lawn mowing robot, pairing the beacon with the mobile lawn mowing robot, and, following pairing, detecting wideband or ultra-wideband signals from the beacon, and using the wideband or ultra-wideband signals to enable navigation over an area.
US11115796B2	Method and system for an integrated public safety solution A method of tracking at least one emergency service provider is disclosed. An electronic history is compiled that includes at least one identifier of a service provider, at least one identifier of an event to which the service provider responded, and GPS data identifying the geographic location of the service provider at each time interval within the duration of the event. A user interface within which is displayed a first identifier of a first event is generated to a display device. A selection of the event identifier is received from a user. In response to the selection of the identifier, an aerial view of a geographic region within which the first event took place is generated. At least one icon is displayed in the aerial view representing the service provider at the geographic location corresponding to at least one time interval during the event.
US11115795B2	Early activation of mobile device to enable use at service terminal A communication system (100) comprises a service terminal (ST) and a first transmitter function (TX1) in or at the service terminal (ST). The first transmitter function (TX1) is configured for sending a first short-range wireless communication signal (S1) to cause a first reaction (R1) when received by a mobile device (MD) being located within a first distance (D1) or distance range (DR1) from the service terminal (ST). The communication system (100) also comprises a second transmitter function (TX2) in or at the service terminal (ST). The second transmitter function (TX2) is configured for sending a second short-range wireless communication signal (S2) to cause a second reaction (R2) when received by the mobile device (MD) being located within a second distance (D2) or distance range (DR2) from the service terminal (ST), the second distance (D2) or distance range (DR2) being closer to the service terminal (ST) than the first distance (D1) or distance range (DR1).
US11115793B2	LTE gateways for home and commercial sensor data Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that receives data from a machine-type communication (MTC) device located at a premises, determines an identifier for the MTC device; compares the identifier with a list of identifiers; and, responsive to determining that the MTC device is a listed device, transmits the data to a first network element remote from the premises. The device and the first network element do not receive data from devices at the premises generating human traffic communications (HTC). The first network element transmits the data to a second network element for aggregation and subsequent transmission to a cloud data facility comprising cloud storage. A data path from the device to the first network element, from the first network element to the second network element, and from the second network element to the cloud data facility forms a secure data path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11115792B2	Vehicular high-speed network system A vehicular high-speed network system having a vehicle, a terminal associated with the vehicle and having a radio rate transformer, and stations each having a radio rate transformer which are connected to a network gateway. The radio rate transformers having a GPS device for providing GPS location data of the first radio rate transformer, an embedded computer system, a VHF/UHF radio connected to the GPS device for transmitting the GPS location data to the embedded computer system, a first sector antenna, a compass for providing a heading angle of the first sector antenna to the embedded computer system, and a broadband radio for establishing high-speed data connection. The stations are connected to the internet and adapted to enable the high-speed data connection to the terminal once the sector antennas have a line of sight connection.
US11115787B1	Method and system for assigning ownership of a marked physical item involving track and trace A code attribution control system includes unique codes. Each code is arranged or marked openly accessible legible or scannable on a sales item. One or more of the sales items is openly and freely displayed and for sale within a physical border of a physical shop. The item initially is allocated a status code attribute as “not sold” in said attribution control system, wherein for a consumer to establish ownership or indication of ownership of the item, the consumer scans and registers the code outside the border of the shop. The status code attribute is changed to “sold” in the attribution control system, after which owner restricted services related to the item will be made available to the consumer.
US11115786B1	Method for SMS service continuity, network preference, and reporting logic Embodiments include originating and terminating a short message service (SMS) message using an IP network. Delivery of an SMS message is attempted on a first network a first predetermined number of times according to a first predetermined time schedule. Delivery of the SMS message on a second network is attempted after a failure to deliver the SMS message on the first network. Reattempted delivery of the SMS message on the first network is followed by reattempted delivery of the SMS message on the second network, according to a second predetermined time schedule. Embodiments also include monitoring registration of a recipient of the SMS message, receiving a new registration, and attempting delivery of the SMS message on the network associated with the new registration.
US11115785B2	Managing communication groups based on objects in image feeds Methods, and apparatus for managing a communication group. One method includes forming a communication group of one or more portable communications devices based on a first object of interest and identifying a second object of interest based on the first object of interest. The method also includes determining whether an image feed includes the second object of interest and when the image feed includes the second object of interest, adding a portable communications device associated with the image feed to the communication group.
US11115783B2	Method, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, device and system Techniques for controlling updating of information stored on a device, the information including information of a first type and information of a second type. The techniques include determining, using at least one processor, when a first item of information of the first type and a second item of information of the second type are to be updated, wherein the second item of information is to be updated more frequently than the first item of information; and causing the device to update the first and second items of information in accordance with the determination at least in part by wirelessly communicating with at least one other device.
US11115781B2	Providing points of interest to user devices in variable zones Receiving point of interest zones and alerts on user devices comprises communicating, by a user computing device to a remote computing device, a request for point of interest data corresponding to points of interest within a proximity of the user device; presenting the received point of interest data; identifying a particular point of interest; and outputting an alert regarding the particular point of interest. Receiving point of interest zones on user devices comprises communicating a request for point of interest data; receiving the point of interest data from the remote network device wherein a size of the point of interest zone is determined based on a density of points of interest in the proximity of the user, and wherein the shape of the point of interest zone is expanded in a direction of travel and contracted in the opposite direction; and presenting the received point of interest data.
US11115779B1	Switch controlling system and switch controlling method of smart appliances A switch controlling system and method of smart appliances are provided. A beacon device is movably located in a space and outputs a beacon signal. Switch devices are located respectively at different positions in the space. The switch device entering within a distance range from the beacon device receives the beacon signal from the beacon device and outputs a distance determined signal according to the beacon signal. A central control device obtains spatial information of the space to establish a spatial database. The central control device looks up the spatial information from the spatial database according to the distance determined signal. The central control device determines a position of the beacon device relative to the electronic devices in the space according to the spatial information. The central control device selectively switches the switch devices to control the electronic devices based on the position of the beacon device.
US11115778B2	Method to configure user positioning information sharing A method is of monitoring a user is provided. The method comprising: receiving a position request from a first user device, the position request requesting visibility to a current position of a second user device; requesting a granularity level of the second user device in relation to the first user device; receiving the granularity level when the granularity level is established; determining a current position of the second user device; determining a mapped position in response to the granularity level and the current position; and transmitting the mapped position to the first user device.
US11115769B2	Systems and methods for providing a user with enhanced attitude awareness Systems and methods for using auditorily-induced vection (AIV) to enhance a person's attitude awareness are provided herein. In at least one embodiment, an auditory object is projected based on the orientation of the person or a vehicle and the projected auditory is provided to the person. By projecting the auditory object, the attitude of the person or the vehicle can be conveyed to the person to enhance the person's attitude awareness.
US11115768B2	Binaural dialogue enhancement Methods for dialogue enhancing audio content, comprising providing a first audio signal presentation of the audio components, providing a second audio signal presentation, receiving a set of dialogue estimation parameters configured to enable estimation of dialogue components from the first audio signal presentation, applying said set of dialogue estimation parameters to said first audio signal presentation, to form a dialogue presentation of the dialogue components; and combining the dialogue presentation with said second audio signal presentation to form a dialogue enhanced audio signal presentation for reproduction on the second audio reproduction system, wherein at least one of said first and second audio signal presentation is a binaural audio signal presentation.
US11115764B2	Hearing systems, sensor systems, and methods for detecting a physiological attribute of a user An exemplary hearing system that is configured to assist a user in hearing includes an in-the-ear (ITE) component configured to fit at least partially within an ear canal of the user while the hearing system is worn by the user, a first sensor electrode provided on a surface of the ITE component and configured to contact, while the hearing system is worn by the user, outer ear tissue of the user, and a second sensor electrode configured to be located, while the hearing system is worn by the user, at an entrance to or outside of the ear canal of the user. The first sensor electrode and the second sensor electrode may be configured to be used to detect a physiological attribute of the user while the hearing system is worn by the user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11115761B2	Methods and systems for hearing device signal enhancement using a remote microphone An exemplary hearing device is configured to receive a first signal output by a local microphone that is a part of the hearing device at a first location. The first signal is representative of a degraded version of audio content as detected by the local microphone. The audio content is provided by an audio source at a second location. The hearing device is further configured to receive a second signal from a remote microphone system located in proximity of the second location. The second signal is representative of a cleaner version of the audio content as detected by the remote microphone system. The hearing device is further configured to determine a relatedness factor between the first signal and the second signal and apply, based on the relatedness factor, a signal enhancing operation to the first signal to output an enhanced first signal.
US11115758B2	System and method for multiplexed ultrasound hearing A hearing system for stimulating an auditory system for sound perception by activating a particular region of a cochlea of a user using ultrasound signals, the particular region corresponding to a target frequency range, the system including: an ultrasonic transducer configured to deliver an ultrasound signal via an interface medium; and a processor communicatively coupled to the ultrasonic transducer, the processor to: obtain an audio signal, extract at least one of a temporal feature or a spectral feature from the audio signal, transpose the audio signal to the target frequency range based on extracting the at least one of the temporal feature or the spectral feature from the audio signal, generate a modulated ultrasound signal based on modifying a carrier signal having at least one frequency between 100 kHz and 4 MHz by the transposed audio signal, and provide the modulated ultrasound signal to the ultrasonic transducer for delivery via an interface medium.
US11115756B2	MEMS microphone and method of manufacturing the same A MEMS microphone includes a first dummy pad elevating a circumferential portion of an intermediate insulation layer adjacent to a second pad electrode, a second dummy pad elevating a first circumferential portion of an upper insulation layer adjacent to the second pad electrode, and a third dummy pad elevating a second circumferential portion of the upper insulation layer adjacent to the first pad electrode. Thus the first circumferential portion of the upper insulation layer is elevated relative to an upper surface of the second pad electrode, and the second circumferential portion of the upper insulation layer is elevated relative to an upper surface of the first pad electrode.
US11115748B2	Wearing detection method and apparatus, wearable device and storage medium Provided are a wearing detection method and apparatus, a wearable device and a storage medium. At least two positions of the wearable device are provided with sensors. The method includes: acquiring detection data of capacitive sensors at the at least two positions, obtaining linear combination data according to the detection data of the capacitive sensors at the at least two positions by using a pre-set relationship; and detecting a wearing state according to the linear combination data. According to the embodiments, the accuracy of wearing detection can be improved.
US11115746B1	Dynamic latching of hinged devices A charging case for a pair of earbuds that comprises: a body having one or more cavities configured to receive the pair of earbuds; a lid attached to the body and operable between a closed position where the lid is aligned over the one or more cavities covering the pair earbuds and an open position that allows a user to remove the pair of earbuds from the body; one or more sensors that generates sensor data; a controller coupled to receive the sensor data from the sensor and operable to detect when the charging case is in freefall and/or suffers an impact event based, at least in part, on the sensor data and generate a trigger signal in response to detecting the impact event; and an earbud protection mechanism responsive to the trigger signal and operable to retain the pair of earbuds within the charging case.
US11115743B2	Signal processing device, signal processing method, and program A signal processing device according to an embodiment includes a measurement signal generation unit that generates a first measurement signal and outputs the signal to headphones, a sound pickup signal acquisition unit that acquires a first sound pickup signal obtained by picking up the first measurement signal by a microphone, a signal analysis unit that calculates a frequency response of the first sound pickup signal, a fit determination unit that determine a fit of the headphones by comparing a response value of the frequency response in a specified frequency band with a reference value, and a display unit that outputs gradual results of the determination in accordance with a percentage of the response value with respect to the reference value.
US11115740B2	Flat panel speaker and display unit A flat panel speaker according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a flat panel and a plurality of vibrators that are disposed on a back surface of the flat panel. The plurality of vibrators are disposed to avoid a location that most easily vibrates in an entire range of audio frequencies when vibration is generated in the flat panel by the plurality of vibrators. A large stationary wave with respect to the flat panel therefore does not easily occur.
US11115733B2	Distributor strip The invention relates to a master distributor strip for distributing electrical energy for equipment and/or server cabinets, comprising a plurality of connection means that are provided on a face of the master distributor strip, and to which electrical loads can be connected for the purpose of energy supply. Furthermore, sensors for determining data at least relating to the status of the master distributor strip and/or of the plurality of connection means are provided. The invention is characterized in that a communications module is provided, which module is configured to retrieve and/or receive the data of the sensors, and to communicate with at least one sensor and/or actuator that is remote from the master distributor strip, by means of a communications network. The master distributor strip furthermore comprises an information and management module which is configured to provide the data of the sensors, retrieved and received by the communications module, directly to a user, via a communications network interface.
US11115727B2	System and method for advertising A system and method for advertising are disclosed. In an aspect, a method comprises rendering a content to a plurality of users, the content having a time duration, rendering a first selectable element associated with the content to a first one of the plurality of users at a first time during the time duration of the rendered content, and rendering a second selectable element associated with the content to a second one of the plurality of users at a second time during the time duration of the rendered content, wherein the second time is different from the first time and the first selectable element is not rendered to the first one of the plurality of users while the second selectable element is rendered to the second one of the plurality of users.
US11115724B2	Visual hash tags via trending recognition activities, systems and methods A system and method of treating image data as a visual hash tag are presented. A device is able to subscribe to a content channel, possibly a channel that provide social media information, by the act of recognizing related objects without requiring a user to annotate content with unnatural hash tags.
US11115723B1	On demand linear programming Linear content holds great value to consumers, and by delivering it to consumers on demand, service providers can improve the user experience for their consumers. A consumer requests linear on demand content by selecting channels and time ranges or content items, or bundles thereof, which the service provider broadcasts as linear content. The requested content is broadcast, and repackaged as an unbroken block of content for the consumer during the requested time range or the duration of the content item. By repackaging the linear on demand content, the service provider may provide greater options to consumers without significantly increasing the amount of bandwidth used in its network to deliver that content. Channel guides and viewing features are tailored for the requested content to further improve the user experience.
US11115721B2	Methods and apparatus for monitoring video games Methods and apparatus for monitoring video games are disclosed. Example video game monitors disclosed herein include a network analyzer to communicatively couple with a communication interface of a video game console, the network analyzer to detect communication packets transferred over the communication interface of the video game console. Disclosed example video game monitors also include a processor to decode the communication packets detected by the network analyzer to determine an identity of a game being played by the video game console, and report the identity of the game to a data collection facility.
US11115720B2	Providing a live poll within a video presentation The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for providing a live poll with a video presentation. In particular, the systems and methods described herein provide a video stream received from a broadcaster client device to one or more viewer client devices. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein provide a live poll to the one or more viewer client devices together with the video stream. The systems and methods receive poll responses from the one or more viewer client devices, compile poll results based on the received responses, and provide the poll responses to the broadcaster client device and the one or more viewer client devices.
US11115717B2	Content receiver control based on intra-content metrics and viewing pattern detection Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are provided to facilitate content receiver control for particularized output of content items based on intra-content metrics. Observation data, corresponding to indications of detected content receiver operations associated with a content receiver and mapped to a first set of content items, may be processed. A first set of intra-content metrics may be detected. An audiovisual pattern of intra-content metrics may be mapped based on correlating the set of observation data with the first set of intra-content metrics. A second set of content items may be processed to detect a second set of intra-content metrics. A subset of the second set of content items may be selected based on a visual category and/or an audio category of the audiovisual pattern of intra-content metrics. The subset may be specified to cause a content receiver to modify operations to record and/or output content corresponding to the subset.
US11115716B2	System and method for audio visual content creation and publishing within a controlled environment Methods and systems for providing content creation and content publishing in a controlled environment are disclosed herein. A media management device receives an audio track including lyrical content. Further, the media management device performs speech recognition analysis on the audio track to determine lyrical text corresponding to the lyrical content. Additionally, the media management device determines whether the audio track contains prohibited content based on comparing the lyrical text to a blacklist of prohibited information. When the audio track does not include prohibited content, the media management device publishes the audio track to a media library accessible to devices within the controlled environment.
US11115714B2	Method and apparatus for recording advertised media content Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining social network information associated with a first user, wherein the social network information includes information identifying a second user who is related to the first user. A determination is made that the first user had selected, during a presentation of a first media content item by a first media processing device of the first user, recording of a second media content item that had been advertised during the presentation of the first media content item. Responsive to the determining that the first user had selected the recording of the second media content item, a second media processing device of the second user is directed to record the second media content item. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11115704B2	Media channel navigation user interface systems and methods An exemplary method includes a media channel navigation user interface system detecting, while media content distributed on a media channel is being presented for display on a display screen, a user request to launch a media channel navigation user interface, and providing, in response to the detected user request and for concurrent display with the presentation of the media content on the display screen, a media channel navigation user interface pane comprising a set of media channel navigation tools that include at least media content channel navigation tools selectable by a user to launch different types of menus of media channels in the media channel navigation user interface pane.
US11115703B2	Platforms, media, and methods providing a first play streaming media station Disclosed herein are media, systems, and methods of creating and publishing a first play station, wherein a media creator is allowed to select a plurality of audio media and sequence the selected audio media to create an ordered combination and request a first play station. Each audio media in the ordered combination is validated to create a first play station, and the media creator is allowed to play the first play station. After the first play station is published, a call from a third party player application prompts the published first play station. At least one alteration to the ordered combination of validated audio media can be generated, wherein the at least one alteration is selected from the group consisting of: an alternate validated audio media, an alternate sequence of the ordered combination of validated audio media, or a combination thereof.
US11115702B1	Device for controlling TV viewing, capable of bi-directional video calling A device for controlling TV viewing, capable of bi-directional video calling, may: connect a TV and a smartphone via a communication network; transmit an image captured by an embedded camera to the smartphone; establish bi-directional TV video calling between the embedded camera, TV, and smartphone by displaying an image signal of the smartphone via the TV; control TV viewing by linking to the smartphone via the wireless communication network; and support video calling between the TV and smartphone via a simple button operation when the elderly, infirm, and children, young and old, who have difficulty using a separate communication means are in an emergency situation.
US11115699B2	System and method for delivering media based on viewer behavior Methods, systems and devices are provided for communicating multimedia content over a service provider network. A network server may receive an audio-video stream from a content provider server, relaying the audio-video stream to a receiver device via the service provider network, receive an operating mode notification identifying a user behavior from the receiver device, and ceasing the relaying of the audio-video stream to the receiver device based on the user behavior. The network server may also alter the audio-video stream based on the received operating mode notification and send the altered audio-video stream to the receiver device via the service provider network.
US11115697B1	Resolution-based manifest generator for adaptive bitrate video streaming Techniques for resolution-based manifest generation for adaptive bitrate video streaming are described. As one example, a computer-implemented method includes performing a first, convex hull optimization on a video file for a first device resolution, performing a second, convex hull optimization on the video file for a second, lower device resolution, generating a first video representation for a point on both the first, convex hull optimization and the second, convex hull optimization for the first device resolution and the second, lower device resolution, generating a second video representation for a point only on the second, convex hull optimization for the second, lower device resolution, receiving a request for a manifest for the video file from a client device at the second, lower device resolution, generating the manifest for the client device that identifies the first video representation and the second video representation, and sending the manifest to the client device.
US11115694B2	Information processing apparatus, method, and program An information processing apparatus for reproducing second content in synchronization with reproduction of first content by a second information processing apparatus different from the information processing apparatus, the first content comprising audio content. The information processing apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: extract a first feature from the audio content; obtain a second feature of the audio content, the second feature being together with the second content; compare the first feature with the second feature; and generate, based on results of the comparing, synchronization information used for reproducing the second content in synchronization with the first content.
US11115691B2	Custom data indicating nominal range of samples of media content A media processing tool adds custom data to an elementary media bitstream or media container. The custom data indicates nominal range of samples of media content, but the meaning of the custom data is not defined in the codec format or media container format. For example, the custom data indicates the nominal range is full range or limited range. For playback, a media processing tool parses the custom data and determines an indication of media content type. A rendering engine performs color conversion operations whose logic changes based at least in part on the media content type. In this way, a codec format or media container format can in effect be extended to support full nominal range media content as well as limited nominal range media content, and hence preserve full or correct color fidelity, while maintaining backward compatibility and conformance with the codec format or media container format.
US11115688B2	Global approach to buffering media content In various embodiments, a graph streaming application computes a first distance along a first potential playback path between a first playback position and a first media content block. The graph streaming application then computes a first score for the first media content block based on the first distance and a first probability associated with the first potential playback path. Similarly, the graph streaming application computes a second score for a second media content block based on a second playback position, a second potential playback path, and a second probability associated with the second potential playback path. The graph streaming application compares the first score and the second score to determine that the first media content block should be buffered by a client device. The graph streaming application then causes the first media content block to be stored in a playback buffer for subsequent playback on the client device.
US11115683B2	High definition VP8 decoder A video decoder system, in one embodiment, includes one or more processors and a memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the video decoding system to perform an entropy decoding operation in a frame level pipelined manner on a bitstream representative of encoded video data to produce first output data, perform at least one of an inverse quantization operation or an inverse frequency transform operation in a row level pipelined manner on the first output data to produce second output data, perform a deblocking filtering operation on first input data that includes the second output data in a row level pipelined manner to produce third output data, and output a decoded video output based on the third output data.
US11115680B2	Apparatuses and methods for encoding and decoding a panoramic video signal The disclosure relates to an apparatus for encoding a video signal, wherein the video signal is a two-dimensional projection of a panoramic video signal and comprises a plurality of successive frames, including a reference frame and a current frame, wherein each frame of the plurality of successive frames comprises a plurality of video coding blocks and wherein each video coding block comprises a plurality of pixels.
US11115679B2	Method and system for encoding and transmitting high definition 3-D multimedia content One particular implementation may take the form of a method and system for decoding 3-D multimedia content. In one example, the present invention may take the form of a method of decoding 3-D multimedia content encoded with at least content frames and null frames. The method may operate to receive the 3-D multimedia content, extract at least one content frame, at least one null frame, and display information. The method may further operate to reconstruct the content and null frames in a display-sequential manner using the display information to indicate the display order of the at least one content frame. In some examples, the method and system for encoding and decoding multimedia content may encode the multimedia content such that the at least one null frame may not be displayed by a display device.
US11115675B2	Conditions for updating LUTS Devices, systems and methods for processing video are described. In a representative aspect, a video processing method is provided to comprise: maintaining tables, wherein each table includes a set of motion candidates and each motion candidate is associated with corresponding motion information; performing a conversion between a first video block and a bitstream representation of a video including the first video block based on the tables; and updating, after performing of the conversion, zero or more tables, based on an update rule.
US11115667B1	Mobile device image compression The system may capture an image comprising an original image size. The system may further determine an optimal size for the image based on a connection bandwidth and/or connection latency. The system may also compress the image to reduce an image size locally until the image size is less than or equal to the optimal size, before transmitting the image with the optimal size to the receiver while controlling latency in image transmission.
US11115666B2	Semantic video encoding Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for encoding a scene in a video program using an encoding strategy that is selected in accordance with a theme that is identified in the scene are disclosed. For example, a method may include a processing system receiving a video program, identifying boundaries of a scene in the video program, identifying a theme in the scene, and selecting an encoding strategy for the scene based upon the theme, where the encoding strategy is associated with the theme. The processing system may further encode the scene using the encoding strategy that is selected.
US11115664B2	Image coding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding method, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus A moving picture coding apparatus, method, and medium for coding a current block are provided. A first candidate is derived from a first motion vector that has been used to decode a first block. The first block is adjacent to the current block. A first index identifying a reference picture to be selected for coding the current block is coded. A second candidate having a second motion vector that includes a non-zero value is derived. The non-zero value is assigned to the reference picture. A selected candidate is selected from a plurality of candidates, including the first candidate and the second candidate. A second index identifying the selected candidate is coded. The current block is coded using the selected candidate. The second candidate includes the non-zero value of the reference picture, with the reference picture being selected from a plurality of referable reference pictures.
US11115654B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder is disclosed which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry, in a first operating mode, derives first motion vectors for a first block obtained by splitting a picture, and generates a prediction image corresponding to the first block, with a bi-directional optical flow flag settable to true, and by referring to spatial gradients of luminance generated based on the first motion vectors. Using the memory, the circuitry, in a second operating mode, derives second motion vectors for a sub-block obtained by splitting a second block, the second block being obtained by splitting the picture, and generates a prediction image corresponding to the sub-block, with the bi-directional optical flow flag set to false.
US11115651B2	Quality scalable coding with mapping different ranges of bit depths A more efficient way of addressing different bit-depths, or different bit-depths and chroma sampling format requirements is achieved by using a low bit-depth and/or low-chroma resolution representation for providing a respective base layer data stream representing this low bit-depth and/or low-chroma resolution representation as well as for providing a higher bit-depth and/or higher chroma resolution representation so that a respective prediction residual may be encoded in order to obtain a higher bit-depth and/or higher chroma resolution representation. By this measure, an encoder is enabled to store a base-quality representation of a picture or a video sequence, which can be decoded by any legacy decoder or video decoder, together with an enhancement signal for higher bit-depth and/or reduced chroma sub-sampling, which may be ignored by legacy decoders or video decoders.
US11115648B2	Display device, and method and apparatus for adjusting image presence on display device A display device includes a display device body. The display device body includes a first lens barrel and a second lens barrel. A first lens is disposed at a first end of the first lens barrel, and a second lens is disposed at a first end of the second lens barrel. A first distance sensor and a second distance sensor are further disposed on the display device body. The second distance sensor is configured to measure a distance between a right eyeball and the second lens. Two distance sensors are disposed on the display device body.
US11115643B2	Alignment system A method for adjusting an optical system, and to an adjustment system for use in an optical system where the adjustment system comprises a predetermined reference object having known visible reference object features, a sensor system, a data evaluation module and an image processor. The data evaluation module receives captured image data and determines at least two visible reference object features of the predetermined reference object arranged in a field of view, and determines position data containing a position deviation of an image of the object to be examined or, in the case of a stereoscopic optical system, of a first and second half-image of the object to be examined. The image processor ascertains an optical distortion of the visible reference object features and sets a corresponding geometric rectification of received image data.
US11115639B2	System and method of generating panoramic virtual reality image using a plurality of photograph images The described technology provides a system and method of generating a 360-degree panoramic virtual reality (VR) image by using a plurality of photograph images. A plurality of image capturing devices capture and transmit the plurality of photograph images, respectively. An image conversion device receives the plurality of photograph images from the plurality of image capturing devices, calibrates each of the plurality of photograph images using characteristic information of respective one of the plurality of image capturing devices, and stitches calibrated photograph images to generate the 360-degree panoramic VR image. According to embodiments, the user can check a situation of a monitoring area while changing the viewpoint of the 360-degree panoramic VR image or enjoy the generated VR contents at a high degree of immersion.
US11115630B1	Custom and automated audio prompts for devices A network-connected security device is communicatively coupled to an audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device having a camera and a speaker. A method receives video data captured by the camera, and performs an object recognition algorithm upon the received video data to identify an object therein. The method performs a table lookup using the identified object, into a data structure that associates objects with at least one description of a predefined voice message. The method selects a description of a predefined voice message associated with the identified object, and transmits the selected description's predefined voice message to the A/V recording and communication device for output through the speaker.
US11115629B1	Confirming package delivery using audio/video recording and communication devices A method for remotely confirming delivery of a package may be accomplished using a client device and a using a network-connectable audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device. The method includes initiating the two-way communication between the client device and the A/V recording and communication device. The method further includes receiving, via a user interface of the client device, an indication that a package is being delivered to a building associated with the A/V recording and communication device. The method further includes receiving, at the client device, information about the package and displaying, on a display of the client device, the information about the package. The method further includes receiving, via the user interface, an electronic signature indicating acceptance of delivery of the package. The method further includes transmitting, by the client device, the electronic signature to a delivery service server.
US11115624B1	Methods and systems for joining a conference Systems and methods for joining a video conference. A first function can be found, wherein the first function can interact with a user interface element used by the recording bot server to join a video conference. The first function can be replaced by a second function, wherein the second function can be used to join the video conference such that the recording bot server does not interact with the user interface element. The second function can be used to join the video conference without interacting with the DOM.
US11115620B2	System for facilitating interactions between consumers and individuals having marketable public recognition Systems and methods are disclosed for processing transactions and associated dated. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method for processing information associated with transactions involving a product, wherein the product may comprise an experience, a physical product, and/or a digital product. Moreover, illustrative methods may include performing processing associated with a plurality of subroutines, such as a first subroutine for handling an experience, a second subroutine for handling a physical and/or a digital product, and/or one more additional subroutines associated with fulfillment.
US11115617B2	Audio device for HDMI An apparatus, method and system for connecting High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) devices. A loopback device connects between a first source device and a sink device on a first connection; a second source device connects to the sink device on a second connection. The loopback device manages the first connection, passes transition-minimized differential signaling (TMDS) or fixed-rate link (FRL) signals through to the sink device, and outputs audio received from the sink device on the audio return channel (ARC) or enhanced audio return channel (eARC). In this manner, audio that originates from any source device may be output without requiring a direct connection to the loopback device.
US11115616B2	Display system, display method, and display apparatus A display system includes a conversion apparatus converting video luminance including a luminance value in a first luminance range and a display apparatus connected thereto and displaying the video. The conversion apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a first luminance converter, a second luminance converter, a quantization converter, and an output unit outputting a third luminance signal to the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a second acquisition unit acquiring the third luminance signal and setting information indicating display settings recommended to the display apparatus in display of the video; a display setting unit setting the display apparatus, using the setting information; a third luminance converter converting a third code value indicated by the third luminance signal into a second luminance value compatible with a second luminance range, using the setting information; and a display controller displaying the video on the display apparatus based on the second luminance value.
US11115608B2	Imaging device, imaging system, and drive method of imaging device According to the present disclosure, column circuits operate selectively in a first drive mode to output a comparison signal or a second drive mode to acquire a correction value of a first reference signal and a second reference signal, and a selector circuit of a second column circuit selects the same reference signal out of the first reference signal and the second reference signal in the first drive mode and the second drive mode.
US11115607B2	Control system for structured light projector and electronic device A control system (100) for a structured light projector (200) and an electronic device (1000) are provided. The control system (100) includes a first driving circuit (10) and an application processor (40). The first driving circuit (10) is connected with the structured light projector (200), and is configured to drive the structured light projector (200) to project laser. The application processor (40) is configured to control the first driving circuit (10) to be switched on and switched off based on a detection signal.
US11115597B2	Mobile terminal having first and second AI agents interworking with a specific application on the mobile terminal to return search results The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal having a plurality of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. More particularly, a mobile terminal according to the present disclosure includes: a camera, a touch screen configured to display screen information, and a controller configured to activate the camera in response to a request of a user, and store an image received through the camera. The controller extracts a search keyword from a search command when the search command for searching image information is input via a first AI agent, retrieves at least one piece of image information corresponding to the search keyword from pre-stored image information through a second AI agent, and controls the touch screen such that a search result is displayed on an execution screen of the first AI agent.
US11115596B2	Full-screen display with sub-display camera An apparatus includes a camera, a primary display panel including a pixel array and an aperture adjacent the pixel array, an auxiliary display, and an optical assembly including a reflecting optical element and an actuator coupled to the reflecting optical element. The actuator is configured to switch the reflecting optical element between a first arrangement and a second arrangement. The first arrangement defines an optical path from the aperture to the camera and the second arrangement defines an optical path from the aperture to the auxiliary display.
US11115586B2	Systems and methods for covertly monitoring an environment Systems and methods are provided for covertly monitoring an environment. In addition, solutions are provided for utilizing a camera to covertly monitor an environment by capturing images of a subject without the subject's awareness. In accordance with some embodiments, a system for capturing images is provided that comprises a device, a first cable, and a second cable. The device may comprise a housing having a top and a bottom, and a circuit board disposed within the housing. The first cable is may be connected to the circuit board and may extend through the top of the housing. The second cable may be connected to the circuit board and may extend through the bottom of the housing.
US11115585B2	Systems, methods, and devices for unmanned vehicle detection Systems, methods, and apparatus for detecting UAVs in an RF environment are disclosed. An apparatus is constructed and configured for network communication with at least one camera. The at least one camera captures images of the RF environment and transmits video data to the apparatus. The apparatus receives RF data and generates FFT data based on the RF data, identifies at least one signal based on a first derivative and a second derivative of the FFT data, measures a direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, analyzes the video data. The apparatus then identifies at least one UAV to which the at least one signal is related based on the analyzed video data, the RF data, and the direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, and controls the at least one camera based on the analyzed video data.
US11115577B2	Driver monitoring device mounting structure A driver monitoring device mounting structure that includes: a driver monitoring device main body that is attached to a steering column; a supporting component that has an anchoring portion and a fastening portion, and that supports a connector that is attached to a lead wire that is drawn out from the driver monitoring device main body; and a column cover that has a temporary fixing portion to which the anchoring portion is temporarily fixed, and a fixing portion to which the fastening portion is fixed, and that covers the steering column.
US11115573B2	Hyperspectral plenoptic camera Methods, systems, and apparatuses for a hyperspectral plenoptic camera. A hyperspectral plenoptic camera may be configured with a filter in the aperture plane of the camera. The filter may selectively transmit radiated wavelengths to a microlens array, which may focus and transmit the wavelengths to an image sensor based on, e.g., the location and intensity of the wavelengths. One or more lenses and/or an iris may be configured to collect, focus, and/or transmit wavelengths to and from the filter. The filter may be located between two lenses, and the distance between the two lenses may be based on a diameter of an aperture of the plenoptic camera.
US11115572B2	Automatic focusing system, method, and vehicular camera device therefor A camera device in or on a vehicle includes a lens module, a driving module having at least one shape memory alloy wire, and a converting module. The camera device is connected to a control device and receives control signals from the control device. The control signal drives the lens module to move for purpose of automatic focusing by applying heat to energize or de-energize the length or shape of the shape memory alloy wire.
US11115570B2	Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes a finder unit including a finder rotation unit movable between two states, a retracted state and a protruded state. The finder rotation unit is rotatably held in the protruded state.
US11115567B2	Image capture assembly and aerial photographing aerial vehicle An image capture assembly includes a heat-conducting housing, a camera component in the heat-conducting housing, and a heat-conducting sheet. The heat-conducting sheet is attached to the camera component and arranged between the camera component and the heat-conducting housing to dissipate heat generated by the camera component to the heat-conducting housing. The heat-conducting sheet extends to a side wall of the camera component from a bottom side of the camera component.
US11115562B2	Context-aware image processing A method and apparatus for image processing. An image scaling circuit is configured to receive image data for a plurality of pixels corresponding to a first image. The image data includes color information and a transparency value for each of the plurality of pixels. The image scaling circuit updates the image data by selectively changing the color information for one or more of the pixels based at least in part on the transparency values. In updating the image data, the image scaling circuit may determine contextual information about the first image based at least in part on the transparency values. The image scaling circuit further generates an interpolated image based on the updated image data for the plurality of pixels. For example, the interpolated image may be a scaled version of the first image.
US11115559B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium An information processing apparatus includes plural communication units, a determination unit, and a controller. The plural communication units are configured to be capable of conducting a wireless communication. The determination unit is configured to determine a communication unit from among the plural communication units in accordance with whether a mobile communication terminal that is attempting to conduct a communication is approaching the information processing apparatus. The controller is configured to perform a control so as to start the communication using the communication unit determined by the determination unit.
US11115554B2	Power supply control device and image forming apparatus capable of detecting a failure of a main power switch A power supply control device includes a switch to output a switch depression signal, which is in a first logic level during a period in which the switch is not depressed, and is in a second logic level during a period in which the switch is depressed, a first power supply to generate a first DC voltage based on AC power, which is supplied from an outside, and to apply the first DC voltage to a predetermined load, and a second power supply configured to generate a second DC voltage based on the AC power irrespective of a state of the switch, and a controller to operate on the second DC voltage, to switch an operation state of the first power supply when the switch depression signal has switched from a first logic level to a second logic level and remains at the second logic level.
US11115547B2	Image forming apparatus that notifies a specific control unit of operation information depending on an operation screen being displayed, and control method therefor A present image forming apparatus includes a first control unit that controls a native program, a second control unit that controls an extension application different from the native program, a first memory area in which an operation screen of the native program controlled by the first control unit is rendered, and a second memory area in which an operation screen of the extension application controlled by the second control unit is rendered. At least a part of the operation screen of the native program is output to a display when an event related to outputting of the operation screen of the native program has occurred while the display is displaying a screen rendered in the first memory area.
US11115538B2	Agent efficiency based on real-time desktop analytics A contact center includes: a microprocessor; a computer readable medium, coupled to the microprocessor, to retrieve, store, and manage desktop analytic data that describes the current state of an agent's desktop. The current state of the agent's desktop can be reported to a contact center where that information can be used as additional information in assigning contacts to the agent. The contact may be sent to the agent having documentation or information readily accessible to response to the issue associated with the contact.
US11115535B2	Techniques for sharing control of assigning tasks between an external pairing system and a task assignment system with an internal pairing system Techniques for sharing control of assigning tasks may be realized as a method for sharing control of assigning tasks between an external pairing system and a task assignment system with an internal pairing system comprising receiving, from the task assignment system, a plurality of task pairing requests and an agent pairing request, wherein each task request of the plurality of task pairing requests is assigned to one of a first pairing strategy and a second pairing strategy. The agent pairing request may indicate an agent that is available for pairing. The method may further comprise transmitting, to the task assignment system, a pairing recommendation being based in part on the plurality of task pairing requests, the first pairing strategy, the second pairing strategy, and the agent pairing request.
US11115531B1	Systems and methods for identifying a behavioral target during a conversation A conversation may be monitored in real time using a trained machine learning model. This real-time monitoring may detect attributes of a conversation, such as a conversation type, a state of a conversation, as well as other attributes that help specify a context of a conversation. Contextually appropriate behavioral targets may be provided by machine learning model to an agent participating in a conversation. In some embodiments, these “behavioral targets” are identified by applying a set of rules to the contemporaneously identified conversation attributes. The behavioral targets may be defined in advance prior to the start of a conversation. In this way, the machine learning model may be trained to associate particular behavioral target(s) with one or more conversation attributes (or collections of attributes). This facilitates the real-time monitoring of a conversation and contemporaneous guidance of an agent with machine-identified behavioral targets.
US11115530B1	Integration of human agent and automated tools for interactive voice response (IVR) systems When a caller initiates a conversation with an interactive voice response (“IVR”) system, the caller may be transferred to a live agent. Apparatus and methods are provided for integrating automated tools and artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the interaction with the IVR system. The automated tools and AI may track the conversation to decipher when to transfer the caller to the agent. The agent may determine which machine generated responses are appropriate for the caller. AI may be leveraged to suggest responses for both caller and agent while they are interacting with each other. The agent may transfer back the caller to the IVR system along with the appropriate machine generated response to maintain efficiency and shorten time of human agent interaction.
US11115528B1	Call control service A technology is described for providing virtual call assistants and call options to identified callers. An example method may include identifying a caller and a call recipient using addressing information included in a call received at a call control service. After identifying the caller, a priority designation assigned to the caller may be obtained from an agent linking profile. An interactive agent linked to the priority designation assigned to the caller may be identified, wherein the interactive agent may be configured to provide prioritized call services. Thereafter, the interactive agent linked to the priority designation may be invoked.
US11115527B2	System and method for identifying unwanted communications using communication fingerprinting A method for identifying communicators as wanted or unwanted based on messages from such communicators comprising receiving, by the data processing system, an inbound message from a communicator, comparing, by the data processing system, the inbound message to fingerprints stored in a database accessible to the data processing system, determining, by the data processing system, at least one match to the fingerprints, determining, by the data processing system, an identity of the communicator by determining whether and how likely the communicator is wanted or unwanted based on the at least one match to the fingerprints, and configuring, by the data processing system, handling of calls from the communicator based on the identity.
US11115523B2	Method for selectively accepting phone calls and text messages In a method for selectively authorizing calls and text messages, it is determined if an identification code, such as CallerID or phone number, included with a call or text from a remote phone is also included in a table or list of identification codes accessible to a user phone. In the event of no match, a user notification means of the user phone is not activated and a prompt is sent to the remote phone requesting entry of a passcode into the remote phone. Upon receipt of the passcode entered into remote phone at the user phone, it is determined if the received passcode is also included in a table or list of passcodes accessible to a user phone. In the event of a match, the user notification means of the user phone is activated. Otherwise, the user notification means of the user phone is not activated.
US11115521B2	Systems and methods for authentication and fraud detection Systems and methods are provided to stop both external and internal fraud, ensure correct actions are being followed, and information is available to fraud teams for investigation. The system includes components that can address: 1) behavioral analytics (ANI reputation, IVR behavior, account activity)—this gives a risk assessment event before a call gets to an agent; 2) fraud detection—the ability to identify, in real time, if a caller is part of a fraudster cohort′ and alert the agent and escalate to the fraud team; 3) identity authentication—the ability to identify through natural language if the caller is who they say they are; and 4) two factor authentication—the ability to send a text message to the caller and automatically process the response and create a case in the event of suspected fraud.
US11115520B2	Signal discovery using artificial intelligence models Systems and methods for improving call topic models are described herein. In an embodiment a server computer receives call transcript data comprising an electronic digital representation of a verbal transcription of a call between a first person of a first person type and a second person of a second person type. The server computer splits the call transcript data into first person type data comprising words spoken by the first person in the call and second person type data comprising words spoken by the second person type in the call. The server computer uses a stored topic model to determine a topic of the call, the topic model simultaneously modeling the first person type data as a function of a first probability distribution of words used by the first person type for one or more topics and the second person type data as a function of a second probability distribution of words used by the second person type for the one or more topics, both the first probability distribution of words and the second probability distribution of words being modeled as a function of a third probability distribution of words for the one or more topics. The server computer then stores a data record identifying the topic of the call and/or stores data identifying the topic of the call with the call transcripts.
US11115517B2	Method and apparatus for preventing screen off during automatic response system service in electronic device A method of avoiding screen off during an Automatic Response System (ARS) service is provided. The method includes enabling a proximity sensor in a call connection, detecting one of a first gesture and a second gesture during a call, and upon detecting the first gesture, disabling the proximity sensor.
US11115516B1	Support device The present disclosure relates to a technical field of supports, and in particular to a support device. The support device includes a mounting frame and a clamping base, the mounting frame includes a main frame body and a joint structure. Electronic products are installed on the front side of the main frame body, the joint structure joint is connected with a rear side of the main frame body, and the joint structure and the clamping base are detachably connected. Thus, when the electronic product need to be used, the electronic products are detached along with the mounting frame from the clamping base, and there is no need to detach the electronic products from the support device, which simple in operation and convenient in use.
US11115515B2	Method for playing sound and multi-screen terminal Disclosed are a method for playing sound and a multi-screen terminal. The method includes: detecting, by a multi-screen terminal, a current opening/closing angle or angles between the respective display screens; and selecting, by the multi-screen terminal according to the detected current opening/closing angle or angles, a group of prestored audio drive parameters, and outputting the group of audio drive parameters to a power amplification module of the multi-screen terminal; or, determining whether the current opening/closing angle or angles and the current audio drive parameters are respectively prestored opening/closing angle or angles and audio drive parameters corresponding to an optimal sound field playing effect, and if not, giving a prompt as to whether to adjust the opening/closing angle or angles between the respective display screens and/or the current audio drive parameters.
US11115511B1	Communication device having configurable housing assembly with multiple antennas A communication device, method and computer program product enable multiple independent communication connections via multiple antennas supported by a configurable housing assembly having first and second housing portions connected for movement between open and closed positions. In response to housing assembly being in an open position, a radio frequency (RF) front end of the communication device is configured to independently communicate in at least a low band via first and second antennas supported by a first housing portion and second and fourth antennas supported by a second housing portion. In response to the housing assembly being in the closed position that brings the first and second antennas into proximity and the third and fourth antennas into proximity, the RF front end is configured to communicate via a first antenna array of the first and the second antennas and via a second antenna array of the third and the fourth antennas.
US11115509B2	Electronic device with metal frame antenna An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing and a connection part. The housing includes a first housing portion that includes a first side face, and a second housing portion that includes a second side face. The connection part connects the first housing portion and the second housing portion. A first conductive member extends along at least a portion of the first side face, a first non-conductive member is disposed on the first side face, a second conductive member extends along at least a portion of the second side face, a second non-conductive member is disposed on the second side face, and when the second housing portion faces the first housing portion, the first non-conductive member and the second non-conductive member are substantially aligned.
US11115507B2	Service discovery Service discovery and other operations related to enabling devices to announce, discover or otherwise control their services and/or the services offered or available from other devices is contemplated. The service discovery may facilitate service discovery for services sourced from devices inside and outside of a network and/or from devices having incompatible messaging capabilities.
US11115501B2	Gateway, client device and methods for facilitating communication between a client device and an application server It is presented a method, executed in a gateway, the gateway being arranged to facilitate communication between a client device and an application server. The method comprises the steps of: sending a request for an electronically transferable subscriber identity module, the request comprising an identifier based on an identity of the client device; receiving a response indicating that an electronically transferable subscriber identity module, generated based on the identifier, is available; downloading the electronically transferable subscriber identity; and storing the electronically transferable subscriber identity module with an association to the client device, along with any previously stored electronically transferable subscriber identity modules. A corresponding gateway, computer program and computer program product are also presented.
US11115499B1	Systems and methods for managing computer-based requests A system includes a client device and a server in communication to a database. The server receives a request for service from a client device via an electronic message. The server then generates instructions to receive a characteristic of the client device, and to query for a record to identify whether the characteristic has a predetermined time period for priority service. The server determines whether a timestamp of the request is within the predetermined time period for the priority service. The server then increments a counter value associated with request having the characteristic having the timestamp within the predetermined time period for the priority service. When the counter value satisfies a threshold value, the server automatically adjust a record of each request having the characteristic to indicate the priority service regardless of a basis for the request.
US11115497B2	Technologies for providing advanced resource management in a disaggregated environment Technologies for providing advanced resource management in a disaggregated environment include a compute device. The compute device includes circuitry to obtain a workload to be executed by a set of resources in a disaggregated system, query a sled in the disaggregated system to identify an estimated time to complete execution of a portion of the workload to be accelerated using a kernel, and assign, in response to a determination that the estimated time to complete execution of the portion of the workload satisfies a target quality of service associated with the workload, the portion of the workload to the sled for acceleration.
US11115495B2	Server, method of controlling server, and program Provided is a system that includes circuitry that transmits first image data to a second communication terminal in response to a first request for image transmission from a first communication terminal; transmits second image data to the first communication terminal in response to a second request for image transmission from the second communication terminal; and transmits, in a case that the first request for image transmission and the second request for image transmission are a predetermined combination, third image data corresponding to the predetermined combination to the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal.
US11115491B2	Residential cache appliance utilizing a social network An indication to share a content item associated with a residential cache appliance and a first social networking account is received. A network address of the residential cache appliance is associated with the content item. A cache map of available residential cache appliances is maintained to implement a distributed cache store. For one or more of the available residential cache appliances, the cache map identifies at least an associated social networking account, an associated network address, associated cache appliance stored content items, and an associated setting. From a requester device associated with a second social networking account, a request for the content item is received. In response to the request, based at least in part on the cache map, the requester device is directed to the residential cache appliance to obtain at least a portion of the content item.
US11115490B2	Host based read cache for san supporting NVMEF with E2E validation A method for performing host based read cache for storage area networks (SANs) supporting Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMeF) with validation. The method includes upon a first read operation from a client system of a storage array, receiving metadata with a read response regarding location of data subject to the read operation. The method also includes performing, by the client system, direct NVMeF reads from a namespace offset from the metadata. The direct NVMeF reads bypass a software stack of the storage array. The method further includes upon receiving a data block at the client system, using a signature from the metadata to perform validation on the data.
US11115488B2	Event tracking and notification based on sensed data Aspects of the disclosure relate to transforming event data associated with an entity using a multicomputer platform and directing a client computing device to perform a determined action based on a detected event characteristic of the event data and a detected current event. With some embodiments, an event tracking server detects the current event from sensed data provided by a sensed data server and identifies a correlation measure between the detected event characteristic and the detected current event. The event tracking server may direct one or more client computing devices to perform one or more actions related to an entity based on the correlation measure.
US11115487B2	Server and method for service matching and resource matching The present disclosure provides a server and a method for service matching and resource matching. The server stores a first resource available information and a second resource available information. The server receives a user request from a user device and determines a resource matching information according to the first resource available information and the second resource available information in response to the user request. The server transmits the resource matching information to the user device.
US11115485B2	Network-based system for connecting mobile network users A social interaction system has a server executing software coupled to a data repository storing member profiles, portable appliances used by members, and executing GPS, and an application providing interactive interfaces on a touch screen of the portable appliances, wherein the system stores pre-programmed geographic regions by GPS coordinates, and wherein, upon a first member becoming active by logging into the application using the network-connected portable appliance, the system invites the first member to select one or more interests presented in an interactive interface, and upon the user selecting one or more interests, indicates to the first member an on-screen identifier for other members who are both active in the same region, and who have selected an interest common to one of the interests selected by the first user.
US11115484B2	Control apparatus and control method A control apparatus includes one or more memories; and one or more processors configured to in response to reception of a first message, by referring to a reception history of one or more messages received prior to the received first message, determine whether a second message having a second timestamp newer than a first timestamp of the received first message has been received, when the second message has been received, perform a first process on the first message and a second process on the second message in order indicated by the first timestamp and the second timestamp, and transmit, to an apparatus to which the first message is transmitted next, a first correction notification including an instruction to correct order of processes executed by the apparatus with respect to the first message and the second message.
US11115481B2	Transmission control of protocol state exchange for dynamic stateful service insertion Provided are methods and systems for a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) state handoff of a data traffic flow. A method for a TCP state handoff of a data traffic flow comprises determining a TCP state at predetermined times by a state machine unit. The TCP state includes data concerning a session between a client and a server. The TCP state for the predetermined times is stored to a database. A request to apply a predetermined policy to the session is received by a transaction processing unit and, in response to the request, a session request associated with the session between the client and the server is sent to an access control unit. The session request is processed by the access control unit based on the TCP state and according to the predetermined policy.
US11115474B2	Data transmission and network interface controller Implementations of this disclosure provide data transmission operations and network interface controllers. An example method performed by a first RDMA network interface controller includes obtaining m data packets from a host memory of a first host; sending the m data packets to a second RDMA network interface controller of a second host; backing up the m data packets to a network interface controller memory integrated into the first RDMA network interface controller; determining that the second RDMA network interface controller does not receive n data packets of the m data packets; and in response, obtaining the n data packets from the m data packets that have been backed up to the network interface controller memory integrated into the first RDMA network interface controller, and retransmitting the n data packets to the second RDMA network interface controller.
US11115472B2	Distributed cloud file storage Distributed cloud-based data storage divides a file for storage into a number of portions that are separately stored with two or more storage service providers. The division and/or transmission of the file may be implemented based on arbitrary criteria, including random selection, an applied storage policy or assignment of a given portion to a corresponding storage service provider as examples. One or more portions of the file may be assembled into an upload file that is transmitted to and received from a storage provider. The portions of the file received from the storage provider may be used to reconstruct the file.
US11115471B2	Identifying and mitigating configuration item flapping A computational instance of a remote network management platform includes a persistent storage that contains a plurality of CI records corresponding to a set of computing devices disposed within a managed network, a set of software applications configured to execute on the set of computing devices, and a network-based service that is provided by execution of the set of software applications. The computational instance also includes one or more server devices configured to: receive an indication of a change to a CI record of the plurality of CI records; add, to a flapper candidates table in the persistent storage, a new value for a field of the CI record; determine, using a flapper detection strategy, flapper strategy data based on the new value and at least one old value for the field; and determine, based on the flapper strategy data, whether to trigger a re-computation of the service model.
US11115469B2	Efficient updates within a dispersed storage network A method includes determining that a dispersed data source is to be updated. The method further includes determining whether the update to the dispersed data source can be delayed. When the update to the dispersed data source can be delayed, the method further includes determining whether another update is pending for the dispersed data source. When the other update is pending, the method further includes determining whether processing efficiency of aggregating the update and the other update equals or exceeds an update processing efficiency threshold. When the processing efficiency of aggregating the update and the other update equals or exceeds the update processing efficiency threshold, the method further includes performing an aggregate update to the dispersed data source for the update and the other update. When the update to the dispersed data source cannot be delayed, the method further includes processing the update to produce an updated dispersed data source.
US11115465B2	Accessing endpoints in logical networks and public cloud service providers native networks using a single network interface and a single routing table A physical host machine of a public cloud system includes a set of processing units for executing instructions stored in non-transitory machine readable media. The physical host machine also includes a physical network interface cars (PNIC) and a non-transitory machine readable medium that stores a data compute node (DCN). The DCN includes first and second applications, first and second logical interfaces, a network stack, and a managed forwarding element (MFE). The first application is connected to the pNIC through the network stack, the first logical interface, and the MFE. The second application is connected to the PNIC through the network stack, the second logical interface, and the MFE.
US11115462B2	Distributed system A distributed system is disclosed in which one or more servers respond to requests for content including hyperlinks. Hyperlinks provide an interactive visual manifestation of an underlying reference to a resource. By using a graphical user interface provided by the device, a user is able to select a hyperlink, and thereby control the device to obtain the resource to which the underlying reference refers. However, if a user selects a hyperlink and the device is unable to follow the underlying reference to obtain the resource, user disappointment results. By arranging the server, on providing visual content including one or more hyperlinks, to attempt (212) to follow the references underlying the hyperlinks, and to alter (216) the appearance of any hyperlink for which the underlying reference could not be followed, users are alerted to the likelihood that selecting the hyperlink will not lead to them obtaining the resource. In this way, user disappointment is avoided. The technique is of particular utility to web-site administrators.
US11115461B1	Systems and methods of using asynchronous distributed hash generation for accelerated network file transfers Hash operations on large computer files can be relatively slow, but are needed to ensure accurate computer file transmission. The present disclosure covers a system and method to accelerate the process of making hash verified network copies of digital assets (computer files), and is particularly useful in handing computer files that were previously unknown to the file system (e.g. no prior hash values were computed). The system operates by analyzing the computer file into smaller parts, each with a part-offset relative to the parts' position in the original computer file, and generating the hash of the parts simultaneously with the entire computer file hash. The system can commence various network write operations when only a single part hash is available and does not need to wait for a complete computer file hash to be computed. This enables the burden of file transfers to be handled by multiple network peer computers.
US11115460B1	Systems and methods for determining an execution location for a utility component Disclosed are systems and methods for determining an execution location for a utility component. In an exemplary aspect, the systems and methods comprise receiving, at a client device, a request to execute the utility component that performs an action on a target component; determining the execution location of the utility component; determining whether the execution location is on the client device or on a remote application server; and responsive to determining the execution location is on the remote application server, transmitting the request to be executed within a remote session between the client device and the remote application server.
US11115459B2	Generic and configurable technique for webhook validation with arbitrary applications Techniques are disclosed for validating a webhook post by a receiver. The receiver receives an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request associated with the webhook post from an application. The receiver extracts at least one parameter from the HTTP request, to be used for validation of the webhook post. The receiver, obtains, based on the at least one parameter, configuration information associated with validating the webhook post from a configuration template, wherein the configuration template comprises configuration information associated with validating webhook posts from each of a plurality of applications. The receiver then validates the webhook post based on the configuration information.
US11115458B2	Monitoring in composite request systems Described herein is a computer implemented method for generating a composite response. The method comprises receiving a composite request defining one or more operations and generating a composite response by, for each operation: executing the operation using one or more server side resources; receiving execution result data; writing operation response data to the composite response; determining a status code providing information on at least one of the one or more server side resources used to execute the operation; and associating the status code with the operation response data in the composite response.
US11115457B2	HTTP transaction retries Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods for mitigating HTTP transaction errors for a data connection. The wireless device may establish a data connection over a first network interface of the wireless device at an HTTP layer of the wireless device. A transport connection may support the data connections and may support multiple HTTP transactions. An advisory signal may be received at the HTTP layer and, responsive to the advisory signal including first information, the HTTP layer may determine that at least a portion of the HTTP transactions can be (safely) retried. The HTTP layer may terminate, without notifying the application layer, the portion of HTTP transactions and may initiate, via a second transport connection established over a second network interface, retries of the first portion of HTTP transactions.
US11115456B2	Analyte data retriever Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for processing analyte data. In some example implementations, a method may include receiving, at a first processing system including a user interface, an installation package including a plug-in and code configured to provide at the first processing system an interface between a sensor system configured to measure an analyte concentration level in a host and a second processing system; storing, by the first processing system, the installation package in a location based on a role of a user initiating the installation of the code; installing the plug-in for the user interface to enable the plug-in to control one or more aspects of an installation of the code; and initiating, by at least the plug-in, the installation of the code at the first processing system to provide the interface. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US11115448B2	Identifying insertion points for inserting live content into a continuous content stream A method for identifying insertion points for inserting live content into a continuous content stream is disclosed. The method includes identifying a live content item to include in a continuous content stream, and identifying an interesting portion of the live content stream, the interesting portion corresponding to a time duration. The method further includes computing an estimated end time of a first content item included in the continuous content stream, and scheduling the live content item to be included in the continuous content stream as a next content item to be presented after the first content item in response to a determination that the estimated end time of the first content item occurs within the time duration.
US11115447B2	Video on demand load equalization According to an aspect, there is provided a network node for performing video on demand equalization. Upon receiving downlink traffic to be transmitted to one or more terminal devices, the network node detects a VOD stream from the downlink traffic. The network node determines the number of VOD streams handled by the cell and a first traffic load and compares the number of the VOD streams and the first traffic load to a first and a second threshold. In response to the number of the VOD streams being above the first threshold or the first traffic load being above the second threshold, the network node selects a terminal device associated with one of the VOD streams, selects a target cell from available cells and schedules the terminal device to use the target cell for said one of the VOD streams.
US11115446B2	Chat system and chat management apparatus A chat management apparatus allocates a plurality of chat rooms to talk servers in a distributed manner, and performs a control operation to switch to another talk server and deliver content when a failure occurs in one talk server. Further, by providing content posted from a user terminal to a history data storage unit, which is an independent external storage apparatus different from the talk servers, and storing the content, it makes unnecessary to perform synchronization processing of content data posted on a chat room even when the plurality of chat rooms is made redundant and managed in the plurality of talk servers in a distributed manner as a countermeasure against a failure.
US11115440B2	Dynamic threat intelligence detection and control system Arrangements for detecting, evaluating and controlling intelligence threat data feeds are provided. In some examples, a plurality of threat intelligence data feeds may be received. The threat intelligence data feeds may be received and evaluated to identify one or more feeds that are considered to provide valuable information to the entity implementing the evaluation. For instance, the evaluation may identify one or more feeds or providers that provides accurate data, timely data, and the like. In some examples, based on the evaluation, one or more data feeds may be removed (e.g., data might not be received), one or more alerts may be generated or dismissed, alerts generated for potential threats may be prioritized (e.g., alerts generated based on data from more accurate feeds are prioritized over alerts generated based on data from less accurate feeds).
US11115439B2	Automated security solutions identification and architecture design Systems, apparatuses, and methods directed to security enhancement. One or more remote data sources may be accessed to retrieve remote data associated with security for a computing architecture. An input model of an input network security architecture may be identified. One or more user-based constraints may be identified. An output model may be automatically generated based on the input model, the remote data and the one or more user-based constraints. The output model is an output network security architecture that complies with the one or more user-based constraints.
US11115436B2	Footprint data to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks Systems and methods are disclosed for preventing relay or replay attacks using time-stamped, localized footprint data. An access device may receive, from one or more beacon transmitters, a plurality of broadcast messages, each broadcast message, of the plurality of broadcast messages, comprising a timestamp and a unique identifier for a beacon transmitter, of the one or more beacon transmitters. The access device may store the timestamps and the unique identifiers. The access device may receive, from a user device, an access request comprising timestamps and unique identifiers corresponding to a subset of the broadcast messages received by the access device. The access device may verify that the stored timestamps and unique identifiers match the timestamps and unique identifiers received from the user device. Based on the verifying, the access device may authenticate the access request.
US11115434B2	Computerized system and method for securely distributing and exchanging cyber-threat information in a standardized format Computerized systems and methods for sharing identified cyber-threat information in a standardized and secure format. The sharing of cyber-threat information assists in preventing malicious actors from replicating successful cyber-attacks by informing potential targets of the methods employed by the malicious actors, and the defensive measures that those targets should to implement to prevent those methods from succeeding. By distributing cyber-threat information in a standardized format, the systems and methods enable participating entities to automatically analyze and implement defensive measures for cyber-threat information shared by any other participating entities. The systems and methods also permit an entity to control which threat information it shares and which other entities it shares it with in a secure manner in order to preserve that entity's security and reputation.
US11115432B2	Multi-application recommendation engine for a remote network management platform A remote network management platform may include persistent storage containing: (i) data related to a managed network, and (ii) a persona of a user. The remote network management platform may also include a platform application associated with a web-based user interface and using a portion of the data. The remote network management platform may also include a recommendation engine with access to a set of rules or a machine learning (ML) model corresponding to the platform application. The recommendation engine may be configured to: (i) read, from the persistent storage, the portion of the data and the persona; (ii) apply, to the portion of the data and the persona, the set of rules or the ML model to generate one or more recommendations; and (iii) transmit, by way of the web-based user interface and to the user, representations of the one or more recommendations.
US11115429B2	Device and network classification based on probabilistic model Programmatic mechanisms that enable the automatic assignment of categories to network entities based on observed evidence. Agents gather observation data that identifies observations made by agents about the network and a plurality of nodes of the network. The agents provide the observation data to a classification module, which assigns a device category to the nodes of the network based on the observation data and a probabilistic node model. The probabilistic node model considers several probabilities to ascertain a recommended device category for a particular node, such as probabilities based on a manufacturer of a node, an operating system executing on a node, information about other nodes in the local vicinity of a node, and an administrator web page associated with a node. The classification module may also assign a particular network category to the network based on the observation data and a probabilistic network model.
US11115427B2	Monitoring device, monitoring method, and monitoring program An acquiring unit acquires a packet indicating flow information that is output by a network device at a predetermined sampling rate, and a determining unit determines as abnormal, for each of predetermined traffic patterns, when a sampling error rate is equal to or lower than a predetermined upper limit value and the number of packets acquired in a predetermined count period preceding from a current time or an average value of the number of packets per unit time is equal to or higher than a predetermined detection threshold.
US11115426B1	Distributed packet capture for network anomaly detection Distributed packet capture for network anomaly detection may be provided. An anomaly may be detected at a first network device of a plurality of network devices. One or more target network devices of the plurality of network devices may be identified based on a property associated with the anomaly. A set of packets may be received from the one or more target network devices. A source of the anomaly may be determined based on the received set of packets.
US11115424B2	Computerized system for complying with certain critical infrastructure protection requirements A computerized system for complying with critical infrastructure protection (“CIP”) standards concerning system configuration changes. The system can be used to automatically identify and track changes to computers on the network, improving system security and CIP compliance reporting. In certain embodiments, the system collects system information on servers and workstations using built-in commands. The configuration profiles of these computers/devices can be archived for audit purposes.
US11115422B2	Systems for providing electronic items having customizable locking mechanism A method for providing a locked electronic item includes receiving a selection of an electronic lock and the electronic item from a first computing device associated with a sender. The electronic lock includes a lock clue and a lock solution. The method includes determining an answer input field configuration that includes a number of input boxes and spaces that may be arranged to correspond to the lock solution. The method includes transmitting the lock clue and the input field configuration to a second computing device associated with a recipient for display by the second computing device and receiving an attempted lock solution from the second computing device. The method further includes transmitting the electronic item to the second computing device for display or use by the second computing device in response to determining that the attempted lock solution matches the lock solution.
US11115420B2	Distributed ledger data verification network A system and method for verifying users are disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a server computer, from a first authorizing entity computer, an indication of a first hash of information about the user. The first authorizing entity computer has previously verified the user and stored the first hash in a first database. The server computer stores a location of the first hash in a location database. Then the server computer receives from a second authorizing entity computer a verification request message including a second hash of information about the user and retrieves the first hash from the first database using the location. The server computer compares the first hash to the second hash to determine if the hashes match. After determining that the hashes match, the server computer sends a verification response message to the second authorizing entity computer, indicating that the user was previously verified.
US11115419B2	Identity attribute confidence scoring while certifying authorization claims An identity management system is augmented to compute a time-varying confidence score for an asserted attribute value, typically a value that is received from a third party identity issuer. In this approach, an identity provider (IdP) computes a time-varying confidence score for an asserted attribute that the IdP includes in a security assertion returned to a service provider. The confidence score typically is “deteriorating” (i.e., diminishes over time) for an attribute value. The degree to which the score deteriorates, however, may be altered by one or more qualified attribute verification event(s). Preferably, the IdP maintains a profile of the service provider, and that profile may also include other information, such as a threshold for an attribute confidence score that the SP deems acceptable (to enable access to the service). Based on the SP profiling, the IdP also can recommend use of a given identity issuer for a specific attribute.
US11115417B2	Secured access control to cloud-based applications A method and proxy device for securing an access to a cloud-based application are presented. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving an authentication token that includes an identity of a user of a client device requesting an access to the cloud-based application. The method further includes receiving, from an agent executed in the client device, a client certificate; retrieving, from a compliance server, a device posture of the client device, wherein the device posture is retrieved respective of the received client certificate; identifying an access policy for the client device to access the cloud-based application, and determining whether to grant an access to the cloud-based application based in part on the compliance of the client device with the identified access policy. In an embodiment, the access policy is identified based at least on the retrieved device posture.
US11115415B2	Method and system to capture and find information and relationships A method and system to improve the computer in light of the global information network with numerous computer devices services, and apps, so that a user can capture and find information with high security and usability. The invention makes all information potentially searchable on the Internet, and distinguishes finding the existence of an object of information from its access, and the ability for a searcher to request access to an object that is not permitted, and to enable the object owner to approve requests.
US11115412B2	Anonymous association system utilizing biometrics Various exemplary embodiments relate to an anonymous database system. The system includes a plurality of biometric nodes in communication with one another. Each of the plurality of biometric nodes includes a biometric input that receives biometric data from a user. The system also includes at least one central database in communication with the plurality of biometric nodes; and a plurality of institution databases in communication with the plurality of biometric nodes. A first node of the plurality of biometric nodes is configured to receive a message from a second node of the plurality of biometric nodes, the message requesting authorization of data access by the second node. Various embodiments relate to a method for performing an action requiring multiple levels of authentication using an anonymous database system.
US11115411B2	Compute node and method of setting up a cloud cluster A method of setting up a cloud cluster is disclosed as providing at least one compute node with a baseboard management controller (BMC), the BMC of the compute node receiving secured information and using the secured information to establish communication with a cloud controller. Upon establishing the communication, the compute node then receives a cloud operating system (OS) image from the cloud controller via the BMC of the compute node. Finally, the cloud OS image is written to a host system in the compute node. A compute node is also disclosed.
US11115407B2	Client side OTP generation method A client-server security architecture is disclosed that uses a masked grid, a seed, and mutual unlocking techniques to authentication a client device with a server machine using a one-time code (OTC). The client device in the client-server architecture stores a masked grid that is used to unlock an authentication code using a seed. Once mutually unlocked, the client device may generate an OTC to attempt to authenticate the client device with a server machine. The server machine validates that OTC with the OTC stored at the server to confirm they match. Each subsequent access may repeat the aforementioned steps. Moreover, in a multi-device ecosystem, a plurality of client devices may leverage a primary client device to connect with the server machine. For example, one or more subordinate client devices may connect to the primary client device to then tunnel through to the server machine in a secure manner.
US11115406B2	System for security analysis and authentication Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for security analysis and authentication. The system can analyze, using a deep neural network machine learning system, historical one time password (“OTP”) information, historical information, historical malfeasance information, and historical information for a plurality of users to determine available OTPs. When an authentication request is received, one of the available OTPs is randomly or variedly selected and the user is prompted to provide information along with a response for the OTP. The received information is analyzed against the historical information and an OTP signature is generated for the user. This OTP signature is used to determine whether the user is authenticated for one or more authentication elements.
US11115405B2	Sharing access to a media service Examples provided herein are directed to a computing device and media playback system sharing access to a media service corresponding to a media application installed on the computing device. In one example, a media playback system may be configured to (i) receive from the computing device an authorization code that corresponds to a media application installed on the computing device that is authorized to access media from a media service, (ii) transmit to the media service an authorization request with the authorization code, (iii) receive from the media service an authorization token that facilitates obtaining media from the media service, and (iv) transmit to the media service a request for media for playback by the media playback system, where the request for media includes the authorization token.
US11115402B2	System and method for facilitating multi-connection-based authentication In certain embodiments, first and second challenge responses may be obtained at a computer system from a client device respectively via first and second connections between the computer system and the client device. The challenge responses may each be generated based on a same private key stored in a secure local storage at the client device. Confirmation of identification information associated with an entity, to which the private key corresponds, may be obtained based on information obtained from the client device via the first connection. Information obtained from the client device via the second connection may be authenticated based on (i) the obtained confirmation via the first connection and (ii) verification of the first and second challenge responses obtained respectively via the first and second connections.
US11115401B2	Administration portal for simulated single sign-on A system manages security policy data used to provide access by a user to third-party applications without revealing sign-on credentials to the user. The system includes an access management server that hosts an administration portal for configuring the security policy data. The security policy data includes, for each user, a list of applications to which the user may request access and the corresponding sign-on credentials for accessing each of the applications. In response to inputs provided at the administration portal, the system associates applications with credentials and subsequently associates the credentials with a user. Before these associations are used to update the security policy data, a request for confirmation of user permission is sent to a permission server, which stores current permission data for users. If permission for the user is confirmed, security policy data is updated according to the associations provided via the administration portal.
US11115398B2	Methods and devices for preserving relative timing and ordering of data packets in a network A packet network includes packet engines that perform packet handling. Cipher engines are provided separately from the packet engines for encryption and/or authentication operations. To preserve relative timing and ordering of data packets, a packet engine performs pre-shaping of data traffic, wherein the packet engine inserts dummy packets into a data flow. The packet engine provides the pre-shaped data traffic to a cipher engine.
US11115397B2	System and methods for point to point encryption and tokenization in a hosted environment Mechanisms for providing point to point encryption and tokenization enabling decryption, tokenization and storage of sensitive encrypted data on one system are discussed.
US11115394B2	Methods and systems for encrypting data for a web application Embodiments provide methods, and systems for encrypting data for web aplication. A method includes receiving, by a server system, a cryptographic certificate including asymmetric key pair. The method includes generating a random value key that forms at least a part of a Content Encryption Key (CEK) to be generated by a web application. The method includes sending the random value key to a client device running the web application over a secure network communication channel for generating the CEK. The CEK is to be utilized for encrypting a content entered by a user of the web application on the client device and the CEK is encrypted using a public key of the asymmetric key pair for transmission over the secure network communication channel. Furthermore, the method includes translating, the CEK encrypted under public key to CEK encrypted under LMK using a private key being part of the asymmetric key pair.
US11115393B2	Message server, method for operating message server and computer-readable recording medium One or more example embodiments include user terminals, methods, and/or computer-readable recording mediums storing computer programs, in which information encrypted or decrypted not to be decoded by a message server that controls transmission and reception of messages between one or more user terminals is not shared with the message server. One or more example embodiments include user terminals, methods, and/or computer-readable recording mediums storing computer programs, which encrypt a first message by using an encryption key, transmit the first message from a first user terminal to a second user terminal, and decrypt a second message received from the second user terminal by using the encryption key.
US11115392B1	Consumer-authorized controlled distribution of trusted source data Apparatus and associated methods relate to a 3rd Party Asset Verification module (3PAV module) embodied in a computer system configured to: (1) transmit a unique access code to at least one entity, the unique access code (1a) associated with a user and the user's asset information, and (1b) permits access to the user's asset information stored in the controlled access data store, and (2) in response to a request for data from a broadcasted receiver of the unique access code, the request including the unique access code, returning the user's asset information stored in the controlled access data store. In an illustrative example, the unique code may be generated upon the user providing authorization, over a network, for other parties to access the user's asset information. Various implementations may provide for secure and controlled access to the user's trusted asset data, which may increase efficiency in a consumer-dealer-lender transaction.
US11115391B2	Securing end-to-end virtual machine traffic A device may receive a packet from a first endpoint that is destined for a second endpoint. The first endpoint may be hosted on the device. The device may determine whether a secure session exists between the first endpoint and the second endpoint. The secure session may permit encrypted traffic to be exchanged between the first endpoint and the second endpoint. The device may process the packet using a set of rules after determining whether the secure session exists between the first endpoint and the second endpoint. The device may encrypt the packet using security information associated with the secure session after determining that the secure session exists, or establishing the secure session when the secure session does not exist. The device may provide the packet toward the second endpoint after encrypting the packet.
US11115389B2	Media access control security (MACsec) enabled links of a link aggregation group (LAG) A device may cause a Media Access Control Security (MACsec) session to be established on a first link of a link aggregation group (LAG) that includes a plurality of links with a different device. The device may cause a data structure to be updated to identify the first link as a MACsec enabled LAG link and may send traffic via the first link. The device may cause a MACsec session to be established on at least one additional link of the LAG and may cause the data structure to be updated to identify the at least one additional link as a MACsec enabled LAG link. The device may send, after causing the data structure to be updated to identify the at least one additional link as a MACsec enabled LAG link, additional traffic via the first link and the at least one additional link.
US11115382B2	Global objects for federated firewall rule management A method of defining distributed firewall rules in a group of datacenters is provided. Each datacenter includes a group of data compute nodes (DCNs). The method sends a set of security tags from a particular datacenter to other datacenters. The method, at each datacenter, associates a unique identifier of one or more DCNs of the datacenter to each security tag. The method associates one or more security tags to each of a set of security group at the particular datacenter and defines a set of distributed firewall rules at the particular datacenter based on the security tags. The method sends the set of distributed firewall rules from the particular datacenter to other datacenters. The method, at each datacenter, translates the firewall rules by mapping the unique identifier of each DCN in a distributed firewall rule to a corresponding static address associated with the DCN.
US11115381B1	Hybrid and efficient method to sync NAT sessions The method of some embodiments synchronizes NAT records between an active gateway and a standby gateway. The active gateway encodes a NAT record that includes at least an external source IP address. The encoded NAT record does not include the external source IP address but does include an identifier that uniquely specifies the external source IP address. The active gateway sends the encoded NAT record to the standby gateway.
US11115378B2	Traffic flow control using domain name A computer-implemented system and method for automated traffic flow control using domain name for one or more devices enabled for connectivity over cellular network are disclosed. The computer-implemented method for automated traffic flow control using domain name for one or more devices enabled for connectivity includes receiving device information for the one or more devices; receiving domain name information for at least one domain name that the one or more devices are allowed to access; associating the at least one domain name with one or more internet protocol (IP) addresses; monitoring the at least one domain for change in the one or more IP addresses for that domain; and updating the one or more IP addresses of the domain name if any change in the one or more IP addresses for that domain is found.
US11115372B2	Universal actionable notifications A notification service may act as an intermediary between message channels and/or other sources of actionable notifications and/or action items contained in messages, aggregating actionable notifications for a given recipient across multiple message channels and/or across multiple tools or services, sending notification messages with selectable response options to the recipient in a unified format, and processing the user's responses, e.g., by transmitting the responses back to the applicable sources.
US11115369B1	Transmitting near real-time geographic mass messaging requests Systems and methods for transmitting near real-time geographic mass messaging requests. One example method includes receiving a geographic mass messaging request via a transceiver, the geographic mass messaging request including a message, a geographic reference, and a requesting agency identifier, and having at least one request characteristic. The method includes assigning, with an electronic processor, a priority to the geographic mass messaging request based on an electronically stored alerting authority policy and at least one selected from the group consisting of the requesting agency identifier, the geographic reference, and the at least one request characteristic. The method includes, responsive to determining that the priority does not meet a priority threshold, transmitting one of a request denied message and a request modification proposal via the transceiver to the requesting agency.
US11115368B2	Systems and methods for intelligent application notification management Intelligent application notification management is provided. A state machine on a communication device is used to retain, sequence, and handle notifications included in a notification queue. It is determined whether a new notification has been received and whether the new notification can be added to a notification queue based on a maximum number of notifications. It may be determined whether the new notification is a duplicate of an existing notification in the notification queue. Notifications in the queue may be combined, reordered, and altered. The notification queue may be modified based on one or more of the following: an attribute, user input, user preference, a system state, or whether an application to which the notification is related is currently active. The notification management system may therefore decide which of the notifications to display and when to display them, such that notifications are presented logically and a user is not overwhelmed.
US11115364B2	System and method for regulating electronic message transmissions Systems and methods for regulating electronic messages transmissions. A message delay system is disposed between one or more first entities and a second entity within at least one network. Electronic messages are received from among at least one the first entities and the second entity at one or more message arrival times. A message delay component applies a delay to each received electronic message, based on a predefined delay time common to all of the first entities and a first entity delay offset associated with a first entity that is associated with the received message. The first entity delay offset is based on a geographical origin of the first entity relative to a geographical origin of the second entity. Each delayed message is transmitted to a designated recipient via the network, where the designated recipient is among the second entity and the first entities.
US11115363B1	Utilizing encrypted ephemeral messages to modify ephemeral message duration settings The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for dynamically controlling ephemeral messaging threads and ephemeral message duration settings across computing devices while improving security by maintaining end-to-end encryption. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems can transmit encrypted ephemeral messages, including ephemeral message duration settings and ephemeral setting timestamps. The disclosed systems can decrypt received messages on receiving client devices and dynamically apply ephemeral message duration settings to different message threads. For example, the disclosed systems can modify existing duration settings at a receiving client device to match a received ephemeral message duration setting based on determining that the received ephemeral setting timestamp predates an existing setting timestamp. Further, the disclosed systems can apply the ephemeral message duration setting to delete ephemeral messages from an ephemeral message thread.
US11115356B2	Emoji recommendation system and method A system includes a memory and at least one processor to receive text from a client computing device, the text received one character at a time, as each character of the text is received, determine a recommendation in real-time to be added to the text based on at least one of a list of rules, word embedding, an n-gram model, and a co-occurrence model, the recommendation comprising at least one of a word, a list of hashtags, a quotation, and a list of emojis, and send the recommendation to the client computing device.
US11115355B2	Information display method, apparatus, and devices An information display method, and apparatus, and devices are provided. The method includes providing an information editing interface; receiving a first type of information input by a user in the information editing interface; obtaining a second type of information corresponding to the first type of information, wherein the second type of information is translation information of the first type of information; and displaying the second type of information in the information editing interface. By adopting the technical solutions of the present disclosure, when the user inputs information in the information editing interface, the information input by the user may be synchronously translated, the translated information is displayed to the user by the information editing interface, so during the process when the user inputs the information, the translation information of the then-input information may be seen in real time, and the translation information may be modified, thereby improving user experience.
US11115351B2	Managing email content in an activity stream Managing email content in an activity stream includes receiving a selection of a number of criteria that indicate content to be presented in an activity stream, retrieving email content based on the number of criteria, and displaying the email content in an activity stream by referencing email data related to the metadata.
US11115349B2	Method and apparatus for routing between fibre channel fabrics An interfabric link between two separate Fibre Channel fabrics so that devices in one fabric can communicate with devices in another fabric without requiring the merger of the two fabrics. The interfabric switch performs a conversion or a translation of device addresses in each fabric so that they are accessible to the other fabric. This translation is preferably done using a private to public loop address translation. In a first embodiment the external ports of the interfabric switch are configured as E_ports. A series of internal ports in each interfabric switch are joined together forming a series of virtual or logical switches. The virtual switches are then interconnected using private loops. The use of the private loop is enabled by the presence of translation logic which converts fabric addresses to loop addresses and back so that loop and fabric devices can communicate. Because each port can do this translation and the private loop addressing does not include domain or area information, the change in addresses between the fabrics is simplified. In a second embodiment the external ports are configured as NL_ports and the connections between the virtual switches are E_ports. Thus the private to public and public to private translations are done at the external ports rather than the internal ports as in the prior embodiment. The virtual switches in the interfabric switch match domains with their external counterparts so that the virtual switches effectively form their own fabric, connected to the other fabrics by the private loops.
US11115344B2	Computerized methods and systems for migrating cloud computer services Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with migrating instances of services are described. In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining a first zone of computing resources used to host an instance of a service. The example method may also include routing access requests to the instance. The example method may also include constructing a pre-provisioned instance of the service within a second zone. The pre-provisioned instance comprises a computing environment of computing resources of the second zone and executable code of an application stack of the service. The example method may also include provisioning the pre-provision instance as a migrated instance by executing the executable code of the application stack in response to a request to migrate the instance. The example method may also include routing subsequent access requests to the migrated instance.
US11115343B2	Transport layer providing deterministic transport across multiple deterministic data links In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a transport layer executed by a processor circuit in an apparatus, a flow of application data having been originated by an executable application; storing, by the transport layer, the application data as transport layer packets in a buffer circuit in the apparatus, each transport layer packet having a corresponding transport sequence identifier identifying a corresponding position of the transport layer packet relative to a transmit order of the transport layer packets; and causing, by the transport layer, a plurality of deterministic network interface circuits to deterministically retrieve the transport layer packets, in the transmit order, from the buffer circuit for deterministic transmission across respective deterministic links, the transport sequence identifiers enabling a destination transport layer to recover the transmit order of the transport layer following the deterministic transmission across the deterministic links, regardless of order of reception by the destination transport layer.
US11115339B2	Network congestion control method, device, and system Embodiments of the present invention provide a network congestion control method, a device, and a system. The method includes: receiving a first congestion control message, where the first congestion control message carries a 5-tuple of a packet that causes congestion; obtaining a flow identifier of the packet based on the 5-tuple of the packet that causes the congestion; generating a second congestion control message, where the second congestion control message carries the flow identifier corresponding to the 5-tuple; and sending the second congestion control message to a source node of the packet. In the embodiments of the present invention, a network congestion problem of a layer 3 IP network can be resolved.
US11115338B2	Intelligent conversion of internet domain names to vector embeddings A method of and system for converting domain names to a vector space embedding may include receiving data relating to internet traffic over a network, organizing the data into one or more documents that make up a training dataset, each of the one or more documents including one or more Domain Name Server (DNS) queries, providing the training dataset to a deep neural network to generate at least one vector space embedding for one or more domain names, and providing the vector space embedding as an output.
US11115337B2	Network traffic segregation on an application basis in a virtual computing environment The technology disclosed herein enables segregation of network traffic on an application basis. In a particular embodiment, a method is performed in a virtual network interface for a first guest Operating System (OS) executing on a host and includes receiving guest data packets from the first guest OS. The method further includes associating the guest data packets with respective ones of a plurality of applications executing within the first guest OS and separating the guest data packets into respective ones of a plurality of application port interfaces each corresponding to at least one of the plurality of applications. The method also includes passing the guest data packets to a host network interface using the plurality of application port interfaces.
US11115334B1	Optimized network latency using in-band telemetry An apparatus for reporting node congestion of a queue of an egress port and changing to a different queue is disclosed. The apparatus includes a network node that includes a controller. The controller is configured to determine a level of congestion of a designated queue of an egress port of the network node in a communication pathway between a sending host sending data packets to a receiving host in response to receiving a telemetry packet seeking telemetry data for packets being transmitted between the sending host and the receiving host. The designated queue is designated for queuing data packets for the egress port. The controller is configured to add the level of congestion to the telemetry packet in response to determining that the level of congestion indicates that the designated queue is congested and to transmit the telemetry packet to a next destination on the communication pathway.
US11115333B2	Single stage look up table based match action processor for data packets A packet sub-engine coupled to a packet buffer determines which of multiple look up tables (LUTs) is to be searched for a matching entry that matches a received data packet. Each LUT corresponds to a different type of packet handling action and includes multiple entries, each with a match field and a corresponding collection of one or more actions for handling packets that match the match field. The packet sub-engine searches the determined LUT for a matching entry, processes the received data packet according to the action(s) in the matching entry, and determines whether a further LUT is to be searched for a further matching entry. The processed data packet is provided as an output if no further LUT is to be searched, or otherwise the packet sub-engine searches the further LUT and further processes the processed packet according to the action(s) in the further matching entry.
US11115329B1	Multicast subscription in MLDP network with BIER core This disclosure describes a method usable in a network that has a combination of mLDP-capable and BIER-capable devices. The disclosed method includes advertising, by an mLDP-capable multicast source, an indication of a BIER edge router that it has determined is usable as a path between the BIER devices and the mLDP-capable multicast source. A provider edge router can include in a multicast join message both an indication of the mLDP-capable multicast source as well as the indication of the BIER router advertised as being usable as the path to the mLDP-capable multicast source. The BIER devices can communicate with each other to pass a multicast join message to the BIER edge router that is indicated as being usable as the path to the mLDP-capable multicast source.
US11115327B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing mobile device connectivity Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing mobile device connectivity are disclosed. A system includes a mobile gateway implemented on one or more processors. The mobile gateway includes an on-premises telecommunications network core configured for establishing mobile data sessions for mobile user devices and enabling communication between the mobile user devices through the on-premises telecommunications network core. The mobile gateway includes a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) controller configured for establishing an SD-WAN overlay network for connecting the mobile user devices to an external telecommunications network.
US11115323B2	Securing Layer-3 virtual private network A data packet from a sub-virtual routing and forwarding (sub-VRF) in a virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) is received. The VRF includes more than one sub-VRF. A value in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attribute attached to the data packet is determined. Based on the value in the BGP attribute, whether to route the data packet to a different sub-VRF in the VRF is determined.
US11115313B1	Analysis of transmission characteristics in a voice-over-IP network Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses and methods for providing Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a first network node configured to communicate VoIP-packets between upstream and downstream network nodes in a network and to communicate metadata with at least one of the VoIP packets downstream in the network. The apparatus also includes a second network node configured to receive the set of metadata and at least one VoIP packet, and communicate the at least one of the VoIP packet further downstream in the network. The second network node is also configured to send a response packet upstream in response to receiving the metadata. A network pathway assessment module is configured to derive, from the response packet a latency corresponding to the VoIP-packets communicated along a pathway between the first network node and the second network node.
US11115312B1	File control for data packet routers using consensus and inter-planetary file system (IPFS) A data packet router uses Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS) and consensus to control file modifications. The router routes data packets based on a networking file. The router modifies the networking file. The router generates a new IPFS object from the modified networking file. The router obtains consensus on the new IPFS object from neighbor routers. The routers use previously approved IPFS objects to retrieve topology data and achieve consensus on the modified networking file based on the topology data. In response to the consensus, the router routes data packets based on the modified networking file.
US11115311B1	Data tunneling for testing equipment in electric power system The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for creating a data tunnel to communicate test data in a test configuration in an electric power system. In one embodiment, a remote unit may include a monitored equipment interface to receive information representative of a condition in the electric power system from a test set and a first test data port to communicate test data through the data tunnel in the test configuration. The remote unit may use a first communication subsystem to generate and transmit a stream of data packets comprising information from the monitored equipment interface and information from the first test data port to be routed through the data tunnel. A protection system may receive the stream of data packets from the first communication subsystem and separate information from the monitored equipment interface and information from the test data routed through the data tunnel.
US11115310B2	Multi-level data channel and inspection architectures having data pipes in parallel connections Aspects of the disclosure relate to inspecting a data stream. Some aspects include conveying the data stream through a multi-level data channel and inspection architecture. The architecture includes a multi-level data pipeline. The pipeline includes a plurality of parallel pipes. The output of one pipe provides an input to a successive one of the pipes. The method further includes receiving the data stream at an upstream portion of the pipeline and inspecting data in the data stream for converting the data stream into inspected data. The method then outputs inspected data at a downstream portion of the pipeline. Each of the pipes inspect the data on a different level of data channel inspection than the other pipes. Each level of data channel inspection has data attributes and/or metadata extracting capabilities. Each pipe transfer data packets at greater than or equal to a threshold data transfer rate.
US11115304B2	Transfer device and frame transfer method To include an FCS code calculation unit to calculate a first code that is an FCS code of a received frame, an FCS check unit to compare the first code with a second code that is an FCS code stored in the received frame, and to output a first comparison result indicating a match or no match between two codes, an inverse FCS check unit to compare the first code with a third code obtained by inverting each bit of the second code, and to output a second comparison result indicating a match or no match between two codes, an error determination unit to determine an error state of the received frame, and an FCS update unit to update, if the second comparison result indicates no match, the second code with a fourth code obtained by inverting each bit of the first code.
US11115301B1	Presenting realized state of multi-site logical network Some embodiments provide a method for collecting data regarding realized state associated with a logical network spanning multiple physical sites. At a global manager that manages a logical network, the method receives a request to collect realized state for a set of one or more logical network elements, each of which spans a set of two or more physical sites. Each physical site is managed by a local manager. For each of the logical network elements, the method identifies the set of physical sites spanned by the logical network element. For each of the logical network elements, the method sends requests for realized state of the logical network element to the local manager of each identified physical site spanned by the logical network element. The method generates a report for presentation from the realized states received from the local managers.
US11115300B2	Anomaly detection and reporting in a network assurance appliance Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for detecting and reporting anomalies in a network environment for providing network assurance. In some embodiments, a system can determine confidence scores for at least one value of parameters of a network environment defining network events occurring in the network environment. The confidences scores can indicate a frequency that the defined network events have a specific event state. The confidence scores can be monitored to detect an anomaly in the network environment. In response to detecting the anomaly in the network environment, the system can determine a relevant network state of the network environment. The relevant network state of the network environment and the anomaly in the network environment can be presented to a user.
US11115299B1	Synthetic resource records Provided are methods and systems for using synthetic resource records to configure and manage web applications and various online services. A user is provided with the ability to setup a single synthetic resource record for their domain such that all of the associated dependent resource records are automatically configured and added to the domain as well. The methods and systems provided utilize synthetic resource records as a way of logically grouping resource records into “human readable” sets of resource records. Through synthetic resource records, users are able to address common configuration issues without having to know the technical specifications of associated zone files or resource records. Additionally, users can complete a variety of configuration tasks related to setting-up web applications without having to look-up resource record values from external sites (e.g., from the domain host).
US11115296B2	Control unit for displaying a load of a networking cable Provided is a control unit for displaying a network load sustained on a networking cable. The control unit requests a current network load of the networking cable from a monitoring circuit. The control unit receives the current network load from the monitoring circuit. The control unit instructs a visual indicator to display the current network load of the networking cable.
US11115293B2	Networked programmable logic service provider Methods and apparatus are disclosed for programming reconfigurable logic devices such as FPGAs in a networked server environment. In one example, a system hosting a network service providing field programmable gate array (FPGA) services includes a network service provider configured to receive a request to implement application logic in a plurality of FPGAs, allocate a computing instance comprising the FPGAs in responses to receiving the request, produce configuration information for programming the FPGAs, and send the configuration information to an allocated computing instance. The system further includes a computing host that is allocated by the network service provider as a computing instance which includes memory, processors configured to execute computer-executable instructions stored in the memory, and the programmed FPGAs.
US11115290B2	Network monitoring of time synchronization protocols using convolutional neural networks A device and method monitor integrity of a communication network. A local clock maintains a local time. A network interface receives time synchronization packets and associates with each the local time of receipt at the network interface. A processing system implements a neural network for classifying whether integrity of the communication network is compromised from originate, receive, and transmit values determined from the time synchronization packets. The originate value is a difference between the local time of the receipt of the request packet and a transmission timestamp of the request packet. The receive value is a difference between a reception timestamp of the request packet or the reply packet and the local time of the receipt of the request packet or the reply packet. The transmit value is a difference between the local time of the receipt of the reply packet and a transmission timestamp of the reply packet.
US11115285B2	Device detection A Software Defined Network (SDN) controller receives a detecting packet reported by a first switch and initiated by a first device. The SDN controller sends, for each of switches having an SDN connection with the SDN controller, the detecting packet and information of all downlink ports of the switch to the switch in a way that the switch is capable of sending the detecting packet through the downlink port. The SDN controller receives a response packet which is sent by a second switch and initially generated by a second device in response to receiving the detecting packet from the second switch, wherein an IP address of the second device matches a destination IP address of the detecting packet. The SDN controller sends forwarding configuration information to the second switch in a way that the second switch is capable of configuring a port through which the response packet is received.
US11115282B2	Apparatus and measurement method for identifying network devices An apparatus for identifying network devices comprises a data acquisition unit that receives data from a multiplicity of network devices. It also comprises an interpretation unit that extracts identification data from the data and determines which of the multiplicity of network devices has sent the received data. A similarity of measured data of a physical clock to a predefined pattern and/or to previously measured data of the physical clock is analysed as a first criterion of an association of received data. In addition, at least one further criterion of an association of received data can be analysed among the identification data.
US11115278B2	Learning by inference from brownfield deployments The present technology provides a system, method and computer-readable medium for configuration pattern recognition and inference, directed to a device with an existing configuration, through an extensible policy framework. The policy framework uses a mixture of python template logic and CLI micro-templates as a mask to infer the intent behind an existing device configuration in a bottom-up learning inference process. Unique values for device/network identifiers and addresses as well as other resources are extracted and accounted for. The consistency of devices within the fabric is checked based on the specific policies built into the extensible framework definition. Any inconsistencies found are flagged for user correction or automatically remedied by a network controller. This dynamic configuration pattern recognition ability allows a fabric to grow without being destroyed and re-created, thus new devices with existing configurations may be added and automatically configured to grow a Brownfield fabric.
US11115277B1	Mesh network resiliency Mesh network resiliency technology, in which a first routing configuration for nodes of a mesh network is determined, the first routing configuration being appropriate when a first power source of the mesh network is available. Routing data that indicates routing responsibilities within the first routing configuration is provided to first nodes of the mesh network. An interruption of the first power source for the mesh network is detected by nodes of the mesh network. In response to detecting the interruption, a second routing configuration for nodes of the mesh network is determined, the second routing configuration being appropriate when the first power source of the mesh network is unavailable. Routing data that indicates routing responsibilities within the second configuration is provided to second nodes of the mesh network, each of the second nodes including a second power source that is different than the first power source.
US11115274B2	Upgrading of a mobile network function A traffic handling decision method, a network entity, a computer readable medium, and a traffic handling decision apparatus relate to upgrading a network service function within a mobile communication network. In this context the traffic handling decision apparatus distributes incoming request of the control plane to instances implementing the mobile network function either according to the current software version or an upgraded software version.
US11115269B1	System and method for updating an application for a population of computers A system and method for managing a population of devices and in particular, software updates and version control of applications across the population includes permitting a first device to receive an update from a publisher and generating an update manifest that is propagated to other devices in the population. Applications within a population of devices are selectively disabled and enabled to prevent multiple update versions of the same application across the population.
US11115265B2	Method of wireless discovery and networking of medical devices in care environments A system for automatically establishing a network. The system includes a main device group including a main wireless transceiver device, a control device and a first network interface and a secondary device group including a secondary wireless transceiver device, a secondary device group slave device and a second network interface. The main wireless transceiver device wirelessly communicating with the secondary wireless transceiver device to instruct the main device group and the secondary device group to form a network wherein the control device communicates with the secondary device group slave device over the first network interface and the second network interface, respectively. The control device wirelessly controls functions of the secondary device group slave device with instructions sent over the network. The main wireless transceiver device only wirelessly communicates with the secondary wireless transceiver device when the main wireless transceiver device and the secondary wireless transceiver device are in a location.
US11115264B2	Apparatuses and methods involving managing port-address assignments An example apparatus for a local area network. The apparatus includes, at one of a plurality of logic nodes, a plurality of ports and a plurality of shared registers. The plurality of shared registers have a port address table to provide configurable port-address assignments that identify respective ones of the plurality of ports. The apparatus further includes a management interface controller that communicates with the plurality of ports and accesses at least one register via a selected one of the ports, and in response configures or manages the port-address assignments within the port address table.
US11115263B2	Intra-cluster node troubleshooting method and device Embodiments of this application relate to an intra-cluster node troubleshooting method and device. The method includes: obtaining fault detection topology information of a cluster, where the fault detection topology information includes a fault detection relationship between all nodes in the cluster; obtaining a fault indication message, where the fault indication message is used to indicate unreachability from a detection node to a detected node; determining a sub-cluster of the cluster based on the fault detection topology information and the fault indication message, where nodes that belong to different sub-clusters are unreachable to each other; and determining a working cluster based on the sub-cluster of the cluster. According to the embodiments of this application, available nodes in the cluster can be retained to a maximum extent at relatively low costs. In this way, a quantity of available nodes in the cluster is increased, high availability is ensured.
US11115258B2	Method to implicitly indicate system information in NR This disclosure pertains to a method for operating a network node (100) in a radio access network. The method comprises transmitting synchronisation signaling, the synchronisation signaling comprising a signaling sequence, the signaling sequence being determined as a combination of a number of sub-sequences, wherein an order of the sub-sequences is mapped to synchronisation information. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11115252B2	Signal transmission method and system Provided are a signal transmission method and system, which relates to wireless communications. The method includes: transmitting, by a first node, a first signal. The first signal comprises at least one of: at least one first structure, or at least one second structure. The first structure includes at least one symbol group, and the symbol group of the first structure includes a cyclic prefix and at least one symbol or includes a cyclic prefix, at least one symbol and a guard period. Each symbol group of the first structure occupies a same subcarrier or a same frequency resource in a frequency domain. The second structure includes at least one symbol group, and the symbol group of the second structure comprises a cyclic prefix and at least one symbol or includes a cyclic prefix, at least one symbol and a guard period. Each symbol group of the second structure occupies a same subcarrier or a same frequency resource in the frequency domain.
US11115246B2	Sampler offset calibration during operation Methods and systems are described for sampling a data signal using a data sampler operating in a data signal processing path having a decision threshold associated with a decision feedback equalization (DFE) correction factor, measuring an eye opening of the data signal by adjusting a decision threshold of a spare sampler operating outside of the data signal processing path to determine a center-of-eye value for the decision threshold of the spare sampler, initializing the decision threshold of the spare sampler based on the center-of-eye value and the DFE correction factor, generating respective sets of phase-error signals for the spare sampler and the data sampler responsive to a detection of a predetermined data pattern, and updating the decision threshold of the data sampler based on an accumulation of differences in phase-error signals of the respective sets of phase-error signals.
US11115242B2	Uplink multi-beam operation Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit, and a user equipment (UE) may receive, a downlink control signal indicating that an uplink control signal is to be transmitted using two or more transmission beams during different transmission time intervals (TTIs). The UE may identify the two or more transmission beams based at least in part on the downlink control signal, and may transmit a plurality of repetitions of an uplink signal on the two or more transmissions beams. Each repetition may be transmitted on a different TTI using a different one of the two or more transmission beams based at least in part on the downlink control signal.
US11115238B2	Gateway device Provided is a gateway device capable of reducing power consumption in a sleep state and relaying an activation signal between networks without delay. When receiving an activation signal, the gateway device according to the present invention transfers the activation signal to another network via a relay switch, and outputs a signal indicating the reception of the activation signal from a transceiver, thereby turning on a microcomputer.
US11115236B2	Subscriber station for a bus system and method for transmitting data in a bus system Subscriber-stations for a bus-system, and data-transmission method in a bus-system. The subscriber-stations include master-subscriber-station(s) and at least two slave-subscriber-stations for the bus-system. The master-subscriber-station includes a first-transceiver-device for sending/receiving a message to/from at least one slave-subscriber-station that is subordinate control-wise to the master-subscriber-station, via a first-sub-bus of the bus-system, a second-transceiver-device for sending/receiving a message to/from at least one other subscriber-station, via a second-sub-bus of the bus-system, a communication-control-device for creating the message to be sent or for evaluating a message received from one of the sub-buses of the bus-system, and a linking-device for linking a terminal of the first-transceiver-device that is for outputting of a signal generated from the message received from the first-sub-bus and a terminal of the second-transceiver-device for outputting a signal generated from the message received from the second-sub-bus, so that only one signal is forwarded, as a receive-signal, to a communication-control-device terminal.
US11115231B2	Appliance network with messaging An appliance, communication system, and method thereof for a communicating on a network including an appliance interactive display coupled to an appliance communication module. The appliance communication module is configured to receive a message having an embedded interactive element configured to operate a functionality of the appliance embedded into the message. The message further includes a non-interactive detail.
US11115228B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for individual profile telemetry discovery within a group based communication system Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for discovery of individual profile telemetry within a group-based communication system.
US11115220B2	Complete forward access sessions A system and method wherein an authentication request to verify authentication information submitted to a first system in connection with a first request submitted to the first system is received from the first system. A response to the authentication request is generated that includes information usable by a second system to make, without communicating with the authentication system, based at least in part on the information and one or more cryptographic processes, a determination whether fulfillment of a second request from the first system is allowable under authority of the authentication system, with the determination being based at least in part on policy information included in the information that specifies one or more policies applicable to an identity that is associated with the first request. The response generated is provided to the first system.
US11115215B2	Methods and devices of enabling authentication of a user of a client device over a secure communication channel based on biometric data In an aspect of the invention, a network node configured to enable authentication of a user of a client device based on biometric data captured by the client device is provided, which network node receives a request to authenticate a user of a client device, the authentication request comprising a user identifier, fetch at least one set of enrolled transformed biometric data corresponding to the user identifier and a secret feature transform key with which the biometric data was transformed at enrolment of the transformed biometric data at the network node, and submit the transformed biometric data and the secret feature transform key over a secure communication channel to the client device.
US11115213B1	Thwarting one-time password theft Thwarting one-time password (OTP) theft. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving, at a messaging application executing on the mobile device, a text message from a website that includes an original OTP. The method may also include encrypting, by the messaging application, the original OTP included in the text message to thwart theft of the original OTP from the text message.
US11115211B2	Secure container platform for resource access and placement on unmanaged and unsecured devices A first computing device receives a service access request to access a service provided by another computing device, the request including user authentication characteristics of a user. The first computing device forwards the service access request to the other computing device. The first computing device receives a user interface configuration file from the other computing device, that, when executed by the second computing device, enables the second computing device to display a user interface that provides access to the service. The first computing device modifies the user interface configuration file based on the user authentication characteristics to provide selective access to the service. The first computing device transmits the modified user interface configuration file to the second computing device, that, when executed by the second computing device, enables the second computing device to display a modified user interface that provides selective access to the service.
US11115203B2	System and method for securing personal information via biometric public key A device, method, and computer readable storage medium generate a biometric public key for an individual based on both the individual's biometric data and a secret, in a manner that verifiably characterizes both while tending to prevent recovery of either by anyone other than the individual. The biometric public key may be later used to authenticate a subject purporting to be the individual, using a computing facility that need not rely on a hardware root of trust. Such biometric public keys may be distributed without compromising the individual's biometric data. In operation, a confident subset of a set of biometric values of the subject is extracted, including by performing a transform of the set of biometric values. The transform may variously be a Gabor transform, a wavelet transform, processing by a machine learning system, etc.
US11115200B2	System, method, and apparatus for quantum key output, storage, and consistency verification A method for quantum key output is disclosed. The method can be implemented by a first quantum key management device. The method can comprise acquiring a first quantum key from a first quantum key distribution device, according to the obtained first key acquisition request, and storing the acquired first quantum key in a first management device address range in a first storage media, the first management device address range having the same address range indicator as a second management device address range in a second storage media for storing a corresponding second quantum key acquired by a second quantum key management device, wherein the address range indicator is one of a pair of head address and a tail address, a head address and a range length, or a head address and a length of one of the first quantum key or the second quantum key.
US11115192B2	Managing cryptographic keys based on identity information Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing cryptographic keys based on user identity information. One of the methods includes receiving biometric information associated with a user and a request to store a user key pair to a memory on an identity cryptographic chip (ICC); comparing the biometric information associated with the user with biometric information pre-stored in the memory as pre-stored biometric information; in response to determining that the biometric information associated with the user matches the pre-stored biometric information, encrypting the user key pair to provide an encrypted user key pair; and storing the encrypted user key pair to the memory.
US11115189B2	Verifying a blockchain-type ledger Implementations of this disclosure provide verification in a blockchain-type data storage ledger. An example method performed by a server includes receiving a verification request that includes a hash value to be verified; determining a data record of the blockchain-type data storage ledger that corresponds to the hash value to be verified; obtaining a value of a service attribute included in the data record; determining a set of data records of the blockchain-type storage ledger that correspond to the value of the service attribute in the blockchain-type data storage ledger; determining one or more data blocks of the blockchain-type data storage ledger that store data records included in the set of data records; and performing integrity verification on each one of the data blocks that store the data records included in the set of data records.
US11115186B2	Blockchain management platform for performing asset adjustment, cross sectional editing, and bonding Aspects of the disclosure relate to processing systems for performing cross-sectional asset editing. A computing platform may receive permission to perform a first subset of event processing steps. The computing platform may delegate permission to an external event processor to perform a second subset of event processing steps and to an external resource management platform to perform a third subset of event processing steps. The computing platform may generate an element chain corresponding to the account. In response to receiving a request to process an event, the computing platform may add a sub-element to the element chain containing a fixed parameter corresponding to an expected value associated with the event and a variable parameter corresponding to an actual value associated with the event. In response to receiving a request to write the actual value to the element chain, the computing platform may modify the variable parameter of the sub-element accordingly.
US11115184B2	Format preserving encryption with padding Techniques for using padding in format preserving encryption are provided. In one aspect, it may be determined if padding of a plaintext undergoing format preserving encryption is needed. A pseudo random padding length may be calculated when it is determined that padding is needed. The calculated length of padding may be added to the plaintext when it is determined that padding is needed. The plaintext and added padding may be encrypted using format preserving encryption to create a cipher text.
US11115183B2	Terminal device performing homomorphic encryption, server device processing ciphertext and methods thereof A decryption method includes: receiving a homomorphic ciphertext; and obtaining a result value added an error value at a message from the received homomorphic ciphertext. The error is disposed on the least significant bit (LSB) side in the homogeneous ciphertext, and the message is disposed at a position adjacent to the error.
US11115180B2	System and method for remote clock estimation for reliable communications An electronic device is provided including a processor, a communications interface coupled to the processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a module saved in the memory. The module configures the processor to receive a first communications packet from a remote device via the communications interface including information useful for estimating a clock offset of the remote device, and determine an upper bound of the clock offset of the remote device with respect to the electronic device based on the information.
US11115179B2	Signaling system with adaptive timing calibration A signaling system is disclosed. The signaling system includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chip to receive a data signal and a strobe signal. The first IC includes circuitry to sample the data signal at times indicated by the strobe signal to generate phase error information and circuitry to output the phase error information from the first IC device. The system further includes a signaling link and a second IC chip coupled to the first IC chip via the signaling link to output the data signal and the strobe signal to the first IC chip. The second IC chip includes delay circuitry to generate the strobe signal by delaying an aperiodic timing signal for a first time interval and timing control circuitry to receive the phase error information from the first IC chip and adjust the first time interval in accordance with the phase error information.
US11115178B1	Clock and data recovery device and clock and data recovery method A clock and data recovery device includes a phase detector circuitry, an analog modulation circuitry, a serial-to-parallel converter circuit, a digital modulation circuitry, and an oscillator circuit. The phase detector circuitry detects a data signal according to first and second clock signals to generate an up signal and a down signal. The analog modulation circuitry generates a first adjustment signal according to the up signal and the down signal. The serial-to-parallel converter circuit generates a first control signal according to the up signal, and to generate a second control signal according to the down signal. The digital modulation circuitry generates a digital code according to the first and the second control signals, and to generate a second adjustment signal according to the digital code. The oscillator circuit generates the first and the second clock signals according to the first adjustment signal and the second adjustment signal.
US11115176B1	System and method for adjusting clock-data timing in a multi-lane data communication link Clock-data timing in a multi-lane serial data communication link may be adjusted to compensate for drift. A reference lane may be selected and periodically trained to adjust clock-data timing. In response to initiation of a first lane transitioning from an active state to an inactive state, first information representing the clock-data timing of the reference lane at the time that transition is initiated may be determined. Then, in response to initiation of the first lane transitioning back from the inactive state to the active state, second information representing the clock-data timing of the reference lane at the time that transition is initiated may be determined. The clock-data timing of the first lane may be adjusted based on the first information and the second information.
US11115175B2	Narrowband time-division duplex frame structure for narrowband communications There is a need to support narrowband TDD frame structure for narrowband communications. The present disclosure provides a solution by supporting one or more narrowband TDD frame structure(s) for narrowband communications. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may determine a narrowband TDD frame structure for narrowband communications. The apparatus may also determine a PUSCH format of a group of PUSCH formats for allocating at least one RU to a UE for a NPUCCH. In addition, the apparatus may allocate the at least one RU to the UE using the determined PUSCH format. In one aspect, the RU may include one or more subcarriers in each of one or more slots.
US11115174B2	Base station, user terminal, radio communication system, and communication control method A radio communication system includes one or more user terminals and one or more base stations that execute time division radio communication using a time division duplex (TDD) system. A radio frame is a radio communication resource used in the time division radio communication, and includes a downlink subframe that is a transmission period of a downlink signal, a special subframe including a guard period that is used neither for transmission of a downlink signal nor for transmission of an uplink signal, and an extended subframe that is used as either a transmission period of a downlink signal or a transmission period of an uplink signal, in accordance with a scheduling by the base station.
US11115173B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting demodulation reference signal In the present invention, a part of a first demodulation reference signal sequence generated on the basis of a basic subcarrier interval (hereinafter, a first subcarrier interval) is used for a second subcarrier interval which is K times the first subcarrier interval. Values selected one for every K from among values constituting the first demodulation reference signal sequence may be used as values constituting a second demodulation reference signal sequence for the second subcarrier interval.
US11115170B2	Techniques for adjusting clear channel assessment (CCA) window for transmissions in a shared radio frequency spectrum band Techniques and devices are described for wireless communication. A base station may determine a parameter associated with a transmission such as hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, a signal-to-noise ratio, or a determination regarding whether the transmission was successfully decoded. The base station may then determine a contention window adjustment value based on the parameter. The base station may then apply weighting factor (e.g., based on the time of the transmission, a number of devices being served, aspects of the transmission parameter, etc.) to the contention window adjustment value may adjust a contention window size for a second transmission based on the weighted contention window adjustment value (and, in some cases, other weighted adjustments based on other transmissions). The base station may then perform a clear channel assessment (CCA) based on the contention window size.
US11115169B2	Parent node device, terminal device for wireless network and data transmission method thereof An indirect data transmission method may include: calculating an estimated arrival time of a next poll data request of a terminal device according to a receipt time of a poll data request, after the poll data request is received from the terminal device; transmitting data for the terminal device to a cache of a Media Access Control (MAC) layer module at a time point which is a predetermined time length ahead of the estimated arrival time responsive to a determination that there is the data for the terminal device in a network layer module; and transmitting, to the terminal device, an acknowledgement packet indicating that there is the data to be transmitted in the cache of the MAC layer module and the data for the terminal device, responsive to receiving the next poll data request.
US11115164B2	Sounding reference signal subframe position in a plurality of scheduled consecutive subframes A wireless device receives a radio resource control message comprising an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) subframe parameter. A downlink control information is received. The downlink control information indicates uplink resources in a plurality of scheduled consecutive subframes for transmission of transport blocks by the wireless device and triggers an SRS transmission in a subframe of the plurality of scheduled consecutive subframes. The SRS is transmitted in the subframe. A position of the subframe in the plurality of scheduled consecutive subframes is determined based on the aperiodic SRS subframe parameter.
US11115163B2	Enhanced resource unit allocation in wireless local area network A method for encoding a bitstream is described. The method includes receiving, by an error correction unit, the bitstream; performing, by the error correction unit, encoding on the bitstream to generate an encoded bit stream that includes the bitstream and parity bits; processing, by a constellation unit, the encoded bitstream to generate constellation points in one or more encoded streams; determining, by a low-density parity-check (LDPC) tone mapper, a distance between subcarriers in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of the frame; and performing, by the LDPC tone mapper, LDPC tone mapping based on the one or more encoded streams and on the determined distance to generate a permuted stream of complex numbers, wherein the distance between subcarriers is determined to be either (1) 18 for a first resource unit size used in the frame and (2) 20 for a second resource unit size used in the frame.
US11115159B2	Method and device for processing HARQ feedback in a mobile communication system A device and method for handling HARQ feedback in a mobile communication system are disclosed. The HARQ feedback handling method includes: analyzing a control message from a base station to recognize presence of HARQ feedback relationships between downlink carriers and uplink carriers; determining an uplink carrier (a downlink carrier) to support HARQ feedback in response to downlink traffic (uplink traffic) sent through a downlink carrier (an uplink carrier); and sending (receiving) HARQ feedback through the determined uplink carrier (downlink carrier).
US11115156B2	Discontinuous reception operations among multiple bandwidth parts A user equipment (UE) for discontinuous reception (DRX) operation having a Downlink DRX Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) Round-Trip Time Timer (drx-HARQ-RTT-TimerDL) is disclosed. The UE comprises one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon; at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to perform the DRX operation, wherein the DRX operation comprises: starting the drx-HARQ-RTT-TimerDL from an initial value in a first symbol after an end of a corresponding transmission carrying a DL HARQ feedback, the DL HARQ feedback corresponding to downlink data. The initial value is represented in number of symbols of a BWP (bandwidth part) where the downlink data is received.
US11115142B1	Timing synchronization service and distribution system This disclosure describes techniques for delivering high-accuracy and high-precision clock synchronization in heterogeneous distributed computer clusters. For example, the disclosure describes a synchronization engine that sets efficient clock synchronization processes based on a cluster node's characteristics, pricing, precision, geolocation, and/or cluster topology, while in some cases using a combination of master clock data with internal atomic clocks of computers. The techniques described herein integrate the synchronization engine into a time synchronization process that may provide stability, versatility, precision and cost balance using technical improvements for characterizing timing system delivery channels.
US11115140B2	Signal strength measurement method, and related apparatus and system A signal strength measurement method is disclosed, the method including: receiving first indication information, where the first indication information includes first sub-information, second sub-information, and third sub-information, the first sub-information indicates a measurement period for measurement, the third sub-information is used to indicate an offset of a start position of a second time unit for measurement relative to a start position of the measurement period, and the second sub-information is used to indicate an offset of a start position of a first time unit for measurement in the measurement period relative to the start position of the second time unit for measurement; determining a measurement resource based on the first indication information; performing signal strength measurement on a signal on the measurement resource; and sending a measurement result.
US11115137B2	Method and electronic testing device for determining optimal test case for testing user equipment A method is provided. The method includes determining, in a determination by an electronic testing device, one or more locations in a cellular network where a test case is to be executed, a time at which the test case is to be executed at the one or more locations, a number of times the test case is to be executed at the one or more locations, or a type of a test equipment on which the test case is to be executed. A test context for testing a user equipment is determined based on a result of the determination. An optimal test case is determined from a test case repository, based on the test context, and the optimal test case is executed.
US11115133B2	Method and apparatus for a wireless charging and communication system Circuits, systems and methods that utilize two transducers, of which at least one is a piezoelectric transducer, adapted and coupled to receive and/or generate signals that include a power transmission component and an informational content in the forms of sound waves, mechanical vibrations, and/or electromagnetic energy. In one version, two transducers each receive and/or generate separate vibrational energy signals that bear information and transmit electrical power. Two or more transducers coupled to a switching circuit may send or receive piezo-electrical circuit output signals that include a carrier wave having different frequencies that are within separate frequency ranges. Two or more transducers may generate output signals that are simultaneously processed by or multiplexed by a switching circuit.
US11115131B1	System and method for cryogenic optoelectronic data link A cryogenic optoelectronic data link, comprising a sending module operating at a cryogenic temperature less than 100 K. An ultrasensitive electro-optic modulator, sensitive to input voltages of less than 10 mV, may include at least one optically active layer of graphene, which may be part of a microscale resonator, which in turn may be integrated with an optical waveguide or an optical fiber. The optoelectronic data link enables optical output of weak electrical signals from superconducting or other cryogenic electronic devices in either digital or analog form. The modulator may be integrated on the same chip as the cryogenic electrical devices. A plurality of cryogenic electrical devices may generate a plurality of electrical signals, each coupled to its own modulator. The plurality of modulators may be resonant at different frequencies, and coupled to a common optical output line to transmit a combined wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) optical signal.
US11115129B2	Optical receiver, optical terminal, and optical communication system An optical receiver includes: a pre-amplifier to convert a current signal into a voltage signal; an LIA to amplify and limit an amplitude of the voltage signal; a transmission line connecting the pre-amplifier with the LIA; an AC coupling capacitor inserted in the middle of the transmission line or at an end of the transmission line; a termination circuit connected with the transmission line, for switching to a first resistance or a second resistance higher than the first resistance in response to a switching signal; and an AC load connected with the transmission line. The AC load is open in a low-frequency range of the voltage signal and having a resistance enabling impedance matching with the pre-amplifier and the transmission line in a high-frequency range of the voltage signal, wherein the termination circuit and the AC load are electrically connected in parallel.
US11115128B2	Optical transmission device, transmission system, and control method for transmission system The present invention provides an optical transmission device, a transmission system, and a control method for a transmission system which make it possible to adjust the wavelength band of dummy light according to the wavelength band of an added main signal. This optical transmission device comprises: an output branching unit which multiplexes and outputs an added main signal and dummy light; a wavelength adjustment unit which adjusts the wavelength band of the dummy light; a signal detection unit to which an optical signal outputted by the output branching unit is inputted, and which detects the wavelength band of the added main signal and outputs a detection result; and a control unit which controls the wavelength adjustment unit according to the detection result from the signal detection unit.
US11115127B2	Laser communication system and laser communication method A solid obstacle is removed with a high-power laser beam to establish a transmission path for a spatial laser communication. When a space in which the laser beam is transmitted is blocked off by the solid obstacle, the spatial laser communication cannot be carried out.
US11115125B2	Monolithic integrated coherent transceiver Various embodiments of a monolithic transceiver are described, which may be fabricated on a semiconductor substrate. The monolithic transceiver includes a coherent receiver module (CRM), a coherent transmitter module (CTM), and a local oscillation splitter to feed a local oscillation to the CRM and the CTM with a tunable power ratio. The monolithic transceiver provides tunable responsivity by employing avalanche photodiodes (APDs) for opto-electrical conversion. The monolithic transceiver also employs a polarization beam rotator-splitter (PBRS) and a polarization beam rotator-combiner (PBRC) for supporting modulation schemes including polarization multiplexed quadrature amplitude modulation (PM-QAM) and polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying (PM-QPSK).
US11115120B2	Disintegrated software defined optical line terminal The present disclosure relates to an optical line terminal device. The optical line terminal device includes a data center point of presence module, one or more access point of presence modules and one or more aggregation point of presence modules. The data center point of presence module includes a first region and a second region. The first region includes a leaf and spine fabric and a top-of-rack architecture. The second region includes compute infrastructure and storage infrastructure. Further, the one or more access point of presence modules include optical line terminal-Gigabit Passive Optical Networks access input/output and Metro Ethernet Access input/output. The one or more aggregation point of presence include access input/output hardware abstraction, limited compute infrastructure and multi-protocol label switching transfer router.
US11115119B1	RF-FSO linkage method and ground station system performing the same Provided is a ground station system for performing a radio frequency-free space optics (RF-FSO) linkage method, the ground station system including a first receiver including a first antenna configured to receive an optical signal including data from a satellite; a second receiver including a second antenna configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal including data from the satellite; and a processor configured to estimate data that is determined to have been transmitted from the satellite using the data received from the first receiver and thereby decoded and the data received from the second receiver and thereby decoded and transmit the estimated data to a data server, and thereby providing satellite communication through another satellite communication link regardless of a degradation in any one satellite communication link performance.
US11115117B2	Submarine optical communication control device, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium A submarine optical communication system control device (1) according to the present invention includes: a light intensity distribution determination device (2) configured to determine an optimum distribution of signal light intensity of each optical path for each allocated frequency; a light intensity distribution measuring device (3) configured to measure a light intensity distribution of an optical path after transmission through a submarine cable transmission line; an equalization setting calculation unit (4) configured to calculate a gain equalization setting for compensating for the difference between an optimum distribution in the light intensity distribution determination device and a measured distribution in the light intensity distribution measuring device; and a variable gain equalizer (5) configured to compensate for a light intensity distribution of an optical path to the optimum distribution, based on a gain equalization setting in the equalization setting calculation unit.
US11115108B2	Method and system for field agnostic source localization This disclosure relates generally to field agnostic source localization. Conventional state-of-the-art methods perform source localization for near-field scenario by estimating carrier frequency and direction of arrival (DOA) at or above Nyquist sampling rate. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for source localization at sub Nyquist sampling rate. The method estimates parameters such as range, carrier frequency and DOA of source signals from data sources in a mixed field scenario. i.e., the data sources may reside in far-field as well as near-field. The method considers a delay channel to a sensor receiver architecture for estimating the parameters. The disclosed method can be used in applications like cognitive radio to determine the carrier frequency, DOA and range of various source signals from data sources in mixed field.
US11115107B2	Communication receiving device and method for operating the same A communication receiving device is provided. The communication receiving device includes a cross-correlation measuring circuit which receives an L-SIG (Legacy signal) symbol and a RL-SIG symbol to measure a cross-correlation degree therebetween, an accumulating circuit which accumulates a real part of a cross-correlation degree measurement value, a comparator which compares the accumulated L-SIG symbol and the RL-SIG symbol with a variable threshold value, and a threshold value calculator for calculating the threshold value.
US11115104B2	Enhanced signaling and use of multiple transmission chains This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to signaling and use of multiple transmission chains. A device may determine bits indicative of eight or fewer spatial streams. The device may encode the bits by generating an indication of more than eight spatial streams. The device may determine one or more fields of a frame, the one or more fields including the encoded bits. The device may send the frame.
US11115103B2	Method and apparatus for beam measurement and management in wireless systems A method of user equipment (UE) for beam management in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), at least two groups of Tx beams comprising transmit (Tx) signals generated from different antenna panels, the at least two groups of Tx beams transmitted through reference signals; receiving, from the BS, configuration information including a selection constraint for the at least two groups of Tx beams; measuring, based on the configuration information, at least one beam from each of the at least two groups of beams; selecting at least one Tx beam from each of the at least two groups and a same Rx beam set as an Rx beam corresponding to respective selected Tx beams; and transmitting, to the BS, a reporting message including information of the selected Tx beams and the selected same Rx beam set corresponding to the Rx beam.
US11115096B2	Use of uplink beam tracking results in reference symbol sessions Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A network device, such as a base station, may transmit a request message to a user equipment (UE). The request message may include a request for the UE to transmit a set of sounding reference signals (SRSs). The set of SRSs may include two (or more) beamformed signals. The network device may receive the set of SRSs according to the request message. The network device may identify, based on a co-phasing parameter associated with the two (or more) beamformed signals, an antenna port precoder configuration to use for communicating with the UE.
US11115093B2	Electronic device supporting thermal mitigating and a control method of thereof An electronic device including a plurality of antenna modules configured to wireless communicate with a base station according to a first communication scheme; a plurality of temperature sensors respectively provided in the plurality of antenna modules and configured to detect a temperature of each antenna module; and a modem configured to detect a temperature difference between a highest temperature antenna module and a lowest temperature antenna module among the plurality of antenna modules, and switch from using a first antenna module performing wireless communication with the base station to a second antenna module among the plurality of antenna modules to perform the wireless communication with the base station based on the detected temperature difference being above a preset temperature difference.
US11115091B2	Channel state information feedback and receiving methods, transmit-end device and receive-end device Embodiments of this application disclose channel state information feedback and receiving methods, a transmit-end device and a receive-end device, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: generating and sending, by a transmit-end device, codebook indication information of K transport layers, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 2; the codebook indication information includes: L pieces of beam information used by the K transport layers, and indication information used to indicate beam information associated with each of the K transport layers; L is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and a quantity of pieces of beam information associated with at least one of the K transport layers is less than L. Implementing a channel state information feedback and receiving technology provided in this application helps reduce feedback overheads of channel state information.
US11115089B2	Radio apparatuses for long-range communication of radio-frequency information Radio apparatuses and methods for MIMO matrix phasing that may be used to toggle and/or weight the amount of MIMO processing based on the detected level of isolation between different polarizations of the system. Also described herein are apparatuses including auto-range and/or auto-scaling of a signal strength indicator to aid in precise alignment of the apparatus. Any of these apparatuses and methods may also include dynamic power boosting that adjusts the power (e.g., power amplifier) for an RF apparatus based on the data rate. These apparatuses may include a housing enclosing the radio device that includes a plurality of pin elements that may act as heat transfer pins and a ground pin for making a ground connection to the post or pole to which the devices is mounted.
US11115084B2	Isolated data transfer system Methods and apparatus for providing data transfer with a drive coil to transmit information, a receive coil magnetically coupled to the drive coil, and a first magnetoresistive sensor proximate the receive coil to detect information from the receive coil. In embodiments, the drive and receive coils are separated by an isolation material. In embodiments, a signal isolator IC packages includes transmit and receive coils and a magnetic field sensing element coupled to the receive coil.
US11115081B2	Routing method for multiple security elements, NFC controller and NFC device Disclosed are a routing method for multiple security elements (SEs), an NFC controller and an NFC device. The NFC device includes at least three SEs capable of working simultaneously; after receiving a request from an external device for accessing an NFC application, the NFC controller searches a routing table for an SE to be routed according to an AID carried in the request; and in a case where the SE is not found, the request is sent to all other SEs in the NFC device except the part of SEs.
US11115079B2	Signal power reduction systems and methods A method of reducing transmission power for an encoded data stream includes the steps of receiving an incoming data stream having equal probability for a plurality of incoming data bits, assigning a symbol scheme to the received data bits of the incoming data stream according to probabilities of occurrence of individual ones of the received data bits, and transmitting an outgoing data stream according to the assigned symbol scheme having a second average transmit power, different than the first average transmit power, for a plurality of outgoing symbols.
US11115072B2	Interference processing method and apparatus Provided are an interference processing method and apparatus. The interference processing method includes: detecting an interference degree of a component of a terminal equipment to the terminal equipment when the component is working; and adjusting component parameters corresponding to the component within a preset range when the interference degree satisfies a preset condition.
US11115069B2	Near-field wireless device for distance measurement One example discloses a wireless device, including: a first near-field device, including a near-field transmitter or receiver and a controller, configured to be coupled to a near-field antenna having a first conductive surface and a set of feed-points; wherein the controller is configured to receive a transmitter output voltage from the set of feed-points; wherein the controller is configured to generate a correction signal based on a difference between the transmitter output voltage and a target transmitter output voltage; wherein the correction signal varies in response to a change in a distance between the first surface and a second conductive surface; and wherein the controller is configured to calculate the distance, between the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface, based on the correction signal.
US11115068B2	Data-based pre-distortion for nonlinear power amplifier A system for data-based pre-distortion for a nonlinear power amplifier includes a digital pre-distortion (DPD) component, including a DPD processor and a DPD calibration engine, where the DPD processor applies a set of DPD coefficients to a digital baseband data signal, to generate a pre-distorted digital baseband data signal for conversion to a radio frequency (RF) signal and amplification by a nonlinear power amplifier (PA) to generate an RF output signal, where the DPD calibration engine compares a digitized, down-converted version of the RF output signal with the digital baseband data signal, to determine distortion coefficients of the nonlinear PA, and to update the set of pre-distortion coefficients in the DPD processor to compensate for the distortion coefficients of the non-linear PA, where data transmission is uninterrupted by the transmission of non-data calibration signals.
US11115061B2	Error detection A datum is written to a memory, by splitting a binary word, representative of the datum and an error correcting or detecting code, into a first part and a second part. The first part is written at a logical address in a first memory circuit. The second part is written at the logical address in a second memory circuit. The error correcting or detecting code is dependent on both the datum and the logical address.
US11115057B2	Efficient erasure coding of mid-size data objects The disclosed technology generally describes a data protection scheme that for “mid-size” objects directly writes divided object data fragments, and performs erasure coding to directly write object coding fragments, to distributed storage locations in a node cluster. A storage container such as a chunk allocated for mid-size objects is distributed among the storage cluster nodes. When a mid-size object (e.g., between 24 megabytes and 128 megabytes) is to be created, the object data is divided into object data fragments and encoded into object coding fragments, with the data object fragments and object coding fragments written/appended to the distributed storage locations, without needing a preliminary protection scheme.
US11115056B2	Location selection based on erasure code techniques Systems for location selection based on erasure code techniques are provided. One system includes a monitor module that monitors data speed characteristics for one or more locations on a storage device. Additionally, the system includes a classification module that determines an erasure code technique for an application, wherein data associated with the application is stored on a storage device. Also, the system includes a selection module that selects a location in one or more locations for storing data based on monitored data speed characteristics and a determined erasure code technique.
US11115052B2	Information processing method and communications apparatus This application discloses an information processing method and apparatus, a communications device, and a communications system. The method includes: encoding an input sequence by using a low density parity check LDPC matrix to obtain a bit sequence D, where a base matrix of the LDPC matrix is represented by a matrix of m rows and n columns, each column corresponds to a group of Z continuous bits in the bit sequence D, and both n and Z are integers greater than 0; and obtaining an output bit sequence based on a bit sequence V, where the bit sequence V is obtained by permuting groups of bits corresponding to at least two parity check columns in the bit sequence D.
US11115050B1	Hardware friendly data decompression Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for decompressing compressed data. A method may include receiving encoded data to be decompressed, obtaining a “Stotal” of a total number of symbols, numbers of occurrences for distinct symbols in the encoded data, and a final state generated during an encoding process as a first state for decoding, building a decoding table containing a row of the distinct symbols, a row of substitutes for numbers of bits to be recovered and a row of substitutes for new states corresponding to encoding states, decoding using the decoding table including: obtaining a current symbol from the decoding table based on a current state X, dynamically determining a current number of bits to be recovered from the encoded data and a new state X based on corresponding substitutes and outputting symbols recovered. L may be a sum of the numbers of occurrences for the distinct symbols.
US11115040B1	ADC slicer reconfiguration for different channel insertion loss A receiver having analog-to-digital converters (ADC) is disclosed. The ADCs may be reconfigured based on the insertion loss mode of the receiver. For example, different portions of a plurality of time-interleaved successive approximation (SAR) ADC slices included in at least one sub-ADC of each time-interleaved ADC may be enabled depending on which of a plurality of insertion loss modes is selected for operation of the receiver.
US11115039B2	Voltage-to-time converter and method for reducing parasitic capacitance and power supply influences The present disclosure provides a voltage-to-time converter and method for reducing parasitic capacitance and power supply influences. The voltage-to-time converter includes: a main sampling network, a compensation sampling network, a discharge network and an over-threshold detection unit. The influence of a traditional VTC parasitic capacitance on a VTC output swing amplitude is reduced by using the compensation sampling network. A sampling common-mode level of the compensation sampling network is compensated, such that the influence of the low-frequency disturbance of a power supply voltage on a threshold of a traditional VTC threshold detection circuit is reduced. The output swing amplitude of the voltage-to-time converter of the present disclosure can reduce the influence of a parasitic capacitance. A voltage common-mode level of a VTC input end is related to a power supply voltage, which reduces a conversion error caused by the influence of the power supply voltage on a threshold.
US11115035B2	Semiconductor devices A semiconductor device includes first to N-th PLL circuits configured to operate in synchronization with a common reference clock signal to output first to N-th clock signals, respectively; a majority circuit that performs a majority operation on the first to N-th clock signals to generate a majority clock signal; and a filter circuit to which the majority clock signal is provided, the filter circuit operating as a low-pass filter to output an output clock signal. N is an odd number of three or more.
US11115033B1	Speed-up charge pump and phase-locked loop and method for operating the same A speed-up charge pump includes a first charge pump for receiving an up signal and a down signal in digital form to produce a first voltage control signal at an output node. Further, at least one speed-up phase detector includes a first circuit path to receive the up signal and delay the up signal by a predetermined delay as a delay up signal and operate the up signal and the delay up signal by AND logic into an auxiliary up signal; and a second circuit path to receive the down signal and delay the down signal by the predetermined delay as a delay down signal and operate the down signal and the delay down signal by AND logic into an auxiliary down signal. A second charge pump is respectively receiving the auxiliary up and down signals to produce a second voltage control signal also at the output node.
US11115028B2	Oscillator, electronic apparatus, and vehicle Provided is an oscillator including: a first resonator; a second resonator; a first oscillation circuit generating a first oscillation signal by oscillating the first resonator; a second oscillation circuit generating a second oscillation signal that has frequency-temperature characteristics different from frequency-temperature characteristics of the first oscillation signal by oscillating the second resonator; a clock signal generation circuit generating a clock signal with a frequency that is temperature compensated by temperature compensation data; a storage unit storing information on a learned model that is machine-learned to output data corresponding to the temperature compensation data with respect to input data; and a processing circuit obtaining the temperature compensation data by performing processing based on the information on the learned model with respect to the input data based on the first oscillation signal and the second oscillation signal.
US11115025B2	Universal transceiver container The present disclosure relates to modular transceiver-based network circuitries that may include internal configurable interfaces or gaskets. The configurable gaskets may facilitate integration of the network circuitries in electronic devices by providing a transparent interface to processing circuitries coupled to the network circuitries. Moreover, the configurable gaskets may also have a floorplan layout (e.g., a chiplet layout) that may facilitate coupling of multiple network circuitries to a single processing circuitry, in a modular manner.
US11115024B2	Integrated circuit, test method for testing integrated circuit, and electronic device An integrated circuit of an embodiment includes: a logic circuit; and a switch circuit, the logic circuit including: a first memory; a look-up table circuit having a first output terminal; a first selection circuit having a first input terminal connecting to the first output terminal, a second input terminal receiving scan input data, and a second output terminal, the first selection circuit selecting one of the first and second input terminals and connect the selected one to the second output terminal; a flip-flop having a third input terminal connected to the second and third output terminals; and a second selection circuit having a fourth and fifth input terminals connected to the third output terminal and the first output terminal respectively, and a fourth output terminal, the second selection circuit selecting one of the fourth and fifth input terminals and connect the selected one to the fourth output terminal.
US11115022B2	System and method for integrated circuit usage tracking circuit with fast tracking time for hardware security and re-configurability An accelerated aging circuit is described to shorten the required stress time to a few seconds of operation. Due to the challenges posed by process variation in advanced CMOS technology, a stochastic processing methodology is also described to reduce the failure rate of the tracking and detection. Combining both circuit and system level acceleration, the creation of a silicon marker can be realized within seconds of usage in contrast with days of operation from previously reported aging monitor.
US11115019B2	Dynamic short circuit protection Circuitry includes a pair of switches arranged in series, and a gate driver. The gate driver, responsive to a magnitude of current through one of the switches exceeding a threshold, discharges a gate of the one through a first resistor. The gate driver also, responsive to a voltage across a parasitic inductance of the switch becoming zero, discharges the gate through a second resistor but not the first resistor.
US11115018B1	Power transistor overcurrent protection circuit A power transistor overcurrent protection circuit includes an overcurrent detection circuit, a timing control circuit, and an enable control circuit. The overcurrent detection circuit is configured to detect whether there is an overcurrent flowing in the controlled power transistor. The timing control circuit and the enable control circuit jointly control the controlled power transistor. The power transistor overcurrent protection circuit can turn off the controlled power transistor so as to protect the controlled power transistor when there is an overcurrent flowing in the controlled power transistor for controlling a load to work or not to work.
US11115017B2	Driving apparatus and switching apparatus Provided is a driving apparatus that includes a gate driving circuit that turns off a first semiconductor element upon receiving a turn-off signal, a measuring circuit that measures a parameter according to a voltage applied to the second semiconductor element, a timing generating circuit that generates a timing signal if the parameter satisfies a first condition during a time period in which the first semiconductor element is tuned off; and a driving condition change circuit that, in response to the timing signal, further decreases a changing speed of a gate voltage of the first semiconductor element than a reference speed during the time period in which the first semiconductor element is tuned off, wherein the gate driving circuit turns off the first semiconductor element in response to that the parameter satisfies a second condition during a time period in which the first semiconductor element is tuned on.
US11115015B2	Device including multi-mode input pad A circuit component has an address determined from a voltage level applied to a single electrical contact of the circuit component. The circuit component is configured to be assigned one of at least three unique addresses and to select from among the at least three unique addresses based on the voltage level.
US11115014B2	Duty cycle correction circuit A duty cycle correction circuit includes: a first inverter, a first delayer, and a first adjustment circuit. An input terminal and output terminal of the first inverter are respectively configured to receive a first signal and output a third signal. A first input terminal and an output terminal of the first adjustment circuit are respectively configured to receive the third signal and output a first correction signal. An input terminal and output terminal of the first delayer are respectively configured to input a second signal and output a fourth signal to the first adjustment circuit. The fourth signal has a first delay time relative to the second signal. When the third signal and the fourth signal are at a high level, so is the first correction signal. When the third signal and the fourth signal are at a low level, so is the first correction signal.
US11115013B2	Circuit arrangement with clock sharing, and corresponding method In an embodiment, a system includes a slave circuit configured to receive an external clock signal from a master circuit, the slave circuit comprising first and second peripherals configured to receive respective clock signals obtained from the external clock signal, wherein the master circuit is configured to send to the slave circuit the external clock signal according to two different timing modes, wherein the slave circuit comprises a logic circuit configured to provide a locking signal to the first peripheral circuit when the logic circuit detects a given operating mode of the slave circuit, wherein the master circuit is configured to send the external clock signal according to a first timing mode before receipt of the locking signal, and wherein the master circuit is configured, following upon receipt of the locking signal, to send the external clock signal according to a second timing mode different from the first timing mode.
US11115012B2	Software-defined pulse orchestration platform A system comprises pulse program compiler circuitry operable to analyze a pulse program that includes a pulse operation statement, and to generate, based on the pulse program, machine code that, if loaded into a pulse generation and measurement circuit, configures the pulse generation and measurement circuit to generate one or more pulses and/or process one or more received pulses. The pulse operation statement may specify a first pulse to be generated, and a target of the first pulse. The pulse operation statement may specify parameters to be used for processing of a return signal resulting from transmission of the first pulse. The pulse operation statement may specify an expression to be used for processing of the first pulse by the pulse generation and measurement circuit before the pulse generation and measurement circuit sends the first pulse to the target.
US11115011B1	Quantum controller architecture A system comprises pulse generation and measurement circuitry comprising a plurality of pulse generator circuits and a plurality of ports, and management circuitry. The management circuitry is operable to analyze a specification of a controlled system and controlled elements that comprises a definition of a controlled element of the control system, and a definition of one or more pulses available for transmission by the control system. The management circuitry is operable to configure, based on the specification, the pulse generation and measurement circuitry to: generate the one or more pulses via one or more of the plurality of pulse generator circuits; and output the one or more pulses to the controlled element via one or more of the plurality of ports.
US11115009B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first flip-flop that includes a first slave latch, a second flip-flop that includes a second slave latch, and a clock generation circuit that provides a common clock signal to the first flip-flop and the second flip-flop. The first slave latch includes a first inverter, a first feedback inverter that receives an output signal from the first inverter, and a first switch that is connected between an input terminal of the first inverter and an output terminal of the first feedback inverter. The first flip-flop outputs an output signal from the output terminal of the first feedback inverter.
US11115005B2	Ring voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) startup helper circuit A ring voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit is herein provided. According to one embodiment, a ring VCO circuit includes a plurality of stages connected in series, wherein each stage includes a first inverter, a second inverter, a third inverter and a fourth inverter, the first inverter connected in parallel with the third and fourth inverters and the second inverter connected in parallel with the third and fourth inverters, and a first biasing resistor connected to a first node and coupled to an input of the first inverter. The first biasing resistor includes a first switch configured to set the first biasing resistor to about zero voltage.
US11115001B2	Receiving filter, multiplexer, and communication apparatus A receiving filter includes a reception terminal which outputs reception signals from an antenna terminal, a second DMS filter configured by a longitudinally coupled double-mode type acoustic wave filter which is located in a signal path from the antenna terminal to the reception terminal, a fourth GND terminal given a reference potential, and a fourth GND wiring connected to the fourth GND terminal and to the second DMS filter. A reception terminal conductor configured by the reception terminal and the reception terminal wiring connected to the reception terminal and A fourth GND conductor configured by the fourth GND terminal and the fourth GND wiring are adjacent and are capacity-coupled with respect to each other.
US11115000B2	Extractor An extractor includes a band elimination filter that is connected between a common terminal and a first input-output terminal and that has a stop band equal or substantially equal to a first frequency band, and a band pass filter that is connected between the common terminal and a second input-output terminal and that has a pass band equal or substantially equal to a second frequency band that overlaps the first frequency band. The band pass filter includes, series arm resonators, three or more parallel arm resonators, and three or more inductors that are connected between the ground and the parallel arm resonators. The L value of a first inductor that is connected and nearest to the common terminal is smaller than the L value of a third inductor, and the L value of a second inductor that is connected and second-nearest to the common terminal is smaller than the L value of the third inductor.
US11114994B2	Multilayer filter including a low inductance via assembly A multilayer filter may include a dielectric layer having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a thickness in a Z-direction between the top surface and the bottom surface. The multilayer filter may include a conductive layer formed on the top surface of the dielectric layer. The multilayer filter may include a via assembly formed in the dielectric layer and connected to the conductive layer on the top surface of the dielectric layer. The via assembly may extend to the bottom surface of the dielectric layer. The via assembly may have a length in the Z-direction and a total cross-sectional area in an X-Y plane that is perpendicular to the Z-direction. The via assembly may have an area-to-squared-length ratio that is greater than about 3.25.
US11114992B2	Motor drive with a filter including a three-phase differential mode reactor with common mode damping Motor drive with a T-type filter with at least two three-phase differential mode reactors and three capacitors, wherein at least one of the three-phase differential mode reactor comprises an auxiliary coil (6) wound around three wound core elements (2.1, 2.2, 2.3) such that the common mode current is induced in the auxiliary coil (6).
US11114990B2	Apparatus and method of power management using envelope stacking An envelope stacking power amplifier system reduces current for a given output power level without sacrificing the ability to support large voltage swings at saturation and therefore increases efficiency at the maximum linear operating power and all power levels below that. The system includes a stack/unstack controller including circuitry configured to switch the RF power amplifier system between a stacked mode in which first and second RF amplifiers are coupled in a stacked configuration and an unstacked mode in which the first and second RF amplifiers are coupled in an unstacked configuration in response to one or more mode-control signals, the stacked configuration providing reduced current compared to the unstacked configuration.
US11114988B2	Doherty amplifier circuit with integrated harmonic termination In a Doherty amplifier, outputs of first (main) and second (peak) transistors are connected by a combined impedance inverter and harmonic termination circuit. The harmonic termination circuit incorporates a predetermined part of the impedance inverter, and provides a harmonic load impedance at a targeted harmonic frequency (e.g., the second harmonic). Control of the amplitude and phase of the harmonic load impedance facilitates shaping of the drain current and voltage waveforms to maximize gain and efficiency, while maintaining a good load modulation at a fundamental frequency. Particularly for Group III nitride semiconductors, such as GaN, both harmonic control and output impedance matching circuits may be eliminated from the outputs of each transistor. The combined impedance inverter and harmonic termination circuit reduces the amplifier circuit footprint, for high integration and low power consumption.
US11114973B2	Motor control device, method for controlling motor control device, control program, and storage medium In a technique for reducing the number of input terminals of a motor control device, flexibility of designing is improved. A terminal allocating section (23) is provided for setting, in accordance with selection by a user, which of a plurality of input terminals (11) is to be allocated to each of a plurality of function input terminals (21).
US11114970B2	Motor driver, heat pump system and refrigeration and air conditioning equipment using motor driver A motor driver includes an inverter used for driving a motor and configured to apply an alternating-current voltage to the motor. The inverter drives, during start operation, a switching element of the inverter with a first PWM signal that is PWM modulated with a carrier frequency that is a first integer multiple of a frequency of the alternating-current voltage, and thereafter drives the switching element with a second PWM signal that is PWM modulated with a carrier frequency that is a second integer multiple of the frequency of the alternating-current voltage. The second integer is smaller than the first integer.
US11114964B2	Method for determining a direct-axis inductance and a quadrature-axis inductance of an electric machine, corresponding computer program and device A method for determining a direct inductance and a quadrature inductance of an electrical machine is included. The method includes controlling the electrical machine so that a stator generates a first magnetic field rotating at a first rotation frequency to rotationally drive a rotor of the electrical machine, and a second magnetic field that varies periodically at a second frequency for measuring a portion of the phase currents flowing through the stator windings of the electrical machine during controlling of the electrical machine. The method further includes determining an amplitude spectrum of a given electrical quantity determined based on a portion of the phase currents, searching in the amplitude spectrum for a peak present at a frequency that is dependent on the second frequency, determining an amplitude of each peak found, and determining the direct inductance and the quadrature inductance from the amplitudes of two peaks found.
US11114963B2	Method and system for enhancing electrical power production by a power generation system by controlling switches to place a rotor-side converter in parallel with a line-side converter A power generation system (100, 200, 300, 400) is presented. The power generation system includes a prime mover (102), a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) (104) having a rotor winding (126) and a stator winding (122), a rotor-side converter (106), a line-side converter (108), and a secondary power source (110, 401) electrically coupled to a DC-link (128). Additionally, the power generation system includes a control sub-system (112, 212, 312) having a controller, and a plurality of switching elements (130, and 132 or 201). The controller is configured to selectively control switching of one or more switching elements (130, and 132 or 201) based on a value of an operating parameter corresponding to at least one of the prime mover, the DFIG, or the secondary power source to connect the rotor-side converter in parallel to the line-side converter to increase an electrical power production by the power generation system.
US11114960B2	Electric drive train and method for feeding an electric drive train The present invention discloses an electric drive train comprising:—a rotor or propeller shaft (R),—an electric motor assembly (GEMD) configured to drive the rotor or propeller shaft (R), the electric motor assembly (GEMD) comprising a plurality of stacked electric motor elements (Ee1, Ee2, Ee3, Ee4),—a power branch of a first topology feeding a stacked electric motor element (Ee1) of the electric motor assembly (GEMD), said power branch (b1) comprising a RESS and an electric generator (G) supplying a power signal to said power branch (b1),—a power branch (b3) of a second topology dissimilar from the first topology, said power branch feeding another stacked electric motor element of the electric motor assembly (GEMD), said power branch (b3) comprising: # an electric generator (G) supplying a power signal to said power branch, a matrix converter (Mc3) feeding the another stacked electric motor element (Ee3), # or, an electric generator supplying Direct Current to said power branch and a motor controller feeding the second stacked electric motor element (Ee3).
US11114944B2	Fully integrated multi-phase buck converter with coupled air core inductors A multi-phase buck switching converter having grouped pairs of phases, each phase using two magnetically coupled air-core inductors. For each group, a first driver circuit controlling switching of a first power transistor switching circuit coupled to a first air-core inductor output for driving an output load at the first phase. A second driver circuit controlling switching of a second power transistor switching circuit coupled to a second air-core inductor output for driving said output load at the second phase. The first and second phases are spaced 180° apart. The coupled air-core inductors per group of such orientation, separation distance and mutual inductance polarity relative to each other such that magnetic coupling between the two or more inductors at each phase results in a net increase in effective inductance per unit volume. Each air-core inductor is a metal slab of defined length, height and thickness formed using back-end-of-line semiconductor manufacturing process.
US11114939B2	Power supply system with current compensation A power supply system includes a current driver circuit, a sensor circuit, a control circuit, a voltage generator circuit and a signal generator circuit. The current driver circuit generates, based on a pulse signal, an output current for driving a load unit that includes series connected loads. The sensor circuit senses the output current to generate a sensed voltage. For each load, the control circuit is operable, based on a control input, to allow or not to allow the output current to flow through the load. The voltage generator circuit generates a reference voltage based on the control input. The signal generator circuit generates the pulse signal based on the reference voltage and the sensed voltage.
US11114933B2	System and method providing over current protection based on duty cycle information for power converter System and method for protecting a power converter. An example system controller for protecting a power converter includes a signal generator, a comparator, and a modulation and drive component. The signal generator is configured to generate a threshold signal. The comparator is configured to receive the threshold signal and a current sensing signal and generate a comparison signal based on at least information associated with the threshold signal and the current sensing signal, the current sensing signal indicating a magnitude of a primary current flowing through a primary winding of a power converter. The modulation and drive component is coupled to the signal generator.
US11114932B1	Method and apparatus for reduction of ripple current A ripple current reduction circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a set of first coupled inductors, each comprising a primary winding configured to receive at a first end a respective phase voltage, and a secondary winding. The circuit also includes a set of second coupled inductors and a set of first capacitors, each first capacitor having an upstream end and a downstream end, wherein the set of first capacitors are coupled together at the downstream end to define a first node. The circuit further includes a set of auxiliary circuits each corresponding to a respective phase voltage, and coupled between the second end of the primary winding of a respective first inductor and the first node, wherein each auxiliary circuit comprises a respective second coupled inductor, a respective first capacitor, and the secondary winding of a respective first coupled inductor coupled in series.
US11114924B2	Squirrel-cage rotor for an asynchronous machine Various embodiments include a squirrel-cage rotor for an asynchronous machine comprising: a first shaft journal; a second shaft journal; a laminated rotor core; and a filler body cast onto the laminated rotor core connecting the filler body and the laminated rotor core in a rotationally fixed manner. The filler body is connected to the shaft journals in a rotationally fixed manner and a torque applied to the shaft journals is transmitted to the laminated rotor core.
US11114918B2	Differential drive A differential drive for manipulating an elongated device includes a drive mechanism configured to provide rotational and linear movement to the elongated percutaneous device. The drive mechanism including a platform rotatably supported by a support and a linear drive operatively coupled to the platform. A first motor operatively rotates the platform relative to the support and moving a portion of the linear drive relative to the platform. A second motor operatively rotates the platform relative to the support and moving a portion of the linear drive relative to the platform.
US11114917B1	Electric motor rotor for hybrid module An electric motor rotor for a hybrid module includes a rotor carrier, a piston carrier, and a tapered snap ring. The rotor carrier includes a first inner circumferential surface with an inner spline for receiving a first plurality of clutch plates, a second inner circumferential surface, radially outside of the first inner circumferential surface, a radial wall connecting the first inner circumferential surface to the second inner circumferential surface, and a groove with a conical wall. The piston carrier includes a radial outer ring installed between the groove and the radial wall. The tapered snap is ring installed in the groove and urges the piston carrier into contact with the radial wall.
US11114914B2	Motor A motor includes a stator core, a first coil, and a second coil provided adjacent to the first coil in the radial direction. The first coil and the second coil do not coincide in position with each other as seen in the axial direction of the stator core. A first coil end portion of the first coil and a second coil end portion of the second coil respectively include a first facing portion and a second facing portion facing each other in the radial direction. The motor further includes an out-slot insulator interposed at least between the first facing portion and the second facing portion and provided so that at least a part of the first coil end portion and the second coil end portion is exposed.
US11114910B2	Method for manufacturing an armature for an EC motor An EC motor is provided having a stator, in which an armature is rotatably supported, the armature including an armature shaft, on which an armature core having a plurality of permanent magnets is held, the armature core being electrically insulated against the armature shaft with the aid of a casting compound, and a balance ring being provided on at least one axial end of the armature core, which is accommodated on the armature shaft by a central recess, a gap between the armature shaft and the central recess of the balance ring being filled with casting compound, and the permanent magnets being held in pockets of the armature core by casting compound.
US11114906B2	Stator in an electric motor A stator in an electric motor and to a method for producing the stator in which a plurality of individual coils are wound on laminated stator poles and are provided with an insulation, wherein the insulation bears connection contacts for bringing the individual coils into contact with a printed circuit board, wherein the connection contacts are press-fitted into the printed circuit board. The present stator provides for a compact size and for simple and economical joining processes. In a preferred embodiment, the electric motor is a dosing pump motor for drug delivery systems.
US11114903B2	Wireless power systems with concurrently active data streams A wireless power system may have a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device may include a coil and wireless power transmitting circuitry coupled to the coil. The wireless power receiving device may include a coil that is configured to receive wireless power signals from the wireless power transmitting device and rectifier circuitry that is configured to convert the wireless power signals to direct current power. The wireless power transmitting device and the wireless power receiving device may exchange data packets using in-band communication in order to transfer various types of data. For increased flexibility of data transmission, multiple data streams may be used concurrently when conveying data between the power receiving device and power transmitting device. Each data packet may include a stream header that identifies a corresponding data stream. Different types of data may be transmitted with each data stream.
US11114901B2	Cradle device having wireless charging function A cradle device for providing a wireless charging function according to the present invention comprises: a cradle part provided for being mobile terminal-mountable; a wireless charging module which is disposed inside the cradle part and includes a transmitting coil, a switching part for switching a connecting passage between an external power supply and the transmitting coil, and a control part for controlling the switching part; and an NFC tag coupled to the wireless charging module, wherein, when receiving a tag recognition signal from the NFC tag, the control part performs a turn-on control of the switching part. According to the present invention, the cradle device can simultaneously provide a mobile terminal with a wireless charging function and a user via the mobile terminal with various contents provided through NFC tag information.
US11114898B2	Device and method for supporting improved communication speed in wireless power transmission system The present invention relates to a device and method for supporting improved communication speed in a wireless power transmission system. The present specification provides a method comprising the steps of: generating wireless power at an operating frequency; configuring n, as the number of cycles per bit, which is used for transmitting one bit at the operating frequency; aligning each bit of the data with the n cycles; causing the operating frequency to transition between differential biphases according to the value of said each bit during the n cycles; and transmitting the wireless power to a wireless power receiving device on the basis of magnetic coupling at the transitioning operating frequency.
US11114896B2	Wireless power system modules A wireless power system for powering a television includes a source resonator, configured to generate an oscillating magnetic field, and at least one television component attached to at least one device resonator, wherein the at least one device resonator is configured to wirelessly receive power from the source resonator via the oscillating magnetic field when the distance between the source resonator and the at least one device resonator is more than 5 cm, and wherein at least one television component draws at least 10 Watts of power.
US11114893B2	Smart outlet system with fast frequency tracking for power system frequency control using distributed appliances Systems and methods are disclosed to control the power grid frequency by capturing the frequency change using an extended Kalman filter method with the distributed smart outlet devices at the low-voltage distribution level; and locally control the relay that provides power to the appliance by comparing the captured frequency with the threshold sent from the cloud control center.
US11114886B2	Powering or charging small-volume or small-surface receivers or devices Provided is a wireless power receiver for powering or charging an electric or electronic device or battery or a mobile electronic system such as a vehicle or robot. The receiver may consist of or consist essentially of a receiver coil of a blade or thin solenoid shape/geometry that includes a larger surface in a first dimension and a smaller surface in a second and/or third dimension, which receives power inductively from a wireless charger. The charger may be a source of an alternating magnetic field to charge or power one or multiple wireless power receivers or devices having small surface areas or volumes. The receiver coil has the smaller surface facing a charging surface of the charger. The wireless charger may include a charger coil designed to provide a substantially uniform magnetic field over an area larger than 50% of the charger surface.
US11114885B2	Transmitter and receiver structures for near-field wireless power charging A wireless charging system comprises (i) a transmitter structure comprising a first metallic core disposed in an opening of the transmitter structure and (ii) a receiver structure comprising a second metallic core disposed in an opening of the receiver structure. The transmitter structure is configured to carry one or more radio frequency (RF) signals to the first metallic core when the receiver structure is within a threshold distance from the transmitter structure. In addition, the receiver structure is configured to be excited by the one or more RF signals from the transmitter structure, whereby the one or more RF signals are transferred from the first metallic core to the second metallic core when the transmitter structure and the receiver structure are within the threshold distance from each other.
US11114884B2	Sensing coil system A sensor system can include a sensor coil and a sensor coupled to the sensor coil. The sensor coil can include coil portions that generate signals based on magnetic coupling induced in the coil portions by a receiving coil device (e.g., a NFC tag) and magnetic distortion induced in the coil portions by magnetic coupling of a power transmitting unit (PTU). The sensor can reduce the magnetic distortion induced in the first and the second coil portions by the PTU, detect the receiving coil device based the first and the second signals, and control the PTU based on the detected receiving coil device.
US11114877B2	Battery device and vehicle A device according to an embodiment includes at least one assembled battery; first switches that switch an electrical connection state of main circuits connected between the assembled battery and the load; second switches that switch an electrical connection state of second main circuits branched from the main circuits and are connected between the assembled battery and the load; a BMU that controls operations of the first switches based on an operation command supplied from the load; and a power supply circuit that supplies power to the BMU and second switches when a start command supplied from the outside is ON.
US11114876B2	Battery safety mechanism for battery fault conditions A battery charger circuit associated with a portable electronic device is disclosed. The battery charger circuit comprises a charging circuit configured to charge a battery and a discharging circuit configured to discharge the battery. The battery charger circuit further comprises a battery fault detection circuit configured to detect a battery fault condition, based on monitoring one or more battery parameters. In some aspects, the battery charger circuit further comprises a battery charge control circuit configured to selectively activate the discharging circuit, in order to discharge the battery, and deactivate the charging circuit, in order to suspend charging the battery during the discharge of the battery, when the battery fault condition is detected.
US11114873B2	Contingency battery charging system The system and method described herein provide a contingency battery charging system that can be deployed on demand to a location in need of an alternate power system to power industrial vehicles (such as forklifts or other industrial vehicles used in a transportation and distribution operation). The contingency battery charging system can be transported from a centrally-located standby location to support a fleet of industrial vehicles at a deployment location. The contingency battery charging system may include a truck trailer that is wired to facilitate quick deployment of one or more transportable battery charging stations. Each transportable battery charging station may include at least one battery charger capable of concurrently charging multiple lead-acid batteries for use in industrial vehicles.
US11114868B2	Supplemental capacitor based battery charging system A system and method are presented relating to a hybrid portable charging device having an internal battery and an internal supercapacitor. Input logic is implemented as part of the management system for the charging device. In one embodiment, input power is analyzed to determine whether the input power level is low, medium, or high, with input power being diverted to the battery or supercapacitor depending on the determined input power level. At high input power, the supercapacitor is charged first. At low input power, the battery is charged first. At medium power, the input power is split between the supercapacitor and the battery. In another embodiment, output can be directed using output logic so that power flows first from the supercapacitor so that the supercapacitor is fully discharged before battery power is output to the load on the charging device.
US11114862B2	Localized power point optimizer for solar cell installations In one embodiment, a solar cell installation includes several groups of solar cells. Each group of solar cells has a local power point optimizer configured to control power generation of the group. The local power point optimizer may be configured to determine an optimum operating condition for a corresponding group of solar cells. The local power point optimizer may adjust the operating condition of the group to the optimum operating condition by modulating a transistor, such as by pulse width modulation, to electrically connect and disconnect the group from the installation. The local power point optimizer may be used in conjunction with a global maximum power point tracking module.
US11114861B2	Power optimization for battery powered street lighting system A network is disclosed of a plurality of outdoor lighting units. Each lighting unit comprises a light fixture, for example a LED lamp; a power generating means, such as a solar panel or a wind turbine; and a storage means for electric energy, for example a battery.The energy storage means of neighboring lighting units are connected by a conductor. An imbalance in power generation or power consumption results in a balancing current through the conductor. The balancing current equalizes the charge levels of the energy storage means in the system.In an embodiment the conductor comprises a single core wire and ground.
US11114856B2	Method and apparatus for protecting electrical components from a transient electromagnetic disturbance The present disclosure provides a method of protecting a component using a deliberately created impedance mismatch between conductive impedance transition elements and an electric power line. The method comprises coupling a plurality of conductive impedance transition elements having a greater diameter than the power line at a position between an extended length of the power line and the component. The difference between the diameters of the conductive transition elements and the power line causes an intentional impedance mismatch between the two or more impedance transition elements with adjacent portions of the power line, and the mismatch causes high-frequency components of the transient electromagnetic signals induced on the power line by the transient electrical disturbance to be reflected by at least one of two or more impedance transition elements away from the protected component.
US11114855B2	Load management in hybrid electrical systems Various implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for managing a plurality of loads connected to a plurality of power sources using a switching apparatus. Apparatuses described herein may include multi-throw switches designed for fast and efficient switching of loads. Methods described herein may include selecting one or more loads from a group of loads to connect to one or more alternative power sources, and selecting one or more loads to connect to a main (e.g. utility) electrical grid.
US11114854B1	Dual current controller of inverter interfaced renewable energy sources for accurate phase selection method and grid codes compliance A method for correct operation of the current-angle-based phase-selection method (PSM) is based on a proper dual current controller (DCC) for inverter interfaced sources during unbalanced fault conditions. The fault type is determined in the inverter using voltage-angle-based PSM. Accordingly, fault-type zones' bisectors of the current-angle-based are determined. Consequently, an initial negative-sequence current angle reference is determined to force the relative angle between the negative- and zero-sequence currents in the center of its correct fault-type zone. The initial positive-sequence current angle is determined according to reactive current requirements by grid codes. These initial angles are updated for accurate operation of the PSM and appropriate reactive current injection. Negative- and positive-sequence current references are determined in the stationary frame to comply with the reference angles and inverter's thermal limits. These references are regulated by a proportional-resonance controller.
US11114853B2	Grid-tied variable frequency facility A micro grid system comprises a secondary energy source and a power controller. The secondary energy source is associated with the micro grid, and the secondary energy source is configured to generate first DC power signal. The power controller is in communication with the secondary energy source and an electric grid, and configured to receive first AC power signal from the electric grid and the first DC power signal from the secondary energy source and to output a second AC power signal to loads in communication with the power controller. The power controller comprises a frequency converter configured to change frequency of the second AC power signal, a processor, and a memory configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to control the frequency converter to change the frequency of the second AC power signal.
US11114852B2	Power distribution module(s) capable of hot connection and/or disconnection for wireless communication systems, and related power units, components, and methods Power distribution modules are configured to distribute power to a power-consuming component(s), such as a remote antenna unit(s) (RAU(s)). By “hot” connection and/or disconnection, the power distribution modules can be connected and/or disconnected from a power unit and/or a power-consuming component(s) while power is being provided to the power distribution modules. Power is not required to be disabled in the power unit before connection and/or disconnection of power distribution modules. The power distribution modules may be configured to protect against or reduce electrical arcing or electrical contact erosion that may otherwise result from “hot” connection and/or connection of the power distribution modules.
US11114847B1	High speed data transient protection A high bandwidth data interface in an aircraft includes a pulse tolerant, non-inductive resistor for reducing surge current due to lightning transients, and a very low capacitance transient voltage suppressor to suppress the lightning transient voltages. A cable equalizer/redriver then recovers the original high bandwidth input signal. The high bandwidth interface is thereby able to survive DO-160 section 22 level 3 and 4 lightning transients.
US11114843B2	Method and system for protection in a mixed line The invention provides a method and system for protection in response to a fault in a mixed line. The mixed line comprises two or more sections, with a first substation at a first end and a second substation at a second end. Every two consecutive sections of the mixed line are separated at a junction. The method is performed by an IED, and comprises obtaining one or more measurements of current at the first end, and one or more measurements of current at the second end. The method also comprises identifying a section of the two or more sections having the fault, by estimating a value of current for each junction and comparing the estimated value with the one or more measurements of current. In addition, the method comprises controlling a switching device based on the section identified with the fault.
US11114841B2	DC PLC PV rapid shutdown device circuit based on SunSpec communication protocol A PV module, which includes PV+ and PV− output ports. An output capacitor Cout is connected to PV+ or PV− port through an electric switch. One end of a power inductor L1 is connected to OUT−, and the other end is grounded. The power inductor L1 is connected with a resonant capacitor C1 and an impedance resistor R2 in parallel. One end of a blocking capacitor C2 is used as the PLC+ port, one end of a blocking capacitor C3 is used as the PLC− port, and signal sources are connected to OUT+ and OUT− in parallel and send “Keep Alive” signals based on SunSpec communication protocol. PLC+ port and PLC− port are connected to a signal coupling input port of a control IC, and the control IC controls the electric switch. When the signal is decoded and extracted, the electric switch will remain on, otherwise it will be off.
US11114839B2	System and method for mitigating overvoltage on a DC link of a power converter A system and method for mitigating overvoltage on a DC link of a power converter of an electrical power system connected to a power grid includes receiving a voltage feedback signal from the DC link for a predetermined time period. The method also includes determining a rate of change of the voltage feedback signal during the predetermined time period. Further, the method includes predicting a future voltage value on the DC link as a function of the voltage feedback signal and the rate of change of the voltage feedback signal. Moreover, the method includes controlling the electrical power system based on the future voltage value.
US11114836B2	Semiconductor device, intelligent power module and power conversion apparatus The present invention relates to a semiconductor device and it is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor device that makes it easy to change a specification on driving of a power semiconductor element or control of a protection operation thereof. The semiconductor device includes a power semiconductor element, a main electrode terminal of the power semiconductor element, a sensor section that emits a signal corresponding to a physical state of the power semiconductor element, a sensor signal terminal connected to the sensor section, a drive terminal that supplies power to drive the power semiconductor element and a case that accommodates the power semiconductor element, the main electrode terminal, the sensor section, the sensor signal terminal and the drive terminal, and the sensor signal terminal and the drive terminal are provided so as to be connectable from outside the case.
US11114827B2	Deep fiber push connector that allows for rotation during tightening without damaging cable A connector includes a first connector body and a second connector body configured to be coupled to one another. The first connector body has a through hole and a cavity. The through hole and the cavity are configured to receive a shield of a hardline coaxial cable. A first washer is disposed in the first connector body and is configured to permit the shield to be pushed in a first direction through the through hole and into the cavity while resisting movement of the shield in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The second connector body has a through hole and a cavity. The through hole and the cavity of the second connector body are configured to receive a tubular member. A second washer is disposed in the second connector body and is configured to permit the tubular member to be pushed in the second direction through the through hole of the second connector body and into the cavity of the second connector body while resisting movement of the tubular member in the first direction. The second connector body is rotatable relative to the second washer and the tubular member until the second connector body and the first connector body are coupled together to a predetermined degree of tightness.
US11114819B2	Laser carrier-on-chip device A semiconductor laser chip-on-carrier (CoC) device comprising: a semiconductor laser component comprising an electric laser terminal; a driver circuit for producing on an electric driver terminal an alternating current electric driving signal; and an electric signal conductor electrically connecting the driver terminal to the laser terminal, wherein the electric signal conductor comprises: a first printed trace which is not arranged on the semiconductor laser component and which comprises a first trace elongated section and a first trace downstream terminal section; and a first wire bond, connecting the first trace downstream terminal section to the laser terminal, and wherein the first trace elongated section is adapted to the semiconductor laser component such that the first trace elongated section and an internal capacitance of the semiconductor is laser component together correspond to an impedance which is at the most 20% from an output impedance of an output terminal of the driver circuit.
US11114814B2	Relative phase measurement for coherent combining of laser beams A phase control system for controlling the relative phase (φ) of two laser beams of a laser system, which are to be coherently combined, is disclosed that enables providing a phase-controlled sum laser beam. An optical system of the phase control system includes a beam input for receiving a measuring portion of two collinear coherent laser beams, which are superimposed to form a sum laser beam, and provides measuring beams or measuring beam regions, which are used with associated photodetectors for outputting photodetector signals. For determining the relative phase from the photodetector signals, the phase control system has an evaluation device and a delay device for being inserted into the beam path of at least one of the two laser beams. The optical system is configured such that the measuring beams or measuring beam regions are related to different phase offsets.
US11114806B2	Coaxial connector device having main connector to which cable is connected and board connector to which main connector is connected There is provided a coaxial connector device that enables a reduction in deterioration in signal quality and transmission characteristics at high frequencies. A coaxial connector device 1 includes a main connector 10 and a board connector 20. A main connector body 11 has a first fitting part R1 for a coaxial cable connector at one end and a second fitting part R2 at the other end. Inside the main connector body 11, a center contact 13 and a card edge substrate 17 electrically connected to the center contact 13 are included. In a board connector body 21 a slot 23 is formed. When the second fitting part R2 of the main connector 10 is fitted to the board connector 20, the end portion of the card edge substrate 17 is coupled to the slot 23 of the board connector body 21, a plurality of substrate contacts included in the card edge substrate 17 electrically contacts a plurality of inner contacts 25 of the board connector body 21, and the second fitting part R2 of the main connector body 11 electrically contacts an outer conductor contact 27.
US11114805B2	Marine shore power component A shore power cord is provided. The shore power cord includes a connector plug rated at a first amperage, wherein the connector plug is configured to connect to an electrical power source, and a connector receptacle rated at a second amperage, wherein the connector receptacle is configured to connect to an electrical power receiver, and wherein the connector plug and the connector receptacle are electrically coupled via at least one electrically conductive line. The shore power cord further includes an overcurrent protection apparatus, wherein the overcurrent protection apparatus is positioned along the at least one line, between the connector plug and the connector receptacle, and wherein the overcurrent protection apparatus includes at least one circuit breaker, the at least one circuit breaker having an amperage, the amperage of the at least one circuit breaker being a lower of the first amperage and the second amperage.
US11114804B2	Shielded-cable pass-through assembly with boundry contact A shielded-cable pass-through assembly configured to provide electrical contact between a shielding-layer of a shielded-cable and a boundary through which the shielded-cable passes includes a metallic-sleeve and a contact-terminal. The metallic-sleeve defines a shield-surface used to make electrical contact with a shielding-layer of a shielded-cable. The contact-terminal defines a contact-feature used to make electrical contact with the boundary through which the shielded-cable passes. The contact-terminal also defines a plurality of inner-contact-fingers extending from the contact-terminal in a longitudinal-direction parallel to a longitudinal-axis of the shielded-cable. The plurality of inner-contact-fingers is urged in a radial-direction to make electrical contact with a contact-surface of the metallic-sleeve after the assembly is assembled.
US11114801B2	Connector A connector (10) includes a housing (20) and a connection detecting member (60) that is displaceable between a connection assurance position and a connection assurance release position. The connection detecting member (60) is mountable on the housing (20) and pushed from a pre-assembling position to the connection assurance release position. First arms (74) are on sides of the connection detecting member (60). Two first guide grooves (44) and two second guide grooves (48) are in the side walls (42) of the housing (20) and extend along a sliding direction of the connection detecting member. First claws (76) of the first arms (74) are in the first guide grooves (44) at the connection assurance position and the connection assurance release position, and are in the second guide grooves (48) at the pre-assembling position. The first arms (74) deflect by pushing the connection detecting member (60) to the connection assurance release position.
US11114800B2	Release with tab and connector The present disclosure disclosed a release with tab and a connector. The release with tab is disposed on a connector head. The release with tab comprises an elastic clip and a tab assembly. The elastic clip comprises a first chuck part, a second chuck part and an elastic part disposed on the connector head. The first chuck part is pivotally connected to the second chuck part. The elastic part is disposed between the first chuck part and the second chuck part. One end of the tab assembly is disposed on the elastic clip. The tab assembly moves in a direction away from the elastic clip to compress the elastic part and the tab assembly drives one end of the first chuck part to approach one end of the second chuck part. When the tab assembly is no longer subjected to external force, the tab assembly restores to the initial position.
US11114799B2	Housing for a plug comprising a display unit A housing includes a display unit indicating a complete plugging of a counter-plug into the housing and a first stop. The display unit is movable along a longitudinal axis between an initial position and an assembly position. The display unit includes a locking element, a guide element, and a supporting element. The locking element has a resilient bridge with a first end fixed to the guide element. The first stop prevents the display unit from moving in the initial position by abutment with a free end of the bridge. The free end is bent in a bending plane in a direction of the guide element when moving toward the first stop. The supporting element supports the bridge at the guide element when the bridge deforms in the direction of the guide element and prevents a deformation of the bridge away from the abutment on the first stop.
US11114793B2	Electrical installation for connecting male terminals to female terminals The installation comprises a connector with a body and input openings connected to a housing used for receiving the male terminals. The installation also comprises output openings through which the female terminal wiring is passed, separation walls, side tabs and a first cover hinged to the connector and characterised in that it incorporates a second hinged cover on the aforementioned connector that is facing the first cover, which blocks the side tabs when closed and defines a base, and female terminals made of an electrical conductive material and housed in the connector housing. The female terminals expand when the male terminals are inserted inside them and the area of the housing is greater than the area occupied by the female terminals prior to expanding.
US11114790B2	Reversible dual-position electric connector A reversible dual-position electrical connector includes: an insulation seat provided with a base seat and a tongue; two rows of terminals, wherein the two rows of terminals are embedded into and plastic injection molded with the insulation seat, the terminal is integrally provided with, from front to rear, a connection portion, a contact, an extension and a pin, the contact is in flat surface contact with the tongue, elastically non-movable and exposed from two connection surfaces, and a bent segment is formed between the connection portion and the contact, so that the connection portion is lower than the two connection surfaces and embedded into the tongue; an inner insulating structure embedded and plastic injection molded with the insulation seat, wherein the contacts and the extensions of the two rows of terminals are in flat surface contact with and rest against the inner insulating structure.
US11114785B2	Connector The present disclosure provides a connector, comprising a connector body, a plurality of signal terminals, a plurality of wiring terminals, and a circuit board. The connector body comprises an electrical connection slot, a circuit board slot, and a wiring slot. The plurality of signal terminals and the plurality of wiring terminals are disposed on the sidewall of the electrical connection slot. The plurality of signal terminals is corresponded to the plurality of wiring terminals, respectively. The circuit board comprises a circuit board body and a plurality of conductive pads. The circuit board is inserted into the circuit board slot. The plurality of conductive pads is in contact with the corresponding signal terminal.
US11114784B2	Electrical connector structure A connector structure configured to electrically connect an electrical component to a circuit board is disclosed. The connector structure may include a female connector secured to the circuit board; and a male terminal extending from the electrical component and inserted into the female connector. The female connector may include a connector housing secured to the circuit board; a connector-side terminal located within the connector housing and including a female contact configured to receive the male terminal; and a contact sleeve located within the connector housing and secured to the female contact. The female contact may be displaceable within the connector housing. The male terminal may be deformed so as to press the contact sleeve against a frictional inner surface of the connector housing by a restoring force of the male terminal.
US11114783B1	System and method for incorporating an inline inductor into a connector A multidrop cable may include multiple nodes electrically coupled thereon. The nodes may each include a respective PCB layer and a respective connector. The connector may provide connection between the transmission lines of the multidrop cable and the PCB layer. The PCB layer may include circuitry to reduce an induced noise of the multidrop cable by adding twist to the respective signals of the transmission lines. The PCB layer may also preserve the characteristic impedance of the multidrop cable by providing inductance in series between the respective signals of the transmission lines.
US11114779B2	Terminal base and electrical connection structure of devices A terminal base includes a plurality of terminals configured to electrically connect a first device and a second device to each other, each of the plurality of terminals being electrically conductive and a housing configured to hold the plurality of terminals, the housing being made of an electrically insulating resin in which each of the plurality of terminals includes a first connection portion exposed to an outside of the housing so as to be connected to the first device, a second connection portion exposed to the outside of the housing so as to be connected to the second device, and an insert portion insert-molded in the housing and in which he insert portion has a solid cylindrical shape or a hollow cylindrical shape.
US11114775B2	Contacting device for contacting a shielding conductor of an electrical line with a grounding section A contacting device for contacting a shielding conductor of an electrical line with a grounding portion includes: a housing which encloses a receptacle space into which the electrical line including the shielding conductor is insertable, the housing being attachable to the grounding portion such that the grounding portion extends in the receptacle space; and a spring element which is arranged on the housing so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis from an open position into a clamping position, in order, in the clamping position, to contact the shielding conductor of the electrical line inserted into the receptacle space with the grounding portion to which the housing is attached.
US11114770B2	Antenna structure and wireless communication device using the same An antenna structure suitable for 5G use includes first and second antenna units. Each second antenna unit is positioned between adjacent first antenna units. Each first antenna unit is positioned between adjacent second antenna units. Each first antenna unit and each second antenna unit are restricted to emit a radio beam in a single polarization. The first antenna unit emits radio waves in a first polarization, the second antenna unit emits waves in a second polarization. The first polarization direction and the second polarization direction are perpendicular to each other.
US11114762B2	Method of outputting a signal using an antenna disposed adjacent to a conductive member of a connector and an electronic device using the same An electronic device is provided and includes a first housing forming a portion of an outside surface of the electronic device, a second housing coupled with the first housing and forming another portion of the outside surface of the electronic device, an antenna formed in at least a portion of the second housing, a connector including one or more connection pins for connection with an external device, at least a portion of an outside surface of the connector being formed of a conductive member, an adjusting circuit electrically connected with, at least, the portion of the outside surface of the connector formed of the conductive member, wherein an impedance of the adjusting circuit is variable. The electronic device may further include a processor configured to vary the impedance of the adjusting circuit based on a signal to be output through the antenna, and output the signal through the antenna, with the impedance of the adjusting circuit being varied.
US11114761B2	Antenna with partially saturated dispersive ferromagnetic substrate The invention concerns an antenna, comprising at least two non-ferrous metal plates, at least one first plate forming a radiating portion and a second plate forming a mass plane, at least one substrate, arranged between the mass plane and the radiating portion, and an excitor of length at least equal to the thickness of the substrate, extending between the mass plane and the radiating portion and connected to the radiating portion, and adapted to supply the antenna, characterised in that the substrate is a dispersive ferromagnetic substrate, called dispersive ferrite presenting, as magnetic features, a high relative magnetic permeability comprised between 10 and 10,000 and a high magnetic loss tangent greater than 0.1, said antenna comprising means for gradually and locally reducing magnetic features of the dispersive ferrite.
US11114757B2	Embedded antenna array metrology systems and methods An antenna array testing circuit can include a circuitry including a plurality of memory registers, a testing sequence generation logic, and a testing control logic. The memory registers can store, for each antenna element of a plurality of antenna elements of the phased antenna array, a corresponding antenna element ID. The memory registers can store a testing step ID indicative of a testing step of a sequence of testing steps. The testing sequence generation logic can determine, for each antenna element of the phased antenna array, using the corresponding antenna element ID and the testing step ID, a corresponding testing signal indicative of a testing state of the antenna element during the testing step. The testing control logic can cause each antenna element the phased antenna array to be configured according to the corresponding testing signal during the testing step.
US11114754B2	Radar antenna device and method for shielding a radar antenna device A radar antenna device (16) having an antenna arrangement (19) that is accommodated in a housing (17) and is provided with a protective plate (20) for being separated with respect to a furnace atmosphere formed within a furnace chamber, said protective plate (20) being disposed on the housing, a radar-transparent limp material layer (21) comprising pores being disposed as a shield at a distance upstream of the protective plate (20) in such a manner that a space which is separated by the material layer (21) with respect to the furnace chamber is formed, a fluid line opening into said space for applying a fluid flow to the material layer (21).
US11114753B2	Antenna windows for base covers In one example, a base cover for a lower housing of a convertible device is described, which may include a metal body and an antenna window attached to the metal body. The antenna window may include a non-metallic structure and a metallic structure disposed within the non-metallic structure such that the metallic structure corresponds to an antenna slot defined in an upper housing of the convertible device.
US11114752B2	Three-dimensional antenna apparatus having at least one additional radiator An antenna apparatus is provided, including: a substrate extending in a substrate plane, wherein the substrate includes a first side and an opposite second side, wherein a first antenna is arranged on the first side of the substrate, and a three-dimensional shape structure arranged on the first side and extending out of the substrate plane and across the first antenna so that the first antenna is arranged between the substrate and the three-dimensional shape structure. In addition, a second antenna is arranged on the three-dimensional shape structure.
US11114748B2	Flexible printed circuit structures for electronic device antennas An electronic device may have peripheral conductive housing structures divided into first and second segments. First and second antennas may be formed from the segments and may be fed using a flexible printed circuit structure. The structure may include a first substrate attached to the first segment, a second substrate soldered to the first substrate and attached to the second segment, and a third substrate soldered to the second substrate. Third and fourth antennas may be formed on the first substrate whereas fifth and sixth antennas are be formed on the second substrate. The second substrate may be folded and may have a lateral area oriented perpendicular to the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth antennas. Modularly forming the structure in this way may maximize the flexibility with which the structure can accommodate other components, thereby minimizing the space consumption associated with mounting and feeding the antennas without sacrificing wireless performance.
US11114744B2	Antenna having single non-conductive portion and electronic device including the same An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a foldable housing including, a hinge structure, a first housing structure including a first surface, a second surface, and a first side member, wherein the first side member encloses at least a portion of a space between the first surface and the second surface and includes a first conductive portion, a first non-conductive portion, and a second conductive portion, and a second housing structure including a third surface, a fourth surface, and a second side member, a printed circuit board, at least one wireless communication circuit including a first electrical path and a second electrical path, a first variable element including a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, and a second variable element including a fourth terminal, a fifth terminal, and a sixth terminal.
US11114742B2	Window antennas In one aspect, an apparatus is described that includes a transparent pane having a first surface and a second surface. An electrochromic device is arranged over the second surface that includes a first conductive layer adjacent the second surface, a second conductive layer, and an electrochromic layer between the first and the second conductive layers. The apparatus further includes at least one conductive antenna structure arranged over the second surface.
US11114741B2	Antenna module and electronic device comprising same An electronic device is provided. The electronic device including a housing comprising a front plate which faces a first direction, a back plate which faces a second direction opposite from the first direction, and a lateral member which surrounds a space between the front plate and the back plate and has at least one part formed from a metal material, a display seen through a first part of the front plate, an antenna module positioned inside the space, and a wireless communication circuit. The antenna module includes a first surface facing a third direction forming an acute angle with the second direction, a second surface facing a fourth direction opposite from the third direction, at least one first conductive element disposed on the first surface or inside the antenna module so as to face the third direction, and at least one second conductive element which is adjacent to the lateral member between the first surface and the second surface and extends in a fifth direction different from the third direction and the fourth direction and facing between the lateral surface and the first part of the front plate.
US11114739B2	Mitigating wind damage to wind exposed devices Disclosed are devices, system, and method for mitigating wind damage to satellite antennas and for reducing the amount of ballast required to secure the satellite antennas. The device, system, and method include a mast on which an antenna may be affixed, a pivot gear capable of rotating between two or more positions, and a tension force or retention force on the pivot gear. A load force applied to the antenna creates a risk of damage proportional to the load force. The antenna system is capable of transitioning from a first orientation into a second orientation when the load force exceeds tension force or retention force, or the sum thereof, such that the antenna system experiences a reduced load force and therefore a reduced risk of damage. The device, system, and method also reduce the amount of ballast required to secure a non-penetrating antenna installation against tipping or sliding.
US11114726B2	Battery box A battery box including a lower box body, where the lower box body includes a first plate and a second plate. The first plate includes: a bottom wall; a peripheral wall connected to a periphery of the bottom wall and extending upward; and the bottom wall and the peripheral wall form an accommodating space opening upwards; the second plate is fixed to the bottom wall from a bottom and engages with the bottom wall to form a flow passage. The second plate is provided with: a second protrusion protruding to the first plate from a side facing away from the first plate and extending along a transverse direction; and an opening running through the second protrusion in a height direction and extending along the transverse direction, the second protrusion of the second plate being connected to the bottom wall of the first plate in a sealed manner.
US11114725B2	Capacitance reduction in battery systems A battery system includes a battery cell, a thermally insulating layer, and a thermally conducting layer which includes a fin. The fin pushes against an interior surface of a case which surrounds the battery cell, the thermally insulating layer, and the thermally conducting layer. The thermally conducting layer includes a discontinuity where the discontinuity is configured to reduce a capacitance associated with the thermally conducting layer compared to when the thermally conducting layer does not include the discontinuity.
US11114724B2	Battery module, and battery pack and energy storage system including the same A battery module having a plurality of battery cells and a module case configured to accommodate the plurality of battery cells is provided. The module case includes first and second cases coupled to each other by hooking and having shapes corresponding to each other.
US11114720B2	Cylindrical battery housing case A cylindrical battery housing case has a plurality of cylindrical battery housing chambers each housing one cylindrical battery, and a plurality of elongated resilient members each having a protrusion for holding a cylindrical portion of the cylindrical battery is formed in a cantilevered manner inside notches in a side wall of each of the cylindrical battery housing chambers.
US11114718B2	Energy storage apparatus and method of manufacturing energy storage apparatus An energy storage apparatus which includes an energy storage device, an outer case, and an adhesive material which is injected between at least one surface out of a first surface and a second surface which are two surfaces of the energy storage device disposed adjacently to each other and an inner surface of the outer case thus making the at least one surface and the inner surface of the outer case adhere to each other by surface adhesion.
US11114709B2	Battery module A battery module includes a battery stack having a plurality of stacked batteries, a first heat radiator facing first surface of battery stack, a first heat transfer component that is in contact with the first heat radiator and first surface to transfer heat from the battery stack to the first heat radiator, and a second heat radiator facing a second surface of the battery stack. The second surface extends in a direction intersecting with the first surface. The second heat radiator is thermally connected to the second surface directly or through the second heat transfer component. A positional relationship between the first heat transfer component and the battery stack is formed such that the center of the first heat transfer component (84) is more away from the second heat radiator than the center of the battery stack is in a direction along the first surface.
US11114704B2	Depassivation of completion tool batteries Methods and systems for depassivating completion tool batteries are provided. In one embodiment, the methods comprise: providing a completion tool disposed within a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation, wherein the completion tool is electrically coupled to an at least partially passivated lithium battery; depassivating the at least partially passivated lithium battery in the wellbore by discharging the lithium battery; and powering the completion tool with the at least partially depassivated lithium battery.
US11114700B2	Pouch-shaped secondary battery having structure in which bidirectional cell is changed to unidirectional cell Disclosed herein is a pouch-shaped secondary battery configured to have a structure in which a unit cell, including an electrode assembly constituted by a positive electrode and a negative electrode, stacked in the state in which a separator is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, electrode tabs, and electrode leads, or a cell assembly, including two or more stacked unit cells, is mounted in a pouch-shaped case, wherein the pouch-shaped secondary battery includes a unidirectional structure in which electrode terminals oriented in two directions are changed to electrode terminals oriented in one direction. In the case in which a battery pack is constituted using a bidirectional cell, a large space is required, whereby the energy density of the battery pack is reduced. The disclosed pouch-shaped secondary battery has the effect of solving the above problem.
US11114696B2	Electrolyte system for lithium-chalcogen batteries An electrolyte system for an electrochemical cell having an electrode comprising a chalcogen-containing electroactive material is provided, along with methods of making the electrolyte system. The electrolyte system includes one or more lithium salts dissolved in one or more solvents. The salts have a concentration in the electrolyte of greater than or equal to about 2M to less than or equal to about 5M. The electrochemical cell including the electrolyte system has a minimum potential greater than or equal to about 0.8 V to less than or equal to about 1.8 V and a maximum charge potential of greater than or equal to about 2.5 V to less than or equal to about 3 V.
US11114688B2	Lithium-ion mixed conductor membrane improves the performance of lithium-sulfur battery and other energy storage devices A lithium ion mixed conduction membrane includes an optional polymeric binder and a partially lithiated ion conductive material having lithium ion conductivity and electrical conductivity dispersed within the polymeric binder that is capable of improving the performance and cycle life of lithium-sulfur rechargeable batteries and other batteries exhibiting the polysulfide shuttle. One or more lithium ion conduction membranes are placed between the positive and negative electrodes, or adjacent to the negative electrode of a battery and in particular, of a lithium sulfur battery.
US11114687B2	Battery A battery includes a first electrode layer; and a second electrode layer disposed on the first electrode layer and serving as a counter electrode for the first electrode layer, wherein the first electrode layer includes a first current collector, a first active material layer, and a first solid electrolyte layer, the first active material layer is disposed to be in contact with the first current collector and to occupy a smaller area than the first current collector, the first solid electrolyte layer is disposed to be in contact with the first current collector and the first active material layer and to occupy the same area as the first current collector, the first active material layer faces the second electrode layer with the first solid electrolyte layer therebetween, and the first electrode layer includes a peripheral portion including a first rounded portion.
US11114684B2	Fuel cell membrane-electrode assembly A membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell is provided. The membrane-electrode assembly includes a cathode electrode and an anode electrode which are positioned oppositely to each other; and a polymer electrolyte membrane positioned between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode. The cathode electrode and the anode electrode each includes an electrode substrate; a micropore layer which is positioned on the electrode substrate; and a first catalyst layer positioned on the micropore layer, at least one of a second catalyst layer is positioned between the first catalyst layer and the polymer electrolyte membrane, and the second catalyst layer includes a reaction inducing material which is a metal or alloy.
US11114682B2	Fuel cell system and method for controlling the same A method for controlling a fuel cell system is provided. The method includes upon start of a fuel cell stack, obtaining a flow rate of air supplied into a cathode after an air regulator for regulating the air supplied into the cathode is opened. A sealing state of the fuel cell stack is then determined based on the obtained flow rate of the air.
US11114681B2	Fuel cell system and method of controlling the same The fuel cell system performs prevention control for preventing an anode gas detector from erroneously detecting anode gas discharged from an exhaust port as leakage of anode gas from an anode gas flow path, when at least one of (i) a flow rate proportion, found by dividing a measured flow rate of cathode gas by an assumed flow rate of the cathode gas, is smaller than a predetermined flow rate proportion threshold, (ii) a pressure proportion, found by dividing a measured gas pressure by an assumed gas pressure, is larger than a predetermined pressure proportion threshold, and (iii) a voltage proportion, found by dividing a measured voltage of the fuel cell by an assumed voltage of the fuel cell, is smaller than a predetermined voltage proportion threshold, is satisfied. This prevents the anode gas detector from erroneous detection as leakage of anode gas.
US11114677B2	Fuel cell interconnector and method for making a fuel cell interconnector An interconnector for a solid oxide fuel cell is manufactured by single-press compacting a powder blend to form a green interconnector with a desired shape of a final interconnector. The powder blend includes chromium and iron, and may include an organic lubricant. At least 50 wt % or more of an iron portion of the powder blend comprises iron particles smaller than 45 um. The green interconnector is then sintered and oxidized to form the final interconnector. The oxidation step occurs in a continuous flow furnace in which a controlled atmosphere (e.g., humidified air) is fed into the furnace in the travel direction of the interconnector. The final interconnector comprises at least 90 wt % chromium, at least 3 wt % iron, and less than 0.2 wt % nitrogen. An average density within a flow field of the final interconnector may be less than 6.75 g/cc.
US11114676B2	Fuel cell separator A fuel cell separator having high corrosion resistance and electrical conductivity is provided. This fuel cell separator includes, on a substrate, a composite film containing an antimony-doped tin oxide and a tin-doped indium oxide, in which an element ratio of tin to indium (Sn/In) in the composite film is 1.4 or smaller.
US11114675B2	Bipolar plate for fuel cells, and production method The bipolar plate of the invention for electrochemical cells, especially for proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, is made with a metallic substrate and on the surface is made with an electrical contact resistance-reducing, carbon-based layer, a layer system or a boundary layer which is made of a near-surface, primarily sp2-bonded, carbon-based layer having a carbon fraction ranging from 50% to 100%, this layer being applied on a metallic substrate surface that is modified relative to the starting material. There may also be a surface region of the substrate in the form of an edge layer made with nitride and/or carbon by nitriding and/or carburizing. On the surface which is in touching contact with a gas-permeable element within the electrochemical cell, the metallic substrate may have a structuring made with elevations and/or depressions in the respective surface.
US11114674B2	Proton conductive two-dimensional amorphous carbon film for gas membrane and fuel cell applications Described is a fuel cell comprising an electrode catalyst assembly, and a two-dimensional (2D) amorphous carbon, wherein the 2D amorphous carbon has a crystallinity (C)≤0.8.
US11114673B2	Cathode for lithium air battery comprising hollow structure and method of manufacturing same The present disclosure relates to a cathode for a lithium air battery and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly to a method of manufacturing a cathode for a lithium air battery, in which a hollow structure including a carbon material having a nitrogen functional group is synthesized through electrospinning of a thermally decomposable polymer, coating with a nitrogen-containing polymer and heat treatment, and is utilized without a binder as a cathode carbon material for a lithium air battery, thereby increasing the performance and lifespan of a lithium air battery.
US11114668B2	Electrode materials and processes for their preparation This application describes an electrode material comprising an indigoid compound, i.e. indigo blue or a derivative thereof, for instance, together with particles of an electrochemically active material dispersed in a binder. Processes for the preparation of the electrode material and electrodes containing the material, as well as to the electrochemical cells and their use are also contemplated.
US11114667B2	Electrode-forming composition The present invention pertains to an electrode-forming composition, to use of said electrode-forming composition in a process for the manufacture of an electrode, to said electrode and to an electrochemical device comprising said electrode. The electrode-forming composition comprises at least one partially fluorinated fluoropolymer comprising recurring units derived from at least one fluorinated monomer and at least one functional hydrogenated monomer comprising at least one carboxylic acid end group, at least one electro-active compound, at least one liquid medium comprising at least one organic carbonate or at least one ionic liquid, and at least one metal salt.
US11114666B2	Modified graphite negative electrode material, preparation method thereof and secondary battery The present invention provides a modified graphite negative electrode material, preparation method thereof and a secondary battery. The modified graphite negative electrode material includes a graphite and a multilayer graphene. The multilayer graphene are dispersed in the graphite. The multilayer graphene are loaded with a conductive agent by bonding of a binder. The modified graphite negative electrode material can achieve a higher compaction density for the negative electrode, and can effectively improve the lithium precipitation of the negative electrode of the secondary battery while improving the cycle performance of the secondary battery when being applied to the secondary battery.
US11114665B2	Energy storage device and method for producing same There is provided is an energy storage device having improved power performance at a relatively large current. In the present embodiment, an energy storage device is provided, which has a negative active material layer containing particulate amorphous carbon, wherein a distribution curve of differential pore volume in the negative active material layer has a peak appearing within the range from 0.1 μm to 2 μm inclusive and the differential pore volume at the peak is 0.9 cm3/g or more.
US11114661B2	Electrochemical cell having a serpentine anode with a plurality of interleaved cathode plates having extending tabs stacked and connected to each other by a welded surrounding metal hoop An electrochemical cell comprising an electrode assembly formed from an elongate anode that is folded into a serpentine configuration with a plurality of cathode plates interleaved between the folds is described. To make a robust and secure connection of the respective cathode tabs to a cathode terminal, the tabs are folded into an overlapping and stacked relationship. The proximal end of a metal strip is wrapped around the stacked cathode tabs and then a laser is used to weld through all layers of the metal strip and each of the bound cathode tabs. The laser welds are visible from the opposite side of the thusly formed strip-shaped hoop surrounding the stacked cathode tabs from which the laser beam first contacted the assembly. This provides the welding engineer with a visual indication that the welded connection of the metal strip-shaped hoop to the stacked cathode tabs is robust and structurally sound.
US11114658B2	Positive active material for rechargeable lithium battery, positive electrode including same and rechargeable lithium battery including same Provided are a positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a positive electrode including the same. The positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a first positive active material and a second positive active material, wherein the first positive active material includes at least one nickel-based lithium composite oxide, and the second positive active material is represented by Chemical Formula 2 and has an average particle diameter of about 300 nm to about 600 nm: Lia1Fe1-x1M1x1PO4. [Chemical Formula 2] In Chemical Formula 2, 0.90≤a1≤1.8, 0≤x1≤0.7, and M1 may be Mg, Co, Ni, or a combination thereof.
US11114657B2	Negative electrode for metal secondary battery, metal secondary battery, and method of producing metal secondary battery A negative electrode is a negative electrode for a metal secondary battery. In a full-charge state of the metal secondary battery, the negative electrode includes a first metal and a second metal. A carbon fiber aggregate includes a plurality of carbon fibers. The first metal is an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal. The second metal is a metal alloyable with or an alloy alloyable with the first metal. The second metal is carried at least at a central portion of the carbon fiber aggregate in a thickness direction of the carbon fiber aggregate. The second metal is in the form of particles.
US11114648B2	UV-protected component for OLEDs The present invention relates to an organic radiation-emitting component with an active organic layer constituted to generate radiation and one or two radiation-output sides, characterised in that, on at least one radiation-output side of the component, a UV protective film is arranged and connected to the component, wherein the UV protective film contains at least one first layer (A) and a second layer (B), wherein the first layer (A) contains 0.01 to 20% by weight, with reference to the total weight of the first layer (A), of a UV absorber, and wherein the second layer (B) contains polycarbonate. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of a component according to the invention as an organic light-emitting diode, and for lighting, especially for general lighting.
US11114644B2	OLED display panel and OLED display device The present disclosure provides an OLED display panel and a display device. The OLED display panel includes a substrate, a light-emitting functional layer disposed on the substrate, and at least two optical coupling layers disposed on the light-emitting functional layer, wherein refractive indices of the at least two optical coupling layers are gradually decreased in a direction in which light emits from the light-emitting functional layer. By adjusting an interaction between an angular width and a multiple-beam interference in the OLED display panel, efficiency of optical coupling is improved. Therefore, luminous efficiency of the OLED display panel is greatly improved. Brightness of the OLED display panel is increased, and a lifetime of the OLED display panel is extended.
US11114636B2	Organic electroluminescent display panel, manufacturing method thereof, and display device The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent display panel, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device that can alleviate or avoid the occurrence of pixel crosstalk problems due to lateral conduction of the charge generation layer. An organic electroluminescent display panel is provided which comprises: a substrate; an anode layer and a pixel defining layer over the substrate, the pixel defining layer defining pixel units, wherein a recess is provided in the pixel defining layer between adjacent pixel units; a stack of organic electroluminescent units over the anode layer and the pixel defining layer, the stack comprising at least two organic electroluminescent units and a charge generation layer disposed between organic electroluminescent units which are adjacent to each other; a cathode layer over the stack, wherein the corresponding charge generation layers of the adjacent pixel units are disconnected at the recesses, and wherein the cathode layer is continuous at the recess.
US11114630B2	Display panel, manufacturing method thereof, display device A display panel is provided, including a substrate on a base, a transistor stack on the substrate, and a fluorescent layer between the base and the transistor stack. The fluorescent layer is configured to prevent light from damaging an active layer in the transistor stack in a laser lift-off process, and an orthographic projection of the fluorescent layer on the base overlaps an orthographic projection of the active layer on the base. A display device comprising the display panel, and a manufacturing method of the display panel are further provided.
US11114629B2	Foldable display device A display device for reducing a stress applied to a display panel in a folded state is provided. The display device includes a display panel and a panel support portion. The display panel includes a bendable area. The panel support portion is combined to the display panel and includes a multi-joint member supporting the bendable area. The multi-joint member includes joint portions that are sequentially arranged, and a sliding member passing through the joint portions and moving inside the panel support portion. The sliding member includes a plate portion for arranging the joint portions, and a hook-shaped portion connected to a side of the plate portion and arranging the joint portions in a circular arc shape.
US11114623B2	Organic salts for high voltage organic and transparent solar cells Photo-active devices including a substrate, a first electrode, an active layer including an organic salt or salt mixture that selectively or predominantly harvests light from the near infrared or infrared regions of the solar spectrum, and a second electrode. The devices are either visibly transparent or visibly opaque and can be utilized in single- or multi-junction devices.
US11114621B2	Electroactive materials There is disclosed an electroactive composition including (a) a host compound having Formula I and (b) a photoactive dopant. In Formula I: R1 is the same or different at each occurrence and is D, alkyl, silyl, germyl, deuterated alkyl, deuterated silyl, or deuterated germyl; a is an integer from 0-7; b is an integer from 0-8; c is an integer from 0-4; and d is an integer from 0-7.
US11114617B2	Spiroacridine derivatives Provided is a composition comprising a compound having structure (I) wherein each of A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, and A8 is independently CR12 or N; wherein one to four of A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, and A8 are N; wherein J1 is C or Si; wherein J2 is C(R13)n, O, (C(R13)n)2, S, NR13, or Se; wherein n is 1 or 2; wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, and R13 is independently H, deuterium, or an organic group. Also provided is a method of making the composition, a method of making an organic light-emitting diode using the composition, and an organic light-emitting diode made by that method.
US11114615B2	Chalcogenide memory device components and composition Systems, devices, and methods related to or that employ chalcogenide memory components and compositions are described. A component of a memory cell, such as a selector device, storage device, or self-selecting memory device, may be made of a chalcogenide material composition. A chalcogenide material may have a composition that includes one or more elements from the boron group, such as boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, or thallium. The chalcogenide material, for instance, may have a composition of selenium, germanium, and at least one of boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, or thallium. The chalcogenide material may in some cases also include arsenic, but may in some cases lack arsenic.
US11114614B2	Process for fabricating resistive memory cells A oxide-based direct-access resistive nonvolatile memory may include within the interconnect portion of the integrated circuit a memory plane including capacitive memory cells extending in orthogonal first and second directions and each including a first electrode, a dielectric region and a second electrode. The memory plane may include conductive pads of square or rectangular shape forming the first electrodes. The stack of the dielectric layer and the second conductive layer covers the pads in the first direction and forms, in the second direction, conductive bands extending over and between the pads. The second electrodes may be formed by zones of the second bands facing the pads.
US11114613B2	Cross-point memory and methods for forming of the same The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices, and in particular to cross-point memory arrays and methods for fabricating the same. Line stacks are formed, including a storage material line disposed over lower a conductive line. Upper conductive lines are formed over and crossing the line stacks, exposing portions of the line stacks between adjacent upper conductive lines. After forming the upper conductive lines, storage elements are formed at intersections between the lower conductive lines and the upper conductive lines by removing storage materials from exposed portions of the line stacks, such that each storage element is laterally surrounded by spaces. A continuous sealing material laterally surrounds each of the storage elements.
US11114611B2	Method to make MRAM with small footprint A method to make magnetic random access memory with small footprint using O-ion implantation to form electrically isolated memory pillar and electric (bottom and top) leads, which are made from some oxygen gettering materials, Mg, Zr, Y, Th, Ti, Al, Ba. The doped O-ions react with metal atoms to form fully oxidized metal oxide after high temperature anneal. The method only needs two photolithography patterning and oxygen implantations and no etch and dielectric refill are needed, thus significantly reduce process cost. The method can produce extremely small MRAM cell size with perfectly vertical pillar edges (FIG. 1).
US11114608B2	Combined spin-orbit torque and spin-transfer torque switching for magnetoresistive devices and methods therefor Spin-Hall (SH) material is provided near free regions of magnetoresistive devices that include magnetic tunnel junctions. Current flowing through such SH material injects spin current into the free regions such that spin torque is applied to the free regions. The spin torque generated from SH material can be used to switch the free region or to act as an assist to spin-transfer torque generated by current flowing vertically through the magnetic tunnel junction, in order to improve the reliability, endurance, or both of the magnetoresistive device. Further, one or more additional regions or manufacturing steps may improve the switching efficiency and the thermal stability of magnetoresistive devices.
US11114605B2	Composite storage layer for magnetic random access memory devices A composite storage layer for magnetic memory devices includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a tri-layered spacer stack disposed on the first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer disposed on the tri-layered spacer stack, and an oxide capping layer on the second ferromagnetic layer. The tri-layered spacer stack comprises a first non-magnetic layer, a discontinuous, insulating oxide layer, and a second non-magnetic layer. The discontinuous, insulating oxide layer is sandwiched by the first non-magnetic layer and the second non-magnetic layer.
US11114603B2	Medical instrument including high frequency ultrasound transducer array Disclosed is a medical device that includes a phased array ultrasound transducer. The transducer includes a number of transducer elements that are electrically coupled to corresponding electrical conductors. In one embodiment, the conductors are included in a flex circuit and engage corresponding transducer elements though a conductive surface formed on outwardly extending ribs of a frame that holds the ultrasound array. In one embodiment, the phased array is forward facing in the medical device and has an element pitch of 0.75 lambda or less and more preferably 0.6 lambda or less. In one embodiment, the transducer is rotatable over an angle of +/−90 degrees to provide a 360 degree view of tissue surrounding the distal end of the device.
US11114601B2	Thermoelectric material Novel compounds with thermoelectric properties are presented. The novel compounds belong to the group of phosphides. They are characterized by excellent thermoelectric properties, in particularly in the temperature range of 400° C. to 700° C. Also a production method for the production of the compounds is presented, with which the thermoelectric substances can be prepared with high yield and quality.
US11114597B2	Display device having an electronic device disposed on a first pad and a second pad A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate and a first metal line and a second metal line disposed on the substrate. The display device includes a first pad and a second pad disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the first metal line and the second metal line respectively. The display device further includes an electronic device disposed on the first pad and the second pad. The electronic device includes a first connecting post and a second connecting post, wherein a distance between the first connecting post and the second connecting post is in a range from 1 um to 200 um. A portion of the first connecting post is embedded in the first pad and a portion of the second connecting post is embedded in the second pad.
US11114595B2	Optical component and transparent body The present invention relates to an optical component and a transparent body used in the optical component. The optical component includes at least one optical element that radiates ultraviolet light, and a package that accommodates the optical element. The package includes a mounting substrate on which the optical element is mounted, and a transparent body that is bonded to the mounting substrate with an organic-based adhesive layer therebetween. The package has a structure in which the ultraviolet light is transmitted through the transparent body but not guided to the adhesive layer, and the ultraviolet light does not directly come into contact with the adhesive layer.
US11114592B2	Light emitting diode A light emitting assembly comprising a solid state device, when and if coupleable with a power supply constructed and arranged to power the solid state device to emit from the solid state device a first wavelength radiation, and an enveloping vessel enhancing the luminescence of the solid-state device and providing a mechanism for arranging luminophoric medium in receiving relationship to said first, radiation, and which in exposure to said first radiation, is excited to responsively emit second wavelength radiation or to otherwise transfer its energy without radiation to a third radiative component. In a specific embodiment, monochromatic blue or UV light output from a light-emitting diode is converted to achromatic light without hue by packaging the diode with fluorescent organic and/or inorganic fluorescers and phosphors on the walls of the solid-state light envelope which keeps the diode and the fluorescers and phosphors under a vacuum or a rare or Noble gas.
US11114591B2	Core-shell materials with red-emitting phosphors A coated phosphors that include a shell comprising a first Mn4+ doped phosphor of formula I Ax[MFy]:Mn4+ I directly disposed on a core comprising a second phosphor. The second phosphor is a material other than a compound of formula I or formula II Ax[MFy] II wherein A is, independently at each occurrence, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, or a combination thereof; M is, independently at each occurrence, Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, Al, Ga, In, Sc, Hf, Y, La, Nb, Ta, Bi, Gd, or a combination thereof; x is the absolute value of the charge of the [MFy] ion; and y is 5, 6 or 7.
US11114589B2	Fluoride phosphor and light-emitting device using same Provided is a fluoride phosphor that has a good external quantum efficiency and is suitable for stably producing white LEDs. The fluoride phosphor has a composition represented by a general formula (1) and a repose angle of 30° or more and 60° or less. general formula: A2M(1-n)F6:Mn4+n (1), wherein 0
US11114579B2	Method for preparing ultrathin two-dimensional nanosheets and applications thereof A method for preparing an ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) monocrystalline nanosheet, the method including: 1) placing BiX3 powder where X=I, Br, or Cl in a crucible, and putting the crucible on a first heating zone of a furnace disposed at a gas inlet of a quartz tube; placing substrates covered with metal sheets on a second heating zone of the furnace disposed at a gas outlet of the quartz tube; 2) vacuumizing the quartz tube; pumping Ar gas into the quartz tube until the air pressure is 101.325 kPa; pumping a carrier gas into the quartz tube; and 3) heating and maintaining the second heating zone; heating the first heating zone for BiX3 evaporation until producing chemical reaction between BiX3 and the metal sheets, and preparing ultrathin 2D nanosheets on the substrates simultaneously; and cooling the substrate naturally to 15-30° C.
US11114575B1	Solar cell Disclosed is a solar cell, including: a substrate; an emitter, a first passivation film, an antireflection film and a first electrode sequentially disposed on an upper surface of the substrate; a tunneling layer, a retardation layer, a field passivation layer, a second passivation film and a second electrode sequentially disposed on a lower surface of the substrate. The retardation layer is configured to retard a migration of a doped ion in the field passivation layer to the substrate. The retardation layer includes a first retardation sub-layer overlapping with a projection of the second electrode and a second retardation sub-layer misaligning with a projection of the second electrode, and at least the second retardation sub-layer is an intrinsic semiconductor. A thickness of the first retardation sub-layer is smaller than a thickness of the second retardation sub-layer in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate.
US11114569B2	Semiconductor device with an oxidized intervention and method for fabricating the same The present application discloses a semiconductor device with an oxidized intervention layer and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a memory unit including a memory unit conductive layer positioned above the substrate and a lateral oxidized intervention layer positioned below the memory unit conductive layer, and a control unit positioned in the substrate and below the lateral oxidized intervention layer. The lateral oxidized intervention layer includes a sidewall portion and a center portion, and the sidewall portion has a greater concentration of oxygen than the center portion.
US11114568B2	Semiconductor device The purpose of the invention is to form the TFT of the oxide semiconductor, in which influence of variation in mask alignment is suppressed, thus, manufacturing a display device having a TFT of stable characteristics. The concrete measure is as follows. A display device including plural pixels, each of the plural pixels having a thin film transistor (TFT) of an oxide semiconductor comprising: a width of the oxide semiconductor in the channel width direction is wider than a width of the gate electrode in the channel width direction.
US11114566B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first fin, a second fin, a dummy fin, a first metal gate, a second metal gate, and an isolation structure. The first, the second and the dummy fins are on the substrate, and the dummy fin is disposed between the first fin and the second fin. The first metal gate and the second metal gate are over the first fin and the second fin, respectively. The isolation structure is on the dummy fin, and the dummy fin and the isolation structure separate the first metal gate and the second metal gate.

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