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| US07905528B2 |
Spreader frame for cargo container
In embodiments, a spreader frame for hoisting a container having a lifting block is provided which includes a rigid frame structure, a twist lock received by the rigid frame structure, the twist lock being rotated relative to the rigid frame structure between a locked position to engage the lifting block and an unlocked position to disengage from the lifting block, and a safety feature which cooperates with at least one of the rigid frame structure and the twist lock to retain the twist lock in the locked position from being rotated relative to the rigid frame structure absent personnel changing a position of the safety feature. |
| US07905526B2 |
Bumper beam
A bumper beam (10) e.g. for an SUV, has its flange portions (18, 19) positioned high and extends asymmetrically downwards relative to them. It has an outwardly convex profile which has in its lower portion a longitudinal concavity (16) which, near to the lower edge of the profile, ends with a forward-pointing profile portion (21). The result is less risk that the bumper will climb up over a lower-positioned bumper (30) which it collides with. |
| US07905518B2 |
Collapsible vehicle steering column
A vehicle safety system including a steering column, a keying member, and a squib. The steering column includes a first steering column section longitudinally slidably connected to a second steering column section. The keying member locates the first and second steering column sections at a fixed longitudinal position relative to each other. The squib is located relative to the keying member to exert a force on the keying member when the squib is initiated to thereby allow the first and second steering column sections to longitudinally slide relative to each other to shorten a length of the steering column. |
| US07905515B2 |
Method and apparatus for pre-impact deployment of air bag
An air bag deployment system includes a pre-impact sensor operative to detect an imminent impact and at least one post-impact sensor operative to detect an impact. An air bag has a non-deployed volume, a pre-impact deployed volume, and a post-impact deployed volume smaller than the pre-impact deployed volume. The air bag is deployed to the pre-impact volume wherein the air bag deployment system is arranged to deploy the air bag before the impact and the at least one air bag is deployed into the pre-impact deployed volume, in reaction to the imminent impact, and to the post-impact deployed volume in reaction to the impact. The system provides for enhanced occupant safety during a collision by allowing pre-impact deployment of the air bag in order to utilize the full possible length of deceleration for the occupant as the impact pulse affects the occupant. |
| US07905513B2 |
Side impact airbag apparatus
A side impact airbag apparatus includes an inflator 41 that discharges inflation gas, an airbag 20 that incorporates the inflator in a rear portion and is folded to form a storage state, and a storage portion located in the vicinity of an outer side of an occupant seated on a vehicle seat. The storage portion stores the inflator 41 and the airbag 20 when in the storage state. Inflation gas discharged from the inflator 41 in response to a side collision inflates and deploys the airbag 20 into a space between a body side portion of the vehicle and the vehicle seat while unfolding the airbag 20. A front portion of the airbag 20 in a deployed state that is forward of the inflator 41 is folded from the front toward the rear, so that the airbag 20 is made into a transitional form elongated in an up-down direction. A lower portion 37 of the airbag 20 in the transitional form below the inflator 41 is folded in a bellows-like manner from the bottom toward the top such that folded sections 37A are perpendicular to the up-down direction. Accordingly, the airbag 20 is made into a storage state. |
| US07905508B2 |
Hitch mounted receiver platform and complementary wagon
A removable wagon may be attached to a hitch insert for transportation by a vehicle. After transport the wagon may be rolled by the user to a desired location. Devices for hitching the wagon to the vehicle are described. |
| US07905503B2 |
Rear vehicle body structure
A rear vehicle body structure includes left and right auxiliary members each connected at the front end to the underside of the respective left or right front floor frame and connected at the rear end to the respective left or right rear-suspension mounting section. Each of the left and right auxiliary members is generally in the form of a circular-section pipe and has a pipe section of a circular sectional shape and a flattened section formed on a front end portion of the pipe section. The flattened section has an upper surface portion flattened downwardly and has a lower surface portion having a central region flattened concavely upwardly along the axis of the auxiliary member. |
| US07905502B2 |
Equipment carrier
An equipment carrier for transporting one or more work items includes a vertical frame attached to a base frame, where the base frame has, in a preferred embodiment, an expandable portion that telescopes out from the vertical frame. The equipment carrier also includes a locking mechanism for attaching the equipment carrier to a standard dolly. The use of the equipment carrier in combination with the dolly allows for easy transport of the equipment carrier. In one embodiment, work piece arms for supporting work items are pivotally connected to the front of the vertical frame allowing them to swing into horizontal position and then fold down into a vertical position. Also attached to the vertical frame is a strut that is also pivotally connected to the front face of the vertical frame. The strut swings up to support the work piece arm when it is in the horizontal position. The equipment carrier also has components for carrying additional accessories work items needed. |
| US07905500B2 |
Active geometry control suspension
An active geometry control suspension may reduce production cost with simple scheme and provide design freedom. An active geometry control suspension of the present invention includes an assist link including a first link of which an end is rotatably connected to a vehicle body and a second link of which an end is connected to the first link and the other end is rotatably connected to a wheel, a clutch assembly selectively connecting a connecting portion of the first link and the second link to the vehicle body and a driving unit operating the clutch assembly. |
| US07905499B2 |
Vehicle stabilizer system
A stabilizer system for a vehicle includes a stabilizer bar and an actuator and that executes a control actively changing stiffness of the stabilizer bar in accordance with roll moment acting on a body of the vehicle. Each of a situation in which the vehicle is running straightforward and a situation in which a torque generating direction of a motor of the actuator changes in opposite direction plural times is identified as a specific situation. In the specific situation, a control of changing an operation mode of the motor such that presence or absence of occurrence of resistance of the actuator against its operation by external input force is changeable, and a control of limiting a supply current to the motor such that the torque generating direction of the motor is inhibited from coinciding with a direction away from a neutral position are executed. |
| US07905490B2 |
Interactive game and method of play
A multi-player interactive card game, preferably having character cards with images of people with different occupations and different types of animals. An oval face cutout is included on each of the character cards. Game play involves impersonations and guessing along with prompts for players to raise and position the character cards such that a player's face completes a visual image of the identity of the character card. |
| US07905486B2 |
Transportation apparatus for transporting transportation target medium, recording apparatus having the same, and control method for controlling the same
The invention provides a transportation apparatus for transporting a transportation target medium in a predetermined transportation direction. The transportation target medium transportation apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes: a transport driving roller that is operated rotationally; a transport driven roller that is urged against the transport driving roller and follows the rotary movement of the transport driving roller; and a control unit that controls the movement of the transport driven roller between a contact position at which the transport driven roller is in contact with the transport driving roller and a non-contact position at which the transport driven roller is not in contact with the transport driving roller. In such a configuration of the transportation target medium transportation apparatus, the control unit moves the transport driven roller to the non-contact position at which the transport driven roller is not in contact with the transport driving roller when the thickness of the transportation target medium is at least a predetermined value, and then moves the transport driven roller to the contact position at which the transport driven roller is in contact with the transport driving roller when the length of time period in which the transport driven roller continues to be at the non-contact position exceeds a predetermined time period. |
| US07905484B2 |
Sheet feeding apparatus
A sheet feeding apparatus capable of obtaining a sufficient conveying force for pulling back double-fed overlapping sheets to a stacking tray side. A sheet feeding member feeds sheets incoming from a stacking tray which stacks the sheets into a conveying pass. A separating member separates the sheets fed to the conveying pass by the sheet feeding member one by one. A double feed detection sensor generates an output for detecting double feed of sheets fed to the conveying pass. A rotatable member contacts the fed sheet. A driving unit rotationally drives at least the rotatable member in a rotational direction for reverse feeding of sheets. A control unit controls the driving unit when the double feed of sheets is detected based on the output of the double feed detection sensor, such that the rotatable member is rotationally driven in the rotational direction for reverse feeding of sheets. |
| US07905471B2 |
Vacuum ring designs for electrical contacting improvement
Recesses (72), surface contours, contact tip modifications (52, 56), and/or other methods of ensuring pressure between a bottom surface (50) of a test plate (5) and top surfaces (52) of electrical contacts (18) are employed to enhance cleaning of the top surfaces (52) of the electrical contacts (18) to promote reliable measurements of DUTs (14). |
| US07905468B2 |
Lightweight valve
A lightweight valve (1), in particular for internal combustion engines, and a method for manufacturing the lightweight valve (1) are provided. The valve comprises a valve stem (3), a hollow valve cone (7) and a valve disk (13), the valve cone (7) and the valve disk (13) together forming a hollow space. The valve disk (13) is provided with a gripping receiver (23) for the valve stem (3). |
| US07905467B2 |
Dual position pilot operated valve assembly
A dual position pilot operated valve assembly having a main piston, with a valve member, reciprocable within a valve body, wherein the valve body is adapted for sealingly mating with a valve seat and passage located intermediate the valve body inlet and outlet ports, the valve body having a cylindrical adapter secured to an open end thereof and housing a secondary piston, reciprocable therein, with an axial stem depending from the second piston bottom surface and extending through the adaptor to the first piston cavity for intermittent contact therewith; and an end cap secured to and closing the adapter and having an inlet port interconnected with a source of high pressure control gas and respective first and second conduits leading to the main and secondary piston bore cavities, with an adjustment mechanism controlling the degree of opening/closing of the valve assembly. Several methods of operation are also set forth. |
| US07905466B2 |
Ice tray
An ice tray is provided that prevents the overflow or splashing of water or thin ice out of the ice tray as water is supplied to the ice tray, or when the ice tray is shaken by an external force. The ice tray may include a plurality of receiving portions that receive water for freezing into ice pieces. An overflow preventing portion may extend upward from upper edges of the receiving portions to form a barrier to water flowing out of the ice tray. Alternatively, the receiving parts may be positioned within a corresponding plurality of location parts having water proofing walls extending upward therefrom to inhibit the unintentional flow of water or thin ice out of the receiving portions of the ice tray. |
| US07905458B2 |
Ladder accessory device
A ladder accessory device includes an arm and a sleeve for engaging a hollow rung of a ladder. While installed, the sleeve is generally stationary within the hollow rung. The arm is generally is free to rotate within the sleeve about a first axis defined by length of the arm. A member engages the arm at a first joint about which the arm may rotate. A platform engages the member at a second joint about which the platform may rotate. Motion about the first axis and motion about the first joint enable the platform to be generally self-leveling in two directions while the member suspends the platform at a level lower than the arm. Range of motion of the first joint and second joint extend sufficiently to allow the arm, member and platform to be stored in a generally parallel alignment. |
| US07905456B2 |
Mounting system for personal electronic devices
A mounting system for personal electronics devices is described. The mounting system is intended for use in vehicles and consists of a compressible base which may be wedged by hand into a variety of openings and spaces in a vehicle passenger compartment. A bendable arm extends from the base, such that personal electronics items attached to the arm may be positioned in a convenient location. |
| US07905447B2 |
System, method and apparatus for aircraft having counter-rotating, ring-winged rotors
An aircraft having counter-rotating, ring-type wing rotors that are driven by engines located at the wing tips is disclosed. The aircraft incorporates large span, high aspect ratio wings that are configured in a joined-tip design to improve the structural characteristics of the wings. One of the wings counter-rotates inside the other wing to enable vertical take-off and landing. The wings may comprise elliptical shapes, each having upper and lower sections that are separated from each other. |
| US07905443B2 |
Adjustable vertical accumulator for slitting operation
A vertical accumulator for use in a sheet metal unwinding, slitting and rewinding operation accumulates the slack created in the plurality of strips cut from an initial wide coil so that the proper tension can be maintained on the individual strips being rewound. The accumulator includes an elongated mandrel mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis parallel to the axis of the original sheet metal coil and is arranged such that all of the plurality of cut strips pass over the top of the mandrel. The mandrel is located above the height of the coil and above the height of the slitter and the rewound individual strips. A plurality of disks mounted on the mandrel separate the cut strips from each other. Upwardly extending threaded rotatable rods located on either side of the sheet metal strips carry holders that releasably support the mandrel. Rotation of the rods causes the holders to move up or down to thereby adjust the height of the mandrel. |
| US07905441B2 |
Seat belt tensioner
The disclosed seat belt tensioner is for a seat belt safety system that may comprise a seat belt spindle, a drive motor for driving the seat belt spindle, and a gear connected to the drive motor. The gear may be a mechanical automatic gear that shifts automatically as a function of load |
| US07905438B2 |
Hand-held food processor and blade assembly
A blade assembly for use with a food processor includes a hub configured to be coupled to a drive shaft of the food processor, a first blade rotatably coupled to the hub and configured to rotate with respect to the hub at least up to a predetermined angle with respect to a second blade, which is fixedly coupled to the hub. The first blade is rotatable between a first position in which it is in phase with the second blade for receiving a blade guard protecting both blades, and a second position, in which the first blade is out of phase with the second blade for optimally processing a food item in the food processor, the blade assembly also including a biasing member for returning the first blade to the first position after use. |
| US07905436B2 |
Self-correcting orifice plate installation for an orifice plate of a grinding machine
A pair of lugs in an opening of a grinding head of a grinding machine and a pair of corresponding openings in an orifice plate of a grinding machine are disclosed to properly orient the plate in the head during assembly. The lugs are preferably of two different sizes so that the orifice plate will only fit into the head in one orientation. The lugs may differ in size such that the person assembling the grinding machine will be able to visualize the correct orientation based on the size of the lugs and corresponding openings. |
| US07905433B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing electrostatic charge in a fluidized bed
Systems and methods for fluidization of particle and/or powder systems with reduced generation of static electricity are disclosed. The systems/methods are particularly advantageous for fluidization of nanoparticle and/or nanopowder systems, where the generation and/or presence of static electricity is a significant fluidization issue. The systems and methods generally involve the addition of an alcohol or other solvent to a fluidization gas to be introduced to the fluidization chamber, e.g., by bubbling the fluidization gas through a volume of solvent/alcohol, to advantageously reduce the build up of electrostatic charge. Systems and methods for capturing in-situ images within a fluidized bed are also provided that involve reducing the electrostatic charges generated within the fluidized bed and introducing a particle vision and measurement (PVM) probe to the fluidized bed for image capture. |
| US07905422B2 |
Relatively small security elements, production method thereof, sheet and security document comprising same
The invention relates to a flat security element, having a front side and a reverse side, and being relatively small in size, such as planchettes, including, at least on one of its sides, at least one in-register authentication pattern and/or an authentication pattern resulting from the combination and/or superposition of a pattern on its front side and of a pattern on its reverse side, at least one of said authentication patterns being at least partly observable in transmitted light. It also relates to the manufacturing process thereof and to the security sheets and documents containing them. |
| US07905421B2 |
Wireless IC device and electronic apparatus
A wireless IC device that is miniaturized, allows simple and low-cost mounting of a wireless IC, and eliminates the possibility of damage occurring to the wireless IC due to static electricity, and an electronic apparatus equipped with the wireless IC device, includes a wireless IC chip that processes transmission and reception signals, and a feeder circuit substrate that includes a resonant circuit having an inductance element. Feeder electrodes are provided on a surface of the feeder circuit substrate and are electromagnetically coupled to the resonant circuit. The feeder electrodes and are electromagnetically coupled to radiation plates and provided for a printed wiring board. The wireless IC chip is activated by a signal received by the radiation plates and a response signal from the wireless IC chip is radiated outward from the radiation plates. |
| US07905420B2 |
Portable data carrier and method for the operation of a portable data carrier
The invention relates to a portable data carrier (1) with an electronic circuit (13) for storing and/or processing data, and an oscillating circuit (29, 30, 31) for contactless communication and/or energy transmission. The inventive portable data carrier (1) is characterized in that a control device (30, 31), which is influenceable from the outside, is provided to change the resonant frequency (fres) of the oscillating circuit (29, 30, 31) between a first frequency range and a second frequency range. |
| US07905416B2 |
Mechanically convertible transaction product
A mechanically convertible transaction product includes a body, two or more appendages, and an account identifier. Each of the two or more appendages is rotatably coupled with the body and configured to selectively rotate relative to the body between a compact position and an expanded position. Each appendage extends further away from the body when in the expanded position such that an overall form of the transaction product is altered when any of the appendages are in the expanded position as compared to when all of the appendages are in the compact position. The account identifier links the transaction product to an account or record. Stored-value products, combinations, methods of providing a transaction card, and other embodiments are also disclosed. |
| US07905413B2 |
Digital image capturing and processing system employing a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystems for digitally imaging objects in a 3D imaging volume, and a globally-deployed object motion detection subsystem for automatically detecting and analyzing the motion of objects passing through said 3-D imaging volume
A digital image capturing and processing system for installation at a retail POS environment comprising a system housing having an imaging window; and a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystems for projecting a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging planes through a 3D imaging volume defined relative to the imaging window, for digital imaging of objects passing through the 3D imaging volume. A globally-deployed object motion detection subsystem automatically detects and analyzes the motion of an object passing through at least a portion of the 3D imaging volume, and generates object motion data in response thereto. Object motion data, including object velocity data, is used to generate control data for controlling the operation of the coplanar illumination and imaging subsystems. |
| US07905412B2 |
Bar code processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention includes a first image reading unit configured to read an image from an object to be read by visible light, a second image reading unit configured to read an image from the object to be read by invisible light, a first detection unit configured to detect a background image from a first read image read by the first image reading unit, a registration unit configured to register feature information indicative of a feature of the background image detected by the first detection unit, and a second detection unit configured to detect an image indicative of code information from a second read image read by the second image reading unit on the basis of the feature information registered in the registration unit. |
| US07905410B2 |
Automated tunnel-type scanning system enabling automated tracking and identification of packages transported therethrough
An automated tunnel-type scanning system arranged about a conveyor belt structure, including: a tunnel structure arranged about a conveyor belt structure for transporting packages; an omni-directional bar code symbol scanning subsystem; a package detection and dimensioning subsystem; and a data management subsystem. The package detection and dimensioning subsystem captures package measurement information about each detected package prior to the package being scanned by the omni-directional bar code symbol reading subsystem, and producing package measurement data representative of the captured package measurement information. The data management subsystem collects and queues package identification data and package measurement data, and automatically correlates both package measurement data and package identification data corresponding to each package transported through the tunnel structure so as to enable automated tracking and identification of packages being transported therethrough, in either singulated or non-singulated arrangements. |
| US07905406B2 |
Method of imaging a coding pattern and determining translation of imaged cells relative to tags
A method of imaging a coding pattern disposed on a surface of a substrate. The method comprises the steps of: (a) operatively positioning an optical reader relative to the surface and capturing an image of a portion of the coding pattern; (b) sampling and decoding one or more translation symbols contained in the imaged portion; (c) determining a translation of one or more cells of the coding pattern relative to a tag containing the cells; and (d) using the determined translation to sample and decode tag data contained in the imaged portion. |
| US07905403B2 |
Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus
The present invention relates to a sheet conveying apparatus comprising a communication device, which performs communications with an RFID tag attached to a sheet material passing through a conveyance path, wherein a maximum communicable distance between the communication device and the RFID tag on the conveyance path is smaller than a sum of an interval between sheet materials to be sequentially conveyed onto the conveyance path and a length of the sheet material in a conveyance direction. |
| US07905402B2 |
Goods information providing terminal and goods management server for managing goods at home
Provided is a goods information providing terminal that includes an authentication unit authenticating a user based on bio information including a user's fingerprint and initiating a user session when the user is authenticated; a goods information request unit requesting a goods management server that manages goods information and information on the location of goods from a radio frequency identification (RFID) attached to the goods to provide the goods information and the information on the location of the goods; a goods information display unit displaying to the user the goods information or the information on the location of the goods acquired from the goods management server; and a goods processing unit acquiring goods information including how to contact a seller from the goods management server, and contacting an associated agency including the seller when the goods need to be repaired or exchanged. |
| US07905401B2 |
Pharmaceutical product tracking
A method of tracking a pharmaceutical product, the pharmaceutical product being associated with packaging having disposed thereon or therein coded data including a number of coded data portions, each coded data portion being indicative of an identity of the pharmaceutical product. The method includes having a computer system receiving indicating data from a sensing device, in response to sensing of the coded data. The computer system uses the indicating data to update tracking data at least partially indicative of tracking information. |
| US07905396B2 |
Systems and methods for assessing the risk of a financial transaction using authenticating marks
Systems and methods are described for better assessing risk associated with cashing second-party checks and other negotiable instruments. The systems and methods make use of information about authenticating marks, such as watermarks, bar codes, insignia, background patterns, and the like, from a check in order to better assess the legitimacy and cashability of the check. In various embodiments, information about an authenticating mark may be compared to stored information about an expected configuration for the authenticating mark. In various embodiments, a gradated risk score may be generated based at least in part on the comparison. In various embodiments, the risk score may be combined with risk scores that are descriptive of other aspects of a check cashing transaction to calculate a risk score for the transaction as a whole. In some embodiments, the transaction risk score may be used to generate an accept/decline recommendation for the transaction. |
| US07905395B2 |
Communication system, communication terminal and communication method
A communication system includes a communication terminal wirelessly communicating with a predetermined base station and a server capable of transferring data through the wireless communication with the communication terminal. The communication terminal includes a payment settlement processing unit capable of carrying out payment settlement processing, a record memory unit configured to store a record of the payment settlement processing carried out at the payment settlement processing unit, a display unit configured to display record data stored in the record memory unit, and a control unit configured to transfer the record stored in the record memory unit to the server. The server includes a storage unit configured to store the record data transferred from the communication terminal, and a record disclosure processing unit configured to transfer the record data stored in the storage unit to other communication terminals within a predetermined range. |
| US07905392B2 |
Code collection in mobile device
An apparatus comprising means for processing data representative of an optically readable code, means for detecting, from the data representative of the optically readable code, a symbol indicating that the code is a member of a set of codes including at least two optically readable codes, means for collecting, from the data representative of the optically readable code, one or more collection symbols, and means for assessing, on the basis of the collection symbols collected from at least two optically readable codes, if a predetermined collection criterion for finishing the collections is fulfilled. |
| US07905391B1 |
Book reading level system
A book reading level system to match a book on a reading level with a corresponding reader providing a computer with a printer and Internet access, a user website having first and second search engines and a database, a barcode scanner having a display monitor, permanent and replaceable memory chips, and a scanner cradle. The user scans a user barcode from each book and places the scanner into the cradle to access the user website. The first search engine searches for non-user websites to obtain reading levels and download them to the user website. The reading level is downloaded onto the first memory chip from the user website and selectively onto the second memory chip and a label bearing the reading level may be printed. An alternative embodiment allows data access and entry to determine and provide the author's name, genre, title, and study unit related to the book. |
| US07905386B2 |
Method for airtightly joining reinforced platinum hollow tube with platinum flange
The present invention provides a new method for airtightly joining a hollow tube made of a reinforced platinum and a flange made of platinum or a platinum alloy, which prevents decreasing of mechanical strength of the hollow tube made of a reinforced platinum due to its joining with a flange. A method for airtightly joining a hollow tube made of a reinforced platinum with a flange made of platinum or a platinum alloy, which is a method for airtightly joining the outer periphery of a hollow tube made of a reinforced platinum produced by dispersing metal oxides in platinum or a platinum alloy, with a flange made of platinum or a platinum alloy, the method comprising a step of shrink-fitting a ring made of platinum or a platinum alloy to the outer periphery of the hollow tube, a step of heating the hollow tube to which the ring is shrink-fit at from 1,150 to 1,450° C. for from 1 to 10 hours, and a step of welding the flange made of platinum or a platinum alloy to the outer periphery of the ring. |
| US07905379B2 |
Hammer-drive powder-actuated tool
A hammer-drive powder-actuated tool includes: a barrel unit inserted movably into a tubular housing; a firing pin holder disposed fixedly in the housing, abutting against a rear end portion of the barrel unit and formed with a through hole; a firing pin disposed movably between a rear open end of the housing and the rear end portion of the barrel unit, having an intermediate portion interconnecting integrally a firing end portion that extends into the through hole in the firing pin holder and a head portion, and operable between a normal position and a firing position; an engaging member sleeved on the intermediate portion of the firing pin for stopping movement of the firing end portion of the firing pin away from the through hole in the firing pin holder; and a biasing member for biasing the firing pin to move toward the normal position. |
| US07905373B2 |
System and method for generating a drive signal
A method and computer program product for defining a PWM drive signal having a defined voltage potential. The PWM drive signal has a plurality of “on” portions and a plurality of “off” portions that define a first duty cycle for regulating, at least in part, a flow rate of a pump assembly. At least a portion of the “on” portions of the PWM drive signal are pulse width modulated to define a second duty cycle for the at least a portion of the “on” portions of the PWM drive signal. The second duty cycle regulates, at least in part, the percentage of the defined voltage potential applied to the pump assembly. |
| US07905368B1 |
Portable water tank with valved drain sleeve
A portable water tank comprises a foldable receptacle having a bottom wall and vertical sidewalls; a frame to support the sidewalls in an upright position, the frame including upper and lower rails, and vertical posts joining the upper rail to the lower rail. The receptacle includes a drain sleeve disposed near the bottom wall and extends between corresponding portions of the upper and lower rails, and between a pair of the posts. The sleeve overlies the corresponding portion of the lower rail. Reinforcement members are attached to the corresponding portions of the lower rail and the pair of posts. A valve is operably attached to the pair of posts and the corresponding portion of the lower rail. The valve is operably associated with the drain sleeve and has an open position to allow water within the receptacle to flow through the drain sleeve, and a closed position to keep water from flowing through the drain sleeve. |
| US07905365B2 |
Dual container display with center panel
A presentation display for use in displaying products, samples, premiums or the like comprises a center panel, a left tray, and a right tray wherein the left tray is attached to the center panel and the right tray is attached to the center panel. The presentation display is made from a single piece of paperboard or like flexible material. Shelves may be added or created from the same paperboard to hold products in the right and left trays. |
| US07905362B2 |
Display stand for articles such as cosmetic products
The invention relates to a display stand for articles such as cosmetic products. The inventive display stand consists of a vertical board (1) comprising a rear face (4) and a front face (5). According to the invention, the front face is formed at least partially by a plurality of first panels (7) and a plurality of second panels (8) which are inclined in relation to the first panels (7), said first panels (7) being designed to receive the articles (10). Moreover, at least one of the second panels (8) is equipped with a reflective surface (8a) such that an image of the articles positioned on the opposing first panel (7) are visible on the second panel (8) to a person facing the board (1). |
| US07905361B2 |
Modified polyamide membrane
A modified polyamide membrane and method for making and using the same. The present invention includes many embodiments including methods comprising contacting a polyamide membrane with certain modifiers, including but not limited to certain oxazoline and/or thiazoline-based compounds, derivatives and polymers thereof. In one embodiment, the surface of a polyamide membrane is coated with a solution including a polyoxazoline and optionally a polyalkylene oxide material, followed by optional heating. Preferred embodiments may exhibit improved performance, e.g. increased rejection of certain species, (e.g. sodium chloride and/or boric oxides such as boric acid or various borate salts), reduced fouling, improved antimicrobial properties, and/or improved storage stability. |
| US07905353B2 |
Stackable containment trays and cases with slide latches
A stackable containment tray for receiving discrete articles for storage and/or sterilization according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a combination of two side panels, a floor supported by the two side panels, an upper stack ring, and a lower stack ring, a pair of opposed handle lock brackets, and a pair of opposed bail handles. The upper and lower stack rings are identical to each other and provide the stacking capability. The bail handle of one tray is able to interfit into the handle lock bracket of an upper tray, thereby enabling the stacked combination of trays to be locked together. |
| US07905348B2 |
Card assembly
The present invention relates to a card assembly comprising a cover and a data storage means. The cover comprises a back sheet, a front sheet and an intermediate sheet, which are integral and connected by one folding line area respectively. The intermediate sheet has a through hole adapted to the data storage means and the data storage means is placed in the through hole. The back sheet, the front sheet and the intermediate sheet are folded together along the folding line areas and permanently attached together, wherein the data storage means is enclosed in a pocket. The back sheet has a tear portion, which is operable to open the pocket and expose a part of the data storage means for enabling removal of the data storage means from the pocket and reinsertion thereof into the pocket. The present invention also relates to a blank for a cover for such a card assembly and to method for manufacturing such a card assembly. |
| US07905344B2 |
Method for depositing a freely moving, flat object
In a method for depositing a flat object dropping freely into a lower compartment, a wall of the compartment at an angle in relation to a vertical is used as a flat deposit point for a flat side of the flat object. During passage of the flat object into the lower compartment an angular momentum is imparted to the flat object such that an angle of incidence between the wall and the flat side of the flat object is minimized. |
| US07905343B2 |
Self-propelled crushing machine
A self-propelled crushing machine is provided which ensures that, even when crushed pieces of an object include a concrete reinforcing steel bar or other like material piece, it is prevented that the concrete reinforcing steel bar will pierce into a conveyor belt. To this end, the crushing machine has a memory for storing a relationship in belt velocities between a conveyor belt and a magnetic separator belt which relationship allows a concrete reinforcing steel bar attracted and adhered to the magnetic separator belt to be taken off of the conveyor belt before the trailing end of the concrete reinforcing steel bar travels past a leading end attraction/adhesion position at which the leading end of the concrete reinforcing steel bar is to be attracted and adhered to the magnetic separator belt. In addition, the crushing machine also includes a controller configured to provide respective control currents to a conveyor belt drive means and a magnetic separator belt drive means, based on the belt velocity relationship stored in the memory. |
| US07905340B2 |
Device for ordered arrangement of articles
The device comprises: a chute, on which tubes arranged in a line and with a random orientation of closed and open heads thereof, fall by gravity towards a rotor activated by a motor with stepped 90° displacements. A head tube enters one of two housings realised in the rotor, one housing being perpendicular to the other housing and destined in turn to be aligned with the line of tubes. An endrun stop halts the head tube while the sensor organs ascertain whether a frontally-situated head of the head tube is open or closed. The motor activates the rotor in a direction or in another, according to a datum supplied by the sensor organs, such that the open head of the tube is always in a predetermined position. During rotation cam means act in cooperation with containing and guide means to raise the head tube into a predetermined collection position where it is picked up by handling organs. The raising enables a following tube to insert in the other housing, which has in the meantime become aligned with the chute. |
| US07905338B2 |
Twin clutch system for a transmission, particularly for a twin clutch transmission
A twin clutch system for a transmission, particularly for a twin clutch transmission, including at least two clutches each having a clutch cover to which at least one disengaging system that actuates the clutches is fastened. According to the invention, a fastening element is provided that couples both coupling covers. |
| US07905335B2 |
Brake pad cooling apparatus and method
An exemplary embodiment providing one or more improvements includes a brake cooling apparatus and method in which heat is conducted from a brake pad to a heat dissipating portion through a heat receiving portion and a heat dissipating portion dissipates the heat into a cooling medium. |
| US07905334B2 |
Partially lined disk brake
A spot-type disc brake with a housing comprising a housing bridge, with at least one housing leg having an actuating assembly comprising an actuator unit and a component movable along an axis of movement. At least one brake shoe is arranged at the component and is slidably supported on at least one support. The brake shoe is braced with the support against an abutment surface by means of a hold-down spring. The abutment surface of the hold-down spring is arranged non-parallel to the axis of movement. Thereby, not only a radial preloading force FR is produced, but also a force component Fx normal thereto, which assists the retracting movement of the brake shoe from the brake disc, thus improving the clearance behavior. |
| US07905333B2 |
Brake insulator for disc brake pads
An insulator is provided having opposing first and second sides and adapted for placement between a brake pad and one of a piston and caliper of a disc brake system. The insulator includes first and second metal layers. A viscoelastic layer is disposed between, and spans substantially the entirety of the first and second metal layers. A friction enhancing coating is disposed on at least one of the first and second sides. The friction enhancing coating preferably includes a plurality of particles, such as generally spherical glass beads. |
| US07905331B2 |
Car wall arrangement for an elevator car
A car wall arrangement for an elevator car having a first car wall, on whose outside is arranged at least one first joining element with a first flange that projects beyond a first end-face of the first car wall and is angled from the outside by a joining angle that is greater than 180° and less than 360°. A second car wall is provided on whose outside is arranged at least a second joining element with a second flange that projects beyond a second end-face of the second car wall. The second flange is turned away from the outside of the second car wall by the same joining angle α so that in the installed state the first flange rests against the outside of the second car wall and the second flange against the outside of the first car wall. |
| US07905330B2 |
Door control safety arrangement for transportation system
A system and a method for monitoring a safety circuit are presented. The system includes a control appliance and the safety circuit comprises at least one serial circuit of two or more switches. The arrangement system also includes a way of measuring the status of at least one switch, as well as a way of conveying the status information of the switch to the control appliance. The method includes measuring the status information of at least one switch and sending the measured status information to the control appliance. |
| US07905327B2 |
Method of disseminating advertising information via shopping cart securing structures
Cart securing structures are provided for securing shopping carts. In one embodiment, the structures include a body having a pair of spaced stops with an intermediate trough. In use, the wheels of the cart are rolled along an upwardly extending face of one of the stops, over the stop and into the trough between the stops. In one embodiment, advertising is located on the surfaces of one or more of the stops. In one embodiment, an electronic display is located on one of the faces of the structure and a control system is provided for presenting advertising and other information using the display. |
| US07905326B2 |
Method for lubricating wave reduction gear, and rotating table device
A wave reduction gear (5) is disposed inside a device case (2) of a rotating table device (1). Lubrication oil is sprayed from an oil supply channel (22), which is formed in the device case (2), toward an oil supply hole (22) formed in a cup-shaped flexible externally toothed gear (12). A wave bearing (19) disposed in the interior is lubricated via the oil supply hole (21). Lubricating oil that has entered into the flexible externally toothed gear (12) is forcibly suctioned to the exterior via an oil recovery channel (23) that is formed in the device case (2). Accordingly, it will be possible to prevent oil from being suctioned due to the negative pressure state in the interior of the flexible externally toothed gear accompanying the high-speed rotation, and regions of the wave bearing (19) can be reliably lubricated. |
| US07905324B2 |
Access system for a moveable vehicle
In one exemplary aspect, an access system for a moveable vehicle having a longitudinal axis is disclosed. The access system includes an access device attached to the vehicle and movable between a stowed position and an access position. A bottom end of the access device is disposed at a first horizontal distance from the longitudinal axis in the stowed position and is disposed a second greater horizontal distance from the longitudinal axis in the access position. The access system also includes a biasing device associated with the access device and configured to apply a continuous biasing force to bias the access device toward the access position. An actuator device is associated with the access device and configured to apply a selective actuating force to the access device. |
| US07905322B2 |
Marine muffler with angularly disposed internal baffle
A marine muffler comprises an elongate cylindrical housing having an inlet and an outlet and defining an internal volume partitioned, by an angularly disposed internal baffle, into a lower chamber in communication with the inlet and an upper chamber in communication with the outlet. A vertically disposed duct is insertably secured to the baffle to allow exhaust gas and exhaust cooling water to flow from the lower inlet chamber to upper outlet chamber. The exhaust duct may preferably be further adapted with internal structure forming a plurality of individual flow conduits or passages. The duct is preferably positioned such that a plurality of flow passage inlets are positioned in proximity to the lower cylindrical housing wall, with flow passage outlets positioned in proximity to the upper housing wall. The lower duct wall may further be adapted with sidewall apertures for improving exhaust flow dynamics therethrough. |
| US07905321B2 |
Inserts for engine exhaust systems
The insert for an engine exhaust system has at least one conical section of flexible mesh or rovings of metallic or other high temperature resistant fiber or tape. Each section includes a rigid anchor or attachment ring having an outer diameter closely conforming to the inner diameter of the exhaust pipe, with the anchor ring being welded to the mesh or roving or tape material or the mesh or roving or tape being crimped between two concentric rings. A smaller diameter support ring may be provided at the opposite end of the conical mesh, with the support ring braced by a series of radial arms. The device may serve to reduce the sound output of the exhaust system, and/or may serve as a spark arrestor as well. |
| US07905319B2 |
Venturi muffler
A venturi muffler is made of a plurality of metallic tubular stepped members which are stacked together and define at least one sound-reflective chamber which opens through an annular venturi passage into an axial flow passage of the venturi muffler thereby creating a partial vacuum in the annular chamber. The annular chambers include aligned openings through which exhaust gasses flow but are also reflected by walls of the sound-reflective chambers. Therefore, the exhaust sound or noise is dampened by the cancellation of sound waves 180 degrees out of phase with each other, the creation of a partial vacuum through which sound cannot propagate or propagates minimally, and by the heat removed by all of the metallic heat-conductive venturi-forming segments of the venturi muffler. |
| US07905318B2 |
Storage box for electronic apparatus
A box-shaped enclosure of a storage box includes a deadening wall or walls defining a storage space between first and second planes. The storage space is open at the first and second planes. A deadening wall member extends along the first plane. An auxiliary box-shaped enclosure is connected to the box-shaped enclosure so as to close the first plane of the box-shaped enclosure. The auxiliary box-shaped enclosure defines an auxiliary space isolated from the storage space with a deadening wall member. The storage space is connected to the fresh air through the ventilation opening and the auxiliary space. The deadening wall or walls of the box-shaped enclosure and the deadening wall member serve to prevent the leakage of the operating sound. |
| US07905312B2 |
Driving force transmitting device for four-wheel drive vehicle
A driving force transmission device for four-wheel-drive vehicle based on the two-wheel drive of front wheels is provided. In the case of the two-wheel drive of front wheels, a multi-disc clutch mechanism for controlling the driving force distribution to a rear wheel output shaft, and a disconnection/connection mechanism for disconnecting and connecting a rear wheel differential and a right rear wheel drive shaft are provided, and in the two-wheel drive of front wheels, the dragging torque of the multi-disc clutch mechanism is made smaller than the friction torque of a rear wheel driving force transmission section, and the front wheel differential and the right rear wheel drive shaft are disconnected by the disconnection/connection mechanism, thereby the rotation of the rear wheel driving force transmission section is stopped. |
| US07905307B2 |
Battery cooling air intake structure
In a battery cooling air intake structure, in which a trunk side lining (35) of a vehicle body side part is disposed so as to be continuous with a side part of a seat back (32) of a seat for a passenger to sit on, and a battery is cooled using, as cooling air, air within a vehicle compartment taken in via an intake port (36) provided in a front face (35a) of the trunk side lining (35), since a seat belt (38) is disposed so that at least part thereof in a non-used state overlaps the intake port (36) when viewed in the vehicle body fore-and-aft direction and a predetermined gap (b) is formed between the intake port (36a) and at least part of the seat belt (38) when viewed in the vehicle width direction, it is possible to prevent interference with the intake of cooling air due to the intake port (36) being blocked by the seat belt (38), while disposing the seat belt (38) as far toward the outside in the vehicle width direction as possible so that it does not overlap the seat back (32). |
| US07905302B2 |
Omni-directional aircraft galley servicing vehicle
A powered omni-directional aircraft galley servicing vehicle that includes a circular frame and two drive wheels capable of independent powered forward and rearward rotation about a horizontal axis. The drive wheels are adapted to allow the vehicle to spin in place about a vertical axis which intersects the horizontal axis midway between the drive wheels and which is generally centered in the circular frame. A carrousel cabin is mounted to the frame on a lift such that it is capable of elevation to an aircraft galley. A partitioned lazy susan storage compartment rotates on the carrousel cabin to facilitate transfer of aircraft food and drink carts between an aircraft galley and the servicing vehicle. |
| US07905298B2 |
Systems and methods employing a variable angle guide for a drill
Disclosed are systems and methods for drilling in an environment having a fluid and a bed. The method includes positioning a platform such that the fluid is between the platform and the bed; and assembling a guide, the assembled guide being straight. The method subsequently acts to place the guide such that the guide is supported by the platform, and a major length of the guide and a normal to the bed defines an angle, the angle being substantially greater than 0. Thus, the positioned guide allows for sending a variable angle drill inside the guide, from the platform into the bed. |
| US07905296B2 |
Methods and apparatus for controlling hazardous and/or flammable materials
A hazard control system according to various aspects of the present invention comprises a housing configured to contain a control material and deliver the control material to neutralize a hazard in response to a trigger event. In one embodiment, the control material is an extinguishant for retarding fire. The housing contains the extinguishant and includes at least one surface configured to rupture in response to a trigger event, such as an impact. The housing may also include a surface configured to substantially mate with a surface of a vehicle, such as a fuel tank surface. |
| US07905294B2 |
Method of anchoring a progressing cavity pump
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to methods and apparatuses for anchoring progressing cavity (PC) pumps. In one embodiment, a method of anchoring a PC pump to a string of tubulars disposed in a wellbore which includes acts of inserting the PC pump and anchor assembly into the tubular. Running the PC pump and anchor assembly through the tubular to any first longitudinal location along the tubular string. Longitudinally and rotationally coupling the PC pump and the anchor assembly to the tubular and forming a seal between the PC pump and the tubular string at the first location and performing a downhole operation in the tubular. |
| US07905293B2 |
Hybrid wellhead system and method of use
A hybrid wellhead system is assembled using a plurality of threaded unions, such as spanner nuts or hammer unions, for securing respective tubular heads and a flanged connection for securing a flow control stack to a top of a tubing head spool. The tubing head spool is secured by a threaded union to an intermediate head spool. The intermediate head spool is secured by another threaded union to a wellhead. Each tubular head secures and suspends a tubular string in the well bore. The hybrid wellhead system is capable of withstanding higher fluid pressures than a conventional independent screwed wellhead, while providing a more economical alternative to a flanged, or ranged, wellhead system because it is less expensive to construct and faster to assemble. |
| US07905285B2 |
Method and apparatus for perforating a casing and producing hydrocarbons
A perforating gun and one or more volume-receiving surge canisters can be actuated at a time delay after perforation for creating a dynamic underbalance condition to aid in directing debris out of the perforations and fractures and into the wellbore. A timer and triggering device actuate one or more canisters in parallel or series after a pre-determined time delay or delays which can be related to wellbore conditions following perforation. Use of propellant-type perforating gun further benefits from favorable propellant burn conditions for forming perforations and followed thereafter by a perforation-cleaning underbalance pressure conditions characterized by one or more of an increased rate of change depression of the pressure in the adjacent annulus, a greater magnitude of pressure depression and a longer duration of underbalance. |
| US07905282B2 |
Latchable carrier assembly for pipe conveyed well logging
A pipe conveyed well logging assembly is provided that includes a pipe string; a carrier assembly connected to the pipe string; and a memory logging tool carried by the carrier assembly and movable from a removably latched retracted position, protected within the carrier assembly, to a removably latched extended position, at least partially protruding from a lower end of the carrier assembly. |
| US07905280B2 |
Self adjusting debris excluder sub
A self adjusting excluder sub includes a first subassembly; a second subassembly with respect to which the first subassembly is axially movable; and a support disposed at the second subassembly and when actuated being resiliently disposed against the first subassembly while being laterally movable relative to the first and second subassemblies jointly and method. |
| US07905278B2 |
Vehicular air conditioner
A vehicular air conditioner having an air conditioner case including an air mix area, where a defroster opening, a front seat vent opening, a foot opening, and a back seat vent opening are located on the air conditioner case and configured to open and close the air mix area. A defroster door is configured to open and close the defroster opening. A vent foot switching door is configured to open and close the foot opening and the front seat vent opening selectively. A foot door is configured to open and close the foot opening. A back seat vent door is configured to open and close the back set vent opening. The back seat vent opening is positioned in a vicinity of the foot opening and the back seat vent door and the foot door are downstream from the vent foot switching door. |
| US07905273B2 |
Method of forming a cast metal article
An unfired ceramic base core having a first coefficient of thermal expansion is provided. A core element having a second coefficient of thermal expansion is positioned in an opening formed in the unfired ceramic base core. The opening in the unfired ceramic base core is filled with a filler material having a third coefficient of thermal expansion. The third coefficient of thermal expansion is greater than the first coefficient of thermal expansion and less than the second coefficient of thermal expansion. The ceramic base core is fired without cracking the base core and without cracking the filler material. The ceramic base core contains silica and zircon and has a silica content of 70% or less and a zircon content of 30% or more. The core element may be formed of a ceramic material or a refractory metal. |
| US07905271B2 |
Apparatus for carrying cooling water away from the narrow sides of a slab
The invention relates to an apparatus (100) for carrying cooling water away from the narrow sides (210) of a slab (200) passed essentially vertically through a secondary cooling device after casting in a continuous casting installation. In order to prevent partial overcooling of the slab at its edges, the apparatus (100) according to the invention comprises a plurality of water drainage devices (110-n), which are arranged such that they are distributed in a vertical direction over the length of the narrow side of the slab. This plurality of water drainage devices (110-n) is carried by a vertically arranged collecting downpipe (120). The collecting downpipe additionally serves for collecting the cooling water that is drained by the plurality of water drainage devices (110-n) and carrying it away in a decentralized manner. |
| US07905268B2 |
Ultrasonic bonding apparatus
An ultrasonic bonding apparatus for manufacturing an electronic device that includes a substrate, an electronic component, and an underfill filled between the electronic component and the substrate includes a head that includes a tool surface configured to mount the electronic component, a wiping unit configured to wipe out pre-cured underfill that has adhered to the tool surface of the head, by using a wiping member on a wiping table, an ultrasonic bonding unit configured to ultrasonically bond the electronic component with the substrate and to press the head against the wiping member on the wiping table, a detector configured to detect a first pressure applied between the wiping member on the wiping table and the tool surface when the wiping unit provides wiping, and a controller configured to control a second pressure applied by the ultrasonic bonding unit, based on a detection result by the detector. |
| US07905266B2 |
Wire-gathering device, apparatus and method of winding tape utilizing same
A wire-gathering device to position a plurality of electrical wires without swing to the center of a rotating drum regardless of size of outer diameters of a bundle of the electrical wires by means of a simple configuration. The wire-gathering device includes the rotating drum having a notch for allowing insertion of the wires and an adhesive tape together and a band disposed in the notch for resiliently supporting and gathering the wires with a curved surface thereof. The band is resilient. The wire-gathering device further includes a slider slidably disposed in the notch and fixing the band, wherein the slider is urged toward an opening of the notch with a resilient member. |
| US07905263B2 |
Processable filled, curable halogenated isoolefin elastomers
The present invention provides an elastomeric composition processable in a curable, filled rubber formulation. The composition comprises a halogenated interpolymer of a C4 to C7 isoolefin and from 3 to 20 weight percent alkylstyrene and comprising from 0.2 to 2 mole percent haloalkylstyrene, a Mooney viscosity less than 37, a number average molecular weight less than 270,000, a weight average molecular weight less than 470,000, a z-average molecular weight less than 700,000, and a branching index (g′) from 0.4 to 1.1. Also disclosed are a method of making a cured, filled rubber article, comprising compounding the elastomeric composition with filler and curative, processing the compounded composition to form a shape of the article, and curing the composition to obtain the article in the formed shape, as well as a tire comprising an innerliner made by the method. |
| US07905259B2 |
Advanced carbon dioxide fuel tank inerting system
An onboard inert gas generation system includes an evaporator comprising a vessel that receives a hydrocarbon fuel from a fuel tank, separates vapor fuel components from liquid fuel components, establishes a nearly constant fuel vapor composition, and outputs the fuel vapor to be mixed with air prior to combusting the fuel vapor and air mixture in a catalytic reactor. Water is separated from the inert gas produced and the inert gas is introduced into the ullage space of the fuel tank to prevent or reduce possible hazardous conditions in the fuel tank. |
| US07905256B2 |
Penetration-obstructing article
A penetration-obstructing article comprising a multiplicity of fabric layers of fibers having elongation at break of less than 8%, measured according to EN 12562, wherein there are at least two groups of fibers in at least one single fabric layer, wherein the regions of a first group have a first fabric density DG1 according to Walz of from 8% to 80% and wherein the regions of a second group have a second fabric density according to Walz of from 8% to 80% and wherein the difference between DG1 and DG2 is at least 3%. |
| US07905254B2 |
Shut-off valve
A cutoff valve having an upstream valve part and a downstream valve part which are assembled in series in a flow passage. Each of the valve elements at the valve parts are formed separably stacking a large diameter first valve element and a small diameter second valve element on each other. The first valve element is formed of elastic material and the second valve element is formed of rigid material. A valve shaft is passed through the center of the first valve element, and the tip of the valve shaft is connected to the second valve element. A first valve element moving component which moves the center part of the first valve element in a direction apart from the second valve element in the state of being engaged with the first valve element when the valve is opened is installed between the first valve element and the valve shaft. |
| US07905250B2 |
Dual chamber adapter
An adapter for use in association with upstream and downstream portions of a piping system is disclosed. The adapter includes a first chamber having an inlet adapted to receive fluid therethrough, an outlet adapted to expel fluid therefrom, and a sidewall extending therebetween defining a first chamber interior. The adapter also includes a second chamber having an inlet adapted to receive forced fluid therethrough, an outlet adapted to expel the forced fluid therefrom, and a sidewall extending therebetween defining a second chamber interior. The first chamber interior is isolated from the second chamber interior. The first chamber is adapted to receive forced fluid therethrough from an upstream portion of a piping system, and the second chamber is adapted to provide forced fluid therethrough to a downstream portion of the piping system. |
| US07905249B2 |
Proportional pressure control valve comprising a pressure jump in the characteristic p/l curve thereof
An electromagnetic proportional pressure-control valve of a vehicle transmission which includes a magnet part, a hydraulic part and a spring operatively connecting the magnet part to the hydraulic part. The magnet part includes a coil, an armature and an armature bar. The hydraulic part includes first and second closing elements. The first closing element forms a flat seat and the second closing element a ball seat and the closing elements are opened and/or closed via a tappet rod. When no current is applied to the valve, the second closing element is closed and an gap (ü) in the first closing element is larger than one seventh a nominal width (NW) of the valve. The second closure area (A_2) is larger than a circular area having a diameter corresponding to double the gap and the diameter (s) of the tappet rod is smaller than 0.7 times the diameter (b) of the orifice. |
| US07905244B2 |
Explosion pressure relief device
This invention relates to an explosion pressure relief device with a wall and a framework fixing the wall. In the case of an explosion in a container to which an explosion pressure relief device is attached, such explosion pressure relief device serves to allow the pressure wave to escape at best greatly weakened. |
| US07905243B2 |
No-drip check valves
A mechanism to check fluid flow from a tube or spigot when it is disconnected from a downstream conduit is provided. The mechanism includes a duckbill check valve that has its bills pointed in the upstream direction. To keep the bills apart for the fluid flow to continue, the downstream conduit has to be inserted against the underside of the bills. Once the downstream conduit separates from the valve, the valve closes itself. |
| US07905242B2 |
Bed enclosure
A bed enclosure comprises a frame, a tent supported by the frame, and a mattress cover for preventing access to a mattress from the interior of the tent. |
| US07905239B2 |
Part washer
An apparatus for cleaning an article comprises: a solution receptacle (12) for storing cleaning solution (100); a cleaning chamber (16) for receiving an article (P) to clean; a material transporting conduit including a solution conduit (14) connected between the solution receptacle and the cleaning chamber for transporting the cleaning solution from the solution receptacle to the cleaning chamber to apply to the article received in the cleaning chamber, the material transporting conduit further including an air conduit (44) connected to a high-pressure air source (42) for transporting the high-pressure air there-through and to apply to the article; and a heating device (30) coupled with the solution conduit (14) and the air conduit (44) for heating both the cleaning solution in the solution conduit and the high-pressure air in the air conduit concurrently and to a heated temperature prior to applying to the article. |
| US07905238B2 |
Drawer-like cosmetic case
A cosmetic case includes an outer case and a drawer-like inner case drawn in or drawn out the outer case, the drawer-like inner case having a space for accommodating cosmetics wherein the outer case has a push-pull locking device therein and the drawer-like inner case has a hooking member outside thereof such that the push-pull locking device is cooperated with the hooking member and the outer case further has a spring therein such that the spring presses the drawer-like inner case in a drawn-out direction, the cosmetic case allows the drawer-like inner case to be automatically drawn in and out the outer case by means of an operation of the push-pull locking device when the user lightly pushes the drawer-like inner case in a drawn-in direction. Thus, it is convenient to carry the cosmetic case and it is prevented from a leakage of the contents. |
| US07905231B2 |
Breathing assistance apparatus
This invention concerns a breathing assistance apparatus capable of operating in alternating inhalation and expiratory phases wherein; a) the control means of the apparatus comprise selection means (152) capable of selecting a pressure parameter or a flow rate parameter to define; b) the said reference value for the gas source, the said selection means are controlled by an automatic control unit (51), the said control unit being: I) connected to pressure and flow rate sensors situated on the inhalation duct to form a direct closed regulation loop for selecting a reference value parameter, II) associated to a program allowing the selection to be made in real time from a pressure or flow rate signal, so that the association of a direct closed regulation circuit for the selection of a reference value parameter with a valve permitting proportional operation, allows real time control of barometric and volumetric operating modes of the apparatus, between the inhalation and expiratory phases and during these phases. The invention also concerns associated operating processes. |
| US07905228B2 |
Nebulizer apparatus and method
A nebulizer for efficiently and reliably delivering aerosolized fluid to an inhaling patient is disclosed. The nebulizer includes a fixed diverter and a movable fluid orifice or fluid pathway connected with an actuator for responding to an inhalation or a manual actuation and beginning the nebulization process. Also provided is a method of providing nebulization including the steps of moving a fluid orifice or fluid pathway connected to an actuator so that the fluid orifice or fluid pathway reaches a nebulizing position during inhalation. |
| US07905227B2 |
Self-ballasting solar collector
A non-penetrating, roof-mounted, solar energy concentrator is disclosed. The invention in the preferred embodiment includes a receiver adapted to convert light into electricity; one or more reflectors adapted to direct solar light to the receiver; and a frame affixed to the receiver and one or more reflectors. The frame includes a plurality of footings adapted to frictional affix the frame to a roof, such that the concentrator is detachably secured to the roof with compromising the integrity of the roof. The footings may include or receive ballast used to increase the weight of the concentrator, thereby increasing the friction used to affix the concentrator to the roof without fasteners that penetrate the roof. The footings in some embodiments are also configured to deflect the wind, thereby reducing the wind load on the concentrator. |
| US07905225B2 |
Cooking grill
A cooking grill comprising a housing defining a cooking chamber and having a side opening therein, a heating element in the chamber, a drawer slidably disposed in the side opening, the drawer having a bottom tray and a front wall that substantially fills the side opening when the drawer is inserted in the housing, a grilling module adapted to sit in the drawer having a support portion for supporting a grilling surface, and a removable grilling surface, wherein the drawer can be inserted into the side opening in either a first orientation in which the bottom tray is below the heating element and the support portion is above the heating element or a second orientation rotated 180 degrees from the first orientation in which the bottom tray is above the heating element and the support portion is below the heating element. |
| US07905222B1 |
Football throwing machine
One embodiment of a football throwing machine using an axially aligned compression spring for propulsion and a latching mechanism for retaining the spring in its compressed state. A spiral shaped actuator mechanism is used to compress the spring with consistent torque throughout the compression stroke. The spring is released from its compressed state using an efficient triggering mechanism. A timing mechanism allows a delay so the user can position for the catch. The football is held by axially misaligned wheels on one end and a rotating cup on the other. As the spring pushes the ball between the wheels while being ejected from the apparatus, the wheel misalignment causes the helical spinning effect on the football while the cup holding the other end of the football spins freely. |
| US07905221B2 |
Internal combustion engine
An engine block is disclosed in one embodiment having a cylinder shape bore, which forms the outside wall surface of a cylindrical air chamber. Radially outwards from the cylindrical air chamber there is an annular shape combustion chamber, which has a circular inner wall surface, circular outer wall surface, closed annular shaped top surface, and an annular shaped open end opposite of the top surface. The bottom end of the circular inner wall surface of the annular shape combustion chamber and the bottom end of the outside wall surface of the cylindrical air chamber defines an annular shape surface. This surface fits inside the annular shape air chamber in the piston assembly. In one embodiment, in the lower part of the circular inner wall surface of the annular shape combustion chamber there is a circular groove for an oil scraper ring of conventional design. |
| US07905216B2 |
Common rail and method of manufacturing common rail
To provide a common rail that can prevent stress concentration from arising locally with respect to intersecting portions between a flow path and branching paths and can prevent damage such as cracks.A common rail that is used in a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine comprises: a rail body portion that includes inside of itself a flow path along an axial direction; and branching pipe portions that are arrayed along the axial direction of the rail body portion, project from and are molded integrally with the rail body portion, and each of which includes inside of itself a branching path that branches from the flow path, wherein edges of inlets of the branching paths at intersecting portions between the flow path and the branching paths are chamfered, and, of the edges, the radius of curvature of the edges in the axial direction of the rail body portion is larger than the radius of curvature of the edges in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the rail body portion. |
| US07905210B2 |
Engine vibration elimination system and variable stroke characteristic engine
Secondary vibration generated accompanying reciprocation of a piston (21) of a multi-link variable compression ratio engine (E) can be eliminated effectively, even when the direction of the secondary vibration is inclined relative to a cylinder axis (L1), by inclining the direction (shown by arrow) of an excitation force generated by a secondary balancer system (43) so that it coincides with the direction of the secondary vibration. The secondary balancer system (43) is formed by supporting balancer weights (44a, 45a) on a pair of balancer shafts (44, 45) rotating in directions opposite to each other, and by displacing the phases of these balancer weights (44a, 45a) the direction of the excitation force generated can be inclined so as to coincide with the direction of secondary vibration of the engine (E). |
| US07905196B2 |
Aerosol generating apparatus, method for generating aerosol and film forming apparatus
There is provided an aerosol generating apparatus which is capable of generating aerosol stably. The aerosol generating apparatus includes a container which mixes a particulate material and a carrier gas to generate a fluidized bed of the particulate material; an aerosol delivery tube which sucks a part of the fluidized bed to deliver the part as an aerosol containing the particulate material and the carrier gas; an optical sensor which measures a position of the fluidized bed; and an adjusting unit which adjusts the position of the aerosol delivery tube based on an information about the position of the fluidized bed measured by the optical sensor. By moving an end of the aerosol delivery tube horizontally along and relative to the top surface of the fluidized bed, it is possible to avoid harmful effect that particle size distribution in the fluidized bed becomes locally non-uniform. |
| US07905194B2 |
Apparatus for gluing the tail of a convolutely wound web material thereto
An apparatus for applying a fluid to a convolutely wound roll of web substrate is disclosed. The apparatus provides for a fluid applicator having a manifold and a first surface. The fluid is fluidly displaceable from the manifold to the first surface through at least one opening disposed therein. The convolutely wound roll of web substrate is disposable upon the first surface. The fluid is fluidly displaced from the first surface to the convolutely wound roll of web substrate. |
| US07905191B2 |
Gas expansion trunk for marine vessels
A liquid cargo carrying maritime vessel including a plurality of liquid cargo carrying tanks and a plurality of gas expansion trunks wherein each gas expansion trunk is above, associated with, and in fluid communication with a respective tank therebelow, via slotted apertures in the deck. Each gas expansion trunk is fixedly positioned on a portion of a deck of the vessel above the associated tank and in fluid/tight relationship with the deck over a periphery of the trunk which encloses the totality of slotted apertures in the deck. Depending on the attributes of the ship, the expansion trunk is preferably located directly above the tank and at the highest point available of the tank and as far forward on the tank as possible. Alternatively, and depending upon obstructive constraints and vessel conditions, the trunk may be placed in other locations such as aftmost on the tank or inbetween. Gas expansion trunks are suitable for being retrofitted onto existing ships or integrated into the configuration of new ships. |
| US07905190B2 |
Sewing machine
In a sewing machine, a control device is configured to execute a needle thread cutting operation including driving a movable cutting blade to a predetermined pivot location, driving a wiper driving mechanism for protruding a wiper by a predetermined stroke, driving the thread take-up driving mechanism to lower the thread take-up by a predetermined distance, driving a wiper driving mechanism to draw back the wiper by a predetermined amount corresponding to the lowering of the thread take-up, driving the movable cutting blade to a standby position, driving the thread tension adjusting mechanism to release a thread tension adjusting mechanism, and driving the thread take-up driving mechanism to move the thread take-up to an original uppermost position. |
| US07905188B2 |
Threading device of sewing machine
A threading device of a sewing machine having a plurality of needles is provided. The threading device is configured to insert a thread through an eye of any one of the needles. The threading device includes a threading hook which moves forward to enter the eye of one of the needles and moves backward to catch and insert the thread through the eye, a threading mechanism which moves the threading hook to insert the thread, a selecting portion operable to select, among the plurality of needles, a needle through which the thread is to be inserted, a positioning mechanism which moves the threading hook to a position corresponding to the needle selected by operating the selecting portion, and a selected needle indicating device which distinguishably indicates the needle with respect to which the threading hook has been positioned by operating the selecting portion. |
| US07905186B2 |
Transplanting apparatus
A transplanting apparatus which can plant virtually 100% of the seedlings from a nursery tray, while avoid skips when planting which may happen when seeds in a tray row fail to grow into seedlings. This is accomplished by picking up an entire row of seedlings from a tray, transferring the seedlings to a mechanism which eliminates gaps between seedlings, and then discharging the seedlings one at a time to the ground with a desired spacing between the seedlings while having full physical control of the seedlings. A root ball compressor is provided to provide better control of the seedlings as the compressed root balls are less likely to tip over, and the compressed root balls are easier to be grabbed by the pinch disks. |
| US07905185B2 |
Table top with integral alignment members
A table may include a table top and a frame. The frame may be connected to the table top using one or more fasteners. When a force is applied to the table, such as a force that draws the frame away from the table top, the fasteners may contact and/or engage one or more stops, which may help resist the frame's movement away from the table top and may help prevent damage to the table top. |
| US07905183B2 |
Structural cardboard runner, pallet, shipping article
A runner for pallets includes a cardboard sheet folded to include a first portion forming an M shape, a second portion folded across the M shape to form two closed triangles, and a third portion folded around the M shape including sections along and adjacent a first outer leg of the M shape and across the M shape and along and adjacent a second outer leg of the M shape. Adhesive bonds the third portion to the first and second portions. The arrangement forms a beam of sufficient structural rigidity to support the vertical and horizontal “abuse” often received by pallets. Notches for fork lift tines are cut into the length for matching a typical location of the fork lift tines. A pallet includes a deck such as cardboard or other material, and three runners attached to a bottom of the deck. |
| US07905182B2 |
Multi-mode modular projectile
The disclosed system, device and method for providing a multi-mode munition generally includes a modular projectile assembly having an aft module suitably configured for mechanical and electrical engagement with a forward module. The aft module generally provides a common assembly for engagement with a variety of forward modules as well as engagement with cartridge casings of various calibers. Disclosed features and specifications may be suitably controlled, adapted or otherwise optionally modified to improve optimization of artillery projectiles for a specific role. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention generally provide munition cartridges that may be augmented in the field with the utilization of specialized forward modules. |
| US07905181B2 |
Bioluminescent paintball
A Bioluminescent Paintball 10 includes a shell 12 defining an interior cavity 14, a liquefied substance 16 disposed within the interior cavity 14, a phosphorescent material 18 disbursed throughout the shell 12 for providing a visible “tracing” effect when the bioluminescent paintball 10 is ejected from a paintball discharge device, a neutralizing agent 20 disbursed throughout the liquefied substance 16 for neutralizing calcium disbursed throughout the liquefied substance 16 thereby preventing light emission before the paintball 10 impacts a target, and a photoprotein 22 disbursed throughout the liquefied substance 16 for reacting with calcium disposed upon a target after the bioluminescent paintball 10 impacts the target, thereby rupturing the shell 12 and allowing the liquefied substance 16 to engage the calcium to produce visible light.A paintball 100 includes a shell 102 defining an interior cavity 104, an insoluble coating 106 disposed upon an inner surface 108 of the shell 102, and an aqueous material 110 disposed within the cavity 104 such that the aqueous material 110 engages the insoluble coating 106, thereby preventing the aqueous material 110 from dissolving the shell 102, and promoting the marking of a target via the aqueous material 110 when the paintball 100 forcibly engages the target and ruptures the shell 102. |
| US07905177B2 |
Safe and arm system for a robot
A safe and arm system includes an operator control subsystem including a first arm switch, a second arm switch, and a fire switch. A fire control subsystem is responsive to the operator control subsystem and includes at least a pair of terminals for connection to a munition. The terminals are initially shorted together and without a ground. A power supply control circuit is configured to supply power to the terminals. A ground supply circuit is configured to ground one said terminal. A terminal shorting circuit is configured to remove the short across the pair of terminals. The power supply control circuit, the ground supply circuit, and the terminal shorting circuit are configured to ground one terminal, remove the short across the pair of terminals, and to supply power to the terminals only if the first and second arm switches and the fire switch are all activated in a predetermined sequence. |
| US07905176B2 |
Automatic registration device
An automatic registration device applied to screen printing machines includes a base disposed under the printing table and is arranged with at least three sets of CCD (Charge Coupled Device), a printing table and an automatic registration member. The two sets of CCD are arranged on one side of the base while the other one set of CCD is disposed on the other side. The printing table is for loading and positioning the articles to be printed and is disposed with through holes corresponding to the image capture devices respectively as well as light sources for emitting light upward and the light passing through the insertion hole. The automatic registration member with a screen is arranged over the printing table. The CCD takes images of the article to be printed and the screen at the same time by the through hole. Through the computer, the automatic registration member and the screen move synchronously for accurate positioning to the article to be printed. |
| US07905172B2 |
Laminate membrane
A laminate membrane having an elastomer body and a contact layer applied to the elastomer body. The contact layer is made of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). A barrier layer configured as a permeation barrier is additionally provided, which is disposed between the contact layer and the elastomer body, or applied to the side of the contact layer that faces away from the elastomer body. |
| US07905170B1 |
Flash suppressor
An improved flash suppressor and silencer mount. The use of tapered tines allows for the easy removal of a noise suppressor from the flash suppressor even after extended use. Due to the construction of the flash suppressor and through proper material selection the tines will not warp or break even after being exposed to temperatures in excess of 1100 degrees. Through the use of angled concave transition portions this device is a superb stand alone flash suppressor. |
| US07905162B2 |
Low profile wrench
A wrench for rotating a member comprises an elongate body having a head portion. The wrench may include a drive mechanism mounted to the head portion. The drive mechanism may comprise a drive gear and a clutch gear. The drive gear may include a drive element for engaging the member. The clutch gear may be operatively coupled to the drive gear and may be rotatably supported by a unidirectional roller clutch. |
| US07905160B2 |
Protective cover
The invention relates to a protective cover comprising at least two protective-cover elements arranged one after the other in the direction of movement of the protective cover, each comprising at least one frame element (22, 22′) which is provided with at least two frame sections (23, 24) which are offset with respect to one another, wherein at least one lamella element (1, 20) is arranged on each frame section in such a manner that the lamella elements slidingly overlap frame elements (22′) arranged directly one after the other in a telescopic manner to form a substantially closed cover and wherein each frame section of each frame element is provided with a separate lamella element, whereas respectively one first lamella element (1) on a first frame section (23) comprises a tab (5) which overlaps the offset region to the second frame section (24) of the same frame element (22), wherein the tab grips behind a second lamella element (20) on the second frame section in such a manner that the tab of the first lamella element can be moved relative to the second lamella element during the movement of the protective cover. |
| US07905155B2 |
Multi-axis test apparatus
A testing apparatus for testing a device or components of a device is presented. It is desirable to simulate the effects of rotary and other forces as well as environmental factors on various components of devices to optimize design improvements so as to increase the quality of the various components and the device or to increase the length of service of the various components and the device. |
| US07905150B2 |
Inspection fixture for the simultaneous admission of a disk-shaped test specimen with a search gas and a mechanical load as well as pertinent testing method
The invention relates to a test device for simultaneously exposing a disk-shaped test specimen to a flowing and pressurized test gas and mechanical load as well as an associated test method. The test device is comprised of the following components: a specimen seat, which is designed in such a way that an edge area of the test specimen rests on the specimen seat and an inner area of the test specimen is accessible from its upper side and lower side; a ram arranged above the specimen seat, with which a presettable mechanical load can be exerted on the upper side of the test specimen; and a gas feed plate arranged beneath the specimen seat, with which the test gas can be conveyed to the lower side of the test specimen. |
| US07905149B2 |
Physical sensor and method of process
There is provided a physical sensor which ensures long-term reliability and can be miniaturized and increased in density, and a method of producing the same. A physical sensor includes a supporting substrate, an element substrate that includes a sensor element and is joined to the supporting substrate through an insulating layer, a glass cap that covers an area of the sensor element and is joined to the element substrate, and a built-in electrode that is electrically connected to the sensor element. The built-in electrode is formed in a through hole passing through the element substrate, the insulating layer and the supporting substrate. A portion of the glass cap that covers an area of the built-in electrode is anodically bonded to the element substrate. |
| US07905141B2 |
Path structure related to flow of fluid to be measured and pressure difference detection in servo type volumetric flowmeter
One pressure difference detection connecting path (71) and another pressure difference detection connecting path (72) are formed so as to be arranged at a predetermined interval in a longitudinal direction. Further, the one pressure difference detection connecting path (71) is formed so as to be connected in front of a continuation center position (70) of a second inflow path (67) and a first inflow path (43). Further, the other pressure difference detection connecting path (72) is formed so as to be connected behind a continuation center position (69) of a second outflow path (66) and a first outflow path (44). |
| US07905138B2 |
Method for checking transmission backlash, and production machine or robot
To determine the backlash in an arrangement in which a motor moves a load via a transmission mechanism, a transducer is used which is present anyway in conventional production machines and which measures an angular position or translatory position of the drive element or a derivative of this quantity. Via the transducer the effect of the backlash on the actual position of the drive element is measured, the actual position being different from the desired position, which is defined by the forces or torques acting on the drive. On the basis of a frequency analysis, quantities can be derived which permit the use of threshold criteria. For example, the drive is driven with a periodic signal which is close to the absorber frequency, i.e. a frequency at which the absorption by the transmission mechanism is greatest. |
| US07905137B2 |
Engine oil consumption measurement device and engine oil consumption measurement method
A measurement device measures engine oil consumption of an engine lubricated by engine oil. The measurement device includes a sensing pipe housing in which a sulfur dioxide sensing pipe arranged to sense the sulfur dioxide is disposed, an exhaust gas introduction passage connecting the engine and a first end of the sulfur dioxide sensing pipe, and arranged to introduce the exhaust gas from the engine to the sulfur dioxide sensing pipe, and a flow amount measurement device arranged to measure the flow amount of the exhaust gas flowing in the sulfur dioxide sensing pipe. The engine oil measurement device is small in size and able to measure engine oil consumption easily. |
| US07905136B2 |
Method of operating a fuel injector
A method for operating an injection valve, in particular a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, in which a trigger voltage is able to be applied to an actuator, designed as piezoelectric element, of the fuel injector in order to induce an injection of fluid, in particular fuel, supplied to the fuel injector via a supply system. A specifiable test voltage is applied to the actuator in a test triggering, and a fluid pressure prevailing in the supply system is detected at least during the test triggering in order to derive information about an operating state of the fuel injector and/or the actuator from the test voltage and the detected fluid pressure. |
| US07905135B2 |
Throttle upstream pressure estimating apparatus and cylinder charged air quantity calculating apparatus for internal combustion engine
In a non-critical pressure region where a pressure ratio [Pm/Pthrup(i−1)] of an intake air pressure Pm (throttle downstream pressure) detected by an intake air pressure sensor to a previous throttle upstream pressure Pthrup(i−1) is greater than a predetermined value B, the previous throttle upstream pressure Pthrup(i−1) is substituted for one of two terms of the throttle upstream pressures Pthrup(i) included in an intake system model so that present throttle upstream pressure Pthrup(i) is calculated. In a critical pressure region where the pressure ratio is less than or equal to the predetermined value B, a physical value f(Pm/Pthrup(i)) using a pressure ratio [Pm/Pthrup(i)] of the intake air pressure Pm to a present throttle upstream pressure Pthrup(i) as a parameter is regarded as a steady value fc so that the present throttle upstream pressure Pthrup(i) is calculated. |
| US07905133B2 |
Variable ratio flow splitter for a flowstream
A splitter for a pressurized primary flowstream of a mobile phase is provided. The splitter comprises a first splitting stage that divides the primary flowstream between a major split flowstream and a minor split flowstream by means of a first and a second restrictive flow element; a first dilution stage that combines a dilution flow source with the minor split flowstream to create a diluted minor flowstream; a second splitting stage that divides the diluted minor flowstream between a secondary major diluted flowstream and a secondary minor diluted flowstream by means of a third restrictive element in the secondary minor diluted flow stream; and a second dilution stage wherein a conditioning flow source conditions the secondary minor diluted flow stream after the third restrictive element prior to outlet of the secondary minor diluted flowstream from the splitter. |
| US07905128B2 |
Forming method and apparatus and an associated preform having a hydrostatic pressing medium
A method and apparatus for forming a workpiece having a desired configuration as well as an associated preform assembly are provided. The forming method and apparatus as well as the preform assembly include a hydrostatic pressing medium, such as a layer of glass, disposed within the die cavity proximate to at least one side of the workpiece. The hydrostatic pressing medium is configured to have a relatively low viscosity at the temperatures at which the workpiece is processed, thereby facilitating the relatively even application of pressure to the workpiece. As such, a workpiece having a complex configuration may be formed utilizing a single acting die. |
| US07905124B2 |
Lock with a tool and method of forming the lock
A pin tumbler lock having a housing with a series of holes running parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical bore in the housing. The holes are bored through the housing, and a first end of each hole opens to one of each of the chambers in the housing, between the first and second ends of the corresponding chamber, and a second end of each hole opens to the outside of said housing. A tool having a body comprising a tumbler-lock-housing receiving cavity, for receiving the housing therein, wherein the body comprises a first and second series of channels for creating the holes in a conventional pin tumbler lock housing. |
| US07905123B2 |
Bicycle lock
A bicycle lock includes a first part and a second part located close to bicycle wheels by two bolts and two respective protection members are connected to the first part and the second part respectively. The protection members cover the heads of the bolts so that the unauthorized person cannot access the bolts to detach the bicycle lock from the bicycle. A lock rod is connected to the first part which is pivotable about the bolt corresponding thereto so as to be inserted into the second part to lock the wheel. |
| US07905122B2 |
Method and system for determining a washing machine load unbalance
A clothes washing machine system including a method of detecting a load unbalance. The washing machine system includes a cabinet having a drum rotatably mounted therein. A motor is coupled to the drum for rotating the drum within the cabinet. A memory device is accessible by a processor, such as a digital signal processor (DSP). The memory contains program code for implementing a method that includes determining the motor torque ripple, determining the motor speed, and determining the load unbalance mass based on the motor torque and speed. |
| US07905116B1 |
Fabric collection structure for fabric cutting apparatus
A fabric collection structure for a fabric cutting apparatus splits fabric and has a driving means. The fabric collection structure includes a fabric rolling rod and a fabric pressing means. The fabric pressing means has a fabric spread rod and a fabric pressing rod. During fabric collection, the driving means drives the fabric rolling rod, fabric spread rod and fabric pressing rod to rotate. The fabric split by the fabric cutting apparatus is flatly unfolded by the fabric spread rod and driven by the fabric pressing rod to be rolled on the fabric rolling rod, and is pressed by the fabric pressing rod. The fabric pressing rod is lifted by increasing thickness of the fabric rolled on the fabric rolling rod. The fabric rolling rod rolls the fabric at a fixed location. The fabric pressing means presses the fabric to control the density and a uniform fabric density is achieved. |
| US07905115B2 |
Glass powder, especially biologically active glass powder, and method for producing glass powder, especially biologically active glass powder
The invention relates to glass powder, especially a biologically active glass powder, which includes a plurality of glass particles and which is characterized by the following features: the glass particles are made up by >90% of non-spherical particles; the geometry of the individual non-spherical particle is characterized by a ratio of length to diameter of 1.1 to 105. |
| US07905109B2 |
Rapid cooling system for RTP chamber
A rapid cooling system for a rapid thermal processing chamber includes a rapid thermal processing chamber having a wafer support for supporting a wafer. A tank having a supply of cooling liquid is provided in fluid communication with the chamber. A pump is provided in fluid communication with the rapid thermal processing chamber and the tank for pumping the cooling liquid from the tank to the chamber and cooling the wafer during the cooling phase of rapid thermal processing. |
| US07905104B2 |
Climatisation system for wind turbines
A climatisation system for wind turbines which comprise: a first heat exchanger (10) in the nacelle (1) for exchanging heat with an element of the nacelle for which the temperature needs to be controlled; a second heat exchanger (20) outside the nacelle (1) for exchanging heat with a first exchange unit (21); a first section (12) of a climatisation circuit for: connecting the first heat exchanger (10) with the second heat exchanger (20); circulating a liquid coolant between the first heat exchanger (10) and the second heat exchanger (20); impulsion units (100) for circulating the liquid coolant on the first section (12) of the climatisation circuit; a shut off valve (200); and expansion tank (400); an expansion valve (300) between the first heat exchanger (10) and the second heat exchanger (20). |
| US07905102B2 |
Control system
A stability control algorithm is provided for a centrifugal compressor. The stability control algorithm is used to control a variable geometry diffuser and a hot gas bypass valve (when provided) in response to the detection of compressor instabilities. The stability control algorithm can adjust the position of a diffuser ring in the variable geometry diffuser in response to the detection of a surge condition or a stall condition. The diffuser ring in the variable geometry diffuser can be adjusted to determine an optimal position of the diffuser ring. The stability control algorithm can also be used to open a hot gas bypass valve in response to the detection of continued surge conditions. |
| US07905099B2 |
Predictive maintenance method and apparatus for HVACR systems
A predictive maintenance method and apparatus for HVACR systems including a sensor capable of detecting the presence of a gaseous phase in the refrigerant fluid at a location wherein solely liquid phase should be present if the system is functioning properly. |
| US07905096B1 |
Dehumidifying and re-humidifying air cooling for an electronics rack
Dehumidifying and re-humidifying cooling apparatus and method are provided for an electronics rack. The apparatus includes a dehumidifying air-to-liquid heat exchanger disposed at an air inlet side of the rack and a re-humidifying air-to-liquid heat exchanger disposed at an air outlet side of the rack. The heat exchangers are in fluid communication with a coolant loop for passing chilled coolant through the heat exchangers, and the dehumidifying heat exchanger dehumidifies ingressing air to the electronics rack to reduce a dew point of air flowing through the rack. A condensate collector disposed at the air inlet side collects liquid condensate from the dehumidifying of ingressing air, and a condensate delivery mechanism delivers the condensate to the re-humidifying heat exchanger to humidify air egressing from the electronics rack. |
| US07905091B2 |
Method and device for controlling or regulating the boost pressure of an internal combustion engine having a compressor
A method and a device for regulating the boost pressure of an internal combustion engine having a compressor, which set a setpoint boost pressure in a rapid manner and without overshooting. An actuator is provided by which the boost pressure of the compressor is set. An actuating variable for the actuator is determined as a function of a rotational speed of the compressor. |
| US07905086B2 |
Method for controlling desulfurization in exhaust gas purification system, and exhaust gas purification system
An exhaust gas purification system having a NOx conversion catalyst device with a catalyst supported thereon for conversion of NOx in the exhaust gas. In order to accurately introduce a fuel in a necessary and sufficient amount for raising the temperature for allowing the NOx conversion catalyst device to be brought to a desulfurization target temperature, even during transient operation to maintain the state of the device at a temperature of the desulfurization target or above, an amount of fuel necessary for raising a first detection temperature as an indicator of the catalyst temperature to a desulfurization target temperature is set using a heat quantity computed from a first heat quantity necessary for raising the temperature of the NOx conversion catalyst device and a second heat quantity necessary for raising the temperature of the exhaust gas. |
| US07905084B2 |
Rotary pressure rise combustor for a gas turbine engine
A gas generator for providing continuous pressure rise combustion, including: a rotatable member including a forward end, an aft end, a circumferential wall and a longitudinal centerline axis extending therethrough; an outer circumferential wall, wherein the rotatable member is positioned therein so that the circumferential wall of the rotatable member is spaced radially inwardly from the outer circumferential wall; at least one helical channel formed by a plurality of helical sidewalls extending between the circumferential wall of the rotatable member and the outer circumferential wall, each helical channel being open at the forward end and the aft end of the rotatable member so as to provide flow communication therethrough; an air supply for providing air to each helical channel; and, a fuel supply for providing fuel to each helical channel. Each helical channel includes an inlet portion having a first cross-sectional area for receiving a flow having a designated shape and orientation, a throat portion downstream of the inlet portion having a second cross-section less than the first cross-section of the inlet portion, and a diffusion portion downstream of the throat portion having a third cross-section greater than the second cross-section of the throat portion. A device is also positioned downstream from the diffusion portion of each helical channel for holding flame therein. A mixture of the fuel and air is continuously combusted downstream of the diffusion portion of each helical channel in a manner such that combustion gases exit therefrom with an increased pressure and temperature. |
| US07905082B2 |
Method and system for increasing Modified Wobbe Index control range
A system and method for controlling the temperature of a fuel gas. The system and method includes mixing an intermediate pressure feedwater stream from the heat recovery steam generator with a high pressure feedwater stream from the heat recovery steam generator, then using that mixture to heat the fuel gas mixture. The system and method may provide for improved control over the Modified Wobbe Index of the fuel gas, which may allow for greater variation in the composition of the fuel gas. |
| US07905080B2 |
Grass collector for a mower
A grass collector adapted to be attached to a rear of a riding-type mower for receiving cut grass from a mower unit through a duct, the grass collector including a front container section having a rearwardly facing opening and adapted to be attached to the riding-type mower, the front container section carrying a first bottom plate having a substantially horizontal position. A rear container section is supported pivotably about a pivot point located in a rear upper region of the front container section and pivotable between a first position wherein the rear container section substantially covers the opening of the front container section and a second position pivoted from the first position to allow cut grass to fall, the rear container section having a second bottom plate having a substantially horizontal position. |
| US07905076B2 |
Apparatus and method for conveying envelopes in a mailpiece insertion system
An apparatus includes a first feed path configured to transport an envelope from an input at an envelope supply to an insertion location, and a second feed path configured to transport the envelope with a mail piece insert therein from the insertion location to an output. The first and second feed paths intersect at an intersection spaced from the insertion location. The paths are angled relative to each other at the intersection. |
| US07905059B2 |
Door lining fixing construction and door lining fixing method
This door lining fixing construction is constructed such that: an assist grip provided on a vehicle interior side of a door lining is fixed to a bracket provided on a vehicle exterior side of the door lining; the bracket is extended to an inner handle opening that is formed in the door lining; the bracket is fixed to a door inner panel through the inner handle opening; an inner handle is disposed between the bracket and the door lining; and an operation hole is formed in the inner handle for fixing the bracket to the door inner panel. |
| US07905058B2 |
Astragal assembly for use on exterior doors
A double door assembly having an active door and a passive door includes an astragal that is formed of a composite of aluminum and wood. The astragal is formed of an aluminum rail with a U-shaped cross section that receives a wooden insert. The astragal is mounted to the passive door such that the U-shaped cross section opens to the active door and the wooden insert presents a mounting surface for hardware. |
| US07905054B1 |
Machine for the field inoculation of corn with bacterial pathogens
An inoculation apparatus is disclosed whereby plants may be inoculated with a pathogen. The inoculation apparatus may includes a plurality of wound members and one or more pads. The pathogen is provided in an inoculum. In one example, the pressure of the inoculum is up to about 2 psi. |
| US07905053B2 |
Poles for supporting growing plants
A telescoping pole for supporting growing plants comprises two or more elongate pole members, one of which has a pointed stake section at one end to facilitate insertion into the ground. The pole includes means for locking the elongate pole members in a number of different telescoped positions, whereby to allow for adjustment of the effective length of the pole according to the height of the plant that it supports. The telescoping members are made of a polymer material, with at least one of the telescoping members comprising two injection-molded component parts that are mechanically attached to one another. |
| US07905052B2 |
System of photomorphogenically enhancing plants
A system for radiating plants with photon radiation to induce photomorphogenic growth is described. The system includes a light assembly operable to transmit photon radiation, a light transmittive material located between the light assembly and a plant, a power supply connected to the light assembly, a failsafe switch connected to and located between the power supply and the light assembly and a photomorphogenic growth controller connected to the light assembly. The power supply is operable to energize the light assembly and the failsafe switch is operable to de-energize the light assembly when a safety signal is received by the failsafe switch. The photomorphogenic growth controller is operable to selectively energize the light assembly. |
| US07905051B2 |
Suspended cover
The present invention relates to a system for promoting the growth of plants under less than optimal climatic and lighting conditions, the system comprising a device which contributes to the formation of an enclosed space over the plants, and at least one source of light. A special characteristic of the invention is that the device which contributes to the formation of an enclosed space over the plants consists of a flexible tarp (1) which comprises integrated lighting sources (6), the flexible tarp (1) being kept up at an optional height over the plants by means of excess pressure built up under the tarp (1) by means of an excess pressure system (5). |
| US07905050B2 |
Automated high-throughput seed sample handling system and method
A method and apparatus for processing seed or seed samples includes an autonomous sorter which sorts seed by pre-programmed criteria. Optional features can include a counter to autonomously ensure the correct number of seeds to a seed package, a cleaning device, a sheller, and a label applicator. A conveyance path, controlled automatically, can move the seed to appropriate and desired stations during the processing while maintaining the sample segregating from other samples. Validation of the sample can be pre-required and information about the sample can be derived and stored for further use. |
| US07905048B2 |
Bedbug detection, monitoring and control techniques
One nonlimiting variation of a detection arrangement includes one or more sensors each structured to detect at least one biochemical substance indicative of biochemistry of one or more target insect species and provide a corresponding sensor signal, a controller responsive to the sensor signal of each of the one or more sensors to determine if the one or more insect species are present and generate a corresponding output signal, and an indicator responsive to the output signal to indicate the presence of the one or more insect species. |
| US07905046B2 |
System and method for determining target range and coordinating team fire
A system and method for use of an enhanced aiming system which includes a marker displayed at a first position in an aiming scope, a user input of a start position and an ending position to measure a desired impact zone, a calculator for determining a range to the target based on the known dimension of the impact zone and the magnification value of the aiming scope, and a display in the aiming scope for showing an aiming point dot or bar to compensate for projectile drop at the calculated range, and optionally for windage and optionally for moving target hold-over. |
| US07905043B2 |
Boresight laser aiming system for firearms
The boresight laser aiming system for firearms provides a laser aiming beam through the mechanical action (20), chamber, and barrel (36) of the operable firearm (10) and through a specially configured live rimfire cartridge within the chamber, enabling a marksman to place the laser upon the target and fire the weapon simultaneously. The laser device (12) may be installed concentrically with a light passage through the bolt (22), hammer, or other mechanism of the firearm, or may be offset with the light path guided by one or more reflective mirrors, prisms, etc. The firearm may comprise a rifle (10), semiautomatic pistol, revolver, etc. The live cartridge has concentric inner and outer tubes defining a toroidal explosive charge-containing chamber therebetween and a light passage through the innermost tube, and a bullet having a passage therethrough allowing light to pass through the live cartridge assembly when placed in the firearm chamber. |
| US07905042B2 |
Handheld single shot firearm
A firearm with a stock having an exterior contour that is generally symmetric with respect to opposing end portions, a front edge portion and at least a portion of opposing side surfaces. A barrel extends through the front edge portion of the stock. Two safety release buttons are diametrically opposed to each other with respect to a barrel bore centerline axis and are exposed at a front edge portion of the stock. Two firing mechanism release buttons are each exposed at an exterior surface of the stock at a respective one of the opposing end portions. The firing mechanism actuation buttons are diametrically opposed to each other with respect to the barrel bore centerline axis. Firing of the firearm requires both of the safety release buttons to be depressed thereby allowing either of the firing mechanism actuation buttons to be depressed for firing the firearm. |
| US07905040B2 |
Apparatus for alerting availability of vacant poker table seats
A sign attached to the back of a poker or blackjack dealer's chair to provide ease of visibility for a casino's floor staff and players waiting to enter a gaming area as to the availability of a vacant seat and as to the betting limits associated with the table, with the sign being operated by a pull-cord arrangement at the dealer's chair. |
| US07905032B2 |
Adjustable jig and transfer punch tool
The adjustable jig and transfer punch tool that a plurality of pointers wherein each pointer has a central vertical axis, an anvil portion, a mandrel portion and a swivel joint joining the anvil portion to the mandrel portion in a movable manner about the central vertical axis. Each of the anvil portion and the mandrel portion has a transverse orifice therein relative to the central vertical axis. A first and second rods extend in the transverse orifices in a first and second pair of pointers respectively, joining these pointers together such that the pointers are independently movable there along. One of the pointers in the first pair of pointers is also one of the pointers in the second pair of pointers, and the first rod is movable angularly from the second rod about the swivel joint on that common pointer. |
| US07905031B1 |
Process for measuring a part
A process in which a white light scanner and a CMM are integrated into one inspection tool. The white light scanner and CMM will be tied to the same table and articulate using the same mechanism. Both inspection processes use the same absolute point to take measurements. The white light data will be modified using the CMM inspection data. Ultimately, the output of the inspection process will be a surface created by the white light inspection with the accuracy of a CMM. The white light scanner first scans the part to determine the surface topography within a first predetermined tolerance. The CMM scanner then scans the part using the coordinates from the white light scanner to position the probe close and fast, and then scans the surface topography of the part with a better tolerance than the white light scanner. |
| US07905025B1 |
Stud marking device
A stud marking device for easily and quickly marking locations of studs. The stud marking device includes a handle having a tubular base member having a pair of prong-like members extending outwardly from a bottom thereof, and further having three telescopic members slidably and lockingly extended within one another, and further includes a wheel being of many different sizes and being rotatably mounted to the prong-like members. As a first embodiment, the wheel has a bore radially extended through the circumference with a marker being threaded in the bore and having a marking end which extends outwardly beyond the circumference. As a second embodiment, the base member has an extended portion with a keypad member mounted thereto, an LCD display and driver disposed therein, a microcontroller having read only memory disposed in the extended portion, a spring-loaded marker disposed in a bottom of the extended portion, and a plurality of marker-triggering members securely and spacedly disposed on one side of the wheel for triggering the release of the spring-loaded marker to mark the locations of the studs. |
| US07905022B2 |
Folding knife having a locking mechanism
A folding knife includes a handle element, a blade rotatably coupled to the handle element, and a locking mechanism operatively coupled between the blade and the handle element. The locking mechanism includes first and second pairs of toggles positioned, respectively, on first and second sides of the blade, each pair of toggles being configured to move into a locked position when the blade is rotated to an open position. A handle of the knife may include the handle element and the first and second pairs of toggles. |
| US07905021B2 |
International dining kit
The present disclosure teaches an international dining kit comprising a pair of multifunctional chopstick components. The components include a first chopstick component having a fork portion and a first chopstick portion; and a second chopstick component having a spoon portion and a second chopstick portion. The kit can also include additional functionality, such as a knife, a straw, and a dental cleaning component, as well as be disposable and/or biodegradable. |
| US07905012B2 |
Method for manufacturing electronic components
A method for manufacturing an electronic component includes: a step of temporarily bonding a substrate to a support plate with an adhesive sheet; a step of forming a cut groove for dividing the substrate into individual chips by providing the substrate with a cut extending in the thickness direction from a second surface side, located opposite the first surface side, to a certain part of the support plate; a step of forming a continuous electrode on the second surface and on a peripheral surface located inside the cut groove, of each of the chips by sputtering, for example; and a step of detaching the chips from the support plate. An electrode on the first surface of the substrate may be formed prior to the temporary bonding step, and the electrode formed on the peripheral surface may be connected to the electrode on the first surface. |
| US07905009B2 |
Method of forming a transformer coil
A method of forming a transformer coil, wherein first and second fibrous layers are provided. Each of the first and second fibrous layers includes a fabric formed from a plurality of interconnected fibers and a plurality of spacers affixed to the fabric and protruding therefrom. A conductor layer is disposed over the first fibrous layer such that a first side of the conductor layer contacts the spacers of the first fibrous layer. The second fibrous layer is disposed over the conductor layer such that a second side of the conductor layer contacts the spacers of the second fibrous layer. A resin is applied so as to cover the conductor layer and the first and second fibrous layers. |
| US07905008B2 |
Method of manufacturing a coil component
There is provided a method of manufacturing a coil component, where a first insulation layer is formed on a first magnetic substrate, an insulation film is formed on the first insulation layer, a coil conductor is formed on the insulation film, another insulation film is formed on the coil conductor, and an open region is formed on the inner circumference side and on the outer circumference side of the coil conductor. A magnetic later is embedded, at least partially, in the open region, and a second magnetic substrate is secured on the magnetic layer. Also, a plurality of electrode terminals are formed, where one of the electrode terminals is connected to a terminal portion of the coil conductor, and the electrode terminals are provided across sides of the first and second magnetic substrates. Therefore, the first insulation layer can suitably prevent shorting failures between the electrode terminals. |
| US07905004B2 |
Small handle assembly tool
A pen assembly tool used to press-fit mating parts of a pen kit upon a lathe is disclosed. Use of the pen assembly tool allows wood turners to accurately align, assemble and press-fit mating parts of a pen kit or similar array of objects upon the same lathe used to create certain mating parts of the pen, such as a combined pen-tube and turning blank. |
| US07905001B2 |
Finishing/burnishing tool
A burnishing tool including a tapered cam shaft including a camming surfaces having a planar spatial orientation substantially the same as the planar spatial orientation of sides of a pyramid, wherein respective keys respectively extend along respective camming surfaces of the tapered cam shaft, the keys having respective longitudinal axis of extensions parallel to the respective camming surfaces and lying in respective planes normal to the planar spatial orientations of the respective camming surfaces, wherein the camming surfaces are arrayed about a cam shaft axis that is normal to a plane that is parallel to a base of the pyramid. The burnishing tool further includes a burnishing assembly, the burnishing assembly includes segmented burnishing components including respective cammed surfaces positioned on the tapered cam shaft adjacent respective camming surfaces. These segmented burnishing components include mate with the cam shaft. |
| US07905000B2 |
Piezoceramic multilayer actuator and method for the production thereof
According to various production methods for producing a piezoceramic multilayer actuator, in the course of the production method, multilayer locks (10) are electrochemically or mechanically processed in such a way that a recess structure is obtained. The lateral surfaces (22; 24) of the electrodes (20) inside these recesses are electrically insulated using the slip casting method in order to be able to contact the remaining electrodes by imprinting an outer metallization. |
| US07904996B2 |
Reclosable fasteners or zippers for use with polymeric bags
A slider is adapted for use with a reclosable fastener for bags containing material. The reclosable fastener includes a first track and a second track. The first track includes a first profile, while the second track includes a second profile. The first and second profiles are releasably engageable to each other. At least one of the first and second profiles has an interior portion. The slider comprises a body that includes a top, a first side, a second side and a separation member on an underside of the top. The separation member is adapted to open and close the fastener and includes a slider finger that extends generally downwardly from the top. The slider finger extends into an interior portion of the first profile so as to assist in removing material trapped in the interior portion of the first profile when closing the reclosable fastener. |
| US07904993B2 |
Spherical bearing for lock gate door and lock gate door having the same
A lock gate door (1) includes a pair of door bodies (2, 3); a pair of spherical bearings (6) for a lock gate door for rotatably supporting lower corner portions (4) of the door bodies (2, 3), respectively; and a pair of supporting portions (7) for rotatably supporting upper corner portions (5) of the door bodies (2, 3), respectively. The spherical bearing (6) includes a convex curved body (22) having a spherical surface (21) and a concave curved seat (24) having a toroidal curved surface (23) which slidably contacts the convex curved body (22), and is disposed on a downstream (16) side of a waterway (9) with respect to the supporting portion (7) in such a manner as to incline a rotational axis (C). |
| US07904989B1 |
Rotary eraser assembly
A rotary eraser assembly includes a rotary eraser, two discs, a threaded bolt and a nut. The rotary eraser includes, in each of two opposite sides, a cavity in communication with the aperture and at least one recess in the wall of the cavity. Each of the discs includes an annular lip disposed in the cavity in a related one of the sides of the rotary eraser and at least one block disposed in the recess in the related side of the rotary eraser. The threaded bolt is inserted through the rotary eraser and the discs. The nut is engaged with threaded bolt. |
| US07904987B2 |
Cleaning tool
A cleaning device including an elongate wand, a cleaning cartridge with an attachment portion, and means for releasably attaching and detaching the cleaning cartridge to the opposite end of the wand. The attachment and detachment means has an ejector collar slidably fixed to the second end of the wand and movable between extended and retracted positions. The collar includes a pair of collar jaws. The attachment and detachment means also has a pair of clamp jaws on the second end of the wand lying within the ejector collar. The clamp jaws are in near abutment with an inside surface of the collar when the collar is in the retracted position. The cartridge is attached to the wand by inserting the attachment portion between the clamp jaws and clamping the clamp jaws on the attachment portion. The cartridge is detached from the wand by pushing the ejector collar along the wand body away from the second end of the wand and against the cartridge. |
| US07904977B1 |
Safety sheet
The safety sheet of the present invention may include a bed sheet with sleeves along one or more sides. The sleeves may be continuous or slotted and may accommodate inserts constructed of a material soft enough to avoid injury yet sturdy enough to provide an effective barrier to lateral motion of a bed's occupant. The safety sheet may include solid or hollow inserts. Portability of the safety sheet may be maximized by the use of inflatable/deflatable inserts. Inserts may vary in size and shape, and the sleeves may vary in size to accommodate a range of insert sizes. Alternatively, the sleeves may be stuffed with soft materials such as socks or other clothing when inserts are unavailable. The safety sheet may be reversed with inserts in place for aesthetic and comfort purposes or without inserts to hide the sleeves when inserts are no longer needed. |
| US07904976B2 |
Endboard for a patient support
An endboard such as a headboard or a footboard for a patient support is provided. The endboard is suitable for use in connection with care equipment, a service supply, and a service line operably coupling the service supply to the care equipment. The endboard includes at least one line support. |
| US07904975B2 |
Real-time display of available products over the internet
Computer implemented methods and apparatus for determining availability information for a first one of a plurality of products for publication via a wide area network. The availability information is calculated with reference to a delivery date, an available number of units, and a reserved number of units, the delivery date having been specified by a user via the network, the available number of units having been determined with reference to inventory information, and the reserved number of units having been determined with reference to current order information. |
| US07908665B2 |
Cloaked data objects in an electronic content management security system
Embodiments of the invention provide for “cloaked” data objects in an electronic content management system. A “cloaked” data object is one that is inaccessible and unreadable by a user, but one which the user is permitted to know exists. The cloaked object may allow the user to know the scope of use of an object, without revealing the substantive content of the data object. A client application may process the cloaked object in a manner that is no different than manner in which the client processes an uncloaked version of the same data object. |
| US07908660B2 |
Dynamic risk management
A dynamic risk management system for operating systems that provides monitoring, detection, assessment, and follow-up action to reduce the risk whenever it rises. The system enables an operating system to protect itself automatically in dynamic environments. The risk management system monitors a diverse set of attributes of the system which determines the security state of the system and is indicative of the risk the system is under. Based on a specification of risk levels for the various attributes and for their combinations, the risk management system determines whether one or more actions are required to alleviate the overall risk to the system. |
| US07908655B1 |
Connectionless port scan detection on a network
A system and a method for detecting port scanning activities on a computer network. A probability variable is assigned to a device on a computer network. The probability variable indicates the probability that the device is conducting port-scanning activities. Data describing transmissions by the device during multiple intervals of time is accessed, and, for each of the time intervals, a determination is made concerning whether or not the device conducted port-scanning activities. Based on these determinations, the probability variable is updated for each of the time intervals. |
| US07908652B1 |
Detection of observers and countermeasures against observers
A system for detecting an observing program on a computer system is disclosed as including accessing instructions that access observer data that includes data descriptive of the observer program. The system also includes reading instructions that read memory of the computer system to obtain memory data. Further, the system includes comparing instructions that compare the observer data with memory data read in from memory to determine whether the observer program is present on the computer system. The system may also include generating instructions that generate results from the reading and comparing. The results generated indicate whether the observer program is present on the computer system. In addition, the system includes outputting instructions that obtain the results and provide the results for a user. |
| US07908651B2 |
Method of network communication
A method of network communication and a network gateway are disclosed. The method and gateway operate between a secure network and remote clients by way of an intermediate transport network, such as the Internet. The remote clients connect through a NAT router so share a common source address on the intermediate transport network. In the secure network, the method analyses packets received from a remote client to identify packets that start a new secure communication session. Then, the method assigns a session-unique address and port to the new secure communication session. Subsequent packets are translated in the secure communication session by exchanging the source address with the local session address. Thus, the secure network perceived each session as originating from a distinct address and port, whereby several such sessions can coexist simultaneously. |
| US07908650B2 |
Computer or microchip protected from the internet by internal hardware
A system and method is provided for an internal firewall configured to operate in a personal computer, which is configured to operate with other computers connected to a network. The personal computer includes at least two microprocessors. The firewall is configured to deny access to a first microprocessor of the personal computer by one of the other computers of the network during a shared operation involving the personal computer and the other computers of the network. The firewall is also configured to allow access to a second microprocessor of the personal computer by the other computers during the shared operation. |
| US07908645B2 |
System and method for fraud monitoring, detection, and tiered user authentication
The present invention provides systems and methods for authenticating access requests from user devices by presenting one of a plurality of graphical user interfaces selected depending on a perceived risk of fraud associated with the devices. User devices are identified with fingerprinting information, and their associated risks of fraud are determined from past experience with the device or with similar devices and from third party information. In preferred embodiments, different graphical user interfaces are presented based on both fraud risk and, in the case of a known user, usability. In preferred embodiments, this invention is implemented as a number of communicating modules that identify user devices, assess their risk of fraud, present selected user interfaces, and maintain databases of fraud experiences. This invention also includes systems providing these authentication services. |
| US07908633B2 |
PMCP extension metadata, data stream generating device, digital data broadcasting emission system and digital data broadcasting emission method thereof
Provided are a data server, which is added to a digital broadcast emitting system to emit data broadcasting based on the Programming Metadata Communication Protocol (PMCP), a conventional international specification defined to secure inter-operability between devices of a digital broadcast emitting system; a metadata structure for securing inter-operability between devices of the conventional digital broadcast emitting system; a data stream generating device using the metadata structure; and a digital data broadcast emitting system and method thereof. The PMCP extended metadata of the present invention are formed to include channel type metadata which provide system information of a data event constituting a data broadcast program; and Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) data event metadata which provide identification information, program guide, and encapsulation information of a data event. |
| US07908632B2 |
Method and system of diagnosing a video condition experienced at a customer premises
A test controller can be operable to diagnose a video condition experienced at a customer premises. The test controller can include a port coupled to the customer premises. The test controller can also include a processor operable to activate a diagnosis sequence, send a set of questions to equipment at the customer premises, and isolate a cause of the video condition to a portion of the network, in response to receiving test a video access device can include a first port coupled to particular test equipment and a second port coupled to video access devices. The test controller can be part of a system that includes methods used to diagnose the video condition experienced at the customer premises. |
| US07908631B1 |
Deploying two-way interactive service over a one-way network
Systems and methods for deploying two-way data communication over a one-way infrastructure are disclosed. An end user enters a control command into an input device that is capable of sending data containing the control command over a network to a content service provider. The content service provider adjusts the end user's output stream in accordance with the end user's control command. The adjusted output stream is distributed to the output display device. Further features are disclosed such as providing content descriptive metadata to the input device and/or the output display device. |
| US07908629B2 |
Location-based image sharing
A method and system for image sharing based upon faces in an image is disclosed. The method for image sharing based upon faces in an image comprises defining a sharing rule defining with which one or more recipients images are shared based on face identifying information, and applying face identifying information associated with the image to the sharing rule to determine the one or more recipients with which the image should be shared. The system for image sharing based on faces in an image comprises a sharing rule defining with which one or more recipients images are shared based on face identifying information, and a sharing engine to apply face identifying information associated with an image to the sharing rule to determine the one or more recipients with which the image should be shared. |
| US07908628B2 |
Video and digital multimedia aggregator content coding and formatting
A video and digital multimedia aggregator includes a content decoder, coder (codec) and formatter. The codec formatter receives coding and formatting requests that characterize input source content and desired output target content. Data conveyed about the source and target content may include parameters such as physical and/or logical addresses, coding and compression parameters, format descriptions, content size, description of auxiliary services, and other metadata elements that may be required for coding and formatting. |
| US07908625B2 |
Networked multimedia system
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing downstream signals to a plurality of receiver networks. A receiver network (i.e., a networked multimedia system) includes a splitter/isolation module (SIM), a primary set-top terminal (STT), and at least one remote device. The remote devices communicate with the primary STT via the SIM over coaxial cable. Accordingly, the remote devices utilize some or all of the features including hardware and software that are included in the primary STT via the networked multimedia system. |
| US07908624B2 |
System and method for just in time streaming of digital programs for network recording and relaying over internet protocol network
A settop box for streaming a television program to a network device through a network includes a central processing unit, a network interface device, a direct memory access engine, a buffer, and a memory for storing computer-executable instructions. The stored instructions cause the direct memory access engine to route time-ordered digital media data packets encoding the television program into the buffer, cause the central processing unit to add a network header to the digital media data packets, and cause the network interface device to relay the digital media data packets to a network device through the network, wherein the packets are relayed substantially without latency and with a time-ordering based on the same time-ordering of the packets in the buffer. |
| US07908621B2 |
System and apparatus for local video distribution
A video distribution system is provided. The video distribution system includes a receiver to receive a plurality of video data streams. The video distribution system also includes a splitter to separate a first video data stream and a second video data stream from the plurality of video data streams. The video distribution system further includes a combiner to output a composite signal for communication via a first network. The composite signal includes the first video data stream modulated to a first radio frequency band associated with a first user and the second video data stream modulated to a second radio frequency band associated with a second user. |
| US07908613B2 |
Disk loading apparatus
The present invention relates to a disc loading apparatus that has the capability of simplifying the assembly while improving thinning and reducing the number of components. With a disc loading apparatus according to the present invention, a portion of a top panel of the frame is designed to be a second mounting unit and another portion of the top panel to be a first mounting unit, the upper surface of the second mounting unit is sagged downward more than the lower surface of the first mounting unit, notches are provided appropriately at the steeped unit between the first and the second mounting units, the second mounting unit is a portion of the disc guide, the interlocking mechanism is mounted on the upper surface of the second mounting unit, and the pair of disc detection members is mounted on the lower surface of the first mounting unit, and these detection members are arranged throughout the lower surface of the first mounting unit and the upper surface of the second mounting unit through the notches. |
| US07908605B1 |
Hierarchal control system for controlling the allocation of computer resources
A control system for controlling the allocation of computer resources includes control plug-ins arranged in a multi-level hierarchy. A first-level control plug-in is operable to generate instructions for a resource manager to allocate computer resources for an application. A second-level control plug-in is operable to generate instructions for the first-level control plug-in to control the allocation of the computer resources for the application. |
| US07908601B2 |
Computer method and apparatus for merging software configurations when a change set spans multiple artifacts
Computer method, apparatus and system for merging software configurations. The invention system and method includes a workspace providing a work environment in which to perform operations on a subject software configuration. The workspace identifies a change set of current changes being made to the subject software configuration. A merge tool is coupled to perform software configuration merges in the workspace. The workspace accumulates change sets in a merge of each artifact forming the subject software configuration and passes the accumulated change sets to the merge tool. Consequently, artifact merges are made in the context of substantially all previous merge decisions. The workspace also tracks deferred change sets and the system enables a user to re-invoke the merge tool with respect to artifacts having deferred change sets. |
| US07908599B2 |
Dynamic granting of permissions in an object-oriented code base
An apparatus, program product and method are capable of dynamically assigning different code base identifiers to different classes defined in the same code base during class load operations to enable different code base-correlated policies to be assigned to such classes, thereby effectively granting different access permissions to classes that are defined within the same code base. |
| US07908598B2 |
Automated creation of model and view code
A method for generating computer code includes automatically generating a data structure based on a data description. Automatically generating a user interface based on the data description. Automatically generating linking code for linking the generated data structure, the user interface and control code. |
| US07908596B2 |
Automatic inspection of compiled code
Automatic inspection of compiled code. In response to revising a compiler, the functionality of that compiler is verified. Specific code is compiled using a first version of the compiler, as well as a second version of the compiler. Each compiled code is then applied to machine state to obtain multiple machine states. The machine states are then compared to determine if they are equal. |
| US07908593B2 |
Technique for evaluating software performance online to support online tuning
A method for evaluating software performance includes steps of: receiving a plurality of versions of code; selecting starting and stopping points for timing execution of the code versions; dispatching at least two of the plurality of code versions for execution; repeatedly executing the at least two code versions; recording execution times for the at least two code versions, according to the selected starting and stopping points; collecting the execution times; and processing the collected execution times. The method further includes steps of: performing a statistical analysis of the collected execution times for determining which code version is fastest; and invoking a confidence metric periodically to determine if a difference between means is statistically meaningful. |
| US07908588B2 |
Program presentation with reviewer feedback maintenance
An application with a function for inputting feedback incorporated into it is created and presented with the present embodiment. By this means, feedback about the problems in the running of the application may be obtained efficiently. In addition, an application with a function for inputting feedback about the components that define the operations of the application and a function that maintains a correspondence between the feedback descriptions and the components that are the target of the feedback incorporated into it is created by the present embodiment. By this means, the component in the application that the feedback concerns may easily be determined. |
| US07908582B2 |
System and method to facilitate design-time component discovery
A system and method for discovering the design time attributes of a component are provided. The invention includes a type descriptor that can access metadata associated with a component and report the metadata to a development tool. The invention further includes a custom type descriptor interface that can be implemented on a component in order to dynamically provide information regarding the component to the type descriptor. The invention further includes a type descriptor filter service interface that can be implemented by the development tool to facilitate filtering of design time information regarding components in order to simulate a run time environment. The invention further comprises methodologies and tools for facilitating application development. |
| US07908581B2 |
Information management and tracking system (IMTS)
An information management and tracking system manages and tracks artifact data relating to the development of a process, the artifact data including data relating to development experiment parameters, results and products. The system includes a data management component and a process design environment for retaining data relating to the process design. A development tracking environment retains data relating to the process development, including the artifacts. A back annotation environment receives process data and provides it to the development tracking environment. The data management component is arranged to control the process design environment, development tracking environment and back annotation environment such that, in use, the data received and stored therein can be accessed in a linked manner such that, in use, a user can obtain data from each environment and view links there between. |
| US07908580B2 |
Connecting an integrated development environment with an application instance
A facility is provided for connecting with an application instance. In various embodiments, the facility starts an integrated development environment component, provides an identifier to the integrated development environment component so that the integrated development environment component can indicate the identifier when registering, locates the provided identifier in a registry, and connects to the identified process. The facility can include a running object table component that stores identifications of running application instances and their corresponding monikers, and an application having a provider component that can communicate with an integrated development environment component that, when started by the application, receives an identifier and registers the started integrated development environment with the running object table, the registration including the associated identifier so that the application can identify the started integrated development environment. |
| US07908578B2 |
Methods for designing semiconductor device with dynamic array section
A method is provided for designing a semiconductor chip having one or more functionally interfaced dynamic array sections. A virtual grate is laid out for conductive features used to define a gate electrode level of a dynamic array section. The virtual grate is defined by a framework of parallel lines defined at a substantially constant pitch. One or more conductive features are arranged along every line of the virtual grate. For each line of the virtual grate, a gap is defined between proximate ends of each pair of adjacent conductive features which are arranged along a common line of the virtual grate. Each gap is defined to maintain a substantially consistent separation between proximate ends of conductive features. Each conductive feature is defined to be devoid of a substantial change in direction, such that the conductive features remain substantially aligned to the framework of parallel lines of the virtual grate. |
| US07908576B2 |
Method of progressively prototyping and validating a customer's electronic system design
A method for prototyping and validating a customer's electronic system design (ESD) with design data is proposed. The design data is partitioned into hierarchical design elements (HDEs) plus their respective test benches. The ESD couples with customer's customer peripheral devices CPDs via their peripheral interface terminals PITs thus forming interconnected hierarchical system elements (HSEs) interacting with one another according to a functional validation specification. The HSEs form numerous system hierarchy levels (SHLs). The method includes: a) Providing a reprogrammable logic device (RPLD) with an RPLD-interface and programmable external interfaces PXIFs respectively connected to the PITs. b) Providing a simulation software tool. c) Disabling all PXIFs via RPLD-interface. (For each disabled PXIF, identifying HDEs connected to the PXIF and appending their test benches with stimuli and responses to form appended test benches. d) Progressively verifying and validating all HSEs against the functional validation specification following an upward movement along the SHLs. |
| US07908573B2 |
Minimizing effects of interconnect variations in integrated circuit designs
Roughly described, method and apparatus for laying out an integrated circuit, in which a subject interconnect has predetermined values for a plurality of variables affecting propagation delay of the subject interconnect. The value of an adjustment one of the variables is adjusted to minimize exposure of the propagation delay of the interconnect to process variations causing variations in the value of a subject fabrication variable, and a revised layout is developed in dependence upon the adjusted value for the adjustment variable. In an embodiment, the adjustment is made in dependence upon a pre-calculated “interconnect optimization database” indicating combinations of values for the plurality of variables which have been pre-determined to minimize exposure of interconnect propagation delay to process variations affecting the subject variable. Different databases, or different entries in the same database, can be provided for minimizing exposure of interconnect propagation delay to process variations affecting each subject variable of interest. |
| US07908571B2 |
Systems and media to improve manufacturability of semiconductor devices
Methods, systems, and media to improve the manufacturability of cells and structures within cells of an integrated circuit are disclosed. Embodiments comprise a method of arranging programmable cells, routing the programmable cells, analyzing the cell arrangement and interconnect wiring for manufacturing improvement opportunities, and modifying the programmable cell structures to incorporate the manufacturing improvements. In some embodiments, wires are spread to prevent shorting. In other embodiments, the reliability of contacts and vias is improved by adding additional metallization to the areas surrounding the contacts and vias, or by adding redundant contacts and vias. In one embodiment, a series of manufacturing improvements are made to integrated circuit cells in an iterative fashion. |
| US07908568B1 |
Method of displaying graphical objects
A method and computer program product for displaying graphical objects in a display is presented. A first input from a user is received. In response to receiving the first input, a graphical object is displayed in the display. A second input is then received from the user. In response to receiving the second input, the graphical object is fixated in the display. An object that would have otherwise been occluded by the graphical object is then displayed in an area of the display outside the area occupied by the graphical object. |
| US07908567B1 |
Method and system for navigating in a document
A method for displaying information about a document in a graphical user interface, that includes receiving an event of a pointer on a trough, identifying a position of the pointer in the trough corresponding to the event, wherein a puck on the trough is in a different position than the position of the pointer, obtaining the location in the document corresponding to the position of the pointer, and displaying a location tip specifying the location in the document. |
| US07908565B2 |
Voice activated system and method to enable a computer user working in a first graphical application window to display and control on-screen help, internet, and other information content in a second graphical application window
A system is disclosed for displaying a second window of a second application while a first window of a first application has input focus in a windowed computing environment having a voice recognition engine. The system comprises a retriever for launching the second application, a user command receiver for receiving commands from the voice recognition engine, and an application manager. The application manager responds to a command from the user command receiver by invoking the retriever to launch the second application and display the second window while the first window maintains substantially uninterrupted input focus. |
| US07908563B2 |
Display control system, image procesing apparatus, and display control method
There is provided a technique capable of contributing to an improvement in operability and working efficiency.A display control system comprises: an identification information acquisition section 201 that acquires identification information for identifying a user who uses a second device 41; an operation determination section 202 that determines whether there is any uncompleted job among those for which the relevant operation has started in the first device 11; an operation history acquisition section 203 that acquires information concerning the operation history; a setting information acquisition section 204 that acquires setting information concerning the display of an interface screen; and a screen control section 205 that displays the interface screen on the second device 41 and, at the same time, reflects the information acquired by the operation history acquisition section 203 on the interface screen as operation content. |
| US07908561B2 |
Apparatus and method of providing web based personalized service
A method and an apparatus for providing a web based personalized service are provided. A user accesses and subscribes to a service portal by using a web browser of a personal device. The user directly generates the user's own service, previously simulates the generated service, and registers the service to the service portal. The user activates a service included in a My Service list, when the service is required. The activated service is directly provided to the user by using the personal data included in the service portal during runtime or personal data distributed over the personal device. Thus, the user participates in generation of a service and generates service logic for the user. Later, the user directly uses the service. Accordingly, a personalized service is provided. |
| US07908555B2 |
Remote control having multiple displays for presenting multiple streams of content
Methods, devices, and computer program products describe a remote control for consumer electronics devices. The remote control has multiple transceivers simultaneously receiving multiple streams of content, and multiple displays simultaneously presenting the streams of content. The remote control includes means for switching between multiple sources for each stream of content displayed on each display. The multiple sources may include wireless content from a wireless source, cable content from a cable service provider, satellite content from a satellite service provider, broadband content from a broadband service provider, and local content from a local source. The remote control also has a communication mode when a voice over internet protocol telephone call is received. One of the transceivers terminates its stream of content and a processor mutes an audible portion of all other streams of content, and the transceiver begins receiving the communication. |
| US07908549B2 |
Spreadsheet calculation as part of workflow
A workflow includes an activity that takes advantage of spreadsheet calculations. For a spreadsheet activity, calculation and extraction of values from a spreadsheet is performed. Thus, spreadsheet calculations are integrated into workflows without user intervention. Values from previous activities in the workflow may be obtained and provided to the spreadsheet (e.g., cell values are set, modified, or adjusted). The spreadsheet may then be recalculated using these obtained values. Moreover, values from the spreadsheet may be used in subsequent parts of the workflow. Also, any number of spreadsheet activities may be incorporated into a workflow, and one spreadsheet activity may provide values to a second spreadsheet activity in the workflow. |
| US07908547B2 |
Album creating apparatus, album creating method and program
An album creating apparatus for automatically designing image frames depending on the kind of subjects is provided. The album creating apparatus includes: an image storage section for storing a plurality of images; an image layout section for laying out the images stored in the image storage section into an album; an amount of designing determining section for determining the amount of designing in the album depending on the kind of object included in the image laid out in the album by the image layout section; and a designing section for designing such that the larger the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section, the more the designing section transforms from a rectangle the frame shape of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section. |
| US07908544B2 |
Extended convolutional codes
A system and method provides extended convolutional coding for packets/frames or superframes used in wireless transmission. A wireless system has an extended convolutional encoder/decoder, a wireless network, a server having an extended convolutional encoding/decoding module, one or more clients, at least one of which performs extended convolutional encoding/decoding; and a wireless transmission unit for the server and one or more clients to communicate via the wireless network. A method for providing the extended convolutional encoding includes the steps of retrieving a set of codes from a database that has a maximal-minimal free distance within a certain range; selecting a subset of the retrieved codes that have the smallest number of paths at the maximal-minimal free distance; and finding extended convolutional codes by selecting a code having a certain rate from the subset of codes that have the smallest number of paths at increased free distances to provide the best candidates. The performance of the extended code can be verified prior to encoding. |
| US07908533B2 |
Processor to JTAG test access port interface
Method and apparatus for operating for operating an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard 1149.1 compliant Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) Test Access Port (TAP) controller are disclosed. An example apparatus includes write logic that is configured to operationally interface with a TAP controller and a processor. The write logic is further configured to receive, from the processor, data for initializing the apparatus and operating the TAP controller, convert at least a portion of the data from a parallel format to a serial format and communicate the converted data to the TAP controller. |
| US07908532B2 |
Automated system and processing for expedient diagnosis of broken shift registers latch chains
This invention involves the use of the JTAG functional test patterns and exercisors to solve the problem of diagnosing broken scan chains in either a serial or a lateral broadside insertion manner across all latch system ports and to analyze the response data efficiently for the purpose of readily identifying switching and non-switching latches with the next to last non-switching latch being the point of the break within a defective scan chain(s). This comprehensive latch perturbation, in conjunction with iterative diagnostic algorithms is used to identify and to pinpoint the defective location in such a broken scan chain(s). This JTAG Functional test function and the JTAG test patterns ultimately derived therefrom, can take on different forms and origins, some external to a product and some internal to a product. |
| US07908528B1 |
Phase-detector-less method and apparatus for minimizing skew between bonded channel groups
A method for aligning output from a first transmit source and a second transmit source is provided. The method includes combining complementary portions of differential signals generated from respective transmit sources to generate an output bit sequence and comparing the output bit sequence with an input bit sequence used to generate the differential signals. The method further includes adjusting one of the first or the second transmit source based on the comparison to align the output from the first and the second transmit sources. A PLD having the capability to align channels of different octets is also provided. |
| US07908526B2 |
Method and system for proactive drive replacement for high availability storage systems
Methods for preventing the failure of disk drives in storage systems are disclosed. A system and a computer program product for preventing the failure are also disclosed. Factors relating to the aging or early onset of errors in a disk drive are monitored. These factors are then compared to thresholds. In case the thresholds are exceeded, an indication for the replacement of the disk drive is given. Sudden rises in the factors are also used to indicate the impeding failure of disk drives. |
| US07908525B2 |
Data processor, data processing program, and data processing system
A related data storing unit stores a plurality of sets of related data related to a plurality of controlling units. An operation storing unit stores operation detail of each of the plurality of controlling units as an operation log. A identification data recording unit records a plurality of sets of identification data in the operation log. An abnormality data recording unit records abnormality data in the operation log. A data acquiring unit acquires an abnormality data and one of the identification data. A related data acquiring unit identifies one of the related data corresponding to the one of identification data acquired by the data acquiring unit and acquires the one of related data from the related data storing unit. A resolution data storing unit stores first resolution data to resolve the abnormality occurring in the one of control targets in association with the one of related data acquired by the related data acquiring unit and the abnormality data acquired by the data acquiring unit. A resolution data acquiring unit acquires the first resolution data corresponding to the one of the control targets in which the abnormality occurred using the one of related data acquired by the related data acquiring unit and the abnormality data acquired by the data acquiring unit. |
| US07908522B2 |
Network card testing method
A network card testing method, used to test if the network card is capable of functioning normally in a computer having Extended Firmware Interface (EFI) system. Wherein, in a protocol assignment table is recorded the connection relations of a network protocol of Extended Firmware Interface, and a driver program corresponding to a network driver interface specification (NDIS) layer. In addition, the driver corresponding to the network card is loaded at the NDIS layer. In implementing the network card test program, though the utilization of an additionally written EFI pseudo program as a medium of transmitting data for the network card testing program, and also though the utilization of an additionally written intermediate filter driver in invoking a driver suitable for the network card, the hardware testing of network card can be realized, thus increasing the category and scope of the network card testing supported by an EFI system. |
| US07908520B2 |
Self-testing and -repairing fault-tolerance infrastructure for computer systems
ASICs or like fabrication-preprogrammed hardware provide controlled power and recovery signals to a computing system that is made up of commercial, off-the-shelf components—and that has its own conventional hardware and software fault-protection systems, but these are vulnerable to failure due to external and internal events, bugs, human malice and operator error. The computing system preferably includes processors and programming that are diverse in design and source. The hardware infrastructure uses triple modular redundancy to test itself as well as the computing system, and to remove failed elements—powering up and loading data into spares. The hardware is very simplified in design and programs, so that bugs can be thoroughly rooted out. Communications between the protected system and the hardware are protected by very simple circuits with duplex redundancy. |
| US07908519B2 |
Trouble emulator for a rules-based diagnostic system
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to validating a rules-based diagnostic system for a network. Emulated data for use by the rules-based diagnostic system can be generated that includes a trouble ticket to emulate a problem associated at least one of Layer 1 and Layer 2 network services and includes network information associated with the problem. Responses from the rules-based diagnostic system can be received in response to the emulated data being processed by the rules-based diagnostic system. A log generated by the rules-based diagnostic system can be analyzed to determine rules implemented by the rules-based diagnostic system in response to the emulated data, thereby validating operation of the rules-based diagnostic system. |
| US07908518B2 |
Method, system and computer program product for failure analysis implementing automated comparison of multiple reference models
System, method and computer program products for failure analysis implementing automated comparison of multiple reference models. An exemplary embodiment includes a method for failure analysis for an instruction set implementation in a computer system, the method including running a test-case in a first and a second model, determining if the test case failed in the first model and determining if the test case failed in the second model. |
| US07908517B2 |
Information processing apparatus with resume function and information processing system
An information processing apparatus having a resume function which can maintain the security even when a plurality of users commonly use the apparatus. A work state at a power-off time of the apparatus is preserved together with a work state name including a user's ID in a different area in a plurality of preservation areas for resume function on a main memory for each user. When a power source is again turned on, data in the preservation area corresponding to the user's ID is used to reproduce the work state of the user at the power-off time. The work preservation areas can be provided on a file server apparatus in a network not needing battery back-up. When the information processing apparatus is used, a work state at a power-off time can be independently preserved and reproduced for each user. |
| US07908513B2 |
Method for controlling failover processing for a first channel controller and a second channel controller
A method of installing software on a storage device controlling apparatus which includes at least one channel controller having a circuit board on which are formed a file access processing section receiving requests to input and output data in files as units from an information processing apparatus via a first network and an I/O processor outputting I/O requests corresponding to the requests to input and output data to a storage device; at least one disk controller executing input and output of data into and from the storage device in response to the I/O requests sent from the I/O processor; and a second network connecting the channel controller and the disk controller so as to be able to communicate with each other, the method comprises the step of writing software for enabling the file access processing section to function, into the storage device by communicating with the channel controller via the second network. |
| US07908511B2 |
File replacement in shared file system
A method for replacing a first root file system comprising, retrieving a second root file system, mounting the second root file system on a first system in a sysplex as the sysplex root file system, replacing sysplex root mount information associated with the first root file system with sysplex root mount information associated with the mounted second root file system, updating a root on the first system to point to the mounted second root file system, invalidating the first root file system on the first system, updating a first file system to point to the mounted second root file system in the first system, updating an active process with the sysplex root mount information associated with the mounted second root file system, and unmounting the first root file system from the first system. |
| US07908509B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling an upper layer in a protocol stack to delay timeouts
In a device communicating over a network, a proxy to delay timeout of an application on the device where the proxy is on a communications path between the application and the network, the proxy comprising means for registering a data request from the application to the network; a counter for measuring a predetermined time interval, the time interval selected to prevent timeout at the application; means to send preventative data to the application after the counter has expired but before a response is received; means for modifying a response received from the network to remove preventative data already sent to the application, creating a modified response; and means for forwarding the modified response to the application, wherein the proxy registers that a message has been sent and waits a predetermined interval, and if a response has not been received during that interval sends the preventative data to the application to delay a timeout. |
| US07908505B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method for event, time, and failure state recording mechanism in a power supply
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for event, time, and failure state recording in a power supply. Disclosed is a power supply that receives AC voltage as an input and provides regulated DC voltage as an output; a microcontroller integrated into the power supply that regulates output voltage and monitors, records, and reports operating conditions of the power supply; and a non-volatile solid-state storage that can be repeatedly read from, written to, and erased by the microcontroller and integrated within the microcontroller such that only a single address is needed to access both the microcontroller and the solid-state storage, the solid-state storage configured to store operating data received from the microcontroller, the operating data including the recorded operating conditions of the power supply. |
| US07908504B2 |
Smart batteryless backup device and method therefor
A proposed smart batteryless backup device is designed for the reception of data transmitted by controlled equipment, backing up said data in the case of the controlled equipment power failure or in accordance with several program requirements, and also for the subsequent restoration. Proposed device improves trust level of the backup if device is powered by interface signal lines and doesn't have batteries and electrical characteristics of the backup device fluctuating due to humidity and temperature influences as well as during device lifetime. |
| US07908499B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit comprising master-slave flip-flop and combinational circuit with pseudo-power supply lines
In a semiconductor integrated circuit device using a ZSCCMOS circuit, a combinational circuit includes a plurality of logic gate circuits, and receives an output of a data holding circuit. The data holding circuit can continue to hold data during cut-off of power supply, and when receiving a predetermined value as a control signal, outputs a predetermined fixed value. A logic gate circuit which outputs “L” when the output of the data holding circuit has the predetermined fixed value has power supply ends connected to a pseudo-power supply line VDDV and a low potential power supply line VSS. A logic gate circuit which outputs “H” when the output of the data holding circuit has the predetermined fixed value has power supply ends connected to a high potential power supply line VDD and a pseudo-power supply line VSSV. |
| US07908498B2 |
Primary side control circuit and method for ultra-low idle power operation
A method and circuit for reducing power consumption during idle mode to ultra-low levels, such as about 1/10th to 1/1000th or less of active power is disclosed. An ultra-low idle power supply comprises a primary circuit, a secondary circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit monitors behavior of the primary circuit and determines whether an idle state or no load condition exists, and if so the primary circuit is disengaged. By disengaging the primary circuit, the power consumption of the ultra-low idle power supply is reduced to ultra-low levels. |
| US07908495B2 |
System and method for implementing fairness in the powering of computing devices in a power over ethernet application
A system and method for implementing fairness in the powering of computing devices in a power over Ethernet (PoE) application. Power supplies in a power sourcing equipment are often oversubscribed. This oversubscription can lead to starvation of certain computing devices that have power requests that are not granted relative to competing requests. A fairness consideration can be implemented to ensure that starvation conditions are avoided. |
| US07908485B2 |
Printing system
An imaging system is provided with an authentication data storage that stores a plurality of pieces of authentication data in relationship to user IDs respectively representing owners of the plurality of communication devices. Further included is a reading system that reads out one of the plurality of pieces of the authentication data corresponding to a user ID if the user ID is transmitted from the external device in relationship to the image data, and a searching system searches for a communication device with which a connection authentication is established using the authentication data read out by the reading system within a predetermined communication area with respect to the imaging system. An imaging system forms an image represented by the image data transmitted in relationship to the user ID from the external device when the communication device is detected by the searching system. |
| US07908483B2 |
Method and apparatus for binding TPM keys to execution entities
A method and apparatus for binding trusted platform module (TPM) keys to execution entities are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the receipt of an authorization request issued by an execution entity for authorization data. According to the authorization request, the execution entity may be measured to generate an entity digest value. Once the entity digest value is generated, a platform reference module may grant the authorization request if the entity digest value verifies that the execution entity is an owner of the key held by the TPM. Accordingly, in one embodiment, a platform reference module, rather than an execution entity, holds the authorization data required by a TPM to use a key owned by the execution entity and held within sealed storage by the TPM. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US07908480B2 |
Authenticating an endpoint using a STUN server
Authenticating an endpoint using a STUN server includes facilitating a communication session between a first endpoint and a second endpoint over a network. A challenge request is sent to the second endpoint. The challenge request attempts to authenticate the second endpoint and includes an identification. The identification is associated with an expected response identification. A response to the challenge request is received from the second endpoint. The response has an actual response identification. The received response is verified to establish whether the second endpoint is legitimate. The second endpoint is legitimate if the actual response identification includes the expected response identification. |
| US07908479B2 |
Information processing device and method, recording medium and program
An information processing apparatus allowing proper communication with a communication partner in accordance with a communication time of the communication partner. A reception control unit receives a random challenge (RC) from a transmission terminal and supplies it to a generation unit. The reception control unit transmits an RC reception message indicating an RC reception to a transmission side. The generation unit executes a Hash process relative to RC and supplies resultant authentication data to a generation unit. A transmission control unit controls the generation unit at a timing before a response request command from the transmission side is received, to make the generation unit generate a response message containing authentication data corresponding to the response request command, and when the response request command is received, transmits the response message to a transmission destination terminal. The apparatus is applicable to a content providing system. |
| US07908477B2 |
System and method for enabling device dependent rights protection
A system and method for enhancing the protection of digital properties while also increasing the flexibility of distribution of the digital properties. In one embodiment, the digital property is protected through the binding of at least one unique client device identifier with the digital property prior to distribution. Decryption at a client device would therefore be dependent on a comparison of the unique client device identifier that is extracted from the encrypted digital property with a unique client device identifier of the device that is seeking to access the digital property. |
| US07908474B2 |
Method for improved key management for ATMs and other remote devices
A method, article, and system for providing an effective implementation of a data structure comprising instructions that are cryptographically protected against alteration or misuse, wherein the instructions further comprise a trusted block that defines specific key management policies that are permitted when an application program employs the trusted block in application programming interface (API) functions to generate or export symmetric cryptographic keys. The trusted block has a number of fields containing rules that provide an ability to limit how the trusted block is used, thereby reducing the risk of the trusted block being employed in unintended ways or with unintended keys. |
| US07908473B2 |
System for storing encrypted data by sub-address
A system and method for storing encrypted electronic data using a transmission Control Protocol (TCP), requires leaving both the header and the first 48 bytes of the “0” data packet in the data area of the TCP format in clear text. Consequently, the data can be routed to a main address (storage facility), and then to a sub-address (storage device) for storage. A single compression/encryption operation can be accomplished, before storage, at the host (server), the network switch, or the final storage device. |
| US07908472B2 |
Secure sockets layer cut through architecture
An acceleration apparatus is adapted to operate in a direct mode and a proxy mode. In the direct mode, the acceleration apparatus decrypts data packets received from a client and forwards the decrypted data packets to a server using a communication session negotiated by the client and the server. In the proxy mode, the acceleration apparatus responds to the client on behalf of the server and forwards the decrypted data packets to the server using a communication session negotiated by the acceleration device and the server. The acceleration apparatus automatically switches from the direct mode to the proxy mode upon detection of a communication error associated with the communication session negotiated by the client and the server. |
| US07908471B2 |
Host peripheral system and method for loading an external program code to a host for setting up a transmission mechanism when booting
When booting a host, a host peripheral system sends a boot code to the host for controlling the booting operation of the host via a serial transmission line, and loads an external program code into the host. After setting up a transmission mechanism through executing the external program code, the host can forward a write command to the host peripheral system for writing the data provided by the external program code to the command identification sector of the non-volatile memory of the host peripheral system, and the host peripheral system is capable of identifying the data as a command and executes functional operations corresponding to the command. After finishing the functional operations, the host peripheral system forwards a finish signal to the host, and the host is able to send a read command for fetching the data signal generated in the functional operations. |
| US07908465B1 |
Hardware emulator having a selectable write-back processor unit
A method and apparatus for emulating a hardware design comprising an instruction execution unit for executing at least one instruction, a memory for providing data to the instruction execution unit for processing into an output bit, and a write enable logic for controlling writing the output bit from the instruction execution unit to the memory. In this manner, the output bit produced by the instruction execution unit executing an instruction may be selectably stored in memory to facilitate efficient processing of conditional emulation operations. |
| US07908462B2 |
Virtual world simulation systems and methods utilizing parallel coprocessors, and computer program products thereof
The current invention provides a virtual world simulation system capable of hosting with massive amount of concurrent players by integrating commodity parallel co-processors into servers. The current invention proposes novel parallel processing algorithms to make use of commodity parallel co-processors like a graphic processing unit (GPU) or any specialized hardware with parallel architecture design like a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), to accelerate virtual world simulation. |
| US07908461B2 |
Cellular engine for a data processing system
A data processing system includes an associative memory device containing n-cells, each of the n-cells includes a processing circuit. A controller is utilized for issuing one of a plurality of instructions to the associative memory device, while a clock device is utilized for outputting a synchronizing clock signal comprised of a predetermined number of clock cycles per second. The clock device outputs the synchronizing clock signal to the associative memory device and the controller which globally communicates one of the plurality of instructions to all of the n-cells simultaneously, within one of the clock cycles. |
| US07908459B2 |
Security for logical unit in storage subsystem
Mapping tables are for stipulating information for primarily identifying computers, information for identifying a group of the computers and a logical unit number permitting access from the host computer inside storage subsystem, in accordance with arbitrary operation method by a user, and for giving them to host computer. The invention uses management table inside the storage subsystem and allocates logical units inside the storage subsystem to a host computer group arbitrarily grouped by a user in accordance with the desired form of operation of the user, can decide access approval/rejection to the logical unit inside the storage subsystem in the group unit and at the same time, can provide the security function capable of setting interface of connection in the group unit under single port of storage subsystem without changing existing processing, limitation and other functions of computer. |
| US07908452B2 |
Method and system for controlling memory accesses to memory modules having a memory hub architecture
A computer system includes a memory hub controller coupled to a plurality of memory modules. The memory hub controller includes a memory request queue that couples memory requests and corresponding request identifier to the memory modules. Each of the memory modules accesses memory devices based on the memory requests and generates response status signals from the request identifier when the corresponding memory request is serviced. These response status signals are coupled from the memory modules to the memory hub controller along with or separate from any read data. The memory hub controller uses the response status signal to control the coupling of memory requests to the memory modules and thereby control the number of outstanding memory requests in each of the memory modules. |
| US07908450B2 |
Memory management unit, code verifying apparatus, and code decrypting apparatus
A memory management unit manages a memory that stores a code, and sets that the memory that stores the code to be executed is valid to make a processor execute the code stores a verification key used to verify a validity of the code in a verification-key storing unit. When the code is stored in the memory and ready to be executed by the processor, the memory management unit verifies the validity of the code using the verification key stored in the verification-key storing unit and verification information assigned to the code. The memory management unit controls to set that the memory is valid when the validity is verified by the verifying unit, and not to set that the memory is valid when the validity is not verified by the verifying unit. |
| US07908449B2 |
Data replication in a storage system
For a storage system having plural control units to which plural disk devices are connected, in the method for creating replication in a volume of the disk devices connected to different control units, when receiving update I/O of a replication source during an initial copy for replication, the reflection of update to the replication destination is performed on an extension of the same I/O. When a pair is divided after the completion of copying, the update position is retained on the differential bitmap disposed in the individual control units, and the differential bitmap is merged to one of the control units at a time of resynchronization to perform copy processing. |
| US07908435B2 |
Disk controller providing for the auto-transfer of host-requested-data from a cache memory within a disk memory system
A disk-controller (110) that is within a disk memory system (100) initiates the auto-transfer of host-requested-data from cache memory (120) without the intervention of a microprocessor (130) that is within the disk memory system. The system performs auto-transfer, without the intervention of the microprocessor, even when the first block of host-requested-data (301) is not within cache memory (311). The system includes disk-controller circuitry (11) that determines when at least a portion of the host-requested-data is somewhere within cache memory. When only a portion of the host-requested-data is found within cache memory, and the first block of host-requested-data is not the first block of data within cache memory, the circuitry (112) generates a new Cache-Counter-Value, a new Cache-Pointer-Value and a new Cache-Start-Address value, which new values are used to initiate the auto-transfer of this cache-resident-portion of the host-requested-data from cache memory, as the power of the microprocessor is concurrently used to fetch the missing host-requested-data from a magnetic disk device (140). |
| US07908433B2 |
Virtual volume control method involving device stop
Provided is a storage system capable of starting/stopping a disk drive. At the time of allocating a logical device, it is judged, based on attributes including a purpose of the logical device, whether or not control can be performed in terms of start/stop of an allocation target disk drive to determine an allocation destination disk drive. Further, in the case where access to a specific logical device is stopped due to release of a path definition or other such cause, it is judged whether or not a disk drive corresponding to the logical device can be stopped. When it is judged that the disk drive can be stopped, the disk drive is stopped. When it is judged that the disk drive cannot be stopped, the logical device is migrated to another disk drive that can be stopped, a migration destination disk drive is stopped. |
| US07908431B2 |
Method of performing table lookup operation with table index that exceeds cam key size
In a packet switching device or system, such as a router, switch, combination router/switch, or component thereof, a method of and system for performing a table lookup operation using a lookup table index that exceeds a CAM key size is provided. Multiple CAM accesses are performed, each using a CAM key derived from a subset of lookup table index, resulting in one or more CAM entries. One or more matching table entries are derived from the one or more CAM entries resulting from the multiple CAM accesses. |
| US07908428B2 |
Method and system for hardware implementation of resetting an external two-wired EEPROM
Methods and systems for hardware controlling of an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) are described herein. Aspects of the invention may include generating a clock signal at a frequency suitable for EEPROM operation and resetting an EEPROM utilizing the generated clock signal and a hardware generated data signal without initiation by a central processing unit (CPU). The resetting may occur via a virtual CPU. The CPU and the virtual CPU may be integrated on a single chip. The signal generation and EEPROM resetting may occur via a virtual CPU integrated within a finite state machine. A frequency counter may be utilized to generate a clock signal from a clock source having a higher frequency than that required by the EEPROM. |
| US07908425B2 |
Method and device for performing cache reading
In a read method for a memory device, a bit line is set with data in a first memory cell; and the data on the bit line is stored in a register. The data in the register is transferred to a data bus while setting the bit line with data in a second memory cell. In another read method for a memory device, a bit line of a first memory cell is initialized and the bit line is pre-charged with a pre-charge voltage. Data in a memory cell on the bit line is developed, and a register corresponding to the bit line is initialized. The data on the bit line is stored in the register. The data in the register is output externally while performing the initializing, pre-charging, making and initializing to set the bit line with data in a second memory cell. |
| US07908415B2 |
Method and system for controlling video selection and playback in a portable media player
A method and system in accordance with the present invention provides a system that allows a portable media player to control settings of portable media player when receiving video from an accessory, to control playback of the portable media player and to provide for navigation between video tracks in a hierarchical fashion. In so doing, a portable media player can then utilize this information to provide for the maximum functionality of the accessory when connected to the portable media player. |
| US07908414B2 |
Detecting by USB client device a connection to host USB device wherein power is not supply from host USB device to USB client device
A USB host/client system includes a USB host device, a USB client device connected via a USB cable to the USB host device, and a power supply unit remote from the USB host device for powering the USB host device through the USB cable connecting the USB client device to the USB host device. The USB host device can have means for communicating with a computer while the USB host device is connected to a USB client device, and/or the power supply unit supplies sufficient power for all normal operations of the USB host device. |
| US07908412B2 |
Buffer passing mechanisms
Systems and/or methods (“tools”) are described that provide a buffer passing mechanism, and other techniques. Some of these tools may be enabled using a computer-implemented data structure that includes a plurality of master buffers, and a plurality of slave buffers that store data elements. Some of the slave buffers are referenced by more than one master buffer. Some of the slave buffers are referenced by one of the master buffers, but not by another master buffer. |
| US07908410B2 |
Method for empirically determining a qualified bandwidth of file storage for a shared filed system using a guaranteed rate I/O (GRIO) or non-GRIO process
A method for preventing oversubscription to a file storage by multiple processes, whether such processes are operating on one node with directly attached storage or on several nodes of a computing cluster sharing a storage area network. Processes or nodes issue requests for bandwidth reservations to a controller daemon. The controller daemon maintains records of all existing bandwidth reservations and ensures that new reservations are granted only if a qualified bandwidth of the file storage will not be exceeded. The qualified bandwidth is empirically determined to take into account installation specific hardware configurations, workloads, and quality of service requirements. In conjunction with suitable enabled client kernels the controller daemon serves to encapsulate all I/O activity including non-reserved I/O activity to the file storage by issuing non-guaranteed bandwidth leases for use by each node in servicing non-guaranteed process I/O activity, such leases being revokable by the controller daemon in order to service new guaranteed bandwidth reservation requests. |
| US07908409B2 |
Methods and apparatus for providing data transfer control
A variety of advantageous mechanisms for improved data transfer control within a data processing system are described. A DMA controller is described which is implemented as a multiprocessing transfer engine supporting multiple transfer controllers which may work independently or in cooperation to carry out data transfers, with each transfer controller acting as an autonomous processor, fetching and dispatching DMA instructions to multiple execution units. In particular, mechanisms for initiating and controlling the sequence of data transfers are provided, as are processes for autonomously fetching DMA instructions which are decoded sequentially but executed in parallel. Dual transfer execution units within each transfer controller, together with independent transfer counters, are employed to allow decoupling of source and destination address generation and to allow multiple transfer instructions in one transfer execution unit to operate in parallel with a single transfer instruction in the other transfer unit. Improved flow control of data between a source and destination is provided through the use of special semaphore operations, signals and message synchronization which may be invoked explicitly using SIGNAL and WAIT type instructions or implicitly through the use of special “event-action” registers. Transfer controllers are also described which can cooperate to perform “DMA-to-DMA” transfers. Message-level synchronization can be used by transfer controllers to synchronize with each other. |
| US07908407B1 |
Method, computer-readable storage media, and integrated circuit for providing enclosure management services utilizing multiple interfaces and protocols
Technologies for providing enclosure management services compatible with a multitude of physical interfaces, and protocols for exchanging enclosure management data (EMD) between an HBA and an enclosure management backplane are provided. Interfaces utilized for exchanging EMD may be monitored to determine whether one of the interfaces is actively being utilized by an HBA to transmit EMD. If one of the interfaces is identified as being active, the protocol used for transferring EMD on the interface is identified. A determination may be made as to whether a protocol defined by one HBA manufacturer or a protocol defined by another HBA manufacturer is being utilized. A determination may also be made as to whether one of several different protocols defined by the same manufacturer is being utilized. Once the interface and protocol have been identified, EMD received on the active interface is decoded utilizing the identified protocol. |
| US07908406B2 |
Interface architecture for facilitating communication regardless of protocol
An architecture and method in an integrated circuit for configuring a controller to facilitate communication with a plurality of external device interfaces. The integrated circuit includes a processor, a first memory, a second memory, including a plurality of dedicated memory blocks containing configuration data, and a plurality of external device interfaces. The processor is configured to write a microcode instruction to the first memory. The controller is configured to read the microcode instruction in the first memory and as a result access one of the plurality of dedicated memory blocks. Next, the controller processes the configuration data in the dedicated memory block according to the microcode instruction. As a result, the controller is configured to communicate with one of the plurality of external device interfaces. This process may be repeated as needed to configure the controller to communicate with different device interfaces using different communication protocols. |
| US07908405B2 |
Solution for consumer electronics control
The preferred embodiment of the present invention presents a method and a device for a host control unit to communicate over a protocol compliant bus via the introduction of an auxiliary command control unit that handles communications to and from the protocol compliant bus. The auxiliary command control unit converts the high level commands of the host control unit to low-level protocol compliant electrical signals for transmission across the bus and further converts low-level protocol compliant electrical signals received from the bus into high level commands for use by the host processor. |
| US07908402B2 |
Integrated multi-function point-of-load regulator circuit
A power management system may comprise two or more POL regulators configured to transmit and receive data over a shared bus according to either a proprietary or a common bus protocol. Each POL regulator may be identified by a unique address that is part of an address group, and may be configured via pin strapping to be able to perform a variety of power management functions. Any one of the POL regulators within the address group may become a bus master and transmit information to the shared bus by addressing itself. The other POL regulators in the address group may monitor the shared bus for events, and may respond to the transmitted information according to their address, their configuration, and the transmitted information. The response may include the POL regulators performing one or more power management functions, including adjusting their respective output voltages. The POL regulators may respond to each event according to the requirements corresponding to the event, thereby performing the necessary tasks to enable power management functions without the need for interconnecting analog signal lines and without being explicitly controlled. |
| US07908397B1 |
Application server gateway technology
Interfacing communication between a non-hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) event source and an application server function is described by calling a listener method to detect one or more events received from a non-HTTP event source. Data from the events is extracted and assembled into an application server event (AS Event) message. The AS Event message is transmitted to the application server function, which uses data from the AS Event to process its functionality. Resulting information may be sent to a communication method, which formats a message for the non-HTTP event source using the resulting information. This formatted message is then communicated to the non-HTTP event source. The interfaced communication may be initiated either by the non-HTTP event source or the application server function. |
| US07908395B1 |
Domain isolation through virtual network machines
A method and device for communicating information resources between subscriber end stations and nodes belonging to different network domains is described. The device instantiates different virtual network machines for different network domains using separate independently administrable network databases. Each of the administrable chores of the separate independently administrable network databases includes the assignment of access control and the configuration of the policies for those network databases. The policies include traffic filtering policies to indicate what kind of information payloads can be carried, traffic and route filtering policies to indicate what paths through the network will be used for each payload carried. Each of the network domains includes one of the different virtual network machines and each of the different network domains is virtually isolated from other network domains. |
| US07908394B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting outgoing data using data descriptors
An apparatus and method for transmitting outgoing data uses data descriptors for multiple sets of contiguous data blocks stored in buffers. When new sets of contiguous data blocks are created due to acknowledgement signals for particular data blocks of the multiple sets of contiguous data blocks, new data descriptors are generated for some of the new sets of contiguous data blocks. These new data descriptors are placed in spaces in the buffers where the particular data blocks were originally stored. |
| US07908392B2 |
Wireless transportation protocol
A data transportation protocol (13, 21) for transferring data within a wireless network (6), the protocol (13, 21) comprising: a block I/O interface layer (40) to provide a single level of translation between block I/O storage protocol commands and network packets; and a wireless transport layer (41) to transport the network packets between a client (6A) and server (6B) within the network (6); wherein the block I/O interface layer (40) performs operations directly on a storage device driver (23) and a network device driver (14, 20) of the client (6A) and server (6B). |
| US07908390B2 |
Packet forwarding apparatus using token bucket algorithm and leaky bucket algorithm
A packet forwarding apparatus and network system for providing different types of bandwidth control services to the user; in which a packet forwarding apparatus for transferring data comprises an interface unit for sending and receiving packets, and a traffic shaper for controlling the packet transmission timing and a packet switch for sending an output to the interface unit as the destination of the received packet; and the traffic shaper uses a token bucket algorithm when transmitting a packet to guarantee the minimum frame rate, and uses a leaky bucket algorithm when limiting the peak frame rate. |
| US07908389B2 |
Methods and systems for retrieving fragments from peer clients and servers
Method and systems including a plurality of assembling peer clients streaming content from at least one streaming server at an aggregated first rate; and a plurality of peer storage-and-computing elements distributively storing a plurality of pushed content fragments associated with the streaming content. Wherein as a result of an event rendering the at least one server incapable of sustaining the first rate, at least some of the assembling peer clients begin to retrieve content fragments from the peer storage-and-computing elements in order to continue the streaming. |
| US07908379B2 |
Automatic mobile device detection
A method and an apparatus for classifying a data network connectable computing device as a mobile computing device. Information related to the location of a registering device is determined. The determined location information is compared to a stored location information associated to this device. The device is detected as a mobile device when at least the stored location information is different to the determined location information. Neither the devices themselves nor any access mechanism to the data network have to be changed. |
| US07908378B2 |
Provisioning seamless applications in mobile terminals through registering and transferring of application context
Service provisioning in mobile terminals is provided through registering and transferring of application context, which permits substantially seamless transfer of application functionality across administrative service domains. An architecture for providing application context transfer may include access routers, transcoder proxy servers, and gateway routers. A mobile terminal served by a current access router creates an application context for a session and registers it with the current access router. Around the time of handoff, the current access router transfers the application context to a new access router associated with a new administrative domain and a new access network. The new access router evaluates the application context and takes steps to provide application functionality for the mobile terminal and current sessions. These steps may include the use of a network entity, such as a transcoder proxy server, to modify data for a session and thereby provide application functionality in the new administrative domain. |
| US07908377B2 |
Computer system and data sharing method
This invention provides a computer system capable of achieving frequent accesses to the same logical volume by a plurality of computers by using iSCSI. The computer system includes first computers not supporting iSCSI and second computers supporting iSCSI. A load distribution control part determines a requested computer to be requested about a command processing and requests the command processing. The requested computer requests an IO control part about an access to a logical volume in a shared disk. When the requested computer does not support iSCSI, the IO control part selects a substitute computer. The substitute computer mounts the logical volume on behalf of the requested computer to provide the mounted logical volume to the requested computer through NFS. |
| US07908376B2 |
Data path acceleration of a network stack
An apparatus may include a flow cache module that is arranged and configured to derive, at runtime, a custom sequence of code segments for packets belonging to a specific connection using a first packet of the specific connection and a parser module that is arranged and configured to identify packets as belonging to the specific connection using an Internet Protocol (IP) tuple of the packets, where the flow cache module is arranged and configured to apply the custom sequence of code segments to the identified packets. |
| US07908373B2 |
Multifunction terminal, operating information estimation apparatus, and operating information estimation method
A multifunction terminal that transmits information to an operating information estimation apparatus is provided. The operating information estimation apparatus estimates operating information relating to an execution state of functions provided in the multifunction terminal based on the transmitted information. The multifunction terminal includes a requested information acquisition section that acquires requested information relating to requirements of a user for the multifunction terminal. The multifunctional terminal also has a requested information transmission section that transmits the requested information to the operating information estimation apparatus. The requested information relates to functions that the user expects the multifunction terminal to provide. |
| US07908370B2 |
Network type content reproducing system
The network type audio system includes a content server storing a large number of music data pieces, an audio client reproducing music, and a controller monitoring and controlling the audio client through the content server. The audio client requests the server to provide the music data of a music piece selected in response to the user's operation. The content server returns the music data of the selected music piece in response to the request from the audio client. The music data is distributed from the content server to the audio client on the basis of a specified amount. The audio client notifies the content server of its status. The content server notifies the controller of the status of the audio client. The controller displays the status. The controller also instructs the audio client to reproduce the music piece selected in response to the user's operation through the content server. |
| US07908367B2 |
Call processing system and method
A call processing system (10) and method are disclosed. The connection status between a node (40) and a data communications network (20) is monitored. The node (40) is arranged to receive calls over the data communications network. Monitoring is by the call processing system (10). Rather than only performing a call connection when the called node is identified as being available as in conventional systems, if the call processing system (10) determines that the node (40) has been disconnected from the data communications network for a first predetermined period of time, the call processing system (10) is arranged to wait a second predetermined period of time before indicating non-availability of the node. In this way, unavailability determinations are reduced and call connection requests are processed even in situations in which the node (40) has been disconnected during the first period of time. |
| US07908364B2 |
Method storing socket state information in application space for improving communication efficiency of an application program
The state of the communication socket is maintained at a network device and communicated to a device driver for the network device. The device driver can send messages to an interface program in application space, which stores the state information in dedicated application space memory. In response to a query from a peer program requesting the state of the communication socket, the interface program retrieves the state information from the dedicated memory. Because the state information and the interface program are located in application space, the number of kernel transitions required to determine the socket state is reduced, improving communication efficiency. |
| US07908361B2 |
Computer maintenance support system and analysis server
The present invention provides a computer maintenance support system which, in addition to simple analysis results, provides more detailed analysis results. The system provides information for supporting computer maintenance operations, and includes an analysis device, an analysis server and an output device for monitoring. The analysis device collects and analyzes analysis object data which has been saved at a maintenance object computer. The analysis object data includes settings information of the computer and log information which has recorded operations of the computer. The analysis server is connected with one or more analysis devices, acquires the analysis object data from an analysis device, and analyzes the analysis object data. The output device for monitoring receives a primary analysis report, from analysis by the analysis device, and a secondary analysis report, from analysis by the analysis server, and outputs information to be used for the computer maintenance operations. |
| US07908360B2 |
Correlation of non-times series events in industrial systems
Systems and methods that correlate among disparate pieces of synchronized data, collected from an “internal” data stream (e.g., history data collected from an industrial unit) and an “external” data stream (e.g., traffic data on network services). A process trend component that determines/predicts an outcome of an industrial process and facilitates diagnostics/prognostics of an industrial system. Accordingly, relations among various parameters can be discovered (e.g., dynamically) and proper corrective adjustments supplied to the industrial process. Such enables a tight control and short reaction time to process parameters, and for a modification thereof. |
| US07908357B2 |
Methods and systems for detecting abnormal digital traffic
Aspects of the present invention encompass methods and systems for detecting abnormal digital traffic by assigning characterizations of network behaviors according to knowledge nodes and calculating a confidence value based on the characterizations from at least one knowledge node and on weighting factors associated with the knowledge nodes. The knowledge nodes include a characterization model based on prior network information. At least one of the knowledge nodes should not be based on fixed thresholds or signatures. The confidence value includes a quantification of the degree of confidence that the network behaviors constitute abnormal network traffic. |
| US07908354B2 |
Method and device for managing multicast groups
A method for managing multicast traffic in a data network, and devices using said method. The hosts store for each multicast group an included source record and an excluded source record, and the network interfaces of the hosts send to the router a message containing information about the included source record and information about the excluded source record. The router also stores for each multicast group an included source record and an excluded source record, and updates them when it receives through its network interface a message from the hosts containing information about an included source list and/or information about an excluded source list. The devices are a router, host equipment and network equipment compatible with the method. |
| US07908348B2 |
Dynamic installation and uninstallation system of renewable energy farm hardware
A system for dynamic installation or uninstallation of a plurality of hardware components of a renewable energy software system, including a reviser including a hardware configuration database, at least one communication device that allows the plurality of hardware components to communicate with the hardware configuration database containing hardware configuration data for the plurality of hardware components, and a plurality of real time objects in the renewable energy software system that represent the plurality of hardware components, wherein the plurality of real time objects are automatically updated by the hardware configuration database at runtime. |
| US07908345B2 |
Method and device for access to a digital document in a communication network of the station to station type
The access method comprises the following steps: selecting a first data item in a digital document designated by a predetermined identifier, said digital document comprising at least first and second data items linked to each other in a chosen hierarchical relationship; verifying the presence of at least one address of a location containing said second data item of the digital document in storage means of the client device; in the absence of said address in said storage means, seeking said address in the network; in the event of a positive search, storing said address in the storage means of the client device; and subsequently accessing said second data item of the document from the address thus stored by anticipation and thus immediately available locally. |
| US07908341B2 |
Digital broadcasting receiver having destination arrival information notification function and notification method using the same
A digital broadcasting receiver includes a gap filler information storage unit for storing information of locations of gap fillers and information of corresponding gap filler identifiers matched to the locations. The gap fillers are arranged at regular intervals in order to relay digital broadcasting data transmitted from a satellite. A reception unit receives the digital broadcasting data including the information of gap filler identifiers. A sub-controller detects identification information of a current gap filler from the digital broadcasting data. An input unit receives an input of destination information. A main controller detects identification information of a destination gap filler corresponding to the input destination information from the gap filler information storage unit, counts the number of gap fillers located between the destination gap filler and the current gap filler, and generates destination arrival information based on the counted number of gap fillers. An output unit outputs destination arrival information under control of the main controller. |
| US07908339B2 |
Transaction based virtual file system optimized for high-latency network connections
A method and system are provided for a virtual distributed data manager. In one example of the method, the virtual data manager involves receiving a request to mount a file system onto the client computer, wherein the file system is stored on the server system and contains the one or more data files; transferring a copy of a directory structure of the file system stored on the server system to the client computer; and creating on the client computer a virtual file system including the copy of the directory structure. The method is preferably transaction based and provides high performance on high latency network connections. |
| US07908334B2 |
System and method for addressing implantable devices
A system includes multiple slave devices implanted in a human body, wherein each slave device includes a communication module operable to receive transmitted communications and is associated with a permanent device identifier. The system further includes a master device including a communications module operable to address a first communication to a selected slave device using the permanent device identifier associated with the selected slave device, wherein the first communication includes a local identifier assigned to the selected slave device, the assigned local identifier does not match any other local identifier assigned to any other slave device implanted in the human body, and subsequent communications are addressed to the selected slave device using the assigned local identifier. |
| US07908326B1 |
Method and apparatus for managing messaging identities
A method and apparatus for use in a computer system comprising an email system that generates and receives email messages. The email system manages a first plurality of email messages comprising at least some of the email messages generated and received by the email system. The email system also has a global address catalog that comprises information and provides an index into the first plurality of email messages. The computer system further comprises an extension system that interfaces with the email system and manages a second plurality of email messages comprising at least some of the email messages generated and received by the email system. The method comprises creating an extender catalog, for indexing into the second plurality of email messages, that comprises at least some information that is different than the information in the global address catalog. |
| US07908325B1 |
System and method for event-based collaboration
A first collaboration framework on a first computer system may intercept, via an operating system event handling mechanism on the first computer system, local input events for a first application executing on the first computer system. The first collaboration framework may also send messages including the intercepted input events to other collaboration frameworks executing on other respective computer systems. In response to receiving a message including an intercepted input event, each of the other collaboration frameworks may deliver the input event, via an operating system event handling mechanism to another application. A collaboration framework may deliver an input event intercepted on another computer system to a local application as if the input event were input locally. Delivered input events may cause applications on other computer systems to perform the same one or more actions as performed by the application for which the input event was originally intended. |
| US07908319B2 |
Information display apparatus and information display method
When the same image is pleasantly viewed by information display apparatuses connected to each other through a network, each of the information display apparatuses has a unit for acquiring display format information of an image displayed by a destination information display apparatus, so that information representing a display format of the image displayed by the destination information display apparatus is displayed on the displayed image in a multiplex mode to make it possible know a viewing state of the destination information display apparatus. |
| US07908314B2 |
Method for controlling a management computer
A method for controlling a management computer connected to a server for permitting communications therebetween, wherein the server transmits to a client the result of processing executed in response to each processing request sent from the client. The management computer stores an allowance for a value indicative of a load on the server, receives from the server a value calculated on the basis of the number of processing requests from the client and the value indicative of the load on the server. The management computer calculates an allowance for the value calculated from the number of processing requests, based on the value calculated from the number of processing requests, the allowance for the value indicative of the load, and the value indicative of the load, and transmits to the server the calculated allowance for the value calculated from the number of processing requests. |
| US07908313B2 |
Instrument-based distributed computing systems
An instrument-based distributed computing system is disclosed that accelerates the measurement, analysis, verification and validation of data in a distributed computing environment. A large computing work can be performed in a distributed fashion using the instrument-based distributed system. The instrument-based distributed system may include a client that creates a job. The job may include one or more tasks. The client may distribute a portion of the job to one or more remote workers on a network. The client may reside in an instrument. One or more workers may also reside in instruments. The workers execute the received portion of the job and may return execution results to the client. As such, the present invention allows the use of instrument-based distributed system on a network to conduct the job and facilitate decreasing the time for executing the job. |
| US07908310B2 |
Multiplier-divider having error offset function
A multiplier-divider capable of offsetting errors includes a plurality of multiplication and division units to perform processes and arrangements so that errors generated by signals passing through the multiplier-divider are offset. As a result impact of the errors is reduced. More than one processing signal can be obtained from the same power supply to reduce loss of external sampling. |
| US07908306B1 |
SRC with multiple sets of filter coefficients in memory and a high order coefficient interpolator
Systems and methods for converting a data stream from a first sample rate to a second sample rate using a sample rate converter that employs selectable filters. In one embodiment, the filters are implemented by providing multiple sets of filter coefficients in a memory, selecting one of the sets of filter coefficients and performing coefficient interpolation to produce filter coefficients that are convolved with the input data stream to produce a re-sampled output data stream. The input signal can be an audio signal that is convolved with interpolated polyphase filter coefficients in the sample rate converter of a digital PWM audio amplifier. The set of filter coefficients can be selected by a value stored in a filter selection register that is modifiable by a DSP or by user input. The sets of filter coefficients can be stored in a single memory and interpolated according to a cubic spline interpolation algorithm. |
| US07908304B2 |
Method and system for managing distributor information
An embodiment of the invention provides a system that enables financial services companies to manage and track information about a sales force. The system includes components for managing distributors information, for validating and tracking licenses and credentials, for creating customized contracts, and for maintaining compensation structures. The system allows for configuring compensations, providing financial services companies a toolkit for creating and modeling their complex commission schedules used to compensate their sales force. The system also provides modeling tools for agreements and contracts between a financial services company or provider and the distributors who sell products. The system has a multi-component architecture comprising multiple modules, multiple data processing engines, a backbone and multiple data sources. The processing modules carry out information processing using one or more data processing engines. The data processing provides the tools to fetch data from the databases and process it. |
| US07908303B2 |
Integrated digital media projection and personal digital data processing system
Disclosed is a projector and data processing method and system for recommending digital media content to a user. The method and system gather statistics about the preferences of the user and/or compare the user to population data to create recommendations in accord with the preferences of the population. The population data may be qualified by demographics or other factors classifying the user. Sources of the digital media content include radio broadcast television broadcast, global computer network content, email, and personal organizing software/programs. |
| US07908302B1 |
In-place splitting and merging of files
A method, computer program product, and apparatus providing a means to split files and to merge files without the need for duplicating all of the data of the original files is disclosed. |
| US07908299B2 |
Method and apparatus for pseudo-conversion of table objects
A method for converting a table object from a first partitioning type to a second partitioning type includes steps or acts of gathering information including a definition of a clustering index of the table object; converting the table object of the first partitioning type into a virtual table object of the second partitioning type by virtually applying the information to a clustering index of the table object such that the virtual table object represents how the table object will appear when it is explicitly converted; and presenting the virtual table object to a user for viewing and manipulating as a table of the second partitioning type before generating an explicit conversion to said second partitioning type. |
| US07908298B1 |
Calculating list
Processing list data to form calculated lists wherein the calculated data set is derived from data members and/or nested list members that are then calculated to produce the resulting final calculated data set. Each data member in the list typically has at least one data member identifier and at least one calculate attribute. The calculating process uses the calculate attribute to determine the final calculated data set of the list. The final calculated list can be used alone and additionally nested into other lists or as members of a list structure. |
| US07908293B2 |
Medical laboratory report message gateway
A medical laboratory report communications gateway computer system is presented. The gateway is configured to receive medical laboratory reports from a plurality of clients. The gateway uses report form data stored in a database to perform an inbound translation on the medical laboratory report to transform the medical laboratory report to a canonical form. The gateway identifies a destination client for the medical laboratory report, and determines an outbound message form based on the destination client. The gateway performs the selected outbound translation on the medical laboratory report in the canonical form to transform the medical laboratory report in the canonical form into a form useable by the destination client. The gateway then transmits the translated medical laboratory report to the destination client. |
| US07908290B2 |
Application development performed independent of system landscape
Systems and techniques for application development performed independently of system landscape. In one general aspect, the invention provides a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, from a registry for two or more repositories, information describing an object definition of a first repository of the two or more repositories. The first repository is a collection of object definitions associated with a first application. The method includes using the information to generate a proxy for the object definition and storing the proxy in a second repository of the two or more repositories. The proxy is a reference to the object definition of the first repository. The second repository is a collection of definitions associated with a second application. Wherein the proxy is available to the second application for use as though the proxy is an object definition of the second repository. |
| US07908288B2 |
Method and system for research using computer based simultaneous comparison and contrasting of a multiplicity of subjects having specific attributes within specific contexts
A method and system for an internet-based online research solution through the comparison and contrasting of a potentially infinite number of subjects having defined attributes within predefined as well as dynamic subject contexts; a method and system for searching a potentially infinite number of subjects against a customized set of attribute-value configurations to arrive at an appropriate set of subjects for further research; a method and system for an online research solution by which the user efficiently researches online using a highly customized search, collation, and compilation of comparison-contrast information; a Universal Research Framework that may be embedded within any externally managed information system and which enables the above three methods to be performed within the specific system for research. |
| US07908284B1 |
Content reference page
A user interface (e.g., a browser window) includes a display area for displaying a content reference page. In some implementations, a content reference page is generated that includes information related to content. The content reference page includes sections for presenting keywords found in the content, reviews of the content, portions of content that are of interest to a user (or a class of users) and other useful references, etc. |
| US07908282B2 |
Method for provision and use of a visual representation of website browsing history
Embodiments of the invention provide site browsing history information that pertains to a specified network site user. One embodiment, directed to a method, comprises the step of acquiring data for a database, wherein the acquired data identifies multiple sites that are accessed by the user in an order, during a specified period of time. The method further comprises accessing at least a portion of the data from the database. From the accessed data, a pictorial representation of a plurality of the websites accessed during the specified time period is generated. The pictorial representation further illustrates the order in which at least some of the websites of the plurality were accessed. |
| US07908274B2 |
Data disambiguation systems and methods
Various embodiments provide a state-based, regular expression parser in which data, such as generally unstructured text, is received into the system and undergoes a tokenization process which permits structure to be imparted to the data. Tokenization of the data effectively enables various patterns in the data to be identified. In some embodiments, one or more components can utilize stimulus/response paradigms to recognize and react to patterns in the data. |
| US07908271B2 |
System for automated computer support
Systems and methods for providing automated computer support are described herein. One described method comprises receiving a plurality of snapshots from a plurality of computers, storing the plurality of snapshots in a data store, and creating an adaptive reference model based at least in part on the plurality of snapshots. The described method further comprises comparing at least one of the plurality of snapshots to the adaptive reference model, and identifying at least one anomaly based on the comparison. |
| US07908269B2 |
Method, system, and software for transmission of information
A method, system and software for efficient transmission of information having dynamic information and static information are disclosed herein. The method includes dividing at a server location into dynamic and static information. The method further includes receiving a first request and a second request from a user location. The method also includes sending the dynamic information to the user location in response to the first location, and sending the static information to the user location in response to the second request. |
| US07908266B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically creating an SQL join expression
Systems and methods are provided for automatically creating an SQL join expression. A computer-implemented graphical user interface may receive a first user input that identifies a first table to be included in the SQL join expression and a second user input that identifies a second table to be included in the SQL join expression. Software instructions stored in a computer-readable medium may automatically define the SQL join expression by matching one or more keys or indices in the first table with one or more keys or indices in the second table. |
| US07908265B2 |
Transactional memory with dynamic separation
Strong semantics are provided to programs that are correctly synchronized in their use of transactions by using dynamic separation of objects that are accessed in transactions from those accessed outside transactions. At run-time, operations are performed to identify transitions between these protected and unprotected modes of access. Dynamic separation permits a range of hardware-based and software-based implementations which allow non-conflicting transactions to execute and commit in parallel. A run-time checking tool, analogous to a data-race detector, may be provided to test dynamic separation of transacted data and non-transacted data. Dynamic separation may be used in an asynchronous I/O library. |
| US07908260B1 |
Source editing, internationalization, advanced configuration wizard, and summary page selection for information automation systems
A source manager includes an editor program that can be used to edit an existing source record via a graphical user interface (GUI). Test Action and Test Source functions allow a user to test enter a query and to test a source expeditiously. A conversion tool converts existing sources to the design and format to reconcile data scattered among the source engine data and source partition record. For handling internationalization issues, aspects of the invention include persistently storing the source's encoding type during the configuration process, and then using that encoding type later during the deep harvest phase. According to another aspect of the invention a solution for selecting a summary passage for a particular source is provided. Other aspects of the invention include solutions for character encoding, “Next Links” recognition and “Next Results” handling. |
| US07908251B2 |
Quorum-based power-down of unresponsive servers in a computer cluster
A quorum-based server power-down mechanism allows a manager in a computer cluster to power-down unresponsive servers in a manner that assures that an unresponsive server does not become responsive again. In order for a manager in a cluster to power down servers in the cluster, the cluster must have quorum, meaning that a majority of the computers in the cluster must be responsive. If the cluster has quorum, and if the manager server did not fail, the manager causes the failed server(s) to be powered down. If the manager server did fail, the new manager causes all unresponsive servers in the cluster to be powered down. If the power-down is successful, the resources on the failed server(s) may be failed over to other servers in the cluster that were not powered down. If the power-down is not successful, the cluster is disabled. |
| US07908246B2 |
Separating file data streams to enhance progressive incremental processing
Systems, methods, and computer products for separating file data streams for improved progressive incremental processing are provided. The method comprises identifying data in a file, prior to transmission of the data in a data stream to a second system, such that the second system can distinguish first data from second data in the file. The method further comprises processing the first and second data to determine whether the first or second data has changed, and transmitting the first data to the second system in response to determining the first data has changed, so that the first data is stored in a data storage medium in association with third and fourth data previously stored without replacing the third data and fourth data, wherein the third and fourth data comprise older versions of the first and second data, respectively. |
| US07908237B2 |
Method and apparatus for identifying unexpected behavior of a customer in a retail environment using detected location data, temperature, humidity, lighting conditions, music, and odors
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for identifying unexpected behavioral patterns. The process parses event data derived from video data to identify behavioral patterns, wherein the event data comprises metadata describing events occurring in a selected environment. The process analyzes the behavioral patterns to identify a set of expected behavioral patterns occurring in the selected environment, and generates an expected behavioral model using the expected behavioral patterns. Thereafter, the process forms a set of unexpected behavioral patterns from the behavioral patterns inconsistent with the expected behavioral model. |
| US07908236B2 |
Using multiple data structures to manage data in cache
Provided are a method, system and program for using multiple data structures to manage data in cache. A plurality of data structures each have entries identifying data from a first computer readable medium added to a second computer readable medium. A request is received for data in the first computer readable medium. A determination is made as to whether there is an entry for the requested data in one of the data structures. The requested data is retrieved from the first computer readable medium to store in the second computer readable medium in response to determining that there is no entry for the requested data in one of the data structures. One of the data structures is selected in response to determining that there is no entry for the requested data in one of the data structures and an entry for the retrieved data is added to the selected data structure. |
| US07908235B2 |
Addressing scheme for neural modeling and brain-based devices using special purpose processor
A special purpose processor (SPP) can use a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to model a large number of neural elements. The FPGAs or similar programmable device can have multiple cores doing presynaptic, postsynaptic, and plasticity calculations in parallel. Each core can implement multiple neural elements of the neural model. |
| US07908222B2 |
Method and system for automatically harmonizing access to a software application program via different access devices
A method and system automatically harmonizes access to a given software application program via different access devices. Through use of the method and system, a financial institution can provide access to a given application (such as, for example, automatic bill payment services) to customers using different access devices such web browsers, screen phones and personal computers. A single application program is all that needs to be written and maintained by the financial institution. Also, the method and system enables financial institutions to “leverage” existing programs because now the institution can automatically “project” its existing stock of program services unto new access devices—devices which may not have even existed at the time the program was created. By receiving information from the user via the user's access device, including information identifying the type of device being used and the application program the user wishes to access, the present invention solves these problems. The application program is then accessed and the information to be displayed to the user is identified. This information is automatically translated into a format which is compatible with the device, including its display, and sent to the device for display. The user, in turn, inputs information in response to the displayed information and this input information is automatically translated into a format which is compatible with the application program and is sent to the application program. The response generated by the application program is automatically translated to be compatible with the device and is sent to the device. |
| US07908221B2 |
System providing methods for dynamic customization and personalization of user interface
A system providing methods for dynamically generating personalized content is described. Specific items of content which may be personalized or customized are identified. Subdirectories are created for each value of such personalized content. Files specific to each value of personalized content are created and placed in these subdirectories. When a user requests a particular web page or item of content, a token is retrieved identifying the personalized content to be generated for that particular user. Personalized content is then dynamically generated by construction of a path to at least one subdirectory containing personalized content. The path to such subdirectory containing personalized content is dynamically constructed based upon the token identifying such personalized content. |
| US07908219B2 |
Inbox management
Media devices that transfer content to other devices may man age a user's received media files by creating a media device inbox. Shared content may be stored in an inbox cache that is separate from the device's main content library to exclude limited-access inbox content from interaction with the device's main library. Further, inbox content may be altered upon expiration to reduce resource consumption and inbox clutter. |
| US07908217B2 |
Method and system for optimizing throughput of mailing machines
A mailing machine that optimizes throughput by reducing the amount of time necessary for the PSD to generate the digital signature and indicium for each mail piece is provided. The debit operation performed by the PSD, i.e., adjusting the PSD registers, is separated into three different sections, a pre-debit operation, a perform debit operation, and a complete debit operation. In addition, the calculation of the digital signature can optionally be pre-computed, or, alternatively, computed in stages, i.e., partial signature calculation. Utilizing this granularity, the cryptographic operations associated with generating the digital signature can be shifted between the three debit operations such that the execution time of the time critical portion of the debit operation (perform debit) can be optimized to meet the performance requirements of the mailing machine in which the PSD is deployed. |
| US07908215B2 |
System and method for selection of payment systems from a payment system directory to process a transaction
Dynamically enabling and facilitating businesses or other entities to locate and transact with payment systems for the purpose of processing payments. A customer interacts with a supplier of an item (e.g., goods or services), selects an item for purchase, and provides the supplier with payment criteria. The supplier queries a payment system directory to locate candidate payment systems for the transaction. The supplier then interacts directly with one or more of the payment systems to partially or fully process payment for the transaction. Alternatively, the supplier interacts with a gateway service, which queries a payment system directory to locate candidate payment systems and then interacts with one or more of the payment systems to process payment for the transaction. |
| US07908209B2 |
Means and a method relating to optimization of network operation and planning
The present invention relates to a means and a method for operator support in a network comprising a number of domains and pieces of equipment and wherein agreements (SLAs) are established between the network operator and customers. It comprises means for selecting the relevant domains, means for selecting one of at least two modes, of which a first mode comprises a planning mode including a flow of actions, a second mode comprises an on-line mode including a flow of actions/events, wherein the on-line mode comprises a presentation sub-mode, and wherein during on-line presentation mode, and for a selected domain and time period, the income from generated traffic is calculated by collecting and calculating means, reduced by possible penalties for non satisfactory fulfillment of agreements, if any, and SW, HW and FW investments. It also comprises means for presenting the results of the calculations, e.g. the capital gain for each domain during the selected time period, and during the planning mode, for each planned domain, means are provided for enabling estimation of the income from estimated traffic in the domain during a selected time period, and for calculating/estimating the total costs for creation and/or modification during the selected time period, and means being provided for presenting the results of the estimations/calculations, e.g. the estimated capital gain to the operator. |
| US07908200B2 |
Method and apparatus for efficiently generating electronic requests for quote
A system and method for efficiently responding to electronic requests for quote (“RFQ”). Through use, a user, such as a merchant, can automatically create and deliver an electronic RFQ response, without need for any interaction by the merchant. The merchant may establish certain criteria in order to allow the system and method to automatically respond to electronic RFQ's received by the merchant. |
| US07908198B1 |
Automated preferences for market participants
A market process records trades between trading processes. A preference rating from each trading process to all other trading processes that it has traded with is updated based on the recorded trade, such as by comparing the recorded trade with a metric and determining whether or not the trading process profited from the trade. The metric may be a market price for the item traded at a time subsequent to or prior to the trade. The updating may be performed by the market process after each trade or at predetermined times, or the updating may be performed by a platform process. A trading process can designate itself as anonymous, maintaining its confidentiality but still being subject to contra-party preference rating. The market process may use the contra-party preference ratings to determine whether a trade may occur between two trading processes. |
| US07908196B2 |
System, method and financial product for providing retirement income protection
A system and method and a financial income protection product are provided for enabling individuals who are approaching or are in retirement to ensure future sources of income with a reduced initial monetary outlay than conventional income protection products such as, for example, annuities. Income benefits are provided to the individuals only when they need it, i.e., either when market returns have not kept pace with expectations and/or when the individuals have lived beyond the point in time at which their expected wealth expires. |
| US07908188B2 |
Method and system of managing accounts payable auditing data
The present invention provides a method and system of managing accounts payable auditing data, where the auditing data includes at least one line item and is ordered by a propensity to yield claims. The method and system, in an exemplary embodiment, includes (1) displaying at least one aged line item, (2) identifying credit data among the at least one displayed aged line item, and (3) recording the identified credit data. In an exemplary embodiment, the aged line item is a line item that has aged for N months, where N is positive integer. In an exemplary embodiment, N is 4. |
| US07908186B2 |
Distribution matrix in an allocation table
A method, apparatus and program product are provided for displaying planned quantities of articles in a computerized allocation system. The method comprises displaying an allocation table having a listing of articles along one dimension and data regarding the articles along another dimension. The data regarding each article includes a total quantity of the article for all stores receiving the article. The method further includes receiving a command to switch to a distribution matrix view of the listing of articles displayed in the allocation table, and displaying the distribution matrix view including a listing of stores along one dimension and data regarding the stores along another dimension. The data regarding each store includes a quantity of each article for the store. |
| US07908178B2 |
Methods for interactive and synchronous displaying session
A system for interactively displaying and distributing information. The information may relate to consumer products, any type of article of commerce, marketing and advertising layouts, floor plans, planograms or any other type of information that is capable of being illustrated graphically. A consumer engages in an Interactive Information Session with an attendant, such a help desk attendant. During the Interactive Information Session, the attendant and consumer see synchronized displays of images or animations of the information, which may be manipulated by either one of them. The attendant and the user can communicate interactively by voice or text during at least part of the Interactive Information Session. In another embodiment, two or more users of a system according to the invention can collaboratively design a product, marketing or advertising layouts, planograms, floor plans or other graphical information in an Interactive Design Session. During the session one of the users controls the design at any time. Different users may have control at different times. The users can engage in interactive voice or text communications during at least part of the Interactive Design Session. |
| US07908176B1 |
Virtual catalog and product presentation method and apparatus
An apparatus and method is disclosed for the comparison of a plurality of selected products on the display of a remote computer. In one illustrated embodiment, product data is displayed for a side-by-side comparison. |
| US07908173B1 |
Virtual catalog and product presentation method and apparatus
An apparatus and method is disclosed for the comparison of a plurality of selected products on the display of a remote computer. In one example, a product image of each of the selected products is combined with a background image for presentation on the display of the remote computer. |
| US07908172B2 |
System and method for generating multimedia accompaniments to broadcast data
A method and system is presented for coordinating the transmission of supplemental digital data to accompany broadcast data, and in particular, analog radio broadcasts, among a plurality of broadcasters. The supplemental digital data may provide information about the particular broadcast data being transmitted (i.e. cut data) or may be supplemental to such data (i.e. news, weather and traffic data). The supplemental digital data to be presented is sorted based on particular algorithms which may take into account broadcaster-specified criteria such as target audience, time of day, type of broadcast data presented, and the like. The supplemental digital data may be audio data, visual data, or audio-visual data for presentation with the broadcast data. The supplemental digital data may further be advertisement data. The advertisement data may be sold by the broadcasters or the party coordinating the IBOC transmission of the supplemental digital data. The supplemental digital data may play simultaneously with muted broadcast data or at a user-specified time. |
| US07908168B2 |
Systems and methods wherein a security deposit facilitates a transaction in which a benefit is applied in exchange for performance of a task
Methods, computer readable media and systems are described wherein a security deposit is used to facilitate a transaction with a customer. In an embodiment, a process includes receiving an indication that a customer is interested in making a purchase during a transaction from a merchant, and transmitting an offer for a benefit to be applied to the transaction in exchange for a future performance of a task by the customer and a security deposit. The task is associated with a subsidy provider other than the merchant. The method also includes providing the offer to the customer, receiving the security deposit, applying the benefit to the transaction before performance of the task, and returning at least a portion of the security deposit to the customer based on the performance of the task. For example, a subsidy provider may offer to apply a subsidy amount to a transaction involving the purchase of a lawn mower in exchange for a future performance of a task by the customer such as test driving a new car. It is also arranged for the customer to provide a security deposit. When the customer performs the task by test driving the car, arrangements are then made to return at least a portion of the security deposit to the customer. |
| US07908167B1 |
System and method for analysis of project variances
Disclosed herein is a variance tracking report that provides a new and useful view of an enterprise's financial status. The variance tracking report may indicate variances from a planned work schedule and be used to explain any variances between projected and actual earnings as well as variances in project milestone dates. Further, the variance tracking report may show how current and past changes to the enterprise will impact future projections so the enterprise can give a clear indication of how any variances are being corrected. The plurality of views of the variance tracking report may also be analyzed in order to determine where variances are occurring on an enterprise level, a business unit level, an organization level, and a project level. Targeted action may then be taken on specific projects or enterprise methodologies in order to reduce and/or eliminate the variances. |
| US07908165B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating performance curves
A system and a method are set forth for generating performance curves for enabling user customized marketing communications proficiency and performance optimization, comprising collecting and storing historical vehicle data and response data relating for a marketing plan, normalizing the data to a standardized schema, performing non-linear polynomial regression analysis on the normalized data for generating a plurality of curves representing performance of the marketing plan, and displaying said plurality of curves to the user. Preferably, the plurality of curves are generated by a predictive analytics and forecasting engine using an optimized Chebyshev polynomial curve selected to a desired closeness of fit to the normalized data. |
| US07908163B2 |
Method and system for parallel scheduling of complex dags under uncertainty
A methods and systems for addressing parallel scheduling problem where a directed acyclic graph (dag) modeling t tasks and their dependencies needs to be executed on n unreliable workers. The methods and systems determine how workers get assigned to tasks (possibly in parallel and redundantly) throughout execution, so as to minimize expected completion time. Disclosed is a polynomial time method for the problem restricted to the case when dag width is at most a constant and the number of workers is also at most a constant. |
| US07908154B2 |
System and method for generating a medical history
A system and method for generating a medical history that is determined based on the patient's medication list. Medications are taken for specific indications, i.e., disease and/or symptom, and the system includes a knowledge base of all known medications and associated indications. Preferably, an expert system allows the patient, nurse or other user, to enter all or part of the name of the patient's medications, and creates a list of probable medications by determining which of the known medications the patient most likely takes. Based on a user selected probable medication, the system creates a list of probable indications associated with the selected medication. Based on a user selected probable indication, the system generates a medical history for the patient. The probable medications and probable indications are determined preferably based on the patient's demographic data, historical data for other patients, and responses to follow-up questions generated by the system. |
| US07908149B2 |
Vehicle related services system and methodology
A vehicle-related services system and methodology employing at least one sensor automatically sensing at least one of the time during which a vehicle is not being operated and where the vehicle is located when it is not being operated and at least one data processor receiving information sensed by the sensor, indicating at least one of the time during which the vehicle is not being operated and where the vehicle is located when it is not being operated and providing a billing data output in respect of a vehicle-related service which is dependent on at least one of the time during which the vehicle is not being operated and where the vehicle is located when it is not being operated. |
| US07908148B2 |
Method for decoding an audio signal
The invention relates to a method for decoding an audio signal, to allow an audio signal to be compressed and transferred more efficiently. The inventive method comprises steps of receiving an audio signal with spatial information signal, obtaining location information using the number of time slot and parameter of audio signal, establishing a multi-channel audio signal by applying spatial information signal to down-mix signal, and performing a multi-channel array for a multi-channel audio signal in response to the output channel. |
| US07908147B2 |
Delay profiling in a communication system
A method for a communication system comprising a plurality of communication modules passing an audio stream comprising frames of audio data comprises receiving the audio stream at one of the communication modules; selecting one of the frames; identifying second data; replacing a portion of the audio data in the one of the frames with the second data; and transmitting the audio stream comprising the one of the frames of audio data comprising the second data from the one of the communication modules in the communication system. |
| US07908144B2 |
Information processing system and information processing method
A framework is provided which performs location-based analysis using an individual feature such as a stress level obtained based on biological information. An information processing system includes an acquisition unit which acquires frequency power information of a voice inputted at a mobile terminal having a voice communication function, and position information of a base station device that relayed voice communication of the mobile terminal when the voice was inputted; a storage unit which stores the acquired frequency power information and the acquired position information in association with each other; an acceptance unit which accepts designation of an area; and an output unit which identifies the position information related to the designated area, acquires the frequency power information associated with the identified position information with reference to the storage unit, obtains a stress level of a user of the mobile terminal in the designated area based on frequency power information of a frequency greater than or equal to a threshold value within the acquired frequency power information, and outputs the stress level in association with the designated area. |
| US07908142B2 |
Apparatus and method for identifying prosody and apparatus and method for recognizing speech
A prosody identifying apparatus for identifying input speech on the basis of prosodic features of the input speech is provided. The prosody identifying apparatus includes a sound analyzing section for acquiring an amount of change in movement of a feature distribution obtained from an autocorrelation matrix of the frequency characteristic of the input speech and an identifying section for recognizing the input speech on the basis of an output of the sound analyzing section. |
| US07908138B2 |
Low complexity noise reduction method
To reduce noise in an input signal that may contain speech, first an estimate of the noise level in the signal is obtained. The level of the input signal is then compared with the noise level estimate signal to determine whether speech is dominant. Less aggressive noise reduction is applied to the input signal when speech is dominant than when only noise is present. |
| US07908137B2 |
Signal processing device, signal processing method, and program
A signal processing device for processing an input signal includes gain calculating means and feature quantity calculating means. The gain calculating means is configured to obtain information indicating magnitude of noise to be added to the input signal on a basis of periodicity information indicating periodicity of the input signal and power of the input signal. The feature quantity calculating means is configured to obtain periodicity information of a noise-added signal obtained by adding noise having magnitude corresponding to the gain information to the input signal as a feature quantity of the input signal. |
| US07908135B2 |
Music-piece classification based on sustain regions
Audio data representative of a music piece is converted into data components in respective different frequency bands for every unit time interval to generate time frequency data pieces assigned to the respective different frequency bands. From the generated time frequency data pieces, detection is made as to each sustain region in which an effective data component in one of the frequency bands continues to occur during a reference time interval or longer. A feature quantity is calculated from at least one of (1) a number of the detected sustain regions and (2) magnitudes of the effective data components in the detected sustain regions. The music piece is classified in response to the calculated feature quantity. |
| US07908132B2 |
Writing assistance using machine translation techniques
A system is configured to provide writing assistance within a monolingual input environment based on statistical machine translation techniques typically utilized to translate from an input language to a different target language. |
| US07908121B2 |
Determination of time zero from a charged particle detector
A method, system and computer program is used to determine a linear track having a good fit to a most likely or expected path of charged particle passing through a charged particle detector having a plurality of drift cells. Hit signals from the charged particle detector are associated with a particular charged particle track. An initial estimate of time zero is made from these hit signals and linear tracks are then fit to drift radii for each particular time-zero estimate. The linear track having the best fit is then searched and selected and errors in fit and tracking parameters computed. The use of large and expensive fast detectors needed to time zero in the charged particle detectors can be avoided by adopting this method and system. |
| US07908120B2 |
Method and device for the evaluation of a quality of a signal
A method is provided for evaluating quantity PQ representing a quality, as perceived by a recipient, of a signal OFx carrying data representing at least one stimulus intended to be produced on said recipient. The method includes a step of quantification of parameters Sqm and Tqm representing a spatial quality and a temporal quality of the signal, and a step of weighting during which a weighted product of the parameters Sqm and Tqm is computed and raised to a power C strictly below one. The method can be used to take account of a correlation that will be made by a person exposed to the stimulus between its spatial and temporal qualities, in applying an automatic technique in real time. |
| US07908119B2 |
System and method for automating the analysis of computer system load testing
A method for analyzing load run test results of a computer system includes providing a plurality of performance measure sets derived from a first series of load run tests performed over a same time period. Each set comprises a plurality of records and each record has a timestamp and a value. Performance measure records are sorted by value in ascending order, for each performance measure set. Plateau regions are identified in the sorted performance measure sets, for each performance measure. Performance measure records are sorted within each plateau region by time stamp in ascending order, for each performance measure. Overlapping time intervals covered by the plateau regions are identified for the plurality of performance measure sets, and averages of performance measures are computed over the overlapping time intervals. |
| US07908112B2 |
Dynamic observer for the estimation of vehicle lateral velocity
A system and method for estimating vehicle lateral velocity that defines a relationship between front and rear axle lateral forces and front and rear axle side-slip angles. The method includes providing measurements of vehicle yaw-rate, lateral acceleration, longitudinal speed, and steering angle. The method also includes using these measurements to provide a measurement of the front and rear axle forces. The method calculates a front axle lateral velocity and a rear axle lateral velocity, and calculates a front axle side-slip angle based on the rear axle lateral velocity and a rear axle side-slip angle based on the front axle lateral velocity. The method then estimates front and rear axle forces, and selects a virtual lateral velocity that minimizes an error between the estimated and measured lateral axle forces. The method then provides an estimated vehicle lateral velocity using the selected virtual lateral velocity. |
| US07908108B2 |
Circuit testing apparatus
A circuit testing apparatus for testing a device under test is disclosed. The device under test comprises a first output end and second output end for generating a first output signal and a second output signal, respectively. The circuit testing apparatus determines a test result for the device under test according to the first output signal and the second output signal. |
| US07908107B2 |
Line-reflect-reflect match calibration
A method of compensating a calibration for a vector network analyzer includes performing calibrations on at least a pair of ports to determine error terms associated with each port wherein at least one of the error terms is based upon selecting the reactance of the load standard from a set of potential values in a manner such that the reference reactance errors are reduced. |
| US07908101B2 |
Integrated circuit and method for monitoring and controlling power and for detecting open load state
An integrated circuit and method for monitoring and controlling power and for identifying an open circuit state at an output port is disclosed. A circuit is implemented to determine whether an open circuit state exists based on a comparison of data received from the output port and attached loads. The data received from the output port and attached loads is compared to a minimum open circuit current value of the output port, wherein the minimum open circuit current value is based on the hardware characteristics of the output port and attached loads. A possible open circuit state at the output port is reported based on the comparison. |
| US07908099B2 |
Leak detection method and associated valve and fuel system
Method of detecting a leak in a fuel system comprising a fuel tank and an orifice with a controlled section between the tank and the atmosphere, according to which a) the controlled section is set to a value Al at a time T1 and a pressure differential Δp1 between the inside of the tank and the atmosphere is measured at least after an interval of time ΔT from T1, for a constant fuel flow out of the tank; b) the controlled section is set to a value A2 at a time T2 and a pressure differential Δp2 between the inside of the tank and the atmosphere is measured at least after the same interval of time ΔT from T2, for the same constant fuel flow; c) a ratio of the pressure differentials Δp1 and Δp2 is computed and is compared to a reference pressure differential ratio ΔpL obtained with the same fuel system but comprising a calibrated leak. |
| US07908097B2 |
Methods and meter electronics for rapidly detecting a non-uniformity of a material flowing through a coriolis flowmeter
Meter electronics (20) and methods for detecting a flow anomaly in a flow material flowing through a flow meter (5) are provided. The meter electronics (20) includes an interface (201) for receiving a vibrational response of the flow material, with the vibrational response including at least a first sensor signal and a second sensor signal, and a processing system (203) in communication with the interface (201). The processing system (203) is configured to receive the vibrational response from the interface (201), generate a ninety degree phase shift from the first sensor signal and generate at least one flow characteristic using at least the first sensor signal and the ninety degree phase shift, compare the at least one flow characteristic to at least one anomaly profile, detect a shift in the vibrational response if the at least one flow characteristic falls within the anomaly profile, and indicate an anomaly condition as a result of the detecting. |
| US07908095B2 |
Detecting damage in metal structures with structural health monitoring systems
A method useful in structural health monitoring (SHM) systems for detecting damages in metal structures includes extracting the zero-order symmetric and anti-symmetric mode signal components from each of a plurality of current sensor signals of an array of transducers mounted on the structure, matching the extracted signal components with corresponding signal components of a plurality of baseline sensor signals previously detected in the structure, computing respective indices IS0 and IA0 for each of the matched extracted current and baseline signal components based on respective signal energies thereof, and determining the presence of a damage in the structure if either of the indices IS0 and IA0 of a plurality of neighboring sensor paths of the structure is greater than a selected threshold value. |
| US07908092B2 |
Chemical sensor array evaluation method
A method for identifying a chemical substance from a set of output states provided by a chemical sensor array being exposed to the chemical substance, the method including: selecting, with an evaluation circuit, from a set of class descriptions for different chemical substances a first class description and one or more further class descriptions, wherein the first class description is related to a first chemical substance and a further class description is related to a further chemical substance; and estimating, with one or more estimating units, a first likelihood value and one or more further likelihood values, wherein the first likelihood value represents a probability that the set of output states corresponds to the first class description, and a respective further likelihood value represents a probability that the set of output states corresponds to a respective further class description. |
| US07908085B2 |
Method for acquiring and processing magnetometric data by local updates in real time
The invention concerns a method for acquiring and processing magnetometric data for representing on an at least two-dimensional map magnetometric characteristics of a geographical zone including a step of measuring the intensity of a magnetic field (1) on a geographical zone producing a set of magnetometric data of intensity B(s), a step of computing 2D interpolation (3), a step of computing reduction at the poles (5) and a step of computing an analytical signal (7). The invention is characterized in that it includes sectioning the map of magnetic disturbances into a matrix of pixels, a step of locally updating in real time the map of magnetic anomalies, a step of locally updating in real time the map of 2D interpolation by applying the 2D interpolation calculation in the neighborhood of the updated pixel, a step of locally updating in real time the 2D map of reduction at the poles and a step of locally updating in real time the 2D map of the analytical signal. |
| US07908081B2 |
Navigation apparatus, navigation system and route search method
This navigation apparatus includes a road setting unit that sets a road to be traversed between a departure point and a destination, the road being constituted by links for each of which a predetermined link cost is set, a replacement unit that replaces the links constituting the road to be traversed that has been set by the road setting unit, with a virtual link whose link cost is set to be smaller than the total of the link costs of the links for the road to be traversed, and a route search unit that searches for a recommended route from the departure point to the destination, based upon link costs set for links that constitute roads other than the road to be traversed, and the link cost set for the virtual link with which the road to be traversed has been replaced by the replacement unit. |
| US07908079B1 |
Portable runway intersection display and monitoring system
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which an apparatus located on an airfield provides information to pilots in aircraft on the ground and simultaneously gathers information on the motion and position of the aircraft for controllers. |
| US07908076B2 |
Representative road traffic flow information based on historical data
Techniques are described for automatically analyzing historical information about road traffic flow in order to generate representative information regarding current or future road traffic flow, and for using such generated representative traffic flow information. Representative traffic flow information may be generated for a variety of types of useful measures of traffic flow, such as for average speed at each of multiple road locations during each of multiple time periods. Generated representative traffic flow information may be used in various ways to assist in travel and for other purposes, such as to determine likely travel times and plan optimal routes. The historical traffic data used to generate the representative traffic flow information may include data readings from physical sensors that are near or embedded in the roads, and/or data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads. |
| US07908072B2 |
Systems and methods for using a combustion dynamics tuning algorithm with a multi-can combustor
Embodiments of the invention can provide systems and methods for using a combustion dynamics tuning algorithm with a multi-can combustor. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for controlling a gas turbine engine with an engine model can be implemented for an engine comprising multiple cans. The method can include obtaining operating frequency information associated with multiple cans of the engine. In addition, the method can include determining variation between operating frequency information of at least two cans. Furthermore, the method can include determining a median value based at least in part on the variation. Moreover, the method can include determining whether the median value exceeds at least one operating threshold. The method can also include implementing at least one engine control action to modify at least one of the operating frequencies if at least one operating threshold is exceeded. |
| US07908070B2 |
Method for controlling a coupling device between an input shaft and an output shaft
The invention relates to a method for controlling a coupling device between an input shaft driven by a motor and an output shaft that can transmit a maximum torque according to the position of an actuator of the coupling device 5 complying with a law of behavior of the coupling means according to which: a set value (Cemb,cons) of maximum torque to be transmitted is defined; the actual position (Xemb,mes) of the actuator of the coupling device is measured; a set value (Xemb,cons) is determined for actuating the coupling device and is sent to the actuator of the coupling device, while using a law of behavior of the coupling means obtained by interpolation between a first law of reference of behavior of the coupling means and at least one second law of reference of behavior of the coupling means, and; an auto-adaptation of the law of behavior of the coupling means is carried out for taking into consideration its evolution resulting from the use. The method can be used for controlling the clutch of a drive train of a motor vehicle. |
| US07908069B2 |
Method of operating a clutch during a vehicle launch
A method of operating a clutch during vehicle launch including increasing a first hydraulic pressure in an inner chamber from a first to a second level; decreasing a second hydraulic pressure in an outer chamber from a third to a fourth level in response to engine speed and throttle position for the vehicle; and slipping the clutch in response to increasing and decreasing the first and second pressures, respectively. The first hydraulic pressure urges a clutch disposed between the engine and an impeller for a vehicle torque converter to an engaged position. The second hydraulic pressure opposes the first hydraulic pressure. In some aspects, the method includes determining a temperature for oil in a transmission in the vehicle. Then, decreasing the second hydraulic pressure includes decreasing the second pressure in response to the determined temperature. In some aspects, the clutch and the chambers are located in the torque converter. |
| US07908068B2 |
Engine controller of hydraulic shovel
A hydraulic shovel including a selection means for an engine which is capable of arbitrarily selecting either of an isochronous control and a droop control, and a traveling detection means for detecting the traveling state of a traveling device. The hydraulic shovel further includes a control means for the engine which selects the isochronous control when the traveling detection means detects the traveling state to maintain the rotational speed of the engine during rated operation while an output is increased, and selects the droop control when the traveling detection means does not detect the traveling state to set the rotational speed of the engine lower than that during the rated operation while the output is increased. |
| US07908066B2 |
Powertrain of a motor vehicle and method for controlling said powertrain
The power train (1) includes a controlled drive source (3), a clutch (6), an automatically shifting transmission (7) and a data transmission device (2). The power train contains an additional drive source (12) and is fitted with a control system by means of which a correction value (K pid) for the drive source torque is generated on the basis of the comparison of the actual behavior of the drive train with a modeled behavior of a drive train fitted with a hydrodynamic torque converter. The behavior of a torque converter is simulated by a regulating circuit (21-27). |
| US07908063B2 |
Synchronous shift execution for hybrid transmission
An apparatus and method are provided to execute synchronous shifting in a powertrain system having multiple torque-generative devices each operable to independently supply motive torque to the transmission device. The exemplary transmission device comprises a two-mode, compound-split, hybrid electro-mechanical transmission. Operation includes operating in an initial fixed gear ratio, operating the transmission in a mode operation, and, operating the transmission in a final fixed gear ratio. The control system reduces reactive torque of a clutch activating the initial gear, and deactivates the first torque-transfer device when the reactive torque is less than a predetermined value. It determines that speed of an input shaft to the transmission is substantially synchronized with a rotational speed of the second torque-transfer device, and actuates the second torque-transfer device. |
| US07908057B2 |
Power steering apparatus
Provided is a power steering apparatus capable of suppressing an abrupt change in steering force and preventing a deterioration in steering feeling even in the event of a transition from power steering to manual steering. The power steering apparatus includes a torque sensor, a motor of a permanent magnet field type, and a controller having a motor driving unit and an abnormality monitoring unit, for controlling the driving of the motor. The motor driving unit includes an inverter for driving the motor, and a drive signal generating unit for calculating a target current caused to flow through the motor and outputting a drive signal of the inverter based on the target current. The abnormality monitoring unit includes an abnormality processing unit for constituting a closed-loop circuit including the motor in stopping the driving of the motor. |
| US07908055B2 |
Control device for a compressed air system of a vehicle
A control device for a compressed air system of a vehicle or for a component of a compressed air system of a vehicle includes at least one processor calculating a prediction of the occurrence and/or duration of overrun condition phases of the vehicle based on altitude position data of a route traveled by or still to be traveled by the vehicle. The control device controls the compressed air system, a component of the compressed air system, or a component intended to operate the compressed air system, based on the calculated prediction. |
| US07908052B2 |
Maintenance system for an equipment set
A rapidly installable and rapidly removable set of equipment (1-6, 11) which can be replaced by standard exchanges, furnished with individual electronic circuits for monitoring proper operation (1a-6a, 20a-23a, 30a-32a, 1 1a) assuming, at their level, a BITE function (Build [sic] In Test Equipment) for testing, for fault diagnosis and for issuing fault messages sent by data transmission to a central maintenance computer (7) itself formulating a report regarding the overall state of operation of the set of equipment. It relates more especially to the hardware parts of the electronic circuits for monitoring proper operation which are integral with the equipment (1-6) or with equipment parts (20-23, 30-32) and which are furnished with a nonvolatile memory (405) and by means of detection, selection and capture (403, 413, 423) into their nonvolatile memories (405), of the report formulated by the central maintenance computer (7). Since these hardware parts of circuits for monitoring proper operation track the tribulations of the equipment parts or pieces of equipment with which they are integral, they make it possible for the latest report regarding the overall state of operation of the set of equipment often causing the removal, to be always available, in a repair center, with an item removed for repair, thereby facilitating the drawing up of a repair diagnosis. |
| US07908047B2 |
Method and apparatus for run-time incorporation of domain data configuration changes
A method and apparatus for implementing a run-time configuration change for domain data in a database for an information systems where the domain data defines entities which are acted upon by the information system and where the reconfiguration of the domain data can take place without taking the information system offline and making it inaccessible to users. |
| US07908046B2 |
Method and device for monitoring a position indication of an aircraft
A device and method calculate a global error relating to a position indication of an aircraft and compare the global error with a threshold value, which depends on flight constraints. |
| US07908045B1 |
System and method for presenting an image of terrain on an aircraft display unit
A system and method for presenting an image of terrain threats are disclosed. Substantially transparent terrain symbols (color or monochrome) are depicted where each symbol is representative of a level of threat. Terrain symbols may overlay a weather image without a loss in information. A system is disclosed which comprises a navigation system, a terrain database, an image processor, and an indicating system. The navigation system acquires navigation data representative of aircraft position and direction; the database stores data of a plurality of cells; and the indicating system receives image data and presents symbols representative of the terrain image. The image processor receives navigation data defines a range of elevations of threat levels based upon the aircraft altitude, receives terrain data from the terrain database, determines the terrain threat of each cell, and provides an image representing the threat level and locations to the display. |
| US07908044B2 |
Compound aircraft control system and method
The Invention is a control system for a compound aircraft. A compound aircraft has features of both a helicopter and a fixed wing aircraft and provides redundant control options. The control system allows an authorized person to select any of plurality of operational objectives each of which is designed to achieve any particular command. |
| US07908041B2 |
Self-leveling laser horizon for navigation guidance
The present invention includes an artificial horizon device including a sensor unit with a movable platform, at least one actuator linked to the platform, and one or more sensors located on the platform for sensing the position orientation of the platform relative to an external mass or the motion of the platform. The horizon device also includes a processing unit signally connected to the sensors and the at least one actuator. The processing unit is adapted to receive signals from the sensors and send signals to the actuators to move the platform to a horizontal orientation. The horizon device also includes either a display unit comprising an indicator of a horizon line which substantially corresponds to the horizontal orientation of the platform or a secondary device. |
| US07908040B2 |
System and method for automated search by distributed elements
A system and method for decentralized cooperative control of a team of agents for geographic and other search tasks. The approach is behavior-based and uses probability particle approach to the search problem. Agents are attracted to probability distributions in the form of virtual particles of probability that represent hypotheses about the existence of objects of interest in a geographic area or a data-space. Reliance on dependable, high-bandwidth communication is reduced by modeling the movements of other team members and the objects of interest between periodic update messages. |
| US07908038B2 |
Method of making an optical transponder
Methods and apparatus are provided in accordance with the present invention in which a control mechanism, such as for example, a microcontroller, provides an interface between an optical transponder and an external control system, such that monitoring and controlling of the optical components of the optical transponder are accomplished in an efficient and cost-effective manner. In some embodiments of the present invention, methods and apparatus provide for testing and calibration of the optical transponder without removing any portion of a protective housing within which the internal components of the optical transponder are disposed. |
| US07908034B2 |
System, program products, and methods for controlling drilling fluid parameters
Embodiments of systems, program products, and methods for controlling drilling fluid parameters are provided. These embodiments, for example, provide dynamic density control with highly adaptive, real-time, process-control and are scalable to any rig, large or small, on land or water. Combined static and dynamic stresses and displacements can be determined continuously at strategic locations in and around the wellbore of a well so that insitu and operational induced pressure window limitations at specific weak-points or other locations of interest are controlled. |
| US07908025B2 |
Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and control system and control method therefor
Disclosed herein is technology for, among other things, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and a control system and a control method therefor, by which a target parameter that is measured from a wafer processed with a plurality of processing parameters that are processing conditions of the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus to process a wafer, a multiple classification analysis is performed with the plurality of processing parameters and the target parameter to calculate a model formula expressing the target parameter in a selected parameter, a predicted value of the target parameter of the wafer being processed by use of the model formula is calculated, while the processing is being performed, the processing parameters of the processing is modified on the basis of the predicted value, and the processing is continuously performed. |
| US07908024B2 |
Method and system for detecting tool errors to stop a process recipe for a single chamber
A method for detecting tool errors to stop a process recipe for a single chamber is disclosed. When a recipe error for one of chamber of a process tool is detected, only the chamber with the recipe error is terminated and other chambers are allowed to proceed with their recipe processes for preventing excursions. |
| US07908022B2 |
System and method for reducing toxic waste in manufacturing processes
A system and method of optimizing a manufacturing process so as to reduce toxic waste in the process. In an embodiment, the method includes: describing the manufacturing process using a plurality of nodes, each node representing a component or a process; connecting the plurality of nodes with directed edges to form a directed graph, the directed graph representing possible manufacturing process flows from a begin node to an end node; assigning to each edge a value representative of a cost resulting from toxic waste generated by a component or process; and determining a shortest path from the begin node to the end node in the directed graph to identify manufacturing process flow having a minimum cost. |
| US07908018B2 |
Flexible electrode
An electrode array has a flexible body supporting a plurality of electrodes. Each electrode comprises an exposed connector pad at the upper end of the body, an exposed recording/stimulating pad at the lower end of the body, and a conductor located within the body and electrically connecting the connector pad and the recording/stimulating pad. In one embodiment the electrode array has an elongated recording/stimulating portion coiled or folded to distribute the exposed recording/stimulating pads in three dimensions. An implantation method employs an introducer with a helical portion to which an end of the flexible electrode is attached. The helical portion straightens to pass through a small-diameter cannula and then resumes its helical configuration to place the recording/stimulating portion of the attached electrode in a helix within the patient's tissues. |
| US07908006B2 |
Cardiac pacing response classification using an adaptable classification interval
Methods and systems involve the formation of a classification interval used for sensing a cardiac signal following a pacing pulse to determine a cardiac response to pacing. One or more cardiac signals associated with a type of cardiac pacing response are sensed. The timing of at least one feature of the cardiac signal may be used to define an initial cardiac response classification interval. The classification interval is adapted based on the variability of the timing of the feature. The classification interval may be adapted using a predetermined number of additional cardiac signals or until a predetermined stability criterion is achieved. |
| US07908005B2 |
Medical system for monitoring and localization of electrode leads in the heart
A medical system has an implantable heart stimulator with sensing and stimulating pairs of electrodes, with an electric field through the heart being generated by the respective pairs by the application of alternating voltages at a preset frequency to the respective pairs. A signal receiver receives a signal representing the voltage potential difference between the voltage potential at one of the electrodes in the pair, and a reference electrode. The detected voltage is related to the generated electric field, and the signal receiver generates a potential different signal that is supplied to a control unit to determine parameters therefrom representing cardiac activity. |
| US07908003B1 |
System and method for treating ischemia by improving cardiac efficiency
A system and method for treating ischemic heart disease by increasing heart efficiency. By application of an anodal pulse at or above threshold, the efficiency of the heart is improved by increasing the resting membrane potential of the myocardial cells, increasing the size of the anodal virtual stimulatory electrode, or reducing the ventricular stretching during filling of the ventricle. |
| US07908002B2 |
Heart stimulator detecting atrial arrhythmia by determining wall distension by impedance measuring
In an implantable pacemaker, pacing pulses are delivered to a ventricle in a P-wave synchronous mode as long as no atrial arrhythmia is detected, pacing pulses and a mode switch is made to deliver pacing pulses to the ventricle in a non-P-wave synchronous mode if atrial arrhythmia is detected. From an impedance signal measured in the atrium, atrial distention is determined and, in the non-P-wave synchronous mode, the delivery rate of the pacing pulses is increased to decrease the atrial distention during atrial arrhythmia. |
| US07908001B2 |
Automatic multi-level therapy based on morphologic organization of an arrhythmia
Methods and systems for selecting tachyarrhythmia therapy based on the morphological organization level of the arrhythmia are described. Morphological organization levels of arrhythmias are associated with cardiac therapies. The morphological organization levels are related to cardiac signal morphologies of the arrhythmias. An arrhythmia episode is detected and the morphological organization level of the arrhythmia episode is determined. A cardiac therapy associated with the morphological organization level of the arrhythmia episode is delivered to treat the arrhythmia. For example, the morphological organization levels may be associated with the cardiac therapies based on one or more of retrospective database analysis, patient therapy tolerance, and physician input. The associations may be static or may be dynamically adjusted based on therapy efficacy. |
| US07907999B2 |
Apparatus and method for measuring physiological characteristics of an intact trachea in vitro
Apparatus and methods for measuring smooth muscles responses (relaxation and contraction), transepithelial potential difference, and/or transepithelial impedance of an intact trachea in vitro. In particular embodiments, the apparatus includes a perfusion device on which an extracted, intact trachea is mounted. The perfusion device and the trachea are immersed in an extraluminal bath, which is isolated from the perfusion liquid flowing through the trachea. A set of voltage-sensing electrodes is provided for measuring the transepithelial potential difference across the trachea wall. A set of current electrodes is provided for inducing an electrical current to flow across the trachea wall in order to determine transepithelial impedance. |
| US07907998B2 |
Bio-impedance apparatus and method
A method of determining an impedance of at least one lung of a patient having an implanted pacemaker that comprises first and second leads and a case, the method comprising: a) using the leads and the case to acquire at least a first and a second impedance measurement responsive to impedance of the patient's chest that are at least partially independent; and b) using the impedance measurements to determine the impedance of at least one of the lungs substantially independently of impedance of the other lung. |
| US07907997B2 |
Enhancements to the detection of pulmonary edema when using transthoracic impedance
This patent document discusses, among other things, systems, devices, and methods for enhancing detection of pulmonary edema using, in addition to thoracic impedance, one or a combination of: physiologic information about a subject, at least one statistical parameter, a user-programmable detection level, at least one parameter associated with a previous pulmonary edema event, and patient symptom information about the subject. In one example, a (base) thoracic impedance threshold is modified to an adjusted thoracic impedance threshold. The adjusted thoracic impedance threshold provides an increased sensitivity of pulmonary edema detection as compared to the base thoracic impedance threshold. In another example, an alert is provided to a subject, a caregiver, or other user based on a pulmonary edema indication determined by the present systems, devices, and methods. In a further example, a therapy (provided to the subject) is adjusted or initiated in response to the pulmonary edema indication. |
| US07907996B2 |
System and method for processing and presenting arrhythmia information to facilitate heart arrhythmia identification and treatment
A system and method for presenting information relating to heart data can involve operations including identifying arrhythmia events in physiological data obtained for a living being, receiving human assessments of at least a portion of the arrhythmia events, determining a measure of correlation between the human assessments and the identified events, and selectively presenting information regarding the identified events based on the measure of correlation. The operations can also include identifying atrial fibrillation events in physiological data obtained for a living being, obtaining heart rate data for the living being, and presenting information regarding the heart rate data and duration of the atrial fibrillation events together with a common time scale to pictographically represent heart rate trend with atrial fibrillation burden during a defined time period. |
| US07907995B2 |
Electrocardiography chart apparatus and method thereof
An electrocardiogram (ECG) chart device and method capable of easily assisting with the diagnosis of heart disease. Hexagonal radar charts displayed on a screen act as indicators of feature values corresponding to data obtained from each of 12 electrode leads and correlated with the related portions of the heart. For example, a (V1, V2) lead is an indicator of a right ventricle. Each of the radar charts is schematically arranged to correspond with the related portion of the heart. Each vertex of the hexagonal radar charts acts as an indicator of the recognized value. More specifically, each vertex of the radar chart is based on a value obtained by extracting a waveform critical point, a waveform start point, a waveform end point, or the like, of constituent elements of the ECG waveform as the P wave, the Q wave, the R wave, the S wave, the ST segment, the T wave, or the like. Therefore, a user of the ECG radar chart device can intuitively and easily carry out interpretation of ECG data. |
| US07907983B1 |
Wireless handset with locking slider
A wireless handset has a relatively slidable first and second housing sections to provide an extended configuration for using a predetermined function of the wireless handset and a closed configuration for reducing a predetermined dimension of the wireless handset when not using the predetermined function. An electronically controllable lock is coupled to the first and second housing sections having an actuated position for inhibiting movement of the first and second housing sections out of the extended configuration and a deactuated position wherein movement of the first and second housing sections out of the extended configuration is not inhibited. A controller is coupled to the lock wherein the controller is programmed to determine whether the handset is in a predetermined operating mode and to place the lock into the actuated position when the handset is in the predetermined operating mode. The controller is also programmed to place the lock into the deactuated position when the handset is no longer in the predetermined operating mode. |
| US07907981B2 |
Slide type mobile communication terminal
Disclosed is a slide type mobile communication terminal. The terminal comprises an upper main body having a display section and a first function key pad section; a lower main body connected to the upper main body to be slidable upward and downward relative to the upper main body and having an input key pad section and a second function key pad section on lower and upper parts of the lower main body; and a slide engagement member having a slide rail provided to one of the upper and lower main bodies and extending over about a whole length of an upstream and downstream direction of the main body and a slide protrusion located at a middle point of an upstream and downstream direction of the other main body and inserted into the slide rail, and connecting the upper and lower main bodies to be slidable. |
| US07907980B2 |
Magnetic levitation sliding structure
A magnetic levitation sliding structure is provided for a portable electronic device. The sliding structure includes a first slider member with a guide portion, a second slider member with a receiving portion that mates with the guide portion, a first magnet coupled with the guide portion and having magnetic poles arranged in a direction perpendicular to a sliding direction, and a spaced-apart pair of second magnets coupled with the receiving portion. The first magnet is configured in a central portion of the guide portion and is disposed between the spaced-apart pair of second magnets for facilitating relative sliding movement of the first and second slider members. A portable electronic device including the magnetic levitation sliding structure is also provided. |
| US07907977B2 |
Echo canceller with correlation using pre-whitened data values received by downlink codec
Duplex audio communications over a network use compressed audio data, with linear prediction coefficients (LPCs) and variances by which sample values differ from predictions. A adaptive echo canceller for a transceiver develops finite impulse response filter (FIR) coefficients characterizing an echo path between its local audio output and audio input. The received/decompressed audio data is applied to the FIR coefficients, and the predicted echo is subtracted from the uplink signal. Echo is detected as cross-correlation of the receive signal versus the uplink/send signal over time. In one embodiment, the cross-correlation is determined using a pre-whitened receive signal, obtained by adopting the variance values received over the network by the downlink Codec. Apart from the uplink Codec, no speech analysis filter or process is needed. The technique is apt for GSM, AMR and similar compressed audio communications. |
| US07907976B2 |
VehicleTalk
A system for communicating information to a mobile unit comprising a broadband RF transceiver with antenna, a GPS receiver, an audio-visual interface, an electro-mechanical interface and a microprocessor with associated memory incorporated into each a mobile unit. |
| US07907975B2 |
Bluetooth communication system for drivers of vehicles
A system is provided that enables communications between a driver of a vehicle and a person outside the vehicle, between a rider of a motorcycle and a fellow rider of the same vehicle, or between a driver of a vehicle and another driver of another vehicle. A Bluetooth communication system comprises a Bluetooth communication device mountable to a helmet, and an indicator unit having an indicator disposed in a viewing range of a driver of such a vehicle as a car or a boat. It further comprises a transmitting module disposed in the Bluetooth communication device for transmitting an indication signal to the indicator in response to reception of a calling signal and a receiving module disposed in the indicator unit for driving the indicator in response to reception of the indication signal. The indicator indicates when a call arrives at a Bluetooth communication device mounted on a helmet. |
| US07907974B2 |
Scrollable computing device display
The display of a scrollable list of items is described. In one disclosed embodiment, a list of items may be displayed on a scrollable computing device display in such a manner that, upon receiving an input requesting movement of a select indicator to a different list item, the select indicator is moved on the display toward the different list item and the list is scrolled on the display in an opposing direction. |
| US07907972B2 |
Method and apparatus for allocating downlink resources in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system
Techniques to schedule downlink data transmission to a number of terminals in a wireless communication system. In one method, one or more sets of terminals are formed for possible data transmission, with each set including a unique combination of one or more terminals and corresponding to a hypothesis to be evaluated. One or more sub-hypotheses may further be formed for each hypothesis, with each sub-hypothesis corresponding to specific assignments of a number of transmit antennas to the one or more terminals in the hypothesis. The performance of each sub-hypothesis is then evaluated, and one of the evaluated sub-hypotheses is selected based on their performance. The terminal(s) in the selected sub-hypothesis are then scheduled for data transmission, and data is thereafter coded, modulated, and transmitted to each scheduled terminal from one or more transmit antennas assigned to the terminal. |
| US07907970B2 |
Providing quality of service for various traffic flows in a communications environment
The claimed subject matter relates to providing appropriate QoS treatment to one or more traffic flows associated with a terminal, wherein the QoS treatment is defined within a profile assigned to the terminal and implemented when the terminal requests access to a network. An access mode can receive identifying indicia associated with the terminal and relays such indicia to an authentication and authorization server (AAS). The AAS can thereafter provide the access node with a profile that defines QoS treatment to associate with one or more traffic flows related to the terminal. |
| US07907967B2 |
Radio frequency module
A description is given of a radio frequency module comprising an interface unit configured to receive macros having a first format from an input of the radio frequency module, a microprocessor coupled to the interface unit and operable to convert the macros having the first format to macros having a second format, a first memory coupled to the microprocessor and operable to store macros having the second format provided by the microprocessor and a first finite state machine implemented in hardware and configured to process macros having the second format accessed from the first memory. |
| US07907966B1 |
System and method for cross-platform applications on a wireless phone
A system and method for operation of cross-platform applications on a wireless phone is provided. The applications can be cross-platform applications in that the same application code can be run on different wireless phone platforms. The method and system can for a wireless phone which runs a cross-platform application that enables the processor of the wireless phone to run the cross-platform applications. The wireless phone processor can operate to determine platform parameters of the phone and then run the cross-platform application using the determined phone parameters. |
| US07907965B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling the power consumption of a combined UMTS/GSM/EDGE radio station
A mobile station has an apparatus by means of which the power consumption of the mobile station is controlled. The apparatus has a monitoring unit which is connected to the at least two radio systems in the mobile station. During activity pauses in the mobile station, whose time duration and whose start and end times are monitored by the monitoring unit, radio system units which are not required, and possibly further units in the mobile station, are deactivated or are switched to a state with reduced power consumption. |
| US07907964B2 |
Networked telephone system
Embodiments may provide a computer network, a telephone coupled to the computer network, and a computing device coupled to the computer network, the computing device to establish a telephone call with the telephone. |
| US07907963B1 |
Method to display three-dimensional map on communication device
The wireless communication device and the method thereof, wherein the current geographic location of the wireless communication device is identified, and a plurality of three-dimensional images are displayed in accordance with the current geographic location. |
| US07907962B2 |
Radio communications system, base station apparatus and method of transmission power control
A transmission power of a communication apparatus can be appropriately determined in accordance with different communication multiplicities between two or more communication channels. A mobile communication system in which a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus communicate with each other by using configuration channels (CCH) or random access channels (RACH) includes a transmission power control part for determining basic data of the transmission power in RACH of the mobile station apparatus in accordance with a communication status in CCH, and a transmission power determining part for determining the transmission power in RACH of the mobile station apparatus by changing the basic data at least in accordance with the communication multiplicity of RACH. |
| US07907961B2 |
Method and apparatus for improving noise power estimate in a WCDMA network
Method and apparatus for improving a noise power estimate in a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network are disclosed and may include calculating a total noise power estimate for a downlink channel based on a plurality of control channel bits from a plurality of different types of control channels. The plurality of control channel bits may include at least two of: dedicated physical channel (DPCH) transmit power control (TPC) bits, DPCH pilot bits, and common pilot channel (CPICH) bits. A first noise power estimate may be calculated for the downlink channel based on a plurality of the DPCH TPC bits. A value of at least one of the plurality of DPCH TPC bits may not be known when the at least one of the plurality of DPCH TPC bits is received. |
| US07907959B2 |
Radio communication equipment, transmission power control method therefor, and program therefor
A radio communication equipment generates transmission power control information corresponding to a comparison result between receiving quality of a signal received from a communication counterpart and target quality, and transmits the transmission power control information to the communication counterpart. The radio communication equipment includes a response monitor which monitors a response from the communication counterpart for a control message transmitted to the communication counterpart and a controller which controls the target quality to vary depending on a result of the monitoring of the response monitor. |
| US07907958B2 |
Negotiated channel information reporting in a wireless communication system
Techniques to enhance the performance in a wireless communication system using CQI feedback optimized to support different scenarios. According to one aspect, an access terminal may select a CQI feedback table based on the access terminals capability. According to another aspect, an access point may select a CQI feedback table based on an access terminals capability, system loading and the type of service provided by the access point. An access point which provides services that require high data rates may select a larger CQI feedback table to support the high data rates for access terminals which support the larger CQI feedback table. The same access point may select a smaller CQI feedback table for access terminals which do not have the capability or need for the high data rate services. |
| US07907957B2 |
Method and system for transmitting data in mobile network nodes
A method and a system for data transmission with mobile network nodes, which include at least two network interfaces with corresponding power consumption. A central unit is configured to receive data intended for the mobile network, and a first network interface of the mobile network node is deactivated. If the central unit receives data intended for themobile network node, a signaling message assigned to the received data is transmitted to the mobile network node, by a signaling module, via a second network interface of the mobile network node. Based on the transmitted signaling message, the first network interface of the mobile network node is activated, and data, which are intended for the mobile network node, are transmitted via the first network interface to the mobile network node. |
| US07907954B2 |
System and method for dynamic interface management
A system and method for dynamically instantiating a communication interface between a requesting entity and a client entity. A requesting entity transmits a trigger signal to a control point, where the trigger signal includes a preferred communication configuration. The control point inspects the preferred communication configuration and, if possible, instantiates a communication link that complies with the requested configuration. The communication link is deactivated either in response to a timing function, upon determining that the requesting and client entities have completed their data exchanges, or determining that an amount of time provided for the communication has expired. |
| US07907952B2 |
Method and apparatus for securing quality of communication service to mobile terminal
A method and apparatus is provided for securing a quality of service of packet data service provided in a communication system by enabling mobile terminals that receive the packet data service in the RRC-idle mode to provide information to the network regarding the quality of the received service. A mobile receiving a specific service, for example MBMS, may provide information related to the quality of the received service or the results of measurements performed to determine the quality of the received service to a network via a common control channel either in response to a measurement request from the network or if the mobile terminal determines that the quality of the received service is below a minimum quality of service to be secured. |
| US07907951B2 |
Wireless communication system and base station
Admission control wireless resources including abase station which obtains a down wireless resource available rate based on a down QoS requested bandwidth Bi requested by a terminal i during QoS communication and a data rate Ri which the terminal can receive. A down wireless resource usage rate is obtained by dividing a down QoS requested bandwidth B requested by the terminal trying to perform QoS communication by the data rate R which the terminal can receive. An up wireless resource available rate is obtained based on ROT of an up channel and a threshold value T1 indicating an allowable upper limit of the ROT. The QoS communication is performed on the terminal in which the up and down wireless resource available rates are respectively equal to or more than the up and down wireless resource usage rates. |
| US07907949B2 |
Radio communication system, adjacent station information management method for this system, and management apparatus therefor
Adjacent station information of various base stations communicating using CDMA is automatically updated.A maintenance apparatus (30) includes a protocol message acquisition unit (33) for acquiring protocol messages transmitted between each base station and a mobile terminal 1; a protocol message storage area (36) for storing the protocol messages; a base station information acquisition unit (34) for acquiring base station information of every base station; a base station information storage area (37) for storing the base station information of all the base stations; and an information update instruction unit (35). The information update instruction unit (35) extracts a Route Update message at the time of hard handoff from the protocol message storage area (36), and uses communication characteristic information of a handoff candidate base station included in that message, in order to specify the handoff candidate base station among base stations whose base station information is stored in the base station information storage area (37). The information update instruction unit (35) instructs the handoff source base station to add the information on the specified handoff candidate base station to its adjacent station information. |
| US07907948B2 |
Providing anonymity to a mobile node in a session with a correspondent node
A method, a correspondent node and a mobile node provide anonymity and unlinkability to a mobile node in a session with a correspondent node. Sequence values, calculated based on secret data, are added to updates sent from the mobile node towards the correspondent node and are used by the correspondent node to authenticate updates from the mobile node. A home address of the mobile node is not explicitly disclosed. An expected care-of address is calculated at the correspondent node and used by the correspondent node to send data packets to the mobile node. |
| US07907945B2 |
Apparatus and method of optimizing the selection of wireless networks
Methods and a mobile terminal capable of selecting a wireless network, the invention includes when detected to be at or near a first wireless network service area, receiving information related to the first wireless network service area from a second wireless network, activating a first wireless network module based upon the received information and a user setting, detecting a first wireless network with the first wireless network module and the received information, and establishing a connection upon the detecting. |
| US07907942B1 |
Communication device
The method to remotely control a device located in a building or house by a handheld mobile device.The device may be a TV tuner, microwave oven, VCR, bathroom, room light, air conditioner, room heater, door lock, or camera. |
| US07907941B2 |
Determining presence of radio frequency communication device
A radio frequency communication device includes a receiver; a transmitter; an interface for receiving one or more sensor signals based on sensor-acquired data that is indicative of a predetermined condition; and electronic components. The electronic components are arranged and configured such that the device operates in at least two states. In the first state, the device responds to a Present Broadcast by making a Present Response. In the second state, the device does not respond to a Present Broadcast with a Present Response. The electronic components further are arranged and configured such that the device enters the second state from the first state upon responding to a Present Broadcast with a Present Response, and such that the device enters the first state from the second state upon receiving, through the interface, one or more sensor signals based on sensor-acquired data that is indicative of a predetermined condition. |
| US07907936B2 |
Communication system, wireless-communication device, and control method therefor
A wireless-communication device performing mutual authentication between the wireless-communication device and a different wireless-communication device by using an authentication server includes a communication-setting-data-retention unit retaining communication-setting data including a first metric corresponding to the path to the authentication server, as a self-authentication-server metric, a signal-reception unit receiving a predetermined signal transmitted from the different wireless-communication device, the predetermined signal including a second metric corresponding to the path from the different wireless-communication device to the authentication server, as a nonself-authentication-server metric, and a control unit determining the wireless-communication device to be a supplicant when the self-authentication-server metric is better than the nonself-authentication-server metric, and determining the wireless-communication device to be an authenticator when the self-authentication-server metric is worse than the nonself-authentication-server metric. |
| US07907935B2 |
Intelligent remote device
An intelligent remote device equipped with a security token operatively coupled thereto is processing communications with a security token enabled computer system over a wireless private network. The intelligent remote device is adapted to emulate a local security device peripheral connected to the computer system. Multiple computer systems may be authenticated to using the intelligent remote device. Additionally, various secure communications connections mechanisms are described which are intended to augment existing security protocols available using wireless network equipment. Authentication of a user supplied critical security parameter is performed by the security token. The critical security parameter may be provided locally via the intelligent remote device or received from the wireless network and routed to the security token. Aural, visual or vibratory feedback may be provided to the user to signal a successful authentication transaction. |
| US07907932B2 |
Operations method for providing wireless communication services
The present invention is directed to an improved operations method for a wireless communication system. The improved business method, operations method, network and system of the present invention includes the steps of delivering cellular services to the mass market, reducing peak capacity, increasing overall capacity utilization, improving capital utilization, providing an “all-you-can-eat” pricing model, and designing capacity based upon where the users live, work, and play. |
| US07907931B2 |
Portable communications device
A portable communications device (1) for wearing by a person and for use in conjunction with a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone (3) for communicating a signal indicative of the existence of an emergency to a base station comprises a pendant shaped housing (5) within which is located a first interface circuit (12) which comprises a pair of activating switches (14) operable by panic buttons (15) for facilitating inputting a signal to the device (1) indicative of the existence of an emergency. A microprocessor (18) reads signals from the first interface circuit (12) and reads the last determined position of the device from a GPS positioning circuit (8) in the housing (5), and also reads the identity of the device (1), a phone number of the base station to which a message indicative of the emergency is to be communicated and a message indicative of the emergency from a programmable memory (10). The microprocessor (18) prepares an activating signal which comprises the identity and position of the device (1), the phone number of the base station and the message, which is transmitted with a time label through a Bluetooth transmitter/receiver (20) to the mobile phone (3). The activating signal activates the mobile phone (3) to relay the data contained in the activating signal to the base station. |
| US07907930B2 |
Emergency alert system distribution to mobile wireless towers
In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining an object associated with a host server and determining if the object includes an indication that identifies a first zone. The method also includes identifying a message contained in the object if the object includes the indication that identifies the first zone, and creating a formatted notification if the object includes the indication. The formatted notification includes a representation of the message. Finally, the method includes broadcasting the formatted notification within a network. |
| US07907927B2 |
Merged high pass filtering and down-converting mixer circuit
According to one exemplary embodiment, a mixer circuit comprises first and second switching branches driven by a local oscillator and an input radio frequency (RF) signal. The mixer circuit further comprises at least one capacitor coupled between the first and second switching branches for high-pass filtering of a down-converted output signal of the mixer circuit. In one embodiment, each switching branch comprises a respective mixer transistor, for example, a field effect transistor (FET). In one embodiment, the mixer circuit includes an inductor to reduce or eliminate the effects of parasitic capacitors at a resonance frequency selected to approximately match a desired RF signal frequency. In one embodiment, an inductor at resonance with parasitic capacitors produces a band pass filter for an input RF signal. |
| US07907925B2 |
Method and system for blocker attenuation using multiple receive antennas
Methods and systems for blocker attenuation using multiple receive antennas are disclosed. In this regard, a plurality of signals may be received via a corresponding plurality of antennas and a corresponding plurality of interference-suppressed signals may be generated. The interference-suppressed signals may be generated by adjusting a gain and phase of the plurality of received signals to generate a corresponding plurality of adjusted signals, and combining the corresponding plurality of adjusted signals, respectively, with the plurality of received. The gain of the received signals may be adjusted based on a wide bandwidth signal strength measurement and a narrow bandwidth signal strength measurement. A center frequency of one or more of the plurality of antennas may be adjusted based on received signals strength measurements. A gain and/or phase adjustment of each one of said received signals may be independent of gain and/or phase adjustments of other ones of the receive signals. |
| US07907924B2 |
Semiconductor device interconnecting unit, semiconductor device and high-frequency module having a millimeter wave band
A semiconductor device interconnecting unit configured to input/output a high-frequency signal having a millimeter wave band to/from a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor or device interconnecting unit includes a part of a band pass filter configured to pass therethrough the high-frequency signal having a millimeter wave band by using an LC resonance circuit, and a remainder of the band pass filter, wherein the part and the remainder are separated from each other. The part is provided inside the semiconductor device, and the remainder is provided outside the semiconductor device. The part and the remainder include capacitors having variable capacitors added thereto, respectively. A pass band for the high-frequency signal having a millimeter wave band is changed by changing capacitance values of the variable capacitors. |
| US07907921B2 |
Wireless transmitter having multiple power amplifier drivers (PADs) that are selectively biased to provide substantially linear magnitude and phase responses
A method and apparatus are provided for enabling a transmitter to have a substantially linear magnitude response and a substantially linear phase response. The transmitter includes first and second power amplifier drivers (PADs) having respective first and second non-linear phase responses. The first non-linear phase response is based on a first bias applied to the first PAD, and the second non-linear phase response is based on a second bias applied to the second PAD. The first and second PADs are coupled in parallel to provide a combined substantially linear phase response. According to an embodiment, the first and second PADs have respective first and second average input capacitances. Signal swings about the first and second biases vary the respective first and second average input capacitances, which may be combined to provide a combined average input capacitance that is substantially insensitive to the signal swings about the first and second biases. |
| US07907918B2 |
Portable terminal device, display method for list of participants used therein, and program for the same
A participant list display method is provided in which, when referring to status and details of a participant with many utterances, it is possible to reduce effort required in page turning or scrolling operations. In step S1 a mobile telephone performs utterance processing for a participant in PTT communication, to perform PTT starting processing; in step S2, a variable is acquired in working memory for counting number of utterances for each participant; and in step S3 a state of waiting to obtain a right to speak is entered. In the mobile telephone, from the state of waiting to obtain the right to speak, when a party who wishes to speak obtains the right to speak in step S4, a count of number of utterances for the participant that is stored in the working memory is incremented in step S5. The mobile telephone refers to the number of utterances for each participant stored in the working memory, and sorts the list of participants displayed on the display unit, in order of number of utterances. |
| US07907913B2 |
Apparatus and method for determining beamforming vector in a codebook-based beamforming system
An apparatus and method for determining a beamforming vector in a codebook-based transmission beamforming system are provided. In a feedback method for a receiver in a codebook-based transmission beamforming system, forthcoming channel values for a forthcoming period are generated using M present and previous channel estimates. Effective channel gains for all transmission beamforming vectors included in a codebook are calculated using the forthcoming channel values. A codebook index corresponding to the maximum effective channel gains is fed back to a transmitter. |
| US07907910B2 |
Method and apparatus to vary power level of training signal
Briefly, a method to transmit over an uplink channel a training signal having a power level which varies according to a parameter related to downlink channel characteristics is provided. Communication system that includes communication devices to transmit and receive the training signal is further provided. |
| US07907909B2 |
Method and system for radio frequency (RF) group delay compensation in a broadcast system
A radio device operable to compensate for a large RF filter group delay variation is provided. The radio device includes a receiving unit operable to receive an OFDM signal that comprises pilot subcarrier signals and data subcarrier signals. The radio device further includes a group delay (GD) compensator, operable in frequency domain, and configured to perform phase rotation to correct a group delay individually on tones of an OFDM symbol. The phase rotation is calculated as a function of the phase shifts of the received pilot subcarrier signals and subcarrier index. |
| US07907903B2 |
Bluetooth hands-free car kit
A bluetooth hands-free car kit includes a hands-free cell phone/PDA holder electrically connected to the internal electric circuit of a car for receiving and amplifying sound, a bluetooth adapter insertable into the hands-free cell phone/PDA holder for wireless communication with a cell phone/PDA through a bluetooth communication technique, and an audio transmitter receiver device insertable into the bluetooth adapter for receiving and transmitting audio signals. The bluetooth adapter has a pivoted clip biased by a spring member for engaging a retaining notch on one lateral side of the audio transmitter receiver device to lock the audio transmitter receiver device to the bluetooth adapter upon insertion of the audio transmitter receiver device into the bluetooth adapter. |
| US07907901B1 |
Method and apparatus to enable pairing of devices
A method and apparatus to provide easier pairing based on motion data is described. The method of pairing two devices comprises receiving a signal to enter into pairing mode, and detecting a motion indicating a pairing. The method further comprises establishing a secure connection with another device for pairing, the secure connection established based on the motion, and exchanging data for pairing. |
| US07907897B2 |
Data carrier with modification means for modifying the load period
In a data carrier (1), there are provided modification means (19) for modifying, as a function of the distance between the data carrier (1) and the base station (4), the ratio of the duration of a load period (TB) to the duration of an off-load period (TE), at which ratio the data carrier (1) load-modulates the electromagnetic field (HF) generated by a base station (4). |
| US07907888B2 |
Mobile jamming attack method in wireless sensor network and method defending the same
The present invention relates to a mobile jamming attack method applied in a wireless sensor network (WSN) and method defending the same. The mobile jamming attack method is a power exhaustion denial-of-service attack, possesses mobility and self-learning capability and is unable to be defended with existing defending scheme due to its attack to the routing layer of the WSN; the mobile jamming defending method employs multi-topologies scheme to defend the mobile jamming attack so that the affected area is reduced, the base station can still receive reply packets under the attack, and the jammed area can be roughly located and the track of the mobile jammer can be traced. |
| US07907884B2 |
Cleaning member and image forming apparatus
A cleaning member is elastically forced on a bearing surface, for cleaning off particles from the bearing surface by a movement of the bearing surface relative to the cleaning member. In particular, the cleaning member has first and second portions capable of forming first and second ramps having first and second acute internal angles on upstream and downstream sides of a contact region with respect to a moving direction of the bearing surface, respectively, the contact region being defined between the cleaning member and the bearing surface when the cleaning member is forced on the bearing surface. |
| US07907882B2 |
Image heating apparatus
An image heating apparatus includes a coil for generating magnetic flux; a rotatable heat generating member, having an electroconductive layer which generates heat by the magnetic flux, for heating an image on a recording material, wherein the coil has a length longer than that of the heat generating member with respect to a rotational axis direction of the heat generating member; and a magnetic member, provided oppositely to the coil at an end position of the heat generating member, having AC magnetic permeability of 1000 or more at 100 kHz. |
| US07907878B2 |
Developing roller and imaging apparatus using the same
A developing roller includes an ultraviolet-curing type resin layer and using a carbon-based electrically conducting agent for giving an electrical conductivity to the resin layer, as well as an imaging apparatus using the same. The developing roller 1 includes a shaft member 2 of a metal pipe and a resin layer 4. The resin layer 4 is a resin having fine particles dispersed therein, wherein the ratio a/b of average particle size of fine particles a to total thickness of resin layers b is greater than 2.0 and less than or equal to 5.0. |
| US07907877B2 |
Developing device, image forming apparatus, and image forming system
A developing device has a rotatable toner bearing member that bears toner having a particulate external additive externally added to core particles. Projecting sections are arranged in a regular manner on a surface of the toner bearing member. A longitudinal direction of a regulation member runs along an axial direction of the toner bearing member, and a leading edge of the regulation member in lateral and thickness directions faces an upstream side in a rotating direction of the toner bearing member. A relationship among the volume mean toner particle size A, the volume mean external additive particle size B, the ten-point average protrusion roughness. C, and the distance D between the leading edge and projecting sections is C |
| US07907872B2 |
Imprinting apparatus and an image formation apparatus
An imprinting unit is disclosed where a driving current provided to a driving motor is temporarily increased from normal operations in sync with a shock generated when a recording medium enters and leaves a nip. |
| US07907870B2 |
Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus
A fixing apparatus includes a magnetic-field generating part that generates a magnetic field, a fixing rotating body having a heat generating layer that generates heat by an electromagnetic induction action of the magnetic field, a pressurizing member that applies pressure to an outer circumferential surface of the fixing rotating body, a heating member that is arranged in contact with an inner side of the fixing rotating body so as be opposed to the magnetic-field generating part, and heats the fixing rotating body, and a temperature sensing part that is located within a region where the fixing rotating body is opposed to the magnetic-field generating part and where the fixing rotating body is in contact with the heating member, and senses a temperature of the fixing rotating body. |
| US07907869B2 |
Charging brush unit, charging device, and image forming apparatus
A charging brush unit includes a brush and a conductive holder. The brush includes a plurality of flexible conductive fibers. The plurality of flexible conductive fibers is supplied with a charging bias to generate electrical discharge between a top of the plurality of conductive fibers and a latent image carrier across a gap formed between the top of the plurality of conductive fibers and the latent image carrier. The gap is provided with an electrode. The electrode includes a plurality of openings opposing the top of the plurality of conductive fibers and is supplied with a bias different from the charging bias applied to the plurality of conductive fibers. The conductive holder holds the brush. |
| US07907868B2 |
Image-forming device and process cartridge configured to be installed in and removed therefrom
An image forming device includes a casing having a guide, image forming portions configured to form images on a recording medium, and a drawer configured to be installed in and withdrawn from the casing along the guide in a first direction for installation and in a second direction for withdrawal opposite the first direction. The drawer may include a housing configured to house each image forming portion, a projecting portion coupled to the housing and protruding in the first direction, and a support portion coupled to the projecting portion. An engagement of the support portion with the guide regulates movement of the drawer upward or downward during installation and withdrawal. |
| US07907863B2 |
Image forming apparatus with a writing unit
An image forming apparatus according to the present invention can include an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet material having a memory capable of storing information, and a writing unit that is configured to send next use information to the memory, the next use information based on a current image formation on the sheet material by the image forming unit, the next use information usable in a next image formation. |
| US07907861B2 |
Image heating apparatus for heating an image on a recording material to different temperatures in different modes
An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member for heating, in a nip, an image on a recording material; a heater for heating the image heating member; a cooling device for cooling the image heating member, wherein when a target temperature of the image heating member is changed to a low temperature which is lower than the target temperature, the apparatus is operable in a mode wherein a temperature of the image heating member is lowered by the cooling device to a transition temperature which is lower than the low temperature, and then, the temperature of the image heating member is raised by the heater to the low temperature. |
| US07907859B2 |
Method and apparatus for automatically adjusting nip width based on a scanned nip image on ultraviolet (UV))-sensitive media in an image production device
A method and apparatus for automatically adjusting nip width based on a scanned nip print image on ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive media in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a signal to generate a nip print, automatically inserting a sheet of UV-sensitive media into a fuser nip in the image production device, pausing the sheet of UV-sensitive media in the fuser nip for a predetermined time period, illuminating the UV-sensitive media with ultraviolet light to generate a nip print, scanning the generated nip print, determining if a nip width adjustment is required based on the scanned nip print, and if it is determined that a nip width adjustment is required based on the scanned nip print, adjusting the nip width using a nip width adjustment device. |
| US07907857B2 |
Hard imaging methods and hard imaging devices
Hard imaging methods and hard imaging devices are described. According to one embodiment, a hard imaging method includes forming a plurality of latent images, using a development assembly, developing the latent images using a liquid marking agent, transporting the liquid marking agent relative to the development assembly during the developing, and performing a bubble reduction operation to reduce a presence of bubbles in the liquid marking agent during the developing and transporting compared with not performing the bubble reduction operation. Additional embodiments are described in the disclosure. |
| US07907854B2 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method
An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a charging member, a voltage applying unit that applies at least one of voltage of a DC component and voltage of an AC component to the charging member, a capacitance unit connected to a superposition point for the DC component and the AC component, a DC current measuring unit that measures the value of DC current passed from the charging member to the photoconductor, a capacitance measuring unit that measures the electrostatic charge amount of current coming into the capacitance unit, and a control unit that integrates the DC current value measured by the DC current measuring unit with time for which the voltage is applied to the photoconductor and calculates a charge amount corresponding to the thickness of the photosensitive thin film by subtracting the electrostatic charge amount measured by the capacitance measuring unit from the result of integration. |
| US07907853B2 |
Image forming apparatus executing calibration and service person call
An image forming apparatus includes a condition determining device that calculates a deviation amount of image data from a normal condition and determines if the image forming apparatus is in an abnormal condition. An abnormal section specifying device specifies an abnormal section in the image forming apparatus based on a condition of the image forming apparatus. An image processing device executes image processing for abnormal use in accordance with an output of the abnormal section specifying device when the image data condition determining device determines that the image forming apparatus is in an abnormal condition. A service person call output device outputs a service person call signal indicative of calling a service person to a center when the image data condition determining device determines that the image forming apparatus is in an abnormal condition. |
| US07907852B2 |
Optical transmitter circuit
A first peaking current generating section generates a first peaking current in synchronism with the transitions of a digital signal, being positive at the rising edge and negative at the falling edge. A second peaking current generating section generates a second peaking current in synchronism with the transitions of the digital signal, being negative at the rising edge and positive at the falling edge. A first light emitting element driving section produces a first driving current obtained by combining together a signal amplitude current according to the amplitude of the digital signal and a first peaking current. A second light emitting element driving section produces a second driving current obtained by combining together the signal amplitude current according to the amplitude of the digital signal and a second peaking current. Then, the first and second light emitting element driving sections and drive the light emitting element by using a driving current obtained by subtracting the first driving current from the second driving current. |
| US07907850B2 |
Optical communication device and quantum key distribution system using the same
An optical communication apparatus that can perform stable intensity and phase modulation on an optical pulse at high speed is provided, as well as a quantum key distribution system using the apparatus. Using multilevel signals for the electric signals (RF1, RF2) to be applied to two arms of a two-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator, phase modulation is performed on an optical pulse in accordance with the average of the levels of the signals (RF1, RF2), and intensity modulation is performed on the optical pulse in accordance with the voltage difference between the signals (RF1, RF2), whereby stable high-speed multilevel modulation can be realized. The cryptographic key generation rate in a decoy quantum key distribution system is enhanced. |
| US07907848B1 |
Semiconductor photonoic nano communication link method
An optical signal low energy method for coupling electrical signals on-chip between component circuits of for example a CMOS circuit array. The described coupling method employs infrared signals communicated along a nano-scale resonant semiconductor waveguide between for example PIN diode signal transducers. The coupling may employ an electrically pumped laser, an electro absorption modulator and a photodetector all for typically the 1.5 to 2.0 micrometer spectral region with each formed using for example PIN heterodiode semiconductor devices. Each of these three devices includes active semiconductor crystal material situated in a resonator within a strip waveguide. The resonator is defined by two fabricated mirrors having a tapered location one dimensional photonic crystal lattice of oxide hole or slot apertures. Each semiconductor device is for example a heterodiode pumped or controlled by laterally disposed wings enclosing the resonator to form a lateral PIN structure for current injection or high E-field generation. CMOS compatible ten gigabit per second signals of low energy use per transmitted bit are achieved. |
| US07907846B2 |
Electrooptical coupling device
The invention relates to a device for coupling electrical data lines, especially a bus system, to a modular valve station which comprises a plurality of valve modules. The coupling device comprises a coupling module that can be connected to the electrical data lines for converting the electrical signals of the data lines to optical signals, and a transceiver module for data communication with the valve modules which communicates with the electrical coupling module by optical means and can be coupled to the valve module on the input side. |
| US07907843B2 |
Technique of identifying a defective subscriber device in a point-to-multipoint network without stopping normal subscriber devices
In a point-to-multipoint network of an optical line terminal (OLT) and multiple optical network units (ONUS) wherein each ONU is enabled to send a signal only within a time period enabled for the ONU, the OLT (or a system installed therein) identifies a defective one of the ONUs. For each of a given series of time periods, the OLT measures an optical reception level of an optical fiber signal in the time period. The OLT stores, in advance, in a table at least the reception level of a received signal from each ONU in association with the ONU. The reception level is measured in a normal state where signals from the ONUs are exclusively received. For each of the given series of time periods, the OLT decides whether a signal from one of the ONUs associated with the time period is exclusively received with no collision with any other signal. If the signal from an ONU associated with the time period is not exclusively received, the OLT identifies the defective ONU based on a measured optical reception level for the time period, a stored reception level of an ONU stored in the table and associated with the time period and the table. |
| US07907836B2 |
Imaging apparatus
An imaging apparatus whose posture is easily adjustable is provided. The imaging apparatus is configured to include an inclination detector detecting a degree of inclination of one of the imaging apparatus and an image captured by the imaging apparatus relative to a horizontal direction orthogonal to a direction of gravity; a display unit; a first inclination indicator unit allowing the display unit to display an indicator to indicate the degree of inclination according to a detection result from the inclination detector; a second inclination indicator unit notifying via sound according to a detection result from the inclination detector that the degree of inclination is over a predetermined value; and a selector unit allowing at least one of the first and second inclination indicator units to operate. |
| US07907830B2 |
Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data. |
| US07907824B2 |
Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data. |
| US07907818B2 |
Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data. |
| US07907817B2 |
Information storage medium and information recording/playback system
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data. |
| US07907809B2 |
Ultra-low refractive index high surface area nanoparticulate films and nanoparticles
Nanoparticles having a mean particle size of less than about 25 nanometers and a mean pore size of less than 10 nanometers, and a mean surface area of at least 500 m2/g; nanoporous films of such nanoparticles; and composites and devices containing such nanoparticles and nanoporous films. |
| US07907806B2 |
Optical mixer
When a waveguide of second signal light outputted from a first optical coupler intersects a waveguide of first local light outputted from a second optical coupler, a waveguide of a first signal light outputted from the first optical coupler and a waveguide of a second local light outputted from the second optical coupler are each provided with a loss compensation intersecting waveguide that compensates for loss that occurs when the waveguide of the second signal light outputted from the first optical coupler intersects the waveguide of the first local light outputted from the second optical coupler. |
| US07907805B2 |
Optical waveguide for touch panel and touch panel using the same
An optical waveguide for a touch panel which eliminates the need for alignment between the optical waveguide and a lens device, and to provide a touch panel using the same. An optical waveguide for a touch panel is provided in which end surfaces of cores 3A for emitting light beams are positioned in a first side portion of a display screen of a display, and end surfaces of cores 3B for receiving the light beams are positioned in a second side portion of the display screen of the display. Edge portions of an over cladding layer 4 for covering the end surfaces of the cores 3A for emitting the light beams and the end surfaces of the cores 3B for receiving the light beams are formed as lens portions 40A, 40B having spherical lens surfaces 41A, 41B. |
| US07907804B2 |
Elimination of stitch artifacts in a planar illumination area
In one aspect, a planar illumination area includes two light-guide elements, each with an out-coupling region. At least a portion of each out-coupling region overlaps with at least a portion of the other. The overlapping region emits a substantially uniform light output power. |
| US07907802B2 |
Optical transmission module
An optical module has an optical element which transmits or receives an optical signal, an optical transmission line optically coupled to the optical element to transmit the optical signal, and a board to which at least one end portion including an incident and outgoing port of the optical signal in the optical transmission line and the optical element are fixed. A wall facing a side surface of the optical transmission line is provided in the board. A first space is provided between the board and the optical transmission line, and a second space is provided between the side surface of the optical transmission line and the wall. The first and second spaces are filled with a bonding agent. |
| US07907799B2 |
Phase shift optical loop spectroscopy
The invention provides a method and apparatus for measuring one or more optical properties, such as absorbance and refractive index, of a test medium such as a gas, a liquid, or solid material. The method comprises providing a passive optical waveguide loop comprising the test medium, launching in the optical loop an intensity-modulated light at a reference phase, detecting a phase of said light along the optical waveguide loop, and comparing the detected phase of said light along the loop with the reference phase, wherein the comparison provides information about one or more optical properties of the test medium. |
| US07907797B2 |
Image processing apparatus
This invention provides an efficient image processing apparatus having merits as the handiness and visibility of paper and the multi-functionality of a computer, enabling trial and error with paper media without capturing all images previously. The apparatus comprises an image capturing unit for electronically capturing paper images by a photo-sensor; an image editing unit for editing such as clipping of partial image or scaling; a user interface unit for receiving user's commands regarding the image editing; an image memory unit for storing; and an image display unit for displaying the images in the image memory unit. An image displaying function is provided on a transparent plane. Photo-sensors are on the plane, and image capturing unit and image display unit are integrated to form an image capturing and display unit. A user gains an operability compatible with human instinct, ignoring a difference between paper and electronic medium. |
| US07907794B2 |
Method for aligning a modified document and an original document for comparison and difference highlighting
A method for aligning a modified document and an original document is provided according to an aspect of the present invention. The method includes a step of receiving a first bitmap representative of the modified document, including a first anchor. Additionally, a second bitmap representative of the original document including a second anchor is received. The method also includes the step of deriving a set of first vertex coordinates of the first anchor, and a set of second vertex coordinates of the second anchor. The method further includes the step of transforming the first bitmap to a common reference based upon the first set of vertex coordinates, and the step of transforming the second bitmap to the common reference based upon the second set of vertex coordinates. |
| US07907791B2 |
Processing of mosaic images
Imaging apparatus includes a mosaic image sensor, which is configured to generate a stream of input pixel values belonging to a plurality of input sub-images, each sub-image responsive to light of a different, respective color that is incident on the mosaic image sensor. An image restoration engine (IRE) is coupled to receive and digitally filter the input pixel values in each of the input sub-images so as to generate a corresponding plurality of enhanced output sub-images, and to extract auxiliary information from the input sub-images prior to digitally filtering the input pixel values. An image signal processor (ISP) is coupled to receive the plurality of the output sub-images and the auxiliary information from the IRE, and to combine the output sub-images in order to generate a color video output image while enhancing the color video output image using the auxiliary information. |
| US07907788B2 |
Resolution conversion method
Disclosed is a resolution conversion method, which makes it possible not only to acquire a diagonal edge that is smoothed without causing any unevenness all over the image, but also to stably reproduce a thin line having a thickness corresponding to its original thickness, irrespective of an integer multiple or a non-integer multiple of the magnification factor to be employed for enlarging an original image, when the high-resolution conversion processing is applied to a binary image represented in the dot-matrix format. An operation for integrating the interpolation value with respect to the area of the input pixel is implemented after the output pixel area is shifted in a horizontal direction and/or a vertical direction so as to make the output pixel area depart from a center of the interpolation area, when the output pixel area is included in a single interpolation area in the horizontal direction and/or a vertical direction. |
| US07907781B2 |
System and method for determining geometries of scenes
A method and an apparatus determines a geometry of a scene by projecting one or more output image into the scene, in which a time to project the output image is t1. Input images are acquired of the scene, in which a time to acquire each input image is t2, and in which t1>t2 and in which the input image includes a distinguishable stripe of pixels with an edge due to t1>t2. An amount of distortion of the edge is measured from a straight line to determine a geometry of the scene. |
| US07907776B2 |
Color level graphical user interface
A graphical user interface for performing color correction and methods for implementing the color correction are disclosed. The graphical user interface allows a user to adjust the colorspace of the pixels in the image. In one embodiment, a color adjustment pad allows the user to push the pixels from a particular luminance level a desired magnitude towards a desired hue. Pixels from other luminance levels are affected proportionally. The graphical user interface further allows a user to adjust the luminance of the pixels in the image. A luminance adjustment slider allows the user to adjust the luminance of pixels from a selected luminance level by a relative amount. Pixels from other luminance levels have their luminance are affected in a manner proportional to a difference between the selected luminance level value and the luminance value of the other pixel. |
| US07907775B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program
A hemorrhage edge candidate area extraction section extracts a candidate area for the outline part of a hemorrhage area, based on an image signal of a medical image constituted by multiple color signals obtained by capturing an image of a living body. A feature quantity calculation section calculates a feature quantity of the hemorrhage area based on calculation of the amount of change in the image signal in a small area including the candidate area, among multiple small areas obtained by dividing the medical image. A hemorrhage edge determination section determines whether or not the candidate areas are the outline part of the hemorrhage area based on the feature quantity. |
| US07907771B2 |
Pattern data processing system, pattern data processing method, and pattern data processing program
A pattern data processing method comprising, obtaining pattern data on a mask pattern, determining whether a processing time for the mask pattern in a processing software is reduced by rotating the mask pattern by a predetermined angle than a case where the mask pattern is processed in the processing software without being rotated, obtaining pattern data on a rotated pattern formed by rotating the mask pattern by the predetermined angle in the case that the processing time is reduced, processing the pattern data on the rotated pattern by using the processing software, and causing the mask pattern to return to its original direction. |
| US07907766B2 |
Automatic coronary artery calcium detection and labeling system
Method and system for using segmentation and three-dimensional image-processing techniques of a method to create an automatic method to detect coronary artery calcification deposits and identify their location with respect to a major coronary artery. Finally, different scoring algorithms can be applied to generate calcium scores such as Agatston Janovitz, Mass, and Volume. A total score and a more detailed score can be generated based on the major arteries such as right coronary artery, left anterior descending artery, or left circumflex artery to be incorporated into the patient report. |
| US07907765B2 |
Focal plane tracking for optical microtomography
An optical tomography system for imaging an object of interest including a light source for illuminating the object of interest with a plurality of radiation beams. The object of interest is held within an object containing tube such that it is illuminated by the plurality of radiation beams to produce emerging radiation from the object containing tube, a detector array is located to receive the emerging radiation and produce imaging data used by a mechanism for tracking the object of interest. |
| US07907762B2 |
Method of creating a divergence transform for identifying a feature of interest in hyperspectral data
A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of Iterative Transformational Divergence in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the physical, chemical, or numerical properties of the object or its representation (such as images), combined with machine learning capabilities. Using the system and methods of the present invention, certain objects that appear indistinguishable from other objects to the eye or computer recognition systems, or are otherwise almost identical, generate radically different and statistically significant differences in the image describers (metrics) that can be easily measured. |
| US07907754B2 |
Biological detection device, fingerprint authentication device, and biological detection method
A further object of the present invention is to provide a biological detection device and the like capable of performing processing promptly. An input voltage with a predetermined frequency is output from an oscillating portion. By performing switching using an analog switch, the input voltage is output to an electrode via a first resistance portion. A first comparator detects an output voltage, compares the voltage with a first reference threshold stored in a storage portion, and outputs an output. Furthermore, by performing switching using the analog switch, an input voltage is output to the electrode via a second resistance portion. A second comparator detects an output voltage, compares the voltage with a second reference threshold, and outputs an output. A determination portion determines whether a test body is a living finger or a gummy finger in accordance with a combination of the values of the outputs. |
| US07907753B2 |
Access control system with symbol recognition
A video camera is located at a secure access point and is connected to a computer network. The camera is used as a conventional security camera and also provides automated assistance with access control. When an identity badge is presented to the camera by a person requesting access to the facility, a computer that is monitoring the camera recognizes a bar code or other symbols on the badge and accesses a database to locate information associated with that identity badge. This information is then used to determine if the person should be granted access. |
| US07907749B2 |
Multi-stage watermarking process and system
A multi-stage watermarking system and process that creates a watermark specification which describes how to generate a watermark, generates a template specification which describes how to merge the watermark into a target document, generates the watermark based on the watermark specification, and merges the watermark into the target document based on the template specification to provide a watermarked document. |
| US07907748B2 |
Method for forming images, method for testing electronic devices; and test apparatus, test chamber and test system
The test system includes an electronic device comprising a camera for forming an image on a detector. A holographic element of the test system and the camera under test of the electronic device are arranged during testing to be placed at a predetermined distance from one another where the holographic element is unfocused in the image field of the camera under test, and the holographic element comprises a holographic test image that is arranged to form a focused image on the detector of the camera operating as desired. |
| US07907744B2 |
Capacitive vibration sensor and method for manufacturing same
A vibration electrode plate 112 is formed on the upper face of a silicon substrate 32 with an insulating coat film 35 interposed in between. An opposing electrode plate 113 is placed on the vibration electrode plate 112 with an insulating coat film interposed in between, and acoustic holes 40 are opened through the opposing electrode plate 113. Etching holes 36 and 104, each having a semi-elliptical shape, are opened through the vibration electrode plate 112 and the opposing electrode plate 113 so as to face each other longitudinally. A concave section 37 having a truncated pyramid shape is formed in the upper face of the silicon substrate 32, by carrying out an etching process through the etching holes 36 and 104. The vibration electrode plate 112 is held in the silicon substrate 32 by a holding portion 112 placed between the etching holes 36. |
| US07907742B2 |
Exciter for directly vibrating board and speaker apparatus used the same
An exciter for directly vibrating a board treated for dustproofing and heat dissipation, provided with a vibrator comprised of an outer yoke, a permanent magnet, and inner yoke, having a coil fixed inserted between the outer yoke and inner yoke, and having a coupler member for coupling the exciter to the surface of the board. The coupler member and vibrator are connected by an elastic member. A closed space is formed in the exciter by providing a sealing member between the outer yoke and coupler member. A through hole is formed in the outer yoke. Due to the vibration of the vibrator at the time of coil excitation, air convection is caused through the through hole between the closed space and the outside space. |
| US07907741B2 |
Recording device and adjustment method of recording device
A recording device obtains audio signals by plural microphones and records the audio signals on a recording medium. The device includes plural incorporated microphones for obtaining the audio signals; correction circuits for changing characteristics by correction parameters for the incorporated microphones, for correcting characteristics of the audio signals obtained by the incorporated microphones to a reference characteristic, and for outputting the corrected audio signals; and a recording device for recording the corrected audio signals output from the circuits on the recording medium. When an audio signal obtained by an external microphone is input to the correction circuits and recorded on the recording medium instead of all the audio signals or a part of the audio signals obtained by the plural incorporated microphones, the characteristic of a corresponding correction circuit is set by a correction parameter for the external microphone, the parameter is obtained from the external microphone, the audio signal obtained by the external microphone is corrected to the reference characteristic to produce a different corrected audio signal, and the different corrected audio signal is output. |
| US07907740B2 |
Electrostatic ultrasonic transducer drive control method, electrostatic ultrasonic transducer, ultrasonic speaker using the same, audio signal reproduction method, ultra-directional acoustic system, and display device
A Push-Pull-type electrostatic ultrasonic transducer includes a first electrode having a through hole, a second electrode having a through hole making a pair with the through hole of the first electrode, and a vibration film held between a pair of electrodes composed of the first and the second electrodes and having a conductive layer to which a direct-current bias voltage is applied, and holds the pair of electrodes and the vibration film. Assuming that λ is the wavelength of the carrier wave having a frequency shifted as a predetermined amount of frequency from the resonance frequency, which is the mechanical resonance frequency of the vibration film, the thickness t of each of the pair of electrodes is set to (λ/4)·n or roughly (λ/4)·n (where, λ is the wavelength of the ultrasonic wave, n is a positive odd number), and an alternating-current signal, which is a modulated wave obtained by modulating the carrier wave in the ultrasonic frequency band with a signal wave in an audible frequency band, is applied between the pair of electrodes. |
| US07907738B2 |
Speaker equalization tool
A computer readable medium containing program instructions for controlling a parametric equalizer is provided. Generally, a computer readable code is provided for displaying a composite equalization curve, wherein the composite equalization curve is formed from at least a first frequency filter with a first center frequency, a second frequency filter with a second center frequency, and a third frequency filter with a third center frequency. A computer readable code is provided for allowing a dragging movement of the first center frequency, the second center frequency, and the third center frequency. |
| US07907736B2 |
Acoustic correction apparatus
An acoustic correction apparatus processes a pair of left and right input signals to compensate for spatial distortion as a function of frequency when said input signals are reproduced through loudspeakers in a sound system. The sound-energy of the left and right input signals is separated and corrected in a first low-frequency range and a second high-frequency range. The resultant signals are recombined to create image-corrected audio signals having a desired sound-pressure response when reproduced by the loudspeakers in the sound system. The desired sound-pressure response creates an apparent sound image location with respect to a listener. The image-corrected signals can also be spatially-enhanced to broaden the apparent sound image and improve the low frequency characteristics of the sound when played on small loudspeakers. |
| US07907735B2 |
System and method of creating and sending broadcast and multicast data
A method of encrypting broadcast and multicast data communicated between two or more parties, each party having knowledge of a shared key, is provided. The key is calculated using values, some of which are communicated between the parties, so that the shared key is not itself transferred. Avoiding the transfer of the key offers several advantages over existing encryption methods. |
| US07907732B2 |
Radio frequency identification tag lock and key
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a radio frequency identification tag system includes a lock tag to secure an item or an area, and one or more key tags associated with the lock tag to allow access to the item or area or to otherwise validate the lock tag and key tag. A detector allows access or other validation when a valid key tag is determined to be present within a predetermined range of the lock tag. |
| US07907728B2 |
Method and system of transferring scrambled content
Method and system of transferring scrambled content from location to another. The method and system may include transferring the scrambled content without requiring the descrambling thereof. The method and system may be used to transfer live content, stored content, and the like. The content may relate to television programming and signaling, data, still images, audio, and the like. |
| US07907723B2 |
Device, system and method for fast secure message encryption without key distribution
One party sends a securely encrypted message to a second party. Each party chooses a secret message key for the message, which is never shared with or transmitted to any other party. The message is sent by means of three encrypted messages. The first encrypted message is sent from the sender to the receiver, and is encrypted by the sender's key. The second encrypted message is sent from the receiver back to the sender, and is encrypted by both the sender's key and then by the receiver's key. The third encrypted message is sent from the sender back to the receiver, and is encrypted by only the receiver's key following removal of the sender's key. Finally, the receiver decrypts the third message. The messages are sent in blocks. Encryption consists of multiplying each block of the message by a square matrix of the same size as the block, and decryption consists of multiplying by the inverse matrix. The key matrices are taken from one or more large commutative families of matrices. This commutativity allows the sender's keys to be removed even though the message block has been encrypted by the sender's key first and then the receiver's key. Two primary embodiments of the invention are disclosed, using one-sided and two-sided matrix multiplication, respectively. |
| US07907721B1 |
Headset with auxiliary input jacks(s) for cell phone and/or other devices
Headsets are used in variety of applications to facilitate one- or two-way audio communications between users and/or devices. The present inventor recognized that conventional headsets lack means for successfully integrating more than one audio source, despite their use in proximity to multiple sources of audio signals, such as cell phones, laptops, aircraft radios, and so forth. Accordingly, the present inventors devised one or more devices, circuits, and methods related to connection of at least two audio input signals to a headset. For example, in one embodiment, an active-noise-reduction (ANR) headset includes at least one auxiliary port for connection to an output of at least one device, such as a personal communications, computing, and/or entertainment device. This exemplary headset also includes a primary port for connection to a two-radio or public-address system and circuitry for automatically suppressing or muting the volume of an auxiliary input signal relative to that of a primary input signal. |
| US07907720B2 |
Test method for line equipment including a hybrid circuit and line equipment for its implementation
The invention relates to methods for testing analog telephone line equipment including, in particular to detect faults in their hybrid resistor arrays.It consists in isolating the equipment from the telephone line and then applying the normal ringing signal to it. If the resistor array is defective, the output logic signal of the off-hook/on-hook detector circuit comprises a succession of 0 and 1 at the frequency of the ringing signal, which indicates the fault.This makes it possible to eliminate the equipment test relay usually employed. |
| US07907706B2 |
Telephone network/computer network gateway
Some embodiments provide a computer network, a computing device coupled to the computer network, and a telephone coupled to the computer network and to a telephone line. The telephone may receive telephone call signals from the telephone line and transmit information associated with the telephone call signals to the computing device over the network. |
| US07907700B2 |
Soft X-ray generation apparatus and static elimination apparatus
The present invention aims to suppress calorific value and prolong a lifetime of an apparatus that generates soft X-rays. Thus, the present invention provides a static elimination apparatus that includes an emitter as an electron emitting portion and a target, in which a thin film formed of diamond particles each having a particle size of 2 nm to 100 nm is formed on a surface of the emitter. The thin film has a diamond XRD pattern in an XRD measurement and, in a Raman spectroscopic measurement, a ratio of an sp3 bonding component to an sp2 bonding component within the film of 2.5 to 2.7:1. When a DC voltage is applied to the emitter, with a threshold electric field intensity of 1 V/μm or less, electrons larger in number than the prior art are emitted from the emitter and moreover, a temperature of the emitter is hardly increased, thus obtaining a longer lifetime. |
| US07907699B2 |
Radiotherapeutic apparatus
A reference phantom includes CT-imageable detail together with light-reflective spheres. This item can be placed on a patient table in a known location, following which the diagnostic source can be activated to detect the phantom position relative to the isocentre and camera employed to detect the PSS position. A synthetic image of the phantom can be used for comparison with the CT dataset. This allows improved correlation of the source and the patient support, enable further steps to be taken in enhancing the clinical effectiveness of the apparatus. In-use variations of the isocentre location can be corrected in real time by adjustment of the patient support. Thus, as the isocentre moves, the patient can be moved so as to track the moving isocentre. The linac arm could also be designed differently, as the existing design constraint (that isocentre movement must be limited as far as possible) could potentially be relaxed in order to achieve other aims. |
| US07907697B2 |
System to estimate X-ray scatter
A system may include determination of a first scatter kernel based on a first energy, a material-equivalent radiological thickness and a first diameter, wherein the first scatter kernel is not a monotonically decreasing function of radial coordinate, determination of a second scatter kernel based on the first energy, the material-equivalent radiological thickness and a second diameter greater than the first diameter, determination of a third scatter kernel based on the first scatter kernel and the second scatter kernel, wherein the third scatter kernel is a monotonically decreasing function of radial coordinate, and estimation of scatter radiation within the projection image of the object based on the third scatter kernel. |
| US07907696B2 |
Shift register
A shift register includes a plurality of stages cascade-connected with each other. Each stage includes a pull-up circuit, a pull-up driving circuit, and a pull-down circuit. The pull-up circuit coupled to a first clock signal is used for providing an output signal. The pull-up driving circuit includes a control circuit and a first transistor. The control circuit has a gate coupled to a previous stage, and a drain coupled to a second clock signal. The first transistor includes a gate coupled to the source of the control circuit, a drain coupled to a driving end of the previous stage, and a source coupled to a first input end. The pull-down circuit pulls down voltage on the first input end. |
| US07907694B2 |
Adaptive control of clock spread to mitigate radio frequency interference
In some embodiments an adaptive clocking controller determines a clock spread of a system clock that would result in a lowest total interference between a channel received by a radio receiver and the system clock. A clock generator modifies a spread of the system clock in response to the determined clock spread. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US07907692B2 |
Joint demodulation filter for co-channel interference reduction and related methods
A joint demodulation filter for reducing co-channel interference between a desired signal and a co-channel interfering signal may include an input receiving samples of the desired signal and the co-channel interfering signal, a Viterbi decoder, and a first signal path between the input and the Viterbi decoder comprising a first filter. The joint demodulation filter may further include a second signal path between the input and the Viterbi decoder and comprising a linear finite impulse response (FIR) modeler for generating a channel impulse response estimate for the co-channel interfering signal. Additionally, a third signal path may be between the input and the Viterbi decoder and include a whitened matched filter for generating a channel impulse response estimate for the desired signal. |
| US07907690B2 |
Interference cancellation system and method using impulse response
An interference cancellation (IC) system and method for use within a 1553 communication system comprising a data bus carrying primary signals having a 1553 component and a non-1553 component are provided. The IC system has an input port, a 1553 data extraction block and an interference cancellation circuit with an interference measurement and a cancellation block. The interference measurement block receives 1553 decoded data from the 1553 data extraction block and a sampled primary signal via the input port, and, within an impulse response block, produces an interference signal based on a 1553 impulse response system model. The cancellation block subtracts the interference signal from the sampled primary signal and produces an output signal with the 1553 component substantially cancelled. Furthermore, an IC system using adaptive filtering techniques within the impulse response block is provided. The Least Mean Squares (LMS) algorithm can be used as an adaptive filter technique. |
| US07907689B2 |
Broadcast transmission with spatial spreading in a multi-antenna communication system
An access point in a multi-antenna system broadcasts data using spatial spreading to randomize an “effective” channel observed by each user terminal for each block of data symbols broadcast by the access point. At the access point, data is coded, interleaved, and modulated to obtain ND data symbol blocks to be broadcast in NM transmission spans, where ND≧1 and NM>1. The ND data symbol blocks are partitioned into NM data symbol subblocks, one subblock for each transmission span. A steering matrix is selected (e.g., in a deterministic or pseudo-random manner from among a set of L steering matrices) for each subblock. Each data symbol subblock is spatially processed with the steering matrix selected for that subblock to obtain transmit symbols, which are further processed and broadcast via NT transmit antennas and in one transmission span to user terminals within a broadcast coverage area. |
| US07907681B2 |
Circuit and method for differential signaling receiver
A receiver for a differential signal transmitted over a serial interface includes a squelch detector, a differential amplifier, a start pattern detector, an end pattern detector, and a controller. The squelch detector is configured to output a squelch signal when determining that the differential signal is present on the serial interface. The differential amplifier is configured to extract binary data from the differential signal. The start pattern detector is configured to indicate a first state when detecting a given start pattern in the binary data. The end pattern detector is configured to indicate a second state when detecting a given end pattern in the binary data. The controller is configured to activate the start pattern detector in response to the squelch signal. The controller is configured to validate the differential signal in the first state. The controller is configured to end receiving the differential signal in the second state. |
| US07907680B2 |
Tolerable synchronization circuit of RDS receiver
A Radio Data System (RDS) decoder circuit determines a subcarrier frequency utilizing only a 57 kHz RDS signal of an FM broadcast signal. The RDS decoder includes a zero-intermediate frequency (zero-IF) FM demodulator, a first mixer, a low-pass filter (LPF) unit, a shaping filter unit, a carrier recovery circuit, a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO), a symbol timing recovery circuit, an integrate and dump circuit, a slicer 280, and a differential decoder. The carrier recovery circuit includes a phase error detector and a digital loop filter (DLF). The symbol timing recovery circuit includes a zero-crossing detector, a phase detector and loop filter unit, and a counter. |
| US07907677B2 |
Open loop MU-MIMO
A unified open loop single-user/multiple-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system and method are disclosed. The system and method operate without use of channel state information feedback. Instead, the method utilizes channel quality indicator feedback to schedule users to spatial resource blocks. Both symmetric multi-user MIMO schemes (like 2×2 and 4×4) and asymmetric multi-user MIMO schemes are considered. CQI feedback and reduction proposals are also introduced. The method may be used in a proposed network topology. |
| US07907676B2 |
Adjustable dual-band link
A communication system utilizing an adjustable link has at least a first data transmission circuit including at least a first communication link circuit. The first communication link circuit has a baseband circuit and at least a passband circuit. The baseband circuit corresponds to a baseband sub-channel and the passband circuit corresponds to a passband sub-channel. The first communication link circuit also includes a circuit that distributes a first subset of a data stream having a first symbol rate to the baseband circuit and a second subset of the data stream having a second symbol rate to the passband circuit. The baseband sub-channel and the passband sub-channel are separated by an adjacent guardband of frequencies. The passband carrier frequency is adjusted to define the guardband and the guardband corresponds to a first notch in a channel response of a first communications channel. |
| US07907675B2 |
Radio communication system and radio communication method
In step 5a, a mobile-station measures a reception level and an interference level with the other base-stations, for a base-station considered as a communication partner. In step 5b, the mobile-station transmits a measurement result obtained in step 5a as control information to the base-station considered as the communication partner. In step 5c, the base-station determines a transmission format in a transmission format candidate group used for the transmission to the mobile-station, on the basis of the control information, etc. If the base-station discriminates that an area where the mobile-station considered as the transmission destination is located has a great influence since an interference level indicated by the control information received from the mobile-station exceeds a preset threshold value, the base-station determines use of a transmission format in which repetition is executed at more than two times after executing interleaving resistant to the interference, in the transmission format candidate group. |
| US07907671B2 |
Method and system for scaling a multi-channel signal
A communication unit is provided having a transmitter and a processor (103). The processor (103) receives information (105) representative of a configuration of physical channels (107). The processor (103) determines a scaling factor responsive to the information (105) and facilitates scaling a signal (109, 111) provided by a combination of the channels utilizing the scaling factor. The scaled signal (109, 111) is provided to the transmitter. |