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| US08312463B2 |
Resource management in computing scenarios
This patent application pertains to urgency-based resource management in computing scenarios. One implementation can identify processes competing for resources on a system. The implementation can evaluate an urgency of individual competing processes. The implementation can also objectively allocate the resources among the competing processes in a manner that reduces a total of the urgencies of the competing processes. |
| US08312461B2 |
System and method for discovering and protecting allocated resources in a shared virtualized I/O device
A system includes a virtualized I/O device coupled to one or more processing units. The virtualized I/O device includes a storage for storing a resource discovery table, and programmed I/O (PIO) configuration registers corresponding to hardware resources. A system processor may allocate the plurality of hardware resources to one or more functions, and to populate each entry of the resource discovery table for each function. The processing units may execute one or more processes. Given processing units may further execute OS instructions to allocate space for an I/O mapping of a PIO configuration space in a system memory, and to assign a function to a respective process. Processing units may execute a device driver instance associated with a given process to discover allocated resources by requesting access to the resource discovery table. The virtualized I/O device protects the resources by checking access requests against the resource discovery table. |
| US08312460B1 |
Allocating computer resources to workloads using utilization based probability distributions
A computer system allocates computer resources to workloads by generated plural requests per combination of workload and allocation period from probability distributions generated at least in part from utilization data. |
| US08312450B2 |
Widgetizing a web-based application
Method and system for widgetizing a web-based application are provided. An example system comprises a widgetizer trigger and a definition module. The widgetizer trigger may be configured to receive at a server computer system, from a web browser application running at a client computer system, a request to widgetize a web-based computer application to permit the computer application to be run as a desktop widget at the client computer system. The definition module may be configured to provide to the client computer application, in response to the request to widgetize, a definition file associated with the computer application, the definition file comprising a reference link to the computer application, the reference link including one or more parameters, the one or more parameters to instruct the computer application to generate output in a format suitable for use by a widget engine provided at the client computer system. |
| US08312448B2 |
Configuration to order software deployment and management
In a configuration-to-order (CTO) software provisioning system, software upgrade/downgrade support, software running change support, and software file server management are provided in part using microcode typically stored on a user computer BIOS. |
| US08312447B2 |
Managing updates using compiler and linker information
Generating a next build version of a software application using information generated during a previous build version at the compiler and linker levels. The information describes the structure and build decisions applied during creation of the previous build version. Generation of the current build version is modified based on the information to minimize the binary differences between the builds. In some embodiments, a linker arranges the contents during the previous build in anticipation of the current build. Further, the linker pads the previous build with unused address space to minimize relocation of the contents of the build. |
| US08312444B2 |
Method for optimizing memory modules for user-specific environments
A method for altering and preferably optimizing the performance of system memory of a computer system. The method includes identifying the motherboard and the memory module of the computer system, and then searching multiple SPD update files associated with multiple motherboards and containing data corresponding to physical and operational characteristics of multiple memory modules. From these SPD update files, a compatible SPD update file is identified that is compatible with the motherboard and contains data corresponding to physical and operational characteristics of the memory module. Thereafter, a software utility is used to erase pre-existing SPD data stored on the SPD circuit device and then write and verify installation of the data of the compatible SPD update file on the SPD circuit device. New SPD settings for the memory module are then enabled based on the data of the compatible SPD update file. |
| US08312437B2 |
Structured search in source code
Architecture allows a programmer to answer questions about the source code the programmer is authoring, questions that cannot be answered by other means. A searching mechanism is provided over a much more structured presentation of the source code. The architecture utilizes components that provide an intimate knowledge about the structure of the text, namely, the source code of some particular programming language. The search mechanism employs an abstract syntax tree representation of the code over which the search is conducted. The program source code (as edited by the programmer) is transformed into the abstract syntax tree to embody the structure of the program. If the syntax tree is provided in XML, for example, an XML search mechanism such as Xpath can be utilized to perform the actual searching. This tree is then queried, allowing richer searching criteria to be expressed (by virtue of the structured format of the tree). |
| US08312436B2 |
Automated software testing system
A system and method for testing an application includes modules capable of reading data from one or more data tables and providing the data as input to the application. The input data is correlated by test case, so that each module may provide different input data for each test case. The system also includes a controller that executes the modules. The controller is capable of determining an execution order for the modules by reading a flow table. The flow table correlates each test case with one or more modules, and further correlates each module within the test case with an execution order. The system may read results that the application generates in response to the input data, and correlate the results with the test case and module in a results table. The results table may also contain expected results, and the system may compare the actual results with the expected results to determine whether the application is functioning properly. |
| US08312432B2 |
Method of adjusting timing difference between pre-corrected source program and post-corrected source program, compiler and information processor
A method of adjusting a control timing accompanying a program correction of a machine language program executed by an information processor includes preparing a first machine language program obtained by compiling a first source program and generating a second intermediate language program from a second source program, the second source program being corrected from the first source program. Then, the method computes a first number of clock cycles, that is a number of clock cycles to execute a first machine language program obtained by compiling the first source program and computes a second number of clock cycles, that is a number of clock cycles to execute a second machine language program obtained by compiling the second source program, using the second intermediate language program, the second intermediate language program including an instruction that is uniquely correlated with a machine language instruction of the second machine language program. |
| US08312430B2 |
Guarding code check-in with test case execution results
A mechanism for providing a source code control system that employs test case execution results to mandate that software code have a specific level of quality for check-in to a central repository. A request to check-in a modified copy of a source code file to a repository is received, wherein the modified copy comprises changes to the source code file located in the repository. The modified copy of the source code file is placed in a quality check pending state in the repository. Responsive to an occurrence of a specific event or expiration of a set time period, applicable regression test cases are executed against the changes in the modified copy. A determination is made as to whether the regression test cases are successful. If the regression test cases are successful, the changes in the modified copy are committed to the source code file located in the repository. |
| US08312428B2 |
Method to recognize GUI object in globablized environment
A method and apparatus for identifying GUI widgets of software are provided, comprising: during runtime of the software, determining a GUI window object and an ID thereof; determining all GUI widgets or all GUI widgets belonging to a same type in the GUI window object; partitioning the display area of the GUI window object into a plurality of areas such that each of the GUI widgets is uniquely contained in one area; specifying a unique ID for each area containing a GUI widget; and, identifying a GUI widget using the ID of the GUI window object and the ID of the area where the GUI widget resides, or the ID of the GUI window object, the ID of the type to which the GUI widget belongs and the ID of the area where the GUI widget resides, as the ID property of the GUI widget. |
| US08312417B2 |
Using dynamic call graphs for creating state machines
A method and system capable of creating UML protocol state machine for classes and interfaces of a software, by instrumenting the software to obtain a call graph comprising classes and interfaces and respective values associated with class variables and interface variables; identifying particular classes and interfaces in the call graph; identifying call patterns from the call graph to generate a protocol state machine. |
| US08312416B2 |
Software model business process variant types
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to realize a software model are described. Process components are defined that characterize software implementing respective and distinct business processes and additionally define at least one process agent that enables communications between a business object associated with the corresponding process component and a business object associated with any other process component. Business Process Variant Types are also defined that associate one or more of the process agents for the corresponding process component so that selection of a process variant type causes the associated one or more process agents to be activated. |
| US08312409B1 |
Multi-threaded deterministic router
A method is described that includes: determining that nets of the circuit design comprise overlap, where the overlap indicates that at least two of the nets of the circuit design use a same routing resource; dividing the nets with overlap among a plurality of buckets, where for each bucket, a net of the bucket does not overlap any other net in the bucket; sequentially processing each bucket by unrouting and rerouting, via at least one processor, nets in the bucket; and storing routing information specifying routes for nets of the circuit design. |
| US08312407B2 |
Integration of open space/dummy metal at CAD for physical debug of new silicon
An access pad is used to provide access to a functional block of an integrated circuit (IC) device. The access pad is formed using dummy metal in an open space in a metallization level that is between a top metallization level and a base level on which the functional block is formed in the IC device. The access pad at the metallization level provides a contact to access an underlying circuit of the functional block so that the functional integrity of the functional block of the IC device can be verified during probing. |
| US08312405B1 |
Method of placing input/output blocks on an integrated circuit device
A method of placing input/output blocks on an integrated circuit device is described. The method may comprise receiving a circuit design having a plurality of input/output blocks to be placed at input/output sites of the integrated circuit device; modifying, for each input/output block of the circuit design, an input/output standard for the input/output block to include bus information; assigning, for each input/output block of the circuit design, an input/output site for the input/output block; and generating an input/output placement for the input/output blocks of the circuit design. A computer product is also disclosed. |
| US08312404B2 |
Multi-segments modeling bond wire interconnects with 2D simulations in high speed, high density wire bond packages
A method for modeling bond wires in an IC package for predicting noise effects generated by electromagnetic coupling in complex bond wire configurations. A look-up table of equivalent LC circuit models for the bond wires is generated that accurately predicts the effects of the bond wire circuitry of a signal transmission system. Switch and mirror techniques are applied to reduce the bond wire configurations necessary to simulate. The method includes: setting parameters related to the IC package layout of groups of bond wires; sub-dividing each group of bond wires into regions, each including a portion of the bond wire or its corresponding pad, and generating dissection planes for the regions consisting of the bond wires; performing a 3D simulation on the regions consisting of the corresponding pads, and a 2D simulation for each dissection plane; constructing equivalent circuit models for groups of bond wires and corresponding pads based on the 3D and 2D simulations results; inputting the equivalent circuit models into a circuit simulator to measure the noise effects; and modifying the layout geometry to meet noise targets. |
| US08312403B2 |
Method of achieving convergence of hold time error, device and program therefor
A method that achieves convergence of a hold time error in a relatively easy way without causing a setup time error even when the hold time error occurs in a large circuit, a device and a computer-readable storage medium storing a program therefor are provided. Group a first error path and a second error path in error paths which a hold time error occurs if there is a sharing path that shares its start point with the first error path and also shares its end point with the second error path, and insert a delay element without causing a setup time error per the grouped error paths. Convergence of a hold time error can be achieved without taking into account of a node that is not included in the group and there is no worry about causing a setup time error in a path that is not included in the group. |
| US08312401B2 |
Method for smart defect screen and sample
A method for smart defect review is disclosed. The method includes pre-processing a design layout into a plurality of layout based pattern groups, dividing the design layout into a plurality of cells, overlapping the cells belong to the same layout based pattern groups, extracting a plurality of defect data of all defects on a wafer, constructing a plurality of layout based defect composite pattern groups, executing layout pattern match to obtain each individual layout based defect composite pattern group, performing some defect sample selection rules to each layout based defect composite pattern group, sorting the layout based defect composite pattern groups into different defect types, obtaining a defect image file by reviewing different sample number of defect image from each layout based defect composite pattern group, and generating a defect pattern library or a defect yield prediction by performing a defect yield diagnosis to the defect image file. |
| US08312400B2 |
Verification supporting system
A verification target register to be verified is specified from a configuration of a verification target circuit, and patterns requiring verification are extracted as a coverage standard with regard to the specified verification target register. When the patterns are extracted, a DIRW matrix is prepared to indicate possibly occurring state transitions among four states Declare, Initialize, Read, and Write in the register included in the verification target circuit, and used to decide two coverage standards, a matrix coverage standard and an implementation coverage standard. |
| US08312397B2 |
Method for generating layout pattern of semiconductor device and layout pattern generating apparatus
In a layout pattern generating method, a specific rework cell used for edition is specified among rework cells and fill cells which are arranged in a semiconductor chip area and a specific pattern of a predetermined shape is generated in a wiring layer for the specific rework cell. A dummy wiring pattern is arranged in at least a part of the wiring layer of and the fill cell and un-specific rework cells among the rework cell other than the specific rework cell. The specific pattern is deleted from the wiring layer for the specifying rework cell. A wiring pattern is arranged in the wiring layer for the specific rework cell by wiring the specific rework cell as a logic cell. |
| US08312395B2 |
Automatic identification of systematic repeating defects in semiconductor production
A method includes capturing an image of the pattern using one or more scans across a surface of the partially completed wafer. The method includes processing information associated with the captured image of the pattern in a first format (e.g., pixel domain) into a second format, e.g., transform domain. The method includes determining defect information associated with the image of the pattern in the second format and processing the defect information (e.g., wafer identification, product identification, layer information, x-y die scanned) to identify at least one defect associated with a spatial location of a repeating pattern on the partially completed wafer provided by a reticle. The method includes identifying the reticle associated with the defect and a stepper associated with the reticle having the defect and ceasing operation of the stepper. The damaged reticle is replaced, and the process resumes using a replaced reticle. |
| US08312392B2 |
User interface gestures and methods for providing file sharing functionality
Methods and devices provide a gesture activated file sharing functionality enabling users to share files with other nearby computing devices. The file sharing functionality may include establishing wireless links with nearby devices and determine their relative locations. The computing device may detect a file sharing gesture and transmit files to or request files from a nearby device in response to the gesture. Base on gesture parameters, e.g., direction, speed and shape, and computing device attitude parameters, e.g., tilt angle and pointing direction, the computing device may identify a targeted device to which a file may be transmitted. The computing device may request user verification of the identified device and send a request to transmit files to the targeted device. The computing devices may transmit files using networks and addresses provided over the device-to-device communication links. |
| US08312391B2 |
Touch screen device and operating method thereof
A touch screen device and operating method thereof are provided. The touch screen device includes a screen including a display configured to display images thereon and a detector configured to detect a user touch and movement thereof, a storage device configured to store image information corresponding to the movement, and a controller configured to retrieve and display an image corresponding to the detected drag. The image may include at least one of a trace image representing a moving trajectory, an icon image, or a text image. |
| US08312388B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer readable medium
According to an aspect of the invention, an information processing apparatus includes an operation acquisition module, a thumbnail image creating module, and a thumbnail image storing control module. The operation acquisition module acquires an operation to an electronic file displayed on a display device, the operation to be acquired by the operation acquisition module being set previously. The thumbnail image creating module creates a thumbnail image corresponding to the acquired operation. The thumbnail image storing control module controls the thumbnail image so as to store the thumbnail image associated with specifying information by which the electronic file is specified. |
| US08312387B2 |
Target element zoom
Various embodiments provide a target element zoom component that is configured to perform a focal point zoom operation on a target element using an appropriate zoom factor. In at least some embodiments, the target element zoom component receives a request to perform a zoom operation at a focal point of a target element in a page displayed in a display area. In at least some embodiments, the request is received via two-finger tap input on a screen of a touch enabled device. The target element zoom component then determines an appropriate zoom factor for the zoom operation. Responsive to determining the appropriate zoom factor, the target element zoom component performs the zoom operation on the page using the appropriate zoom factor so that the target element remains within the display area with the focal point retained. |
| US08312379B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for editing using an interface
Methods, computer program products, and systems for editing using an interface for selecting and presenting editing tools are described. An input document is received for editing. A strategy for editing the document is identified. Editing tools are selected to edit the document, and the selected editing tools are presented. |
| US08312372B2 |
Method for confirming touch input
A system and method for confirming touch input with a touch-sensitive display that includes detecting contact with a touch-sensitive display at coordinates corresponding with a control. An animated rendering on the touch-sensitive display is displayed, and an action is performed at a conclusion of the animated rendering if contact with the touch-sensitive display at the coordinates corresponding with the control is detected throughout a time period extending from initiation to the conclusion of the animated rendering. |
| US08312369B2 |
Information display apparatus, method, and recording medium for saving and displaying note information in association with contextual information
An apparatus includes a context information extracting part that monitors a state of the apparatus and extracts context information indicative of the state; a note information saving part that saves note information in association with context information when the note information for displaying is registered; a context information similarity evaluating part that determines, for each piece of the note information, similarity between the context information extracted by the context information extracting part at a certain point in time and context information which is associated with note information saved by the note information saving part; and a note information display part that displays the note information saved in the note information saving part in a display mode in accordance with the determined similarity of the note information. |
| US08312366B2 |
Displaying multiple row and column header areas in a summary table
A data analysis program receives a selection of data fields defining multiple row header areas and/or multiple column header areas for display in a summary table. Data is read from a data source containing values for the data fields and transformed into summary level data for building the summary table. A display is rendered in the summary table for each of the multiple row header areas and column header areas defined, with the row header areas being displayed vertically adjacent to one another and the column header areas being displayed horizontally adjacent to one another. |
| US08312363B2 |
Residue generation
In one embodiment, circuitry is provided to generate a residue based at least in part upon operations and a data stream generated based at least in part upon a packet. The operations may include at least one iteration of at least one reduction operation including (a) multiplying a first value with at least one portion of the data stream, and (b) producing a reduction by adding at least one other portion of the data stream to a result of the multiplying. The operations may include at least one other reduction operation including (c) producing another result by multiplying with a second value at least one portion of another stream based at least in part upon the reduction, (d) producing a third value by adding at least one other portion of the another stream to the another result, and (e) producing the residue by performing a Barrett reduction based at least in part upon the third value. |
| US08312359B2 |
Branch-metric calibration using varying bandwidth values
In one embodiment, a signal processing receiver has a branch-metric calibration (BMC) unit that receives (i) sets of four hard-decision bits from a channel detector and (ii) a noise estimate. The BMC unit has two or more update blocks (e.g., tap-weight update and/or bias-compensation blocks) that generate updated parameters used by a branch-metric unit of the channel detector to improve channel detection. The two or more update blocks generate the updated parameters based on (i) the sets of four hard-decision bits, (ii) the noise estimate, and (iii) bandwidth values. The bandwidth values for at least two of the two or more update blocks are selected such that they are different from one another. Selecting different bandwidth values may reduce the bit-error rate for the receiver over the bit-error rate that may be achieved by selecting the bandwidth values to be the same as one another. |
| US08312348B2 |
Error correcting device and error correcting method
An error correcting device for correcting erroneous data included in data read out from a nonvolatile memory includes a determining unit that determines whether the data read out from the nonvolatile memory include an error beyond an error correcting capability of the error correcting device. When the determining unit has determined that an error beyond the error correcting capability exists, the error correcting device does not perform the correction of the error. |
| US08312345B1 |
Forward error correcting code encoder apparatus
In an error correcting code encoder apparatus, a first processor generates a first subset of codeword symbols based on original symbols. The first processor includes a first serial input to receive a first subset of the original symbols. A second processor generates a second subset of the codeword symbols based on the original symbols. The second processor includes a second serial input to receive a second subset of the original symbols. |
| US08312343B2 |
Systems and methods for re-using decoding parity in a detector circuit
Various approaches related to systems and methods for reusing decoding parity. |
| US08312342B2 |
Reconfigurable minimum operator
In one embodiment, a reconfigurable minimum operator has two five-bit non-reconfigurable minimum operators and is selectively configurable to operate in a five- or ten-bit mode. In five-bit mode, the first non-reconfigurable minimum operator determines whether a first five-bit message is less than a second five-bit message, and the second non-reconfigurable minimum operator determines whether a third five-bit message is less than a fourth five-bit message. In ten-bit mode, the first non-reconfigurable minimum operator determines whether a first half of a first ten-bit message is less than a first half of a second ten-bit message, and the second non-reconfigurable minimum operator determines whether a second half of the first ten-bit message is less than a second half of the second ten-bit message. The reconfigurable minimum operator determines whether the first ten-bit message is less than the second ten-bit message based on the comparisons of the first and second non-reconfigurable minimum operators. |
| US08312339B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for controlling automatic repeat request (ARQ) reset in broadband wireless communication system
An apparatus and method for controlling an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) reset in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) sender for receiving one or more data from a transmitter, a controller for determining whether the data is received in order and a memory for constituting selective reset information according to a result of the determining. The method includes receiving one or more data from a transmitter, determining whether the data is received in order and constituting selective reset information according to a result of the checking. Hence, the performance degradation can be prevented by shortening the TCP timeout and the break time (the time of no traffic transmission). |
| US08312335B2 |
Method and apparatus for correcting errors in a multiple subcarriers communication system using multiple antennas
A method for correcting errors in a multiple antenna system based on a plurality of sub-carriers and a transmitting/receiving apparatus supporting the same are disclosed. The method includes determining a phase shift based precoding matrix phase shifted at a predetermined phase angle, initially transmitting each sub-carrier symbol to a receiver in a packet unit by using the phase shift based precoding matrix, reconstructing the phase shift based precoding matrix to reduce a spatial multiplexing rate if a negative reception acknowledgement (NACK) is received from the receiver, and retransmitting the initially transmitted sub-carrier symbol by using the reconstructed phase shift based precoding matrix or by changing the phase shift based precoding matrix using offset information fed back from the receiver or random offset information. |
| US08312333B2 |
Substrate processing system and data retrieval method
An operation terminal, which includes an operation terminal, when connected to a group administration apparatus for administering a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses for processing substrates, generates a data acquisition request format that sets forth retrieval conditions and types of display items classified in individual tables for the substrate processing apparatuses, and then transmits it to the group administration apparatus. |
| US08312330B2 |
System and method for testing wireless devices
A system for testing a communication device includes a testing module, a measurement module, and a control module. The testing module transmits one or more first test signals based on a first test sequence. The measurement module acquires test data by receiving one or more second test signals that are based on the one or more first test signals. The control module initiates the first test sequence in response to receiving a start test signal from an analysis system. The control module transfers the test data to the analysis system in response to a transfer data request. The control module initiates a second test sequence while the analysis system is analyzing the test data. The testing module generates and transmits one or more third test signals based on the second sequence when the second test sequence has been initiated. |
| US08312328B2 |
Data transmission apparatus with information skew and redundant control information and method
Apparatus and methods provide at least redundant control information such as control symbols and control data over respective channels, such as differential lanes, and skew at least the redundant control information in time between the plurality of transmission circuits. Non-control information such as video and/or audio data may also be skewed. Corresponding receiver circuits and methods are also disclosed. |
| US08312323B2 |
Systems and methods for remote monitoring in a computer network and reporting a failed migration operation without accessing the data being moved
Systems and methods for providing automated problem reporting in elements used in conjunction with computer networks are disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of elements that perform data migration operations and a reporting manager or monitor agent which monitors the elements and data migration operations. Upon detection of hardware or software problems, the reporting manager or monitor agent automatically communicates with elements affected by the problem to gather selected hardware, software, and configuration information, analyzes the information to determine causes of the problem, and issues a problem report containing at least a portion of the selected information. The problem report is communicated to a remote monitor that does not possess access privileges to the elements, allowing automated, remote monitoring of the elements without compromising security of the computer network or elements. |
| US08312320B2 |
Intelligent field oil and gas field data acquisition, delivery, control, and retention based apparatus, program product and related methods
An apparatus, program product, and methods for data management, are provided. An exemplary apparatus includes one or more PDHMS surface units each having a serial interface to provide a continuous real-time data stream of captured data, a data storage medium for storing collected downhole process data during a downstream communication link failure, a controller configured to cause the PDHMS surface unit to store recovery data during the downstream communication failure, and a broadband interface to provide recovery file transmission of recovery data stored during the downstream communication link failure. The apparatus can also include a RTU configured to collect the continuous real-time data collected by the PDHMS surface unit and to transmit the collected data to a SCADA system, which can function as a time synchronization master for the RTU and PDHMS surface units, and which can forward the collected data to other systems. |
| US08312312B2 |
Data storage system using multiple communication protocols
A controller transmits a second protocol command to a target from among one or more switch devices. The second protocol command is a command which conforms to a second protocol type in which a connection established for transmitting a command to the target is broken during processing of the command by the target, and is defined as a command corresponding to a first protocol command, which is a command conforming to a first protocol type in which the connection remains established during processing of the command by the target. |
| US08312305B2 |
Power management for systems on a chip
A system for controlling a multitasking microprocessor system includes an interconnect, a plurality of processing units connected to the interconnect forming a single-source, single-sink flow network, wherein the plurality of processing units pass data between one another from the single-source to the single-sink, and a monitor connected to the interconnect for monitoring a portion of a resource consumed by each of the plurality of processing units and for controlling the plurality of processing units according to a predetermined budget for the resource to control a data overflow condition, wherein the monitor controls performance and power modes of the plurality of processing units. |
| US08312303B2 |
Power supply system for CPU where an old generation CPU conforms to a second standard and a new generation CPU conforms to a first standard
A power supply system for CPU is disclosed. The CPU includes a plurality of dynamic voltage identification (VID) pins, and the power supply standard of the CPU conforms to a first standard. The power supply system includes a dynamic VID signal line set and a core voltage controller. The VID signal line set is coupled to the VID pins of the CPU. The core voltage controller conforms to a second standard and is coupled to a partial line set of the dynamic VID signal line set. The core voltage controller determines a core voltage to be output to the CPU according to the partial line set to conform to the first standard. |
| US08312299B2 |
Method and apparatus for dynamic power management control using serial bus management protocols
An apparatus for on-demand power management includes an I/O serial communication master device, peripheral devices that communicate with the master device along the serial bus, and a power manager that buffers the peripheral devices from the serial communication master. The power manager also manages voltage regulation and clock sources to the peripheral devices, with the ability of placing the peripheral devices in an inactive state, or in any number of active states as a means to conserve energy. In some embodiments, the I/O serial communications master acts as if the peripheral devices are always in the highest activity state, and the power manager manages the communications to and from the peripheral devices and the power management of the peripheral devices to minimize energy consumption and reduce system latency. |
| US08312296B2 |
System and method for recovering from an interrupted encryption and decryption operation performed on a volume
Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor. The computer-readable medium may have instructions stored thereon, the instructions configured to, when executed by the processor: (i) periodically store, during an encryption or decryption operation performed on the computer-readable medium, one or more variables indicative of an encryption status of a volume of the computer-readable medium; (ii) determine, based on the one or more variables, whether the volume is in a partially encrypted or decrypted state; and (iii) in response to a determination that the volume is in a partially encrypted or decrypted state, boot from the volume and continue the encryption or decryption operation. |
| US08312293B2 |
Processing data stored in external storage device
An external storage device connectable to an information processing apparatus is provided. The storage device includes: an input/output interface via which data is exchanged with an information processing apparatus; a first storage region where data associated with first and second validity periods is stored; and a second storage region where a control program is stored. While the first validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to one information processing apparatus, the second validity period is used when the external storage device is connected to another information processing apparatus. The control program causes a processor to execute the steps of: establishing connection of the external storage device to an information processing apparatus; identifying any one of the validity periods as a validity period to be used for the data; and executing predetermined security protection processing on the data in accordance with the identified validity period. |
| US08312292B2 |
Input output access controller
A device for high-assurance processing is disclosed. A processing circuit uses an access controller to assure that the processing circuit operates properly. The processing circuit runs software programs and is programmable. The access controller is programmable, but not programmable by the processing circuit. Peripherals or segments of the address space of the processing circuit is regulated. In a particular state, the peripherals that are available are regulated by the access controller. In some embodiments, the transition from state-to-state can also be regulated by the access controller. |
| US08312288B2 |
Secure PIN character retrieval and setting using PIN offset masking
Securely disclosing a personal identification number (“PIN”) associated with a financial account to an account holder and receiving a new PIN from the account holder. A PIN reveal application can interact with a hardware security module (“HSM”) using a PIN offset masking process and randomly generated account data to reveal the PIN to the account holder one or more PIN characters at a time. A PIN set application also can interact the HSM using a PIN offset masking process and randomly generated account data to receive a new PIN for the account one or more PIN characters at a time. In each of the PIN reveal and PIN setting processes, less than the entirety of the PIN is stored in an unencrypted format outside of the HSM only. |
| US08312283B2 |
Accelerated signature verification on an elliptic curve
A public key encryption system exchanges information between a pair of correspondents. The recipient performs computations on the received data to recover the transmitted data or verify the identity of the sender. The data transferred includes supplementary information that relates to intermediate steps in the computations performed by the recipient. |
| US08312281B2 |
Computer system incorporating a target and symbol data sensing arrangement
A computer system includes a printer configured to print invisible coded data tags on print media. Each data tag includes a target and a dot arrangement representing a value. A pen-type device includes an image sensor configured to sense the targets and wirelessly transmit sensed data associated with the dot arrangements. A relay is configured to receive the transmitted data. One or more servers are interfaced to the relay, and are configured to process the received data from the relay and to perform an action based upon the processed data. |
| US08312277B2 |
Method and system for secure communication between computers
Method, system and computer program for exchanging data between a client computer and a storage device are described, in which the storage device may send a long-term DH-component to an intermediate server. The client computer may send a first short-term DH-component to the storage device through the intermediate server that adds a communication expiration time. The storage device may send a second short-term DH-component to the client computer. The client computer and the storage device may calculate a symmetric key from the long-term component and from both short-term DH-components to exchange data and may delete the short-term DH-components upon reaching the expiration time. |
| US08312270B1 |
DHCP-based security policy enforcement system
A plug-in module of a DHCP server enforces a security policy of a computer network. The module receives a request to provide an IP address for an end-user computer. A blacklist database is consulted to determine if the computer is not in compliance with the policy. If not compliant, the module returns to the computer a special IP address, a special default gateway and a lease time; the special IP address places the computer in a restricted network segment of the network where it cannot send network packets to other computers. If compliant, the computer receives an IP address and a lease time. The first time an IP address is requested a probe is triggered to determine if the computer is compliant using software not present on the computer. A cleanup service located in the restricted segment remove malware and updates software. Lease times increase after each successful request of an IP address. |
| US08312269B2 |
Challenge and response access control providing data security in data storage devices
Techniques for securing data stored on a data storage device are provided. The data storage device encrypts the data using a bulk encryption key and stores the bulk encryption key in non-volatile memory in an encrypted format. The data storage device generates a challenge and response pair, wraps a secret key with the response to generate a wrapped secret key, and stores the challenge and the wrapped secret key in the non-volatile memory. The data storage device authenticates a host by reading the challenge and the wrapped secret key from the non-volatile memory, erasing the challenge and the wrapped secret key from the non-volatile memory, sending the challenge to the host, receiving the response from the host, and unwrapping the wrapped secret key using the response from the host to regenerate the secret key. |
| US08312268B2 |
Virtual machine
The present invention is directed to various systems and/or methods relating to a software platform that provides for authentication of a requestor. Preferably, this authentication happens before there is an opportunity for any resource intensive request to harm operation of the system. Preferably, a reliability level is based on authentication so that the amount and/or type of resource access is controlled based, at least in part, on the authentication information. Preferably, heap usage is controlled by this reliability level. Preferably, the software platform is a virtual machine, preferably the Java Virtual Machine. |
| US08312259B1 |
System and method for booting a computer from backup
A system, method and computer program product for booting a computer system from the backup and working with the backup as if it were a normal storage device, including loading an initialization application to run in a single thread mode and that identifies a storage media with the backup that includes boot blocks; installing and activating a handler of a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) interrupt module, for intercepting boot loader requests to the storage media, and for redirecting them to the backup; creating a bitmap of the data blocks stored in the backup and of a writable data storage device to which new data will be written; initiating the BIOS to load and execute the boot blocks from the backup; transferring control to a routine defined by a boot record stored in the backup's boot blocks; installing and activating an I/O filter for intercepting the requests to the writable data storage device, and after a write request is received, the I/O filter writes a corresponding data block to the writable data storage, and marks this data block in the bitmap to indicate that this block is stored on the writable storage device; after a read request is received, the I/O filter checks the bitmap to see if this data block was not changed, and redirects the read request to the backup to read the data block, and if the requested data block was changed and written to the writeable data storage device, then the I/O filter redirects the read request to the written blocks on the writeable data storage device. |
| US08312257B2 |
System and method for performing hardware resource assignment in a large-scaled system
A resource assignment system includes a driver on an option ROM mounted on a PCI device, to perform hardware resources assignment under a Pre-Boot environment; and an OS driver to perform the hardware resource assignment under an OS environment. A BIOS includes a resource management table showing a range of an I/O space to be assigned to a bridge device in a layer higher than that of the PCI device which requests the I/O space; and an ACPI table used to notify a hardware configuration and data to use an extended I/O space to the OS. The resource management table includes a Pre-Boot table in which assignment of a first granularity to a Legacy-I/O space for a Pre-Boot environment is defined; and an OS table in which assignment of a second granularity to the extended I/O space for an OS environment is defined. |
| US08312256B2 |
Display of a basic input/output system (BIOS) productivity display
Example embodiments relate to a machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a computing device including a display device. The machine-readable storage medium may include instructions that access a stored indication upon boot-up of the computing device using a Basic Input Output System (BIOS). In addition, the machine-readable storage medium may include instructions that determine, using the stored indication, whether an operating system (OS) of the computing device exited properly, and instructions that display a BIOS productivity display using the display device when it is determined that the computing device exited properly. Still further, the machine-readable storage medium may include instructions that permit the OS to display a recovery display when it is determined that the OS did not exit properly. |
| US08312253B2 |
Data processor device having trace capabilities and method
In response to determining an event has occurred, information is stored at a trace buffer of an integrated circuit. When the trace buffer is full, execution of instructions at a CPU is halted to allow the trace buffer information to be accessed at an external interface to the integrated circuit device. The CPU is continually halted as the trace buffer is filled to facilitate retrieving all information written to the trace buffer. |
| US08312250B2 |
Dynamic storage of cache data for solid state disks
Described embodiments provide a media controller that determines the size of a cache of data being transferred between a host device and one or more sectors of a storage device. The one or more sectors are segmented into a plurality of chunks, and each chunk corresponds to at least one sector. The contents of the cache are managed in a cache hash table. At startup of the media controller, a buffer layer module of the media controller initializes the cache in a buffer of the media controller. During operation of the media controller, the buffer layer module determines a number of chunks allocated to the cache. Based on the number of chunks allocated to the cache, the buffer layer module updates the size of the of the cache hash table. |
| US08312242B2 |
Tracking memory space in a storage system
One embodiment is a method that uses a hierarchical bitmap tree in a storage system to store where available and unavailable memory space exists. Bitmap blocks are retrieved from the hierarchical bitmap tree to locate the available memory space. |
| US08312240B2 |
Memory system having a plurality of types of memory chips and a memory controller for controlling the memory chips
A memory controller converts controller output signals output from a controller into memory input signals according to the operation specifications of memory chips to operate, and outputs the resultant to the memory chips through a common bus. The memory controller also receives memory output signals output from the memory chips through the common bus, and converts the received signals into controller input signals receivable to the controller. This allows the single memory controller to access the plurality of types of memory chips. As a result, the memory controller can be reduced in chip size, lowering the cost of the memory system. |
| US08312239B2 |
Cache management for increasing performance of high-availability multi-core systems
An apparatus and method for improving performance in high-availability systems are disclosed. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, pages of memory of a primary system that are to be shadowed are initially copied to a backup system's memory, as well as to a cache in the primary system. A duplication manager process maintains the cache in an intelligent manner that significantly reduces the overhead required to keep the backup system in sync with the primary system, as well as the cache size needed to achieve a given level of performance. Advantageously, the duplication manager is executed on a different processor core than the application process executing transactions, further improving performance. |
| US08312238B2 |
Microcomputer and method for controlling memory access
A microcomputer includes a CPU, a protection information storage configured to store memory protection information specifying an access permission or prohibited state to a memory space by a program executed by the CPU, a memory access control apparatus configured to determine whether or not to allow a memory access request from the CPU according to the memory protection information and a reset apparatus configured to invalidate the memory protection information stored in the protection information storage according to a reset request signal output from the CPU. |
| US08312237B2 |
Automated relocation of in-use multi-site protected data storage
Methods of providing access to data are presented. The method includes providing a storage grid which includes a source chain of storage nodes and a target chain of storage nodes, the source chain including a primary source node and a secondary source node which operates as a data mirror of the primary source node, and the target chain including a primary target node and a secondary target node which operates as a data mirror of the primary target node. The method also includes initially storing data on the source chain, the primary source node of the source chain maintaining a primary source copy of the data, and the secondary source node of the source chain maintaining a secondary source copy of the data. The method further includes relocating the data from the source chain to the target chain, the primary target node of the target chain maintaining a primary target copy of the data, and the secondary target node of the target chain maintaining a secondary target copy of the data, access to the data being continuously provided from the storage grid to an external device before, during, and after relocation of the data from the source chain to the target chain. |
| US08312234B2 |
Storage system configured from plurality of storage modules and method for switching coupling configuration of storage modules
There are a loose coupling and a tight coupling as the coupling configurations for a first module and a second module. The loose coupling is a coupling configuration in which the first and second modules are coupled together by way of a front-end path, and the first module is not able to access a second storage resource. The tight coupling is a coupling configuration in which the first and second modules are coupled together by way of a back-end path, and the first module is able to access the second storage resource. A switch from the loose coupling to the tight coupling is performed using the following processing flow without the first and second modules being partitioned into respectively independent storage modules. Specifically, first, the first and second modules are coupled together by way of the back-end path, and next, the first module merges information denoted by second management information from the second storage resource with first management information via the back-end path. |
| US08312220B2 |
Mode-based castout destination selection
In response to a data request of a first of a plurality of processing units, the first processing unit selects a victim cache line to be castout from the lower level cache of the first processing unit and determines whether a mode is set. If not, the first processing unit issues on the interconnect fabric an LCO command identifying the victim cache line and indicating that a lower level cache is the intended destination. If the mode is set, the first processing unit issues a castout command with an alternative intended destination. In response to a coherence response to the LCO command indicating success of the LCO command, the first processing unit removes the victim cache line from its lower level cache, and the victim cache line is held elsewhere in the data processing system. The mode can be set to inhibit castouts to system memory, for example, for testing. |
| US08312211B2 |
Disk array apparatus, method for application of control firmware, and controlling unit for controlling application of control firmware
A disk array apparatus with a number of storage units aims at application of new control firmware to the storage units. The disk array apparatus includes a controlling unit controlling the storage units, which controlling unit includes a storing section storing control firmware to be applied; a monitoring section for monitoring a state of access to each storage unit to which the control firmware is to be applied; and an application instructing section instructing, on the basis of the result of the monitoring by the monitoring section, each the first storage unit to apply the first control firmware. In response to the instructing by the application instructing section, the control firmware is applied to each the storage unit. |
| US08312210B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method for storing and retrieving compressed data
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for storing and retrieving compressed data. A compression module compresses a data file organized in logical tracks. A ratio module determines a track compression ratio. The track compression ratio is a ratio of an integer value n to one. A destage module destages a single directory entry for the data file to a directory. The directory entry points to a zeroth track on a hard disk drive. The destage module further destages the data file sequentially to tracks of the hard disk drive from the zeroth track with n logical tracks of the data file stored on one physical track of the hard disk drive. A stage module stages a kth logical track from a physical track of the hard disk drive. The physical track is specified by an integer value of k divided by n. |
| US08312206B2 |
Memory module and memory module system
A memory module and a memory module system are provided. The memory module system includes a plurality of memory modules each module comprising a plurality of memory blocks and a plurality of corresponding routers each storing a channel identification (ID) and a module ID corresponding to one or more memory blocks; and a controller configured to access the memory modules. During initialization, the controller reads and stores the channel ID and the module ID from each of the routers. The controller outputs a channel ID and a module ID that correspond to one or more memory blocks to be accessed. |
| US08312203B2 |
Semiconductor storage device and method of controlling a semiconductor storage device by allocating a physical block composed of plural pages to a group of logical addresses
In a semiconductor storage device, a memory controller divides each of blocks in each of chips into a first page set composed of pages and a second page set composed of pages, divides a logical address space into groups, and divides each group into lines. Block units are created each of which is obtained by assembling a predetermined number of blocks from the blocks in each chip. A predetermined number of block units from the block units are managed as standard block units, and the other block units are managed as spare block units. Each standard block unit is made to correspond to one group. The corresponding group data is stored in the pages in the first page set in each block constituting the standard block unit, and unwritten pages for recording update data for the group data are provided to be included in the second page set. |
| US08312200B2 |
Processor chip including a plurality of cache elements connected to a plurality of processor cores
Programming of modules which can be reprogrammed during operation is described. Partitioning of code sequences is also described. |
| US08312198B2 |
Technique for communicating interrupts in a computer system
A technique to enable efficient interrupt communication within a computer system. In one embodiment, an advanced programmable interrupt controller (APlC) is interfaced via a set of bits within an APIC interface register using various interface instructions or operations, without using memory-mapped input/output (MMIO). |
| US08312197B2 |
Method of routing an interrupt signal directly to a virtual processing unit in a system with one or more physical processing units
The present disclosure relates to a method of processing an interrupt comprising a peripheral unit sending an interrupt, the interrupt being intended for a virtual unit executed by a processing unit, transmitting the interrupt to an interrupt control unit coupled to a processing unit, and the interrupt control unit storing the interrupt in an interrupt register. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the interrupt is transmitted to the interrupt control unit in association with an identifier of the virtual unit receiving the interrupt, the interrupt register in which the interrupt belonging to a set of registers is stored comprising one interrupt register per virtual unit likely to be executed by the processing unit, the interrupt being transmitted to the processing unit if the virtual unit receiving the interrupt is being executed by the processing unit. |
| US08312195B2 |
Managing interrupts using a preferred binding between a device generating interrupts and a CPU
A method and system for binding interrupts to central processing units (CPUs). An interrupt controller receives an interrupt that is generated by a device coupled to the computer system. The interrupt controller identifies a preferred CPU associated with the device based on a predetermined binding. If the preferred CPU is currently available, the interrupt is sent to the preferred CPU. If the preferred CPU is not currently available, the interrupt is sent to another CPU in the computer system that is currently available. |
| US08312187B2 |
Input/output device including a mechanism for transaction layer packet processing in multiple processor systems
An I/O device includes a host interface coupled to a plurality of hardware resources. The host interface includes a transaction layer packet (TLP) processing unit that may receive and process a plurality of transaction layer packets sent by a plurality of processing units. Each processing unit may correspond to a respective root complex. The TLP processing unit may identify a transaction type and a processing unit corresponding to each transaction layer packet and store each transaction layer packet within a storage according to the transaction type and the processing unit. The TLP processing unit may select one or more transaction layer packets from the storage for process scheduling based upon a set of fairness criteria using an arbitration scheme. The TLP processing unit may further select and dispatch transaction layer packets for processing by downstream application hardware based upon additional criteria. |
| US08312186B2 |
Storage subsystem
The correspondence of the respective ports and the respective microprocessors is dynamically changed based on the load of the respective microprocessors. When an open port MP including a plurality of ports connected to a host computer receives an I/O request from the host computer via a port, it specifies an MPPK to become the transfer destination of the I/O request, and transfers the I/O request to the specified MPPK. Each MP belonging to the MPPK that received the I/O request selects either an exclusive mode where a single MP exclusively performs the processing of the I/O request, or a share mode where two or more MPs share the processing of the I/O request. Each MP selects the exclusive mode or the share mode corresponding to when load information concerning the ports shows a low load or high load condition, respectively, and executes the I/O processing accordingly. |
| US08312184B2 |
Peripheral device usable without installing driver in computer beforehand
The storage unit of a peripheral device has a first storage area and a second storage area. The first storage area stores a plurality of control programs corresponding to a plurality of operating systems of different types. The second storage area is a storage area which is recognized by an information processing apparatus as an external storage device and in which at least one control program is replicated from the first storage area. The information processing apparatus reads out the control program from the second storage recognized by it as the external storage device, and executes the program. The information processing apparatus thus controls the peripheral device. |
| US08312182B2 |
Data processing system having a channel adapter shared by multiple operating systems
Data processing arrangements including a channel adaptor shared by a plurality of operating systems (OS's) for data transmission/reception, coupled to the PCI bus on a PCI bus side of the channel adapter, and including only one connecting port on an input/output (I/O) side of the channel adaptor. An input/output process is executed between each OS and the channel adaptor by using input/output process control data specifying I/O data each having an identifier. Configuration information is provided, defining the identifier of the input/output process control data which is usable by each respective OS. The channel adaptor can process a plurality of input/output process control data; and each OS uses the input/output process control data corresponding to a usable identifier and defined in the configuration information, and thereby, a plurality of OS's control input/output process control data have different identifiers relative to the channel adaptor to execute the input/output process. |
| US08312175B2 |
Virtual machine access to storage via a multi-queue IO storage adapter with optimized cache affinity and PCPU load balancing
A method is provided for use in a system that includes a host machine that includes multiple physical CPUs (PCPUs) and at least two cache nodes that are shared by different sets of the PCPUs, comprising: creating in a memory device multiple sets of lanes each lane set associated with a respective PCPU set; tracking levels of processing activity of the PCPUs of each PCPU set; using an MSIX vector value to associate lanes with PCPUs; receiving a IO request from any given PCPU from among the multiple PCPUs; and assigning the IO request to a respective lane based at least in part upon the PCPU set associated with the lane and PCPU processing activity levels. |
| US08312165B2 |
System and method for handling electronic mail mismatches
A system and method for handling e-mail address mismatches between the address contained within a user's certificate or certificate chain, and the account address actually being used is disclosed. In order to resolve address mismatches a canonical or generic domain name or user name may, for example, be used as a lifelong address of a user that is contained in the user's certificate. Upon detection of an address mismatch, the system and method disclosed herein may automatically re-check the certificate or search for a certificate containing the canonical or generic domain name and/or user name to attempt to resolve the mismatch. This mismatch resolution is preferably transparent to the user and occurs automatically. The canonical or generic domain and/or user names that are available to the device may be typically controlled by IT policy that is in place on the system for the device. While this system is suitable for any type of electronic messaging system, it has particular applicability to systems that use mobile wireless communication devices with electronic messaging capability. |
| US08312163B1 |
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for adjusting the quality level of data transmitted between a local computer and a remote computer
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for transmitting data between a local computer and a remote computer are provided. An amount of data capable of being transmitted per frame from the local computer to the remote computer is determined. An amount of data associated with a current frame of data to be transmitted to the remote computer is also determined. A quality level for the data to be transmitted to the remote computer is then selected such that the amount of the data to be transmitted to the remote computer is less than or equal to the amount of data capable of being transmitted per frame to the remote computer. |
| US08312161B2 |
Method and apparatus for instant playback of a movie title
Techniques for fragmenting a file or a collection of media data are disclosed. According one aspect of the techniques, a file pertaining to a title is fragmented into a header and several tails or segments. The header is a continuous portion of the file while the segments are respective parts of the remaining portion of the file. The header is seeded substantially in all boxes, and none, one or more of the segments are distributed in each of the boxes in service. When a title is ordered, the header is instantly played back while the segments, if not locally available, are continuously fetched respectively from other boxes that have the segments. |
| US08312159B2 |
Methodology for fast file transfer protocol
A methodology is provided for transferring a file from a first entity to a second entity over a network. The methodology may include receiving a first one of a plurality of blocks at the second entity, receiving a second one of said plurality of blocks at the second entity, receiving a last one of the plurality of blocks at the second entity, and assembling the first one of the plurality of blocks and the second one of the plurality of blocks into a single file at the second entity after receiving the last one of the plurality of blocks. |
| US08312157B2 |
Implicit authentication
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for implicitly authenticating a user to access controlled resources. The system receives a request to access the controlled resources. The system then determines a user behavior score based on a user behavior model, and recent contextual data about the user. The user behavior score facilitates identifying a level of consistency between one or more recent user events and a past user behavior pattern. The recent contextual data, which comprise a plurality of data streams, are collected from one or more user devices without prompting the user to perform an action explicitly associated with authentication. The plurality of data streams provide basis for determining the user behavior score, but a data stream alone provides insufficient basis for the determination of the user behavior score. The system also provides the user behavior score to an access controller of the controlled resource. |
| US08312153B2 |
Intelligent auto-dialer
The present invention describes an automatic dialer for determining relative rankings of network access numbers from within a group of available network access numbers known as an available NAN list, and for facilitating selection of a network access number to use for a connection from a client device to a data network. Various factors are considered in determining the rankings of the network access numbers. The factors include connection costs, quality of connection. |
| US08312147B2 |
Many-to-one mapping of host identities
A computer-implemented method includes sending, from a first node to a second node, an initiator message to open a connection between the first node and the second node, receiving, at the first node, a responder message sent from the second node, in which the responder message comprises a responder certificate, converting the responder certificate to a responder canonical identifier, comparing the responder canonical identifier to a stored canonical identifier, and establishing the connection between the first node and the second node over a pre-existing session corresponding to the stored canonical identifier, when the responder canonical identifier matches the stored canonical identifier. |
| US08312145B2 |
Traffic engineering and bandwidth management of bundled links
Traffic engineering and bandwidth management of bundled links may, at times, require the selection of one of a plurality of component links in a bundled link to use in admitting a connection requiring admission. While performing the selection it may be determined that more than one of the component links has the resources required to admit the connection. An admission policy may then be selected from among a plurality of admission policies. Based on the selected admission policy, a particular component link may then be selected. Such bandwidth management, based on admission policies, may be seen to be well suited to balancing and component link recovery in traffic engineered, connection-oriented MPLS networks. |
| US08312144B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for exchanging services in a distributed system
A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for exchanging services in a distributed system. A communication module receives an advertisement of service capabilities for a service provider. The communication module further receives a registration of service requirements for a service consumer. A match module determines if the advertisement service capabilities match the registration service requirements. A configuration module configures the service provider to supply the service requirements of the service consumer if the advertisement service capabilities match the registration service requirements. An establishment module establishes a service relationship between the service provider and the service consumer. The service provider provides the service requirements of the service consumer. |
| US08312139B2 |
Traffic flow inference based on link loads and gravity measures
Traffic flow between each pair of nodes in a network are determined based on loads measured at each link and based on gravity measures. The gravity measures correspond to a likelihood of the node being a source or a sink of traffic and may be assigned based on characteristics associated with each node, such as the demographics of the region in which the node is located, prior sinking and sourcing statistics, and so on. The gravity measures are used to generate an objective function for solving a system of linear equations, rather than as criteria that must be satisfied in the solution. The measured link loads are allocated among the traffic flows between nodes to at least a given allocation efficiency criteria by solving a system of linear equations with an objective of minimizing a difference between the assigned gravities and the resultant gravities corresponding to the determined flows. |
| US08312133B2 |
Image distribution system and the control method therefor
An image distribution system, which is connected via a network with a client for displaying an image picked up by an image sensing unit of a server, judges a communication status of the network. In addition, in accordance with a result of the judgment, the image distribution system changes a user interface for selecting a function request command for the image sensing unit of the imaging apparatus. |
| US08312131B2 |
Method and apparatus for linking multimedia content rendered via multiple devices
A method for delivering requested media content is provided. A requested media object requested by a user device is received, the requested media object including media of at least a first type. A first new media object is created, the first new media object having at least some of the media of the requested media object of the first type. A second new media object is created, the second new media object having at least some of the media of the requested media object of a second type, if any. At least one user interface mechanism is inserted into the second new media object, the at least one user interface mechanism corresponding to media of the requested media object of the first type included in the first new media object. The second new media object is delivered to the user device, and the first new media object is delivered to a secondary device separate from the user device. A first new media object indicator is caused to be generated in response to activation of the at least one user interface mechanism via the user device, the first new media object indicator indicating to a user media of the first new media object rendered on the secondary device. |
| US08312124B2 |
Fixed form data management server apparatus and fixed form document creating system
The present invention provides a fixed form data managing server apparatus that automatically checks whether the version of the fixed form data included in document data created on a PC is the latest version and that transmits the check result to the PC. Prior to printing of the created document data by an image forming apparatus, the PC transmits the version information of the fixed form data included in the document data through the printing server apparatus. The fixed form data managing server apparatus that has received the version information determines whether the version information is the latest version information and, when the apparatus determines that the version information is not the latest one, transmits control information to stop the printing of the document data to the PC. |
| US08312117B1 |
Dialog recovery in a distributed computer system
A distributed computer system comprises an enterprise server and a network server. The distributed computer system utilizes a distributed transmission control protocol (TCP) to establish an off-loaded dialog through the network server. If the off-loaded dialog is interrupted by, e.g., failure of the hosting network server, dialog recovery is performed to move the off-loaded dialog. |
| US08312115B2 |
Network booting apparatus and method
An operating system deployment arrangement provides a database connected to a network for use in monitoring the boot status of machines connected to sub-networks of the network. A workstation connected to a sub-network is adapted to act as a server for a pre-installation environment to machines newly connecting to the sub-network or at the same geographical location. The workstation carries a program for detecting boot initiation messages broadcast on the sub-network and for progressing booting of newly connecting machines in accordance with boot action data held by the database. In particular, the workstation also sends a software agent and operating system deployment processes to a newly connected machine and the agent takes over progression of the booting process from the workstation. The data held in the database for any one machine is updated as booting progresses. Flexibility is provided both in administration of the boot action data held in the database and by means of user interaction software loaded to a newly connected machine in the course of booting. |
| US08312114B2 |
Method and system for accessing network compatible devices utilizing internet-based beacon technology
A system and method for accessing a network compatible device utilizing an Internet based beacon technology. A compatible host application can be installed on a client device and registered with a network by providing a user credential and a qualifying descriptor. The network compatible device can be configured to have access with the network in order to extract the information associated with the user accessing the compatible device. A list of users with the matching qualifying descriptor can then be displayed at a user interface associated with the compatible device. Upon authentication, the compatible device and the compatible host application installed on the client device can be connected and the network address associated with the compatible device and the client device can be accessed. |
| US08312113B2 |
Managing shell configurations to dynamically control user computing environments
A method for managing a user's computing environment on their computer or workstation. The method includes storing a set of files in a memory device accessible via a communications network. Each file includes data such as environment variable values defining a particular computing environment. The method includes providing an environment management engine in a user's home directory of a computer. A shell runs in the computer device to invoke and run a computing environment management engine within the shell. The engine generates a computing environment in the computer based on the computing environment definition in one of the files that is chosen based on a user-provided or otherwise determined job state (e.g., the user is working on a project or a portion of a project that is associated with a job state). The computing environment includes versions of software applications, path variables, and alias definitions. |
| US08312112B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members
Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members are provided. According to one embodiment, contact content including an associated GPS identifier and status for web-based social network members located at or near the same location automatically appears on a GPS-enabled device. A further exemplary system includes a GPS-enabled device configured to receive a GPS identifier and a status representing a location and a current state for a web-based social network member, a processing module that associates the received GPS-identifier and the received status, and a communications module that sends the associated GPS-identifier and status to a server comprising a web-based social network database. Contact content in a web-based social network database record in the web-based social network database is updated to include the associated GPS identifier and status for the web-based social network member. |
| US08312107B2 |
Rate sensitive packet transfer mechanism over a peer-to-peer network
An apparatus, method and system to improve data transfer across a communications network by employing an acknowledgment independent equalized data packet transfer mechanism on a peer-to-peer basis. The present disclosure teaches how many computers can send data to many other computers, with particularity on a peer-to-peer basis when desired, without requiring acknowledgements of safe receipt by the receiving computer. By aggregating several computers to send data in a collection to a requesting computer, transfer rates may be increased. Further, by not requiring acknowledgment of receipt from the receiving computer, and by treating all data packets with equal utility, the present disclosure teaches a mechanism that reduces file transfer administration bandwidth, increases file transfer scalability on demand, and increases overall network transfer efficiency. |
| US08312103B2 |
Periodic balanced communication node and server assignment
Disclosed are apparatus and methodology subject matters for controlling the allocation of system nodes to a variable number of communication servers in an Advanced Metering System (AMS). An Orchestration Manager is provided through which all requests for end-device communications are routed. The Orchestration Manager periodically rebalances node assignments to reallocate nodes among communication servers in order to maintain data collection efficiency and in order to redistribute end devices from a failed communication server, or to otherwise adjust for the addition of a newly activated communication server. |
| US08312100B2 |
Managing orphaned requests in a multi-server environment
A request server automatically detects, in response to initialization of the request server, if there are previous generations of requests outstanding for the request server, and if so, immunizes itself against those requests. The request server starts one or more threads that are designed to gather messages associated with requests from previous incarnations of the server and handles those messages without affecting the requestors. While the request server is immunized from earlier generations of requests, the request server is capable of processing new requests. |
| US08312096B2 |
Priority inbox notifications and synchronization for mobile messaging application
At a client device with a display and in a method for displaying messages at the client device, the client device receives message information from a server system, the message information representing a set of messages. In accordance with a determination that the set of messages include one or more unread priority messages, where priority messages are messages that satisfy predefined message importance criteria, the device presents a new mail notification. In accordance with a determination that the set of messages do not include any unread priority messages, the device foregoes presenting a new mail notification. |
| US08312095B2 |
Tracking interactive text-message communications
Methods, program products and systems are provided for selectively synchronizing and tracking networked or internet communication message items. An interactive communication application presents a message entry interface enabling a user to select a discrete question for tracking, creating tracking thread. The message is presented by visually distinguishing the tracked question from a remainder of message items, and the thread is updated in response to a reply message comprising a linked answer. A secondary tracking display interface presents thread pluralities and enables a user to select and resend an unanswered question or an unacknowledged answer. An answer may be automatically or explicitly linked to a question. Selecting or linking a question or answer may be effected through a cursor routine or special text string inputs, and the special text string inputs may be user defined. |
| US08312093B2 |
E-mail messaging system and method for enhanced rich media delivery
A multi-user e-mail messaging system is described that is interfaced through the Internet and includes a first user group sharing a first server, which first server is interfaced to the Internet. In this system, after an e-mail message has been originated by an originating user of the first user group, the e-mail message is directed onto an e-mail enhancement path, and additional content is added to the e-mail message using the e-mail enhancement path to produce an enhanced e-mail message. Thereafter, the enhanced e-mail message from the e-mail enhancement path to the intended recipient. In one feature, the path taken by an incoming e-mail message is different from an outgoing path taken by an e-mail message sent from the first user group. The outgoing path defined to the intended recipient includes the enhancement path. |
| US08312091B2 |
Methods and systems for organizing meetings
A conference organizer uses conference software to define a conference and to store conference information on the organizer's computer system. The stored conference information includes a list of attendees, and a personal proxy mailbox for each attendee. Each attendee has a wireless device, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA). The organizer's computer system includes a wireless communication station that can communicate in wireless fashion with the wireless devices of the attendees at the conference. During the conference, an attendee uses his/her wireless device to access the conference information, select another attendee or a group of attendee from the list of attendees, and send the selected attendee or attendees a message. The message can be conveyed to and stored in the personal proxy mailbox or mailboxes of the selected attendee or attendees. The use of personal proxy mailboxes allows attendees to send messages to one another and to receive messages from one another without divulging their primary email addresses. |
| US08312088B2 |
Device identifier selection
Systems and methods of device identifier selection are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes, at a hub device having a plurality of ports including a first port, a second port, and a third port, receiving a first message from a host device. The first message including a broadcast indicator. The method also includes, in response to determining that the first message requests enumeration, emulating a ring communication topology by serially propagating messages including an enumeration indicator to a first device via the first port and to a second device via the second port. The method further includes, in response to determining that the first message does not request enumeration, selectively sending the first message to the first device substantially concurrently with sending the first message to the second device. Emulating the ring communication topology enables the hub device to provide a first distinctive identifier value of the first device and a second distinctive identifier value of the second device to the host device. |
| US08312083B2 |
System and method for sharing search result using messenger
Disclose is a method and system for sharing search result using messenger. A messenger client generates search request information and receives web page data corresponding to the search request information. A search server receives the search request information from the messenger client and performs a search for one or more keywords included in the search request information to transmit search result page data to the messenger client. When the search result page is transmitted from the search server, a layer coupled to a conversation window is formed to display the search result page and allow users to share the information on web page corresponding to the search results when requested. |
| US08312078B2 |
Data transfer system and data transfer method
A data transfer system includes: a local unit (LU) that transmits data from the USB device connected to a local computer (LC) to a remote computer (RC); and a remote unit (RU) that acquires the data from LC and transfers the data to an application. LU includes: a unit that receives the data from the USB device to store the data in a memory, and notifies the USB device about the reception: and a unit that reads non-transferred data, converts the data to a network format, and transfers the data to RC when the amount of non-transferred data stored in the memory is equal to or greater than a threshold. RU includes: a unit that receives the data from LC and stores the data in a memory: and a unit that reads the unread data in the memory and transmits the data in an application format. |
| US08312077B2 |
Client apparatus for updating data
A client apparatus receives first data from a server and later receives second data from the same server in response to a refresh invocation. The client apparatus parses the received data to generate logical structures representing the data and then compares the logical structures using a tree walking algorithm. Where a difference is found between the first data and second data, the first data is updated using the second data and rendered at the client apparatus. |
| US08312075B1 |
System, method and computer program product for reconstructing data received by a computer in a manner that is independent of the computer
A data reconstruction system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, one of a plurality of computers receiving data over a network is identified. In addition, the data received by the computer is reconstructed in a manner that is independent of the computer. |
| US08312072B2 |
Universal Galois field multiplier
An apparatus including a multiplier circuit and a multiplexing circuit. The multiplier circuit may be configured to multiply a first multiplicand and a second multiplicand based on a programmable base value and generate a plurality of intermediate values, each intermediate value representing a result of the multiplication reduced by a respective irreducible polynomial. The multiplexing circuit may be configured to generate an output in response to the plurality of intermediate values received from the multiplier circuit and the programmable base value. |
| US08312060B2 |
Methods and apparatus for accessing process control data
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for accessing process control data involve loading a client object and communicating a data access request from the client object to a real object configured to communicate with a server. The real object then communicates a query to the server based on the data access request and obtains process control data from the server in response to the query. The process control data is then mapped from a first data layout associated with a server schema to a second data layout associated with a client schema. The mapped process control data is then communicated to an application. |
| US08312047B2 |
Application update system, method and computer program product
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing documents that are being tracked in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for storing documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing of the documents in association with a tag. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing can enable an efficient searching for a shared document. In an embodiment, the shared document is categorized upon being stored. |
| US08312045B2 |
Configuration data content for a clustered system having multiple instances
A property sheet system and method for managing and organizing configuration information for components contained within a clustered environment. The property sheet system includes a user interface to display contents of a property sheet data structure. The property sheet data structure includes a plurality of entries, each entry associated with a non-modifiable parameter and optionally a modifiable parameter. The user interface enables a user to modify a selected modifiable parameter associated with the property sheet data structure. Once the selected modifiable parameter has been modified, the modified parameter is stored independently with respect to the non-modifiable parameters in the property sheet data structure. |
| US08312044B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes a creation unit and a registration unit. The creation unit acquires first limited use information which is associated with a designated object and stored in an object storage unit from the object storage unit in accordance with an instruction to specify the designated object, and creates second limited use information containing information indicated by the acquired first limited use information and described in a different form from the acquired first limited use information. The registration unit registers the second limited use information created by the creation unit in a second limited use storage unit. |
| US08312042B2 |
Automatic routing of search results
In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for providing search results automatically to a user of a computing device. A spoken input provided by a user to a computing device is received. The spoken input is transmitted to a computer server system that is remote from the computing device. Search result information that is responsive to the spoken input is receiving by the computing device and in response to the transmitted spoken input. An alert is provided to the user that the device will connect the user to a target of the search result information if the user does not intervene to stop the connecting of the user. The user is connected to the target of the search result information based on a determination that the user has not intervened to stop the connecting of the user. |
| US08312041B2 |
Resource description framework network construction device and method using an ontology schema having class dictionary and mining rule
RDF network construction device and method using an ontology schema having class dictionaries and mining rules. The RDF network construction device includes an ontology schema storing module, a class managing module, a mining rule managing module, a mining pattern creating module, and an RDF triple creating module. |
| US08312039B2 |
System and method for structured search
A system and method for structured search of information, including but not limited to, search for goods and services in e-commerce and mobile e-commerce, is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system comprises a plurality of heterogeneously structured data sources, a plurality of query objects that represent queries to the data sources and that are independent of the structure of the data sources, and a user interface configured to query the plurality of query objects. |
| US08312033B1 |
Systems and methods for providing an integrated identifier
Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods to streamline the mechanism by which data users access differently regulated data through the use of one or more integrated identifiers. The integrated identifiers lessen or eliminate the need to separately maintain one set of identifiers for regulated data and another set for non-regulated data. The methods and systems may be applicable in various credit and healthcare contexts where regulations over data use are prevalent. In one or more embodiments, a data user receives a unique integrated identifier for each of the data user's current or prospective customers, and the integrated identifiers can be used to persistently identify and track the customers over time and across applications that access regulated and/or non-regulated data. In the healthcare context, a healthcare provider may utilize a patient ID as the integrated identifier. To protect privacy, the integrated identifier may not include social security numbers or birthdates. |
| US08312032B2 |
Dictionary suggestions for partial user entries
In accordance with some embodiments, a server receives a partial search query from a client device that is located remotely from the server, and predicts from the partial search query a set of predicted complete queries relevant to the partial search query, where the predicted complete queries comprise previously submitted complete queries submitted by a community of users. The partial search query and the set of predicted complete queries are in the same language. In addition, the server obtains translations of at least a subset of the set of predicted complete queries, where the translations are in a different language from the set of predicted complete queries, and conveys both the set of predicted complete queries and the corresponding translations to the client device. |
| US08312026B2 |
Compressing massive relational data
A relational dependency transform is introduced as a way to exploit information redundancy in conditioning data in a relational database for better compressibility. An optimum relational dependency transform of the relational database is first computed. Fields of the relational database are then sorted topologically based on a weighted, directed graph having nodes representing predictor and predictee fields. For each predictee field in the topological order, a transformed field is then computed via the relationship between predictor and predictee in the optimum relational dependency transform. |
| US08312022B2 |
Search engine optimization
Topic-centric, dynamically-created web pages are compiled from links to multimedia content elements. Keywords are identified within the content elements and used to identify a set of topics related to the content elements. A query string comprising the keywords is executed against the content elements and in response to a request to display information about a topic the query string associated with the topic is executed against the collection of multimedia content elements to identify content elements related to the topic. A dynamically-created web page is displayed that includes computer-executable links to the set of related multimedia content elements. |
| US08312021B2 |
Generalized latent semantic analysis
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that builds an association tensor (such as a matrix) to facilitate document and word-level processing operations. During operation, the system uses terms from a collection of documents to build an association tensor, which contains values representing pair-wise similarities between terms in the collection of documents. During this process, if a given value in the association tensor is calculated based on an insufficient number of samples, the system determines a corresponding value from a reference document collection, and then substitutes the corresponding value for the given value in the association tensor. After the association tensor is obtained, a dimensionality reduction method is applied to compute a low-dimensional vector space representation for the vocabulary terms. Document vectors are computed as linear combinations of term vectors. |
| US08312013B1 |
On-demand service system, method and computer program product for linking a custom share row cause to a sharing record associated with a custom object
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for linking a custom share row cause to a sharing record associated with a custom object in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for linking custom share row causes to sharing records associated with an instance of a custom object in an on-demand service can enable a user or code executed by a user to share a custom object record with one or more users and to specify a custom row cause in that sharing record. The ability of embodiments to link custom share row causes to sharing records may allow users of such on-demand services to utilize custom row causes to determine why a sharing record was added and to identify the source of a sharing record. |
| US08312010B1 |
Local business ranking using mapping information
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for ranking local businesses. One or more signals indicating one or more actions related to a plurality of business listings are received. The business listings are ranked based on the signals. A search query is received, and in response to the search query, one or more of the business listings are presented in an order based at least on the ranking. |
| US08312009B1 |
Obtaining user preferences for query results
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that obtains user preferences for query results. First, in response to a query, the system presents a ranked list of query results to a user. The system then receives a request from the user to change the position of a query result in the ranked list of query results. Based on the change in position of the query result, the system infers at least one preference of the user between the query result and other query results in the ranked list. |
| US08312004B2 |
Online ranking protocol
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for exchanging information in accordance with a protocol. In one aspect, signals reporting user actions related to resources and ranking data ranking the resources based on the signals are exchanged in accordance with a protocol. The protocol defines types of user actions that can be reported by the signals, a format for specifying values for one or more of a set of predefined parameters for qualifying the user actions, a format for specifying one or more subscriber-specific parameters relating to the resources or the user actions, and a format for identifying resources to which the user actions are related using a namespace defined by the subscriber. |
| US08312003B2 |
Computer method and apparatus for collaborative web searches
Computer method and apparatus for collaborative web search operate in an intranet with non-existent or defective link structure. A search engine produces an initial search result list in response to a user query. A list optimizer reranks pages on the initial list based on implicit user recommendation or endorsement of pages. A last click heuristic defines user endorsement of a page. To form the final result list, the list optimizer scores each page according to reranking, a textual match (or information retrieval score) of the page with the query and an adjustment value. |
| US08312002B2 |
Selection of advertisements to present on a web page or other destination based on search activities of users who selected the destination
A tracking system passively tracks and records searches conducted by actual search engine users. The recorded data for each search event preferably includes the search query submitted, the search engine used, the search result item (e.g., web page) selected, the position (e.g., page number) of this item, and the user's IP address. The collected data is aggregated and analyzed to generate data regarding the search queries used to locate and access particular destinations (e.g., web pages and sites). This data may be used for various purposes, such as (1) to generate reports showing, e.g., how users reach a particular destination from different search engines and geographic locations, (2) to select content to display on a destination page, such that the content is relevant to search queries commonly used to locate that page, and (3) to update the database of one search engine to reflect searches conducted on other search engines. |
| US08312000B1 |
Generating an integrated execution plan for multiple database requests
For a given pool of database requests, a database system generates an integrated execution plan for multiple ones of the database requests in the pool. The database system determines whether to execute the integrated execution plan or individual execution plans corresponding to the respective multiple database queries. The determining is based on one or more criteria including performance goals corresponding to the respective multiple database requests. |
| US08311999B2 |
System and method for knowledge research
Knowledge research and mapping system and method automatically construct a knowledge research map representing the researched topics, their inter-relationships, and related responses retrieved through the processing of, for example, a natural language or Boolean query that is automatically submitted via a knowledge search tool to a database. |
| US08311996B2 |
Generating content to satisfy underserved search queries
Generating content to satisfy search engines queries is described. A knowledge base including a plurality of prior search queries for a search engine and corresponding prior search results provided by the search engine is accessed and a plurality of underserved search queries are identified, wherein each of the underserved search queries comprises a search query pattern having a below threshold number of search results. Each of the underserved search queries are heuristically related to one another. The plurality of underserved search queries are aggregated into a taxonomy category having a set of associated attributes, the attributes descriptive of the plurality of underserved search queries. Targeted content is generated based on the attributes, wherein the targeted content is tailored satisfy the underserved search queries. |
| US08311991B2 |
Creation of highly available pseudo-clone standby servers for rapid failover provisioning
Near clones for a set of targeted computing systems are provided by determining a highest common denominator set of components among the computing systems, producing a pseudo-clone configuration definition, and realizing one or more pseudo-clone computing systems as partially configured backups for the targeted computing systems. Upon a planned failover, actual failure, or quarantine action on a targeted computing system, a difference configuration is determined to complete the provisioning of the pseudo-clone system to serve as a replacement system for the failed or quarantined system. Failure predictions can be used to implement the pseudo-clone just prior to an expected first failure of any of the targeted systems. The system can also interface to an on-demand provisioning management system to effect automated workflows to realize pseudo-clones and replacement systems automatically, as needed. |
| US08311989B1 |
Query logging in a multi-database system
Query processing statistics are logged in a multi-database system containing a plurality of system databases. A plurality of query log entries generated using information regarding the execution of a plurality of queries are temporarily stored in a database query log (DBQL). The information is received from a plurality of system databases. Each query log entry is generated using information regarding execution of one query by the plurality of system databases. Each query log entry includes a field identifying a system database that was the source of the information in that entry. An express request is created upon occurrence of a triggering event. The express request contains a subset of the query log entries temporarily stored in the DBQL cache. The created express request is transmitted to a plurality of system databases and the contents of the transmitted express request are stored in each of plurality of system databases to which it was transmitted. |
| US08311987B2 |
Data staging system and method
A data staging system comprises an inbound staging area, data conversion logic, and a graphical user interface. The inbound staging area is configured to receive data records from a data sending computer system, including being configured to receive different versions of the same record. The inbound staging area stores the different versions of the same record pending further processing. The data conversion logic is configured to perform the further processing. The further processing reduces the number of different versions of the same record. The graphical user interface logic is configured to generate a display showing the records in the inbound staging area. |
| US08311981B2 |
Conflict management during data object synchronization between client and server
A client stores client metadata entries corresponding to a plurality of data objects. During a first phase of a synchronization process, the client sends one or more client metadata entries to a server. Each client metadata entry sent corresponds to a data object for which at least one metadata parameter has changed since a prior execution of the synchronization process. During a second phase of the synchronization process, the client receives from the server one or more server metadata entries, each having at least one parameter that has changed since a prior execution of the synchronization process. The client identifies any received server metadata entry that conflicts with a corresponding client metadata entry, requests a user to select from among a predefined set of conflict resolutions to resolve the conflict, and the performs an action in accordance with the conflict resolution selected by the user. |
| US08311978B2 |
Computer enabled methods to inhibit file and volume name copying and to circumvent same
Provided here is a copy protection method and apparatus to confuse currently available personal computer software (and other content) copying packages by use of unexpected (“illegal”) special characters in the volume (or directory) name for the software or other content or data subject to being copied. This method can be used alone or with a broad range of other known copy protection technologies such as RipGuard (available from Macrovision Corp.). Also provided here is a method and apparatus to defeat the confusion method, thereby allowing copying of such copy protected software. |
| US08311976B2 |
Management apparatus, recording medium recording an information generation program, and information generating method
A management apparatus generates leaf page information including one or more records. The management apparatus generates root page information including falsification check information for checking falsification of child page information in position of a child of root page information or a record in position of a child of the root page information, and a serial number of the child page information in the position of the child of the root page information. The management apparatus also generates node page information including falsification check information for checking falsification of child page information in position of a child of node page information or a record in position of a child of the node page information positioned between the root page information and the leaf page information, and a serial number of the child page information in the position of the child of the node page information. The management apparatus stores the root page information, the node page information, and the leaf page information in the tree structure. |
| US08311975B1 |
Data warehouse with a domain fact table
A data warehouse includes a plurality of master data tables. The master data tables include surrogate identifiers. Each surrogate identifier (SID) identifies a master data table domain inside a master data table from the plurality of master data tables. A plurality of dimension tables use the surrogate identifiers to link to the master data table domains within the master data tables. A fact table stores dimension identifiers (DIM IDs) that provide links to the dimension tables. A domain fact table stores aggregated data aggregated from data stored in the master data tables. The aggregated data is accessible from the domain fact table using surrogate identifiers, without using DIM IDs stored in the fact table. |
| US08311972B2 |
Method of building a data integration environment
A method of building a data integration environment is provided. According to one embodiment of the invention as applied to a computer network, the method comprising: identifying the data integration environment and the policies that apply to it 200, negotiating with the environment 202, and generating a new interface rule set enabling information to be passed in dependence thereon between the system which is made part of the integration environment and the integration environment. The method can be usefully applied in UAV networks, robot networks as well as in networks of fixed sensors. The invention finds utility in various important applications such as in network-enabled capability and in rapid integration of systems. |
| US08311971B2 |
Batching method
A method for decision aiding in batching of items of varying weight, size, or shape into packs of fixed weight and item count, said method characterized by controlling the average weight of items used, by rejecting selected portion of the available pool of items, according to calculated ‘Optimal Usage Curve’, wherein the ‘Optimal Usage Curve’ represents the ‘overweight of batches’ as a function of the ‘ratio of items used’, the ‘overweight of batches’ represents the average batch weight while the ‘ratio of items used’ is the number of items used in the batching process over the total number of items in the pool of items. |
| US08311968B2 |
Apparatus and methods for isolating and reviewing data from multiple sources
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed for isolating and reviewing data. The data is provided via a data source, and subsequently a rule may be provided, as well as a metaphor, to a user for perception of said metaphor via a user interface. |
| US08311964B1 |
Progressive sampling for deduplication indexing
A system and method for efficiently reducing a number of duplicate blocks of stored data. A file server both removes duplicate data and prevents duplicate data from being stored in the shared storage. A sampling rate may be used to determine which fingerprints, or hash values, are stored in an index. The sampling rate may be modified in response to changes in characteristics of the system, such as a change in the shared storage size, a change in a utilization of the shared storage, a change in the size of the storage unit, and reaching a threshold corresponding to utilization of the index. Also, a small cache may be maintained for holding fingerprint and pointer pair values prefetched from the shared storage. Each prefetched pair may be associated with data corresponding to a previous hit in the index. The association may be related to spatial locality, temporal locality, or otherwise. |
| US08311960B1 |
Interactive semi-supervised machine learning for classification
The invention is a system and method for teaching and using a computer to apply a genetic algorithm in order to generate rules for classifying data objects, such as documents. By permitting periodic human intervention during and/or after the initial training stage, the invention improves upon existing methods that merely automate data classification. Using an initial “training set” of data objects, the system develops a set of rules to apply on future data objects. To improve efficacy over time, rules may be periodically amended by a user during the initial training stage or after rules have been generated. In this fashion, classification rules may evolve, thereby improving the accuracy and speed of the classification process. Classification rules are also presented in a human-readable format, thereby improving the transparency of the classification process and facilitating the interaction between the system and the administrator. |
| US08311957B2 |
Method and system for developing a classification tool
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a computer implemented method of developing a classifier. The method includes obtaining a set of training data comprising labeled cases. The method also includes training a classifier based, at least in part, on the training data. The method also includes applying the classifier to a plurality of unlabeled cases to generate classification scores for each of the unlabeled cases, wherein each classification score corresponds with an instance of a corresponding case. Furthermore, the classification score corresponding to a first instance in a case is computed based, at least in part, on a value of a case-centric feature corresponding to the first instance, wherein the value of the case-centric feature is based, at least in part, on characteristics of the first instance and a second instance in the case. |
| US08311952B1 |
Electronic shipping notifications
A broker facilitates customer purchases from merchants. Shippers ship shipments containing the purchases from merchants to the customers. A shipper identifies a shipment using a shipment identifier. The broker uses the shipment identifier to obtain the status information for the shipment from the shipper. The broker analyzes the status information in combination with other information to calculate an estimate of the time that the shipment will arrive at the customer's address. The broker sends an electronic message, such as an email or text message, to the customer prior to the estimated shipment arrival time to inform the customer of the impending arrival. The customer can thus arrange for someone to be at the shipping address to receive the shipment at the estimated arrival time. |
| US08311951B2 |
Computer-implemented personal information manager method and system
A computer system for managing personal information. The computer system includes a dedicated computer configured to receive and store personal information transmitted by a user computer to monitor the use of the dedicated computer by a monitored individual to obtain an activity or inactivity status, and to automatically and electronically transmit an inactivity notification to the monitored individual based on the occurrence of an inactivity status to obtain a response to the inactivity notification. The computer system also includes a mortality tracking computer configured to receive mortality information based on a mortality database having one or more records and to search the mortality database records for a unique identifier of the monitored individual to obtain a mortality search result based on a lack of response to the inactivity notification. |
| US08311947B2 |
Online service syndication
Embodiments described herein are directed to syndicating an online service to at least one syndication partner of a syndicator. In one embodiment, a computer system determines that a syndication relationship has been established between a syndicator and a syndication partner, where the syndication relationship is established to provide syndicated services to syndication partners and clients. The computer system indicates which services provided by the syndicator are available for syndication to the syndication partner and which type of usage information the partner is to provide in order to use the syndicator's services. The computer system receives usage information from the syndication partner specifying which services are to be syndicated and specifying parameters for those services indicating operating parameters specific to the use of the syndicated services. Based on the received usage information, the computer system provides the service to the syndication partner in the manner indicated by the received usage information. |
| US08311945B2 |
System and method for processing checks and check transactions
A method of processing paper checks that divides into two independent paths the processing of a data file representing a check and the digital image of the check. The data files and image files are separated both in time and in space, with the data files being used to promptly initiate the transfer of funds to and from appropriate accounts, while the paper checks, at a remote location and typically lagging in time, are scanned to create digital image files and deposited as an image or substitute check if deemed ACH ineligible. The method provides for the comparison of data files to image files, based on MICR information, to find any unmatching or mismatched items for exception processing and a process to manage ACH-ineligible items as an image or substitute check. |
| US08311941B2 |
Purchasing alert methods and apparatus
Systems and techniques for receiving transaction information at an authentication system. The transaction information may be processed using different rule sets, based on the financial instrument used for the transaction (for example, a particular credit card, debit card, bank account, brokerage account, and the like). One or more alerts may be generated and communicated to the user. The alerts may be formatted based on user device configuration information, such as a cell phone type, email type, and the like. |
| US08311936B2 |
Credit score and scorecard development
Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving prospecting, new applicant evaluation, and customer management across the lifecycle. The outputs can be used as attributes to consider in developing a credit bureau scorecard. |
| US08311933B2 |
Hedge fund risk management
A computerized method and system for managing risk associated with a Hedge Fund is disclosed. Information relating to Hedge Funds is gathered and stored as data in preparation for a risk inquiry search relating to a Hedge Fund. Documents and sources of information can also be stored. A subscriber, such as a Financial Institution, can submit a Hedge Fund descriptor for which a risk inquiry search can be performed. The risk assessment or inquiry search can include data retrieved resultant to augmented retrieval methods. Scrubbed data as well as augmented data can be transmitted from a risk management clearinghouse to a subscriber or to a proprietary risk system utilized by a subscriber, such as a risk management system maintained in-house. Risk inquiry searches can be automated and made a part of standard operating procedure for any transaction conducted by the subscriber in which a Hedge Fund is involved. |
| US08311928B2 |
Fuel offering and purchase management system
The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management of fuel offerings. The Fuel Offer Generator allows Customers interested in securing fuel to obtain an offer for fuel at lock-in prices for various tenors. Fuel Customers can buy these fuel offers such that they may later exercise the fuel offers so their fuel costs are locked-in at desired levels (e.g., they may be set to strike prices). The Fuel Offer Generator also can establish a Premium Price that will be part of the fuel offer. The Fuel Offer Generator may generate hedges to counteract fuel related risks stemming from fuel offer purchases. Ultimately, a customer that purchases a fuel offering can exercise their fuel offering order at a specified price and redeem any difference between the market price for their purchased fuel and the price specified in their fuel offering order. While the Fuel Offer Generator may place various constraints on redemption, it will determine which metrics are relevant to pricing the fuel offering and then employ those determined metrics to establish the pricing of fuel offerings. |
| US08311927B2 |
System and method for anonymously matching products or services with a consumer
A system and method for anonymously matching products or services with a consumer, based on the consumers true consumption behavior. Each consumer is represented by a unique true behavior derived consumption profile, and a private repository of such true consumption profiles is provided where each profile is anonymous. A repository of consumption objects such as vendors' products and services is also provided. The system correlates parameters of the consumer's true consumption profile with parameters of the consumption object's profiles to find the best matches and presents the consumer's with a list of best to worst matches for a desired products. At all time the consumer's true identity remains confidential, alleviating the privacy concerns of a lot a consumers. |
| US08311926B1 |
Montage for automated market system
A graphical user interface for an electronic market for trading products includes an aggregation window which displays additional aggregate quotes for a plurality of price levels of a product traded in the market. A trading system includes client station for entering quotes for securities. The clients have graphical user interfaces at which quotes can be entered and displayed at multiple price levels. The system handles a quote size that is displayable and attributable to a specific market participant, a reserve quote size that is neither displayable nor attributable to a specific market participant, and an additional aggregate quote size that is displayable but not attributable to a specific market participant. |
| US08311925B2 |
Online purchasing system supporting sellers with affordability screening
A method of comparing financing options to facilitate the purchase and finance of products offered for sale. The method may include receiving personal or credit information relating to the potential buyer, to identify a plurality of financing options that may be used to finance the purchase of the product. These financing options may then be delivered for display to the buyer. |
| US08311924B2 |
System and method for providing income payments to an investor
In at least one embodiment computerized methods and corresponding systems for providing guaranteed income payments to an investor are provided that include the step or steps of: receiving information from the investor representing at least a current age of the investor, a desired income start date, a desired income payment amount, and a premium payment amount; receiving a premium payment from the investor and placing the premium payment into a first investment sleeve; and automatically transferring using at least one computing device, during a waiting period and according to a predefined event, a portion of the premium payment from the first investment sleeve to a second investment sleeve, wherein the portion of the premium payment transferred calculated by the at least one computing device as a function of a time remaining in the waiting period and the desired income amount. |
| US08311923B2 |
System and method for analyzing analyst recommendations on a single stock basis
A system and method for measuring and creating a score for the performance of one or more contributor recommendations on a single stock. According to one embodiment, the score may be derived via a payoff function that depends on a variety of factors. For example, the factors may include one or more of: i) the performance of the stock; ii) the performance of a selected benchmark; iii) the recommendation of the contributor for the stock; and/or iv) other factors. According to one embodiment the payoff function may be designed such that certain desired characteristics are satisfied. |
| US08311915B2 |
Detail-in-context lenses for interacting with objects in digital image presentations
Methods for initiating an electronic shopping transaction, for initiating a control operation for a user-selectable video game character, for emphasizing an advertisement in a computer generated display, and for presenting multiple GUIs in desktop user interfaces using detail-in-context graphical distortions. The method for initiating an electronic shopping transaction, for a user-selectable item presented in a computer generated original image on a display, comprising: receiving a selection signal for the item from a user; distorting the original image to produce a distorted region for the item to provide the user with detailed information for the item; and, receiving a purchase signal for the item from the user. |
| US08311912B2 |
Method for determining premiums for representation and warranty insurance for mortgage loans
An insurance program for entities in the mortgage industry that provides coverage for financial loss as a result of material inaccuracies in the financial information provided by or on behalf of the borrower. The insurance program preferably includes the initial insurance application and establishment of an insurance agreement, periodic issuing of individual insurance coverages for particular loans handled by the lender, training and consulting on improved controls for lenders, maintaining an ineligible database of entities and a database of loan information, and handling of claims. The periodic issuing of individual insurance coverages includes receiving production information from the lender and determining the premium for the production information based at least in part on the insurance agreement. In at least one embodiment, the periodic issuing of individual insurance coverages includes scrubbing production information against databases as part of determining which loans on which to calculate the premium. The insurance program also includes a methodology for lender processing of new mortgage applications. |
| US08311909B2 |
Methods and systems for case budgeting and expense reduction
A method and system for managing legal fees and minimizing costs of an organization involves periodically receiving case budget information consisting at least in part of identification, billing rate, and hours for each person projected to work on a legal project for the organization. The case budget information is received by internal counsel for the organization from external counsel via entry of the information on a template provided by internal counsel and uploaded to an internal matter management system of the organization if approved by internal counsel. At the end of each billing cycle, current bill data from external counsel is also uploaded to the internal matter management system of the organization, and the current bill data is compared with the case budget information. A report is generated flagging any discrepancies between the current bill data and the case budget information. |
| US08311907B2 |
System and method for detecting fraudulent transactions
Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a system and method for detecting related transactions, e.g., fraudulent transactions by for example associating transactions and creating lists of related transactions. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US08311905B1 |
Computerized system and method for automated demand-based parts delivery
A computerized automated demand-based parts delivery management system and method is disclosed. Parts for use in a production facility are received at a warehouse and housed in storage inventory areas such as trailers parked in a yard. Data about the parts in storage inventory areas and their locations as well as an inventory of parts in the warehouse are stored in a database. A “demand pegging” operation is performed by viewing current delivery inventory levels within the warehouse and applying them to production demand data to determine when parts will be depleted from delivery inventory areas. The operation further identifies storage inventory areas that have the needed parts. Process times for transporting parts between locations are considered in determining task times for transporting parts from storage inventory areas to delivery inventory areas so parts are replenished in advance of the deplete time determined by the demand pegging operation. |
| US08311904B2 |
Architectural design for intra-company stock transfer application software
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing intra-company stock transfer of physical inventory. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service operations, each implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a Supply and Demand Matching process, a Customer Requirement Processing process component, a Logistics Execution Control process component, a Site Logistics Processing process component, an Outbound Delivery Processing process component, an Inbound Delivery Processing process component, an Inventory Processing process component, a Production and Site Logistics Auxiliaries process component and a Freight Documents Processing process component. |
| US08311900B1 |
Providing separate views for items
Disclosed are various embodiments for providing separate views for items. A network page providing a summary view of at least a portion of a pool of items is encoded in a computing resource for rendering by a client computing device. A window superimposed over at least a portion of the summary view is rendered by the client computing device. The window provides a separate view for examination of one item from the pool of items, and the window facilitates a serial examination of the pool of items. |
| US08311898B2 |
Dynamic two-way auction method and system
The present invention discloses a method for dynamic two-way auction, applicable for auctioning participating goods, comprising: (1) setting, by a server. The descriptive information, possible search conditions and the relations which associate each search condition with the descriptive information of all participating goods are set up and stored on the server side; (2) sending, by a buyer terminal and/or a seller terminal, a search request which includes a search condition to the server; (3) parsing, by the server, the search request to obtain the search condition, determining whether a definition of a relation which associates the search condition with the descriptive information has been recorded, and performing step (4) if the relation has not been recorded; (4) defining, by the server, a relation which associates the search condition with the descriptive information of some participating goods. |
| US08311897B2 |
System and method of processing service product orders
The disclosure is generally directed to a system and method of processing a service product order. The method includes receiving a service product package defining a service product offering from a service delivery platform. The method also includes receiving an order for the service product offering from a subscriber having a subscriber account. The method further includes associating a subscriber identity with the order and providing the subscriber identity and the order to the service delivery platform. The method also includes providing provisioning data to the service delivery platform and delivering, via the service delivery platform, a video item corresponding to the service product package. The method includes communicating a billing activation event from an order management system to a billing system, the billing system to create or modify a bill corresponding to the subscriber account and providing an order completion notification to the subscriber. |
| US08311896B2 |
Multiple criteria buying and selling model
A system and method for aggregating demand is provided. At least one seller may sponsor a deal room to aggregate selling goods/services from a plurality of buyers. The demand aggregation system can include a dashboard for allowing the at least one seller to set up DealRooms, price curves, offers, products, customers, and/or customer groups, for example. The dashboard can include a plurality of wizards for configuring such information. The demand aggregation system can also include seller displays for notifying buyers of changes in prices relative to ship dates and times of order. The demand aggregation system can also include a predictive modeling and reporting function. An algorithm is employed to utilize product information to post a probability chart on a product price point. |
| US08311895B1 |
Real-time return processing
Techniques and systems provide real-time return processing before a retailer receives a returned item, such as during a return process where the retailer (seller) and customer (buyer) are separated from one another (e.g., electronic commerce, etc.). The retailer may collect information about the order and items to be returned from the remotely located customer. The retailer may optionally confirm an identity of the customer such as by verifying the original payment type and/or payment instrument number. The customer may provide collateral in exchange for the real-time return of a refund or an exchange. The retailer may then provide shipping details, calculate the refund (if applicable), and finalize processing. If the retailer does not receive the item in the allotted time for the return (e.g., for ground transport, etc.), then the retailer may charge the customer a value of the item using the collateral. |
| US08311894B2 |
Method and apparatus for interactive and synchronous display 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. |
| US08311893B2 |
System and method for providing information on selected topics to interested users
There are disclosed systems and methods which provide for an inter-action between unrelated databases such that information provided to a first database by a first provider can be pushed from the first database to a user based, at least in part, on data provided by that user to a second database unrelated to the first database. This then allows a user to have information pushed to him/her based upon information previously obtained from that user or about that user. In one embodiment, the user enters his/her information into one or more databases and the entered information forms the basis for information to be pushed to that user from any database even if the pushed information resides in a non-related database. In another embodiment, the data required from a provider is determined based upon data gathered from other providers for similar items. In some situations certain data is gathered without active participation from the provider. |
| US08311891B2 |
System for separating and distributing pharmacy order processing for medication payments
An information system and method that provides the ability to reroute portions of prescription order work between a plurality of organizational units in order to leverage capacity, expertise, or other resources to increase network efficiency. |
| US08311887B2 |
Methods, devices and systems for real-time instant presence with advertisement (RIPA)
Methods, devices and systems for Real-time Instant Presence with Advertisement (RIPA) using an instant messaging topology with wireless technology to instantly setup and update of presence information of an instant messaging user. The invention provides location information of a business and other business information to a wireless instant messaging user/customer of the business, and obviates the need for the users/customer to manually enter presence information of the business. The invention further provides methods for promotion, advertising and network marketing of a business using presence information sent to instant messaging users and instantly propagated through instant messaging address lists. |
| US08311886B2 |
System for display advertising optimization with uncertain supply
An advertisement impression distribution system includes a data processing system operable to generate an allocation plan for serving advertisement impressions. The allocation plan allocates a first portion of advertisement impressions to satisfy guaranteed demand and a second portion of advertisement impressions to satisfy non-guaranteed demand. The data processing system includes an optimizer, the optimizer to establish a relationship between the first portion of advertisement impressions and the second portion of advertisement impressions. The relationship defines a range of possible proportions of allocation of the first portion of advertisement impressions and the second portion of advertisement impressions. The optimizer generates a solution in accordance with an uncertain supply of advertisement impressions, in which a projected supply of advertisement impressions is determined with a model from the uncertain supply of advertisement impressions. The data processing system outputs the allocation plan including the solution to control serving of the advertisement impressions in determined proportions. |
| US08311875B1 |
Content item location arrangement
One or more content items associated with a content property are identified, each of the one or more content items associated with one or more performance measures. A rank score is determined for each of the one or more content items. One or more locations are identified for display proximate to the one or more content items based on the rank score for each of the one or more content items, and one or more other content items are provided for display in each of the one or more content item locations. |
| US08311873B2 |
Application risk framework
A risk framework is described for computing application risks. A risk value associated with each of one or more products included in an application may be determined. The risk value associated with each of the products may be classified as declining software risk, not-permitted software risk, declining hardware risk, and not-permitted hardware risk and may be weighted and summed to produce a technical risk score. A business criticality score may be computed based on how critical the application is to a business. The technical risk score and the business criticality score may be weighted and summed to produce a composite risk score. Based on one or more of the scores, planning may be conducted and strategies may be formulated to mitigate risk. |
| US08311868B2 |
Business analysis system and method
To readily understand contents of business operations without burdening an operator, this invention provides a business analysis method including: obtaining information on operations of a user with respect to software programs selected by the user among the plurality of software programs operated by a computer; estimating one business content that is executed by the computer in each of time spans based on a combination of exploited identification information of the plurality of software programs. |
| US08311865B2 |
Generating a resource allocation action plan
Systems and techniques are provided for resource allocation planning. A future supply of resources and a future demand for resources may be identified for one or more future time periods and/or for one or more resource categories. The identified supply and the identified demand may then be combined to calculate gross gaps and surpluses in supply and demand for each of the future time periods and/or each of the resource categories. One or more resource allocation adjustments for addressing the gross gaps and surpluses in supply and demand may be received, and net gaps and surpluses for each future time period and or each resource category from the gross gaps and surpluses and the one or more received resource allocation adjustments. |
| US08311864B2 |
Energy and entropy assessment of a business entity
Embodiments of the present invention provide an energy and entropy analysis of a business entity. Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented method for calculating a metric indicative of a business entity's strategic health at a specific point in time, comprising obtaining a measurement of energy, obtaining a measurement of entropy, identifying at least one linkage between the energy measurement and the entropy measurement, and calculating a metric indicative of the business entity's current strategic health at the specific point in time. |
| US08311862B2 |
Organizational design approach to transition cost assessment for business transformation
A method for facilitating in assessing transitional costs in business transformations using a computer-aided organizational design system is provided. The method comprises creating a first organization design model representative of the current organizational design state of an organization using a graphical tool. The method further comprises changing the first organization design model into a second organization design model representative of the organizational design state of the organization after the business transformation. The method further comprises generating a report identifying the transition cost factors and the transition cost of moving from the first organization design model to the second organization design model, wherein the transition cost is determined based on predetermined calculation algorithms or heuristics. |
| US08311855B2 |
Gathering, storing, and retrieving summary electronic healthcare record information from healthcare providers
The system and method of the invention describes a unique approach to gathering patient treatment information in summary form from a universe of health care providers, each using any form of patient information management; converting that information to pointers that can be searched by a healthcare provider before or during treatment to determine if further information needs to be acquired from the original provider; and a variety of methods to provide access to detailed healthcare treatment and diagnosis information from the original healthcare provider through an access and display method provided by the healthcare provider housing the records, if available. The system and method envisages one or more providers of repository services, each offering various ways for healthcare providers to update and maintain summary information, and each providing for continual exchange of information among them to ensure complete access to all available information. |
| US08311851B2 |
Genetic data analysis and database tools
A computerized tool and method for delivery of pharmacogenetic and pharmacological information, comprising a core system having algorithms and databases for storing, collating, accessing, cross-referencing, and interpreting genetic and pharmacologic data, with a graphical user interface for a client network of providers of laboratory genetic testing services to access the core services under contract. The system includes “paypoints” in support of improved business models. Included are mechanisms for ‘pass through’ third party and insurance reimbursement for interpretive reports, insurance reimbursement for on-line access to pharmacogenetic information at the point of care, tools for market segmentation, and a conversion tool for capturing new subscribers. Also disclosed are tools and predictive algorithms for preventing drug-drug and drug-gene adverse drug reactions. |
| US08311849B2 |
Systems and methods for risk stratification of patient populations
A statistical processing system includes a server operably configured with program instructions implementing a plurality of statistical models to at least one of (a) predict a health outcome based on questionnaire responses, (b) assist a patient's choice of therapeutic modality based on questionnaire responses, and (c) assess a health risk or status based on questionnaire responses. Also provided is a research agency communicating with the server and contracted to provide the statistical models using a visual interface communicated by the server. The server is configured to analyze requests received from users relating to a plurality of said statistical models to reduce redundancy in requests for patient data. |
| US08311848B2 |
Electronic medical record creation and retrieval system
An electronic medical record system enables organic growth of medical conditions or choices linked to predefined human body systems or an anatomical image. These choices are used as blue print launchers that form sentences/paragraphs as a user interacts with the choice lists. The choice lists can include a set of control variables that can be selected to create a medical history of a patient in the form of one or more visit notes. The medical history of the patient is formed by user selection of some of the control variables for insertion into fillable data entry locations in the sentences/paragraphs. The sentences/paragraphs are in the form of blue prints which are available generically to be populated with patient specific information to form customized blue prints for a particular patient. Multiple data perspectives in the electronic medical record system allows relatively easy and simultaneous collection of the complex medical data to produce medical visit notes or letters during a patient office visit. |
| US08311841B2 |
Encoding device, decoding device, and system thereof utilizing band expansion information
A decoding device (30a) comprises a narrow-band decoding unit (31) operable to reproduce a PCM signal (P1) from a narrow-band bit stream included in a wide-band bit stream (S0), a wide-band decoding unit (32) operable to reproduce a PCM signal (P2) having a frequency band which is wider than that of the PCM signal (P1) reproduced by the narrow-band decoding unit (31) from the narrow-band bit stream and a band expanding bit stream included in the wide band bit stream (S0) and a selecting unit (34) operable to select either the PCM signal (P1) reproduced by the narrow-band decoding unit (31) or the PCM signal (P2) reproduced by the wide-band decoding unit (32), and to output the selected sound digital signal. |
| US08311840B2 |
Frequency extension of harmonic signals
A system and methods are provided for extending the frequency bandwidth of a harmonic signal. Harmonic content of a band-limited signal is extended to frequencies outside the signal's passband by performing a non-linear transformation on the complex spectrum of the band-limited signal in the frequency domain. The non-linear transformation may be accomplishes by a linear convolution of the complex spectrum with itself. A system for extending the frequency bandwidth of a harmonic signal includes a signal processor with a forward transform module for transforming a time domain signal into the frequency domain, a non-linear transform module for performing the non-linear transformation on the complex spectrum of the harmonic signal, and a reverse transform module for transforming the extended spectrum of the harmonic signal back into the time domain. |
| US08311839B2 |
Device and method for selective image display in response to detected voice characteristics
An image display device includes a display unit, a storage unit, a voice receiving unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of image data, a plurality of voice data and a plurality of image files, wherein each of the image data is corresponding to one of the voice data respectively. The voice receiving unit receives a current voice. The processing unit judges whether the current voice is similar to one of the voice data, so as to determine one image data corresponding to the current voice. When the current voice is similar to one of the voice data, the processing unit determines whether each of the image files contains the image data corresponding to the current voice and then displays the image file(s), which contain the image data corresponding to the current voice, on the display unit. |
| US08311836B2 |
Dynamic help including available speech commands from content contained within speech grammars
A method for providing help to voice-enabled applications, including multimodal applications, can include a step of identifying at least one speech grammar associated with a voice-enabled application. Help fields can be defined within the speech grammar. The help fields can include available speech commands for the voice enabled application. When the speech grammar is activated for use by the voice-enabled application, the available speech commands can be presented to a user of the voice-enabled application. The presented speech commands can be obtained from the help fields. |
| US08311832B2 |
Hybrid-captioning system
A hybrid-captioning system for editing captions for spoken utterances within video includes an editor-type caption-editing subsystem, a line-based caption-editing subsystem, and a mechanism. The editor-type subsystem is that in which captions are edited for spoken utterances within the video on a groups-of-line basis without respect to particular lines of the captions and without respect to temporal positioning of the captions in relation to the spoken utterances. The line-based subsystem is that in which captions are edited for spoken utterances within the video on a line-by-line basis with respect to particular lines of the captions and with respect to temporal positioning of the captions in relation to the spoken utterances. For each section of spoken utterances within the video, the mechanism is to select the editor-type or the line-based subsystem to provide captions for the section of spoken utterances in accordance with a predetermined criteria. |
| US08311829B2 |
Multimodal disambiguation of speech recognition
The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmental noise, and/or natural variations in speaking style. The alternate input modalities use disambiguation or recognition engines to compensate for reduced keyboards, sloppy input, and/or natural variations in writing style. The ambiguity remaining in the speech recognition process is mostly orthogonal to the ambiguity inherent in the alternate input modality, such that the combination of the two modalities resolves the recognition errors efficiently and accurately. The invention is especially well suited for mobile devices with limited space for keyboards or touch-screen input. |
| US08311819B2 |
System for detecting speech with background voice estimates and noise estimates
A system detects a speech segment that may include unvoiced, fully voiced, or mixed voice content. The system includes a digital converter that converts a time-varying input signal into a digital-domain signal. A window function passes signals within a programmed aural frequency range while substantially blocking signals above and below the programmed aural frequency range when multiplied by an output of the digital converter. A frequency converter converts the signals passing within the programmed aural frequency range into a plurality of frequency bins. A background voice detector estimates the strength of a background speech segment relative to the noise of selected portions of the aural spectrum. A noise estimator estimates a maximum distribution of noise to an average of an acoustic noise power of some of the plurality of frequency bins. A voice detector compares the strength of a desired speech segment to a criterion based on an output of the background voice detector and an output of the noise estimator. |
| US08311818B2 |
Transform coder and transform coding method
A transform coding apparatus includes an input scale factor calculating section that calculates an input scale factor having a predetermined number of scale factors associated with an input spectrum as an element, and a codebook that stores a plurality of scale factor candidates having a predetermined number of elements and outputs one scale factor candidate. The transform coding apparatus also includes an error calculating section that calculates an error on a per element basis, a weighted error calculating section that determines a weight on a per element basis and calculates a sum of products of the error and the weight to calculate a weighted error, and a searching section that searches for a scale factor candidate that minimizes the weighted error in the codebook. |
| US08311810B2 |
Reduced delay spatial coding and decoding apparatus and teleconferencing system
The delay in a multi-channel audio coding apparatus and a multi-channel audio decoding apparatus is reduced. The audio coding apparatus includes: a downmix signal generating unit that generates, in a time domain, a first downmix signal that is one of a 1-channel audio signal and a 2-channel audio signal from an input multi-channel audio signal; a downmix signal coding unit that codes the first downmix signal; a first t-f converting unit that converts the input multi-channel audio signal into a multi-channel audio signal in a frequency domain; and a spatial information calculating unit that generates spatial information for generating a multi-channel audio signal from a downmix signal. |
| US08311806B2 |
Data detection in a sequence of tokens using decision tree reductions
An apparatus for processing a sequence of tokens to detect predetermined data, wherein each said token has a token type, and the predetermined data has a structure that comprises a predetermined sequence of token types, including at least one optional token type. The apparatus comprises a processor arranged to: provide a tree for detecting the predetermined data, the tree comprising a plurality of states, each said state being linked with at least one other state by a respective condition, the arrangement of linked states forming a plurality of paths; and compare the token types of the sequence of tokens to respective conditions in the tree to match the sequence of tokens to one or more paths in the tree, wherein the predetermined data can be detected without using an epsilon reduction to take account of said at least one optional token type. |
| US08311805B2 |
Automatic dynamic contextual data entry completion system
A method, performed in a character entry system, for interrelating character strings so that an incomplete input character string can be completed by selection of a presented character string involves computing relationship scores for individual character strings in the system from documents present in the character entry system, in response to inputting of a string of individual characters that exceeds a specified threshold, identifying at least one selectable character string from among contextual associations that can complete the input character string in context based upon an overall ranking score computed as a function of at least two other scores, and providing the identified at least one selectable character string to a user for selection. |
| US08311802B2 |
Text creating and editing method and computer-readable storage medium with dynamic data loading
Embodiments consistent with the invention include a method of creating a document on a computing device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving input text in the computing device to initiate a document creation process, the computing device including a first portion of font data for a first language, the first portion including less than all of the font data for the first language; based on the input text, determining whether the first portion is sufficient to create the document on the computing device; loading a second portion of the font data to the computing device from a data storage location if the first portion is not sufficient; and creating the document using at least one of the first portion and the second portion. |
| US08311801B2 |
Technology for supporting modification of messages displayed by program
A method, system and computer program product for improving the efficiency of changing or modifying a message displayed by a program. A memory unit stores a message read and displayed by the execution of a program, associating it with a language in which the message is written. An execution unit reads from the memory unit and displays the message corresponding to a language set by a user by executing the program. An editing unit edits the message stored in the memory unit and stores the edited message into the memory unit, associating it with a different language from that of the unedited message. A setting unit changes the language of the message displayed by the execution unit, where the execution unit reads from the memory unit and displays the message corresponding to the language changed by the setting unit thereby displaying the edited message instead of the unedited message. |
| US08311797B2 |
Viewing system that supports multiple electronic document types
A method of interpreting electronic documents, e.g., an interactive technical manual, provides an interpreter responsive to at least one global navigational input data of a client user in order to generate a displayable output. The displayable output is generated from informational input and a contextual status. The method of interpretation includes a base semantics module and any number of extended semantics modules, a symbol table, and an output module. A plurality of global navigational data are received at the interpreter, which associates and processes the informational data received with the contextual status and outputs displayable data which is renderable by the display system into a current view. A system and computer medium are also disclosed. |
| US08311783B2 |
Method for the generation of a set of conflicts for model-based system diagnostics, and corresponding diagnostic method
A method for the generation of a set of conflicts for model-based system diagnostics is described, with which system a plurality of sensors is associated for the observation of variables indicative of operation conditions.The method starts from generating a complete set of Analytical Redundancy Relations (ARRs) in implicit form and, for each diagnosis instance: it performs a system simulation, computing the expected values for a first subset of Analytical Redundancy Relations (D-ARRs) including the relations involving only one system observation variable; it compares the expected and observed values of the system observation variables to identify the inconsistent variables, i.e. the unsatisfied redundancy relations, indicating a fault in at least one system component; and, when discrepancies are detected, it checks the consistency of each relation belonging to a second subset of Analytical Redundancy Relations (I-ARR), comprising relations involving a plurality of system observation variables, at least one of which exhibits discrepancies between expected and observed values; therefore identifying the support set of the unsatisfied Redundancy Relations as set of system conflicts. |
| US08311781B2 |
Selectively reducing the number of cell evaluations in a hardware simulation
An electrical circuit comprising a plurality of cells can be simulated to produce simulation results by sorting cells between active status cells and inactive status cells and reducing the processing of simulation results from inactive cells to thereby save simulation time. |
| US08311779B2 |
Multipoint geostatistics method using branch runlength compression and local grid transformation
A multipoint geostatistics computer-implemented method for modeling of discrete properties, comprising acquiring by a computer software program a training image made from at least one dimensional array of discrete property values, the values depicting the spatial relationship and variability considered to be typical of a n-dimensional surface to be modeled; constructing a search tree, the tree representing the probability of occurrence of combinations of values of a discrete property value, the construction being performed by counting these occurrences in the training image. The non-branching sequences of the search tree are compressed to what essentially amounts to a single node, by keeping only the relevant information the sequences contain. |
| US08311778B2 |
Industrial process control transmitter with multiple sensors
An industrial process control transmitter includes a first input configured to couple to a first sensor, and a second input configured to couple to a second sensor. Measurement circuitry is configured to couple to the first and second sensors and provide an output related to a sensed process variable. A multiplexer is configured to selectively couple the first and second sensors to the measurement circuitry. An equalizer circuit is coupled to the first and second sensors and configured to equalize a voltage potential between the first sensor and the measurement circuitry. |
| US08311777B2 |
Coke oven wall surface evaluation apparatus, coke oven wall surface repair supporting apparatus, coke oven wall surface evaluation method, coke oven wall surface repair supporting method and computer program
An oven wall three-dimensional profile data (701) representing concave and convex amounts on all over oven walls (14R, 14L) at a right side and left side of a coking chamber (11) is generated by using image signals obtained by a wall surface observation apparatus (200). A resistance index “k” in which a resistance received by pushed coke (15) resulting from a rising gradient existing on the oven wall (14) is indexed is asked by using the oven wall three-dimensional profile data (701). It can be verified that there is a correlation between this resistance index “k” and a pushing load. Accordingly, it is possible to quantitatively evaluate a state of the oven wall (14) affecting on the pushing load. |
| US08311771B2 |
Inspection method of SOI wafer
An inspection method of an SOI wafer in which profiles P1 and P2 are calculated in the SOI wafer to be inspected and in an SOI wafer having a film thickness of the SOI layer thicker or thinner than that of the SOI wafer to be inspected, respectively; a profile P3 of a difference between P1 and P2, or a profile P4 of a change ratio of P1 and P2 is calculated; light having the wavelength band selected on the basis of a maximum peak wavelength within the calculated profiles P3 or P4 is irradiated to the surface of the SOI wafer to be inspected, to detect the reflected-light from the SOI wafer; and a place of a peak generated by an increase in reflection intensity of the detected reflected-light is found, as the defect caused by the change in the film thickness of the SOI layer. |
| US08311770B2 |
Portable monitoring devices and methods of operating same
An activity monitoring system, in one aspect, comprises a portable activity monitoring device comprising a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the user's body; a motion sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect motion of a user and to generate data representative thereof; an altitude sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect a change in altitude of the user and to generate data which is representative thereof; and processing circuitry, disposed in the housing, to calculate a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user using the motion data and change in altitude data. The system also includes a display to output data of a badge and/or metric wherein such badge and/or metric describes the number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user. |
| US08311764B1 |
System and method for approximating ambient temperature
A method and computer program product for determining an internal temperature of a computing device, a power consumption factor for the computing device, and an airflow factor for the computing device. An approximated ambient air temperature is generated based upon the internal temperature, power consumption factor, and the airflow factor. |
| US08311763B2 |
System and method of compensating for device mounting and thermal transfer errors
A method of compensating a temperature measurement of a thermal device in a user environment as a function of a thermal transfer of the thermal device in a temperature measurement system. The method includes inputting thermal transfer parameters associated with heat transfer characteristics of the thermal device stored by a thermal transfer indicia. The method further includes measuring a signal of the thermal device during the temperature measurement and compensating the measured thermal device signal as a function of the thermal transfer function based on one of a plurality of predetermined specific thermal environments and one of a plurality of predetermined specific thermal errors associated with the thermal device. |
| US08311760B2 |
Method for determining, section after section, a parameter-dependent correction value approximation course and sensor arrangement
An embodiment of a method for a determination, section after section, of a parameter-dependent correction value approximation course includes determining a first measurement signal value with a first parameter value associated with a sensor arrangement when the first parameter value fullfils a predetermined condition or a trigger condition is fulfilled, changing the first parameter value to obtain a second parameter value, determining a second signal value with the second parameter value and determining a second partial section of the correction value approximation course for a second parameter range based on a functional connection describing the second partial section, the first parameter value, the second parameter value, the first measurement signal value, the second measurement signal value and an initial correction value. |
| US08311757B2 |
Miniaturized smart self-calibration electronic pointing method and system
An innovative configuration of Miniaturized Smart Self-calibration EPD for mortar applications, as the azimuth/heading and elevation measurement device. This innovative EPD configuration uses only two FOGs or DTG and accelerometers and it is self-contained. This leads to a new EPD implementation that produces a small and light device with lower cost and adequate accuracy for the small dismounted mortar applications. |
| US08311754B2 |
Power monitoring and analysis system for identifying and tracking individual electrical devices
Methods and mechanisms for processing a plurality of electrical parameters of a common alternating current service that supplies power for multiple electrical devices. In an embodiment, an instance data structure is identified based on a data set which is generated from samples of an alternating current service, the instance data structure corresponding to an on-off cycle of an electrical device. Based on the instance data structure, a contribution by the on-off cycle is subtracted from the data set to determine a residual data set. In another embodiment, the residual data set is processed to determine whether the residual data set includes a contribution by an on-off cycle of another electrical device. |
| US08311752B1 |
Method and apparatus to quantify mast clamp current probe effective loss on pole-mast antenna
A method for quantifying the effective loss of a mast-clamp-current-probe (MCCP) antenna comprising the following steps: providing a vector network analyzer (VNA) having first and second ports (Ports 1 and 2 respectively); coupling a transmit monopole antenna to Port 1 via a first transmission line; coupling a receive antenna to Port 2 via a second transmission line; determining the S-parameters of the two coupled antennas; calculating the power at the receive antenna (Pr); converting the transmit antenna to the MCCP antenna by shorting the transmit antenna to ground and clamping a current probe around the transmit antenna; determining the S′-parameters of the MCCP antenna and the receive antenna; calculating the power at the receive antenna (Pr′) when coupled to the MCCP antenna; and quantifying the effective loss of the MCCP antenna as the difference Pr−Pr′. |
| US08311750B2 |
Method and system for patient-specific modeling of blood flow
Embodiments include a system for providing patient-specific cardiovascular information using a web site. The system may include at least one computer system configured to allow a remote user to access a web site, receive patient-specific data regarding at least a portion of a geometry of an anatomical structure of the patient, and create a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the anatomical structure of the patient based on the patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may be further configured to determine information regarding a blood flow characteristic within the anatomical structure of the patient based on the three-dimensional model and a physiological condition of the patient, and communicate display information regarding a first three-dimensional simulation of at least the portion of the anatomical structure of the patient to the remote user using the web site. The three-dimensional simulation may include the determined information. |
| US08311749B2 |
Transcutaneous analyte sensor
The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host. |
| US08311744B2 |
Use of chemically and geologically consistent constraints for obtaining elemental chemistry downhole
A method for estimating a lithotype of an earth formation, the method includes: obtaining at least two different energy spectra of radiation received from the earth formation using the logging tool, each energy spectrum having at least one of a natural gamma-ray spectrum, a fast neutron-induced inelastic spectrum, and a thermal neutron induced capture spectrum; establishing at least one geochemically-based constraint related to elemental spectral yields to be determined; determining the elemental spectral yields from the at least two different energy spectra by decomposing the at least two different energy spectra over weighted sum of monoelemental standards wherein at least one weight is constrained by the at least one geochemically-based constraint and each weight represents a proportion of one monoelemental standard; converting the elemental spectral yields to elemental concentrations; and using a classifier to receive the elemental concentrations as input and to provide a lithotype as output. |
| US08311742B2 |
Estimating photospheric velocities for space-weather prediction
A computer-implemented method for accurately estimating plasma velocities on the photosphere based on magnetic field data from vector magnetograms. Spatial and temporal derivatives of the magnetic field components are computed and a structure tensor containing terms that specifically include the horizontal magnetic field components is constructed. The structure tensor is convolved with a window function and a least-squares solution based on the convolved structure tensor is found. The solution includes the plasma velocities in the horizontal and vertical directions at the center of the window. |
| US08311738B2 |
Boom-mounted machine locating system
A locating system for a machine having a boom is disclosed. The locating system has a first GPS unit and a second GPS unit. The first GPS unit is located on the boom. |
| US08311737B2 |
Automated prioritization of map objects
Automatic map generation is enabled by assigning priorities to each city in a list of cities under consideration for display on a map. A mapping engine determines a reference count for each city, indicating how frequently the city appears in one or more corpora of documents. Based on the reference count, and optionally upon other data such as population and political importance, a priority score is assigned to each city. Each city is then assigned to one of a plurality of categories according to the city's priority score. A map is then generated including cities from a specified highest number of categories. In one embodiment, cities from a higher-scored category are presented in a more significant way, e.g., in capital letters, bold type, etc., than are those in the next-highest scored category. |
| US08311733B2 |
Interactive key frame image mapping system and method
Provided is a computer system and method for providing key frame image mapping. A method includes collecting one or more images of a predetermined area on the map of a physical location; and organizing the one or more images on the map as a function of a time, location, and/or image history parameter. A computer system includes a mapping module including a data store configurable to organize one or more images according to locations on a map and a table. The table can associate metadata for images with a time line, an image history and/or a location. The association can enable an instantiation of a time-related image from images at locations of the map. The mapping module enables a personalized iconographic map of a physical location illustrating icons associated with a catalog of images that are incorporated with the time line. The time line can be associated with a trip taken to an area in a map such that scrolling the time line automatically causes images associated with that time appear as well as the location on the map wherein the picture was taken. |
| US08311732B2 |
Navigation communication with self-identifying elements
A navigation device includes a communication subsystem and a navigation subsystem. The communication subsystem communicates with a remote navigation database via a gateway using variable-size data payloads. Each variable-size data payload is accompanied by a content-identifier and a size-identifier. The navigation subsystem determines a current position of the navigation device and encodes the current position of the navigation device as one or more position payloads that are sent from the communication subsystem to the remote navigation database via the gateway. Each position payload is sent with an accompanying content-identifier and size-identifier. |
| US08311723B2 |
Pressure energy conversion systems
The present disclosure relates generally a fuel injector configured to inject fuel into a combustion chamber. The fuel injector includes a body having a base portion opposite a nozzle portion, wherein the base portion is configured to receive the fuel into the body, and the nozzle portion is configured to be positioned adjacent to the combustion chamber. The fuel injector also includes a valve assembly carried by the base portion of the body. The valve assembly may have a first valve coupled to a first actuator and a second valve coupled to a second actuator. The fuel injector further includes an igniter carried by the nozzle portion of the body and configured to ignite the fuel in the combustion chamber. |
| US08311722B2 |
Driver-based control system and method to improve fuel economy
The technology described herein provides an active driver control system. Additionally, in various example embodiments, this technology provides methods for optimizing fuel economy (or energy consumption) through active compensation of driver controlled inputs. The active compensation functionality is used to moderate ‘sweet spot’ vehicle response with driver desired performance. In particular, the active compensation functionality can be used to smooth the vehicle response and attenuate undesired frequency content from the driver input. One of the benefits to this technology is that it assists all drivers in achieving better fuel economy in real world driving. Another benefit is that active compensation of driver controlled inputs can mitigate some of the negative effects of more aggressive driving styles. In addition to active compensation functionality, the technology described herein is also capable of generating a Green Driver Index which is derived by quantifying the driver's control ability and normalizing the result against desired fuel economy and performance targets. |
| US08311720B2 |
Lost target function for adaptive cruise control
An adaptive cruise control including a lost target function. The adaptive cruise control is operable in at least one of three modes: a normal mode, a following mode, and a lost target mode. In the normal mode, a user-set speed is maintained by the user vehicle. In the following mode, the adaptive cruise control detects a slower moving target vehicle and maintains a particular distance behind the target vehicle. In the lost target mode, the adaptive cruise control recognizes that a target vehicle is no longer detected and zeroes the acceleration of the user vehicle for a particular delay time. After expiration of the delay time, driver override, or detecting a target vehicle again, the cruise control exits the lost target mode. |
| US08311718B2 |
Negative wheel slip control systems and methods
An engine control system comprises a derivative module and a slip remediation module. The derivative module determines a mathematical derivative of a driven wheel speed of a vehicle. The slip remediation module, when the mathematical derivative is more negative than a predetermined deceleration, at least one of disables regenerative braking being performed by one or more electric motors, increases an axle torque request, and unlocks a torque converter. |
| US08311717B2 |
Drive line operation method
A method of operating a vehicle drive train, whereby the drive train comprises a drive unit, a transmission, and an all-wheel splitter having an automatically operating clutch, positioned between the transmission and the output. The clutch is operated in a continuous slip mode and in such a way that the all-wheel splitter splits the transmission output torque for variable torque distribution to driven axles. The splitting of the output torque to the driven axles is performed by a control unit, implemented into the all-wheel drive strategy, so that the output torque, less a predetermined nominal torque, is transferred to a first axle, and the nominal torque is transferred to a second axle. When defined operating conditions are met, a limiting of the torque, set by the drive unit, and/or the nominal torque, set by the all-wheel strategy, occurs to avoid a thermal overloading of the clutch of the all-wheel splitter. |
| US08311716B2 |
Control apparatus for shift range changeover device
A control apparatus for a shift range changeover device determines temporary abnormality, when a detection output of a rotation position of a motor continues to be abnormal for a first abnormality determination period. The control apparatus further determines persistent abnormality and performs predetermined failsafe processing, when the detection output further continues to be abnormal for a second abnormality period following the first abnormality period. If the temporary abnormality is determined within a feedback control permission period, motor feedback control is prohibited to control the shift range to the neutral range. If the temporary abnormality is determined after the feedback control permission period, the same control operation as before the temporary abnormality is performed. |
| US08311712B2 |
Method for the operation of a drivetrain
A method of operating of a drivetrain, having at least a drive motor and an automatic transmission with at least five shift elements, to improve a shift speed such that during a first upshift or a first downshift, at least one required shift element is prepared such that, when a synchronization point is reached, the successive upshift or the successive downshift can be immediately carried out. The method comprises the steps of requiring, at most, two of the at least five shift elements be disengaged and a remainder of the shift elements be disengaged for each gear for transferring one of torque and force; and one of increasing and decreasing a torque of the drive motor, relative to a torque of the drive motor derived from a driver's wish, during one of the first upshift or downshift and the successive upshift or downshift to assist with an overlapped implementation of the successive upshifts or the successive downshifts. |
| US08311709B2 |
Implement initiated control of tractor power take-off (PTO)
A control system for managing the operation of a tractor PTO using input conditions occurring in a connected baler. Baler conditions such as tailgate position, crop pickup position, bale wrapper status, and driveline torque are sensed in the baler, and communicated to an implement-mounted controller whereupon control signals are initiated and communicated to a tractor-mounted controller to manage operation of the tractor's PTO. Safety may be maintained through the use of operator acknowledgements in order to prevent unexpected engagement of the PTO and a manual override capability allows an operator to suspend automated operation at any time. |
| US08311702B2 |
Health state management device and health state management system
A health state management device manages information on a state of health of a driver of transportation equipment. An authentication portion authenticates the driver, and a health state judgment portion measures blood component data of the driver authenticated by the authentication portion. The health state judgment portion judges the state of health of the driver using the blood component data. A decision portion decides whether or not to permit operation of the transportation equipment based on a judgment result of the health state judgment portion, and a storage portion stores the judgment result of the health state judgment portion and a decision result of the decision portion in association with driver identification information of the driver. |
| US08311700B2 |
Control apparatus for vehicle
In a microcomputer, a signal processing device computes a control signal, such as an accelerator position, a throttle position, based on a sensor output signal, such as an output signal of an accelerator position sensor, an output signal of a throttle position sensor. A torque control device executes a torque control operation to coincide an actual torque with a requested torque based on the control signal. Furthermore, a torque monitor device determines whether a torque increase abnormality exists based on the control signal. A signal abnormality diagnosis device determines whether an operational abnormality of the signal processing device exists based on a relationship between the sensor output signal and the control signal. A monitor IC monitors operational states of the torque monitor device and of the signal abnormality diagnosis device and determines whether an operational abnormality of the torque monitor device or of the signal abnormality diagnosis device exists. |
| US08311697B2 |
Impact assessment system and method for determining emergent criticality
An impact assessment system and method for determining emerging criticality in a complex system is provided. The impact assessment system includes a component dependency model and an emergent criticality analyzer. The component dependency model describes the relationships between components in the system and their underlying dependency and criticality relationships. The impact assessment system receives component failure data from the complex system and uses the component dependency model and emergent criticality analyzer to determine the impact of the component failure on the criticality of remaining components in the system. The impact assessment system is thus able to determine how component failures in the complex system can impact the criticality of remaining components in the complex system and thus can assist in determining how those components may or may not be safely used in further operational activities. |
| US08311696B2 |
Optical tracking vehicle control system and method
An optical tracking vehicle control system includes a controller adapted for computing vehicle guidance signals and a guidance subsystem adapted for receiving the guidance signals from the controller and for guiding the vehicle. An optical movement sensor is mounted on the vehicle in optical contact with a travel surface being traversed by the vehicle. The optical movement sensor is connected to the controller and provides vehicle movement signals thereto for use by the controller in computing vehicle position. The optical movement sensor can be either mounted on a gimbal for movement independent of the vehicle, or, alternatively, multiple optical movement sensors can be provided for detecting yaw movements. GNSS and inertial vehicle position tracking subsystems are also provided. Still further, a method of tracking a vehicle with an optical movement sensor is provided. |
| US08311690B2 |
Charging system for vehicles
A charging system provided for vehicles prevents theft of a charging cable, insertion of foreign matter into a vehicle-side receptacle, or tampering when an onboard battery usable for running power is charged from a household power supply. A cable connector of the charging cable is opposed to the vehicle-side receptacle in a connecting part to prepare for charging. When a PHV is exited, a switching command switching from an unlocked state of a door locking mechanism to a locked state is inputted to a PHV ECU responsive to an inputting manipulation performed on a key or door key sensor. The PHV ECU allows the door locking mechanism to switch from the unlocked state to the locked state. The PHV ECU allows locking mechanisms to switch from the unlocked states to the locked states in the manner interlocked with the switching action of the door locking mechanism. |
| US08311688B2 |
Method 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. |
| US08311687B2 |
Method and system for vertical navigation using time-of-arrival control
A method and systems for controlling an aircraft during descent are provided. The control system includes an input device configured to receive a speed margin for the vehicle and a processor communicatively coupled to the input device wherein the processor is programmed to automatically determine a flight path of the vehicle that is shallower than an idle flight path for the vehicle and generate a flight control surface control signal configured to maintain the determined flight path using the received speed margin. The control system further includes an output device communicatively coupled to the processor. The output device is configured to transmit the flight control surface control signal to a flight control system of the vehicle. |
| US08311684B2 |
Output flow control in load compressor
A system and a method useful for determining and controlling flow in an engine load compressor 102 having an inlet 104 and an outlet 106. Means 108 are provided for measuring static pressure at one or more locations within the load compressor inlet 104. Means 108 are also provided for measuring static pressure at one or more locations within the load compressor outlet 106. The system further comprises means 112 for measuring temperature at at least one location within the compressor, and one or more processors 114 adapted for calculating ratios relating compressor outlet and inlet pressures, optionally normalizing the calculated pressure ratios according to any one or more of reference temperatures, inlet guide vane positions, and compressor speeds, and for determining, using the optionally normalized pressure ratios, desired load compressor output flow rates Q. |
| US08311683B2 |
Processor cooling management
Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product for adjusting cooling settings. The computer implemented method comprises analyzing a set of instructions of an application to determine a number of degrees by which a set of instructions will raise a temperature of at least one processor core. The computer implemented method further calculates a cooling setting for at least one cooling system for the at least one processor core. The computer implemented method adjusts the at least one cooling system based on the cooling setting. The step of analyzing the set of instructions is performed before the set of instructions is executed on the at least one processor core. The step of adjusting the at least one cooling system is performed before the set of instructions is executed on the at least one processor core. |
| US08311682B2 |
Systems, program product, and methods for synthesizing heat exchanger networks that account for future higher levels of disturbances and uncertainty, and identifying optimal topology for future retrofit
A system, methods, and user-friendly program product to optimize energy recovery for a process or cluster of processes under all possible combinations of given process changes and stream-specific minimum temperature approach values without enumeration, are provided. The systems, methods, and program product can include steps/operations to identify a set of common-structure heat exchanger network designs which allow for construction of a physically exchanger network easily retrofittable to accommodate time-dependent new operating modes, disturbances, and uncertainty schemes. |
| US08311679B2 |
Matrix converters for wind energy conversion systems
The invention is an efficient matrix converter for wind energy conversion systems (WECS) using permanent magnet DC generators, incorporating control algorithms integrated with rotor aerodynamics, generator dynamics and the wind environment. Using a complete model of the system enables the design of an integrated control scheme for the WECS that improves the overall system efficiency. Estimates of wind velocity and rotor speed measurements are fed forward to the matrix converter subsystem for efficient switching. |
| US08311678B2 |
Method for adjusting concrete rheology based upon nominal dose-response profile
The invention relates to a method for adjusting concrete rheology requiring only that load size and target rheology value be selected initially rather than requiring inputs into and consultation of a lookup table of parameters such as water and hydration levels, mix components, temperature, humidity, aggregate components, and others. Dosage of particular rheology-modifying agent or combination of rheology-modifying agents is calculated based on a percentage of a nominal dose calculated with reference to a nominal dose response (“NDR”) curve or profile. The NDR profile is based on a correlation between a rheology value (e.g., slump, slump flow, yield stress) and the rheology-modifying agent(s) dose required to change rheology value by one unit (e.g., slump change from 2 to 3 inches) such that exemplary methods can employ corrective dosing based on the NDR and the measured deviation by the system. |
| US08311675B2 |
Method of controlling an autonomous device
The invention describes a method of controlling an autonomous device (1), which autonomous device records ambient data and optionally transmits the recorded ambient data, which method comprises positioning an indicator (S1, S2, S3, S4) at a boundary (B) between a private area (P) and a non-private area (N) to optically distinguish the private area (P) from the non-private area (N) for a user of the autonomous device (1). The indicator (S1, S2, S3, S4) is detected by the autonomous device (1) and interpreted to determine whether the autonomous device (1) is in a private area (P) or a non-private area (N). Subsequently, recording or transmission of ambient data is restricted while the autonomous device (1) is within the private area (P). The invention also describes a system ( ) for controlling an autonomous device (1), an autonomous device (1), and an indicator (S3, S4) for placement at a boundary between a private area (P) and a non-private area (N), to optically distinguish the private area (P) from the non-private area (N) for a user (2), comprising a number of electronically detectable components (23, 24). |
| US08311674B2 |
Robotic vacuum cleaner
An Autonomous robot, that is for example, suitable for operations such as vacuuming and surface cleaning includes a payload configured for vacuum cleaning, a drive system including a steering system, a navigation system, and a control system for integrating operations of the aforementioned systems. |
| US08311669B2 |
Tank-locking device, system for managing liquid supply and method using the same
A system for managing liquid supply suitable for a process equipment with a liquid tank is disclosed. The system includes a host, a data-reading tool, a system controller and a tank-locking device. The host stores a built-in liquid database. The data-reading tool used for reading data related to the liquid tank is electrically connected to the host. The host receives the data related to the liquid tank from the data-reading tool, and the received data mapped with the liquid database. The system controller drives the tank-locking device according to the signal from the host to whether or not allow replacement of the liquid tank. |
| US08311668B2 |
Automatic feeder control setup based on client mailstream
Systems, methods, and an article of manufacture for automatically configuring a feeder system of a mail sorting system are shown and described. The feeder system is configured in accordance with a customer's mailing parameters. This improves the performance of the mail sorting system. In various examples, customer information associated with a processing job is received. A feeder profile is also received. The feeder system is automatically configured according to parameters of one or more of the customer information and feeder profile. |
| US08311664B2 |
Tray supply apparatus
A tray supply apparatus includes a tray magazine, a sub magazine, a supply station, and a lifting and lowering mechanism. The tray magazine can store a tray on each of a plurality of stages. The tray stores components. The sub magazine includes a plurality of conveyance mechanisms having a plurality of stages. The sub magazine is adjacent to the tray magazine and capable of taking out the tray from the tray magazine. The supply station includes a plurality of placement portions having a plurality of stages, on each of which the tray is placed, and a stage that lifts and lowers the tray between the plurality of placement portions. The supply station is disposed at a position where the components are picked up. The lifting and lowering mechanism lifts and lowers the sub magazine to convey the tray between the tray magazine and the supply station through the sub magazine. |
| US08311659B1 |
Identifying non-randomness in integrated circuit product yield
A method of analyzing integrated circuit (IC) product yield can include storing, within a memory of a system comprising a processor, parametric data from a manufacturing process of an IC and determining a measure of non-random variation for at least one parameter of the parametric data using a pattern detection technique. The processor can compare the measure of non-random variation to a randomness criteria and selectively output a notification indicating that variation in the parameter is non-random according to the comparison of the measure of non-random variation to the randomness criteria. |
| US08311656B2 |
Music and audio playback system
A music and audio playback system is implemented on a computer with a playback engine that enables the operator, typically a disk jockey, to apply a variety of effects. The system may store one or more snapshots, or a combination of settings for a plurality of controls that are applied by the playback engine. The settings that may be stored in a snapshot may be for effects, deck controls and/or mix settings. These snapshots allow for changes to settings for effects, mixing and playback to be made quickly, some of which would normally be difficult to perform. A sampler module permits a user to specify one or more samples that may be triggered for playback. The most frequently used samples may be designated as scratching files that may be quickly activated through the push of a button (or other control). A waveform display represents a window of audio samples around a current playback time. When two tracks are being played, only half of each waveform is shown. In particular, the bottom half of the waveform at the top, and the top half of the waveform at the bottom are shown. Certain effects that affect the playback of a current audio file, such as a reverse, repeat or brake effect, are performed as insert effects. As a result, the current play position in the current audio file continues to advance while the effect is performed, even thought the effect is applied to the audio data in the current audio file. The waveform display continues to update based on the continually updated current play position in the audio file. |
| US08311654B2 |
Content reproducing apparatus, audio reproducing apparatus and content reproducing method
A content reproducing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a sensor; a discrimination circuit configured to discriminate whether a movement of a user is a first movement or a second movement based on a detection output from the sensor; a storage configured to store contents; a reproduction circuit configured to reproduce the contents; and a control circuit configured to supply the reproduction circuit with contents retrieved from the storage in accordance with a discrimination output from the discrimination circuit. |
| US08311651B2 |
Process automation system for determining, monitoring and/or influencing different process variables and/or state variables
A process automation system for determining, monitoring and/or influencing different process variables and/or state variables in at least one manufacturing or analytical process. Included is: at least one control station; and a plurality of field devices; wherein in each field device at least one sensor is provided for ascertaining a measured value of a process variable and/or state variable and/or an actuator is provided for influencing a process variable and/or state variable by means of an actuating value. Each field device makes available its cyclically or acyclically ascertained, measuring-device-specific, measured values and/or actuating values of the process variable and/or state variable to every other field device of the process automation system as information, and the current information of all ascertained measured values and/or actuating values of the process variables and/or state variables is available to each field device as a current process-state-vector. |
| US08311646B2 |
Mechanism for, and method of, attaching a lead conductor cable to a lead electrode
A cardio electrotherapy lead is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the lead includes a tubular body, a conductor cable and an electrode. The conductor cable longitudinally extends through the tubular body and includes a distal end. The electrode is located on the tubular body and includes an attachment mechanism mechanically coupling the lead distal end to the electrode. |
| US08311645B2 |
Obstructive sleep apnea treatment devices, systems and methods
A lead system may include a cuff electrode configured to be implanted on a nerve and including a cylindrical cuff body having a plurality of electrode contacts. The cylindrical cuff body may include a first side with a first longitudinal edge and a second side with a second longitudinal edge. The cylindrical cuff body may also have a proximalmost end surface and a distalmost end surface, wherein the first longitudinal edge includes a proximalmost end and a distalmost end, and the second longitudinal edge includes a proximalmost end and a distalmost end. The lead system may also include first and second lead portions having generally serpentine configurations and a first anchor interposed between the first and second lead portions and configured to be secured relative to a non-nerve body structure. The lead system may also include a connector extending proximally from the second lead portion and configured to electrically connect to an implantable pulse generator. |
| US08311644B2 |
Short duration pre-pulsing to reduce stimulation-evoked side-effects
A method and neurostimulation system of providing therapy to a patient is provided. At least one electrode is place in contact with tissue of a patient. A sub-threshold, hyperpolarizing, conditioning pre-pulse (e.g., an anodic pulse) is conveyed from the electrode(s) to render a first region of the tissue (e.g., dorsal root fibers) less excitable to stimulation, and a depolarizing stimulation pulse (e.g., a cathodic pulse) is conveyed from the electrode(s) to stimulate a second different region of the tissue (e.g., dorsal column fibers). The conditioning pre-pulse has a relatively short duration (e.g., less than 200 μs). |
| US08311643B2 |
Spinal cord stimulation lead anchor
Disclosed is an implantable anchor for anchoring a catheter, including (by way of non-limiting example) an implantable lead, such as may be used for spinal cord stimulation, to the body of a patient, along with a method for its use. The anchor comprises an elongate body have a central lumen extending through the body from its proximal end to its distal end, which central lumen is configured to snugly receive the catheter body. In addition to the central lumen, a second lumen is provided in the proximal end of the anchor and is configured to receive an injector so that adhesive may be injected into the anchor surrounding at least a portion of the catheter body. In doing so, the anchor may be fixed to the catheter body, such that when the anchor is sutured in place within the patient's body, migration of the catheter may be avoided. |
| US08311640B2 |
Variable impedance bypass pathway for a tissue stimulating prosthesis
A method and apparatus for neural stimulation are disclosed. The principle is that a conventional current path is used to deliver the stimulus to neural structures, but an alternative current path is provided to bypass the neural structures during the opposite polarity part of the current flow. As a consequence, charge balance can be provided at the tissue/electrode interface, while delivering stimuli which are not charge balanced to the neural structures. |
| US08311637B2 |
Magnetic core flux canceling of ferrites in MRI
A magnetic core flux canceling device according to embodiments of the present invention includes a magnetic field sensor adapted for placement at a ferrite material core in an implantable medical device, the magnetic field sensor adapted to transmit a signal corresponding to a magnitude of a first magnetic field. Such a device may also include a coil disposed around the ferrite material core and a driver circuit configured to receive the signal and to vary a voltage applied across the coil based on the signal, the voltage applied across the coil creating a second magnetic field at least partially in a direction opposite the first magnetic field. According to some embodiments of the present invention, multiple coils may be used to cancel magnetic fields in multiple directions. A voltage applied across the coil varies in magnitude and/or direction to cancel or weaken an MRI-related magnetic field. |
| US08311636B2 |
Tree-based electrical stimulator programming
The disclosure describes an implantable stimulation system that guides programming with a therapeutic tree. All possible stimulation parameters are arranged on the therapeutic tree, with each level of the therapeutic tree containing a different stimulation parameter type. Each level includes nodes that are connected to nodes of adjacent levels. A program path is created by moving through nodes of lower levels. The stimulation parameter types are arranged so that coarse adjustments occur at higher levels of the tree and fine adjustments occur at lower levels of the tree. The nodes of the program path define the stimulation parameters of the delivered stimulation therapy. The user may provide information such as efficacy input and/or medication dosage information to the system for identifying the most efficacious program path in treating pain of the patient. Additionally or alternatively, efficacy feedback may be received from physiological parameter sensors. |
| US08311632B2 |
Devices, methods, and systems for harvesting energy in the body
In some embodiments, the power generator for converting mechanical energy to electrical energy is described may include a compressible element adapted and configured to be placed in an environment having a variable compressive force such as varying ambient pressures. The compressible element may be compressed by a force applied by the variable pressure to the compressible element. The power generator may further include a transducer that may be coupled to the compressible element and that may convert mechanical energy from the compression of the compressible element to electrical energy. In some embodiments, the power generator may be adapted to be an implantable power generator for converting mechanical energy from a patient to electrical energy, such that the compressible element adapted and configured to be placed between two adjacent tissue layers of the patient and to be compressed by a force applied from the two adjacent tissue layers to the compressible element. |
| US08311630B2 |
Reduction of AV delay for treatment of cardiac disease
An implantable pacing device for delivering ventricular pacing may be configured to intermittently reduce the AVD interval for beneficial effect in patients with compromised ventricular function (e.g., HF patients and post-MI patients). The AVD interval may be reduced in an AVD reduction mode, by shortening the AVD in an atrial triggered ventricular pacing mode or by switching to a non-atrial triggered ventricular pacing mode (e.g., VVI) and delivering paces at a rate above the intrinsic rate. The physiological effects of AVD reduction may be either positive or negative on cardiac output, depending upon the individual patient. |
| US08311627B2 |
Method and apparatus for a small power source for an implantable device
One example includes a battery that includes a stack of at least one substantially planar anode and at least one substantially planar cathode, wherein the stack defines a contoured exterior, and a battery housing enclosing the stack, the battery housing defining a battery housing exterior, wherein the contoured exterior of the stack is shaped to conform to a contoured interior of the battery housing that approximately conforms to the battery housing exterior, the battery produced by the process of modeling, using fluid dynamics, an exterior of a biocompatible housing and shaping the battery housing to conform to at least some of the exterior of the biocompatible housing. |
| US08311626B2 |
Robotically controlled intravascular tissue injection system
A robotic catheter system includes a controller including a master input device and instrument driver in communication with the controller. An elongate flexible guide instrument is operatively coupled to the instrument driver. A fluid injection needle may be advanced from, or retracted into, a distal portion of the guide instrument. |
| US08311624B2 |
Apparatus and method for delivering a therapeutic agent to ocular tissue
An apparatus for delivering at least one therapeutic agent to an ocular tissue of a subject includes at least one electrode, a medicament layer including the at least one therapeutic agent, an electrical signal source, and logic configured to control the electrical signal source. The at least one electrode has oppositely disposed, dome-shaped first and second major surfaces. The first major surface is curved such that the first major surface substantially conforms to a contour of the ocular tissue when placed in contact with the ocular tissue. The medicament layer is disposed on at least a portion of the second major surface. The electrical signal source provides a signal having certain characteristics and is electrically connected to the at least one electrode. The certain characteristics comprise at least one orienting frequency and at least one motivating frequency sufficient to motivate the at least one therapeutic agent into the ocular tissue. |
| US08311621B2 |
Device for judging degree of awakening and method for judging degree of awakening
A device for judging a degree of awakening and a method for judging a degree of awakening which can more reliably detect weak sleepiness of people in action. The device for judging a degree of awakening in accordance with the present invention comprises a heartbeat sensor for acquiring a heartbeat signal from a driver and an ECU for detecting sleepiness of the driver by processing the heartbeat signal. In the ECU, a heartbeat signal preprocessing section for acquiring a heartbeat period time series from the heartbeat signal, a feature amount extracting section for acquiring a heartbeat fluctuation low frequency component power from the heartbeat period time series, a sleepiness detecting section for judging whether sleepiness occurs in the driver or not according the heartbeat fluctuation low frequency component power, a stimulus timing setting section for setting a timing for imparting a stimulus for removing sleepiness to the driver according to the heartbeat fluctuation low frequency component power, and a sleepiness removing stimulus output section for imparting the stimulus to the driver at thus set timing. |
| US08311618B2 |
Method and apparatus for quantitative assessment of cardiac electrical events
Method and apparatus for computer enabled analysis of ECG (electro cardiographic) data by exploiting computerized three-dimensional spatial presentation of the measured data using vectors. A three-dimensional presentation of the human heart may be correlated with waveforms specific for standard ECG or derived ECG signals based on the dipole approximation of the heart electrical activity. Additional tools for analyzing ECG data are also provided which may be used to determine the time of cardiac electrical events, to select specific beats for automated cardiac interval determination, and to flag ECGs that have been evaluated by automated means but may benefit by human reading. |
| US08311617B2 |
Opposed view and dual head detector apparatus for diagnosis and biopsy with image processing method
The invention relates generally to biopsy needle guidance which employs an x-ray/gamma image spatial co-registration methodology. A gamma camera is configured to mount on a biopsy needle gun platform to obtain a gamma image. More particular, the spatially co-registered x-ray and physiological images may be employed for needle guidance during biopsy. Moreover, functional images may be obtained from a gamma camera at various angles relative to a target site. Further, the invention also generally relates to a breast lesion localization method using opposed gamma camera images or dual opposed images. This dual head methodology may be used to compare the lesion signal in two opposed detector images and to calculate the Z coordinate (distance from one or both of the detectors) of the lesion. |
| US08311613B2 |
Electrode catheter positioning system
A system for determining a position of a catheter is provided. An electrode is on a catheter. A plurality of reference electrodes are provided. Each of the plurality of reference electrodes are configured to transmit or receive a signal to or from the electrode, respectively. A processor is operable to determine a position of the catheter as a function of an electrical characteristic based on the signals. The plurality of reference electrodes are not positioned on or in a body surface along three mutually orthogonal axes. |
| US08311612B2 |
Dark blood delayed enhancement magnetic resonance viability imaging techniques for assessing subendocardial infarcts
The technology herein provides a dark blood delayed enhancement technique that improves the visualization of subendocardial infarcts that may otherwise be disguised by the bright blood pool. The timed combination of a slice-selective and a non-selective preparation improves the infarct/blood contrast by decoupling their relaxation curves thereby nulling both the blood and the non-infarcted myocardium. This causes the infarct to be imaged bright and the blood and non-infarct to both be imaged dark. The slice-selective preparation occurs early enough in the cardiac cycle so that fresh blood can enter the imaged slice. |
| US08311610B2 |
Biopsy tissue marker
A biopsy site marker is disclosed. The biopsy site marker includes a first marker element and a second marker element. The first marker element is configured for detection by a first imaging modality. The second marker element is configured for detection by a second imaging modality different from the first imaging modality. The second marker element may be a non-absorbable wire having a predetermined shape and is substantially engaged with the first marker element. |
| US08311608B2 |
Continuous vessel-selective spin labeling
The invention relates to a method for the MRT representation of a blood vessel (A) and/or of the territory supplied by the blood vessel (A) by labeling the blood, which is guided by this blood vessel (A), by means of continuous arterial spin labeling (CASL), in a specified labeling plane (E). The position of the labeling plan (E) is varied with the provision that a specified location of the blood vessel (A) remains in the labeling plane (E). This enables, for example, a selective labeling of a blood vessel of interest to be saturated by varying the position of the labeling plane. |
| US08311606B2 |
Conductive polymer patterned electrode for pacing
The present invention is an apparatus and method for making a polymer patterned electrode for cardiac pacing and sensing. The electrode surface includes a polymer overlayed on an electrode. The polymer layer is patterned to form an electrode surface consisting of a polymer and a conductive metal surface. The electrode can be made of a high or low impedance electrode by changing the conductivity of the polymer. Furthermore, the electrode surface texture can be optimized with a micro pattern that may enhance the biocompatibility. The polymer may be conductive or insulative. |
| US08311605B2 |
Biosensor with pressure compensation
A biosensor is described which can obtain physiological data from an individual. The biosensor may collect electrodermal activity, skin temperature, and other information. The biosensor may be attached to the body through the use of a garment which may be fastened in multiple locations on the human body. The biosensor includes compensation for electrodermal activity measurements based on the amount of pressure applied to the electrodes that are in contact with the skin. As pressure is increased the electrodermal activity values typically increase. By compensating for the influence that pressure changes have on electrodermal activity, more accurate analysis of physiology and therefore mental state analysis may be performed. |
| US08311597B2 |
Mobile wireless communications device including shared voice coil to provide hearing aid compatibility and related methods
A mobile wireless communications device is for use with a hearing aid including a hearing aid compatible (HAC) coil. The device may include a portable housing and a wireless receiver carried by the portable housing. The device may also include at least one image capture component and a positioning coil associated therewith and carried by the portable housing. A controller may also be carried by the portable housing for selectively operating the positioning coil for image capture, and for inductively coupling received signals from the wireless receiver to the HAC coil. |
| US08311594B2 |
Wireless device battery conservation method and system
Generally, the present invention provides a method for detecting poor RF conditions, and entering different sleep mode levels or phases in accordance with the RF conditions to save battery power. Mobile device battery life can be conserved when the mobile device detects poor RF conditions and enters a deep sleep mode of operation. In this deep sleep mode of operation the mobile device periodically samples the RF conditions and gradually increases the period between samples when the RF conditions do not improve. Because mobility can change the RF condition for wireless devices even in areas of good RF coverage, the mobile device operating in the deep sleep mode can detect this mobility and thus enhance the probability of entering an idle state, or alternatively, entering a longer power save mode. When the RF condition improves, the mobile device exits from the deep sleep mode and returns to the idle state. |
| US08311593B2 |
Method and apparatus for adjusting an on duration in a discontinuous receive transmission mode
A method and an apparatus that includes establishing a link (106) between a first node (102) and a second node (104) in a wireless communication network (100). The method continues by setting a discontinuous receive (DRX) transmission mode cycle for the link wherein the DRX cycle includes an on duration (202) followed by an off cycle (204). The duration of the on duration on a downlink is adjusted (610) based on a function of the availability of a channel quality indicator (CQI) channel used on the link. |
| US08311592B2 |
Portable terminal having external module and method for displaying charged status thereof
A portable terminal is provided having an external module that is capable of easily charging a battery of the external module, such as a bluetooth, and of easily checking the charged status thereof. The charged status of a second battery of the external module may be displayed through a terminal body as well as the charged status of a first battery, thereby being capable of easily recognizing when the external module is required to be charged. |
| US08311586B2 |
Method of processing information inputted while a mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state
A method of processing information inputted while a mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state is provided. The method of processing information inputted while a mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state includes receiving information inputted while the mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state; displaying, if the active communications state is terminated before processing the inputted information, the unprocessed inputted information that exists; and processing the unprocessed inputted information. The inputted information can be input using various input modes such as a numeral, Korean character, English character, and special character input modes. |
| US08311582B2 |
Asymmetrical beams for spectrum efficiency
A method and apparatus for increasing capacity and performance of a base station for a sectorized cellular wireless network is disclosed in which one of the sector antennas is replaced or supplanted by a novel sub-sector antenna that generates a plurality of asymmetrical sub-sector coverage areas that collectively substantially cover the coverage area of the replaced sector antenna. The use of asymmetrical coverage areas permits the total coverage area to closely approximate the symmetrical sector coverage area without creating excessively large sub-sector handover zones or introducing severe degradation in the network performance. This in turn permits the selective replacement of a single sector antenna rather than the wholesale replacement of all sector antennas in a region, leading to lower transitional costs and the ability to provide a focused approach to capacity planning. |
| US08311580B2 |
Temporally limited mobile device contact information
Archiving mobile device contact information as a function of occurrence of one or more temporal conditions is provided herein. By way of example, contact information stored in an active contact list of a mobile device can be associated with a temporal condition, such as frequency of use, or location of the mobile device, or the like. If the temporal condition is met, the contact information is archived at remote data store and/or passive portion of mobile device memory. Once the temporal condition is no longer met, the contact information can be re-downloaded into active memory and incorporated into the active contact list. As a result, aspects of the claimed subject matter provide for organizing a mobile device contact list according to temporal condition(s) to provide added efficiency and to manage such information according to a determinable situational context. |
| US08311577B2 |
Proactive control of mobile communications devices
At least one embodiment of the invention addresses the problem of accidental user operation (e.g., dialing) of a mobile communication device such as a mobile telephone. In this regard, embodiments of the invention provide a proactive solution for preventing unintended operation of a mobile device based on various types of input data of the device, most notably sensory data. |
| US08311576B2 |
Method and apparatus for network scanning based on neighbor information
A wireless device receives neighbor information broadcasted by a current serving network. The neighbor information includes frequency information of neighbors and overlay RAT (radio access technology). According to an embodiment of the disclosure, the wireless device avoids various frequency blocks when scanning for a RAT when it is known from the neighbor information that those frequency blocks are used for a different RAT. Those frequency blocks can either be skipped altogether or scanned only after other frequency blocks are scanned. Therefore, the amount of network scanning can be reduced. |
| US08311572B2 |
Communication mode controlling method, mobile communication system, radio network controller, base station, and mobile communication terminal
A communication mode which should be set to a mobile communication terminal having a function of switching between an autonomous mode and a scheduling mode is determined based on an amount of interference in each of the communication modes in the cell of a base station, and/or communication characteristics of each of the communication modes, and a signal indicating an amount of communication data notified from the mobile communication terminal. The base station then notifies the determined communication mode to the mobile communication terminal. |
| US08311571B2 |
Transmission level control method and transceiver apparatus in wireless local loop system
A transmission level control method in a wireless local loop system capable of suppressing occurrence of an unnecessarily high transmission level, comprises a step of generating a required reception level corresponding to a classification of data, a step of detecting the reception level of data at a receiver side transceiver apparatus, a step of finding a level difference between the detected reception level and the required reception level corresponding to the classification of the related received data, and a step of controlling a change of the transmission level at a transmitter side transceiver apparatus according to this level difference. |
| US08311570B2 |
Method and system of setting transmitter power levels
The invention relates to a method and system of setting transmitter power levels, particularly in a Local Network Node transmitter, providing a pico cell for private use. A User Equipment (UE) is used to make measurements of the transmission link properties, such as downlink power and round trip time. Based on the measurements made at one or a plurality of locations, the power of the Local Network Node can be determined such that interference is minimized with any overlying cells of a macro-network. Call handovers between the UE and the cell of a macro network can also be arranged based on properties measure by the UE. |
| US08311568B2 |
Enhancing uplink link budget in OFDMA communication systems
Methods and apparatus to enhance uplink link budget in Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication systems are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may increase its transmit power and/or perform subchannel repetition (e.g., in a WiMAX environment) based on at least one indication by an access point. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US08311567B2 |
Method for managing pre-established session, PoC system and PoC user equipment for implementing the same
Disclosed is a method for enabling a terminating-side Push-To-Talk (PTT) over Cellular (PoC) client to open a PoC session by using a pre-established session, and to maintain the pre-established session when the terminating-side PoC client terminates the open PoC session, and a PoC system and a PoC User Equipment (UE) for implementing the same. To this end, a REFER BYE message is used to terminate the PoC session while keeping the pre-established session maintained. The REFER BYE message must include information, such as pre-established session parameter information, a session IDentifier (ID), etc. Also, the REFER BYE message is transmitted from the PoC client to the PoC server, and the PoC server receives the REFER BYE message, checks the contents of a header in the received message, and terminates the PoC session while keeping the pre-established session maintained when a specified condition is satisfied. |
| US08311566B2 |
Communication apparatus, server apparatus, and communication control method
A communication apparatus capable of reporting that there is group communication for which a start notice has been received, but no response has been sent and facilitating checking of whether the group communication is in progress and its communication control method is provided. When a communication unit receives a start notice of PTT (push to talk) communication, an operation reporting the reception of the start notice is performed. If no instruction to participate in the PTT communication is input from a key input unit with respect to this report operation, a message indicating that the PTT communication is in progress is displayed on the display unit until an end notice of PTT communication is received at the communication unit. |
| US08311562B2 |
Differentiating a portion of a text message shown in a listing on a handheld communication device using an icon
A handheld wireless communication device includes features to send and receive text messages. The handheld wireless communication device is further equipped with a microprocessor configured to run software programs on the device such as text message management program. The text message management program displays a listing of a plurality of received text messages on a display screen and differentiates at least a portion of the display-listed plurality of received text messages using an icon associated with at least one text message and wherein said icon corresponds to a domain address of the associated text message. |
| US08311561B2 |
Method of location positioning and verification of an AP, system, and home register
A method of location positioning of a Radio Access Point (AP) is provided in an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes: querying the Connectivity Session Location and Repository Function (CLF) according to the IP address of the AP to obtain the Access Line Location Identifier (ALLI) of the AP to access a network. The ALLI is configured to identify the line location of the AP. The location of the AP is determined on the basis of the ALLI. A method of location verification of an AP is provided herein in an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes: the CLF is queried according to the IP address of the AP to obtain the ALLI of the AP; the location of the AP is not changed if the obtained ALLI of the AP is the same as the stored ALLI of the AP. A home register and a system are also provided herein to accurately locate and verify the location of the AP, thus checking the validity of the AP location. |
| US08311558B2 |
Real-time network node location system and method
A real-time location system and method for a wireless network includes, in one embodiment: (a) obtaining received signal-strength indicator measurements between stationary routers and mobile devices; (b) determining the relative angles of mobile devices from stationary routers using directional antenna systems; and (c) using signal strength and angle information to calculate the location of mobile devices. |
| US08311557B2 |
Facility for selecting a mobile device location determination technique
A facility for selecting a location determination technique from multiple available location determination techniques in order to determine the location of a mobile device in a cost or resource efficient manner. In order to select the location determination technique, the facility may consider various criteria such as the cost of employing the techniques, quality of service (QoS) criteria, the capabilities and/or resources of given mobile devices and/or networks, and/or the like. To select the location determination technique, the facility may rank the multiple location determination techniques according to weighted criteria and select the location determination technique according to the ranking. The criteria may be weighted according to the relative importance of each criterion to a requesting location-based service. |
| US08311556B2 |
Method and system for managing images and geographic location data in a mobile device
A method and system for managing images and associated geographic location data in a mobile device uses an integrated camera to generate one or more images. After generating an image, the system determines a geographic location associated with the image. The system then stores the image, the associated geographic location data, and a record of the association in the mobile device's storage component. The system may also associate supplemental information, such as telephone number, category, and street address, with the image. The system provides one or more display modes for displaying the image and the associated information. The display modes may include a list mode for displaying multiple images and portions of the associated data and a detail mode for displaying a selected image and the full set of associated data. The system may also provide a map display mode for displaying locations associated with one or more images on a map of a geographical area. |
| US08311552B1 |
Dynamic allocation of host IP addresses
The present invention facilitates dynamic allocation of home IP addresses for a mobile node, when it is roaming away from a home network and supported by a foreign network. After the mobile node obtains a care-of address from the foreign network, a stateful or stateless configuration process is used to dynamically allocate a home IP address for the mobile node. In the stateful approach, a binding update message is used to request a home IP address for the mobile node from its home agent. In a stateless embodiment, the mobile node will create a home IP address, which is sent to the home agent for verification via the binding update message. The home agent will receive the home IP address in the binding update message, verify the home IP address, and send acknowledgement of the verification, assuming the home IP address is verified, to the mobile node. |
| US08311551B1 |
System and method for adaptive route updating for access terminals based on mobility and channel loading
Wireless access terminals operating in a radio access network (RAN) may move from one coverage area to another coverage area formed by base stations within the RAN. The RAN tracks the location of the access terminals so that RAN can efficiently route communications, such as page messages, to a base station serving the access terminals. From time-to-time, the access terminals can send route-update messages to inform the RAN of their locations. Sending the route-update messages can increase the loading on base station channels that carry the messages. Methods, systems, and devices for delaying transmission of the route-update messages are described. Delaying or not delaying transmission of the route-update messages may be dependent on occupancy of access channels of a base station and whether the access terminals are mobile at the time the route-update messages are to be sent. |
| US08311549B2 |
Wireless microphone system and method of signal synchronization thereof
The present invention discloses a wireless microphone system and a method of signal synchronization thereof, which comprises the following steps: receiving or transmitting a first channel wireless signal to at least one first wireless microphone through a first base station; receiving or transmitting a second channel wireless signal to at least one second wireless microphone through a second base station; and controlling a slave base station through a master base station, such that the first and the second channel wireless signals are synchronously received or transmitted. When any one of the base stations is not received a beacon for a duration of time, the base stations automatically switch to be the master base station and start to transmit the beacon. When other base stations receive the beacon, they switch back to be the slave base stations and use the received beacon as the basis of synchronization time correction. |
| US08311544B2 |
De-registration method, home NodeB (HNB), and home NodeB gateway (HNB GW)
The present invention relates to the field of communication technology, and a de-registration method, a Home NodeB (HNB) and a Home NodeB Gateway (HNB GW) are disclosed. In an embodiment, the present invention provides a de-registration method, comprising: initiating, by an HNB GW, release of pre-registration resources corresponding to user equipment (UE) after the HNB GW receives indication information indicating that the UE moves to another cell from a source HNB. Applying the embodiment of the present invention can release pre-registration resources in time and reduce waste of resources. |
| US08311541B2 |
Mobile communication system for low power consumption, call control server and access gateway
It is provided a mobile communication system comprising base stations, call control servers and access gateways. The call control servers cause a mobile terminal accommodated in one of the control server to transmit the location registration request so that the mobile terminal accommodates in another control server according to a processing amount of control signals. The base station selects a second call control server into which the one of the mobile terminals is to be newly accommodated. The one of the call control server switches to a power-saving state after the mobile terminal is accommodated into the another call control server. |
| US08311536B1 |
Peer-to-peer redirection of a roaming wireless communication device to a nearby home base station
A method, apparatus, and system in which a wireless communication device that is registered for service with a roaming carrier network engages in peer-to-peer communication, via the roaming carrier network, with a home carrier server to notify the home carrier server of the device's roaming status and location, and the device then receives in response from the home carrier server a directive to register with and be served by a nearby home carrier base station instead. |
| US08311535B2 |
Method for controlling information trace and core network element
A method for controlling information trace, wherein MSISDN number information is converted to IMSI and/or IMEI number information automatically in a core network element, therefore only MSISDN needs to be provided when a user requires to be performed information trace. Moreover, during information trace, no information needs to be recorded and converted according to MSISDN in advance. |
| US08311533B1 |
Terrestrial based high speed data communications mesh network
A network for providing high speed data communications may include multiple terrestrial transmission stations that are located within overlapping communications range and a mobile receiver station. The terrestrial transmission stations provide a continuous and uninterrupted high speed data communications link with the mobile receiver station employing a wireless radio access network protocol. |
| US08311524B1 |
System and method for managing mobile communications
A device to automatically provide differing information levels according to a predetermined social hierarchy includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores social templates corresponding to unique social signatures and being selectable to provide, for each level of the predetermined social hierarchy, a corresponding differing amount of information to each member of the predetermined social hierarchy and/or a social networking service. The processor receives sensor data from a sensor set which detects sensor data related to an environment of a communication device, creates a detected social signature from the received sensor data, determines which of the social signatures of the social templates has the greatest correspondence with the created social signature, retrieves from the memory the determined one social template having the greatest correspondence, and provides only as much information as allowed in the retrieved social template. |
| US08311523B1 |
System and method for managing mobile communications
A device to automatically provide differing information levels according to a predetermined social hierarchy includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores social templates corresponding to unique social signatures and being selectable to provide, for each level of the predetermined social hierarchy, a corresponding differing amount of information to each member of the predetermined social hierarchy and/or a social networking service. The processor receives sensor data from a sensor set which detects sensor data related to an environment of a communication device, creates a detected social signature from the received sensor data, determines which of the social signatures of the social templates has the greatest correspondence with the created social signature, retrieves from the memory the determined one social template having the greatest correspondence, and provides only as much information as allowed in the retrieved social template. |
| US08311520B2 |
System and method for providing user-customized mobile advertising service
A method for a user to receive an advertisement directly reflecting the user's liking. When a client registers event information set by a user into a server, the server provides a corresponding advertisement by retrieving if there exist advertisements corresponding to the event information registered into that server. Also, the client registers both event information and preference information into the server considering the liking of the user. By doing this, the user can receive an advertisement directly reflecting his liking. Also, the user information can be protected by only outputting the information into a mobile terminal. |
| US08311519B2 |
Mobile communication terminal having a direct dial function using call history and method for performing the function
A mobile communication terminal call history displays call distinguishing icons representing the types of calls performed with counterparts. The call types include sent and received voice calls, video calls, and messages. If a user selects one call distinguishing icon displayed on a mobile communication terminal's display unit, a voice call or a video call is sent to the counterpart or a screen on which a message can be written to the counterpart is displayed, according to the call type of the selected call distinguishing icon. The user can directly select a counterpart and the call type to be sent to the counterpart by selecting one of the call distinguishing icons displayed on the display unit. A desired call distinguishing icon can be selected by entering a command on a touch screen, a keypad, or by voice command. |
| US08311516B2 |
System for maintaining the broadcasting information in USIM unlock environment and method thereof
Disclosed is a system and a method for maintaining broadcasting chip information regardless of device replacement in a USIM unlock environment where broadcast information can be automatically modified in response to device replacement. The method includes: transmitting terminal information on the second terminal and subscriber information corresponding to the first USIM card to a mobile communication information management server; when the terminal information is different from terminal information corresponding to the subscriber information, determining that there has been device replacement, and then providing the terminal information and the subscriber information to a broadcast information management server, by the mobile communication information management server; transmitting a request for modification of broadcasting chip information from the mobile communication information management server to a Conditional Access System (CAS), and extracting, by the CAS, broadcast information on the first broadcasting chip based on the subscriber information in response to the request; generating EMM information based on the broadcast information on the first broadcasting chip, and providing the generated EMM information to the second terminal corresponding to the terminal information; and modifying the information on the second broadcasting chip of the second terminal to information of the first broadcasting chip. |
| US08311515B1 |
System, method, and device for intelligence gathering and position tracking
A mobile communication device that may be used by an investigator to secretly record a suspect and track the investigator's location includes a microphone for detecting sounds, a communication component for transmitting signals or data representative of the sounds to one of the portable computers via the wireless communication network, a display for displaying information related to operation of the device, a computing device, and a computer program implemented by the computing device. The computer program is operable to place the device in a stealth mode in which the display is turned off or otherwise deactivated to make the entire device appear to be turned off while the microphone continues to detect sounds and the communication component continues to transmit signals or data representative of the sounds to a surveillance or support team operating one of the portable computers. |
| US08311513B1 |
Automated mobile system
An automated mobile assistant system provides automated, proactive and anticipatory services for the user of the system. A scheduling system for a mobile device is described and can include a memory to store calendar events and a scheduler to automatically organize the events based on at least one of temporal, geographical, contextual availability, user-preference, past activities, usage pattern, proximity to other users or events, or combinations thereof. In an example, a customizable personal mobile device for communication and organization can include a core engine and a plurality of modules coupled to the core engine to perform a different one of a plurality of classes of functionality of the mobile device, where each said module includes a processing element and memory dedicated for use by said module. A time-based intelligence system provides robust storage, access, and processing of information on a mobile device. |
| US08311512B2 |
Security activation in wireless communications networks
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate security activation within a specified security activation time. Thus, where handover occurs or is initiated within the activation time, security keys can be activated in such a way as to not be substantially affected by the handover. In one example, a handover time can be set to occur beyond the security activation time to ensure the security activation happens first. Additionally, a handover command can comprise security keys that can be activated upon handover in another example. Moreover, in non-real-time contexts, dummy packets can be transmitted to allow timer operability with packet sequence numbering, or security activation times can be substantially ignored by utilizing a verification process. |
| US08311511B2 |
Data privacy on wireless communication terminal
A wireless communication terminal in which items are stored that have been generated or received during use of the terminal is provided with a system for restricting access to private or sensitive information by unauthorized users in a user-friendly way that does not require entry of a password. |
| US08311506B2 |
RFID receiver front end with phase cancellation and methods for use therewith
An radio frequency identification (RFID) receiver front end includes an antenna module coupled to generate a plurality of millimeter wave RFID signals from a remote RFID device. A plurality of a phase adjusters generate a plurality of phase adjusted signals from the plurality of millimeter wave RFID signals, based on a plurality of control signals. A combining module combines the plurality of phase adjusted signals to generate a received signal. A signal strength module generates a signal strength of the received signal. A control module generates the plurality of control signals to reduce the signal strength of the received signal. |
| US08311501B2 |
Wireless transceiver and wireless transmission method
A DC offset of a VGA is measured by selecting a ground contact of a switch. Then, the gain of the VGA is set at an appropriate value, monitoring contacts of the switch are successively selected, and the output values of an ADC for the respective cases are measured with the input to a DAC set at zero. Then, the DC offset of the VGA is removed, the DC offset value of each circuit block, such as DAC, in a transmitting part is calculated, and parameters are set so that the DC offset value of each circuit block is minimized. |
| US08311499B2 |
System and method for providing automatic tuning of a radio receiver and for providing automatic control of a CD/tape player
A sound system with a radio receiver having the ability to automatically tune to a new radio station if (a) the current radio station is broadcasting a song, program or other content that the user dislikes and/or (b) one of one or more predetermined radio stations is broadcasting content that the listener likes. In one embodiment, the sound system includes a tuner for tuning to a frequency of a radio station and for converting a radio signal transmitted by the radio station to an audio signal; a memory unit for storing a first set of templates, wherein the first set of templates correspond to a to a set of songs, programs, commercials, or other content disliked by the user of the sound system; and a recognition processor, coupled to the tuner and to the memory unit, for receiving the audio signal, generating templates from the audio signal, and comparing the generated templates to at least one of the templates within the first set of templates. If one of the generated templates matches one of the templates within the first set of templates, the tuner is automatically tuned to a new radio station. In this manner, the sound system automatically tunes to a new radio station when the current radio station broadcasts content that the user of the sound system has indicated a dislike thereof. |
| US08311497B2 |
Method and system for scanning frequencies in no-service area field
A method and a system for scanning frequencies in an electronic device include storing one or more frequencies, performing a scan based on the stored frequencies for a predetermined time interval, and establishing a connection based on the scan. The system includes an acquisition database for scanning frequencies in an electronic device, a timer module for setting a predetermined time interval as the scanning interval, and a frequency identification module for identifying one or more frequencies of a normal scan and a limited scan. |
| US08311494B2 |
Test unit for testing the frequency characteristic of a transmitter
A test unit for testing the frequency characteristics of one or more components of a transmitter of modulated signals. The test unit includes a data source for generating a test pattern of data. A test unit output is connected to the data source and connectable to an input of one or more of the components, for inputting the test pattern of data to the one or more components. The test unit includes a memory in which a first predetermined data sequence and a second predetermined data sequence are stored. The data source is connected with an data input to the memory, and the data source is arranged to generating the test pattern of data including the predetermined data sequences. When a modulated signal is generated in accordance with the test pattern of data will include a first signal part with a first frequency spectrum caused by the first predetermined data sequence and a second signal part after the first signal part, which second signal part has a second frequency spectrum caused by the second predetermined data sequence. |
| US08311489B2 |
Closed-loop multiple-input-multiple-output scheme for wireless communication based on hierarchical feedback
The present invention provides methods implemented in a base station having a plurality of antennas and one or more user terminals. One embodiment of the method includes receiving feedback from at least one user in response to transmitting a first frame to said at least one user. The first frame is formed by pre-coding at least one symbol using at least one first code word selected from at least one first code book associated with the at least one user. The method also includes transmitting at least one second frame to the user(s). The second frame(s) are pre-coded using at least one second codeword selected from at least one second codebook. The second codebook(s) determined based on the feedback and the first codeword(s). |
| US08311484B2 |
Method and system for interference suppression using information from non-listened base stations
Aspects of a method and system for interference suppression using information from non-listened base stations are provided. In this regard, one or more circuits in a wireless communication device may be operable to receive a raw signal comprising one or more desired signals from one or more serving base transceiver stations (BTSs) and comprising one or more undesired signals from one or more non-listened BTSs. The one or more circuits may be operable to generate first estimate signals that estimate the one or more undesired signals as transmitted by the one or more non-listened BTSs, generate an interference suppressed version of the raw signal based on the first estimate signals, and recover the one or more desired signals from the interference suppressed version of the raw signal. The non-listened BTSs may comprise one or more BTSs that are not serving the wireless communication device and are not involved in a handoff of the wireless communication device. |
| US08311477B2 |
High-frequency switching circuit and radio communication device
According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a high-frequency switching circuit including a first differential line and third line. The differential line includes a first line configured to have one end and an other end, a second line configured to have one end and an other end and a first switch configured to switch electrical connection between the one ends of the first and second lines. The differential line receives or outputs differential signals by the other ends of the first and second lines. The third line is configured to be electromagnetically coupled with the first differential line when the first switch is turned on. The first switch is arranged at a position where an electrical length from the other end of the first line and an electrical length from the other end of the second line are approximately equal. |
| US08311476B2 |
Transponder and method for operating a transponder
A transponder and method for operating a transponder, which has a capacitor (Cbuf) for storing power transmitted via an air interface and an arithmetic logic unit (10) that can be supplied with the stored power, in which a capacitor voltage (VC) of the capacitor (Cbuf) is compared with a first threshold (V1), in which the capacitor voltage (VC) is compared with a second threshold (V2), whereby the first threshold (V1) and the second threshold (V2) are different, in which in a first operating mode (M1), when the capacitor voltage (VC) is above the first threshold (V1), the arithmetic logic unit (10) performs a number of routines with a different priority, in which in a second operating mode (M2), when the capacitor voltage (VC) is between the first threshold (V1) and the second threshold (V2), a number of low-priority routines are stopped and a number of high-priority routines are continued. |
| US08311463B2 |
Method and system to reduce high-frequency banding for electrophotographic development stations
A method for reducing high-frequency banding in an electrophotographic development station having a rotating shell and a photoconductor is disclosed. A rotating speed of the rotating shell is adjusted relative to a photoconductor such that a banding reduction ratio is not a ratio of differing low whole numbers. Another method for reducing high-frequency banding in an electrophotographic development station having a rotating shell and a rotating magnetic core is also disclosed. A rotating speed of the rotating shell is adjusted relative to a rotating speed of the rotating magnetic core such that from the point of view of a spot on a dielectric support member (DSM) in a nip region of the DSM, a similar point on the rotating shell is substantially in alignment with the DSM spot in the nip region when a pole flip occurs. |
| US08311460B2 |
Image forming apparatus
A visible image forming device is provided with an image carrier and a developing device that develops a latent image on the image carrier surface to form a visible image includes, a developer container that contains developer therein, a developer carrier carries the developer on a surface of the developer carrier and rotates oppositely to the image carrier, a first stirring member that is rotatably supported to be adjacent to the developer carrier inside the developer container and conveys the developer to be supplied to the developer carrier while stirring the developer, and a second stirring member that is rotatably supported to be adjacent to the first stirring member inside the developer container and circulates the developer by conveying the developer in the developer container oppositely to a conveyance direction of the first stirring member. |
| US08311458B2 |
Image forming apparatus having mechanism for preventing mixing of scattered toner between adjacent developing units
In an image forming apparatus having a developing rotary, when a positive direction refers to a circumferential direction of the developing rotary in which the portion of the developing rotary facing a photosensitive drum moves in the same direction as the movement of the circumference of the photosensitive drum, a clear developing unit is farther from the developing unit positioned in the negative direction relative to the clear developing unit than from the developing unit positioned in the positive direction relative to the clear developing unit. |
| US08311457B2 |
Constant velocity joint and image forming apparatus
A constant velocity joint includes a first rotation body and a second rotation body. The first rotation body includes a cup unit, a shaft, and ribs that project from the cup unit and connect the cup unit to the shaft. One of the first rotation body and the second rotation body transmits a rotational driving force to other one of the first rotation body and the second rotation body through balls. The first rotation body is so formed that the cup unit and the shaft are formed into one piece using resin material. Moreover, the rib is so formed into one piece with the cup unit and the shaft using resin material. |
| US08311455B2 |
Driving force member
A driving force member for receiving rotational driving force includes a base portion, a projection portion including three planar surfaces, the three planar surfaces arranged such that if they were extended and viewed in cross section perpendicular to the axis of the projection, they would intersect at 120 degrees in the form of an equilateral triangle, the three planar surfaces corresponding to a partial length of each side of the triangle respectively and offset from the center of each respective side of the triangle, and three joining portions joining each of the three planar surfaces, the three joining portions lying entirely within the equilateral triangle. |
| US08311454B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus, having: an image forming section to form a toner image on a sheet; a fixing device to fix the tone image on the sheet at a nip section having a pair of fixing members pressing each other to form the nip section and a heat source disposed on at least one of the fixing members to heat the fixing member; a swing section to swing the pair of the fixing members so that the fixing members displace relatively with respect to the sheet in a width direction which is perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction, and a heat source support section to support the heat source in a way that a position of the heat source is maintained constantly with respect to the sheet in the width direction. |
| US08311451B2 |
Component movement mechanism for an image forming apparatus
There is provided an image forming apparatus including: a photosensitive member; a plurality of developing devices each including a developing roller; a support member detachably supporting the plurality of developing devices; and a developing device move mechanism that moves each of the developing devices to a close position and a distant position. Each of the developing devices includes a cover member that is movable between a cover position and an exposure position. The image forming apparatus further includes a cover member move mechanism, which moves the cover member from the cover position to the exposure position in association with movement of the developing roller from the distant position to the close position, and which moves the cover member from the exposure position to the cover position in association with movement of the developing roller from the close position to the distant position. |
| US08311450B2 |
End cover part, method of producing the same, image carrier, image forming assembly, and image forming apparatus
An end cover part which is used to close an end of a cylindrical body, and transmits a driving force of a rotatable driving shaft to the cylindrical body, includes a cover member having a tubular portion into which the driving shaft is to be fitted, and a to-be-fitted portion which is disposed in a flange-like manner in a periphery of the tubular portion, and which is to be fitted into an end portion of the cylindrical body; cut surfaces which are disposed respectively on an inner circumference of the tubular portion of the cover member and an outer circumference of the to-be-fitted portion and concentrically about a common reference central axis; and a recess as defined herein. |
| US08311449B2 |
Process cartridge, supporting member, process cartridge assembling method, and process cartridge disassembling method
A process cartridge detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, the process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a developer carrying member for carrying a developer to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive member; a development frame member rotatably supporting first and second longitudinal ends of the developer carrying member; a photosensitive member frame member rotatably supporting the electrophotographic photosensitive member at the first end and swingably supporting the development frame member at the first end; and a supporting member mounted to the photosensitive member frame member at the second end, the supporting member rotatably supporting the electrophotographic photosensitive member at the second end and swingably supporting the development frame member at the second end. |
| US08311448B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus main body, a drawer, an image carrier, a developing unit which is provided to be movable with respect to the drawer, a contacting and spacing mechanism which is provided to at least one of the apparatus main body and the drawer, and which is configured to move the developing unit between a contacting position and a spacing position, a driving unit which is configured to drive the contacting and spacing mechanism, a cover, an interlocking mechanism which is configured to interlock with opening of the cover, wherein when the cover is opened, the interlocking mechanism performs a first operation of releasing the coupled state between the driving unit and the contacting and spacing mechanism, and a second operation of moving the developing unit to a drawn position while interlocking with the first operation. |
| US08311447B2 |
Toner container and manufacturing method for toner container
A toner container includes a cylindrical container body, having a first opening in a first end thereof and a notch in a circumferential surface thereof continuous with the first opening in the first end, a flange member to engage the first opening and the notch in the container body and having a toner outlet therein through which toner in the container body is discharged, a shutter member disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the container body, a conveyance member, rotatably installed inside the container body to convey the toner from a second end of the container body opposite the first end to the toner outlet in the flange member, and a recessed portion in the container body that projects inward into the interior of the toner container 5 mm or less from an inner surface of the container body. |
| US08311430B2 |
Transfer device and image forming apparatus
A transfer device comprising: a transfer section which forms a nip portion between the transfer section and an image carrier and transfers a toner image on an image carrier onto a sheet passing through the nip portion; an application section which applies a voltage to the transfer section; a determining section which determines a timing of applying voltage from the application section to the transfer section, wherein the control section controls the application section to apply a voltage having an opposite polarity to a transfer polarity to the transfer section until the timing determined by the determination section in a period since a leading edge of the sheet in a conveyance direction advances into the nip portion until a predetermined non image area of the sheet has passed through the nip portion, and then, at a timing determined, switch to apply a voltage having the transfer polarity. |
| US08311426B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier and a detection unit. The image carrier is stretched around a plurality of rolls. The detection unit detects a density of a toner image formed on the image carrier, based on an amount of regularly reflected light from a surface of the image carrier. A detection length where the detection unit performs the detection in a movement direction of the image carrier is longer than a length, in the movement direction of the image carrier, of a deformation area where a deformation of the image carrier is caused. |
| US08311418B2 |
Optical communication apparatus and optical communication method
An optical communication apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive an optical signal transmitted from an optical transmitting apparatus; a detector configured to detect a predetermined pattern signal included in the optical signal; a calculator configured to calculate, based on a waveform of the predetermined pattern signal, an amount of dispersion of the predetermined pattern signal; and a compensator configured to compensate for dispersion according to the amount of dispersion. |
| US08311416B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating optical duo binary signals with frequency chirp
This present disclosure provides an optical transmission method and system. The system includes a pre-coder for pre-coding an input signal into a first pre-coded signal, an encoder/separator coupled to the first pre-coded signal and arranged to encode the first and second pre-coded signals into a first encoded signal with 0 degree phase shift and a second encoded signal with 180 degree phase shift, and an optical modulator for providing optical modulation to the first and second encoded signals with a light source such that the intensity of an output optical duo-binary (ODB) signal with frequency chirp has identical logic sequence as the input signal. |
| US08311414B2 |
Optical space transfer apparatus using image sensor
A transmission device includes a first light emission unit having a light source for emitting one optical signal. A reception unit includes an X-Y address system image sensor, having a pixel region including a plurality of pixels, for receiving the optical signal by the pixel region; a classification unit for creating classification information representing a pixel group including pixels, among the plurality of pixels, which are irradiated with the optical signal; and a control unit for controlling the X-Y address system image sensor in accordance with the classification information to simultaneously read signals of the pixels belonging to the pixel group. |
| US08311406B2 |
Focusing device, image pick-up apparatus, and control method
A focusing device includes a first focus-position determining unit configured to determine a focus position based on a change in a radio-frequency component in an image signal obtained with movement of a focusing lens, a second focus-position determining unit configured to determine a focus position by using a different process from a process performed by the first focus-position determining unit, a mode setting unit configured to select at least a first mode which uses a result with the first focusing-position determining unit together with the second focusing-position determining unit or a second mode which uses a result with the first focus-position determining unit without the second focus-position determining unit, and a control unit configured to control driving of the focusing lens according to selection by the mode setting unit such that the focusing lens is driven in the first mode at a higher speed than in the second mode. |
| US08311405B2 |
Image capture device with zoom lens
An image capture device of the present invention includes: a zoom lens being caused by the operation of the zoom mechanism to move along the optical axis; an information acquisition part which acquires information about the amount of movement determined by the amount of movement of the zoom lens; a power supply part which supplies power to the information acquisition part; a controller which controls power supply; and a state detection part which detects a specific halt state in which the zoom mechanism stops the movement of the zoom lens when the zoom mechanism is in a predetermined operating position, the predetermined operating position being such that the zoom lens hardly changes its position despite the action of external force. The controller stops power supply from the power supply part to the information acquisition part when the state detection part detects the specific halt state. |
| US08311404B2 |
Image blur correction apparatus and imaging apparatus
An image blur correction apparatus includes: a fixed member; a first driven unit pivotally supported by the fixed member around a first support shaft extending in a direction parallel to an optical axis direction; a second driven unit holding a lens or an imaging device and pivotally supported by the first driven unit around a second support shaft extending in the direction parallel to the optical axis direction; a first actuator that produces a thrust force for pivoting the first and second driven units around the first support shaft; and a second actuator that produces a thrust force for pivoting the second driven unit around the second support shaft, wherein the first and second actuators are configured to produce the thrust forces in the same direction. |
| US08311403B2 |
Imaging apparatus
An imaging apparatus includes an optical system, an image pickup device, an image blur correction mechanism, and a holding mechanism having a holding member and a state capable of being switched between a holding state where the holding member is engaged with the image blur correction mechanism so as to mechanically hold the image pickup device and a released state where the engagement of the holding member with the image blur correction mechanism is released, the holding mechanism being set to the holding state when the image blur correction mechanism is not operated. The holding mechanism has a positioning mechanism having an elastic member configured to bias the holding member to position the image pickup device from a held position where the image pickup device is held in the holding state to an original position where the image pickup device is to be electrically held by the image blur correction mechanism. A deviation eliminating operation in which the holding mechanism is set to the released state when the holding mechanism is set to the holding state is executed. |
| US08311400B2 |
Content reproduction apparatus and content reproduction method
A content reproduction apparatus (100), connected to a display and speakers, includes: a content display control unit (200) which can cause a first window (1101) and a second window (1201) to be displayed on the display; a sound output control unit (110) which can cause at least one speaker assigned for outputting sound of first content to output the sound of the first content, and can cause at least one speaker assigned for outputting sound of second content to output the sound of the second content; a viewable range calculation unit (150) which calculates, by calculation, a viewable range in which the first viewer is located and which is included in a predetermined range where the first viewer can hear the sound of the first content with a predetermined acoustic effect; and a display control unit which outputs, to provide to the first viewer, information based on the viewable range. |
| US08311394B2 |
Video abstraction
Video data defining a series of images is processed to define a first series of nodes in a first multidimensional space, each of the first series of nodes corresponding to an image of the series of images and its location in the first space defined in dependence on features of the respective image. A transformation function maps each of the nodes in the first multidimensional space onto a respective node in a second lower dimensionality multidimensional space while maintaining neighborhood relationships between nodes. A second series of nodes in the second multidimensional space is defined in accordance with the transformation function and a clustering analysis is performed in dependence on the nodes of the second multidimensional space. |
| US08311389B2 |
Digital information recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus and transmitting apparatus
A digital information recording apparatus includes a recording circuit for recording information of a retention period included in the digital information and indicating a period for permitting the digital information to be held in the recording medium, starting with a time at which the digital information is recorded on the recording medium; and information of a playback permission period included in the digital information and indicating a period for permitting the digital information to be played back starting with a time at which the information is reproduced initially following recording of the digital information on the recording medium, permitting temporary recording or copying for the information permitted for “copy never” or “copy one generation.” |
| US08311382B1 |
Recording and publishing content on social media websites
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for recording and publishing content on social networking websites and other websites include providing an imbedded link on a social networking webpage to media recorder software stored on an external server system, invoking the media recorder software within a displayed instance of the social networking webpage through an application programming interface for the social networking webpage, receiving a video stream defining video captured using the media recorder software at the external video management server system, generating and storing a video file using the received video stream at the external server system, selecting the stored video file for distribution via one or more communication networks, and providing the stored video file for display within displayed instances of webpages hosted on external web server systems. |
| US08311379B2 |
Fiber optic cable and furcation module
An optical fiber cable assembly comprising an optical fiber slidably enclosed within a hollow tubing, both the fiber and the tubing having corresponding first and second ends. The cable is terminated with the first and second ends of the tubing and the fiber constrained with respect to each other such that fiber and the tubing are approximately the same length when the cable is at a first temperature. The tubing is made of a material which contracts more than the optical fiber when the cable is exposed to temperatures below the first temperature, such that the fiber is longer than the tubing and excess fiber length is formed. An intermediate portion of the tubing permits the excess fiber length to accumulate without bending in a radius smaller than a minimum bend radius. |
| US08311378B2 |
Optical fiber cable equipped with optical connector, method for introducing optical fiber cable, towing tool used in introducing method, and optical connector
There is provided an optical-connector-equipped optical fiber cable introducing method, according to which an introducing operation through an existing electrical wiring conduit or the like can be implemented, without damaging an optical fiber cable to be introduced, and with a small towing force. When inserting into a conduit 39 an optical-connector-equipped optical fiber cable 31 in which a grip 19 having a function of engaging with and disengaging from an adaptor is fitted onto a plug frame 9 that covers a ferrule, an introducing operation of the optical-connector-equipped optical fiber cable is implemented by towing and inserting the optical-connector-equipped optical fiber cable 31, from which at least the grip 19 is detached, through the conduit 39 and, thereafter, the grip 19 is attached to the plug frame 9. |
| US08311377B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting multiple optical wave lengths
Optical gratings that perform a number of functions at various wavelengths are formed by various methods that preserve spectral information within a wavelength band, the functions including: coupling radiation from one waveguide (7a3) to another (7a2), controllable gratings that operate on different wavelengths in response to external control signals. |
| US08311376B1 |
Optical devices based on connected and optically coupled optical whispering-gallery-mode resonators formed on a rod
Devices having whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) resonators configured to meet requirements of various applications and facilitate fabrication of such devices. |
| US08311373B1 |
Capillary electrophoresis chemical sensor
A detector is provided for sampling and identifying a material, such as a medium in which the detector is disposed. The detector includes an annular photonic crystal fiber, first and second electrodes, an electrical power supply, an illumination source and an analyzer. The fiber has opposite longitudinal ends, surrounds a center core tube and includes fused capillary tubes. The electrodes are disposed between the fiber's longitudinal ends. The electrical power supply connects between the electrodes. The illumination source emits light into the core tube from one of the opposite ends. The analyzer for compares an emission pattern from light transverse to the fiber against an established pattern, and indicates match in response to correspondence between the patterns. The annular structure has a two-dimensional optical photonic band-gap. The analyzer monitors the emission pattern by optical frequency domain reflectometry or optical time domain reflectometry. |
| US08311368B2 |
Image-processing apparatus and image-processing method
When retrieving an image from an archive of stored images that is similar to an inputted image, an image-processing apparatus (200) extracts more than one characteristic point from the inputted image (S504), computes a characteristic amount for the characteristic points thus extracted (S505), and evaluates the fluctuation in the characteristic amount when a prescribed alteration is applied to the inputted image (S506). The image-processing apparatus selects a characteristic point from among the characteristic points thus extracted from the inputted image, and retrieves (S508) a stored image that is similar to the inputted image, in accordance with the characteristic amount of the characteristic point thus selected. |
| US08311358B2 |
Method and system for image extraction and identification
The present invention provides a method for extracting an image texture signal, a method for identifying image and a system for identifying an image. The method for extracting an image texture signal comprises the following steps: extracting a first image signal; employing a first operation procedure to the first image signal to obtain a second image signal; employing a second operation procedure to the second image signal to obtain a third image signal; employing a third operation procedure to the third image signal to obtain a fourth image signal; outputting the fourth image signal. Therefore, the first image signal is transformed to the fourth image signal via the method for extracting an image texture signal. |
| US08311357B2 |
Visual processing device, display device, visual processing method, program, and integrated circuit
A visual processing device, display device, visual processing method, program, and integrated circuit that change a strength of visual processing of an image in real-time. A spatial processing portion (2) creates an unsharp signal US from an input signal IS. A target level setting portion (4) sets a predetermined target level value L for setting a range according to which the strength of the visual processing is adjusted. An effect adjustment portion (5) creates a synthesized signal MUS by synthesizing the predetermined target level value L and the unsharp signal US in accordance with an effect adjustment signal MOD that has been set externally. A visual processing portion (3) outputs an output signal OS in accordance with the input signal IS and the synthesized signal MUS, making it possible to change the strength of the visual processing. |
| US08311355B2 |
Skin tone aware color boost for cameras
Increasing color saturation and contrast in images generally leads to more pleasing images; however, doing so uniformly to all colors in the image can make skin tones appear with an overly red tint. One embodiment of an improved method of skin tone aware color boosting identifies areas of the image which look like skin tones and areas that do not look like skin tones. A blurred “skin tone mask” can then be created over the image. One large boost operation and one small boost operation can be applied to the image. A final version of the image may then be created, applying the pixel values resulting from the small boosting operation to the skin tone regions and applying the pixel values resulting from the large boosting operation to the non-skin tone regions, using the blurred mask to provide a smooth transition between the skin tone and non-skin tone regions. |
| US08311354B2 |
DCT-based technique with rhombus scanning for image compression
A DCT-based technique with rhombus scanning for image compression. A flipped-kernel discrete cosine transform is applied to an eight by eight pixel sub-block of the sixteen by sixteen pixel block. A visually insignificant information is removed from the eight by eight pixel sub-block. A quantization method is used to remove the visually insignificant information. A quantized discrete cosine transform coefficient is scanned of the sixteen by sixteen pixel block. The quantized discrete cosine transform coefficient is scanned according to a rhomboid pattern. A portion of a digital image may be divided into a sixteen by sixteen pixel block. |
| US08311353B2 |
Prediction-based image processing
A pixel block (300) is compressed by selecting a start depth value and a restart depth value based on the multiple depth values of the pixels (310-318) in the block (300). A respective plane representation (430) indicative of which plane of a start or restart depth value plane is determined for the pixels (311-318). These representations (430) are employed for selecting a pixel set comprising at least one other pixel (312, 314-317) in the block (300) for a pixel (318) to be encoded. The depth value(s) of the pixel(s) (312, 314-317) in the set are used for determining a prediction of the depth value of the pixel (318). The depth value and the prediction are employed for calculating a prediction error, which is encoded. The compressed pixel block (400) comprises the encoded prediction errors (460), a start value representation (420), a restart value representation (430) and the plane representations (440). |
| US08311348B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image by using large transformation unit
Disclosed are an image encoding method and apparatus for encoding an image by grouping a plurality of adjacent prediction units into a transformation unit and transforming the plurality of adjacent prediction into a frequency domain, and an image decoding method and apparatus for decoding an image encoded by using the image encoding method and apparatus. |
| US08311347B2 |
Image compression based on parameter-assisted inpainting
Systems and methods provide image compression based on parameter-assisted inpainting. In one implementation of an encoder, an image is partitioned into blocks and the blocks classified as smooth or unsmooth, based on the degree of visual edge content and chromatic variation in each block. Image content of the unsmooth blocks is compressed, while image content of the smooth blocks is summarized by parameters, but not compressed. The parameters, once obtained, may also be compressed. At a decoder, the compressed image content of the unsmooth blocks and the compressed parameters of the smooth blocks are each decompressed. Each smooth block is then reconstructed by inpainting, guided by the parameters in order to impart visual detail from the original image that cannot be implied from the image content of neighboring blocks that have been decoded. |
| US08311344B2 |
Systems and methods for semantically classifying shots in video
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for classifying videos based on video content. For a given video file including a plurality of frames, a subset of frames is extracted for processing. Frames that are too dark, blurry, or otherwise poor classification candidates are discarded from the subset. Generally, material classification scores that describe type of material content likely included in each frame are calculated for the remaining frames in the subset. The material classification scores are used to generate material arrangement vectors that represent the spatial arrangement of material content in each frame. The material arrangement vectors are subsequently classified to generate a scene classification score vector for each frame. The scene classification results are averaged (or otherwise processed) across all frames in the subset to associate the video file with one or more predefined scene categories related to overall types of scene content of the video file. |
| US08311340B2 |
Document processing device, document processing system, computer readable medium, and document processing method
A document processing device includes: an extraction unit that extracts a first image of an element from a read image of a medium to which the element is affixed; an accepting unit that accepts first information for specifying processing to be performed to a document, the first information being to be associated with the first image of the element; a determination unit that determines whether an image of an element identical to or similar to the first image of the element has been registered in a memory, or not; and a registration unit that registers the first image of the element and the first information for specifying the processing in association with each other in the memory when the determination unit determines that the image of the element identical to or similar to the first image of the element has not been registered in the memory. |
| US08311336B2 |
Compositional analysis method, image apparatus having compositional analysis function, compositional analysis program, and computer-readable recording medium
A technology is disclosed for easily executing a compositional analysis to obtain a preferred composition. Image data is acquired, the image data is analyzed, and a plurality of composition lines expressing the feature of the image data on the composition are acquired. On the composition formed of the plurality of acquired composition lines, the ratio of lengths of two sides selected from the plurality of sides in the region partitioned by the plurality of composition lines is detected to be a specified value (for example, the golden ratio). |
| US08311335B2 |
Model-based comparative measure for vector sequences and word spotting using same
An object comparison method comprises: generating a first ordered vector sequence representation of a first object; generating a second ordered vector sequence representation of a second object; representing the first object by a first ordered sequence of model parameters generated by modeling the first ordered vector sequence representation using a semi-continuous hidden Markov model employing a universal basis; representing the second object by a second ordered sequence of model parameters generated by modeling the second ordered vector sequence representation using a semi-continuous hidden Markov model employing the universal basis; and comparing the first and second ordered sequences of model parameters to generate a quantitative comparison measure. |
| US08311331B2 |
Resolution adjustment of an image that includes text undergoing an OCR process
An optical character recognition process characterizes text lines in a textual image by their base-line, mean-line and x-height. The base-line for at least one text line in the image is determined by finding a parametric curve that maximizes a first fitness function that depends on the values of pixels through which the parametric curve passes and pixels below the parametric curve. The base-line corresponds to the parametric curve for which the first fitness function is maximized. The first fitness function is designed so that it increases with increasing lightless or brightness of pixels immediately below the parametric curve while also increasing with decreasing lightness of pixels through which the parametric curve passes. The mean-line is determined by incrementally shifting the base-line upward by predetermined amounts (e.g., a single pixel) until a second fitness function for the shifted base-line is maximized. The second fitness function is essentially the inverse of the first fitness function. Specifically, the second fitness function increases with increasing lightless of pixels immediately above the shifted base-line while also increasing with decreasing lightness of pixels through which the shifted base-line passes. The x-height is equal to the sum of the predetermined amounts by which the base-line is shifted upward in order to maximize the second fitness function. In some cases different groups of text-lines in the textual image may be characterized differently from one another. For example, each group may be characterized by a most probable x-height for that group. |
| US08311329B2 |
Relative threshold and use of edges in optical character recognition process
Converting images to binary image representations is part of an Optical Character Recognition program in a computer system. The method and system is using a relative threshold level to convert the image to its binary image representation. |
| US08311328B2 |
Electronic vision aid and electronic vision aid method
An electronic visual aid is provided that includes an evaluating unit, which is supplied with a recording of an information carrier on which information standing out visibly from the background is displayed. The evaluating unit determines a brightness distribution of the recording and derives from the brightness distribution a brightness threshold value lying in the transition zone between a zone of the brightness distribution associated with the background and a zone of the brightness distribution associated with the information. The visual aid also includes an image processing unit which generates from the recording a binary image having only two different, predetermined brightness values, by respectively assigning to the pixels of the binary image the first of the two brightness values when the brightness of the corresponding pixel of the recording is below the brightness threshold value, and otherwise assigning the second brightness value. Also included is a display unit which displays the binary image and is provided as an HMD device. |
| US08311327B2 |
System and method for backlit image detection
The subject application is directed to a system and method for detecting backlit images. Encoded color image data is first received into a computer having a processor and associated data storage. Histogram data is then calculated from the received encoded color image data, and a mid-tone range in normalized histogram data is then detected. A zone of normalized pixel counts within the mid-tone range is then selected. Data representing an entry point and an exit point of the normalized histogram data relative to the selected zone is then generated. A plateau area is detected in the histogram data in the selected zone between the entry point and the exit point. Thereafter, a backlit image detection signal is generated indicating whether a backlit image portion is present in the color image data according to the plateau detection. |
| US08311325B2 |
Method of detecting and rectifying red-eyes automatically when taking photos
The present invention discloses a method for automatically detecting and correcting red eye in a photo taking process. The method utilizes a preview function which all of the current digital cameras have. When flash light is needed during the photo taking process, an image which is closest to the shutter pressing time is read from a preview image sequence and this image is stored. Then, red eye detection is performed according to various related information (e.g., chroma information) of this image and the image actually taken. A correction process is conducted on the detected red eye area. The corrected image is stored as a resulting image in a storage unit in the camera. Therefore, the red eye is removed rapidly and accurately during a single normal exposure process and the image without red eye is thus obtained. |
| US08311324B2 |
Performing spectral gamut mapping for reproducing an image
Spectral gamut mapping is performed for reproducing an image comprising a plurality of pixels using a device. Sample data is generated to span a spectral gamut of the device, the sample data is divided into plural subdivisions based on colorimetry of the sample data, a local interim connection space (ICS) is constructed for each of the plural subdivisions, and a sub-gamut is constructed corresponding to each of the local ICS's. For each of the plurality of pixels, a sub-gamut which corresponds to the pixel is selected from the constructed sub-gamuts, and spectral gamut mapping is performed for the pixel using the selected sub-gamut in the local ICS. |
| US08311323B2 |
Image processor for converting image by using image retrieved based on keyword
An image processor includes a keyword inputting unit, a first image acquiring unit, a first characteristic quantity determining unit, a second image inputting unit, a second characteristic quantity determining unit and an image correcting unit. The keyword inputting unit inputs a keyword. The first image acquiring unit acquires at least one first image related to the keyword inputted by the keyword inputting unit. The first characteristic quantity determining unit determines first characteristic quantity data expressing a characteristic of at least one of the at least one first image acquired by the first image acquiring unit. The second image inputting unit inputs a second image. The second characteristic quantity determining unit determines second characteristic quantity data expressing a characteristic of the second image inputted by the second image inputting unit. The image correcting unit performs an image correction process on the second image to adjust characteristic of the second image represented by the second characteristic quantity data close to the first characteristic quantity data. |
| US08311320B2 |
Computer readable recording medium storing difference emphasizing program, difference emphasizing method, and difference emphasizing apparatus
A difference emphasizing apparatus aligns a first three-dimensional model and a second three-dimensional model in orientation and position in accordance with a predetermined rule, and gets data of respective apices of the first three-dimensional model and the second three-dimensional model. Based on the gotten data, the apparatus finds a corresponding point on the first three-dimensional model, which corresponds to the apex of the second three-dimensional model in a direction of a particular axis. When the corresponding point is detected, the apparatus calculates a difference between the first three-dimensional model and the second three-dimensional model in the direction of the particular axis based on the corresponding point and the apex of the second three-dimensional model. The apparatus enlarges the difference in the direction of the particular axis, and calculates a position of the apex of the second three-dimensional model after the enlargement. |
| US08311318B2 |
System for generating images of multi-views
The present invention provides a system for generating images of multi-views. The system includes a processing unit; an image range calculating module coupled to the processing unit to calculate the ranges of a background image and a main body image of a 2D original image of an article; a depth model generating module coupled to the processing unit to generate a depth model according to an equation; an image cutting module coupled to the processing unit to cut the 2D original image of the article or the depth model to generate a cut 2D image of the article or a depth model with a main body image outline; a pixel shifting module coupled to the processing unit to shift every pixel in the main body image of the 2D original image of the article according to the depth model with the main body image outline to obtain shifted main body images of multi-views; and an image synthesizing module coupled to the processing unit to synthesize the shifted main body images of multi-views and background figures of multi-views to obtain final images of multi-views for 3D image reconstruction. |
| US08311312B1 |
Apparatus, systems and methods for accepting or rejecting a manufactured medical device
A inspection system for medical devices includes an inspection station, a workstation and a database. The inspection system collects images of the medical device. Analysis of the images reveals whether there is a defect in the medical device. If there is a defect, then a comparison analysis is performed between the defect and information in the database. The comparison analysis produces an indication of whether the medical device should be rejected in view of the defect or accepted in spite of the defect. |
| US08311310B2 |
Methods and apparatus to integrate systematic data scaling into genetic algorithm-based feature subset selection
Methods and apparatus for training a system for developing a process of data mining, false positive reduction, computer-aided detection, computer-aided diagnosis and artificial intelligence are provided. A method includes choosing a training set from a set of training cases using systematic data scaling and creating a classifier based on the training set using a classification method. The classifier yields fewer false positives. The method is suitable for use with a variety of data mining techniques including support vector machines, neural networks and decision trees. |
| US08311305B2 |
X-ray diagnostic apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method of calculating filter coefficients used for image formation processing in x-ray diagnostic apparatus and the like
A tomosynthesis image is generated by applying preprocessing to each image obtained by capturing a plurality of X-ray images at a plurality of X-ray tube positions and then performing filtering processing and backprojection. At this time, a proper filter coefficient used filtering is determined for each scan track, each image frame, and each pixel position in an image. |
| US08311298B2 |
Method and system for processing visual images of digestive system
The present invention provides a method and system for processing visual images of a digestive system. The method comprises: detecting visual images of a digestive system; storing the detected visual images; analyzing the stored visual images to identify corresponding event frames; and displaying the identified event frames quantitatively with respect to at least one reference. With the method and system, visual images of a digestive system can be processed more accurately, efficiently and conveniently for diagnostic purposes. |
| US08311297B2 |
Method and apparatus for implementing Doppler scan conversion
A method for Doppler scan conversion includes storing coded envelope values together with spectrum data in a memory out of a logic device with a large capacity, which increases the number of envelopes stored, reduces the use of the restricted embedded memory resources, and can also achieve the envelope switching more flexibly. If the number of envelopes is not greater than the difference between the bit width of the memory and that of the spectrum data, the increase in the number of envelopes will not increase significantly the logic resources or affect the efficiency of the system. |
| US08311296B2 |
Voting in mammography processing
Methods and systems are disclosed to aid in the detection of areas of interest in an image. Multiple image recognition processes analyze the image and identify areas of interest. The identified areas of interest are compared to determine confidence values for each identified area of interest using a voting process. The confidence values may be used in determining areas of increased interest which are highlighted on the image. In embodiments, identified areas of interest meeting a certain threshold requirement are selected as areas of increased interest. In other embodiments, new areas of increased interest are created by combining areas of interest. Embodiments of the disclosed methods and system may be used to aid in the detection of cancer in mammogram images. |
| US08311294B2 |
Image classification and information retrieval over wireless digital networks and the internet
A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors. |
| US08311293B2 |
Image processing apparatus and associated methodology for facial recognition
An image processing apparatus includes: a subject information storage unit configured to store feature quantities and attributes relating to a plurality of subjects; a subject detecting unit configured to detect a subject included in an image; an attribute determining unit configured to determine the attributes of the detected subject; a feature quantity extracting unit configured to extract a feature quantity relating to the detected subject; and a similarity calculating unit configured to select one or a plurality of feature quantities from feature quantities relating to a plurality of subjects stored in the subject information storage unit based on the determined attributes to calculate similarity between a subject according to the selected feature quantities, and the detected subject, based on the selected feature quantities and the extracted feature quantity. |
| US08311289B2 |
Computer-implemented method for performing similarity searches
A similarity search may be performed on the image of a person, using visual characteristics and information that is known about the person. The search identifies images of other persons that are similar in appearance to the person in the image. |
| US08311288B2 |
Biometric data encryption
A printmaking device, a method, and a system for securely handling a set of documents are provided herein. The printmaking device includes a printing module capable of printing the set of documents, and a processor operatively connected to the printing module to facilitate providing the set of documents to said printing module. The processor is configured to receive an initial biometric sample; encrypt a set of documents using said initial biometric sample; transmit the set of documents to another device; and delete said initial biometric sample from the device after the set of documents are encrypted. |
| US08311274B2 |
Image recognition system
Methods, devices and systems for recognizing an object in an image are provided, in which the object is recognized by evaluation of both image data and digital map information that corresponds to an area represented by the image. Evaluation of the image data and the digital map information may involve various methods of evaluation including cross-checking, in which the digital map information is utilized to verify correct object recognition in the image data; prediction, in which digital map information is utilized to predict a feature of an object to facilitate object recognition in the image data; or modeling in which a generic model of an object is compared with the image data. |
| US08311264B2 |
Ultra-thin speaker
An ultra-thin speaker includes a metal upper casing, and a metal lower casing corresponding to the metal upper casing and capable of covering a vibrating membrane, a support frame, a magnet and a yoke between two corresponding internal surfaces of the metal upper and lower casings and forming a contact surface with the yoke, such that after the yoke conducts heat of a heat source to the metal lower casing, the heat is conducted to the metal upper casing through a connection and a contact of the metal upper and lower casings to increase a heat dissipating area, so as to overcome the heat dissipation problem and minimize the overall thickness of the speaker. |
| US08311252B2 |
Hearing device
The present invention generally relates to a hearing device with a main housing (10) to be worn behind the ear, a secondary housing (20) separated thereof and to be arranged partly or completely within the ear and a speaker, and a connecting element (30) being arranged between the main housing (10). The secondary housing (20), includes at least an electrical and/or an acoustical connection between the speaker and the main housing (10). According to the present invention, at least one damping element (44) is arranged between the main housing (10) and the secondary housing (20). The damping element (44) reduces or prevents the transfer of vibrations between the microphone (15) and the speaker. |
| US08311246B2 |
Microphone
A microphone includes: a needle-like electrode; an opposite electrode facing the needle-like electrode; a discharge section formed between the needle-like electrode and the opposite electrode; a high-frequency oscillating circuit including the discharge section and producing a high-frequency discharge at the discharge section; a sound wave introduction section through which a sound wave is introduced to the discharge section; and a modulated signal extracting unit that extracts a signal modulated, according to the sound wave oscillated by the high-frequency oscillating circuit and introduced to the discharge section. The high-frequency discharge is produced at the discharge section as the high-frequency oscillating circuit performs high-frequency oscillation with the discharge section between the needle-like electrode and the opposite electrode as a return path, and a frequency modulation is performed as an equivalent impedance of the discharge section changes according to the sound wave. |
| US08311241B1 |
Microphone circuit
An infrared light emitting diode circuit and related methods are disclosed. Exemplary features of embodiments comprise circuitry for controlling the voltage delivered to infrared light emitting diodes and for reducing the power consumption of the circuitry in the absence of audio signals to be transmitted. |
| US08311240B2 |
Audio signal processing apparatus and audio signal processing method
An audio signal processing apparatus includes a high-frequency components extraction means for extracting high-frequency components higher than a predetermined cutoff frequency from the input audio signal and supplying them to satellite speakers by way of a predetermined high frequency range amplifier, a low-frequency components extraction means for extracting low-frequency components lower than a predetermined cutoff frequency from the input audio signal, a correlation reducing means for reducing the correlation of the high-frequency components and the low-frequency components of the input audio signal and a delay means for delaying the low-frequency components and supplying them to a subwoofer by way of a predetermined low frequency range amplifier. |
| US08311238B2 |
Audio signal processing apparatus, and audio signal processing method
An audio signal processing apparatus includes: a dividing section dividing each of audio signals of a plurality of channels into a plurality of frequency bands; a phase difference calculating section calculating a phase difference between the audio signals of the plurality of channels, for each of the plurality of frequency bands divided by the dividing section; a level ratio calculating section calculating a level ratio between the audio signals of the plurality of channels, for each of the plurality of frequency bands divided by the dividing section; and an audio signal processing section performing output gain setting with respect to divided signals obtained by the dividing section, on the basis of the phase difference and the level ratio for each of the plurality of frequency bands calculated by the phase difference calculating section and the level ratio calculating section. |
| US08311232B2 |
Method for predicting loudspeaker preference
A general model is provided for predicting a loudspeaker preference rating, where the model's predicted loudspeaker preference rating is calculated based upon the sum of a plurality of weighted independent variables that statistically quantify amplitude deviations in a loudspeaker frequency response. The independent variables selected may be independent variables determined as maximizing the ability of a loudspeaker preference variable to predict a loudspeaker preference rating. A multiple regression analysis is performed to determine respective weights for the selected independent variables. The weighted independent variables are arranged into a linear relationship on which the loudspeaker preference variable depends. |
| US08311229B2 |
Reduction of clicking sounds in audio data stream
Disclosed is a method of reducing clicking sounds in an audio data stream. The samples of the audio data are delayed by a predetermined amount in a sliding window containing a predetermined number of samples. The presence of a clicking sound in the delayed data within said sliding window is detected and the corresponding audio data replaced by substitute data derived from the audio data stream. |
| US08311228B2 |
Ear input sound pressure level monitoring system
Systems and methods for monitoring a sound pressure level dose at an ear are provided. A system includes an audio transducer which outputs a sound signal is placed within an ear to receive sound at the ear. A sound level threshold detector determines whether a sound pressure level of the sound signal is at a minimum level and outputs a sound pressure level signal corresponding to the sound pressure level when the sound pressure level is not at the minimum level. A time period is calculated during which the sound pressure level is not at the minimum threshold level. A listening fatigue calculator determines whether a cumulative effect of exposure to the sound signal at the ear over the time period will cause harm to the ear. At least a portion of the system is disposed in situ at the ear. |
| US08311219B2 |
Reproducing apparatus, recording apparatus and display apparatus
An authentication method for use in sending/receiving data between a coded data output apparatus for outputting coded data having a water mark, and a recording apparatus for recording data onto a recording medium, the method including: deciding a type of the recording medium used by the recording apparatus; based on a result of the deciding, selecting, from a plurality of authentication methods, an authentication method corresponding to the type of the recording medium, and conducting authentication between the coded data output apparatus and the recording apparatus, using the authentication method; sending/receiving data between the coded data output apparatus and the recording apparatus after conducting the authentication; and in a case where the coded data has the water mark, detecting the water mark by the coded data output apparatus, wherein the data exchanged between the coded data output apparatus and the recording apparatus is scrambled by a scrambling method corresponding to the type the recording medium. |
| US08311214B2 |
Method for elliptic curve public key cryptographic validation
Communication and validation of information transfer from a transmitter to a receiver is achieved by generating a cipher (400) from a message m (410) using parameters of an elliptic curve, a generator point P (406) on the elliptic curve and a public key Q (416) of the receiver. The cipher includes a first element that is the product kP of a random number k (404) with the generator point P and a second element that is the product of m and the x-coordinate of the product kQ. The message m is generated from two mathematically independent representations of the information and, optionally, a random number. The cipher is communicated to the receiver and decoded to recover a message m′ (502). A validation token (500) is generated by the receiver and passed to the transmitter, which validates communication of the information to the receiver if the product mkQ is equal to the validation token. |
| US08311207B2 |
Efficient and cost-effective distribution call admission control
A distributed call control system is provided that can allot bandwidth amongst several call controllers. The distributed call control system includes one or more servers that execute two or more instances of call processing servers that administer call control. The call processing servers form a cluster or group. The cluster members negotiate and determine bandwidth allocation amongst the members. If a member requires more bandwidth, the call processing server, of that member, assesses its own needs and requests more bandwidth from other members. The negotiation and requests for bandwidth are accomplished with a set of dynamic and static bandwidth data that regiment the control of the bandwidth. |
| US08311206B1 |
Facilitating communications for voicemail services in a system that uses disparate signaling systems
A method and system for performing signaling between a private branch exchange (“PBX”) and a voicemail server external to the PBX (“VM server”) to facilitate serving voicemail services to a subscriber of the PBX and the voicemail services is provided. The method includes: exchanging, between a first gateway and the PBX, a first signaling message formed in accordance with a first signaling protocol of a digital private network signaling system; exchanging, between the first gateway and a second gateway, a second signaling message formed in accordance with a second signaling protocol for serving voice over internet-protocol services; exchanging, between the second gateway and the VM server, a third signaling message form in accordance with a terminal-control protocol for an internet-protocol network, converting between the first and second signaling messages, at the first gateway; and converting between the second and third signaling messages, at the second gateway. |
| US08311201B2 |
Method and system for controlling a conference
A conference control method includes: an Application Server (AS) sets a digit collection template for the conference session; a Media Resource Server (MRS) detects and collects dialing operations of participants on the conference session according to the digit collection template set by the AS, and reports the digit collection result to the AS; the AS controls the conference according to the received digit collection result. A conference control system includes an AS and an MRS, where the AS is adapted to set a digit collection template for the conference session and send the set digit collection template information to the MRS, and adapted to receive the digit collection result from the MRS and control a conference according to the received digit collection result; the MRS is adapted to detect and collect dialing operations of participants on the conference session according to the digit collection template set by the AS, and send the digit collection result to the AS. The present disclosure provides a flexible conference control method without imposing any special requirement on the user terminal. |
| US08311199B2 |
Methods and systems for configuring and providing conference calls with customized caller id information
Methods and systems for automatically providing conference calls are disclosed. In one aspect, methods and systems detect a conference call event that was previously configured by a subscriber user and identify participant users associated with the conference call event. In another aspect, when configuring a conference call event, a subscriber user may enter, select or otherwise designate conference information that the user wishes to be displayed in the caller identification fields that are sent out when a bridge dials the participant users associated with the conference call. Once identified, each participant user is contacted and a response is received from each of the users. Based on the received responses, a conference call is established between the participant users and the subscriber user. |
| US08311198B2 |
Method for processing telephone call
A method for processing telephone call includes: access number configuration information corresponding to a called number is stored in an access number configuration equipment in a communication system; the calling party requests for the pre-call registration in the communication system, the communication system adds a corresponding pre-call registration record into a pre-call registration list according to the access number configuration information; the calling party initiates the call to the called party, after the communication system receives the call request of the calling party and before calling the called party, the communication system determines whether the calling party has been registered in the pre-call registration list, if the calling party has been registered, connects the call request and initiates the call to the called party; otherwise, refuses to initiate the call to the called party. In the method for processing telephone call according to the present invention, it is ensured that a called party would not miss important incoming calls when he does not want to be disturbed. A calling party can request for the pre-call registration by means of short message or Internet so as to call the called party. |
| US08311193B2 |
Charging method and control device for group main line service
A charging method for group main line, GML, service is disclosed. For an outgoing call from an extension of the GML, the initiated call is identified by adding a prefix for group service before the called number. When an intelligent network, IN, finds that there is the prefix for group service before the called number, the call is processed as collectively paid by the GML. A service control point, SCP, generates a call record for the call and places a special identification code in the call record. An incoming call redirected through the GML is also processed as collectively paid by the GML. The SCP generates a call record for the call and places a special identification code in the call record. The present invention also discloses a service control device. |
| US08311187B2 |
Magnetron powered linear accelerator for interleaved multi-energy operation
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for interleaving operation of a linear accelerator that use a magnetron as the source of electromagnetic waves for use in accelerating electrons to at least two different ranges of energies. The accelerated electrons can be used to generate x-rays of at least two different energy ranges. In certain embodiments, the accelerated electrons can be used to generate x-rays of at least two different energy ranges. The systems and methods are applicable to traveling wave linear accelerators. |
| US08311185B2 |
Multi-energy x-ray source
A system for generating image data includes a voltage supply configured for applying a first voltage to generate radiation at a first energy level, and for applying a second voltage to generate radiation at a second energy level, an imager for generating a first set of image data based at least in part on the radiation at the first energy level, and for generating a second set of image data based at least in part on the radiation at the second energy level, and a processor for creating composite image data using the first and the second sets of image data. |
| US08311184B2 |
Fan-shaped X-ray beam imaging systems employing graded multilayer optic devices
An X-ray imaging system that produces one or more fan-shaped beams is described. The system includes a target for emitting X rays that includes at least one target focal spot, and one or more graded multilayer optic devices in optical communication with the target. The optics transmits at least a portion of the source X rays to produce the one or more fan-shaped beams. The graded multilayer optic devices include at least a first graded multilayer section for redirecting and transmitting X rays through total internal reflection. The graded multilayer section includes a high-index layer of material having a first complex refractive index n1, a low-index layer of material having a second complex refractive index n2, and a grading zone disposed between the high-index and low-index layers of material. The grading zone includes a grading layer having a third complex refractive index n3 such that Re(n1)>Re(n2)>Re(n3). |
| US08311182B2 |
System and method of notch filtration for dual energy CT
An imaging system includes an x-ray source that emits a beam of x-rays toward an object to be imaged, a detector that receives the x-rays attenuated by the object, a spectral notch filter positioned between the x-ray source and the object, a data acquisition system (DAS) operably connected to the detector, and a computer operably connected to the DAS and programmed to acquire a first image dataset at a first kVp, acquire a second image dataset at a second kVp that is greater than the first kVp, and generate an image of the object using the first image dataset and the second image dataset. |
| US08311181B2 |
Apparatus and method of visualizing multi-energy imaging data
An imaging system includes an x-ray source configured to emit a beam of x-rays toward an object to be imaged, a detector configured to receive x-rays that are attenuated by the object, a data acquisition system (DAS) operably coupled to the detector, and a computer operably coupled to the DAS and programmed to obtain scan data with two or more incident energy spectra, decompose the obtained scan data into at least three basis materials, generate an image of one of the at least three basis materials using the decomposed scan data, and replace at least one pixel in the image using decomposed data of another of the at least three basis materials. |
| US08311180B2 |
Fuel assembly
A fuel assembly, comprising: a plurality of first fuel rods including uranium and not including a burnable poison; a plurality of second fuel rods including said uranium and said burnable poison; and a water rod; wherein said second fuel rods are placed at corners of an outermost layer of a fuel rod array; other second fuel rods are placed, in said outermost layer, adjacent to said second fuel rods placed at said corners; and other second fuel rods are placed adjacent to said water rod. |
| US08311179B2 |
Methods for stabilizing a steam dryer assembly in a nuclear reactor pressure vessel
A device and method for stabilizing a dryer assembly in a reactor pressure vessel of a nuclear reactor including a spring assembly dimensioned and positioned within the reactor pressure vessel for applying a stabilizing force to the dryer assembly relative to the reactor pressure vessel. |
| US08311178B2 |
pH adjusting apparatus
A pH adjusting apparatus arranged above a water pit for refueling disposed in a reactor container that stores a nuclear reactor includes a pH adjuster, a basket 50 that contains the pH adjuster, and a basket housing container 51 that houses the basket 50 therein and has formed therein an inlet through which a solvent for dissolving or diluting the pH adjuster flows in and an overflow pipe 52 through which a pH-adjusted solution generated by dissolving or mixing the pH adjuster in the solvent flows out to the water pit for refueling. Consequently, even if it is difficult to dispose the basket 50 on a floor of the water pit for refueling, it is possible to suitably perform pH adjustment in the reactor container. |
| US08311173B2 |
Frame pulse signal latch circuit and phase adjustment method
While a phase of an output clock signal is varied, an input frame pulse is latched based on the output clock signal. Then, by using an output frame pulse, which is a result of the latching, generation of a racing state, which is caused by the phase relation between the output clock signal and the output frame pulse, is detected. Next, a phase adjustment amount is determined so that the phase of the output clock signal of the moment when the racing state is generated is shifted by a period corresponding to half a cycle of the output clock signal. |
| US08311172B2 |
Synchronizing high data-rate radio transceivers
A method is disclosed of synchronizing a first high data-rate radio transceiver and a second high data-rate radio transceiver. The first high data-rate radio transceiver is associated to a first lower data-rate radio transceiver and the second high data-rate radio transceiver is associated to a second lower data-rate radio transceiver. The method comprises time synchronizing the first and second lower data-rate radio transceivers, determining a timing information concerning operation of the first high data-rate radio transceiver relative to operation of the first lower data-rate radio transceiver, transmitting the timing information to the second lower data-rate radio transceiver, and time synchronizing the first and second high data-rate radio transceivers using the transmitted timing information. |
| US08311167B2 |
Ultra wide band device for detection and avoidance of ultra wide band signal
Example embodiments are directed to a method for detection and avoidance (DAA) of an ultra wide band (UWB) signal and a UWB terminal. The method includes: shifting a data signal by a desired frequency in a first direction; filtering the shifted data signal through a notch filter; and shifting the filtered data signal by the desired frequency in a second direction, the second direction being opposite to the first direction. The UWB terminal comprises an encoder for encoding data signals; a tone nulling unit for changing at least one tone of the plurality of tones into a null tone; an inverted fast Fourier transformer; a low pass filter for filtering the inverted fast Fourier transformed data signals; a filter circuit for attenuating an intensity of the low pass filtered signal; and a radio frequency (RF) circuit for transmitting the filtered signal. |
| US08311166B2 |
Active antenna array and method for calibration of the active antenna array
The disclosure relates to an active antenna array for a mobile communication system which comprises a plurality of receive paths, a sounding signal generator generating a sounding signal, and a coupler for coupling the sounding signal into at least one of a plurality of receive paths. A sounding signal extractor substantially removes the sounding signal from digitized ones of the receive signals to form a wanted signal. The disclosure also provides a method for the calibration of the receive path of the active antenna array. |
| US08311165B2 |
Interference suppression method and interference suppression device
A reception station 1b compares its BSSID with BSSID included in a signal that has arrived thereat. As BSSIDs included in signals transmitted by interfering stations 1c and 1d both match BSSID of the reception station 1b, the reception station 1b identifies each of the interfering stations 1c and 1d as a non-suppression target transmission source. As neither of BSSIDs included in signals transmitted by interfering stations 2a and 2b matches BSSID of the reception station 1b, the reception station 1b identifies each of the interfering stations 2a and 2b as a suppression target transmission source. The reception station 1b uses characteristic amounts of signals that are associated with the interfering stations (i.e., suppression target transmission sources) 2a and 2b and that have been measured in the past as characteristic amounts of interfering signals that are used to suppress the interfering signals from a received signal. |
| US08311163B2 |
Time-frequency synchronization and frame number detection for DMB-T systems
A DMB-T receiver supports a single carrier (SC) form of modulation and a multi-carrier form of modulation such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Upon receiving a broadcast signal, the DMB-T receiver downconverts the received broadcast signal to a received base-band signal and determines a frame number for each frame by correlating groups of the received symbols in adjacent signal frames. In particular, the receiver determines a maximum right-shift correlation value and a maximum left-shift correlation value. If the magnitude of the maximum right-shift correlation value is greater than, or equal to, the magnitude of the maximum left-shift correlation value, then the maximum right shift correlation value is used to retrieve a frame number from a look-up table. Otherwise, the negative value of the maximum left-shift correlation value is used to retrieve a frame number from the look-up table. |
| US08311158B2 |
Receiver circuit, reception method, and communication system
A receiver circuit includes an LPF configured to remove an interference signal and/or a noise from a received signal, an ADC configured to digitize a signal output from the LPF, an FIR filter configured to further remove an interference signal and/or a noise from the signal output from the ADC and compensate imperfection in in-band characteristics caused in the LPF, a delay circuit configured to delay the signal output from the ADC by a predetermined time period, and a control circuit configured to control a destination of the signal output from the ADC, wherein the control circuit switches the destination of the signal output from the ADC to one of the FIR filter and the delay circuit according to a predetermined condition. |
| US08311156B2 |
Hybrid receiver architecture using upconversion followed by direct downconversion
A receiver configured to selectively receive an RF signal from an operating band having a plurality of RF channels. The receiver is configured to upconvert the desired RF channel to an intermediate frequency (IF) greater than the RF channel frequencies. The upconverted RF channel is downconverted to baseband or a low IF. The receiver can perform channel selection by filtering the baseband or low IF signal. The baseband or low IF signal can be upconverted to a programmable output IF. |
| US08311151B2 |
Pulse radio transmission apparatus and transceiver
A radio transmission apparatus has a first duty adjustment circuit which changes a duty ratio of a clock signal, a second duty adjustment circuit which changes the duty ratio of the clock signal to a duty ratio different from the duty ratio of the clock signal changed by the first duty adjustment circuit, a first AND circuit which takes a logical product between a data signal and the clock signal having passed through the first duty adjustment circuit, and a second AND circuit which takes a logical product between an output signal of the first AND circuit and the clock signal having passed through inversion of the output of the second duty adjustment circuit to generate a pulse signal. |
| US08311149B2 |
Method and apparatus for distorting input signal of digital predistortion (DPD) power amplifier in wireless communication system
A predistortion apparatus of a Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) power amplifier in a wireless communication system is provided. A method for predistorting an input signal at the predistortion apparatus of the DPD power amplifier includes dividing one or more bits constituting the input signal into upper bits and lower bits; generating two successive address values using the upper bits; generating distortion values of the upper bits corresponding to the address values; calculating a distortion value of the lower bits; and calculating a distortion signal value corresponding to the input signal using the distortion values of the upper bits and the distortion bit of the lower bits. Hence, the time taken to update the LUT can be shortened, the cost can be lowered by the reduced memory capacity, and the power consumption can be decreased. |
| US08311148B2 |
Transmission signal generating apparatus, method, and program
Data multiplexing subcarrier identification signal generating means generates a data multiplexing subcarrier identification signal that identifies subcarriers with which data signals are to be multiplexed. Transmission signal generating means generates transmission signals by multiplexing data signals with subcarriers according to the data multiplexing subcarrier identification signal. Peak reducing transmission signal generating means generates peak reducing transmission signals by reducing peak power of the transmission signals according to peak reducing signals in a combination of a first peak reducing process in which subcarriers with which the data signals are not multiplexed are used for the peak reducing signals and subcarriers with which the data signals are multiplexed are not used for the peak reducing signals, and a second peak reducing process in which both subcarriers with which the data signals are not multiplexed and the subcarriers with which the data signals are multiplexed are used for the peak reducing signals. |
| US08311146B2 |
Radio communication system
A transmission device (10) includes: a series/parallel converter (11); an MSK modulator (31) for modulating a signal on a channel basis; a D/A converter (13); a frequency converter (14a) for conversion into different carrier frequencies; a synchronization circuit (32); an amplifier (15); a multiplexer (16) for multiplexing amplification signals; and an antenna (19). A reception device (20) includes: an antenna (21); a demultiplexer (22); a frequency converter (23) for converting signal demultiplexed on a channel basis into a baseband frequency; a low-pass filter (33) for removing a higher-harmonic component of the signal; an A/D converter (24); a digital filter (36) for extracting a main wave component from the digital signal; a sampling point detection circuit (35a) for detecting a sampling point from the main wave component; an MSK demodulator (34a) for reproducing and demodulating a symbol point based on detection information by an interpolation process; and a parallel/series converter (26) for restoring an original signal from the demodulated signal. |
| US08311144B1 |
Systems and methods for efficient codebook searches
Methods and systems are provided for searching for a codeword from a plurality of codewords in a codebook for use in precoding, for example, as used in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission system. Tree search and recursive algorithm techniques may be utilized to reduce the complexity and enhance the efficiency of the codebook search. Distance values may be determined between an optimal codeword and codewords in a codebook. The distance values may be accumulated for a group of the k-best codewords. Additionally or alternatively, a codeword from the codebook may be removed from consideration if the codeword meets a stop rule condition. A codeword may be selected from the codebook based on a minimum distance value from the optimal codeword. |
| US08311140B2 |
Infrared, CDMA and OFDM signal transmission methods
Methods for, processing, modulating and transmitting one or more signals, in a mobile unit, used in an infrared (IR) system, in a cellular system and in a Wi-Fi wireless network. Receiving, demodulating and processing a modulated signal for generating a position finder signal, including Global Positioning System (GPS) signal. Method for generating and processing cross-correlated, TDMA, CDMA and OFDM signals. Selection of TDMA, CDMA and OFDM signals and transmission of TDMA, CDMA, OFDM or IR signal. Processing methods for providing cross-correlated spread spectrum, or cross-correlated Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) baseband signals to quadrature modulators for modulation and transmission. Method for multiple input multiple output (MIMO)transmission-reception. Method for processing touch-screen generated signals into touch screen generated control signals for control of selection of transmission of one or more of TDMA or CDMA or OFDM or IR signal. |
| US08311135B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus
A wireless communication device including a sending data amount determination unit, a data sending unit, a monitor function unit, a transmission control data producing unit, a transmission control data sending unit, a data reception unit, and an application I/F (interface) unit. The transmission control data sending unit includes a transmission control data separation unit, a transmission control data replication unit, and a data mapping unit. |
| US08311134B2 |
Method for transmitting scattered pilot signals in multi-carrier system
A method for transmitting scattered pilot signals in a multi-carrier system is disclosed. The method includes: in each time slot, in time dimension, putting each 4 OFDM symbols into a group according to the order of the OFDM symbols; in each group of OFDM symbols, in frequency dimension, selecting, for each OFDM symbol, a plurality of valid sub-carriers to transmit scattered pilots, wherein for a same OFDM symbol, between each 2 valid sub-carriers selected, there are 7 valid sub-carriers; for different OFDM symbols in a same group, the valid sub-carriers selected are interleaving in frequency domain; and transmitting scattered pilot signals on the valid sub-carriers selected. The solution helps the multi-carrier system to handle multi-path channel with large delay spread, to obtain more accurate channel estimation and to achieve better receiving performance. |
| US08311133B2 |
Method and apparatus for sensing signaling parameters in a wireless communications network
A new channel is added to FLO networks that carries embedded signaling parameter information. The design is such that regardless of the actual values of the signaling parameters conveyed, a receiver will be able to demodulate this new channel. Moreover, the addition of the new channel does not render a FLO network that has been so configured to not be backwards-compatible with existing devices. |
| US08311130B2 |
Block distortion detection method, block distortion detection apparatus, block distortion removal method, and block distortion removal apparatus
A video decoder is connected with a block distortion detector for specifying the boundary of blocks where block boundary occurs, using decoded image data and information of motion vectors, which are supplied from the video decoder; and a block distortion remover for subjecting pixels in the vicinity of the block boundary of the decoded image to filtering on the basis of the result of detection from the block distortion detector, thereby removing the block distortion. Therefore, block distortion is accurately detected when a compressed and coded image is decoded, and the detected block distortion is removed while minimizing the blurriness of the image. |
| US08311126B2 |
Method and system for transmitting or receiving N-bit video data over a serial link
A system including a receiver, a TMDS link (or other serial link), and a transmitter configured to transmit K-bit video words (typically, encoded 8-bit video words) over the link. In typical embodiments, the transmitter is configured to pack a sequence of N-bit video words, where N≠K (e.g., N=10, 12, or 16, when K=8) into a sequence of K-bit fragments, encode the fragments, and transmit the encoded fragments. The transmitted data are indicative of a sequence of M-fragment groups, and the transmitter is typically configured also to transmit over the link packing phase data indicative of the phase of the most recently transmitted fragment. Other aspects are transmitters and receivers for use in such a system and methods implemented by any such transmitter, receiver, or system. |
| US08311125B2 |
Process and device for the protection and display of video streams
A process for distributing video streams to a plurality of addressees, comprising a marking step comprising adding at least one visual element to a video stream, which marking step applied to an original video stream common to all the addressees and which is personalized for each addressee by addition of a visual element specific to the addressee that allows rapid visual identification of the addressee, wherein the added visual element replaces part of the original video stream that is stored in complementary information on a multimedia server. |
| US08311116B2 |
Method and apparatus for periodic structure handling for motion compensation
A motion compensated picture rate converter for determining a dominant motion vector for a block appearing in two images includes a high-pass filter and a low-pass filter, transform calculators responsive to the filters for performing transforms on at least two images to produce a frequency-domain representation of the images, estimating calculators for estimating a plurality of motion vectors based on the frequency-domain representations, and a periodic structure detection and elimination module responsive to the transform calculators and the estimating calculators for identifying a period based on the frequency-domain representation of the images and for selecting a dominant motion vector based on the estimated motion vectors and the identified period. A method of operation is also disclosed. |
| US08311112B2 |
System and method for video compression using predictive coding
A system and method for video compression performs predictive coding on a macroblock of a video frame such that a set of pixels of the macroblock is coded using some of the pixels from the same video frame as reference pixels and the rest of the macroblock is coded using reference pixels from at least one other video frame. |
| US08311111B2 |
System and method for decoding using parallel processing
Decoding a stream of encoded video data involves partitions that have been compressed using lossless encoding. Each partition includes rows that have also been encoded using intra-frame or inter-frame encoding. During the decoding process, two or more of the partitions are entropy decoded on two or more processors in parallel, except that partitions containing adjacent rows in the frame are decoded with an offset so that at least a portion of the output of the entropy decoding of one partition can be used as input in the entropy and intra/inter-frame decoding of the other. |
| US08311110B2 |
Image encoding method and device, and decoding method and device therefor
A video encoding method and apparatus and a video decoding method and apparatus. In the video encoding method, a first predicted coding unit of a current coding unit that is to be encoded is produced, a second predicted coding unit is produced by changing a value of each pixel of the first predicted coding unit by using each pixel of the first predicted coding unit and at least one neighboring pixel of each pixel, and the difference between the current coding unit and the second predicted coding unit is encoded, thereby improving video prediction efficiency. |
| US08311108B2 |
Multi-view image coding apparatus and method
A multi-view image coding apparatus and method are provided. The multi-view image coding apparatus may extract geometric information from a plurality of cameras, may construct a spatial prediction structure to enable a correlation of each view to be maximum using the geometric information, and thereby may code and transmit a multi-view image. |
| US08311105B2 |
Information-processing apparatus, information-processsing method, recording medium and program
Disclosed herein is an information-processing apparatus for splicing an encoded stream at a splicing point set on the encoded stream, the information-processing apparatus including, a decoding unit configured to decode a part included in a re-encoding section as a part including the splicing point in order to generate a base band signal, an encoding unit configured to encode an edited signal obtained as a result of splicing the base band signal, which are generated by the decoding unit, at the splicing points in order to generate a re-encoded stream, and a control unit configured to add a predetermined section, which is included in the encoded stream as a section immediately lagging behind the re-encoding section, to the re-encoding section as a re-encoding extension of the re-encoding section in case continuity between the occupancy of the end point of the re-encoded stream generated by the encoding unit and the occupancy of a portion included in the encoded stream as a portion corresponding to the end point is not sustained. |
| US08311100B2 |
Information handling method for mapping information items to respective nodes
An information handling method in which information items are mapped to respective nodes in an array of nodes by mutual similarity of the information items, such that similar information items map to nodes at similar positions in the array of nodes; a mapping relationship being defined between feature data relating to an information item and nodes in the array of nodes comprises the steps of: (a) for each of a group of information items: detecting feature data representing each of a set of properties of that information item; (b) for the ensemble of feature data corresponding to the group of information items: detecting more significant and less significant properties within the ensemble; discarding feature data relating to less significant properties, the remaining non-discarded feature data being associated so as to generate a reduced feature vector for each information item; (c) defining a mapping between the reduced feature vectors and nodes in the array of nodes. |
| US08311097B2 |
Image processing method for adaptive spatial-temporal resolution frame
An image processing method for RDO based adaptive spatial-temporal resolution frame is provided for significantly reducing distortion of the decoded video image, which is resulted from over-compression or over-quantization by the encoder in a low code rate. By employing such image processing method, when the encoder detects that the allocated code rate is below the critical point, most appropriated temporal resolution and spatial resolution in an allocated specific code rate are found automatically based on the principle of rate distortion optimization, then after the decoding of the decoder, the resolution of the input image is recovered according to a certain algorithm. |
| US08311094B2 |
Buffer underflow prevention
A video stream is digitally encoded such that the rate at which individual segments of data are encoded varies according to the amount of data required to generate each segment. Frames are selectively omitted from transmission (32) such that the cumulative frame rate does not fall below a predetermined value. This process can be used to ensure that the next frame to be displayed is always available in the buffer store 6 associated with the decoder (2). The decoder (2) is arranged to identify where frames have been omitted from the decoded transmission, and to perform a resynchronisation (7) on the decoded stream by comparison between time stamps in the video stream and a corresponding audio stream. Resynchronisation may be performed by extending the durations of individual frames, or by repeating frames. |
| US08311091B1 |
Cache optimization for video codecs and video filters or color converters
Cache usage optimization is disclosed. At runtime, a number of blocks of video data to be processed as a batch is determined based at least in part on a performance metric. A group of blocks that includes the determined number of blocks is processed as a batch. |
| US08311088B2 |
Method and system for image processing in a microprocessor for portable video communication devices
Methods and systems for processing video data are provided herein. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving on a chip, a plurality of video frames and storing a portion of the received video frames in a memory on the chip. A first portion of the stored video frames may be decoded on the chip and a second portion of the stored video frames may be encoded on the chip during the decoding. A third portion of the stored video frames may be converted from an input video format to a YUV video format. A reference frame corresponding to the converted third portion may be identified from the stored video frames. After conversion, the converted third portion of the received video frames may be utilized as the reference frame for estimating/encoding, or compensating/decoding temporal motion of the subsequently received video frames. |
| US08311087B2 |
Methods and apparatus for monitoring voice quality on a wireless communication device
Methods and apparatus for providing monitoring of voice quality and diagnostic data related to voice quality on a wireless device. Monitoring thresholds can be implemented that allow for additional precautionary measures and/or further monitoring to occur if a threshold level of voice quality performance is experienced. The results of the voice and diagnostic monitoring can be communicated to the service provider who can then collect, analyze and generate reports to assess and determine quality-related problems experienced by the communication network. |
| US08311082B2 |
Wideband digital radio with transmit modulation cancellation
A microwave radio assembly is described including a directional antenna wherein the installation and aiming is simplified. The assembly is attached to the wall-mount fix via gimbals mechanism with one rotation axis for azimuth and one for elevation and the assembly preferably includes a sight mechanism including a pair of visual apertures is located in the radio assembly in a line parallel to the radio antenna radiation direction. The radio assembly further includes a modulation cancellation scheme in full duplex mode. |
| US08311077B2 |
Modulator, filter, method of controlling gain of filter, and code modulating method
A modulator being made small in size, low in costs, low in power consumption, small in heat generation and spurious signals. The modulator includes multipliers (101, 102) for code-modulating received transmission data (D(n), C(n)), and outputting the modulated data, a control channel gain factor signal generator (106) for generating a gain control signal, a control channel gain factor signal generator (107), and weighting coefficient setting signal generators (108, 109) for receiving the output of the complex-number computing section (120) and controlling the gains of the raised cosine filters (110 to 113). |
| US08311075B2 |
Method for decoding digital data in a frequency hopping communication system
An improved method is provided for decoding data in a frequency hopping communications system. The method includes: monitoring transition points between data bits in a demodulated data stream, where the data bits are transmitted to a receiver over different transmission frequencies; determining a frequency over which data bits are transmitted to the receiver; determining a reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received, where the reliability metric is based on transition points of data bits transmitted over a given frequency; and performing a decoding operation using the reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received. |
| US08311073B2 |
Semiconductor laser, semiconductor laser device, and fabrication method of semiconductor laser
A semiconductor laser that includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor multilayer reflector of a first conductive type formed on the substrate; an active region formed on the first semiconductor multilayer reflector; a second semiconductor multilayer reflector of a second conductive type formed on the active region; and an intermediate semiconductor layer of a first conductive type or a second conductive type formed under the first semiconductor multilayer reflector or above the second semiconductor multilayer reflector. An oxidized region formed by oxidizing a part of the intermediate semiconductor layer and an un-oxidized region contacting with the oxidized region are formed in the intermediate semiconductor layer, the un-oxidized region is electrically connected to the first or second semiconductor multilayer reflector, and a beam generated in the active region is reflected at a boundary between the oxidized region and the un-oxidized region to a direction parallel to a principal surface of the substrate, and is emitted from a side surface of the intermediate semiconductor layer. |
| US08311070B2 |
Nitride semiconductor laser device
A nitride semiconductor laser device includes an n-type AlGaN clad layer, a GaN layer, a first InGaN light guide layer, a light-emitting layer, a second InGaN light guide layer, a nitride semiconductor inter mediate layer, a p-type AlGaN layer, and a p-type AlGaN clad layer stacked in this order on a nitride semiconductor substrate, wherein the n-type AlGaN clad layer has an Al composition ratio of 3-5% and a thickness of 1.8-2.5 μm; the first and second InGaN light guide layers have an In composition ratio of 3-6%; the first light guide layer has a thickness of 120-160 nm and greater than that of the second light guide layer; and the p-type AlGaN layer is in contact with the p-type clad layer and has an Al composition ratio of 10-35% and greater than that of the p-type clad layer. |
| US08311066B2 |
Laser apparatus and extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus
A laser apparatus comprises an amplifier including at least one of a MOPA and a MOPO each of which amplifies a single-longitudinal or multiple-longitudinal mode laser light, an amplifiable agent of the amplifier being a molecular gas, a master oscillator constructed from a semiconductor laser being able to oscillate a single-longitudinal or multiple-longitudinal mode laser light of which wavelength is within one or more amplification lines of the amplifier; and a controller executing a wave shape control adjusting a pulse shape and/or a pulse output timing of a single-longitudinal or multiple-longitudinal mode laser light outputted from the master oscillator. |
| US08311063B2 |
Updating routing and outage information in a communications network
After power is restored to a node in a utility network, that node employs one or more of its neighboring nodes as proxies to route a message to a central control facility of the utility. The message contains information about the restored node, and possibly one or more of its neighbor nodes. This information may include reboot counters, the amount of time that the node was down, momentary outages or power fluctuations, and/or the time of power restoration. The node that creates and initially sends the message can be the restored node itself, or another node that recognizes when a restored node has recently come back online. |
| US08311062B2 |
Method and arrangement for alignment of protocol data units in a wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for communicating a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) between a transmitter unit and a receiver unit in a wireless communication network. Said PDU comprising protocol headers associated with at least a first and a second protocol layers involved in the communication and a payload to be communicated. The method comprises the step of interacting between the at least first and second protocol layers, such that the sum of the bits of the protocol headers is n-bit aligned such as octet aligned independently of non-alignment of at least one of the protocol headers comprised in the PDU. |
| US08311061B2 |
System and method for multi-user multiplexing
A relay node which includes a processor configured to multiplex a plurality of medium access control layer (MAC) packet data units (PDUs) that correspond to a plurality of user agents to form a Super-MAC PDU. The Super-MAC PDU includes a header. The header includes a plurality of Super-MAC PDU subheaders related to the MAC PDUs. |
| US08311060B2 |
Method and system for transmitting IP message, negotiating bandwidth saving capability and saving network bandwidth
The present disclosure discloses a method for transmitting an IP message, negotiating a bandwidth saving capability and saving network bandwidth. The method for transmitting an IP message includes: sending more than one bandwidth saving capability supported by a sender to a receiver; receiving one bandwidth saving capability selected by the receiver; obtaining a type of an IP message for transmitting data according to the bandwidth saving capability selected by the receiver; and sending the IP message to the receiver after constructing the IP message, wherein the one bandwidth saving capability is selected from the more than one bandwidth saving capability and is supported by the receiver. By applying the methods provided by the present disclosure, the bandwidth and resources of an IP bearer network in a communication system are saved. |
| US08311057B1 |
Managing formatting of packets of a communication protocol
A circuit manages input and output formats of the packets of a communication protocol. The circuit includes representation blocks and distribution and gather blocks coupled to the representation blocks. Each representation block is associated with a respective descriptor of the input and output formats. Each representation block processes a value of the respective descriptor. One or more of the representation blocks is adapted to modify the value of the respective descriptor. For each packet input in the input format, the distribution block distributes the value of each descriptor for the packet to the representation block associated with the descriptor. For each packet output in the output format, the gather block gathers the value of each descriptor for the packet from the representation block associated with the descriptor. The input format is changed to the output format in response to representation blocks modifying the value of the respective descriptor. |
| US08311051B2 |
Use of hardware to manage dependencies between groups of network data packets
A task obtained by a communications processor is decomposed into one or more requests that form a request group. The requests of the request group are sent to main memory and responses to those requests are expected. There may be requests for a plurality of request groups being processed concurrently. However, responses to the request groups are to be returned to the communications processor in the order in which the request groups were sent from the communications processor. To ensure this ordering, dependencies between the request groups are tracked by hardware coupled to the communications processor. |
| US08311049B2 |
Method and device for scheduling packets for routing in a network with implicit determination of packets to be treated as priority
A method of ordonnancing packets belonging to different flows comprises: a step (E58) of queuing each packet in a queue associated with the flow of said packet; and for each of said queues processed cyclically, a step of sending packets contained in said queue up to a quota for said cycle; said method being characterized in that it further includes: a step (E40, E54) of determining the priority of said packet before said step (E58, E56, E48) of queuing, the priority packets being, firstly, the first packets of the inactive flows, namely the flows for which no packet has been received in said cycle, and, secondly, the packets of the active flows for which the volume of packets received in the cycle is less than the quota; and a step of sending with priority in said cycle packets determined to have priority during said determination step (E40, E54). |
| US08311046B2 |
Method for the delivery of messages in a communication system
The invention relates to a method in which a message is received to a communication server from a node. The communication server obtains user information with recipient information in the message. The user information comprises user entity state and user entity protocol information. A first protocol is determined to become a preferred protocol based on the user entity protocol information. The delivery of said message is attempted with a delivery mechanism of the preferred protocol. A second protocol is determined to become the preferred protocol with said user entity protocol information upon a failure to deliver said message with said first protocol. The attempting of the delivery of said message is repeated with a delivery mechanism of the preferred protocol. |
| US08311041B1 |
Systems and methods for automatically adjusting messaging quota
Certain embodiments of the disclosed technology may include systems and methods for automatically adjusting messaging quota. According to an implementation of the disclosed technology, a computer-implemented method is provided for determining a first user base size; determining a first push message volume corresponding to the first user base size; setting a push message quota based at least in part on the first push message volume; determining a second user base size; determining an estimated push message volume based at least in part on the second user base size and the first push message volume; determining a second push message volume corresponding to the second user base size; comparing the estimated push message volume to the second push message volume; and adjusting the push message quota based at least in part on the comparison of the estimated push message volume to the second push message volume. |
| US08311036B2 |
Device based emergency services for cross cluster extension mobility
A system is disclosed. The system has a call data receiver arranged to receive call data comprising number data indicative of a telephone number associated with a call connection request. The system also has a translator arranged to translate the received number data to obtain translated number data indicative of another telephone number. There is also a number data associator for associating the call connection request with the translated number data. |
| US08311035B2 |
Methods and apparatus for communicating internet protocol based control signaling through a communications system
An embodiment of a method for communicating call control signaling information in a communications system that includes a user equipment (UE) and a base includes the UE formatting the call control signaling information, transmitting the call control signaling information over a first logical channel that is mapped to a first transport channel, and transmitting user traffic over a second logical channel that is mapped to a second transport channel. In an embodiment, the base receives the call control signaling information from the UE over the first logical channel, receives the user traffic from the UE over the second logical channel, and transmits the call control signaling information to a core network. In an embodiment, the communication system is an IP network in which information is exchanged between the UE and the base using a W-CDMA transmission protocol. The base may form a portion of a satellite-based radio network. |
| US08311032B2 |
Dynamically provisioning virtual machines
Method and computer program for managing the network response times experienced by virtual machines. Traffic is routed within an Ethernet network through a network switch according to IP addresses identified within Ethernet frames. A plurality of compute nodes are each coupled to the network switch via a separate Ethernet link. A response time is determined for each virtual machine running on the compute nodes, wherein the response time for a particular virtual machine is the difference between a time stamp in a TCP/IP Request message and a time stamp in a TCP/IP Response message for an IP address assigned to the particular virtual machine. The particular virtual machine may then be migrated to a target compute node in response to a particular one of the virtual machines on a particular one of the compute nodes having a response time that exceeds a response time setpoint. |
| US08311028B2 |
Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method
To provide a radio communication apparatus and a radio communication method in which change in the transmission rate is taken into consideration at the time of making transmission reservation. The present invention provides a radio communication apparatus for receiving the transmission reservation request with a radio transmitting/receiving unit and transmitting the reservation acknowledgement from the same radio transmitting/receiving unit. This radio communication apparatus is characterized in comprising a control unit for transmitting, from the radio transmitting/receiving unit, a plurality of reservation acknowledgments in different contents for a transmission reservation request in different timings. |
| US08311020B2 |
Communication system allowing network nodes to efficiently establish communications with a controller
A communication system is provided that includes a controller and a system to allow efficient transmission of information with a plurality of nodes. The information includes an alignment signal provided from the controller to enable the nodes to align their response signals. The information further includes node identification information. Once alignment and identification occur, nodes can then transmit packet data to the controller. |
| US08311015B2 |
Method for supporting continuous reception of evolved broadcast and multicast service data
The method for supporting continuous reception of enhanced broadcast service data comprising steps of: an MCE receiving an “MBMS Session Start Request” message from a core network; after the MCE receives the message, transmitting a response message to the core network; MCE transmitting an “MBMS Session Start Request” message to an ENB, the message including information of adjacent cells; and the ENB broadcasting the information of adjacent cells on a current cells. With the scheme of present invention, if a user wants to move to a common cell when he/she receives MBMS service in an SFN edge cell, he/she can enter the active mode and switch into the common cell so as to reduce MBMS data loss. When a UE moves from a cell with SC-PTM transmission mode into a cell with SC-PTM transmission mode, data loss can also be reduced. |
| US08311012B2 |
Mobile communication system, mobile communication method, access device, and gateway information storage device
A gateway information storage device (60) includes a gateway information storage unit (61) which stores gateway information indicating a gateway (GW) to which a mobile terminal (10) is being connected. An access device (20) includes: a gateway information acquiring unit (23) which acquires the gateway information from the gateway information storage device (60) in response to a connection request in handover that is received from the mobile terminal (10); and a connection processor unit (22) which establishes a connection between the mobile terminal (10) and a gateway (GW20B) identified by the gateway information acquired from the gateway information storage device (60). |
| US08311011B2 |
Method of performing procedures for initial network entry and handover in a broadband wireless access system
Disclosed is a method of performing procedures for network entry of a mobile station in a broadband wireless access system. The method includes being allocated with transmission parameters from a base station, at least one time performing a request of an uplink band for transmission of an uplink management message to the base station, and receiving a downlink message for next procedure from the base station if the uplink band is not allocated even after the lapse of a preset time period. |
| US08311008B2 |
Method for scheduling distributed virtual resource blocks
A method for efficiently scheduling virtual resource blocks to physical resource blocks is disclosed. In a wireless mobile communication system that supports a resource block group (RBG) allocation scheme, when consecutively allocated virtual resource blocks are distributively mapped to physical resource blocks, a gap for the distribution is determined to be a multiple of a square of the number of consecutive physical resource blocks constituting an RBG. |
| US08311007B2 |
Radio resource management
A wireless communication unit (101) for a radio communication system comprises a device token controller (403) which receives at least a first geographical radio resource token allocated to the wireless communication unit (101) by a radio resource token controller (117) of a network of the radio communication system. The first geographical radio resource token provides a first radio resource right allocation to the wireless communication unit (101) for a first geographical area. A radio resource manager (407) then determines a radio resource usage parameter in response to the first radio resource right allocation. Specifically, the radio resource manager (407) may only determine the radio resource usage parameter in response to the first radio resource right allocation if the location estimate is within the first geographical area. The radio communication system may be a heterogeneous communication system. The invention may allow effective overall centralized radio resource management while allowing distributed radio resource management procedures and techniques to be used. |
| US08311006B2 |
Resource fairness policies for allocation of resources in a satellite communications system
Novel satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. In some embodiments, a satellite communications system is configured to dynamically allocate bandwidth to terminals. Such a system may be made up of a satellite in communication with terminals (e.g., user terminals or gateways). The satellite or a Network Control Center (NCC) may receive and compile bandwidth request data from the terminals. In each of a series of one or more epochs, and according to the bandwidth requests, the satellite and/or NCC may allocate carrier group resources to particular traffic classes. The assignment of allocated resources to particular terminals is also described. |
| US08311004B2 |
Mobile communication system, base station apparatus, and mobile station apparatus
A mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus transmits, to abase station apparatus, uplink data using a physical uplink shared channel assigned by an uplink data transmission permission signal, wherein the base station apparatus: transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, a radio resource control signal including information for specifying a physical format in transmitting reception quality information together with uplink data; and transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, the uplink data transmission permission signal including a transmission instruction of reception quality information, and wherein the mobile station apparatus transmits, to the base station apparatus, reception quality information together with uplink data using the physical uplink shared channel according to information for specifying the physical format in case that a transmission instruction of the reception quality information is included in the uplink data transmission permission signal. |
| US08311002B2 |
Scheduling of users on a shared radio resource using a combination of link quality and traffic information
The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for optimizing radio resource utilizations when scheduling data transmissions between a radio base station (15) and one or more user equipments (18) on a radio channel over a radio interface in a communication network comprising a plurality of said radio base stations (15) serving cells between which said user equipments (18) are moving. Firstly information on channel quality of said radio channel is obtained. Also, information on the traffic per user within the cell is obtained. Then, the information on channel quality and said traffic information are combined and the data transmission is scheduled based on the combination. |
| US08310995B2 |
Systems and methods for wireless communication using SDMA
In a wireless communication system for communicating with a plurality of stations at the same point of time with the same frequency using a Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA), wireless resources are allocated by a first decision unit which evaluates performance of each station obtained when the SDMA is used and which determines periods of time to be allocated to groups of stations formed according to the SDMA technique. Using a first evaluation unit and a second evaluation unit to evaluate performance required by each station and each application, the first decision unit allocates the wireless resources to the stations. It is therefore possible that the wireless resources are efficiently allocated to the stations while preventing an event in which the wireless resources are excessive or insufficient for required quality of service. |
| US08310994B2 |
Method for configuring and managing channels in a wireless communication system using AMC channels and diversity channels, transmission/reception apparatus thereof, and system thereof
Provided is a method for configuring and managing a channel in a wireless communication system that divides a full frequency band into a plurality of sub-bands. The method comprises selecting at least one sub-band from the plurality of sub-bands and allocating each of a plurality of Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) channels using the selected at least one sub-band; puncturing sub-carriers of at least one of the plurality of AMC channels according to a predetermined pattern; and allocating a diversity channel using the punctured sub-carriers. |
| US08310991B2 |
Method, apparatus and computer program for controlling coexistence between wireless networks
Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed for independent wireless resource sharing on a fair basis to enable selecting the most suitable coexistence between wireless networks. Example embodiments of the invention include a method comprising receiving, at a network controller, a coexistence management service request allowing one or more network controllers to make decisions concerning operational parameters of a wireless network originating the request; determining whether control of the wireless network is to be shared with one or more network controllers serving one or more wireless networks neighboring the wireless network originating the request; and in response to determining that control of the wireless network is not to be shared with the one or more network controllers serving the one or more wireless networks neighboring the wireless network originating the request, notifying the one or more network controllers serving the one or more wireless networks neighboring the wireless network originating the request that the wireless network has requested a coexistence information service. |
| US08310989B2 |
Wireless communications node used in AD HOC network and method thereof
A wireless communications node, being included in a multi-hop route starting from a source node and terminating at a destination node, has a receiving part configured to receive signals including transmission data prepared by the source node and transferring the received signals to a succeeding node, a preparing part configured to prepare source node data including at least identification data of the source node based on a predetermined portion of the transmission data, and a reporting part configured to report the source node data and relay data to a management node that manages cost data of plural nodes included in an ad hoc network. The relay data include the cost data and station data including at least identification data of the wireless communications node. |
| US08310987B2 |
Apparatus and method for notifying change of system control information in a broadband wireless communication system
An apparatus and method for notifying a change of system control information in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes, changing a Group Configuration Change Counter (GCCC) and upon change of a Secondary-Super Frame Header/Sub-Packet1 (S-SFH/SP1) whose transmission period is changeable within a range of one or more super frames, changing the GCCC and information representing the change of the common control message upon change of at least one common control message, and transmitting the GCCC and the information representing the change of the at least one common control message. |
| US08310984B2 |
Controller, mobile station, mobile communications system and control method
A disclosed control apparatus performs packet communications with a mobile station and divides a coverage area into plural sectors so as to control the communications. The control apparatus comprises a transmission allocation portion that selects at least two transmission sectors to perform transmission to the mobile station in accordance with reception quality imparted from the mobile station so as to perform a transmission allocation for the mobile station; and a transmission portion that uses an identical scramble code for sector identification so as to perform transmission to the mobile station. |
| US08310979B2 |
Message repeater and method of operation
A method is provided for operating a distributed power repeater for a train system. The method includes: (a) monitoring all radio traffic on a wireless communications channel used by the repeater to relay distributed power commands between a plurality of transmitters and receivers disposed on a plurality of trains for distributed power control of the trains; (b) determining the level of channel loading on the communications channel; (c) comparing the channel loading to a predetermined limit; (d) if the channel loading is less than the predetermined limit, relaying messages over the wireless communications channel at a first activity level; and (e) if the channel loading exceeds the predetermined limit, relaying messages over the wireless communications channel at a second activity level less than the first activity level. |
| US08310976B2 |
Transmitting/receiving system and method of processing broadcasting signal in transmitting/receiving system
A transmitting system, a receiving system, and a method of processing a broadcast signal are disclosed herein. The receiving system include a tuner, a demodulator, a block decoder, an RS frame decoder, and a service manager. The tuner receives a broadcast signal. Herein the broadcast signal includes mobile service data, a service map table signaling access information of the mobile service data, and a plurality of known data sequences. The mobile service data and the service map table are packetized to an RS frame. The demodulator demodulates the received broadcast signal. The block decoder turbo-decodes the mobile service data and the service map table included in the demodulated broadcast signal in block units. The RS frame decoder forming an RS frame including the turbo-decoded mobile service data and service map table, performs primary first cyclic redundancy check (CRC)-decoding and RS-decoding, and performs secondary CRC-decoding on the primarily CRC-decoded and RS-decoded RS frame. The service manager acquires source IP address information of IP datagrams of the RS frame-decoded mobile service data from the service map table. |
| US08310968B2 |
Access point, wireless communication station, wireless communication system and wireless communication method
The present invention implements an intermittent reception method with which a portable station that does not receive a multicast service does not enter the Awake state unnecessarily. A packet buffer portion buffers a received packet in such a memory as RAM and recording device, and judges whether the buffered packet is a multicast packet. When the packet buffer unit judges that the packet buffered by the packet buffer unit is a multicast packet, a DTIM beacon generation unit generates a DTIM beacon in which multicast notification data indicating that the multicast packet is buffered is set. A packet transmission unit transmits the DTIM beacon generated by the DTIM beacon generation unit to wireless communication stations or the like. |
| US08310966B2 |
Wireless communication system, wireless base station, transmission rate determining method, and program for wireless communication system
By more flexibly controlling connection for each transmission rate in the wireless base station, the connection is established using possibly a higher transmission rate so long as the connection capacity of the wireless base station has a margin while efficiently determining the transmission rate according to the wave intensity from a wireless communication terminal. If the connection capacity of the base station has a margin after additionally connecting one wireless communication terminal, i.e., if the communication traffic is equal to or less than a predetermined margin threshold value, the rate decision threshold value to determine the transmission rate for connection is lowered by a predetermined value to determine a transmission rate so that the connection is established using a transmission rate higher than that determined by the rate decision threshold value as the default value (initial value) to thereafter establish the connection. |
| US08310965B1 |
Buffered audio system with synchronizing bus controller
An audio system includes an audio client device and an access point. The audio client device includes a buffer, a clock generator, a bus controller, a bus receiver, and a control module. The buffer is configured to receive a stream of samples of audio data. The clock generator is configured to generate a first clock signal. The bus controller is configured to read samples from the buffer for transmission across a bus using the first clock signal. The bus receiver is configured to receive samples from the bus controller and output a sampling clock along with each sample. The control module is configured to analyze activity of the buffer and modify operation of the bus controller to synchronize the sampling clock with a remote sampling clock. The access point includes an audio content module, a decoding module, and a network interface that wirelessly transmits the stream of samples. |
| US08310963B2 |
System and method for synchronized time-division duplex signal switching
A system comprises a first unit and a second unit communicatively coupled to the first unit. The first unit is operable to receive a first original radio frequency signal and the second unit is operable to receive a second original radio frequency signal. The first and second original radio frequency signals are originally transmitted on a radio frequency channel using time division duplexing. The first unit communicates a control signal to the second unit, the first unit generating the control signal based at least in part on detecting when the first original radio frequency signal is being received at the first unit. The second unit uses the control signal to determine when to output a first reproduced radio frequency signal in accordance with the time division duplexing used to originally transmit the first and second original radio frequency signals on the radio frequency channel. The first reproduced radio frequency signal is derived from the first original radio frequency signal. |
| US08310962B2 |
United AFEC and method thereof, and TDD radio repeater apparatus using the same
Provided is a united Adaptive Forward Error Correction (U-AFEC), including: an automatic gain control unit for controlling a gain of forward/backward relay signals; a switching unit for switching the forward/backward relay signals; a forward feedback signal detecting unit for detecting and updating a phase and a size of a feedback signal; a backward feedback signal detecting unit for detecting and updating the phase and the size of the feedback signal; a reverse feedback signal synthesizing unit for generating a reverse feedback signal based on the phase and the size of the feedback signal; a feedback signal removing unit for removing the feedback signal in the forward/backward relay signals and transmitting the forward/backward relay signals to the automatic gain control unit; and a control unit for removing the feedback signal in the forward/backward relay signals and controlling each constituent element. |
| US08310958B2 |
Routing calls in a network
A method includes receiving a session initiation protocol (SIP) invite message and identifying a particular service associated with the SIP invite message. The method may also include identifying a destination for the SIP invite message using status information associated with a number of servers and forwarding the SIP invite message to the destination. The method may also further include identifying a first application server based on the SIP invite message and allocation information associated with allocating traffic among a number of application servers. |
| US08310955B1 |
Automated discovery of access points in wireless computer networks
As part of a wireless access point configuration process, a computer network is probed and each previously unprogrammed wireless access point on the network is programmed by transmitting wireless network configuration parameters thereto using a software agent residing on a node of the computer network. |
| US08310954B2 |
Apparatus and method for identifying network connection status in portable terminal
An apparatus and method for decreasing the number of bearer connections by transmitting a data packet in order to determine a network connection status at a time of bearer connection necessarily performed by a portable terminal together with a location registration message. Reduced battery consumption in the portable terminal is achieved because of the reduced number of bearer connections. The apparatus includes a transmission time determination unit for reconfiguring a data packet transmission time to a time of bearer connection necessarily performed by the portable terminal when a data packet is transmitted to determine the network connection status, and a controller for providing control to transmit the data packet is transmitted while connecting the bearer at the reconfigured data packet transmission time, wherein the reconfigured data packet transmission time may be advanced or delayed of the initial transmission time. |
| US08310953B2 |
Method and apparatus for enabling an adapter in a network device to discover the name of another adapter of another network device in a network system
A network system supports multiple network communication protocols. In one embodiment, network device driver software provides a “Fiber Channel over Ethernet” communication capability and methodology. Device driver software manages a Fiber Channel to Ethernet and Ethernet to Fiber Channel address translation in real time for data packet communications in the network system. Different embodiments of the disclosed network system include multiple name servers and network device driver software that together provide multiple adapter name discovery methodologies. In one embodiment, the adapter name discovery methodologies include port name discovery and adapter attributes discovery. |
| US08310949B2 |
System and method for enhanced physical layer device autonegotiation
A system and method for enhanced physical layer device autonegotiation. The autonegotiation process typically identifies the highest common denominator amongst various standardized modes of operation. Enhanced autonegotiation can be used to select a mode of operation that is not the highest common denominator. Enhanced autonegotiation can also identify a non-standardized mode of operation using next page messaging, additional physical signaling, or Layer 2 messaging. |
| US08310946B2 |
Cell selection and reselection for closed subscriber group cells
A method for applying a priority of a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell, including receiving priority information for each of a plurality of communication frequencies over which the CSG cell can communicate; storing the priority information at a wireless transmit/receive unit; and applying the priority information to at least one of: taking measurements on a communication frequency, selecting to a CSG cell in the communication frequency, or reselecting to a CSG cell in the communication frequency. |
| US08310943B2 |
Method and system for transmission-based billing applications
Computer- and network-based methods and systems for transmission-based billing are provided. Example embodiments provide a Packet-Based Billing System (“PBBS”), which enables application providers, such as carriers and content providers, to bill subscribers for the use of content on mobile subscriber devices, such as wireless devices, on a per-application, per-user basis based upon the extent of the usage. Embodiments of the present invention can also be used to bill subscribers for the use of content on a per-application, per-user basis for wired subscriber devices as well, using the same techniques. In operation, the PBBS provides modified content by inserting billing and tracking code into content returned to a requesting device. The modified content, when executed, tracks the amount of data sent and received between the content and a network and posts the accumulated data to a proxy/billing server according to business rules for an interval/frequency to post such data. The proxy/billing server stores the raw billing data and an accounting program retrieves the billing data to generate customer (call) data records. Business rules that specific different charges for different content or users can be incorporated into the system. |
| US08310941B2 |
Data driven connection fault management (DDCFM) in CFM maintenance points
A Connection Fault Management (CFM) maintenance point and method for providing Data Driven Connection Fault Management (DDCFM) in CFM maintenance points in a communication network. A Reflection Responder, an RFM Receiver, and a Decapsulator Responder are implemented in existing CFM maintenance points. The Reflection Responder selects frames to be reflected, mirrors the selected frames if a Continuation option is set, and encapsulates the selected frames with Return Frame Message (RFM) OpCode. The RFM Receiver sends received RFM frames to an analyzer if addressed to the maintenance point and otherwise to a passive multiplexer. The Decapsulator Responder decapsulates Send Frame Message (SFM) frames and sends decapsulated frames toward the destination specified in each frame. |
| US08310939B2 |
Method, system, and device for configuring operation, administration and maintenance properties
A method for configuring operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) properties, a system for configuring OAM properties, and a node device are provided. The method includes: delivering a message carrying OAM property configuration indicating information; and flowing through a plurality of nodes to be configured in the process of delivering the message, and configuring, by each of the nodes to be configured, an OAM property of the present node according to the OAM property configuration indicating information in the message flowing through the present node. |
| US08310935B1 |
Communications failure recovery in data packet networks based on fast determination of alternate routes
Data communications system for handling IP packets have a route evaluation mechanism for determining a least cost route for delivery a packet to a destination, and an alternate route evaluation mechanism for evaluating possible routes for packet delivery having cost different from the cost of the least cost route. In response to evaluation performed by the alternate route evaluation mechanism, an alternate route table generator produces an alternate route table containing alternate routes for delivery of the packet to the destination. A fast failure recovery algorithm is carried out to determine entries in the alternate route table. |
| US08310933B2 |
Method and a device for reporting the number of correctly decoded transport blocks in a wireless system
A method and a device for reporting the number of correctly decoded transport blocks in a wireless system. The maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks within a reporting period is determined. Then the actual number of correctly decoded transport blocks is determined and cultivated into an indication thereof on the basis of the maximum number. The indication is sent to a network element capable of decoding it for analysis. |
| US08310928B2 |
Flow control system architecture
One or more flow control modules, implemented on various types of network topologies, provide a number of functionalities for controlling the flow of IP packets (such as TCP/IP packets) over a network connection. The flow control modules may be implemented within a sender and/or receiver or may be deployed into a network as a separate device without requiring significant additional resources. |
| US08310916B2 |
Data transmission apparatus and a data transmission method
A data transmission apparatus of this invention includes a first transmitting unit, a second transmitting unit, and a switching unit. The first transmitting unit generates a first error correction information, outputs the first data and the first error correction information to the switching unit and transmits a timing information of the first data and a first specified information to specify the first data to the second transmitting unit. The second transmitting unit compares a second specified information to specify the second data and the first specified information and transmitting the a first comparison result of the second specified information and the first specified information to the switching unit. The switching unit transmits the first data and the first error correction information when the first comparison result is not indicating a match of the second specified information and the first specified information. |
| US08310915B2 |
Method of transmitting OFDM signal and transmitter and receiver thereof
An OFDM transmitter includes, an allocation unit configured to allocate a first pilot signal and a first data signal respectively to at least one first pilot subcarrier and first data subcarriers within a subcarrier group that is identical among transmitters, and to allocate a second pilot signal and a second data signal respectively to at least one second pilot subcarrier and second data subcarriers outside the subcarrier group, a multiplier to multiply the first pilot signal and the first data signal by complex numbers set for the subcarriers, a modulator to subject the first pilot signal and the first data signal multiplied by the complex numbers and the second pilot signal and the second data signal to OFDM modulation in order to generate an OFDM signal, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated OFDM signal. |
| US08310911B2 |
Optical pickup apparatus
In an optical pickup apparatus, a major part of an optical path of a laser beam emitted from a first semiconductor laser device and an optical path of a laser beam emitted from a second semiconductor laser device 3 are shared. The first laser beam is transmitted through a quarter wavelength plate and a second reflecting mirror and is reflected by a first reflecting mirror. With this structure, the number of parts of optical systems disposed in the optical pickup apparatus is reduced, an attachment operation of the parts becomes easier, and a time required for adjusting an optical axis is reduced. Thus, an operational efficiency is greatly improved. |
| US08310909B2 |
Objective lens, optical pickup apparatus, and optical information recording reproducing apparatus
An objective lens relating to the present invention includes a first optical path difference providing structure in which a first basic structure and a second basic structure are overlapped with each other. The first basic structure is a blaze-type structure which emits a Xth-order diffracted light flux, when the first light flux passes through the first basic structure, where the value of X is an odd integer. At least a part of the first basic structure arranged around an optical axis includes a step facing an opposite direction to the optical axis. The second basic structure is a blaze-type structure which emits a Lth-order diffracted light flux, when the first light flux passes through the second basic structure, where the value of L is an even integer. At least a part of the second basic structure arranged around the optical axis includes a step facing the optical axis. |
| US08310903B1 |
Thermally-assisted magnetic recording head, head gimbals assembly, head arm assembly, and magnetic disk device, and method of manufacturing thermally-assisted magnetic recording head
A method of manufacturing a thermally-assisted magnetic recording head includes: providing bar including, arranged in a first direction, a plurality of thermally-assisted magnetic recording head sections each including a waveguide, and a plurality of light source units each including a substrate with a light source mounted on a first surface of the substrate; bonding a second surface of the substrate to the bar with a bonding layer while allowing a light emitting position of the light source to be in opposition to the waveguide and allowing the first surface to be parallel to the first direction; and separating the bar for each of the thermally-assisted magnetic recording head sections. The substrate is bonded to the bar by radiating each laser beam from a dead angle direction where the first surface on which the light source units are provided is hidden from view. |
| US08310900B2 |
Time information obtaining device and radio clock
Disclosed is a time information obtaining device comprising: a reception section to receive a standard time radio wave; an input waveform data generation section to generate input waveform data, based on data having the unit of time length; an estimated waveform data generation section to generate estimated waveform data, wherein the estimated waveform data comprises the value in which each sample point is described by the plurality of bits, and has the same time length as the input waveform data, and comprises at least one code which configures the time code, and a waveform of the estimated waveform data is sequentially shifted by a predetermined sample; a correlation value calculation section to calculate a correlation value; a correlation value comparison section to compare the correlation value to calculate an optimal value; and a control section to specify a beginning position of a second in the time code. |
| US08310899B2 |
Multiple receiver line deployment and recovery
Embodiments described herein relate to an apparatus and method of transferring seismic equipment to and from a marine vessel and subsurface location. In one embodiment, the method includes deploying at least one remotely operated vehicle from a vessel operating in a first direction, and operating the at least one remotely operated vehicle in a pattern relative to the direction of the vessel to form at least two receiver lines. |
| US08310895B2 |
Layout of memory cells and input/output circuitry in a semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array divided into a plurality of subarrays arranged in matrix form, the plurality of subarrays making up a plurality of subarray columns, an address pad column formed outside the memory cell array, the address pad column comprising a plurality of address pads that are arranged to be substantially parallel to the subarray columns, a data I/O pad column formed in a middle section of the memory cell array, the data I/O pad column comprising data I/O pads that are arranged to be substantially parallel to the subarray columns, an address input circuit arranged in the middle section of the memory cell array, and a pad input address line formed in a direction substantially perpendicular to the subarray columns on the memory cell array, the pad input address line directly connecting the address pad and the address input circuit. |
| US08310893B2 |
Techniques for reducing impact of array disturbs in a semiconductor memory device
Techniques for reducing impact of array disturbs in a semiconductor memory device are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for reducing impact of array disturbs in a semiconductor memory device by increasing the refresh rate to the semiconductor memory device based at least in part on a frequency of active operations. The method may comprise receiving a first refresh command including a first subarray address to perform a first refresh operation to a first logical subarray of memory cells associated with the first subarray address. The method may also comprise receiving a second refresh command including a second subarray address to perform a second refresh operation to a second logical subarray of memory cells associated with the second subarray address, wherein the second refresh command is received after a time period from the reception of the first refresh command. The method may further comprise performing a number of concurrent refresh operations during the time period. |
| US08310890B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and method of testing the same
A device and a method controlling the device are provided. A first command is supplied to the device in synchronization with a clock signal of a first frequency. The first command is to have the device perform a first operation. The frequency of the clock signal is changed from the first frequency to a second frequency higher than the first frequency. The device performs the first operation in synchronization with the clock signal of the second frequency following changing the frequency of the clock signal. |
| US08310889B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device including a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix pattern, a write amplifier which writes write data to the memory cell in synchronization with a clock, a sense amplifier which reads out the write data written in the memory cell in synchronization with the clock, a plurality of column select switches which connect the plurality of the memory cells with the sense amplifier and the write amplifier, a column address decoder which makes the column select switch corresponding to one column among the plurality of the memory cells a conductive state based on a column address, a row address decoder which activates the memory cell of one row based on a row address, and a test write circuit which writes data corresponding to a logical level of a test signal to the memory cell based on a test mode signal. |