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US08725884B2 Image display device, storage device, image display system and network setup method
In one embodiment, an image display device comprises a first USB port, a writing unit, and a display unit. The writing unit writes a wireless setup information of the image display device to a predetermined USB memory if the predetermined USB memory is attached to the first USB port. The display unit displays a predetermined message if the writing unit finishes writing the wireless setup information to the predetermined USB memory. The display unit displays an image data sent from an image supply device using the wireless setup information read by the image display device from the predetermined USB memory, if the predetermined USB memory is attached to a second USB port of the image supply device.
US08725883B2 Method for the establishing of peer-to-peer multimedia sessions in a communication system
The invention relates to a method where a first address (121) from a first network (185) is obtained to a mobile node (180). Network address translation information is received from a network node (140) to the mobile node (180), the network node (140) being connected to a second network (150). An address mapping is indicated between the first address (121) and a second address (101) to the network node (140), the second address (101) being associated with the second network (150). A session establishment request is obtained. The request comprises instances of the first addresses (121) and third addresses (120). The first addresses (121) are replaced with the second addresses (101) in the request. An address mapping is indicated between the third address (120) and a fourth address (100) to the first network node (140). The session establishment request is sent to a remote network node (190) from the mobile node (180).
US08725869B1 Classifying situations for system management
An information processing system comprises a system management tool, a managed system and a classifier. The system management tool receives a result of a situation classification operation from the classifier, and automatically takes a management action relating to the managed system based at least in part on the result of the situation classification operation. The situation classification result may be determined by monitoring operation of the managed system in a situational state space having dimensions that characterize operating conditions of the system, and identifying a current state of the system in the situational state space. The management action automatically taken by the system management tool may comprise, for example, setting at least one policy for the managed system by selecting and deploying a particular one of a plurality of policy sets responsive to the result of the situation classification operation.
US08725861B2 Content delivery network service provider (CDNSP)-managed content delivery network (CDN) for network service provider (NSP)
A CDN service provider shares its CDN infrastructure with a network to enable a network service provider (NSP) to offer a private-labeled network content delivery network (NCDN or “private CDN”) to participating content providers. The CDNSP preferably provides the hardware, software and services required to build, deploy, operate and manage the CDN for the NCDN customer. Thus, the NCDN customer has access to and can make available to participating content providers one or more of the content delivery services (e.g., HTTP delivery, streaming media delivery, application delivery, and the like) available from the global CDN without having to provide the large capital investment, R&D expense and labor necessary to successfully deploy and operate the network itself. Rather, the global CDN service provider simply operates the private CDN for the network as a managed service.
US08725859B2 Service network discovery
An automated service discovery and monitoring utility employs automatically generated policies (rules) for monitoring network health of a service based on network discovery using flow data derived from transmissions sent over segments between computing components defining the service. An interactive discovery application employs flow data based on transmissions associated with a service. Analysis of the flow data identifies associated components from inspection of the transmissions. Iterative component selection allows network traversal of components based on flow data of the segments used for providing the service. The interactive service discovery therefore identifies associated components (servers) and segments based on flow data, rather than topology, rendering the flow data to allow a user to make an informed selection of segments and components for inclusion in a service, and generates a set of policies (rules) based on the discovered service dependencies for monitoring various metrics for the components providing the monitored service.
US08725855B2 Device commissioning and replacement
Systems and methods for associating commissioning files with components in a networked environment are provided. In one embodiment, a unique network identifier of a system component, such as a MAC address, and a network address, such as an IPv4 address may stored in an association file to link components on a network layout map to specific commissioning files. The network address may have a lease configured to infinity or to a power cycle of a component on the network. Further aspects relate to detecting if a system component has been replaced with another component. The detection may determine whether the new component has a unique network identifier not located in a association file. A user input may indicate whether the component is new or a replacement. If the new component is a replacement for another component, the unique network identifier of the first system component may be received and recorded.
US08725851B2 Contextual data communication platform
Systems and methods for a contextual data platform are provided. According to one embodiment, a HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) request is generated by a user agent running on an Internet-enabled device. The HTTP request includes multiple HTTP header fields complying with Request for Comments (RFC) 2616. Each of the HTTP header fields includes a name-value pair having a name separated from a value by a colon. The value of the name-value pair of an HTTP header field is set based on a privacy setting or a data sharing setting that was established based on input received from an end user of the Internet-enabled device. A web server is directed by the user agent to return content tailored in accordance with the privacy setting or the data sharing setting by transmitting the HTTP request to the web server.
US08725848B1 Multipath distribution
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for processing data. In some embodiments, this includes an intermediary connecting to an initial interface, the intermediary receiving an optimal interface, the intermediary disconnecting from the initial interface, and the intermediary connecting to the optimal interface. In some embodiments, the intermediary may be a plug-in for an application on a client.
US08725846B2 Network system, terminal customization method, and customization service method
A first terminal notifies an LFC service functional unit of LFC package related information for customization of a second terminal, an address of the second terminal to be customized, and an account of the user of the first terminal to a contents provider. As a result, the LFC service functional unit acquires an LFC package from the contents provider, then the LFC service functional unit customizes the second terminal based on the obtained LFC package.
US08725836B2 Method and apparatus for content synchronization
When requested content is available at a data center, the data center returns the requested content to the data center. When the requested content is locally unavailable at the data center, the requested content is retrieved from an origin server. The retrieval of the content from the origin server may be delayed based on the processing load at the origin server. When retrieval of the content is delayed, the request is prioritized and placed in a queue for handling by the origin server based on the priority of the request. Also, when retrieval of the content is delayed, a status page may be communicated to the browser to inform a user of the delay and provide alternate content and status information related to the request determined as a function of the request or the current state of the origin server.
US08725826B2 Linking users into live social networking interactions based on the users' actions relative to similar content
A system and method that uses internet content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence.
US08725825B2 Exchange system connecting terminals in different systems
An exchange system which allows for allows for the sharing and updating of presence information and address books between exchange-connected terminals and external terminals and allows for communication between exchange-connected terminals and external terminals via the use of pseudo exchange-connected terminals, pseudo external terminals and a pseudo external terminal & pseudo exchange-connected terminal is provided.
US08725824B2 Message processing in a messaging service client device
A method of processing a message in a messaging service client device that has a user interface device includes with the messaging service client device, ascertaining a proposed recipient for a message entered by a user with the user interface device; determining a set of potential recipients for the message with the messaging service client device, the set of potential recipients including the proposed recipient; determining whether, among the set of potential recipients, the proposed recipient is a most likely recipient of the message; and responsive to a determination that the proposed recipient is not the most likely recipient, providing a notification to the user through the user interface device that the proposed recipient is not the most likely recipient.
US08725821B1 System and method for project and process management by synchronizing custom objects between ms outlook and external server
A method for data synchronization is provided. Custom Objects are stored in MICROSOFT Outlook as Outlook items. Two continual processes check if there are changes in the Outlook Items and whether these changes are saved on the hard drive. MICROSOFT Storage Items are used to store information about fields of Outlook items that have been changed and fields of Outlook items that have been saved to the hard drive. Then, information about both changed and saved fields is sent to an external server. Subsequently, notifications about successful saving of the fields on the external server are received. The information about the fields changed on the external server is received, as well. The fields changed on the external server are saved to the Outlook items. Thus, two-way synchronization between Outlook and the external server is achieved.
US08725820B2 Methods, systems and devices for horizontally scalable high-availability dynamic context-based routing
Methods, servers and systems for communicating information in networks enable efficient expansion while maintaining high-availability. A first message associated with an entity may be received on a first server. An operation may be performed on certain information included in the first message associated with the entity to identify a first data repository in which information associated with the first message or the entity is to be stored. Information extracted from the first message may be stored in the identified first data repository. When a second message associated with the entity is received, the same operation may be performed on the same certain information included in the second message to identify the first data repository in which information associated with the first message or the entity is stored. The information related to the first message or the entity from the first data repository may then be used.
US08725818B1 Automated participants with access to attachments in hosted conversations
A conversation server stores a hosted conversation. The conversation has an attachment that is stored at the conversation server. The conversation has an automated participant, where the automated participant is a computer-implemented participant that operates in accordance with instructions stored on an automated participant server that is distinct from the conversation server. The conversation server provides the automated participant with access to the attachment and subsequently receives, from the automated participant, a request to modify the attachment. In response to the request, the conversation server modifies the attachment in accordance with the request.
US08725813B2 Communications grouped as conversations
Described are embodiments for displaying groups of communications, such as messages, as a conversation. Conversations are groups of communications that can be traced back as related to an original communication. The embodiments allow a user to select a conversation mode for displaying communications, e.g., messages, as conversations. In response to the user's selection, embodiments provide for displaying a graphical element associated with a conversation. The graphical element can be selected to display the messages associated with the conversation. Additionally, embodiments provide for selecting a conversation and applying actions to the conversation, resulting in the application of the action to the messages that are associated with the conversation.
US08725812B2 Method for providing a memo function in electronic mail service
Disclosed is a method and system for providing memo in electronic mail. Memo data is further added to general mail data. Electronic mail sender sends electronic mail including memo data. The memo data may be inserted in the mime header or may be inserted in the form of attachment file, or may be inserted in the mail body. Besides that mail sender inserts memo data, mail receiver can also insert memo data to received mail for mail management. Users can check identify mail more conveniently through memo related to mail. A memo icon is provided in mail read page, and memo is displayed to users when mouse event on the memo icon occurs.
US08725805B2 Socializing web services
A Method for sharing and recording achievements obtained in web services, comprising: receiving, at an achievements information server, from at least one web service the achievements obtained by different Internet users in the corresponding web service; storing at the achievements information server said achievements associated with each Internet user; downloading the stored achievements of each Internet user to a mobile device of a corresponding Internet user, (i.e. a broadcast user); the broadcast user selecting at least one achievement, among the downloaded achievements, to broadcast; broadcasting from the mobile device of the broadcast user said at least one selected achievement.
US08725803B2 Method and system for sharing brand information
An interactive, computer network based system presents consumers with multimedia brand information via a browser-based interface called the GraffitiWall®. Consumers can use the GraffitiWall® to modify and display a sponsor's brand information in any way desired, including use of avatars. Consumer modifications are immediately communicated to the other member consumers and the advertiser/sponsor. Consumers can rate the GraffitiWall®, or portions thereof, and email the GraffitiWall®. An archive of GraffitiWalls™ is maintained by the system. Consumers participate in online focus groups, one-to-one interviews and discussions, as well as games and promotions pertaining to the brand. Interaction with consumers through focus groups, one-to-one interviews, discussions, games and promotions allows the hosting company to reinforce brand equities; speak directly to their target audience; test new and updated products and services; and encourage participation to a brand via purchases and signups by rewarding the participant with coupons, samples, gift certificates, and the like. An ongoing dialogue between business and consumer, as well as consumer-to-consumer, nurtures customer participation, loyalty and satisfaction, and builds a community housed within the company's brand.
US08725801B2 Systems and methods for image sharing in a healthcare setting while maintaining diagnostic image quality
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for image sharing and display. The method includes selecting an image, establishing a context with a peer workstation, and displaying an image on the peer workstation based on the established context. The context may include an image sharing coordinate system, the displayed data types, the coordinates of displayed data types, and lookup tables for image data types. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for image sharing and display. The system includes a master workstation and a peer workstation. The peer workstation includes a display device adapted to display an image based at least in part on information received from the master workstation. The information received from the master workstation may include an image sharing coordinate system, the displayed data types, the coordinates of displayed data types, and lookup tables for image data types.
US08725796B2 Relationship networks having link quality metrics with inference and concomitant digital value exchange
In a digital social relationship network, a social network server computer stores a digital social network representation corresponding to a graph having nodes representing individuals or groups and links representing actual social relationships between the individuals or groups. The server computer obtains relationship-dependent information corresponding to a plurality of links of the graph, and embeds the relationship-dependent information in the digital social network representation stored in the social network server computer. The server computer interactively presents to a user of a client computer connected to the social network server computer a social network of the individuals or groups and the social relationships between the individuals or groups. The social network server computer receives input from the user of the client computer selecting at least one of the social relationships between individuals or groups other than the user, and presents to the user of the client computer a social relationship profile comprising the relationship-dependent information corresponding to the social relationship selected by the user of the client computer. The server computer facilitates exchange of digital value to the user of the client computer, or a group to which the user of the client computer belongs, based on the relationship-dependent information embedded in the digital social network representation stored in the social network server computer.
US08725787B2 Processor for performing multiply-add operations on packed data
A method and apparatus for including in a processor instructions for performing multiply-add operations on packed data. In one embodiment, a processor is coupled to a memory. The memory has stored therein a first packed data and a second packed data. The processor performs operations on data elements in said first packed data and said second packed data to generate a third packed data in response to receiving an instruction. At least two of the data elements in this third packed data storing the result of performing multiply-add operations on data elements in the first and second packed data.
US08725785B1 Parallel infinite impulse response filter
A technique for performing parallel-input parallel-output infinite impulse response (IIR) filtering uses two parallel-input-parallel-output finite impulse response (FIR) filters. One FIR filter is used as a feed-forward filter and one FIR filter is used as a feed-back filter. The feed-back filter is coupled to delays and summers to allow the filter operations to be performed in parallel.
US08725780B2 Methods and systems for rule-based worm enforcement
Systems and methods for storing and accessing data on a removable media having a changeable data set and an immutable data set. In one embodiment, a system can comprise a removable media storage system adapted to determine whether a host system running one or more applications is configured to enforce Write Once Read Many (WORM) policies. The host system can be communicatively coupled with the removable media storage system and configured to execute instructions causing the host system to determine whether to allow or deny a request to access data on the removable media. The host system can use rules to determine if an access request is to access data of a changeable data set or a immutable data set. If the request is to access data of the changeable data set, access is allowed. If the request is to access data of the immutable data set, reads are allowed, as well as writes of new data. Access requests to rename, delete, and/or write to existing data of the immutable data set are denied.
US08725779B1 System and method for counting and storing events as scalar quantities in skewed counting environments
A computer system that includes at least one processor, a first storage resource, and a second storage resource maintains a count of key events. The system determines that the count is not significant and, in response, stores data associated with the key in the second storage resource. The system subsequently can determine when the count has become significant and, in response, stores the data associated with the key in the first storage resource.
US08725776B2 Digests to identify elements in a signature process
A signature system with a mechanism to identify element(s) of a signed document includes a sender having a signature module with a digest generator. The digest generator generates digests for identifying selected elements of the document. The resulting “identifying” digests are then used in generating a signature in which the sender signs the digests rather than the original elements. The receiver can then process the signature and use these digests to distinguish between elements, as needed.
US08725761B2 Chainage calculation methodology and system
Disclosed embodiments provide a methodology and architecture for calculating the chainage distance using two Positive Train Control (PTC) system messages (e.g., Train Route and Current Position) provided by the PTC system.
US08725760B2 Semantic terminology importer
A method, machine readable storage medium, and system for generating a semantic network that utilizes existing relationships between related terms in a searchable database. Upon detection of the absence of a searched term from a database, a term data structure and indexes in a particular domain in which related terms related to the results provided by the search engine may be analyzed to determine if a new term related to the unfound search term should be created. Upon creation of the term, attributes related to the term are generated so the term may be placed in the most proper domain, and linkages to other terms in the same or different domains may be generated. All of the information is stored in the database. User input is not needed to accomplish the creation of the new term in the database.
US08725754B2 Method and system for modeling data
The various embodiments herein provide a method and system for modeling a data. The method for modeling data comprises steps of extracting the data from a plurality of data sources, identifying a plurality of entities from the plurality of data, defining occurrence of a relationship between the plurality of entities, capturing recurrences of the relationship between the plurality of entities based on one or more common interactions between the plurality of entities and creating a data model indicating the occurrences and recurrences of the relationship between the plurality of the entities. The data model is adapted to store data corresponding to the plurality of entities, the relationship between the plurality of entities and the common interactions between the plurality of entities. The plurality of entities includes contents of a digital data artifact.
US08725735B2 Information processing system, information processing method, program, and non-transitory information storage medium
A difference in tendency of times associated with combinations of content clusters and user clusters among the user clusters is reflected in a result of correspondence between the content cluster and the user cluster. A data acquisition unit acquires association data indicating a combination of a content belonging to the content cluster, a user belonging to one of a plurality of user clusters, and a time relating to a combination of the content and the user. A dividing unit divides, under a condition that the tendency of the times associated with the users in the association data differs among the plurality of user clusters to which the users belong, the content cluster into a plurality of clusters each corresponding to at least one of the plurality of user clusters.
US08725734B2 Sorting multiple records of data using ranges of key values
A method and system for sorting data of an input file containing multiple records associated with multiple tables of a database. The multiple records include key values. The key values are segmented into ranges of key values for each table. Each range of key values for each table is a segment having a segment value. Multiple key values are selected for the multiple records. A block number, which contains a unique permutation of the segment values of the segments, is generated. The segment values denote the ranges of key values encompassing the multiple key values in each record. A sort key value for each record is ascertained, based on the generated block number for each record, and added to each record. The multiple records are sorted according to the sort key values in the multiple records. The sorted multiple records are stored in an output file.
US08725732B1 Classifying text into hierarchical categories
Systems, methods and program products for classifying text. A system classifies text into first subject matter categories. The system identifies one or more second subject matter categories in a collection of second subject matter categories, each of the second categories is a hierarchical classification of a collection of confirmed valid search results for queries, in which at least one query for each identified second category includes a term in the text. The system filters the identified categories by excluding identified categories whose ancestors are not among the first categories. The system selects categories from the filtered categories based on one or more thresholds in which a threshold specifies a degree of relatedness between a selected category and the text. The selected categories are a sufficient basis for recommending content to a user, the content being associated with one or more of the selected categories.
US08725731B2 Systems and methods for retrieving data in a computer network
A data retrieval system comprising a first computing device communicatively coupled to a second computing device; the first computing device having a processor that supports operation of at least one software application that is used for retrieving data; the second computing device communicatively coupled to one or more storage media; the software application having a retrieval module for retrieving data from the one or more storage media; a storage and backup map that maps to the second computing device; and a data index stored on the second computing device that indicates to the retrieval module a particular location of the data that is to be retrieved by the retrieval module.
US08725728B1 Computer based method and system of generating a visual representation of the character of a user or business based on self-rating and input from other parties
A computer-based apparatus for compiling and evaluating character traits, including at least one processor for at least one specially programmed computer arranged to: transmit a plurality of queries regarding a plurality of character traits; receive a first response, from a first user, to the plurality of queries, including a respective first evaluation, by the first user, of the first user with respect to the character traits; generate, using the first response, a self-rating score regarding the character traits; transmit the queries to a second user; receive, from the second user a second response to the plurality of queries, the second response including a respective second evaluation, by the second user, of the first user with respect to said each character trait; generate, using the second response, an outside review score regarding the character traits; and transmit the self-rating score and the outside review score for display by at least one graphical user interface.
US08725720B1 Eliminating inner joins based on a contained predicate and a temporal relationship constraint
A query is received. It is determined that the query includes an inner join between a parent table and a child table. It is determined that the following relationships exist between the parent table and the child table: referential integrity (“RI”) between a primary key attribute (pk) in the parent table and a foreign key attribute (fk) in the child table, where “attribute” is defined to mean one or more columns; and a temporal relationship constraint (“TRC”) between a period attribute in the parent table and a TRC-attribute in the child table, the TRC-attribute being a date or time attribute. It is determined that the query does not access any attribute in the parent table other than the pk. It is determined that the query specifies an equality predicate of the form pk=fk. It is determined that the query specifies a condition that requires the TRC-attribute value to be contained in the parent table's period attribute duration. It is determined that the query contains no other qualification conditions on the parent table's period attribute. The inner join is eliminated when planning execution of the query. The query is executed to produce a result. The result is saved.
US08725718B2 Content management apparatus, content management method, content management program, and integrated circuit
When registering content in a data storage unit (101), a data registration unit (102) transmits, to another content management apparatus, metadata that is assigned to the content. The content management apparatus which has received the metadata returns related metadata that is related to the received metadata. An import determination unit (105) determines whether or not each of the metadata elements included in the returned related metadata is importable. The metadata elements which have been determined to be importable, within the related metadata, are added by a metadata editing unit 106 as a part of the metadata of the content that is to be registered.
US08725717B2 System and method for identifying topics for short text communications
A system and method for identifying topics for short text communications is provided. Tokens are extracted from a short text communication. A query is generated using the extracted tokens. The query is applied to a set of documents. Those documents in the set that match the query are identified as search results. Salient terms associated with each of the search results are identified. A threshold is applied to the identified salient terms. The salient terms that satisfy the threshold are selected as topics for the short text communication.
US08725714B2 Private information requests and information management
Information management techniques for performing private information request are provided. Original information request entered on a personal computing device are obscured by a camouflaging engine. The obscured information request is then submitted to a search engine accessible over the Internet by the device. Subsequently, the search engine will generate search results based on the obscured information request. Upon completion of the search, a filtering engine on the device will filter the obscured search result based on the original entered information request, preferences or personal profile. The output of the filtering engine, reflecting the personalized result for the original information request, can be displayed on the device. The device could also include ways to receive advertisements from the search engine, or a third or an outside advertisement party. An advertisement filtering engine on the device filters the received advertisements and displays the filtered advertisements on the device.
US08725710B2 Ranking of records in a relational database
A method for generating a probabilistic relational database based on a previous relational database, wherein the probability estimation is carried out within the relational paradigm. The method may include frequency-based and information theoretic based (idf-based) estimation of tuple probabilities. The method generalises the use of information retrieval ranking methods such that these and new ranking methods are available for relational databases.
US08725704B2 Client-server transactional pre-archival apparatus
An apparatus which receives client-server transactions such as HTTP REQUESTS and transforms them into a synopsis format for archival storage. HTTP transactions are logged and parsed for key words called HTTP METHODS. For each HTTP METHOD, data is extracted from the message or the resources provided by the transaction. The data is efficiently stored into a transaction store. The data is also indexed and the index is stored into the transaction store. A record is kept for all concurrent sessions by usernames associated with a directory entry.
US08725703B2 Management of an inventory of websites
A method includes receiving web page identifiers associated with a website and determining whether the web page identifiers identify redundant web pages of the website. One or more web page identifiers are removed from the web page identifiers that identify redundant web pages to create a group of web page identifiers. A user responsible for at least one of the web pages identified in the group of web page identifiers is determined. A risk level is determined for each of the web pages identified in the group based on a plurality of risk factors, the user is associated with the risk level, and the association between the user and the risk level is stored in a database.
US08725699B2 Decision support response systems and methods
A computer-implemented method for managing data for a clinical decision support system includes providing a computer management system including a server and a database, and downloading the decision support system onto the computer management system. The decision support system includes a plurality of rules and receives data. The method also includes accessing the decision support system and issuing an alert associated with a predetermined data pattern to at least one client system according to the rules, receiving a request for additional information from the at least one client system in response to the issued alert, determining additional data that has been requested, and retrieving the additional information associated with the issued alert.
US08725688B2 Image level copy or restore, such as image level restore without knowledge of data object metadata
A system and method for performing an image level restore of data is described. In some examples, the system receives a request to restore a file and transmits the request to an intermediate component. The intermediate component may then retrieve a directory file from an image of a secondary copy of a data set, identify a location of the file from the directory file, and provide the location to the requestor.
US08725687B2 Systems and methods for byte-level or quasi byte-level single instancing
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for deduplicating data using byte-level or quasi byte-level techniques. In some embodiments, a file is divided into multiple blocks. A block includes multiple bytes. Multiple rolling hashes of the file are generated. For each byte in the file, a searchable data structure is accessed to determine if the data structure already includes an entry matching a hash of a minimum sequence length. If so, this indicates that the corresponding bytes are already stored. If one or more bytes in the file are already stored, then the one or more bytes in the file are replaced with a reference to the already stored bytes. The systems and methods described herein may be used for file systems, databases, storing backup data, or any other use case where it may be useful to reduce the amount of data being stored.
US08725684B1 Synchronizing data stores
Disclosed are various embodiments for synchronizing data stores. A notification is received indicating that a write transaction was performed to a data store. The notification includes a path used by the write transaction. When a predetermined delay has passed after the receipt of the notification, a read is performed from the path included in the notification. In response to at least completion of the read, data returned by the read is written to a different data store.
US08725683B2 RSS feed generation using objects
A really simple syndication (RSS) feed generator provides a set of data related to an entity to a user in the form of a really simple syndication (RSS) feed in a manner so that the set of data includes entity information at the feed-level. A user of the RSS feed may use the feed-level entity information to consume the set of data in a number of different ways. In an embodiment, the feed-level entity information includes meta-data defining the entity such that a user may use the metadata to display the entity on the client side. The RSS feed generation system allows a user to manipulate a copy of an instance of entity data as necessary for a client.
US08725682B2 Distribution and synchronization of digital objects
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate distribution and synchronization of digital objects between a plurality of computing devices. In an embodiment, a master file catalog is maintained at a central server. As updates are made to digital object(s) on devices associated with the central server, file catalogs are forwarded to the master catalog which is updated accordingly. The master catalog can then be reviewed to facilitate file sharing in a peer-to-peer manner between the devices. In another embodiment, one-way hash pairings are created when a digital object is created/modified. Received hash pairings can be analyzed to facilitate determination of whether two extants of a digital object are the same or different. Utilizing one-way hash pairings enable sensitive information regarding a digital object to remain secure, and sensitive information (and digital objects) is only shared between authenticated devices.
US08725680B2 Media content location awareness and decision making
Various embodiments related to the ability to find content for consumption across all endpoint computing devices in a computing system are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method for presenting content including aggregating endpoint metadata for each endpoint computing device in a computing system and content metadata of content stored on each of a plurality of endpoint computing devices, receiving a request for a content item on a selected endpoint computing device, querying aggregated endpoint metadata and content metadata to find instances of the content item and corresponding endpoint computing device locations, generating a ranked list of instances of the content item based on selection criteria, and selecting an instance of the content item from the ranked list for playback by the selected endpoint computing device.
US08725679B2 Client side caching of synchronized data
A method for synchronizing a database with data stored at a client includes providing a data feed to receive data by the client from the database and provide received data, caching the received data in a client side cache to provide client side cached data, detecting a database change to data within the database corresponding to the client side cached data according to a polling operation to provide a change event, pushing the change event to the client side cached data to update the client side cached data in accordance with the database change and the polling operation, requesting further data from the database, determining whether the further data includes data of the client side cached data to determine remaining data exclusive of the client side cached data and pushing the remaining data to the client side cached data.
US08725678B2 System of centrally managing core reference data associated with an enterprise
A system is provided for centrally managing core enterprise reference data associated with an enterprise. A centralized master repository contains the core enterprise reference data. The internal services framework also provides internal services for managing the core enterprise reference data within the centralized master repository, one or more of the internal services having direct access to the core enterprise reference data stored in the centralized master repository for management purposes. An infrastructure services layer coupled to the centralized master repository provides for bulk data transfers of core enterprise reference data between the centralized master repository and one or more external operational systems according to one or more enterprise-level business workflows, the external operational systems permitted indirect access to the core enterprise reference data stored in the centralized master repository for operational purposes.
US08725674B1 Method and apparatus for providing a product metadata driven operations support system
A method and apparatus for providing a metadata driven framework for operations support systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method provides a hierarchical schema for a product. For example, a metadata for each element in the hierarchical structure, and a metalanguage for controlling tasks such as data collection, data orchestration, validation, field rendering, etc. are then created. In one embodiment, the method then provides framework aware engines for compiling the metadata and metalanguage into runtime forms. For each service or product to be provided, the product or service specific behavior and the operations support systems that are impacted are identified. The framework aware engine then compiles the metadata at runtime to generate at least one update for at least one operations support function.
US08725671B2 Pattern matching appratus
According to an automaton circuit, a pattern matching apparatus, and a pattern matching method of the present invention, by converting regular expressions into configuration data with the certain format, the regular expression, which can be expressed by using only 3 kinds of metacharacters and can be expressed within a certain length, can be input. Since connection relations inside the automaton circuit are changed depending on the configuration data, the automaton circuit according to the present invention is reconfigurable.
US08725665B2 Metrics monitoring and financial validation system (M2FVS) for tracking performance of capital, operations, and maintenance investments to an infrastructure
Techniques for evaluating the accuracy of a predicted effectiveness of an improvement to an infrastructure include collecting data, representative of at least one pre-defined metric, from the infrastructure during first and second time periods corresponding to before and after a change has been implemented, respectively. A machine learning system can receive compiled data representative of the first time period and generate corresponding machine learning data. A machine learning results evaluator can empirically analyze the generated machine learning data. An implementer can implement the change to the infrastructure based at least in part on the data from a machine learning data outputer. A system performance improvement evaluator can compare the compiled data representative of the first time period to that of the second time period to determine a difference, if any, and compare the difference, if any, to a prediction based on the generated machine learning data.
US08725664B1 Measuring perspective of a factor in a decision
An apparatus includes an analytic network process (ANP) storage memory that stores an ANP weighted supermatrix representing an ANP model; and a processor in communication with the ANP storage memory. The processor is configured to facilitate measuring how alternatives synthesize with respect to a fixed node in the stored ANP weighted supermatrix to determine a perspective metric vector for the fixed node. Also, the processor maintains a same proportionality in the stored ANP weighted supermatrix for the measuring of the perspective metric vector for the fixed node.
US08725662B2 Apparatus and method for partial evaluation of synaptic updates based on system events
Apparatus and methods for partial evaluation of synaptic updates in neural networks. In one embodiment, a pre-synaptic unit is connected to a several post synaptic units via communication channels. Information related to a plurality of post-synaptic pulses generated by the post-synaptic units is stored by the network in response to a system event. Synaptic channel updates are performed by the network using the time intervals between a pre-synaptic pulse, which is being generated prior to the system event, and at least a portion of the plurality of the post synaptic pulses. The system event enables removal of the information related to the portion of the post-synaptic pulses from the storage device. A shared memory block within the storage device is used to store data related to post-synaptic pulses generated by different post-synaptic nodes. This configuration enables memory use optimization of post-synaptic units with different firing rates.
US08725661B1 Growth and use of self-terminating prediction trees
Self-terminating prediction trees are a generalization of decision trees in which each node is associated with a real-valued prediction. Instead of having a separate pruning phase, a self-terminating tree may be constructed by applying various limits during tree growth that prevent nodes that add little or no additional decision power from being grown within the tree. The prediction tree is learned by performing a penalized empirical risk minimization task, based upon the use of prediction values and functional tree complexity. A separate pruning phase is not required, since the tree self-terminates further growth.
US08725659B2 Evolution of a user interface based on learned idiosyncrasies and collected data of a user
A user interface evolves based on learned idiosyncrasies and collected data of a user. Learned idiosyncrasies and collected data of the user can be stored in a knowledge base. Information from the surrounding environment of the user can be obtained during learning of idiosyncrasies or collection of data. Thought-based statements can be generated based at least in part on the knowledge base and the information from the environment surrounding the user during learning of idiosyncrasies or collection of data. The thought-based statements serve to invoke or respond to subsequent actions of the user. The user interface can be presented so as to allow for interaction with the user based at least in part on the thought-based statements. Furthermore, personality nuances of the user interface can be developed that affect the interaction between the user and the user interface.
US08725657B2 Utility metering system incorporating a transaction authorisation system
A transaction authorization system comprises a user interface unit 30 capable of accepting a transaction authorization and a utility meter 10 provided at a location having an associated location identifier unique to the location, wherein the utility meter 10 is arranged to communicate with the user interface unit 10, to obtain a transaction authorization, and to transmit an authorization request based on the transaction authorization and location identifier to obtain authorization of the transaction.
US08725655B2 Method for admitting an admissions applicant into an academic institution
A method for admitting applicants into an academic institution can include the steps of: compiling a list of standardized test takers who have applied for admission to at least one academic institution, but have not received an offer of admission to any one of the at least one academic institutions; conditionally admitting selected ones of the test takers to an abbreviated academic program; subjecting the conditionally admitted test takers to at least one examination during the abbreviated academic program, each conditionally admitted test taker achieving a score on the at least one examination; and, admitting into the academic institution those conditionally admitted test takers who achieve a score on said at least one examination which satisfies an admissions criteria.
US08725648B2 Digital rights content services architecture
A selection of a digital content item is received from a client over a network. A license agreement associated with the selected digital content item is identified based on a content ID of the digital content item, where the license agreement is identified by a license ID. The license agreement includes one or more constraints for accessing the digital content item. A tracking code is generated based on the content ID associated with the selected digital content item, the license ID associated with the identified license agreement, and the user ID associated with the client. The tracking code is inscribed on the digital content item to generate a deliverable content file, where the deliverable content file contains the digital content item therein. The deliverable content file is transmitted to the client over the network, where the tracking code is visible or audible when the digital content item is accessed from the deliverable content file.
US08725645B1 Non-invasive metering system for software licenses
A non-invasive metering system enables on-demand, metered usage licensing of software applications. A packaging module generates a secure application package for an original, unmodified application authored by a software publisher. The software publisher need not directly modify the code of the original application. Rather, the packaging module includes, within the secure application package but separate from the code of the application itself, a shell application that controls runtime aspects of the application, such as metering of the application. The secure application package is made available to users wishing to use the application on a metered basis. When users use the secure application package, a specialized loader process extracts from the secure application package executable code for the application and for the shell application, and executes the shell application, which in turn authenticates the user and executes the application the using the executable code extracted from the secure application package.
US08725643B2 System and method for verifying digital signatures on certificates
A system and method for verifying a digital signature on a certificate, which may be used in the processing of encoded messages. In one embodiment, when a digital signature is successfully verified in a signature verification operation, the public key used to verify that digital signature is cached. When a subsequent attempt to verify the digital signature is made, the public key to be used to verify the digital signature is compared to the cached key. If the keys match, the digital signature can be successfully verified without requiring that a signature verification operation in which some data is decoded using the public key be performed.
US08725641B2 Automated teller machine with virtual bank sharing
An automated teller machine (ATM) which includes a plurality of peripherals including a user interface for interacting with a user providing user information; a plurality of virtual automated teller machines (VATMs) resident in the ATM, the VATMs networked to a plurality of financial institutions, each VATM capable of using its own ATM software application and capable of providing its own menu of banking options to the user; and an interface to communicate between the VATMs and the plurality of peripherals, receive the user information from the user interface, identify the user's financial institution, link the user with the user's financial institution through a selected VATM corresponding to the user's financial institution and provide the menu of banking options to the user as if the user were using an ATM dedicated to the user's financial institution.
US08725636B1 Method for detecting fraudulent money transfer
A method detects fraudulent transaction of money transfer to a mule account, according to which a detection software module is injected into a browser or a website to be protected. The detection module traces the content and the activities performed on a webpage of the website and detects any exceptional activity/condition which may be fraudulent online activity performed by malware and waits until all sensitive data to perform a fraud transaction is entered. Then the detection module stores and/or forwards the details of the mule account that has been used for the fraudulent transaction.
US08725634B2 Electronic deferred check writing system
A method and system for electronic deferred check processing is disclosed. A processing center receives an account identifier and a plurality of deferred payment amounts. The deferred payment amounts may be specified in a check, which can be digitized and electronically transmitted for further processing. The account identifier is correlated to a purchaser checking account. The deferred payment amounts are transferred to a merchant account in accordance with one of a plurality of predefined merchant transfer schedules, and each transfer may have a fee associated therewith that is deductable from the deferred payment amounts. The funds corresponding to the deferred payment amounts are also transferred from the purchaser checking account according to a predefined deduction schedule.
US08725633B1 System and method of operating a debit card reward program
A system and method for facilitating debit card transactions is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for facilitating debit card transactions may comprise the steps of: issuing, by a first financial institution, a debit card to a cardholder, the debit card being associated with a financial account held at or administered by a second financial institution that is different from the first financial institution; receiving a transaction request for a card transaction initiated by the cardholder, the transaction request indicating a mode for processing the transaction request as specified by the cardholder; routing the transaction request, based at least in part on the specified processing mode; processing the transaction request against the financial account to approve or reject the transaction request; and debiting an amount of an approved transaction request from the financial account, the debiting occurring either immediately upon or subsequent to the approval.
US08725632B2 Method and system for conducting financial and non-financial transactions using a wireless device
The present invention relates to a method for conducting transactions, such as standard banking transactions, using a wireless device, such as a cellular telephone, personal digital assistant, and other web-enabled wireless devices utilizing software downloaded to the wireless device. The software provides a user with interface screens on the display of the wireless device for facilitating information requests to a service provider having access to at least one account of the user.
US08725630B1 Method of processing a phone call
A method of processing a phone call, the method including: from a trunk interface, receiving an inbound communication from which a number is detected, the number sufficient to identify a location of a caller, and by a digital electrical computer system including a memory storing phone numbers for a plurality of credit counseling services, querying the memory by using the detected number to select at least three phone numbers for credit counseling services associated with the location of the caller and outputting a sequence of the phone numbers automatically selected for the credit counseling services associated with the location of the caller.
US08725627B2 Multiple loan payment option sales tool
A multiple option loan presentation apparatus and method allows a loan agent to communicate a non-traditional loan product to a customer. Non-traditional mortgage products such as pick-a-payment loans allow a borrower to exchange lower payments during an initial period for higher payments later in an amortization period. Some borrowers do not want to accepting the risk associated with adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) for increases in interest rates, but are still desirous of options for reduced monthly payments. Combining fixed rate loans with an option for interest-only or minimum payments allows this flexibility, but places a premium on being able to graphically depict the implications of these choices. Thereby, the borrower can make an informed decision and the loan agent is able to more quickly conclude the transaction. In particular, the minimum payments constraints and changes in amounts can be made more intuitive.
US08725621B2 Automated trading system in an electronic trading exchange
An electronic exchange system network includes a trader site having an automated trading system capable of submitting orders to an exchange site. The automated trading system determines whether an order should be submitted based on, for example, the current market price of an option and theoretical buy and sell prices. The theoretical buy and sell prices are derived from, among other things, the current market price of the security underlying the option. A look-up table stores a range of theoretical buy and sell prices for a given range of current market price of the underlying security. Accordingly, as the price of the underlying security changes, a new theoretical price may be indexed in the look-up table, thereby avoiding calculations that would otherwise slow automated trading decisions. Other techniques may be used in addition or in the alternative to speed automatic decision-making. In addition, a system of checks may be conducted to ensure accurate and safe automated trading. The automated trading system may be capable of automatically submitting orders in connection with the underlying security in order to hedge part of the delta risk associated with the automated option trades.
US08725612B2 Personalized real-time location-based travel management
A personalized real-time location-based travel management method, the method including the steps of (a) defining a departure point and a destination for multimodal travel, (b) computing in an IT system (30) a list of candidate routes between said departure point and said destination, based on schedule information available to said IT system; (c) making travel information relating to a selected route available to a user's personal travel assistant (40) or a database (31) while traveling; and (d) detecting in said IT system an unexpected event during said travel, and computing an alternative list of candidate routes or routes segments in response to said unexpected event.
US08725605B1 Method and system for managing service accounts
Systems consistent with the present invention provide financial account management services for user service accounts. Such systems receive requests from users to register with a trusted intermediary. Registration with the intermediary enable users to customize management services to be performed for selected user service accounts. The trusted intermediary server periodically collects account information from provider servers that govern accounts provided to the users. The intermediary server then analyzes the collected account information to determine whether customized management services should be performed. The management services may include sending account status messages to the users and performing automatic payment functions to credit delinquent accounts. Such methods and systems enable users to avoid, for example, penalties and fees associated with mis-managed accounts by allowing the intermediary server to perform proxy management services for users.
US08725600B2 Storage locker
In an embodiment, articles are left in storage areas, such as lockers or other receptacles that may be associated with a household services company. A divided storage receptacle is discussed. The receptacle is divided by an angled plane such that the top portion may be used to hang clothes of various lengths thereby utilizing the space efficiently.
US08725599B2 Methods and systems for collaborative demand planning and replenishment
The present invention provides systems and methods for generating replenishment orders for products sold to a multi-store retailer. Store trait data is mapped with planogram information and the mapped data is used to generate a fixture level safety stock for a particular product in a particular store. The fixture level safety stock triggers fixture level replenishment orders.
US08725597B2 Merchant scoring system and transactional database
A merchant scoring system predicts and reports the likelihood that a merchant is reliable (e.g., trustworthy, honest, and reputable), which is expected to translate into a positive consumer experience. The system collects data from a variety of data sources, including combinations of the merchant, third-parties, and/or customers who have transacted with the merchant. A scoring model is executed on this collected data to determine an independent and objective merchant reliability metric that predicts the expected reliability of a merchant within a range. The system may also track transactions of individual merchants, populating a transaction history database with information about each merchant for use in this collection and scoring process. The transaction history data and other data may also be accessible to a prospective customer to build his or her confidence in and understanding of the merchant reliability metric and his or her trust of the merchant.
US08725596B2 Mobile asset data management system
A computerized vehicle control system and device for limiting the functionality of a mobile asset (e.g., vehicle) capable of performing a plurality of mobile asset functions. The device includes an asset monitor, a mobile wireless transceiver, and a mobile asset processor. The asset monitor is in communication with a first mobile asset for collecting monitored data associated with the first mobile asset. The mobile wireless transceiver is adapted to interface with a management computer. The mobile asset processor is adapted to receive the monitored data from the asset monitor; determine that a first mobile asset function of the plurality of mobile asset functions should be limited; and limit operation of the first mobile asset function. The mobile asset control device can be adapted to override the functionality of the mobile asset, based on the navigation, relative location of the mobile asset, or business rules.
US08725595B1 Method and system for appraising a collection of products
A system and method for a librarian facilitates appraising the value of all or selected products in a collection of products. The collection of products may be part of a library that includes one or more photographic images of the library, and an inventory of the products revealed in those images. The librarian facilitates appraising the value of products in the collection with reference to the images. Appraisals may be automatically updated, and users notified in accordance with user notification preferences. An automated referral may be provided to the user to sell all or selected ones of the appraised inventory of products, individually or together. An extended appraisal may be provided to facilitate enhancing the value of a collection in the library.
US08725590B2 Methods and systems for generating customized user plans
A computer-implemented method for generating a customized user plan based on corresponding creator plans and user data. The creator plans is generated by experts in their respective fields, by businesses, and by users of the system. The creator plans is available for selection or purchase by users. A system may propose creator plans to a user. Once the one or more creator plans are identified for a particular user, the system generates a customized user plan based on these creator plans and corresponding user data, such as user input, user state, and privacy settings. External data and other plans of this and other users may also be used in generating the customized user plan. A single customized user plan may integrate multiple creator plans and set multiple goals for the user. The user plan may be dynamically generated and updated based on, for example, changes to the user data.
US08725585B1 Automatic vetting of web applications to be listed in a marketplace for web applications
A computer-implemented method includes providing an online marketplace to developers of web applications that may be downloaded from the marketplace to a client computing device for execution by a browser executing on the client device and receiving a request from a party to the marketplace to list a proposed web application for sale in the marketplace. One or more processors of a computer system automatically determine the permissions requested by the proposed web application and automatically determine if the permissions match one or more predetermined permissions. If the permissions match one or more predetermined permissions, then the proposed application is flagged for a manual vetting process before listing the proposed application in the marketplace, and if they do not match, then the proposed application is listed in the marketplace without manual review of the application.
US08725584B1 Tool for selling and purchasing vehicle history reports
Systems and methods for selling and purchasing vehicle history reports are described. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a set of vehicles in a dealer inventory, determining a subset of the vehicles in the dealer inventory for which the dealer has not purchased a vehicle history report, presenting a summary report to a dealer, the summary report including information about at least one of the vehicles in the subset of the vehicles, receiving a selection to purchase a vehicle history report for at least one of the vehicles in the summary report, and providing the vehicle history report corresponding to the selection to the dealer.
US08725583B2 Determining use of a display characteristic
A display characteristic determination machine receives a request to display seller-related content that references an item available for sale. The display characteristic determination machine identifies a display characteristic available from a web server, determines that the seller-related content is to be displayed using the display characteristic, and communicates to the web server that the seller-related content is to be displayed using the display characteristic and with primary content. The display characteristic determination machine may function as an allocation device to allocate use of the display characteristic. This functionality may be scaled, for example, to include determining use of multiple display characteristics, available from multiple web servers, by multiple instances of seller-related content requested for display by multiple sellers of multiple items. The display characteristic determination machine, therefore, may function as a “broker” for display characteristics available from multiple web servers.
US08725582B2 Multimedia system based E-commerce
E-commerce techniques, in accordance with embodiments of the present technology, provide an improved buying experience integrated with the television viewing experience. A multimedia system for implementing the e-commerce techniques includes a two way communication system such as a set top box, display device and remote controller. The set top box and display device are used to present enhanced content including one or more offerings to users. The users can use the remote control to complete a purchase transaction for one or more of the offerings.
US08725579B2 Device ID and financial information
A method including sending a device ID and financial information associated with a user of a device to a transaction device in response to receiving a transaction request from the transaction device, configuring an image capture device to capture an image of the user and send the image of the user to the transaction device, and configuring the transaction device to authenticate the financial information with the image of the user.
US08725578B2 Method and apparatus for authorizing a financial transaction
A system that authorizes a financial transaction is presented. During operation, the system receives a request to authorize accounts associated with one or more financial instruments to be used to fulfill the financial transaction. Next, the system determines a transaction location at which the financial transaction is being performed. The system then determines whether the accounts are authorized to be used at the transaction location. If so, the system authorizes the accounts to be used to fulfill the financial transaction.
US08725577B2 Personalized mobile banking transactions
A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization.
US08725572B1 Electronic advertising arbitrage
Performing an operation is disclosed. A first keyword is received. For the first keyword an associated semantic group of one or more keywords associated by a semantic relationship is identified. An electronic advertising operation is performed using a second keyword associated with the identified semantic group.
US08725567B2 Targeted advertising in brick-and-mortar establishments
Architecture for presenting advertisements in realtime in retail establishments. A sensor component includes sensors for collecting information about a customer or group of customers as they move through the store. The sensors can include capability for image processing, audio processing, light sensing, velocity sensing, direction sensing, proximity sensing, face recognition, pose recognition, transaction recognition, and biometric sensing, for example. A customer component analyzes the information and generates a profile about the customer. Advertisements are selected for presentation that target the customers as they walk in proximity of a presentation system of the store. An advertisement component facilitates dynamic presentation of a targeted advertisement to the individual as a function of the profile. The customer component can infer information during analysis using machine learning and reasoning.
US08725565B1 Expedited acquisition of a digital item following a sample presentation of the item
An electronic service provides a sample of a media item to a user, along with a prompt. The prompt gives the user the opportunity to receive an additional part of the item substantially without further interaction with the user. The streamlined acquisition of the additional part of the media item is enabled by the user's establishment, in advance, of user identification information, payment information, and so on.
US08725562B2 Keyword advertisement using ranking of advertisers
A method of providing a keyword advertisement and a system for executing the method are provided. The method of providing the keyword advertisement includes: generating and maintaining an advertiser history ranking by using an advertiser keyword purchase history; and ordering the keyword advertisement display with respect to a user keyword by using the advertiser history ranking. In this instance, the advertiser keyword purchase history includes mapping information between an advertiser and a keyword purchased by the advertiser for each advertisement group or for each advertisement campaign.
US08725560B2 Method and system for simulated product evaluation via personalizing advertisements based on portrait images
Advertising method and system for creating a personalized advertisement, and for recommending a product being advertised. An uploaded facial photograph is received, the facial photograph including a plurality of facial features. At least one facial feature of the plurality of facial features is detected. Personal information may be extracted by analyzing the at least one detected facial feature. A product being advertised may be recommended, wherein the recommended product applies to a treatment related to the extracted personal information.
US08725554B2 Household member number distribution estimation apparatus and household member number distribution estimation method
A household member number distribution estimation apparatus of the present invention includes a subscriber information acquisition unit that acquires subscriber information that is information regarding subscribers of mobile terminals of a specific carrier in a region within a predetermined range and with which user IDs and main line numbers of the mobile terminals are associated, a household terminal number extraction unit that, by referring to the subscriber information, extracts the number of household terminals that is the number of the mobile terminals for each main line number, a household number extraction unit that extracts the number of households per number of terminals, and a household number estimation unit that, by using a terminal subscription rate in the region within the predetermined range to correct the number of households per number of terminals, estimates the number of households per number of household members that is the number of households for each of the number of household members constituting a household. Thus, the household member number distribution estimation apparatus enables to obtain the number of households for each of the number of household members with high accuracy on the basis of easily obtainable data.
US08725548B2 Dynamic workflow approvals
A dynamic approval system, capable of integration with enterprise software systems, where approval requests are generated from within application programs and processed using one or more dynamic approval rules comprising discrete rule steps and step criteria. For each approval request, only those rule steps applicable to the requestor and type of request are processed. Individual rule steps may be reordered, added or skipped, as appropriate, during an approval process. Typical rule steps include at least one request for approval or review. The party receiving the request may be a specific individual, a person holding a specific position, or a person having a relative relationship, such as supervisor, with the requestor.
US08725545B2 Nutritional monitoring and feedback
A method and system for tracking items is provided. The method includes retrieving, from empty food packages in garbage containers, data associated with multiple attributes of multiple consumed food products from the empty food packages. Package data objects associated with the data are generated. The package data objects include identification numbers and attributes associated with the empty food packages. The package data objects are transmitted to a central processing server for generation of aggregated data. The aggregated data is analyzed with respect to nutritional content of the multiple consumed food products.
US08725540B2 Automated system and method for evaluating insurable risks at point of sale
A system and method for evaluating an insurable risk and providing an immediate, binding insurance offer to cover that risk, includes the collection of self-reported and objective information relating to the risk. The information is provided to an automated underwriting program that evaluates and rates the insurable risk and produces a binding insurance quote. Certain embodiments of the system and method utilize an automated application form and information gathering apparatus to collect the self-reported information. Objective information is obtained by a variety of means, including the direct measurement of certain physical and medical parameters. Certain embodiments may provide for the collection of information relating to payment for the insurance product, and the obtaining of an electronic signature from an applicant.
US08725539B2 Systems and methods for providing a continuum of care
Disclosed herein are embodiments for providing a continuum of care. At least one embodiment includes receiving patient information for a patient, the patient information including medical information of the patient suffering from a specific medical condition and determining whether the patient qualifies for the continuum of care. Similarly, some embodiments include, in response to determining that the patient qualifies for the continuum of care, facilitating a primary patient screening to determine whether the patient has a tangential medical condition. Still some embodiments include creating a continuum of care plan for the patient that utilizes the patient information and results of the primary screening to predict a future medical care need of the patient.
US08725538B2 Automated processing of electronic medical data for insurance and disability determinations
A machine-implemented method of assisting medical evidence collection for adjudication of a medical disability request is described. In some embodiments, the method includes providing an electronic medical record of a patient, the electronic medical record includes evidence of at least one claimable medical disability condition and locating in the electronic medical record at least one keyword associated with the at least one claimable medical disability condition. In some embodiments, the method further includes processing an inference rule associated with the at least one claimable medical disability condition, such that the evidence of the at least one claimable medical disability condition is identified in the electronic medical record and outputting, to a computer-readable medium, information indicative of (1) the evidence of the at least one claimable medical disability condition, and (2) a location of the evidence in the electronic medical record.
US08725532B1 Systems and methods for monitoring controlled substance distribution
Systems and methods for monitoring controlled substance distribution include receiving a healthcare transaction at a service provider computer. The healthcare transaction may be parsed to determine the healthcare provider submitting the healthcare transaction, the drug being prescribed as part of the healthcare transaction and the class of controlled substance to which the drug being prescribed belongs. Counters associated with total scripts prescribed by the healthcare provider and the class of controlled substance may be incremented upward in view of the healthcare transaction being approved by a claims processor. A current percentage of the class of controlled substances being prescribed can be calculated for the healthcare provider and compared to a threshold percentage for the particular class of controlled substance. If the current percentage violates the threshold percentage, a notification can be sent to a corporate level or management level for the healthcare provider for review.
US08725531B1 Method using a global server for providing patient medical histories
An Internet based method for assisting in the rapid delivery of medical information direct to the site at which emergency assistance is being performed uses a global database for warehousing patient history information, which is fetched over the Internet on demand.
US08725529B2 Methods and systems for presenting an inhalation experience
Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting an indication of at least one health-related condition and presenting an indication of at least one artificial sensory experience and an indication of at least one inhalation therapy at least partially based on the accepting at least one indication of a health-related condition.
US08725527B1 Method and apparatus to present a virtual user
A method and apparatus for providing an interactive interface to user health data is described.
US08725521B2 System and method for designing secure business solutions using patterns
A system and method for generating an information technology solution. A system for generating a runtime model is provided, comprising: a system for selecting a business pattern; a system for providing a management integration table, wherein the management integration table includes a plurality of cells, each representing at least one management application pattern; and a system for generating a runtime model from the selected business pattern and management integration table, wherein the generating system supplements the business pattern with additive patterns, bridge patterns, and management application patterns in order to generate the runtime model.
US08725513B2 Providing expressive user interaction with a multimodal application
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for providing expressive user interaction with a multimodal application, the multimodal application operating in a multimodal browser on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal application operatively coupled to a speech engine through a VoiceXML interpreter, including: receiving, by the multimodal browser, user input from a user through a particular mode of user interaction; determining, by the multimodal browser, user output for the user in dependence upon the user input; determining, by the multimodal browser, a style for the user output in dependence upon the user input, the style specifying expressive output characteristics for at least one other mode of user interaction; and rendering, by the multimodal browser, the user output in dependence upon the style.
US08725511B2 Enhanced accuracy for speech recognition grammars
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for recognizing speech. A method embodiment comprises comparing received speech with a precompiled grammar based on a database and if the received speech matches data in the precompiled grammar then returning a result based on the matched data. If the received speech does not match data in the precompiled grammar, then dynamically compiling a new grammar based only on new data added to the database after the compiling of the precompiled grammar. The database may comprise a directory of names.
US08725508B2 Method and apparatus for element identification in a signal
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for searching for an element sequence, the method comprising: receiving a signal; determining an initial segment of the signal; inputting the initial segment into an element extraction engine to obtain a first element sequence; determining one or more second segments, each of the second segments at least partially overlapping with the initial segment; inputting the second segments into the element extraction engine to obtain at least one second element sequence; and searching for an element subsequence common to at least a predetermined number of sequences of the first element sequence and the second element sequences.
US08725507B2 Systems and methods for synthesis of motion for animation of virtual heads/characters via voice processing in portable devices
Systems and methods consistent with the innovations herein relate to communication using a virtual humanoid animated during call processing. According to one exemplary implementation, the animation may be performed using a system of recognition of spoken vowels for animation of the lips, which may also be associated with the recognition of DTMF tones for animation of head movements and facial features. The innovations herein may be generally implemented in portable devices such as PDAs, cell phones and Smart Phones that have access to mobile telephony.
US08725504B1 Inverse quantization in audio decoding
An approach to performing inverse quantization on a quantized integral value is described. This approach involves determining whether a quantized integral value lies within a first range or a second range of possible values. An interpolated inverse quantization value is calculated from the quantized integral value, using a predetermined bit shifting operation, depending on whether the quantized integral value was in the first or the second range.
US08725501B2 Audio decoding device and compensation frame generation method
There is disclosed an audio decoding device capable of improving audio quality of a decoded signal by considering the energy change of a past signal in eracure concealment processing. In this device, an energy change calculation unit (143) calculates an average energy of an audio source signal of one-pitch cycle from the end of the ACB vector outputted from an adaptive codebook (106). Moreover, the energy change calculation unit (143) calculates a ratio of the average energy of the current sub-frame and the sub-frame immediately before and outputs the ratio to an ACB gain generation unit (135). The ACB gain generation unit (135) outputs a conceal processing ACB gain defined by the ACB gain decoded in the past or information on the energy change ratio outputted from the energy change calculation unit (143) to a multiplier (132).
US08725499B2 Systems, methods, and apparatus for signal change detection
Disclosed configurations include systems, methods, and apparatus arranged to generate a sequence of spectral tilt values that is based on inactive frames of a speech signal. For each of a plurality of inactive frames of the speech signal, a transmit decision is made according to a change calculated among at least two corresponding values of the sequence. The outcome of the transmit decision determines whether a silence description is transmitted for the corresponding inactive frame.
US08725498B1 Mobile speech recognition with explicit tone features
A computer-implemented method for digital speech processing, including (1) receiving, at a server computer, digital speech data from a computing device, the digital speech data comprising data points sampled at respective time points; (2) computing, by the server computer, a tonal feature of the digital speech data, the tonal feature comprising information encoding fundamental frequencies at the respective time points; (3) computing, by the server computer, a logarithm of the tonal feature at the respective time points; and (4) processing, by the server computer, the logarithm of the tonal feature based on a characterization of the digital speech data at the respective time points.
US08725497B2 System and method for detecting and correcting mismatched Chinese character
A system and method for detecting and correcting mismatched Chinese characters in a phrase. The system comprises a database for the look-up of characters and Chinese phrases, a module to compare the input phrases with the look-up data retrieved from the database and a module to correct the mismatched characters. The database contains correct phrases as well as attributes associated with each character, such as pronunciation and radical composition. The modules inputs a Chinese phrase that has at least two characters and compares it with the data retrieved from the database to determine if there are incorrect characters. The spell checking method includes two groups of steps: mismatched character detection and mismatched character correction. Whether there is any mismatched character to be corrected is determined by the edit distance, the phrase length and comparisons of the pronunciation and radical composition of the mismatched characters.
US08725495B2 Systems, methods and devices for generating an adjective sentiment dictionary for social media sentiment analysis
Embodiments generally relate to systems and methods for generating a sentiment dictionary and calculating sentiment scores of adjectives within the sentiment dictionary. A set of seed words can be identified and expanded using synonyms and antonyms of the set of seed words. Social media data can be parse to identify adjectives that link to the set of seed words with the words “and” or “but.” Matrices representing the attraction and repulsion among the linked adjectives can be generated. A factorization algorithm can be minimized to determine an output matrix that comprises positive and negative sentiment scores for each of the adjectives. In embodiments, a sentiment score for part of all of the social media data can be calculated using the output matrix, and one or more parts of the social media data can be classified as a positive or negative sentiment.
US08725487B2 Techniques to automatically generate simulated information
Techniques to automatically generate simulated information are described. A method comprises receiving by a processor a structured input file with definitions to generate simulated data for a simulation database, and producing by the processor a data generator program based on the structured input file, the data generator program arranged to generate the simulated data for the simulation database using multiple data generating sessions executed concurrently or sequentially. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08725484B2 Adaptive redundancy-extraction for 3D electromagnetic simulation of electronic systems
Redundancy extraction in electromagnetic simulation of an electronic device/system includes discretizing first and second spaced conductive layers of a computer model of an electronic device/system into first and second meshes M1 and M2. For each edge between cells of each mesh, a current flow across the edge in response to application of an exemplary bias to the geometry is determined. A square impedance matrix Z* is determined which, for each instance of equal magnitude and opposite direction current flows (EMODCF) in edges E1 and E2 of M1 and M2, has one less row and one less column than the total number of edges in M1 and M2. A voltage column vector V* is also determined which, for each instance of EMODCF, has one less row than the total number of edges in M1 and M2. A current column vector [I*]=[V*]/[Z*] is then determined.
US08725482B2 Screening metal organic framework materials
This invention relates to a method for characterizing the pores of reticulated framework structures and using these characteristics to predict the actual performance characteristics of the reticulated framework structures as membranes for gas separation, and other purposes.
US08725481B2 Parallel adaptive data partitioning on a reservoir simulation using an unstructured grid
A computer implemented system and method for parallel adaptive data partitioning on a reservoir simulation using an unstructured grid includes a method of simulating a reservoir model which includes generating the reservoir model. The generated reservoir model is partitioned into multiple sets of different domains, each one corresponding to an efficient partition for a specific portion of the model.
US08725480B2 Arrangement and method for optimizing the operation of a supply network
An exemplary arrangement for determining set point values for controllable elements in a network that includes a management system for driving elements of the network and a plurality of processing units. The arrangement also includes at least one simulation unit with a simulation environment for generating a hydraulic simulation model of the network, and an optimization unit with an optimization environment for converting and simplifying the hydraulic simulation model. The optimization environment receives exported data from the simulation environment, generates a simplified optimization model from the exported data through an algorithm that is implemented through program code executed by a processor, and uses the optimization model and at least one of received additional data and measurement and field data to calculate optimized flow charts as temporally changeable set point value series for driving elements in the network and providing the driven elements to the management system.
US08725478B2 Reservoir upscaling method with preserved transmissibility
The invention relates to methods for upscaling a three dimensional model. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, embodiments of the present invention includes method for upscaling a three dimensional model by preserving transmissibility.
US08725476B1 Applying details in a simulation
A computer-implemented method for applying details in a simulation includes obtaining first data corresponding to a first simulation of matter in a space domain. The method includes performing, using the first data, a second simulation of the matter producing second data representing details for the first simulation, the second data distributed in the space domain using a grid where each cell has a common depth-to-size ratio from a camera perspective. The method includes rendering an image of the matter, wherein the second data is obtained from the grid and used in the rendering.
US08725474B2 Bezier curves for advanced driver assistance system applications
A method and system for using Bezier curves in vehicle positioning and electronic horizon applications for providing data to advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) applications are disclosed. The Bezier curves are obtained from B-splines. The obtained Bezier curves are subdivided in a manner that allows the vehicle positioning application to derive a polyline representation in real time. Using the Bezier and polyline geometry, the vehicle positioning application provides a vehicle position approximation to the ADAS applications. Using the Bezier curves, the electronic horizon application provides curvature, slope, and heading profiles to the ADAS applications.
US08725472B2 Arrangement and method for generating information
A method for generating input information associated with a question to be provided to a simulation device on-board a platform. The question is elected among a plurality of questions. A simulation criterion corresponding to the simulation is determined. A simulation scenario is modified depending upon the question. The input information is generated depending upon the elected question and the simulation criterion.
US08725468B2 Method and device for frequency analysis of data
The data frequency analysis method comprises: a step for inputting signals coming from a first sensor; a step for inputting signals coming from at least a second sensor, each second sensor being positioned close to the first sensor so that the signals coming from each second sensor are strongly correlated with the signals coming from the first sensor; a step of estimating, for each sensor, a transfer function or model established from the combination of the signals from the first sensor and from each second sensor; and a step of extracting the structural properties of the system from each of the estimated models.
US08725467B2 Three-dimensional model processing technique
This method includes: obtaining a first component having a hole among a plurality of components included in a three-dimensional model; determining whether a second component that satisfies a first condition that the second component has a portion that exists within the hole of the first component or a second condition that the second component covers at least a part of an opening portion of the hole included in the first component exists among the plurality of components included in the three-dimensional model; and upon determining that the second component exists, storing data for identifying the hole of the first component into a data storage unit.
US08725462B2 Data aggregation platform
In particular embodiments, a method includes accessing an original data stream from a sensor, associating a timestamp with each of the samples in the data stream based on a system clock, and recording the original data stream with the associated timestamps.
US08725456B1 Decomposition technique for remaining useful life prediction
The prognostic tool disclosed here decomposes the problem of estimating the remaining useful life (RUL) of a component or sub-system into two separate regression problems: the feature-to-damage mapping and the operational conditions-to-damage-rate mapping. These maps are initially generated in off-line mode. One or more regression algorithms are used to generate each of these maps from measurements (and features derived from these), operational conditions, and ground truth information. This decomposition technique allows for the explicit quantification and management of different sources of uncertainty present in the process. Next, the maps are used in an on-line mode where run-time data (sensor measurements and operational conditions) are used in conjunction with the maps generated in off-line mode to estimate both current damage state as well as future damage accumulation. Remaining life is computed by subtracting the instance when the extrapolated damage reaches the failure threshold from the instance when the prediction is made.
US08725454B2 Drying method with energy savings
A method to compensate drying time in an electric or gas dryer machine, which comprises the steps of: read the operator parameters (dryness level, cycle type, heat level); begin a timer to measure time between beginning and Trtv; determine the load weight and the type of restrictions of the dryer; determine the dryness target voltage and the minimum drying time by means of a table of predetermined values based on the previous data; store the values in a memory; determine that the detected voltage be equal to the target voltage; calculate the additional time as a function of the heat factor and of the data previously determined; compare (Tminimum-Trtv) versus additional time and use the greater; and, add the additional time to the Trtv as compensation time.
US08725451B2 Systems and methods for use in monitoring operation of a rotating device
A system for use in monitoring operation of a rotating device includes at least one first sensor that senses a position of a first component coupled to the rotating device, and at least one second sensor that senses a position of a second component coupled to the rotating device. A processor coupled to the first sensor and the second sensor calculates a first plurality of property values of the first component based on the first component position, and a second plurality of property values of the second component based on the second component position. The processor graphically presents a first display including at least one trace based on the first plurality of component property values, graphically presents a second display including at least one trace based on the second plurality of component property values, and synchronizes the trace in the first display with the trace in the second display.
US08725446B2 Method for determining the shape of a workpiece
Method for measuring the shape of a workpiece includes a measuring sensor used to find measured values that represent the shape of a workpiece. The shape of the workpiece is determined by an iterative method using the measured values. The shape of the workpiece is determined during machining. The determining of the shape during machining is particularly suited for determining the shape during grinding. The shape determined may be the shape of a pin, especially a crankpin for a crankshaft.
US08725445B2 Calibration of the accelerometer sensor of a remote controller
A method and a video game system that maintain the readings of the accelerometer sensor of the remote controller used in conjunction with the video game system consistent over different controllers and different styles of play. The video game system looks at a predetermined time period, when the largest difference in the acceleration vectors for each frame is within a small limit, indicating that the player is holding the controller relatively idle. Then, the video game system averages the acceleration vectors over this time period, and the inverse of the magnitude of this average is used as a normalization constant.
US08725440B2 Method and apparatus for processing a motor signal, having current ripple, of a DC motor
In order to process a motor signal (Ia, Um) of a DC motor (4), in particular of an adjustment drive of a motor vehicle, the armature current (Ia) and the motor voltage (Um) of the DC motor (4) are detected and used for determining the back-emf (E) of the DC motor (4), wherein the determined back-emf (E) is used to generate a useful signal (Sf, SEFL), which is in particular speed-proportional, from the armature current signal (Ia) for position sensing or for evaluating an excess force limitation.
US08725439B2 Electronic device controller for improving performance of electronic device
An electronic device controller and an electronic system including the same are provided. The electronic device controller includes a calculation unit for calculating performance information of an electronic device based on detailed information regarding an operation and state of the electronic device and a tuning unit for tuning at least one of the detailed information, based on the calculated performance information of the electronic device.
US08725430B2 Method and apparatus for determining structural damage depth, and method and apparatus for determining structural damage treatment
A correlation is preliminarily obtained between a depth of damage and a ratio between a temperature gradient in temperature distribution on a surface of an area containing the damage and a temperature difference between a maximum temperature and a minimum temperature in the temperature distribution. The temperature distribution on the surface of the area containing the damage in the structure is then measured. Once the temperature distribution on the structure surface is obtained, attention is focused on temperature distribution between two points including the damaged area, so that a temperature difference between a maximum temperature and a minimum temperature in the distribution is obtained, and further a temperature gradient of an interval exhibiting temperature variation equal to or higher than a predetermined level is obtained. The ratio between the temperature difference and the temperature gradient thus obtained is computed, and the depth of the damage corresponding to the ratio is determined based on the correlation obtained in the first step. The depth of the damage can be estimated by the processing above.
US08725425B2 Image data efficient genetic sequencing method and system
A technique is disclosed for performing sequencing of polymers such as DNA and RNA. A sample containing multiple sites to be sequenced is cyclically subjected to attachment of nucleotides, and imaging. A digital mask corresponding to sites of interest in the sample array is generated and image data for the sites is processed differently from image data not corresponding to sites of interest. The latter may be discarded during the sequencing operation. The use of the mask improves computational efficiency and reduces memory allocated for the image data during sequencing.
US08725424B2 Seafood physical characteristic estimation system and method
Systems and methods for estimating a physical characteristic of a seafood product are provided. In one system, the estimate is based on a slope defined by a ratio of changes in peak resonant amplitude and frequency of an electromagnetic resonant circuit in loaded and unloaded states. In another system, a first probe of a plurality of probes is driven with a test signal when the plurality of probes is loaded by a seafood product and the estimate is based on received test signals at one or more of the other probes. In another system, the estimate is based on the loading effect of a seafood product on an electromagnetic resonant circuit, which is also used to read an ID from an RFID associated with the seafood product. The systems and methods may be used for individual specimens, or to determine an average estimate for multiple specimens at one time.
US08725421B2 In vitro estimation of in vivo half-life binding proteins
The present invention discloses methods used to estimate the in vivo half-life of a binding protein of interest. The disclosed methods involve (a) determining for a binding protein of interest and for each of at least two different reference binding proteins an in vitro half-life using an in vitro protease reaction assay, wherein said reference binding proteins have known different in vivo half-lives, (b) determining the correlation between the known in vivo half-lives and the in vitro proteolytic half-lives of each of the reference binding proteins, and (c) estimating from said correlation between the known in vivo half-lives and the in vitro proteolytic half-lives of the reference binding proteins the in vivo half-life of the binding protein of interest that correlates with the in vitro proteolytic half-life of the binding protein of interest.
US08725420B2 Compositions and methods for surface abrasion with frozen particles
Certain embodiments disclosed herein relate to compositions, methods, devices, systems, and products regarding frozen particles. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles include materials at low temperatures. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles provide vehicles for delivery of particular agents. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles are administered to at least one biological tissue.
US08725417B1 Rapid intervisibility determination in resource-constrained computational environments
The present invention is a method for providing rapid intervisibility determination in resource-constrained computational environments. The method may be applied to various real-time applications, such as real-time flight planning and ad-hoc network management. The method includes pre-processing terrain elevation data into an ELDETREE data structure, which uses a 3-D grid coordinate system for each zone inside a multi-zone planning area, for expediting intervisibility determination. Along with promoting increased intervisibility computation efficiency, the method further promotes reduced memory usage for intervisibility computation.
US08725414B2 Information processing device displaying current location and storage medium
In an information processing device, when a positional information acquiring unit acquires positional information calculated from GPS signals and the like, a movement area setting unit sets a movement area with a size corresponding to a distance between a current location and a destination. When the positional information acquiring unit acquires positional information indicating a current location after setting this movement area, a judgment unit judges whether the positional information is within the movement area. Then, as a result of this judgment, in a case of being within the movement area, a display control unit executes display control of a display unit so as to display on a map the positional information, and in a case of being outside of the movement area, so as not to display on the map the positional information.
US08725406B2 Mobile communication terminal and map display system
A map display system has a server and a mobile communication terminal connected via a communication network. The communication terminal has a storage device for storing advance map data associated with position data; a position measurement device for measuring a present position and obtaining position present position data; a present map data obtaining device for obtaining present map data from the server via the communication network by sending the server the present position data; an instruction device for issuing an instruction for map display; and a display device for displaying a map based on either the present map data or the advance map data. The server has a storage device for storing map data; and a map providing device for searching the stored map data in accordance with the position data sent from the mobile communication terminal and sending the mobile communication terminal map data corresponding to the position data.
US08725402B2 Loss of separation avoidance maneuvering
A flight management system for an aircraft may determine maneuvers to avoid loss of separation between the aircraft and another aircraft. The flight management system may include a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory may store instructions that are executable by the processor to identify a potential loss of separation between the aircraft and a second aircraft. The instructions may also be executable by the processor to determine whether executing a first speed maneuver using predetermined parameters is predicted to avoid the potential LOS. The instructions may be further executable by the processor to determine parameters of a second speed maneuver when the first speed maneuver is expected to avoid the potential LOS.
US08725401B2 Avoidance method and system for an aircraft
Disclosed is a method and system for avoiding collision between an aircraft A and an intruder aircraft. The method and system involve determining avoidance presets to avoid a collision between the aircraft A and the intruder aircraft, in which the avoidance presets comprise a vertical speed preset. The presets are determined from avoidance information received from an anticollision system, and the determined avoidance presets are transmitted to at least one guidance device that guides the aircraft A based on the avoidance presets.
US08725400B1 Micro-baseline GPS angular determination
A method of determining a position of a target is disclosed. A position of a targeting instrument relative to a friendly asset is established. A signal from the friendly asset is transmitted. The signal from the friendly asset is received at first and second locations associated with the targeting instrument. An orientation of the targeting instrument relative to the friendly asset is determined based on when the signal is received at the first and second locations. The position of the targeting instrument relative to the friendly asset is compared with the orientation of the targeting instrument relative to the friendly asset, to thereby determine the orientation of the target relative to the targeting instrument.
US08725398B2 System and method for improved traffic flow reporting using satellite digital audio radio service (SDARS) and vehicle communications, navigation and tracking system
Systems and methods are provided for improved traffic flow reporting (e.g., system bandwidth conservation and timely traffic flow updates) using in-vehicle devices, service hub, and communications system for transmitting aggregated traffic flow data to the vehicles. In-vehicle devices store data relating to monitored segments of roadways (e.g., segment identifiers or location codes and designated range(s) of speed), and send messages to the hub when current vehicle speed is not within a selected range designated for the current segment of roadway where the vehicle is located. Vehicles can be configured to send messages based on various criteria. A selected vehicle or group of vehicles can be commanded to send a message to the hub. The hub provides updated traffic flow data based on the messages to the communications system for transmission to the vehicles.
US08725397B2 Traffic signal cycle estimation device and traffic signal cycle estimation method
A traffic signal cycle estimation device 2 is provided, which includes a travel time acquisition unit 4 acquiring a traffic signal section travel time, a frequency distribution calculation unit 5 calculating a frequency distribution of the traffic signal section travel times on the basis of the traffic signal section travel times, a travel time group determination unit 6 determining a first travel time group in which the vehicle does not stop at the traffic signal and a second travel time group in which the vehicle stops at the traffic signal on the basis of the frequency distribution of the traffic signal section travel times, and a traffic signal cycle estimation unit 7 estimating cycle information of the traffic signal on the basis of a difference between the first travel time group and the second travel time group.
US08725392B2 Device for controlling an injection valve actuator for an internal combustion engine
A device for controlling an injection valve actuator for an internal combustion engine has a voltage source, the voltage of which is high compared to the voltage of a vehicle battery and which is connected to the actuator by way of at least one controllable switch. A switching controller can be connected to the vehicle battery at the input end and it is connected to the voltage source at the output end to generate the high voltage from the voltage of the vehicle battery. The switching controller is designed in such a way that the high voltage of the voltage source is regulated to a higher value as the temperature increases.
US08725385B2 High-accuracy IMEP computational technique using a low-resolution encoder and an indirect integration process
A method for computing indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) in an internal combustion engine using sparse input data. The method uses an indirect integration approach, and requires significantly lower resolution crankshaft position and cylinder pressure input data than existing IMEP computation methods, while providing calculated IMEP output results which are very accurate in comparison to values computed by existing methods. By using sparse input data, the indirect integration method offers cost reduction opportunities for a manufacturer of vehicles, engines, and/or electronic control units, through the use of lower cost sensors and the consumption of less computing resources for data processing and storage.
US08725382B2 Vehicle control apparatus that inhibits fuel efficiency from being aggravated as a result of retarding ignition timing
A vehicle control apparatus that inhibits fuel efficiency from being aggravated as a result of ignition timing of the internal combustion engine being retarded. The vehicle control apparatus includes a drive system control unit and an engine control unit. The engine control unit adjusts an amount of intake air based on the demanded torque and adjusts ignition timing so as to compensate for any deviation between torque achievable through an adjustment of the amount of intake air and the demanded torque. The drive system control unit calculates desirable torque to be desirably output to the internal combustion engine for achieving a target operating state of the vehicle, and limits a change rate of the desirable torque by using a predetermined guard value determined from torque adjustment capacity of the internal combustion engine and outputs the desirable torque after the limiting as the demanded torque to the engine control unit.
US08725381B2 Slip detection apparatus and slip detection method
The procedure of slip detection computes a right wheel speed Vr from a rotation speed Nm2 of a motor MG2 determined according to a detection result of a rotational position detection sensor 44 and from a left wheel speed Vl measured by a wheel speed sensor 64b attached to a left wheel 62b. A right wheel acceleration ar is calculated from the computed right wheel speed Vr. When the calculated right wheel acceleration ar exceeds a preset reference value arslip, the procedure detects the occurrence of a slip of a right wheel 62a. When a left wheel acceleration al calculated from the obtained left wheel speed Vl exceeds a preset reference value alslip, the procedure detects the occurrence of a slip of the left wheel 62b.
US08725379B2 Vehicle body vibration damping control device
In a vehicle body vibration damping control device, a priority level setting section is configured to set priority levels of a pitching vibration of a vehicle body which is a sprung mass and a bouncing vibration thereof to take a higher priority for a suppression of the pitching vibration between the pitching vibration and the bouncing vibration and a damping purpose braking-or-driving force correction quantity calculation section configured to determine a damping purpose braking-or-driving force correction quantity to suppress vehicle body vibrations on a basis of the pitching vibration and the bouncing vibration, while satisfying the priority levels set by the priority level setting section, to contribute onto a corrective control of a road wheel braking-or-driving force.
US08725378B2 Control system for vehicle and method of controlling vehicle
A control system for a vehicle restricts engine torque when an accelerator operation amount is large and it is determined that the direction of the driver's face changed between forward and backward of the vehicle.
US08725372B2 Method for kiss point adaptation
A method for adjusting the point of engagement of a friction clutch of a step-variable transmission for a motor vehicle, in particular a friction clutch of a dual clutch transmission. The friction clutch is controllably actuated by means of a clutch actuator and at least one synchronizer shifting clutch is controllably actuated by means of a shift actuator for the engagement and disengagement of a gear ratio of the spur-gear transmission. A set-point of the clutch actuator for the point of engagement of the friction clutch is adjusted as a function of a speed gradient value, which ensues from a transitional state with the friction clutch actuated and the shifting clutch actuated, once the shifting clutch is opened. The transitional state is established by setting the clutch actuator and the shift actuator to a respective transitional value substantially at the same time or, at least in sections, in parallel.
US08725370B2 Vehicle control apparatus
A vehicle control apparatus including: a bad-road control-mode switch configured to be manipulated by a driver; and a bad-road control section configured to perform a bad-road control when a bad-road control mode is selected by the bad-road control-mode switch, the bad-road control section including a shift changeover function configured to automatically change a shift state of vehicle between a forward running and a reverse running, and a driving-force applying section configured to reduce a driving force acting on a road-wheel when the shift state of vehicle is changed by the shift changeover function, and configured to apply a predetermined driving force to the road-wheel when a predetermined time has elapsed after the change of shift state, as the bad-road control.
US08725367B2 Control apparatus and control method for vehicle automatic transmission
In a control apparatus and a control method for a vehicle automatic transmission in which a plurality of gears with different speed ratios are achieved by selectively engaging a plurality of friction engagement devices and a one-way clutch, if an acceleration request is made in the case where the one-way clutch is in an idling state when a first predetermined gear is to be achieved by engaging the one-way clutch, a pre-synchronization control is executed to transmit torque through a predetermined friction engagement device used to achieve a second predetermined gear at which the one-way clutch is maintained in an idling state, and to continue to change a rotational direction of the one-way clutch toward a rotational direction in which the one-way clutch is brought to a synchronized state, according to the acceleration request.
US08725363B2 Method for operating a materials handling vehicle utilizing multiple detection zones
A multiple detection zone supplemental remote control system for a materials handling vehicle comprises one or more sensors capable of defining multiple contactless detection zones at least towards the front of the forward travel direction of a remotely controlled vehicle. The vehicle responds to the detection of objects within the designated zones based upon predetermined actions, such as to slow down or stop the vehicle, and/or to take other action, such as to perform a steer angle correction.
US08725360B2 Traction control device
The invention provides a traction control device capable of ensuring a sufficient acceleration and course traceability during the turning of a vehicle irrespective of the type of driving system or a road surface condition. A traction control device of the invention includes: a control-start determiner that determines whether or not to control a braking mechanism; and a traction force estimating section that estimates a traction force between each of wheels and the road surface. The traction force estimating section includes: a control condition determining section that determines a control condition of the braking mechanism based on a result of the determination of the control-start determiner; a traction force initial value setting section that sets an initial value in accordance with a result of the determination of the control condition determining section; and a traction force modifying section that modifies the traction force based on a control deviation.
US08725356B2 Vehicle steering control system
The absolute value of a steering torque detected by a steering torque sensor is compared with a predetermined threshold. When the absolute value of the detected steering torque is smaller than the threshold, a steering reaction force is controlled on the basis of the steering torque; whereas, when the absolute value of the detected steering torque is larger than or equal to the threshold, the steering reaction force is controlled using a detected reaction motor current value as a reference value.
US08725354B2 Electric power steering systems and methods
An electric power steering system for a vehicle includes a steering mechanism coupling a steering wheel to a steerable element. A first actuator is in communication with a controller and operatively connected to the steering mechanism for assisting movement of the steerable element in response to a first signal from the controller. The system also includes a second actuator in communication with the controller, separate from the first actuator, and operatively connected to the steering mechanism between the first actuator and the steering wheel for superimposing torque in response to a second signal from the controller.
US08725351B1 Active suspension system
An active suspension system for a suspended device. The system has an electromagnetic actuator that produces force on the suspended device and that is powered by a power source, and a control system that provides control signals that cause the electromagnetic actuator to exert force on the suspended device. The control system is adapted to receive a turn-off signal that results in disabling the electromagnetic actuator from producing force on the suspended device. When the control system receives a turn-off signal it provides actuator turn-off control signals that cause the force exerted by the electromagnetic actuator to progressively transition to zero over a transition time period.
US08725349B2 Rear defogger control strategy based on a number of vehicle occupants
A defogger system for a vehicle is provided. The defogger system includes an occupant module receiving an occupant signal indicative of a number of occupants located within the vehicle. The occupant module determines a compensation factor based on the number of occupants located within the vehicle. The defogger system includes a defogger timer for determining a preliminary defogger signal that indicates a preliminary amount of time. The defogger system includes a final timer module that receives the compensation factor and the preliminary defogger signal. The final timer module determines a timer signal that indicates an amount of time that a defogger remains activated.
US08725347B2 System and method for performing evaporative leak diagnostics in a vehicle
A method is provided for performing an evaporative leak diagnostic for a vehicle. A valve in a diagnostic module is commanded to a vent position. The valve connects a fuel system to atmosphere. A pump in the diagnostic module is operated to measure a reference pressure across an orifice in the diagnostic module to provide a threshold. The valve is commanded to a test position. The pump is operated to place the fuel system in a low pressure state. A series of pressures in the fuel system is measured. A diagnostic code is provided after comparing the series of pressures to the threshold.
US08725346B2 Collision severity determination system and method
A system for vehicle safety enhancement is disclosed. The system comprises a sudden slowdown detection subsystem, a slight bump detection subsystem, an airbag activation and brake malfunction detection subsystem, and a rollover detection subsystem. A controlling unit is connected to each subsystem for determining a severity level of a collision involving a vehicle, and the controlling unit is in turn connected to a communication unit for sending an alert signal based on the severity level. A method for vehicle safety enhancement is also disclosed.
US08725345B2 Information system for industrial vehicles
Industrial vehicles communicate across a wireless environment where the wireless communication, data collection and/or processing capabilities of industrial vehicles are utilized to implement dashboard functions that thread status information from detail level views, up through intermediate views and to summary level views to facilitate efficient fleet maintenance, management and control. Further, industrial vehicle data may be communicated to a trusted third party server. As such, wirelessly collected industrial vehicle information is utilized within applications that aggregate and analyze data across multiple enterprises.
US08725341B2 Navigation apparatus and method of navigation
A navigation apparatus guides a user to an appropriate terminal in an airport, for example, even when a schedule of an intended flight is changed. The above advantage is achieved by acquiring flight information of the intended flight from a flight information list that is delivered from an information distribution center and by determining, as a guidance destination, a terminal of the intended flight or a suitable airport facility after change of the flight schedule. The suitable guidance destination is determined not only by the changed flight schedule but also by a user purpose to go to the airport and an estimated arrival time of the user to the airport.
US08725338B2 Vehicle and system for charging the same
Provided is a practical plug-in hybrid vehicle or an electric vehicle as well as a charge system, a fuel consumption measurement system, and an environment protection system for the vehicles. The charge system includes an electric power source charging a vehicle having a battery, a power supply unit for supplying electric power from the electric power source to the vehicle, and a power cable communication unit for performing power cable communication concerning the vehicle and the charging via the power supply unit. The vehicle includes a fuel tank for receiving oil from outside, a storage unit for storing oil supply information, a power source which consumes the fuel in the fuel tank and provides a travel power, a travel distance information acquisition unit, and a control unit which automatically calculates the fuel consumption according to the oil supply information in the storage unit and the travel distance information in the travel distance acquisition unit.
US08725337B2 Electric powered vehicle and control method thereof
When a determination is made that the shift range is other than the R range, an ECU sets the system voltage for forward running. When a determination is made that the shift range is in the R range, the ECU sets the system voltage for backward running. The system voltage for backward running is set to become higher than the system voltage applied for forward running for an identical level of acceleration requirement for the vehicle.
US08725333B2 Control apparatus for vehicle and control method therefor
In control apparatus and method for a vehicle, the vehicle including a traveling mode (a WSC traveling mode) in which a slip control is performed for a clutch (second clutch CL2) and a revolution speed control is performed for the driving source such that a revolution speed at a driving source side of the clutch becomes higher than that at a driving wheel side of the clutch by a predetermined revolution speed, an actual torque of a driving source of the vehicle is detected, a command hydraulic pressure is reduced from an initial command hydraulic pressure and a post-correction command hydraulic pressure is set on a basis of the command hydraulic pressure when a variation in the actual torque of the driving source along with the reduction of the command hydraulic pressure is determined to end, when a vehicle stopped state is determined to occur during the traveling mode.
US08725330B2 Increasing vehicle security
A method, computer-readable medium, system, and apparatus for increasing vehicle security are disclosed.
US08725329B1 Schedule-based methods and systems for controlling hybrid marine propulsion systems
Systems and methods are for controlling of a hybrid propulsion system for a marine vessel. A control circuit controls an electric motor-generator according to at least two modes, including a first mode wherein the electric motor-generator receives power from a battery and rotates a driveshaft to drive a propulsor and a second mode wherein the electric motor-generator generates power to charge the battery based upon torque from an internal combustion engine. A time criteria and at least one user-desired operational characteristic of at least one of the internal combustion engine, electric motor-generator, and battery are input to the control circuit. Based on the time criteria and user-desired operational characteristic, the control circuit calculates a schedule for at least one of charging the battery with the electric motor-generator and discharging the battery to a house load of the marine vessel. The control circuit further controls operation of the electric motor-generator according to the schedule.
US08725328B1 Methods and systems for monitoring marine engine cooling water pumps
Systems and methods are for monitoring an operational characteristic of a pump pumping cooling water from upstream to downstream to cool a marine engine. A sensor senses a characteristic of the cooling water at a location that is downstream of the pump. A control circuit is in communication with the sensor and receives the sensed characteristic of the cooling water, compares the sensed characteristic of the cooling water to a stored nominal value, and determines a present operational condition of the pump based on the comparison.
US08725325B1 Method of controlling emergency braking in fixed guideway transportation system using dynamic block control
The present invention relates to a fixed guideway transportation system that achieves a superior cost benefit ratio, is lower in net present cost and thus more easily justified for lower density corridors, and can provide passenger carrying capacities appropriate for higher density corridors serviced by mass rapid transit systems today. The invention provides an emergency braking control system and methodology that enables the implementation of related systems and methods that achieve safe headways at higher speeds than conventionally possible, while maintaining collision avoidance capabilities. In embodiments, vehicles are controlled from one or more stations with commands that are periodically sent from the station to the vehicle. For the control of emergency braking, this command contains a Safe to Proceed (STP) field that is intended and is required for the vehicle to withhold braking.
US08725322B2 Method and device for updating a target altitude for an emergency descent of an aircraft
A method and device are provided for determining a target altitude for an emergency descent of an aircraft that is to be reached by the end of the emergency descent. The device determines an updated target altitude which takes into account variations of barometric pressure and which is able to replace the target altitude that must be reached at the end of the emergency descent. The method includes determining an initial target altitude representative of the initial position of the aircraft and then repeatedly determining a current target altitude along a reference horizontal distance. The current target altitude is compared to the initial target altitude and is used to update the emergency descent if the current target altitude is lower than the initial target altitude.
US08725321B2 Flight control system
A system and method for controlling an aircraft with flight control surfaces that are controlled both manually and by a computing device is disclosed. The present invention improves overall flight control operation by reducing the mechanical flight control surface components while providing sufficient back-up control capability in the event of either a mechanical or power-related failure. Through the present invention, natural feedback is provided to the operator from the mechanical flight control surface which operates independent of computer-aided flight control surfaces. Further, through the present invention, force input signals received from the pilot are filtered to improve the operation of the computer-aided flight control surfaces.
US08725318B1 Systems and methods for incorporating virtual network computing into a cockpit display system and controlling a remote aircraft system with the VNC-incorporated CDS
Novel and non-trivial systems and methods for incorporating virtual network computing (“VNC”) into a cockpit display system (“CDS”) and controlling an aircraft system with a VNC-incorporated CDS are disclosed. A system for incorporating VNC into the CDS is comprised of a VNC server of an aircraft system, at least one first user application (“UA”), a second UA, a pilot input device, and a CDS comprised of, in part, a processing module (“PM”) configured with a corresponding method that employs both an aviation-industry standard protocol (e.g., ARINC 661) and a VNC protocol. A system for controlling an aircraft system with a VNC-incorporated CDS is comprised with a VNC server of an aircraft system, a UA, a pilot input device, a display surface format, and a CDS comprised of, in part, a PM configured with a corresponding method that employs both an aviation-industry standard protocol and a VNC protocol.
US08725309B2 Safety driving support apparatus
An object of the invention is to provide a safety driving support apparatus capable of detecting a dangerous moving object with high accuracy at quick timing. A safety driving support apparatus 100 of the invention includes a traffic obstacle detection section 101 for detecting a traffic obstacle of the periphery of a vehicle, a speed change induced event detection section 106 for detecting an event of inducing a sudden change in behavior of a pedestrian from a traffic obstacle detected by the traffic obstacle detection section 101, a speed change detection section 102 for detecting a sudden change in behavior of a pedestrian from a traffic obstacle detected by the traffic obstacle detection section 101, and a dangerous pedestrian detection section 109 for deciding that the pedestrian is a dangerous pedestrian when the speed change detection section 102 detects a change in behavior of a pedestrian within a certain time from a point in time when a speed change induced event of a pedestrian detected by the speed change induced event detection section 106 occurs.
US08725304B2 Plant controller
A plant controller includes a feedback controller configured to calculate a control input provided to a plant so that a control output of the plant matches a target value. The feedback controller includes a controller transfer function that is a transfer function of the feedback controller. The controller transfer function is expressed by a product of an inverse transfer function of a transfer function of a control target model obtained by modeling the plant and a disturbance sensitivity correlation function defined using a sensitivity function. The sensitivity function indicates sensitivity of a disturbance to be applied to the plant with respect to the control output. The sensitivity function is defined by using a response characteristic parameter that indicates a response characteristic of the plant.
US08725302B2 Control systems and methods for subsea activities
A control system is for completion installation, intervention and testing activities at a subsea location. The control system has a first control circuit at a surface location; a subsea test tree located in a blowout preventer at the subsea location, the second control circuit located within a riser extending from the blowout preventer towards the surface location; and a plurality of sensors monitoring characteristics of the subsea location. The second control circuit communicates with the first control circuit and receives the characteristics of the subsea location. The second control circuit also controls electrically powered subsea valves based upon commands from the first control circuit and based upon the characteristics of the subsea location to complete a completion installation, intervention, and/or testing activity.
US08725299B2 Customer equipment profile system for HVAC controls
Disclosed herein is a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit and controller with memory provisions for storing, receiving, and transmitting customer equipment profiles. The controller may include a plurality of profiles that allows a selection thereof for restoration. A method for configuring HVAC equipment, including a customer profile database and efficiently transmitting unique customer and factory profiles, is also disclosed.
US08725297B2 Sheet paper storage and dispensing device
A sheet paper storage and dispensing device stores and dispenses sheet paper, and includes a first reel drum onto which a tape is wound; a second reel drum on which sheet paper is stored; a motor which drives the first and second reel drums via a drive system; an electromagnetic clutch which switches between transmitting and interrupting drive force from the drive system; an electromagnetic brake which applies a brake to the drive system; a trigger sensor which detects supplying of the sheet paper; a tape speed detection section which detects a transporting speed at the intake/discharge port; a motor speed variation control unit which controls changes in a rotation speed; and a winding control unit which causes winding by controlling the electromagnetic clutch so as to transmit the driving force when supplying of the sheet paper to the intake/discharge port is detected by the trigger sensor.
US08725295B2 Robot, robot control apparatus, robot control method, and robot control program
A robot includes a multi-joint robot arm, an external force acquiring unit arranged at the multi-joint robot arm to acquire an external force, and an impedance control unit that causes the multi-joint robot arm to operate as a virtual spring-mass-damper system based on the external force acquired by the external force acquiring unit. The impedance control unit has an impedance map storage unit that defines impedance parameters at each of points of the work region, and an impedance map variable unit that changes the distribution of the impedance parameters in the impedance map storage unit in accordance with the current arm end position or the current arm end velocity of the multi-joint robot arm.
US08725294B2 Controlling the interactive behavior of a robot
A method for controlling behavior of an intelligent mechanical system having more than one degree of freedom. The method includes (a) providing a target to a selector unit that requires operation of actuators of the mechanical system; (b) generating by a selector unit more than one behavior commands adapted to reach the target; (c) simulating movements of the mechanical system for each behavior command by a computing unit of the mechanical system; (d) assessing fitness values for each simulated movements based on at least one objective; and (e) sending the behavior commands with a highest fitness value to the actuators of the mechanical system.
US08725293B2 Control device for robot, control method and computer program
A control device for a robot including: a hybrid dynamics calculator calculating joint forces that act on immovable joints and the joint accelerations that are generated at movable joints by performing a hybrid dynamics calculation that includes inverse dynamics and forward dynamics using an auxiliary model in which the actuated joints of the robot having the actuated joints and the unactuated joints are immovable; a forward dynamics calculator calculating the acceleration that is generated by known force that acts on the robot using a main model; a joint force determination unit determining the joint force; and a joint force controller controlling the joint force of each joint of the robot.
US08725292B2 Manipulation of objects
An apparatus for locating a plurality of objects includes a planar element. The apparatus includes one or more sensors sensing the locations of a plurality of objects based on light that is transmitted through the planar element. A method for locating a plurality of objects includes the steps of moving the objects. There is the step of sensing the locations of a plurality of objects based on light that is transmitted through a planar element with one or more sensors.
US08725288B2 Synthesis of mail management information from physical mail data
Any of various types of mail management information may be synthesized from data associated with physical mail items. For example, addresses, complete with addressee names, could be synthesized from data collected from physical mail items. Confidence information which indicates a measure of confidence that each synthesized address is a valid address could also be generated from the collected data. Intelligence functions may be provided to enhance address synthesis capabilities. More generally, input data for synthesis of mail management information could include data collected from physical mail items, other mail management information, or both. Features such as service delivery compliance management, network proficiency management, delivery route proficiency management, customer compliance management, a visibility service, address cleansing, delivery notification, addressee verification, synthesis of statistics, and/or synthesis of behavioral patterns could be implemented.
US08725286B2 Method and system for transporting inventory items
A system for transporting inventory items includes an inventory holder capable of storing inventory items and a mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit is capable of moving to a first point with the inventory holder at least one of coupled to and supported by the mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit is additionally capable of determining a location of the inventory holder and calculating a difference between the location of the inventory holder and the first point. The mobile drive unit is then capable of determining whether the difference is greater than a predetermined tolerance. In response to determining that the difference is greater than the predetermined tolerance, the mobile drive unit is also capable of moving to a second point based on the location of the inventory holder, docking with the inventory holder, and moving the mobile drive unit and the inventory holder to the first point.
US08725279B2 Method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal
A method and apparatus for processing an audio signal is disclosed. Herein, the method includes receiving a downmix information having at least one independent object and a background object downmixed therein; receiving an object information and a mix information; and extracting at least one independent object from the downmix information using the object information and the enhanced object information.
US08725278B2 Sound playing system
A sound playing system is disclosed. The sound playing system is used for playing sound from a portable media carrier and a personal computer, including a controlling unit and a switching unit. The controlling unit includes an audio signal receiving terminal, a data transmission terminal and a signal switch terminal. The audio signal receiving terminal receives audio signals from the portable media carrier, the data transmission terminal receives data from the personal computer, and the signal switch terminal outputs a switch signal. The switching unit determines a data transmission path according to the switch signal.
US08725277B2 Audio home network system
This disclosures describes an audio home network system 20. The system 20 includes the following: a home network backbone 200; a plurality of network speakers 100 operating in a multi speaker session; and an audio source device 300 that provides digital audio to the network speakers wherein the digital audio is in a compressed format. The network speakers 100 further include a microphone that may be used for receiving and or gathering control information from said network speakers surroundings. And, the network speakers 100 send control information to other devices on the home network backbone 200. In addition, the network speakers 100 operate in either a master mode or a slave mode where a first network speaker operates in the master mode and a second or subsequent network speaker operates in the slave mode. The audio home network system 20 optimizes the audio for the network speakers 100 current location.
US08725272B2 High-frequency treatment instrument
A high-frequency treatment instrument of the present invention includes: a pair of forceps members that includes a conductive electrode portion and an insulating portion and is supported by the forceps rotation shaft so as to be relatively rotatable; an operation section configured to open and close the pair of forceps members; a link mechanism that is attached to the pair of forceps members and includes a pair of link members; an operation wire that connects the link mechanism to the operation section; a rotation contact member that is rotatably connected to the pair of forceps members; and a regulation wire in which one end thereof is electrically connected to the rotation contact member, a part of an intermediate portion thereof is disposed so as to pass through a space between the respective link members, and the other end thereof is electrically connected to a power supply.
US08725271B2 Electrode device with elongated electrode
Apparatus is provided for applying current to a nerve. A cathode is adapted to be placed in a vicinity of a cathodic longitudinal site of the nerve and to apply a cathodic current to the nerve. A primary inhibiting anode is adapted to be placed in a vicinity of a primary anodal longitudinal site of the nerve and to apply a primary anodal current to the nerve. A secondary inhibiting anode is adapted to be placed in a vicinity of a secondary anodal longitudinal site of the nerve and to apply a secondary anodal current to the nerve, the secondary anodal longitudinal site being closer to the primary anodal longitudinal site than to the cathodic longitudinal site.
US08725270B2 Apparatus, systems, and methods for neurostimulation and neurotelemetry using semiconductor diode systems
Methods and systems for neurostimulation and/or neurotelemetry of electrically-excitable biological tissue. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a radio frequency output to a diode implanted in biological tissue. The radio frequency output cause current to flow in the diode that is sufficient to provide neurostimulation. Additionally, a radio frequency receiver is configured to receive a second harmonic signal from the diode, which can be used to control the radio frequency output.
US08725268B2 Method and apparatus for indication-based programming of cardiac rhythm management devices
A cardiac rhythm management (CRM) system includes a programming device that determines parameters for programming an implantable medical device based on patient-specific information including indications for use of the implantable medical device. By executing an indication-based programming algorithm, the programming device substantially automates the process between the diagnosis of a patient and the programming of an implantable medical device using parameters individually determined for that patient.
US08725265B2 Muscle stimulator and control methods therefor
Apparatus and methods for muscle stimulation and control of muscle stimulators are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, an electrical muscle stimulator includes a belt having a plurality of stimulator pads, a pulse width modulator controlled by a feedback loop, the PWM providing output to control voltages of the stimulator pads, and a control unit to control the PWM and feedback loop. In various embodiments, the control unit monitors PWM output values during a rest phase of a cycle of the muscle stimulator, provides a contraction phase, and following a sag after the contraction phase, uses PWM values from the rest phase to set a voltage for a subsequent rest phase of a next cycle.
US08725257B2 Dynamic cardiac resynchronization therapy by tracking intrinsic conduction
Systems and methods for pacing the heart using resynchronization pacing delays that achieve improvement of cardiac function are described. An early activation pacing interval is calculated based on an optimal AV delay and an atrial to early ventricular activation interval between an atrial event and early activation of a ventricular depolarization. The early activation pacing interval for the ventricle is calculated by subtracting the measured AVEA from the calculated optimal AV delay. The early activation pacing interval is initiated responsive to sensing early activation of the ventricle and pacing is delivered relative to expiration of the early activation pacing interval.
US08725256B2 Implantable medical device voltage divider circuit for mitigating electromagnetic interference
An RF protection circuit mitigates potentially adverse effects that may otherwise result from electromagnetic interference (e.g., due to MRI scanning of a patient having an implanted medical device). The RF protection circuit may comprise a voltage divider that is deployed across a pair of cardiac electrodes that are coupled to internal circuitry of the implantable medical device. Each leg of the voltage divider may be referenced to a ground of the internal circuit, whereby the different legs are deployed in parallel across different circuits of the internal circuitry. In this way, when an EMI-induced (e.g., MRI-induced) signal appears across the cardiac electrodes, the voltages appearing across these circuits and the currents flowing through these circuits may be reduced. The RF protection circuit may be used in an implantable medical device that employs a relatively low capacitance feedthrough to reduce EMI-induced (e.g., MRI-induced) current flow in a cardiac lead.
US08725253B2 Defibrillator display including CPR depth information
Systems and methods related to the field of cardiac resuscitation, and in particular to devices for assisting rescuers in performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are described herein. In some aspects, a system and method can include obtaining values for depths of a plurality of the chest compressions and information about a physiological parameter of the person and providing periodic feedback to a user about chest compressions performed by the user based at least in part on the values for the depths of the plurality of the chest compressions and a target compression depth.
US08725251B2 Device, method, and system for neural modulation as vaccine adjuvant in a vertebrate subject
A method for enhancing an immune response in a vertebrate subject is described. The method includes providing at least one energy stimulus configured to modulate one or more nervous system components of the vertebrate subject, and administering one or more immunogen to the vertebrate subject, wherein the at least one energy stimulus and the one or more immunogen are provided in a combination and in a temporal sequence sufficient to enhance an immune response in the vertebrate subject.
US08725247B2 Unidirectional neural stimulation systems, devices and methods
An embodiment relates to a method for delivering a unidirectional afferent nerve stimulation treatment. A test neural stimulation is delivered, and a physiologic response to the test neural stimulation is monitored. At least one neural stimulation parameter for the test neural stimulation is adjusted if the test neural stimulation does not elicit a desired physiologic response. If the test neural stimulation does elicit the desired physiologic response, at least one treatment parameter for a unidirectional afferent nerve stimulation is determined using the at least one neural stimulation parameter for the test neural stimulation that provided the desired physiologic response. The unidirectional afferent nerve stimulation is delivered using the at least one treatment parameter.
US08725242B2 System and method for displaying a histogram of cardiac events
Systems, devices and methods are provided for displaying statistical distributions of cardiac events. A device embodiment comprises circuitry adapted to communicate with a medical device that is adapted to acquire data regarding cardiac events occurring at two or more cardiac sites, and display means for displaying a histogram of the data as two or more statistical distributions for the two or more cardiac sites. The histogram includes a number of histogram bins. At least one of the histogram bins includes both a representation for at least a portion of a statistical distribution of a cardiac event for a first cardiac site and a representation for at least a portion of a statistical distribution of a cardiac event for a second cardiac site. Other embodiments are provided herein.
US08725239B2 Identifying seizures using heart rate decrease
Methods and systems for detecting a seizure event, including receiving heart beat data versus time for a patient, detecting an increase in the heart rate of a patient from a baseline heart rate to an elevated heart rate, detecting a decrease in heart rate from the elevated heart rate, for a time interval occurring during said decrease in heart rate, determining at least one of a) a rate of decrease in heart rate and b) a rate of change in a rate of decrease in heart rate, and detecting a seizure event in response to determining at least one of a) a rate of decrease in heart rate greater than a threshold rate of decrease, and b) a rate of change in the rate of decrease less than a threshold rate of change in a rate of decrease.
US08725236B2 Method for demonstrating pre-emergent pimples
A method for demonstrating pre-emergent pimples is disclosed. The method includes providing a camera having a 25 mm macro lens and a linear polarizing filter including from 10 to 50 narrow band filters in the spectral range of 400-970 nm, and a light source having a linear polarizer oriented vertical to a polarization plane of the camera polarizer; taking a sequence of images of the face of a subject with the camera; creating an erythema map of the imaged area using oxy-hemoglobin values at each corresponding pixel; taking a visible-light image of the face of the subject; and comparing the images to see pre-emergent pimples. The method enables consumers to see pre-emergent pimples and treat them, which results in preventing the pimples from emerging or reducing the emergence of the pimples.
US08725232B2 Therapeutic apparatus
A therapeutic apparatus comprising a high intensity focused ultrasound system (302) for sonicating a sonication volume (324) of a subject (320). The therapeutic apparatus further comprises a magnetic resonance imaging system (300) for acquiring magnetic resonance thermometry data (350) within an imaging volume (316). The sonication volume is within the imaging volume. The therapeutic apparatus further comprises a controller (304) for controlling the therapeutic apparatus. The treatment plan comprises instructions for controlling the operation of the high intensity focused ultrasound system. The controller is adapted for sonicating (100) the target volume using the high intensity focused ultrasound system. The controller is adapted for repeatedly acquiring (102) magnetic resonance thermometry data using the magnetic resonance imaging system during execution of the treatment plan. The controller is adapted for modifying (104) the treatment plan during execution of the treatment plan using the magnetic resonance thermometry data.
US08725226B2 Optical sensor path selection
A device includes a sensor for measuring a parameter for tissue. The sensor includes a plurality of optical elements including a plurality of detectors and at least one emitter. Separation distances between the various optical elements are selected based on a depth corresponding to a region of interest in the tissue and based on a depth corresponding to an exclusion region in the tissue.
US08725224B2 Superconducting filter with disk-shaped electrode pattern
A filter includes a dielectric substrate; an electrode layer continuously formed covering a first side of the dielectric substrate; a disk-shaped electrode pattern provided on a second side of the dielectric substrate, the disk-shaped electrode pattern and the electrode layer holding the dielectric substrate therebetween; a ground slot having an opening that is formed asymmetrically with respect to the center of a circular area included in the electrode layer and exposes the dielectric substrate, the circular area and the disk-shaped electrode pattern holding the dielectric substrate therebetween.
US08725223B2 Apparatus for a portable electronic device
An apparatus comprising a first and second housing is described. The apparatus is configured to enable the sliding motion of a first housing with respect to a second housing from a first configuration to a second configuration via complementary sliding connectors on each of the first and second housings. In the second configuration the complementary sliding connectors are not connected allowing rotation of the second housing with respect to the first housing to a third configuration.
US08725217B2 In-vehicle device and communication control method
An in-vehicle device is provided. A wireless communication section is configured to perform wireless communication with a plurality of mobile terminal devices in a vehicle. A specifying section is configured to specify each of the mobile terminal devices based on radio waves which are transmitted from the mobile terminal devices carried in the vehicle and are received by an antenna provided in the vehicle. An information acquiring section is configured to acquire service specifying information for specifying available services for each of the mobile terminal devices from each of the mobile terminal devices specified by the specifying section. A share setting section is configured to set whether or not to share at least one of the available services among the mobile terminal devices based on the service specifying information acquired by the information acquiring section.
US08725215B2 Mobile terminal and terminal operation program
A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a display unit, a touch detection unit that receives a user input onto a surface of the display unit, an operation unit including a plurality of movable operation keys, and a guidance display unit that enters a guidance display mode upon detection of a depression of a predetermined movable operation key of the operation unit, and in the guidance display mode, upon detection of a user input onto an icon displayed on the display unit by the touch detection unit, displays on the display unit a predetermined guidance screen related to the icon.
US08725212B2 Virtual modem suspension handler in multiple SIM user equipment
User equipment with multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMs) includes techniques for intelligently allowing the SIMs to access the radio resources. In one aspect, the techniques determine whether a network signaling criteria is satisfied. When the network signaling criteria is satisfied, the user equipment may communicate a signaling connection release indication to a network controller handling a first SIM network connection. When the network signaling criteria is not satisfied, however, the user equipment may forgo communicating the signaling connection release indication to the network controller handing the first SIM network connection. In either case, the user equipment may locally deactivate the first SIM network connection so that the radio frequency interface may be transitioned to a second SIM.
US08725211B2 Trusted service manager managing reports of lost or stolen mobile communication devices
A Trusted Service Manager (TSM) receives installation requests (INST) from Service Providers (SPx) comprising an application (APPx), a Service Provider identifier (SPx-ID) and an identifier (MOx-ID) of a target mobile communication device (MOx) that is equipped with a memory device (MIF) to store the application (APPx). The Trusted Service Manager (TSM) transmits the application (APPx) to the target mobile communication device (MOx) and keeps a repository (REP) of the received applications (APPx), their associated service provider identifiers (SPx-ID) and their associated target mobile communication device identifiers (MOx-ID). If the Trusted Service Manager (TSM) receives queries (QU) from a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) asking for the Service Providers associated with a specific mobile communication device identifier (MOx-ID) it retrieves from the repository (REP) those Service Providers (SPx) that are associated with the queried mobile communication device identifier (MOx-ID).
US08725209B2 Operation method and system of mobile terminal
An operation method and system of a mobile terminal connected to an electronic device is provided. The electronic device extracts a content corresponding to a user selection from among contents displayed on a screen, and delivers to the mobile terminal the extracted content and functional application information and command of a mobile terminal that will execute the extracted content. The mobile terminal receives the extracted content and the functional application information and command, and executes the functional application according to the command using the extracted content.
US08725208B2 Serial transmission interface between an image sensor and a baseband circuit
A serial transmission interface between an image sensor and a baseband circuit includes a transmission end and a reception end. The transmission end is set in the image sensor, and is utilized for transmitting image data sensed by the image sensor. The reception end is set in the baseband circuit, and is utilized for receiving the image data transmitted from the transmission end. The transmission end is one of a master control end and a slave control end, and the reception end is correspondingly the other.
US08725205B2 Computing device with removable processing unit
A computing device comprises a plurality of user interface elements, a first communications link software module, and a removable processing unit comprising at least a processor module, a data storage module, and a second communications link software module. According to the embodiment, the first communications link software module and the second communications link software module are adapted to exchange digital information between the user interface elements and the removable processing unit, and when the first and second communications link software modules are exchanging digital information, user actions taken via the plurality of user interface elements are carried out by software operating on the removable processing unit.
US08725194B2 Grouping user terminals into different coordination scheme groups
In a radio network in which multiple base stations can communicate with multiple user terminals in a coordinated way, user terminals may be grouped into groups, each group representing a coordination scheme to be used for user terminals in the group. The groups may be chosen, for example, according to path loss or QoS requirements Preferably there are three groups requiring no coordination, multiuser coherent coordination and single user coherent coordination respectively. Grouping may be done dynamically according to one or more of the following factors: —the terminal's signalling overhead—the affordable processing complexity—the traffic load—the radio conditions. The grouping unit may be placed in one or more base stations or in any other suitable unit in the network.
US08725189B2 Power control using bit rate and outstanding user traffic
The present invention relates to cellular mobile radio systems, and more especially it relates to multi-cell interference-limited environments, such as Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, OFDMA, and Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA, cellular mobile radio systems. Particularly, it relates to transmission power allocation in such systems. Method and systems where transmission power is based on parameters directly affecting perceived user performance parameters are disclosed.
US08725187B2 Method, apparatus and system for improving cell search and synchronization in a cellular communication system by using non-circularity of signal statistics
There are provided measures for cell search and synchronization. Such measures may exemplarily comprise acquiring an observation signal for a carrier signal on a carrier which is under consideration for synchronization with a desired cellular system, calculating a power measure of the observation signal, which indicates a received power of said carrier signal, calculating a non-circularity measure of the observation signal, which indicates a non-circularity of said carrier signal, and calculating a ranking measure, which indicates an applicability of said carrier for synchronization with the desired cellular system, based on the calculated power measure and the calculated non-circularity measure.
US08725185B2 Mobile base station, mobile terminal, mobile communications system and method
A mobile base station includes a detecting unit that detects communication information concerning another cell; a switching unit that based on the detected communication information, switches a communication resource used by the mobile base station to a communication resource different from that used in the other cell; a communication resource reporting unit that reports to a mobile terminal in a cell of the mobile base station, the communication resource switched to by the switching unit; and a communication information reporting unit that reports to a base station outside the cell of the mobile base station, communication information concerning the communication resource switched to by the switching unit.
US08725184B2 Character enablement in short message service
A method is provided for encoding characters that specify a source address of an SMS message. The method comprises modifying a type of address field within an originating address field, the modification indicative of an encoding scheme used for the source address of the SMS message.
US08725183B2 Device and method for managing base station and terminal
A base station management method according to the present invention is a method for managing an operation mode of a base station, and includes determining whether a terminal exists in a cell managed by the base station and operating in a low duty operation mode (LDM) when no terminal exists in the cell.
US08725182B2 Method of enhancing positioning measurement and related communication device
A method of enhancing positioning measurement for a network in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises including a plurality of identifications of a plurality of cells associated with the positioning measurement of a mobile device of the wireless communications system in assistance data, whereby the plurality of cells are identified according to the plurality of identifications.
US08725180B2 Discovering an event using a personal preference list and presenting matching events to a user on a display
A user profile is used to assist a user in identifying events of interest and to provide context to users regarding events that matches user preferences. The user profile may be based on behaviors exhibited on a mobile device, on input by the user or on data on the mobile device. The user profile is analyzed to provide notification of events of interest to the user based upon the analysis of the user profile. The user profile may include anything that contributes to a state on the device.
US08725178B2 Handheld device having location-based features for plant workers
A method of operating an industrial plant having processing units that includes a wireless network including a network server, at least one router, and a plurality of workers including a first worker. A first handheld computing device is provided having a wireless transceiver and a processor programmed to implement a location-based service algorithm stored in non-transitory machine readable storage to a first worker. The location-based service algorithm implements obtaining location information that identifies a physical location for the first worker, and adding the location information to wireless transmissions of information by the first worker to others of the plurality of workers or to the network server. The first handheld computing device wirelessly receives server provided plant information that is a function of the physical location, and the first worker performs at least one action guided at least in part by the server provided plant information.
US08725177B2 Activating location based service applications
The present invention relates to providing methods and apparatus for identifying a location area of a mobile device, determining whether an LBS application should be activated on the mobile device based on the location area and activating the LBS application on the mobile device. A Mobile Network Operator server may identify the location area of a mobile device and activate an application on the mobile device while a third party LBS application provider server may make the determination as to whether an LBS application should be activated on the mobile device.
US08725174B2 Mobile device alert generation system and method
A computer-implemented method for providing an alert regarding mobile device location is provided. The method includes obtaining location data corresponding to locations of a mobile device over a period of time. A location pattern is determined based on the location data. The current location of the mobile device is detected at a time based on the determined pattern, and an alert is provided regarding the current location of the mobile device. A system for providing alerts regarding mobile device location is also provided.
US08725168B2 Content surfacing based on geo-social factors
In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system determines a user's current location, calculates a novelty score for the location representing the user's degree of familiarity, and surfaces content within a geographic and temporal radius based on the novelty score for display to the user.
US08725162B2 Mobile communication device with positioning capability and related GPS receiver
A mobile communication device with positioning capability is provided, including: a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver; a communication circuit for generating a control signal; an oscillator shared between the communication circuit and the GNSS receiver, for providing a clock signal having a frequency value corresponding to the control signal; and a decision unit, coupled to the communication circuit and the GNSS receiver, for recording the control signal; wherein the GNSS receiver obtains the frequency value of the clock signal according to the control signal recorded in the decision unit.
US08725158B2 Network capacity redistribution with frequency re-use
Redistribution of network capacity in a network having a plurality of base stations is contemplated. The redistribution may include reallocating or otherwise reusing primary channels assigned to the plurality base stations to increase capacity proximate one or more of the base stations. The network capacity may be increased in this manner without having to add new base stations.
US08725157B2 Interference avoidance in a WCDMA system
A method for a cellular system comprising base stations of a first and a second kind, which control cells of a first and second kinds, and a control function for the base station of the first kind. The control function maintains a list of cells in the vicinity of the first cell, a Neighbor Cell list, and a UE in the first cell measures transmissions from Neighbor Cells and reports them, and said UE makes Detected Set, DS, measurements, and reports them to the control function. The control function searches DS measurement reports for cells of the second kind, and if a cell of the second kind is found, a hand over of the UE is initiated, to prevent transmissions from the UE to cause interference in the base station of the second kind.
US08725154B2 Handover properties estimation system, methods thereof, and storage medium
A handover properties estimation system includes a moving-route extraction unit which extracts moving routes which pass through a handover area or a neighboring area by using map information of the handover area and the neighboring area. The handover area is an area in which a handover process occurs between cells in a mobile communication system. The system further includes a moving-route handover properties calculation unit for calculating handover properties of the moving routes extracted by the moving-route extraction unit, by using radio-wave environment information of the moving routes.
US08725150B2 Femtocell base station, and a method of controlling a femtocell base station
A femtocell base station is provided. The base station is switchable in use between a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. In the first mode of operation only user terminals that are registered with the femtocell base station are connectable to the femtocell base station. In the second mode of operation a user terminal that is not registered with the femtocell base station is connectable to the femtocell base station.
US08725149B2 Handover method and radio base station
A handover method according to the present invention includes the steps of: forwarding, at a handover-source radio base station (eNB), user data (A) for a mobile station (UE) to a handover-target radio base station (eNB) when it is determined that a handover processing is to be performed, the user data (A) being stored in the handover-source radio base station (eNB); activating, at the handover-target radio base station, a predetermined timer when transmitting a path switch request to a path control apparatus, and storing second user data for the mobile station received from the path control apparatus until the predetermined timer expires; and forwarding, at the handover-target radio base station, the stored second user data to the mobile station after the predetermined timer expires.
US08725147B2 Radio communication terminal, base station, handoff control method and base station control method capable of achieving handoff while continuing service such as broadcast service and/or multicast service
A radio communication terminal (AT) includes a communication section for performing a radio communication with a base station, and a controller. Before performing a handoff from a first base station to another peripheral base station while receiving service information delivered by the first base station, the controller checks a progress of sequence of the service information being received. Then, the controller performs a handoff control depending on the check result. When it is determined that reception of a packet having the sequence number being received is to be completed within a certain time as a result of checking the progress, the controller suspends the handoff until the reception of the packet is completed.
US08725140B2 Global platform for managing subscriber identity modules
Disclosed is method comprising: storing in a home location register (HLR) at least one subscription record of a mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices, the mobile device having a subscriber identity module (SIM) identified by a currently activated first international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI), the currently activated first IMSI belonging to a set of IMSIs allocated to the system, wherein the provisioning server is operative to: receive a notification that the mobile devices has moved into a first one of the wireless networks; confirm that an allocation rule is satisfied; add and activate a second one of the IMSIs in the set of IMSIs to the HLR and remove the currently activated first IMSI from the HLR; and send the second IMSI to the mobile device to enable the mobile device to communicate wirelessly in the first wireless network as a local device.
US08725138B2 Methods for network selection and discovery of service information in public wireless hotspots
A roaming information code which can be wirelessly or otherwise transmitted as a SSID or other data field(s) of a wireless technology or standard. Further, a RIC-VAP scheme for provider-specific security information. Still further, wirelessly or otherwise transmitted compact price and AP workload information codes.
US08725137B2 Apparatus and method of reporting logged measurement in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus of reporting logged measurements of an user equipment in a wireless communication system is provided. The user equipment in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected mode receives from a base station a Minimization of Drive Tests (MDT) configuration. The user equipment transitions from the RRC connected mode to an RRC idle mode and logs measurements based on the MDT configuration. The user equipment transmits to the base station a logging indicator indicating an availability of the logged measurement.
US08725133B2 Method of transmitting and receiving data, display device and mobile terminal using the same
A method of transmitting and receiving data between a mobile terminal and a display device is provided. The method establishes network connection for communication with the mobile terminal, detects a touch location of the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal touches the display device, transmits and receives data to and from the mobile terminal over the connected network, and processes the transmitted and received data according to the detected touch location of the mobile terminal.
US08725131B1 Techniques for automatically activating or deactivating a phone associated with a virtual phone number
A computer-implemented technique is presented. The technique includes determining, at a server including one or more processors, one or more phones associated with a virtual phone number associated with a user. The technique includes determining, at the server, a location for each of the one or more phones. The technique includes receiving, at the server, position information from a mobile phone associated with the user indicating the user crossed a geo-fence corresponding to a specific location of a specific one of the one or more phones. The technique includes determining, at the server, a status of the specific phone associated with the geo-fence based on a previous status of the specific phone and the position information. The technique further includes selectively forwarding, from the server, an incoming phone call to the virtual phone number to the one or more phones based on their respective statuses.
US08725123B2 Communications device with secure data path processing agents
A communications device comprising one or more communication input/output (I/O) ports, at least one of the one or more communication I/O ports being a wide area network port configured to connect the communications device to a wide area network; one or more secure data path processing agents configured to execute in a secure execution environment, monitor a device data communications activity through at least one of the one or more communication I/O ports, generate a device data record comprising information about the device data communications activity through at least one of the one or more communication I/O ports, and send the device data record to the network element over a trusted communication link between the one or more secure data path processing agents and the network element; and a trusted data path between the one or more secure data path processing agents and the wide area network port.
US08725118B2 Method of affiliating a communication device to a communication group using an affiliation motion
A device receives a motion-based affiliation request message and, upon receipt, enters an affiliation motion detection state. If an affiliation motion is detected while in the detection state, a message is sent to a server. The message comprises a request to affiliate to a communication group and/or an indication that the device has detected the affiliation motion. From the perspective of the server, a motion-based affiliation initiation request message is received, and based on the message, at least one device is determined to receive a motion-based affiliation request message. The server sends the affiliation request message to the device and determines whether a message was received. The message comprises one of a request to affiliate to the communication group and/or an indication that the device has detected an affiliation motion. If a message was received, affiliation of the device to the communication group is initiated.
US08725116B2 Apparatus and method for managing message in mobile terminal
An apparatus and a method for managing a message in a mobile terminal are provided. In the method, meta data of messages stored in the terminal are analyzed and items for filtering a message are generated. A user is allowed to select at least one item. Messages corresponding to the selected item are displayed.
US08725115B2 Method and system for processing message
A message processing method is provided. The method includes the following steps. A message containing flag information is received. The received message containing the flag information is identified. If the message is a real-time message, the message is sent. If the message is a non-real time message, the non-real time message sent from a sender is combined and sent. A message processing system and a message combining device are further provided. Through the method, the device, and the system, the real-time messages are immediately delivered to subscribers, various types of non-real time messages are combined, converted to one or more messages, and delivered to the subscribers according to time assigned by the subscribers, thereby clearing a message space, and preventing interference to the subscribers.
US08725113B2 User proximity control of devices
Examples of embodiments provide systems and methods for varying the functions of an electronic device according to a physical relationship (e.g. the distance) between the electronic device and the primary user (e.g., owner) of the electronic device. The device may measure the distance using a wireless signal from a secondary device carried by or associated with the primary user. In some embodiments, the electronic device may change its functions based on its environment, in combination with the distance between the electronic device and the primary user. Environmental factors may include the device's location, the device's velocity, and the date and time of day.
US08725106B1 Reducing communication silence when performing inter-technology handoff
To perform an inter-technology handoff, an indicator in a service request message is received by a mobile switching center (MSC). The indicator is to indicate to the MSC that an inter-technology handoff from a packet-data wireless access network to a circuit wireless access network has been requested. The behavior of the MSC is modified in response to the indicator to reduce the communication silence during the inter-technology handoff.
US08725105B2 Low noise amplifier and saw-less receiver with low-noise amplifier
A low noise amplifier is used to amplify a differential input pair to generate a differential output pair. The low noise amplifier includes two main paths, two assistant circuits and two adders to make noise carried on two output signals of the differential output pair be the same; therefore, the noise of the two output signals can be fully cancelled in the following operations.
US08725103B2 Receiver including a tracking filter
A receiver includes a low noise amplifier having an input for receiving a radio frequency signal, and an output. The receiver further includes a tracking filter having an input coupled to the output of the low noise amplifier. The tracking filter including a bandpass filter configured to pass the radio frequency signals. The bandpass filter includes a variable capacitor having a first electrode coupled to the input of the tracking filter for receiving the radio frequency signals, and a second electrode coupled to a power supply terminal. The bandpass filter further includes a transformer having a primary winding including a first terminal coupled to the first electrode of the variable capacitor and a second terminal coupled to a second power supply terminal. The transformer further includes a secondary winding.
US08725101B2 Wireless device and method of operation
A wireless device has at least first and second radio systems. A first of the radio systems provides an indication for a second of the radio systems that it is transmitting or is about to transmit. The actual interference caused by transmissions by the first radio system to operation of the second radio system is measured, and/or the likely interference caused by transmissions by the first radio system to operation of the second radio system is estimated. The behavior of at least one of the first and second radio systems is modified in order to reduce the interference depending on the measured actual interference or estimated likely interference.
US08725099B2 Rotating harmonic rejection mixer
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a mixer circuit to receive and generate a mixed signal from a radio frequency (RF) signal and a master clock signal, a switch stage coupled to an output of the mixer circuit to rotatingly switch the mixed signal to multiple gain stages coupled to the switch stage, and a combiner to combine an output of the gain stages.
US08725088B2 Antenna solution for near-field and far-field communication in wireless devices
A single-antenna solution is provided for near-field and far-field communication in wireless devices. In an embodiment, a first transceiver block generates a first transmit signal to be transmitted using radiative techniques. A second transceiver block generates a second transmit signal to be transmitted using inductive coupling. The first and second transceiver blocks are coupled to a same antenna for transmitting the first transmit signal using radiative coupling, and the second transmit signal using inductive coupling. The first transceiver block and the second transceiver block operate according to time division multiplexing, and in an embodiment corresponding to an FM transceiver and an NFC transceiver.
US08725080B2 Method and apparatus for transmission in a trunked radio communication system
A method and apparatus for transmission in a trunked radio communication system comprises a first mobile radio subscriber unit receiving identity data from one or more other mobile radio subscriber units. The first mobile radio subscriber unit detects the distance from the first mobile radio subscriber unit to each of the one or more other mobile radio subscriber units. This information is transmitted to the infrastructure of the system, which selects a communication channel for the first mobile radio subscriber unit, so as to reduce close proximity interference between the mobile radio subscriber units. The mobile radio subscriber units may check for blocking conditions prior to initiating communication, and when necessary may delay transmission. The check may be based on information received via Bluetooth from other mobile radio subscriber units, and Bluetooth signal strength information.
US08725079B2 System and method for determining the severity of interference in different areas of a cellular radio network and coordinating radio resource management features in response
An interference analysis tool for identifying an interference problem area in a cellular radio network in which at least a first User Equipment (UE1) and a second UE (UE2) operate. The tool receives signal quality measurements and determines uplink or downlink interference severity. For UE2 uplink interference, the tool determines a first uplink Signal-to-Interference-and-Noise-Ratio (SINR) experienced by UE2, wherein the first SINR includes uplink interference from UE1. The tool also determines a second uplink SINR level (SINR0) experienced by UE2, wherein SINR0 does not include the uplink interference from UE1. The tool calculates a difference (ΔSINR) between SINR and SINR0 for UE2, and identifies the area where UE1 is operating as an interference-causing area when the ΔSINR for UE2 is greater than a threshold value. The tool may present interference severity levels to an operator, and may initiate Radio Resource Management (RRM) procedures to mitigate interference problems in the network.
US08725075B2 Method for communicating an electrical signal
A system and method for communicating an electrical signal from a first region to a second region via an electrically conductive wall between the first and second regions. The method comprises using a transmitter to generate the signal in the first region, using the wall or a segment of the wall as part of a transmission path for the signal between the first region and the second region, wherein the transmitter comprises an output impedance and means for matching the output impedance and an impedance of the wall determined by an electrical property of the wall. The system comprises a first region separated from a second region by means of an electrically conductive wall, wherein the first region comprises a transmitter for generating an electronic signal in the first region, which transmitter has an output impedance that matches an impedance of the wall.
US08725074B2 Communication device, communication system, communication method and program
A communication device of the present invention includes a physical layer for performing close-range one-to-one communication with a device of a communication counterpart by electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling; one or a plurality of PCL Emulations for converting a protocol of a higher level application to a protocol for communicating at the physical layer; and a PCL common for performing negotiation with the device of the communication counterpart without the higher level application started after the connection with the communication counterpart is established or at the same time as the connection establishment to select one PCL Emulation.
US08725073B2 Communication apparatus, communication system, communication method and program
A communication apparatus of the present invention includes a transmission/reception coupler for performing a close-range one-to-one communication with a device of a communication counterpart by electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling; an intermittent operation unit for performing intermittent operation without releasing connection after the connection is established with the device of the communication counterpart; and an intermittent operation notifying unit for notifying the device of the communication counterpart of performing the intermittent operation.
US08725071B2 Wireless IC device and component for wireless IC device
A wireless IC device includes a wireless IC chip, a power supply circuit board upon which the wireless IC chip is mounted, and in which a power supply circuit is provided, the power supply circuit includes a resonant circuit having a predetermined resonant frequency, and a radiation pattern, which is adhered to the underside of the power supply circuit board, for radiating a transmission signal supplied from the power supply circuit, and for receiving a reception signal to supply this to the power supply circuit. The resonant circuit is an LC resonant circuit including an inductance device and capacitance devices. The power supply circuit board is a multilayer rigid board or a single-layer rigid board, and between the wireless IC chip and the radiation pattern is connected by DC connection, magnetic coupling, or capacitive coupling.
US08725065B2 Themed ornaments with internet radio receiver
An apparatus for playing signals received from the internet or other information highway on one or more speakers are described. The apparatus has a receiver for receiving information from a preselected address; a processor for interpreting the signals; and at least one sound emitting device for playing the processed signal. The apparatus has an ornamental design on the outside which is related to the topic of the signals received from the address. The apparatus could include a smartphone as the receiver.
US08725060B2 Method and apparatus for educational testing
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for computer-based evaluation of a test-taker's performance with respect to a reward threshold. A performance assessment of the test taker can be standardized or customized, as well as relative or absolute. The system allows a parentally-controlled reward system such that children who reach specified objectives can claim an award that parents are confident was fairly and honestly earned without the parent being required to proctor the testing.
US08725059B2 System and method for recommending educational resources
An educational recommender system and a method for recommending an educational game to be used by a group of at least two students are provided. The method includes receiving a request to recommend an educational game to use with the group of students, and accessing student data relating to the at least two students including granular assessment data. The granular assessment data includes a result of at least one assessment administered to respective students, wherein each assessment includes a plurality of problems for assessing at least one of the students and the associated result includes an independent evaluation of each respective problem. The method further includes selecting an educational game that exercises the students in an academic area, including selecting the level of the academic area exercised based on granular assessment data associated with each of the respective students.
US08725058B2 Sales response training system and methods
Embodiments of the invention describe the implementation and execution of situational response training (SRT). In some embodiments, a sales team can use an SRT to implement real-time, peer-reviewed and/or focused training. For example, a manager can prepare a training situation through a web interface and then verbally record the training through a telephone interface. The training situation can include any number of questions, scenarios, fact patterns, etc. that can require a response by members of the sales team. Once prepared, the manager can send the training situation to his sales team. The sales team can then prepare and respond to the training situation over the phone using an interactive voice response (IVR) system or through another communication channel. For example, the training situation can be sent via email requesting that each member of the sales team respond to the training situation through a telephone interface.
US08725056B2 Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an inner guide, an outer guide opposing the inner guide. The inner guide and the outer guide define a curved transporting path where the recording sheet is transported. The image forming apparatus further includes a first feeder positioned upstream of the curved transporting path and a second feeder positioned downstream of the curved transporting path. The outer guide includes a rigid guide and a deformable resilient guide superimposed on the rigid guide. The rigid guide includes a first outer guide portion extending to a first downstream position and a second outer guide portion extending to a second downstream position positioned downstream of the first downstream position. A first resilient guide portion of the resilient guide, which corresponds to the first outer guide portion, extends to a third downstream position positioned downstream of the first downstream position and does not extend beyond the second downstream position.
US08725054B2 Image forming device
An image forming device, including: photosensitive bodies arranged in parallel in a predetermined direction; a belt that runs in the predetermined direction to transfer a developer image formed on each of the photosensitive bodies to a sheet-like medium; recovering members that are respectively provided for the photosensitive bodies, wherein each recovering member recovers adhered substances adhered to each photosensitive body after the developer image was transferred to the sheet-like medium; a belt cleaner that removes the adhered substances adhered to the belt; a cleaning process execution unit that executes a cleaning process in which the adhered substances are transferred from each recovering member to the belt via each photosensitive body; and a cleaning time determination unit that determines a time period for which the cleaning process is executed, based on a color of the image formed on the sheet-like medium.
US08725052B2 Wax management system
Wax management systems are provided. In one aspect a wax management system has print positioning system having an input to receive a fused toner print having a toner image with a viewing surface that has first portions with wax globules and second portions without wax globules and a print positioning apparatus that arranges the print for wiping by a wiping system having a wiping surface that wipes the viewing surface to move at least some of the wax from the wax globules onto the second portion. A wax management device controller determines when fused toner print is at a temperature where the toner image is below a glass transition temperature of the toner and the wax is below a melting temperature for the wax and to position the print for wiping. The controller causes the wiping system to wipe the print after the controller makes the determination.
US08725045B2 Tubular article, tubular article unit, intermediate transfer material, and image forming apparatus
A tubular article includes a layer containing a polyimide resin, a fluorinated polyimide resin and fluorine resin particles as an outermost layer.
US08725041B2 Image forming apparatus with countermeasures against instantaneous fluctuation due to vibration
An image forming apparatus including, a photosensitive body for carrying toner images, a transfer section for nipping the recording sheet at a position facing the photosensitive body and transferring the toner images carried on the photosensitive body onto a recording sheet, a driving section for driving the photosensitive body, and a control section for giving instructions to the driving section to conduct a velocity control to rotate the photosensitive body at a predetermined velocity, wherein the control section sets a gain of velocity control to be greater than normal condition, at a time which is at least one of a time when the recording sheet enters the transfer section, or a time when the recording sheet separates from the transfer section.
US08725038B2 Belt assembly, fixing device, and image forming apparatus incorporating same
A fixing device includes a frame, a tubular belt holder, a rotatable, flexible fuser belt, a heater, a fuser pad, a pressure member, and a mounting attachment. The tubular belt holder extends in an axial direction thereof. The fuser belt is looped into a generally cylindrical configuration around the belt holder to rotate in a circumferential direction of the belt holder. The heater is disposed adjacent to the belt holder to heat the belt holder. The fuser pad is accommodated in the belt holder inside the loop of the fuser belt, and extends in the axial direction. The pressure member is disposed opposite the belt holder with the fuser belt interposed between the fuser pad and the pressure member. The mounting attachment is provided to a longitudinal end of the tubular belt holder to allow retention and detachable attachment of the belt holder end to the frame.
US08725035B2 Developer unit
A developing unit and image formation device in which a developer carrier is reliably pressed towards and separated from an image carrier is described. A separation and pressing mechanism is provided for separating and pressing the developer carriers of developing cartridges installed in a drum unit onto image carriers. This separation and pressing mechanism has a pair of direct cam members. Each direct cam member has a release action portion that engages with the releasing projection of a developing cartridge when the developer carrier is to be separated from the image carrier. Each direct cam member may also have a pressing action portion that engages with the pressing projection of the developing cartridges when the developer carrier is to be pressed onto the image carrier.
US08725032B2 Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of photoconductor drums; a plurality of exposure members; a drum supporting member having a pair of side walls disposed opposite to each other in an axial direction of the photoconductor drum and configured to support the photoconductor drums and the exposure members between the side walls; a belt disposed below and opposite to the photoconductor drums; a pair of guide members configured to support the drum supporting member while allowing rectilinear movement of the drum supporting member; and a main body circuit board provided in the main body and connected to the exposure members via a cable. The main body circuit board is arranged above the drum supporting member.
US08725031B2 Image forming apparatus having waste toner container that stores toner removed from intermediate transfer belt
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a chassis having a first opening on a first side, a cover, movable between an open position and a closed position, a plurality of photosensitive members, an intermediate transfer belt, a plurality of primary-transfer members, a secondary-transfer roller, a first feed roller, a cleaner device, a waste toner container, which is removably installed in the chassis through the first opening and settled in a position opposite from the plurality of photosensitive members across the intermediate transfer belt, to store residual toner collected by the cleaner device, a connector, a first feeding path, a second feeding path, and a second feed roller. The second feed roller is rotatably supported by the cover and movable along with the cover to yield the first opening to the waste toner container when the cover is in the open position.
US08725029B2 Image forming apparatus and belt transport device having a cleaning mechanism
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit forming a toner image; an image carrier carrying the toner image; an endless transfer belt rotating with a recording medium interposed between the transfer belt and the image carrier; a cleaner provided in contact with an outer surface of the transfer belt and electrostatically cleaning toner on the outer surface; a transfer roll provided inside the transfer belt and generating a transfer electric field for transferring the toner image from the image carrier to the recording medium while pressing the transfer belt toward the image carrier; a cleaning roll mounted around by the transfer belt as well as the transfer roll, the cleaning roll provided to face the cleaner and generating a cleaning electric field; and a tension roll mounted around by the transfer belt as well as the transfer roll and the cleaning roll.
US08725026B2 Cooling device and image forming apparatus including same
A cooling device including at least two cooling members to cool a recording medium passing thereover, a coolant circulation unit to circulate a coolant, and tubing that connects the coolant circulation unit to the cooling members and through which the coolant circulates. Each of the cooling members includes a heat-absorbing surface that directly contacts the recording medium or indirectly contacts the recording medium via a thermal transmission member, an internal channel provided within each of the cooling members through which the coolant circulates, and a channel inlet and outlet formed at downstream and upstream ends of each of the cooling members in a direction of conveyance of the recording medium, respectively. One of an interval and a thermal insulator is provided between the cooling members.
US08725025B2 Image heating apparatus
An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable fixing member; an air-blowing unit for blowing air onto an end portion of the rotatable fixing member with respect to a generating line direction of the rotatable fixing member, wherein the air-blowing unit includes a fan, a duct for guiding the air generated by drive of the fan, and a shutter, provided at an outlet of the duct, for switching an outlet width of the duct with respect to the generating line direction; and a partition, provided in the duct, for partitioning an air passing region inside the duct into a plurality of regions with respect to the generating line direction, wherein the partition extends to a neighborhood of the shutter with respect to an air-blowing direction.
US08725020B2 Image forming apparatus having fixing unit for fixing unfixed toner image formed on recording material onto recording material by heat
Corrected power for compensating for a reduction in the temperature of an endless belt that accompanies the entry of a recording material into a fixing nip portion is adjusted by correcting the power supplied to a fixing unit when the recording material enters the fixing unit with a correction power based on the difference between the update time of a power updating period and the time of the entry of the recording material.
US08725018B2 Image forming apparatus
When the temperature of a fixing section has not reached a fixable temperature and the condition of an image forming apparatus is an abnormal temperature rising condition, a print controller causes a toner image conveying section to move a toner image on an intermediate transfer member to a predetermined toner image standby position upstream of a secondary transfer section and to put the toner image on standby at the toner image standby position, and causes a recording medium conveying section to put a recording medium on standby at a predetermined sheet standby position upstream of the secondary transfer section. Thereafter, when the temperature of the fixing section reaches the fixable temperature, the print controller causes the secondary transfer section to transfer the toner image on the intermediate transfer member onto the recording medium.
US08725011B2 Toner transportation device, image forming apparatus, and method of detecting the amount of toner remaining
A toner transportation device includes a first toner case that contains toner; a second toner case including a main body containing toner transported from the first toner case, a second discharge port located in the main body that discharges toner, and a second transportation unit rotatably positioned in the main body, and that transports toner to the second discharge port; a second driving unit that drives the second transportation unit; a detecting unit that detects the number of rotations of the second transportation unit and outputs a rotation detection signal; and a control unit that estimates the amount of toner remaining in the first toner case based on an accumulated number of rotations represented by the rotation detection signal.
US08725003B2 External modulator monitoring device and external modulator monitoring method
This invention relates to external modulator monitoring device and method for monitoring an external modulator. The external modulator monitoring device includes a mixing unit for mixing optical signals modulated by the external modulator and optical signals not modulated by the external modulator, so as to obtain multiple branches of mixed optical signals; an electrical differential unit for converting the multiple branches of mixed optical signals into corresponding multiple branches of electrical signals, and performing a differential processing on voltages of the multiple branches of electrical signals to obtain differential signals; and a power detection unit for detecting power of the differential signals.
US08725000B2 Thermal drift compensation system and method for optical networks
A method for correcting for optical channel bandwidth misalignment between output passbands of a first optical device and input passbands of a second optical device. The method may involve transmitting a plurality of optical signals from the output passbands of the first optical device, with each of the optical signals being transmitted within an associated one of the passbands of the output. The first plurality of optical signals may be received within the input passbands of the second optical device. The optical signals may be analyzed to determine if the passbands of the first optical device or the second optical device has shifted. A characteristic of a filter through which the optical signals pass may be altered to cause a needed degree of shifting of wavelength bands of the optical signals to bring the optical signals into alignment within the passbands of the second optical device.
US08724999B2 POLMUX-OFDM-DD transmitter and receiver for reduced complexity and overhead in optical access/metro transmission
An optical communication system includes a polarization multiplexed orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing POLMUX-OFDM transmitter for generating a POLMUX-OFDM double sideband signal, an optical processing path for processing the double sideband signal from the transmitter; an analog-to-digital convert ADC-OFDM receiver coupled to the optical processing path for receiving the double sideband signal processed by the optical path; and a block-diagonal multiple-input multiple-output MIMO equalizer responsive to the receiver for enabling correct operation for a completely random incoming signal polarization state without adaptive polarization control at said receiver, which enables complexity.
US08724997B2 Long-distance box and method for processing uplink and downlink lights thereof
The disclosure provides a long-distance box and a method for processing uplink/downlink light thereof. The method includes that: the uplink/downlink light (uplink light and downlink light) from different PON systems is split, and the uplink/downlink light from different PON systems is transmitted through different optical paths; and the uplink/downlink light from different PON systems is processed by long-distance boxes belonging to corresponding systems in different optical paths, and then output to the OLTs/ONUs of respective systems. By means of the method provided in the disclosure, a simple and reliable solution is provided for operators to solve the long-distance problem caused by the coexistence of multiple PON systems; furthermore, in the disclosure, modification for the system is slightest, reliability of the system is highest, and an efficiency of the system is highest, so that time and cost are saved for the operators.
US08724992B2 Node apparatus and method of receiving optical signal thereof, and ring network system
A ring network system includes a plurality of node apparatuses that are sequentially connected through a transmission medium that is formed in a ring form. In the ring network system, the remaining node apparatuses, except for a first node apparatus of the plurality of node apparatuses pass an optical signal that is transmitted from the first node apparatus, and a second node apparatus corresponding to a destination of the optical signal among the remaining node apparatuses, extracts the optical signal while transferring the first optical signal to a next node apparatus of the second node apparatus.
US08724989B2 Optical packet switching system
An optical packet switching system includes optical packet switching apparatus and an optical packet transmitting apparatus. The optical packet switching apparatus includes client optical delay units for delaying optical packet signals, network optical delay units for delaying one of the network optical packet signals, the network optical delay unit having a longer delay time than the client optical delay unit, an optical switch unit for switching the route of the inputted client optical packet signal so as to be sent out, an optical switch control unit for controlling the optical switch unit. The optical switch control unit is configured in such a manner as to detect a free time slot. The optical packet transmitting apparatus adjusts transmit timing, with which the client optical packet signal is sent out, in such a manner that the client optical packet signal is inserted into the free time slot.
US08724988B2 Synchronous packet switches
A synchronous packet switch comprises output modules, input modules, optical connections and a switch control unit. The output modules comprise optical receivers each configured to receive optical signals at a different wavelength. The input modules receive electric signals carrying data cells to be routed. Each input module comprises optical transmitters, each configurable to generate an optical signal at a different wavelength, and routing apparatus comprising output ports. Each output module has at least one output port allocated to it. The routing apparatus is configurable to route a received optical signal to a selected output port. The optical connections are arranged to couple output ports to respective output modules. The switch control unit controls routing of the optical signals from the transmitters to the output modules and generates a routing control signal for configuring the routing apparatus to route an optical signal from a transmitter to a selected output port.
US08724987B2 Optical swapping of digitally-encoded optical labels
A method and a device are provided for swapping optical labels in an optical communication network. Optical information, including payload data and label data digitally encoded into the optical information, is received. At least one group of bits within the optical information is selectively inverted to rewrite the label data with new label data without changing the payload data. Each of the at least one group of inverted bits includes at least two bits and all bits of each of the at least one group of inverted bits are contiguous bits.
US08724984B1 Automated notification of upcoming network disruptive maintenance events to allow traffic to be rerouted
In one embodiment, notifications of upcoming maintenance activities are provided by network devices, such as to allow packet switching or other optical layer client devices to reroute traffic prior to the occurrence of the traffic affecting event. For example, one such network device includes optical interfaces for coupling with fibers for transporting information using dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM); DWDM switching equipment for cross-connecting wavelengths of the fibers; and a controller configured to inform packet switching or other optical layer client devices whose traffic would be affected by an upcoming event that would disrupt communication on one or more wavelengths on one or more fibers so that the packet switching or other optical layer client devices can reroute traffic that would otherwise go over said one or more wavelengths onto a different path in a network prior to said disruption.
US08724983B2 Flash structure for the camera function of a handheld electronic device
A flash structure for the camera function of a handheld electronic device having at least a camera module as well as an image sensor and a camera lens contained in the camera module, comprising an outer cover, an annular reflector, at least a light diffuser, and one or a plurality of fixed light-emitting elements which are light emitting diodes or electronic flashes to provide continuous or intermittent supplemental light source. The center of the annular reflector passes through the camera lens and is formed on the motherboard of the handheld electronic device, and is arranged with a through-slot. The one or the plurality of light-emitting elements are embedded in the through-slot of the annular reflector, arranged around the camera lens, and electrically connected to the motherboard. The light diffuser is disposed outside the annular reflector, outside the light-emitting element and positioned around the camera lens.
US08724978B2 Fluid heating-cooling cylinder device
Provided is a fluid heating device that is small in size and capable of heating a large flow of gas or liquid at a low cost. A flow path in which no backwater is produced is provided by providing grooved flow paths of a fluid are provided over an outer side surface of a metallic circular cylinder such that a fluid passing through a narrowed one of the flow paths impinges perpendicularly against a wall of the next flow path. This allows instantaneous heat exchange within a small space, and makes manufacturing of such a structure simple.
US08724976B2 Use of infrared camera for real-time temperature monitoring and control
Embodiments of the invention generally contemplate an apparatus and method for monitoring and controlling the temperature of a substrate during processing. One embodiment of the apparatus and method takes advantage of an infrared camera to obtain the temperature profile of multiple regions or the entire surface of the substrate and a system controller to calculate and coordinate in real time an optimized strategy for reducing any possible temperature non-uniformity found on the substrate during processing.
US08724973B2 Heat equalizer
A heat equalizer includes a container structure, a material feed pipe, and a heating mechanism. The container structure includes an inner container and an outer container. In the outer container, a working fluid is held. Respective upper ends of the inner container and the outer container are joined to form a hollow portion between the inner container and the outer container. The material feed pipe extends from an outside of the container structure to the inner surface of the inner container. The heating mechanism is placed at the bottom of the outer container. At the bottom surface of the inner container, a plurality of protrusions protruding toward the inside of the inner container and depressions formed by the bottom surface depressed inward of the protrusions and capable of receiving the vaporized working fluid are formed.
US08724968B2 Embedded ancillary data processing method and system with program duration alteration
The total running time of an original program signal, with related embedded ancillary data is altered to generate a time-shortened (or time-lengthened) program signal. The video signal embedded ancillary data packets are subject to separate processing without decoding payload text strings and caption information. The video portion of the original program signal is processed by deleting (or adding) individual frames on a manual, periodic or automatic basis. As fields or frames are removed (or added), corresponding ancillary data packets and text-based payload information are temporarily stored and analyzed such that data can be reassembled within the time-altered video program. Embedded circuitry determines the type of caption and subtitle information (HD/SD) and location within the Vertical Ancillary (VANC) and Horizontal Ancillary (HANC) packets for processing coupled with the original video signal. All captions, subtitles and text-based information associated with the original program signal are preserved and caption information is automatically aligned to the time-altered video signal.
US08724966B2 Information reproducing apparatus, method for controlling information reproducing apparatus, content recording medium, control program, computer-readable recording medium storing control program
The AV data reproducing apparatus includes: (i) a reading section for reading out, from a recording medium, additional function information indicating an additional function correlated with a manipulation input; and (ii) an additional function program executing section for executing the additional function in response to the manipulation input. With this, an operation unique to the content can be carried out by executing the additional function (additional function program) indicated by the additional function information stored in the recording medium together with the AV data. This makes it possible for the AV data reproducing apparatus to carry out an operation other than an operation intrinsically corresponding to a key.
US08724962B2 Video recording method and video recording device
Recording arrangements that records a picture on a recording medium in a file format, the arrangements including: forming the format so as to produce one Play Item in each of acquired pictures, and to arrange one or a plurality of Play Items in one Play List; and recording a picture on the recording medium according to the format; wherein: when recording a first picture first under a first age, a first Play List is produced, when recording a second picture further under the first date, a Play Item is produced in the first Play List without producing a new Play List, when recording a third picture first under a second date different from the first date, a second Play List is newly produced, and when recording a fourth picture further under the second date, a Play Item is produced in the second Play List without producing a new Play List.
US08724961B2 Terminal device, method for controlling terminal device, and recording medium
A terminal device, upon each receiving of an operation regarding a viewing of a content from a user, stores history information indicating the history thereof. Then upon receiving an instruction for writing a content onto an external recording medium, the terminal device creates preference information based on the history information having been collected therein. The terminal device then writes the content specified by the writing instruction and the created preference information onto the external recording medium.
US08724960B2 Imaging device, image processing method, and program thereof
An imaging device includes a display unit for displaying a video image being captured, an index operating unit for inputting an instruction for an index, and an index setting unit for setting as an index section, a section in the video image captured for a predetermined time period including a time point of a user's operation of inputting the instruction for the index, in response to one user's operation on the index operating unit while the video image is captured.
US08724958B2 Reproducing apparatus, reproducing system and server
An object of a reproducing apparatus according to the present invention is to solve a problem in that, when video data and music data of BGM are played simultaneously as they are, one of them is finished while the other is still playing, and accordingly, this does not provide an effect of sufficiently satisfying the user even though the BGM is inserted. The reproducing apparatus according to the present invention includes a recording medium capable of storing one or a plurality of video data, a network communication section for receiving, from a music server via a network, music-reproduction data having a reproduction time of almost the same length as a reproduction time of the video data stored in the recording medium, and a reproduction control section for simultaneously reproducing the music-reproduction data received by the network communication section and the video data stored in the recording medium.
US08724956B2 D1451 radiation curable supercoatings for multi-mode optical fiber
The first aspect of the instant claimed invention is a method of formulating radiation curable Supercoatings for application to an optical fiber used in a telecommunications network. A Multi-layer Film Drawdown Method useful in the Method of formulating radiation curable Supercoatings is also described and claimed. Single mode Optical fibers coated with specific radiation curable Supercoatings are also described and claimed.
US08724952B2 Polarization-maintaining optical fiber with pure silica core
A polarization-maintaining (PM) optical fiber has a pure silica core surrounded by a cladding having a region with randomly arranged voids. Stress members are arranged in the cladding on opposite sides of and in line with the core, and impart birefringence to the PM optical fiber. The PM optical fiber is resistant to aging effects and has a broad single-mode spectral range of 400 nm to 1,600 nm.
US08724948B2 Method for terminating light-guide fiber bundles
The invention relates to a method for terminating optical fiber bundles, wherein the fiber bundle is inserted into a sleeve which is filled with adhesive.
US08724943B2 Angled physical contact receptacle stub and angled physical contact transmitter optical sub-assembly having the same
An APC receptacle stub and an APC TOSA having the same are provided. The APC receptacle stub includes a first APC stub and a second APC stub. The first APC stub has an optical fiber inserted thereto and is provided with one end section polished in an APC shape. The second APC stub has an optical fiber inserted thereto and is provided with one end section polished in an APC shape and an opposite end section which is coupled to an opposite end section of the first APC stub through rotation adjustment in the same axial direction as an axial direction of the opposite end section of the first APC stub. The APC receptacle stub enables easy optical alignment and is applicable to a light source that is sensitive to reflection.
US08724941B2 Methods and apparatus related to a side-fire optical fiber having a robust distal end portion
An aspect of the present disclosure may include an apparatus having an optical waveguide. The optical waveguide may have a distal end surface non-normal to a longitudinal centerline of a distal end portion of the optical waveguide, wherein the distal end surface may define a portion of an interface configured to redirect electromagnetic radiation propagated from within the optical waveguide and incident on the portion of the interface to a direction offset from the longitudinal centerline. The apparatus may further include a capillary component which may have a first portion of an inner surface heat-fused to a portion of an outer surface of the optical waveguide. The apparatus may also include a reinforcement component which may have a proximal end surface disposed distal to the distal end surface of the optical waveguide such that the distal end surface of the optical waveguide and the proximal end surface of the reinforcement component may be separated by a non-zero distance, and wherein a portion of an outer surface of the reinforcement component may be heat-fused to a second portion of the inner surface of the capillary component.
US08724938B2 Optical receiver
A tapered waveguide is provided for connection between an input waveguide and a photodiode. The width of the tapered waveguide increases as it extends from the input end that is connected to the input waveguide towards the output end that is connected to the photodiode. The tapered waveguide has an optimum half spread angle to cause higher-order mode excitation when receiving optical signal from the input waveguide. The photodiode either has a constant width or increases in width as it extends away from the output end of the tapered waveguide, its half spread angle being equal to or less than the half spread angle of the tapered waveguide.
US08724933B2 Optical device
An optical device includes: a substrate; an optical branching filter on the substrate and dividing input light into first and second input lights; first and second Mach-Zehnder optical modulators on the substrate and respectively modulating the first and second input lights; and an optical coupler on the substrate and combining light modulated by the first Mach-Zehnder optical modulator and light modulated by the second Mach-Zehnder optical modulator. Each of the first and second Mach-Zehnder optical modulator includes two optical waveguides, a phase modulation electrode applying a modulation voltage across the optical waveguides to change phases of light in the optical waveguides, and a feed line and a terminal line respectively connected to opposite ends of the phase modulation electrode to supply the modulation voltage to the phase modulation electrode. The feed lines and the terminal lines respectively extend to peripheral portions of the substrate.
US08724927B2 Digital image drop zones and transformation interaction
A portion of a digital image is displayed where the portion that is displayed depends upon a mask. After the portion of the digital image is displayed, a change to the mask is received. It is determined, based at least in part on the received change to the mask, a transformation to be applied to the digital image. A new portion of the digital image is displayed based at least in part on the changed mask and the determined transformation, where the new portion that is displayed has the same center point as the previously displayed portion.
US08724922B2 Image correcting device, method for creating corrected image, correction table creating device, method for creating correction table, program for creating correction table, and program for creating corrected image
An image correcting device includes an image input section, an image storage section, a correction table storage section, a geometry correcting section for geometrically correcting an input image stored in the image storage section, based on a correction table, and an image output section for output of the input image corrected by the geometry correcting section, wherein the correction table is created by calculating longitudes and latitudes that correspond to respective pixel positions on an output image that becomes the corrected image; calculating corrected latitudes through correction of the latitudes, based on the longitudes and the latitudes; calculating light directions in a subject space, the light directions corresponding to the longitudes and the corrected latitudes; and calculating positions on the input image as resampling positions, the positions corresponding to the respective light directions; and associating the resampling positions with the pixel positions on the output image.
US08724919B2 Adjusting the sharpness of a digital image
The sharpness of a digital image is adjusted according to defined aim subject and background sharpness levels. An image segmentation process is used to segment an input digital image into a subject region and a background region. The subject and background regions are analyzed to determine corresponding subject and background sharpness levels. An enhanced digital image is formed wherein the sharpness of the subject region is adjusted responsive to the subject sharpness level and the aim subject sharpness level, and the sharpness of the background region is adjusted responsive to the background sharpness level and the aim background sharpness level. In some embodiments, the input digital image is analyzed to determined a scene type classification and the aim subject and background sharpness levels are defined in accordance with the determined scene type classification.
US08724918B2 Method and system for enhancing an image
There are provided a method for computerized generation of an enhanced image based on a plurality of acquired images (e.g. SAR images) and system thereof. The method comprises: (a) receiving a plurality of acquired images, each comprising a common area of interest; (b) receiving processing parameters; (c) grouping said plurality of acquired images into one or more groups; (d) processing the images within said one or more groups, wherein said processing comprises: i) for each given pixel within the common area of interest, calculating a likelihood of discrepancy between respective pixels of the images of said one or more groups, thus giving rise to likelihood of discrepancy values characterizing said given pixel; ii) generating a “likelihood of discrepancy matrix” comprising the likelihood of discrepancy values and characterizing the likelihood of discrepancy for each pixel within the common area of interest; iii) for each of said one or more groups, generating an enhanced image while utilizing said likelihood of discrepancy matrix.
US08724916B2 Reducing DC leakage in HD photo transform
In certain embodiments, to eliminate DC leakage into surrounding AC values, scaling stage within a photo overlap transform operator is modified such that the off-diagonal elements of the associated scaling matrix have the values of 0. In certain embodiments, the on-diagonal scaling matrix are given the values (0.5, 2). In some embodiments, the scaling is performed using a combination of reversible modulo arithmetic and lifting steps. In yet other embodiments, amount of DC leakage is estimated at the encoder, and preprocessing occurs to mitigate amount of leakage, with the bitstream signaling that preprocessing has occurred. A decoder may then read the signal and use the information to mitigate DC leakage.
US08724912B2 Method, apparatus, and program for compressing images, and method, apparatus, and program for decompressing images
Costs are reduced, by decreasing the number of encoders used to compress images when compressing two or more images at different compression rates. A region of interest is detected within a processing target image, and a region of interest image is generated. A reduced image is generated by reducing the size of the processing target image. The reduced image and the region of interest image are multiplexed in an image space to generate a multiplex image. The multiplex image is compressed to generate compressed image data.
US08724911B2 Graph lattice method for image clustering, classification, and repeated structure finding
A document recognition system and method, where images are represented as a collection of primitive features whose spatial relations are represented as a graph. Useful subsets of all the possible subgraphs representing different portions of images are represented over a corpus of many images. The data structure is a lattice of subgraphs, and algorithms are provided means to build and use the graph lattice efficiently and effectively.
US08724910B1 Selection of representative images
Methods and systems for selecting a representative image of an entity are disclosed. The representative image can be, but is not limited to, that of a person, a corporate logo, other symbol associated with a person or corporation. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for selecting a representative image of an entity is disclosed. The method includes: accessing a collection of images of the entity; clustering, based on similarity of one or more similarity features, images from the collection to form a plurality of similarity clusters; and selecting the representative image from one of said similarity clusters. Further, based on cluster size of said similarity clusters popular clusters can be determined, and the selection of the representative image can be from the popular clusters. In addition, the method can further include assigning a headshot score based upon a portion of the respective image covered by the entity to respective images in said popular clusters, and further selecting the representative image based upon the headshot score. Corresponding system and computer program product embodiments are also disclosed.
US08724904B2 Anomaly detection in images and videos
A system, method, and computer program product for detecting anomalies in an image. In an example embodiment the method includes partitioning each image of a set of images into a plurality of image local units. The method further includes clustering all local units in the image set into clusters, and consequently assigning a class label to each local unit based on the clustering results. The local units with identical class labels having at least one substantially related image feature. Further, the method includes assigning a weight to each of the local units based on a variation of the class labels across all images in a set of images. The method further includes performing a clustering over all images in the set by using a distance metric that takes the learned weight of each local unit into account, then determining the images that belong to minorities of the clusters as anomalies.
US08724898B2 Signal processor and storage medium storing signal processing program
A signal processor which performs gradation conversion processing using a histogram of an image signal is provided with a feature calculating unit which calculates a feature of the image signal; an interval setting control unit which sets intervals of a pixel value in the histogram when a histogram of the image signal is obtained, according to the calculated feature, so as to obtain the histogram of the local region of the image signal; a gradation-conversion-characteristic calculating unit which calculates a gradation conversion characteristic, using the histogram obtained by using the intervals set at the interval setting control unit; and a gradation converting unit which performs gradation conversion to the image signal using the gradation conversion characteristic.
US08724895B2 Techniques for reducing color artifacts in digital images
A technique for reducing artifacts in a digital image, in accordance with one embodiment, includes receiving a stream of raw filter pixel data representing the image. The raw filter pixel data is interpolating to produce red, green-on-red row, green-on-blue row and blue pixel data for each pixel. An artifact in one or more given pixels is reduced as a function of a difference between the green-on-red row and green-on-blue row pixel data of each of the given pixels to generate adjusted interpolated pixel data.
US08724891B2 Apparatus and methods for the detection of abnormal motion in a video stream
An apparatus and method for detection of abnormal motion in video stream, having a training phase for defining normal motion and a detection phase for detecting abnormal motions in the video stream is provided. Motion is detected according to motion vectors and motion features extracted from video frames.
US08724887B2 Environmental modifications to mitigate environmental factors
A method of depth imaging includes acquiring a depth image from a depth camera, identifying an environmental factor invalidating depth information in one or more portions of the depth image, and outputting an environmental modification to mitigate the environmental factor.
US08724886B2 Method and apparatus for processing three-dimensional images
A three-dimensional sense adjusting unit displays three-dimensional images to a user. If a displayed reaches a limit of parallax, the user responds to the three-dimensional sense adjusting unit. According to acquired appropriate parallax information, a parallax control unit generates parallax images to realize the appropriate parallax in the subsequent stereo display. The control of parallaxes is realized by optimally setting camera parameters by going back to three-dimensional data. Functions to realize the appropriate parallax are made into and presented by a library.
US08724885B2 Integrated image processor
A system is disclosed. An input interface is configured to receive pixel data from two or more images. A pixel handling processor disposed on the substrate is configured to convert the pixel data into depth and intensity pixel data. In some embodiments, a foreground detector processor disposed on the substrate is configured to classify pixels as background or not background. In some embodiments, a projection generator disposed on the substrate is configured to generate a projection in space of the depth and intensity pixel data.
US08724884B2 Controller
A controller is provided for maneuvering an interrogation plane relative to a reference surface. The interrogation plane intersects the reference surface and is associated with a pole about which the interrogation plane is rotatable. The pole has an adjustable angle of inclination relative to the reference surface. The controller has a base, a handle, and an arm extending from a connection with the base to a connection with the handle. The arm has hingable joints which hinge to allow the handle to be translated relative to the base in arbitrary directions across a user surface. The controller further has position sensors which measure the translation of the handle relative to the base on the user surface. The translation provides a corresponding translation of the interrogation plane relative to the reference surface. The handle is rotatable about a rotation axis and is tillable about a tilt axis to allow the handle to be angularly moved relative to the user surface. The controller further has angle sensors which respectively detect the rotation about the rotation axis and the tilt about the tilt axis. The rotation about the rotation axis and the tilting about the tilt axis provide angular movement of the interrogation plane relative to the reference surface corresponding to the angular movement of the handle relative to the user surface.
US08724882B2 Mapping variations of a surface
A method for characterizing a surface, consisting of dividing the surface into pixels which are characterized by a parameter variation and defining blocks of the surface as respective groups of the pixels. The pixels are irradiated in multiple scans over the surface with radiation having different first polarization states. At least part of the radiation returning from the pixels is analyzed using second polarization states, to generate processed returning radiation. For each scan, block signatures of the blocks are constructed using the processed returning radiation from the group of pixels in each block. Also for each scan, a block signature variation is determined using the respective block signatures of the blocks, and, in response to the block signature variation, one of the first polarization states and at least one of the second polarization states are selected for use in subsequent examination of a test object.
US08724881B2 Method and system for precise segmentation of the left atrium in C-arm computed tomography volumes
A method and system for multi-part left atrium (LA) segmentation in a C-arm CT volume is disclosed. Multiple LA part models, including an LA chamber body mesh, an appendage mesh, a left inferior pulmonary vein (PV) mesh, a left superior PV mesh, a right inferior PV mesh, and a right superior PV mesh, are segmented in a 3D volume. A volume mask is generated from the LA chamber mesh, the appendage mesh, and the PV meshes. Erosion is performed in the LA chamber body and a plurality of ostia regions in the volume mask. The plurality of ostia regions in the volume mask are refined using region growing, and a smooth mesh is fit to each ostia region. A consolidated LA mesh is generated from the volume mask and the parts of the LA mesh are relabeled in the ostia region based on part boundaries detected using an optimization approach.
US08724876B2 Method and system for substantially reducing streak artifacts in helical cone beam computer tomography (CT)
Streak artifacts arise in helical CT reconstruction with cone beam weighting (CBW) with helical pitch ratio between 0.5 and 1.0 in a prevalent 2PI mode. The sreak artifacts are substantially removed by applying upsampling to the measured data in the segment direction before weighting. Furthermore, by making the upsampling adaptive to the view Z-position, an amount of extra processing is greatly reduced to near 1%.
US08724875B2 Attenuation correction for PET or SPECT nuclear imaging systems using magnetic resonance spectroscopic image data
When correcting for attenuation in a positron emission tomography (PET) image, a magnetic resonance (MR) image (24) of a subject is generated with spectroscopic data (38) describing the chemical composition of one or more of the voxels in the MR image. A table lookup is performed to identify a tissue type for each voxel based on the MR image data and spectral composition data, and an attenuation value is assigned to each voxel based on its tissue type to generate an MR attenuation correction (MRAC) map (30). The MRAC map (30) is used during reconstruction of the nuclear image (37) to correct for attenuation therein. Additionally, attenuation due to MR coils and other accessories that remain in a nuclear imager field of view during a combined MR/nuclear scan is corrected using pre-generated attenuation correction maps that are applied to a nuclear image after executing an MR scan to identify anatomical landmarks, which are used to align the pre-generated attenuation correction maps to the patient.
US08724870B2 Ophthalmic observation apparatus
An ophthalmic observation apparatus 1 performs an OCT measurement of a fundus Ef to form an OCT image, performs an analytical processing on this OCT image, and outputs examination-results information including the analysis results. The ophthalmic observation apparatus 1 is capable of selectively executing a plurality of operation modes. The ophthalmic observation apparatus 1 preliminarily stores operation mode information 214, in which various operational details are associated with each operation mode. When one operation mode is designated, the ophthalmic observation apparatus 1 refers to the operation mode information 214 to identify the operational details associated with this operation mode, and controls an optical system, an image forming part 220, a three-dimensional image forming part 231, an analytic processor 232, a display 240, and/or a printer 300, etc. based on the identified operational details.
US08724867B2 System and method for management and distribution of diagnostic imaging
A method of distributing an image study to a chosen image reader is disclosed having steps of receiving an image study from an image producer at a third party communication module, sending a receive notification message to a messaging layer, sending a study available notification message from the messaging layer to a workload distribution engine wherein the available notification message includes extracted image study information pulled from study headers of the image study, identifying image study rules from the extracted image study information, applying an image study complexity to the image study based on the image study rules, calculating image reader complexities for a plurality of image readers subscribed to receive image studies from the image producer, each of the image reader complexities calculated using the image study complexity and an Image reader profile assigned to each of the plurality of accredited image readers, selecting the chosen image reader from the plurality of image readers based on the image reader complexities, assigning the image study to the chosen image reader, and displaying the image study on a user interface to the chosen image reader.
US08724866B2 Multi-level contextual learning of data
Described herein is a framework for automatically classifying a structure in digital image data are described herein. In one implementation, a first set of features is extracted from digital image data, and used to learn a discriminative model. The discriminative model may be associated with at least one conditional probability of a class label given an image data observation Based on the conditional probability, at least one likelihood measure of the structure co-occurring with another structure in the same sub-volume of the digital image data is determined. A second set of features may then be extracted from the likelihood measure.
US08724862B2 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
An image processing apparatus includes a central-portion extracting unit, a classifying unit and a determining unit. The central-portion extracting unit extracts edges from an image area and extracts a plurality of central portions of areas each of which is sandwiched between the edges. The classifying unit groups the central portions by classifying adjacent central portions that have no edge therebetween into a single group. The determining unit determines an area of finger, the area of finger being surrounded by the central portions classified into a group by the classifying unit and peripheral edges of the central portion, the area of finger being an area where a ratio of a luminance gradient in a short side direction to a luminance gradient in a long side direction is within a predetermined threshold.
US08724860B2 Apparatus for fingerprint sensing and other measurements
Apparatus for measuring a pattern in a surface of an object, comprising a plurality of pixel or sensor elements being responsive to a physical parameter of the object surface, and means for establishing an overall, segmented picture related to said pattern, and also comprising at least one diode functionally associated with each sensor element for contributing to one or more of the following functions: selectively addressing said sensor element; activating said sensor element; and sensing of said physical parameter.
US08724858B2 Driver imaging apparatus and driver imaging method
An imaging mechanism captures an image of a face of a driver of a vehicle. A first image processor performs image processing on a wide portion of the face of the driver in a first image using a first image captured by the imaging mechanism. A second image processor performs image processing on a part of the face of the driver in a second image captured by the imaging mechanism at a higher exposure than the exposure of the first image, using the second image.
US08724857B2 Quality metrics for biometric authentication
This specification describes technologies relating to biometric authentication based on images of the eye. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include obtaining a first image of an eye including a view of the white of the eye. The method may further include determining metrics for the first image, including a first metric for reflecting an extent of one or more connected structures in the first image that represents a morphology of eye vasculature and a second metric for comparing the extent of eye vasculature detected across different color components in the first image. A quality score may be determined based on the metrics for the first image. The first image may be rejected or accepted based on the quality score.
US08724855B2 Biometric information measurement apparatus and method using user terminal
Disclosed herein is a biometric information measurement apparatus using a user terminal. The biometric information measurement apparatus includes a light-emitting control unit, a camera, an image analysis unit, and a biometric information measurement unit. The light-emitting control unit controls the output of an optical signal from at least one light emitting element which outputs the optical signal to a part of a body of a user. The camera is to be placed to face the part of the body, and configured to capture light generated in such a way that the optical signal passes through the part of the body or the optical signal is reflected off of the part of the body. The image analysis unit analyzes an image captured using the camera. The biometric information measurement unit measures biometric information about the user based on the results of the image analysis.
US08724845B2 Content determination program and content determination device
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a content determination program causes a computer to perform processes of detecting persons appearing in chronologically photographed images, detecting a position of each of the persons, calculating a moving velocity of each of the persons, setting a group including a part of the persons on the basis of the moving velocities and the positions, acquiring attribute information of the group on the basis of a person image corresponding to the each of the part of the persons included in the group, and determining, on the basis of a correspondence relationship between the attribute information of the group and attribute information of content images stored in a storage unit, one of the content images to be projected to a position which each of the part of the persons of the group recognizes.
US08724844B2 Heat dissipating acoustic transducer with mounting means
The inertial transducer comprises a foot, a modular key, at least one suspension means having at least three contact points, and heat dissipation means comprising multiple heat transfer points. The foot alternatively includes an opening or a cap. The cap may be frangible. Preferably, the foot includes a cylindrical wall that extends within the inertial transducer and the foot's lower surface is coplaner with the lower surface of a housing of the transducer, thereby reducing stack height. The cylindrical wall may or may not be threaded and may accept a shaft from a receiving apparatus used to associate the transducer with a substrate.
US08724843B2 Electrodynamic sound-emitting device
A casing for covering an outer yoke is provided; an acoustic cavity is formed by this casing; a diaphragm and the outer surface of a side wall of the outer yoke; a second elastic member is provided to join the outer circumferential edge of the casing to the outer circumferential edge of the diaphragm without any gap therebetween; this second elastic member includes pores formed by foaming and made of a material whose elastic modulus is smaller than that of a first elastic member; and pores communicating through from the back surface of the second elastic member, that is the inner side of the casing, to the front surface that is the opposite side of the back surface are eliminated.
US08724842B2 Universal angle loudspeaker bracket
An apparatus for mounting a loudspeaker unit to a structure is disclosed. A primary mounting bracket is defined by an arcuate center section and a pair of opposed arms extending therefrom. There is at least one open groove and at least one substantially coextensive track spanning the arcuate center section. Each of the arms include a circular planar bearing structure rotatably engageable to a corresponding one of bracket coupling platforms on an enclosure of the loudspeaker unit. A tab defining at least one mounting hardware hole in axial alignment with open groove substantially throughout its length is in a guided sliding engagement with the track. The enclosure of the loudspeaker unit is rotatable about a first axis extending between the arms of the primary mounting bracket and about a second axis defined by a radial center of an arc corresponding to a travel path of the tab along the track.
US08724837B2 Personal media device docking station having an acoustic interface
Systems and methods are provided for a media device docking station having one or more acoustic channels to transfer sound to or from the media device while the media device is docked with the docking station.
US08724834B2 Acoustic user interface system and method for providing spatial location data
An acoustic user interface system and method for tracking spatial location data. A location tracking unit provides location information with respect to an object in an environment. The location information may be further employed to synthesize a perception of three-dimensional spatial location data with respect to multiple objects in the environment. The acoustic user interface communicates the three-dimensional spatial location data via an auditory channel to a stereophonic device based on a human stereophonic perception of one or more acoustic signal variable correlated with a relative location of the objects in order to co-ordinate and communicate location information effectively.
US08724832B2 Piezoelectric microphone fabricated on glass
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for sense elements in an electromechanical microphone device. In one aspect, a piezoelectric sense element may include a glass substrate, electrode layers, piezoelectric layers, and elastic layers. The elastic layers may serve to modify the neutral plane of the piezoelectric sense element. Including an elastic layer or layers to modify the neutral plane of the piezoelectric sense element may serve to configure the sense element such that the piezoelectric layer generates a voltage in response to a sound wave or may serve to increase the sensitivity of the sense element.
US08724825B2 Headset with a 360 degrees rotatable microphone boom
A headset (1) for voice communication comprising a housing (2) and a pickup unit (8) rotatably connected to the housing via a joint (7). The pickup unit (8) comprises at least a first microphone (5), which is electrically connected via at least a first electrical connection to an electronic circuit for processing signals from the first microphone (5). The electronic circuit is arranged in the housing (2). The first electrical connection comprises a first sliding contact (20, 70), which comprises a housing side and a microphone side. The two sides are mutually rotatable about a rotational axis (26). One of the housing side or the microphone side of the sliding contact comprises a first annular ring (50) arranged so that the ring (50) is positioned around the rotational axis (26). The other of the housing side or the microphone side comprises a number of contact members (30) arranged in a radial distance from the rotational axis (26) so as to provide an electrical connection between the first annular ring (50) and the contact members (30).
US08724821B2 Sound field controller
A sound field controller includes: a sound field generation section which generates an effect sound signal for giving a sound field effect sound to an audio signal; an acquisition section which acquires a measurement signal indicating sound pressure levels of a direct sound and a reflected sound which are collected when a test sound is emitted in a reproduction environment; an identification section which identifies a maximum reflected sound whose sound pressure level is the maximum in a given time period after a collecting timing of the direct sound from the measurement signal; an adjustment section which adjusts the effect sound signal based on a ratio of the sound pressure level of the direct sound to the sound pressure level of the maximum reflected sound; and an output section which outputs the audio signal input to the input section and the effect sound signal adjusted by the adjustment section.
US08724820B2 Method of reproducing audio signals and playback apparatus therefor
A method of reproducing audio signals includes the steps of supplying a predetermined audio signal to a speaker array to synthesize surface wavefronts and forming a virtual sound source by the wavefront synthesis; and controlling the audio signal in order to change the position of the virtual sound source in the vicinity of the virtual sound source.
US08724819B2 Credential provisioning
Disclosed is a method in a provisioning apparatus. The method comprises obtaining a family key, a family key defining a family; submitting the family key to a security element in a secure manner (2-2); using the family key for securing credential data; submitting said secured credential data to the security element (2-4); using the family key for binding an application to the family; and submitting said binding to the security element (2-5). Also a method in a related security element and related apparatuses, systems and computer programs are disclosed.
US08724817B2 Secure management of keys in a key repository
A method for managing keys in a computer memory including receiving a request to store a first key to a first key repository, storing the first key to a second key repository in response to the request, and storing the first key from the second key repository to the first key repository within said computer memory based on a predetermined periodicity.
US08724815B1 Key management in a distributed system
Secure information is managed for each host or machine in an electronic environment using cryptographic keys. In some embodiments, a globally distributed system manage and rotate keys across various nodes within the system based on a predetermined schedule of each key's lifecycle. The predetermined schedule decides when keys are created, distributed, and used with respect to each key's pre-assigned time (e.g., an expiration time, a creation time). The schedule of the key's lifecycle may be predetermined and adjusted based on various system requirements. The keys may be automatically rotated throughout the various nodes in the system in a way such that the keys are not unnecessarily exposed for too long but are accessible to the ciphertext producers and the ciphertext consumers when needed. Further, the keys are created and rotated in a way to ensure robustness of the system in the event of a global WAN outage or network partition.
US08724812B2 Methods for establishing a secure point-to-point call on a trunked network
Methods for establishing secure point-to-point communications in a trunked radio system include receiving, at a trunking controller, a request from a source endpoint for a traffic channel for confidential communications between the source endpoint and a destination endpoint using a shared unique first symmetric key. The trunking controller provides keying material related to the symmetric key over the secured control channel to at least one of the source or destination endpoints and assigns a traffic channel. Moreover, in response to the request, the controller assigns a traffic channel. The keying material enables the unique first symmetric key to be securely established between the source and destination endpoints.
US08724807B2 Method for etching and secure distribution of digital data, access device and writer
The invention relates to a method of receiving and securely recording digital data comprising a step for recording said digital data on a secured disk by a recorder/receiver belonging to a determined secured domain comprising several equipment items and defined by an identifier, a step for recording on the secured disk the identifier of the domain of the recorder/receiver to define this domain as the only domain in which the reproduction/copying of the multimedia content is authorized, wherein it comprises a prior step for recovering a disk key from the secured disk, and in that the domain identifier is encrypted by said disk key and the digital data is scrambled by title keys, said title keys being encrypted by said disk key. The invention also relates to a method of securely distributing digital data, an access device and a recorder/receiver.
US08724803B2 Method and apparatus for providing authenticated challenges for broadcast-multicast communications in a communication system
A method and apparatus for secure generation of a short-term key SK for viewing information content in a Multicast-broadcast-multimedia system are described. A short-term key is generated by a memory module residing in user equipment (UE) only when the source of the information used to generate the short-term key can be validated. A short-term key can be generated by a Broadcast Access Key (BAK) or a derivative of BAK and a changing value with a Message Authentication Code (MAC) appended to the changing value. A short-term key (SK) can also be generated by using a private key and a short-term key (SK) manager with a corresponding public key distributed to the memory module residing in the user equipment (UE), using a digital signature.
US08724801B2 Mount for a mobile media device
Headgear for mounting a camera or other mobile media device is disclosed. The head gear includes a band for circling the head and means for enlarging or decreasing the diameter of the band to make it adjustable for various head sizes. A head mount is secured to the band for holding the device. The mount includes an enclosure with a flap for closing a pocket. The flap is secured to the mount proximate the head and folds over the front of the mount and is secured thereto to maintain the device in the pocket. The front of the pocket contains openings which are aligned with the lens of the held device to focus and record events in front of the user. The pocket has hinged side panels to allow expansion and contraction, caused by a bladder within, so that the camera may be pointed at a desired angle by the mount, thereby achieving the desired angle of view of the camera.
US08724799B2 Operating points for spectrum management in digital subscriber lines
A method of determining a number of operating points for spectrum management of a plurality of digital subscriber lines in a communications network, the method comprising the steps of: determining optimization criteria (Oi) for the digital subscriber lines; determining crosstalk gains (Gi) for the digital subscriber lines; determining an initial population (Pi) of operating points (x1, . . . , xZ) where each of the operating points comprises importance ratings for each digital subscriber line of the plurality of digital subscriber lines; calculating new values of crosstalk and power spectrum densities (S) for the digital subscriber lines, by executing spectrum balancing for each operating point until the optimization criteria are fulfilled; calculating a new population of operating points, by executing an evolutionary algorithm; and iteratively performing the steps of calculating until a predefined stopping criterion is fulfilled.
US08724797B2 Estimating agent performance in a call routing center system
Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating and assigning agent performance characteristics in a call routing center. Performance characteristics (e.g., sales rate, customer satisfaction, duration of call, etc.) may be assigned to an agent when the agent has made few calls relative to other agents or otherwise has a large error in their measure of one or more performance characteristics used for matching callers to agents (e.g., via a performance based or pattern matching routing method). A method includes identifying agents of a plurality of agents having a number of calls fewer than a predetermined number of calls (or an error in the performance characteristic exceeding a threshold), assigning a performance characteristic to the identified agents (that is different than the agent's actual performance characteristic), and routing a caller to one of the plurality of agents based on the performance characteristics of the plurality of agents.
US08724796B2 Estimation of expected value for remaining work time for contact center agents
The present invention provides a more accurate estimate as to time for completion of a call by using estimated time durations of separate phases of the call and by determining what phase a call is currently on. An important feature of the present invention is the use of automated speech processing techniques to estimate where the customer and agent are in their conversation and to gauge the rate of progress of the call.
US08724795B1 Problem centric knowledge management tool for call center
A call center problem resolution system is provided. The system comprises, a computer system comprising at least one processor and a memory, a data store coupled to the computer, and an application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the application receives call information comprising a calling number, and it retrieves communication equipment information based on the calling number, communication service plan information based on the calling number, and communication network operations information based on the communication service plan information. When executed, the application further receives words describing a problem experienced by communication equipment associated with the calling number. Based on the plurality of words describing the problem, the communication network operations information, the communication service plan information, and the communication equipment information, the application identifies a plurality of information items, and presents the plurality of information items in a prioritized order to a call agent.
US08724792B2 Auditing and optimizing communication path routes
Example embodiments of the present invention may include a method and apparatus configured determine an optimal routing path to route a call through a network. One example method may include retrieving and parsing a routing table and storing the parsed routing information in a routing database. The method may also include determining a plurality of routes that could be used to route the call through the network by applying at least one cost metric to the plurality of determined routes. The method may also include determining an order of the plurality of routes used to route the call, and create a route used to route the call based on the determined order of the plurality of routes.
US08724791B2 Controlling a call setup process
A call setup process (28) in a telecommunication device (10) is controlled, wherein the telecommunication device (10) receives a user command (22) to set up a call, initiates the call setup process (28), determines that the call is likely to reach a voicemail system (14), and, in response to the determination that the call is likely to reach the voicemail system (14), automatically terminates the call setup process (28). A telecommunication device (10) comprises related features. A telecommunication network (12) is adapted to support or implement a determination whether or not an incoming call is forwarded to the voicemail system (14). The invention improves the user experience if a called party does not personally answer a telephone call.
US08724789B2 Systems and methods to connect people for real time communications via directory assistance
Methods and apparatuses to connect people for real time communications via optional advertisements presented via directory assistance. One embodiment includes: receiving a directory assistance request from a user over a telephonic connection with the user; providing directory assistance information responsive to the directory assistance request; presenting an option related to an advertisement to the user; if the user declines the option, charging the user a fee for providing the directory assistance information; and if the user accepts the option, reducing the fee for providing the directory assistance information.
US08724777B2 Method, device and system for implementing emergency call override service
The present disclosure provides a method, device and system for implementing emergency call override service; wherein the implementation method comprise: a first application server (AS) on a called side receives an initial request message, carrying a service identifier indicating an emergency call override service, from a second AS on a calling side; and the first AS implements the emergency call override service according to the service identifier. In the IMS network architecture, by adding a service identifier, indicating emergency call override service, in an initial request message based on SIP, an AS network element on a called side can implement emergency call override service according to the service identifier, thereby solving the problem that the emergency call override service cannot be implemented in the current IMS network architecture.
US08724774B2 Method and system for extracting spectroscopic information from images and waveforms
The application discloses systems and methods for determining an atomic number of a material being scanned by generating a predetermined number of transmission data samples, determining a variance of the transmission data samples, and determining the atomic number of the material being scanned by comparing the variance or a derivative of the variance of the transmission data samples to one or more predetermined variances. The application also discloses systems and methods for determining an atomic number of a material being scanned by deriving transmission signal samples of the material being scanned, determining a variance of the signal samples, and determining an atomic number of the material being scanned by comparing the variance of the signal samples, or a derivative of the variance, to one or more predetermined variances.
US08724773B2 Method and X-ray system for processing an X-ray image
To improve the quality of x-ray images, IN a method to process an x-ray image, a mathematical correction of the x-ray image is implemented, wherein the correction at least partially removes from the x-ray image the locally dependent blurring caused by a projection direction-dependent, effective optical focus size of an x-ray tube used to acquire the x-ray image.
US08724770B2 Bidirectional shift register
Disclosed herein is a bidirectional shift register which is capable of preventing multi-outputs from both end stages. The shift register includes a plurality of stages for outputting scan pulses forward or reversely based on a start pulse and a plurality of clock pulses with a phase difference. A last one of the stages includes a forward scan controller for making a set node active and a reset node inactive based on any one of the clock pulses and a scan pulse from an upstream stage, a reverse scan controller for making the set node active and the reset node inactive based on any one of the clock pulses and the start pulse, and an output unit for outputting any one of a corresponding scan pulse and a deactivation voltage based on a voltage at the set node, a voltage at the reset node and any one of the clock pulses.
US08724767B2 Method of removing retainer of jet pump and jet pump
A retainer provided at lower portion of a pump beam of a jet pump for circulating cooling water to a reactor core or a bolt for fastening the retainer is cut through an underwater-remote control to remove the bolt and the retainer is removed through the underwater-remote control.
US08724762B2 Clock regeneration method, reference-less receiver, and crystal-less system
A clock regeneration method, for generating a clock signal for being utilized by a receiver/transceiver/receiver system/transceiver system, includes: performing data/pattern detection on at least one input signal to generate recovered data; detecting at least one synchronization pattern in the input signal according to a synchronization pattern rule, and generating a synchronization signal corresponding to the synchronization pattern; and performing frequency-locking on the synchronization signal to generate the clock signal. More particularly, the step of detecting the at least one synchronization pattern in the input signal according to the synchronization pattern rule further comprises: detecting the at least one synchronization pattern by performing synchronization pattern detection on the recovered data. An associated reference-less receiver and an associated crystal-less system are also provided.
US08724757B2 Symbol timing synchronization methods and apparatus
Embodiments include methods and apparatus for performing symbol timing synchronization for a symbol-bearing signal. The symbol-bearing signal is sampled to produce a plurality of symbol samples. First-direction interpolation processes are performed on the plurality of symbol samples in a first temporal direction, where the first temporal direction is a direction from a first sampling time towards a second sampling time. In addition, second-direction interpolation processes are performed on the symbol samples in a second temporal direction, where the second temporal direction is a direction from the second sampling time towards the first sampling time, resulting in a set of interpolated symbol samples.
US08724756B2 Method and apparatus for an adaptive filter architecture
A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for identifying a spectral region in a radio frequency spectrum for initiating a communication session having a transmission link and a reception link, determining a correlation factor from signals measured in the spectral region, detecting according to the correlation factor a foreign communication signal in the spectral region, generating coefficient data to prevent interference with the foreign communication signal while transmitting in the transmission link, filtering a first signal for transmission in the transmission link according to the coefficient data to generate a filtered signal, and causing a transmission of the filtered signal which prevents interference with the foreign communication signal while transmitting in the transmission link. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08724754B2 Noise power thresholding and balancing for long term evolution (LTE) symbol detection
A noise thresholder of a baseband modem integrated circuit (BMIC) compares measured noise variances on corresponding receiver paths to a pre-established threshold minimum value. The noise thresholder assigns as a noise variance value for a corresponding receiver path either (a) a measured noise variance value for each receiver path having a measured noise variance that is larger than the pre-established threshold minimum, and (b) the pre-established threshold minimum value for each receiver path having a measured noise variance that is less than or equal to the pre-established threshold minimum value. A noise balancer performs noise balancing to provide a same signal to noise ratio (SNR) across all receiver paths, based on the assigned noise variances provided at the noise thresholder. A detection engine utilizes a lowest assigned noise variance value and outputs yielded by the noise balancer to simplify equalization computations while providing a high performance symbol detection capability.
US08724752B2 Amplitude/orthogonality error compensator
An amplitude/orthogonality error compensator includes: an amplitude corrector configured to perform an amplitude correction on an in-phase component and a quadrature component of an input complex signal based on amplitude error information, and to output a complex signal obtained through the amplitude correction; an orthogonality corrector configured to perform an orthogonality correction on the complex signal, obtained through the amplitude correction, based on orthogonality error information, and to output a complex signal obtained through the orthogonality correction; a filter section configured to allow a predetermined frequency component included in the complex signal obtained through the orthogonality correction to pass through the filter section; an amplitude error detector configured to obtain the amplitude error information based on the complex signal that has passed through the filter section; and an orthogonality error detector configured to obtain the orthogonality error information of the complex signal.
US08724751B2 Method for a single radio aggregated spectrum receiver, computer program, receiver, and terminal
A method for a single radio aggregated spectrum receiver of a terminal arranged to operate in a radio network is disclosed. The method comprises receiving information from a network node of the radio network about frequency properties of an aggregated spectrum to be received; determining information about the aggregated spectrum comprising at least one of presence of blocking interferer(s) interspersed with, and pass bands within the aggregated spectrum; and providing filter(s) based on the determined information about the aggregated spectrum such that desired signals are passed and any blocking interferer(s) are attenuated. Corresponding computer program, receiver and terminal are also disclosed.
US08724746B2 System and method for signaling and detecting in wireless communications systems
A system and method for signaling and detecting in wireless communications systems are provided. A method for processing information includes operating in a first phase, operating in a second phase, and processing the detected information. The first phase includes iteratively inverting a first filtering operation on received signals, and the second phase includes iteratively inverting a second filtering operation on received signals with consideration given to a first estimation error of symbols of the first user and a second estimation error of symbols of the second user.
US08724740B2 Systems and methods for reducing uplink resources to provide channel performance feedback for adjustment of downlink MIMO channel data rates
Systems and methods for improving the performance of a MIMO wireless communication system by reducing the amount of uplink resources that are needed to provide channel performance feedback for the adjustment of data rates on the downlink MIMO channels. In one embodiment, a method comprises encoding each of a set of data streams according to corresponding data rates, permuting the data streams on a set of MIMO channels according to a full permutation of combinations, transmitting the permuted data streams, receiving the permuted data streams, decoding and determining an SNR for each of the data streams, computing a condensed SNR metric for the set of data streams, providing the condensed metric as feedback, determining a set of individual SNR metrics for the data streams based on the condensed SNR metric, and adjusting the data rates at which the data streams are encoded based on the individual SNR metrics.
US08724738B2 Multidimensional constellations for coded transmission
Techniques for rotating and transmitting multidimensional constellations are disclosed. A method for rotating a multidimensional constellation may include constructing a first rotation matrix, constructing a second rotation matrix, applying orthogonality constraints to the first and second rotation matrices; selecting an optimizing rotation matrix from the first and second rotation matrices; and rotating the multidimensional constellation using the optimizing rotation matrix. Constructing the first rotation matrix and second rotation matrices may include constructing a first column that includes first matrix dements based on the number of axes in the multidimensional constellation, and additional columns that include permutations of the first matrix elements.
US08724737B2 Method and apparatus for mapping of absolute power grant values in wireless communications
A method and apparatus for adjusting power grants in wireless communications. Multiple power grant tables are stored and one or more tables are designated during communication.
US08724733B2 All-digital multi-standard transmitters architecture using delta-sigma modulators
The present disclosure is concerned with a digital transmitter using Delta-Sigma modulators (DMSs) that uses an up-sampler and modulator block that follows the DSMs to generate the RF equivalent of the baseband signal to be transmitted. The up-sampler and modulator block is simple to implement and contains only one or a few multiplexers implemented in high speed logic technology.
US08724726B2 Automatic gain control apparatus and method for compressed mode in MIMO system
An automatic gain control apparatus and method for a compressed mode in a MIMO system are provided. The method includes determining power at a first frequency band using a first receiver, simultaneously determining power at a second frequency band using a second receiver in a compressed mode, if the second receiver changes a power determination frequency band into the first frequency band, correcting the power determination value of the first receiver, and applying the corrected power determination value of the first receiver to the second receiver.
US08724725B2 Channel estimation for wireless systems without matrix inversion
In various embodiments, techniques are provided to determine channel characteristics of various communication systems such as OFDM systems or systems using a plurality of transmit antennas by using various sets of training symbols that produce zero cross-correlation energy. Channel communication can accordingly be simplified as the zero cross-correlation property allows for channel estimation without a matrix inversion.
US08724722B2 Method for reducing latency on LTE DL implementation
An apparatus including a processor and a radio frequency (RF) interface. The processor may be configured to process downlink information such that a latency of the apparatus is determined by an amount of time involved in processing the downlink information to obtain a single orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbol for presentation to the RF interface.
US08724712B1 Apparatus and method for encoding at non-uniform intervals
A system, apparatus, and method for encoding a plurality of frames in a video stream with temporal scalability. The method includes identifying a non-uniform sequence of time values within a period, determining a frame corresponding to each time value in the non-uniform sequence, within at least one period, and assigning each of the determined frames to one of a plurality of temporal encoding layers.
US08724711B2 Luma-based chroma intra prediction
Systems, devices and methods for performing luma-based chroma ultra prediction are described. Down-sample filters may be applied to luma values of luma pixel positions to generate reconstructed luma values for chroma pixel positions in a prediction unit of an intra frame. The down-sampled reconstructed luma values may then be used to predict chroma values for the chroma pixel positions. In some implementations, a reconstructed luma value of a chroma position may be used to predict that position's chroma value. In other implementations, reconstructed luma values of neighboring chroma pixel positions may be analyzed to adaptively predict a chroma value for a chroma pixel position.
US08724709B2 Method for a hybrid Golomb-Elias gamma coding
The invention relates to a method for encoding of a bit amount of a data section and to a corresponding decoding method. Furthermore, the invention relates to encoding, decoding, transmission and/or storage of audio and/or video data wherein said method for encoding of a bit amount of a data section and/or said corresponding decoding method are used in processing of the audio and/or video data. Said method for encoding of a bit amount of a data section comprises the steps of encoding said bit amount indicating integer as a first number of equally valued bits followed by a stop bit of different value wherein said first number equals said bit amount increased by a threshold value. Using said method, quotients of values larger than a threshold can be encoded using unary as well as binary code wherein quotients of values smaller than the threshold can be encoded in unary code.
US08724704B2 Apparatus and method for motion estimation and image processing apparatus
A motion estimation apparatus and method for quickly performing video encoding based on a user input through a user input device are provided. The motion estimation apparatus includes an input receiver for receiving a user input, an input pattern analysis unit for analyzing the received user input and determining a user input pattern according to the analyzed user input, a storage for storing history information of a motion vector according to the user input pattern, and a motion estimator for initially estimating a motion vector of a motion estimation block of a current frame with reference to history information of a motion vector corresponding to the user input pattern stored in the storage, deciding a search location of a block matching the motion estimation block from a reference frame, and performing motion estimation on the motion estimation block using the decided search location.
US08724702B1 Methods and systems for motion estimation used in video coding
A framework for efficient sum of absolute difference (SAD) computations for variable block size, sub-pixel motion estimation is presented. Simultaneous, or parallelized, SAD computations can be performed by storing and re-using previous SAD computational information, which can speed up the performance of a motion estimation module by reducing the number of cycles necessary to perform a particular motion estimation algorithm.
US08724701B1 Using object decomposition to improve the selection of example-based predictors
An image processing system is provided for encoding videos based on example-based compression. To select the dictionary predictor entries to encode a video, the image processing system reduces the complexity of the video by decomposing the video into smaller pieces. By breaking the video into the simpler pieces, it is easier to locate dictionary predictor entries that are similar to the pieces of the video. The image processing system may decompose the video into one more space-time tubes. For each space-time tube, the image processing system selects dictionary predictor entries to encode the tube.
US08724700B2 Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal with inter-view reference picture list construction
A method of decoding a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes obtaining identification information indicating whether a coded picture of a current NAL unit is an inter-view picture group, obtaining interview reference information of the inter-view picture group, and constructing a reference picture list for inter-view prediction using the inter-view reference information according to the identification information, wherein the inter-view reference information includes view identification information of an inter-view reference picture.
US08724696B2 System and method for transmitting video and user interface elements
A method for offloading decoding of encoded video data from a computer system executing a video player application playing the encoded video data to a remote display terminal still enables the video player application to overlay transparent or semi-transparent graphical elements, such elements, such as user interface controls, onto the video, despite not having access to decoded video data. A video decoding function call from the video player application is intercepted and replacement video data is provided to the video player application rather than a decoded version of the encoded video data. The video player application is thereby able to overlay graphical elements onto the replacement video data to create composite video from which the graphical elements are then able to be subsequently extracted and transmitted with the encoded video data to remote display terminal, which decodes the video data and overlays the graphical elements for display.
US08724689B2 Narrowband ingress estimation and characterization using equalizer taps
Narrowband ingress estimation and characterization using equalizer taps. A equalizer including a feed forward equalizer (FFE) and a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) is implemented to process an input signal thereby generating an output signal. Analysis of the frequency response of the equalizer including the FFE and the DFE of the equalizer allows for the determination of whether or not narrowband ingress exists within the signal received by the equalizer. For example, analysis of the signal output from the equalizer provides for determination of the overall frequency response of the equalizer. In addition, analysis of the respective equalizer coefficients within one or both of the FFE and the DFE of the equalizer may be used to determine the overall frequency response of the equalizer. Narrowband ingress may be identified when the combination of the FFE (having a notch therein) and the DFE provides for an overall flat frequency response.
US08724687B2 Data processing method, equalizer and receiver
A data processing method, an equalizer, and a receiver in a wireless communication system including a relay station are provided. The data processing method includes: receiving a base station signal from a base station; receiving a relay station signal from a relay station; determining a propagation delay between the base station signal and the relay station signal; generating an equalizing signal in which interference generated between the base station signal and the relay station signal is alleviated in consideration of the propagation delay; and recovering information bits transmitted by the base station from the equalizing signal. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to alleviate performance deterioration due to an interference problem generated in a relay system.
US08724684B2 CQI feedback structure
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a reporting allocation unit, an indicator interpretation unit and methods of operating a reporting allocation unit and an indicator interpretation unit. In one embodiment, the reporting allocation unit includes an indicator configuration module configured to provide reporting interval and offset values of corresponding rank and channel quality indicators for user equipment. The reporting allocation unit also includes a sending module configured to transmit the reporting interval and offset values to the user equipment.
US08724671B2 Multiple wavelength laser system
A system for generating multiple simultaneous laser wavelengths, said system comprising: a pulsed slave laser comprising a non-linear electro-optic crystal optically coupled to a lasing crystal in a ring cavity configuration, said non-linear electro-optic crystal configured to adjust an optical path length of said ring cavity in response to an applied voltage potential; an energy pump configured to initiate a pulse cycle in said pulsed slave laser in response to a trigger; a cavity control circuit configured to apply said voltage potential to said non-linear electro-optic crystal to generate a cavity resonance condition associated with said adjusted optical path length, said cavity control circuit further configured to provide said trigger to said energy pump in response to a detection of said cavity resonance condition; and one or more seed lasers configured to inject a single frequency laser beam into said pulsed slave laser.
US08724667B2 System and method for multiple laser sources using high semiconductor optical amplifier extinction
A system and method for passive combination of two or more laser sources (e.g., sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector (SG-DBR) lasers) into a single sweep that encompasses the combined range of the wavelengths of each laser source.
US08724665B2 Pseudo-synchronous time division multiplexing
Methods and apparatuses to multiplex logic data pseudo synchronously are described. A representation of a multiplexer logic is generated to transmit data items asynchronously relative to a design clock. The data items may be transmitted under control of a transmission clock from a first integrated circuit to a second integrated circuit. A representation of a counter logic may be generated to couple with the multiplexer logic for transmitting the data asynchronously. Additionally, a representation of reset logic may be generated for a configuration to repeatedly reset the counter logic. Synchronization signals may be generated for a design clock cycle of a design clock driving the data items. The synchronization signals may be transmitted via the transmission clock asynchronous with the design clock. The data items may be transmitted via a number of transmission slots determined based on the clock cycles of the transmission clock and the design clock The total time for the transmission slots for transmitting the logic data may be less than the clock cycle of the design clock. One or more transmission slots within the clock cycle of the design clock may be used to transmit the synchronization data to indicate a new cycle to transmit the data items according to the design clock.
US08724662B2 Wireless communication protocol for low power receivers
A wireless protocol for a communication system is set forth herein which may be utilized for communication between a transmitter and a receiver over any type of communication channel. The wireless communication protocol provides for the reduction of receiver active or on time which in turn lowers power consumption. The wireless communication protocol enables the complexity and receiver size to be reduced. The methodology employed in the protocol utilizes a unique message frame in conjunction with repeated transmission and periodic receiver searching.
US08724659B2 Synchronization of VoDSL of DSLAM connected only to ethernet
A packet forwarding unit such as a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) receives Ethernet packets carrying real-time information and forwards the information therein on output lines such as Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines (ADSLs). The DSLAM includes a clock device having an extraction unit and an adaptive clock. The extraction unit analyzes received packets to select streams of received packets from one destination to one user, and the adaptive clock generates a reference clock signal according to the arrival times of packets in the selected streams. The clock signal is sent to time reference units in DSL modems for the output lines.
US08724657B2 System and method for offloading packet protocol encapsulation from software
A method and system of packet assembly is provided. The method includes providing a first packet descriptor. The first packet descriptor is a pointer-to-pointer (P2P) descriptor that includes pointer information. The method further includes retrieving a first pointer referenced by the pointer information of the first packet descriptor; providing the first pointer to a DMA engine; and using the DMA engine to retrieve packet data referenced by the first pointer.
US08724653B2 Downlink transmission method and eNodeB in multiple input multiple output system
The disclosure provides a downlink transmission method and an eNodeB in a multiple input multiple output system. The method includes: obtaining channel quality indication of a User Equipment (UE) to generate a channel condition indication value; obtaining channel rank indication of the UE to generate a channel correlation indication value; obtaining uplink channel impulse response estimation data of the UE to generate a channel variation state indication value; selecting a downlink transmission mode according to the channel condition indication value, the channel correlation indication value and the channel variation state indication value; transmitting data to the UE in the selected downlink transmission mode. Because of extracting information from a current channel as a basis of a subsequent selection of the downlink mode, the disclosure can greatly improve a resource utilization ratio of a system and realize a better wireless transmission effect.
US08724651B2 Radio network system, radio communication method, and radio communication device
A wireless network system including a first terminal for sending a request-to-send signal including information on a medium use period to a second terminal before sending data, receiving a clear-to-send signal from the second terminal, and sending data to the second terminal during the medium use period; the second terminal for receiving the request-to-send signal and sending the clear-to-send signal; a third terminal for receiving the request-to-send signal and transmitting data to a fourth terminal during the medium use period; and the fourth terminal. Thus, it is possible to prevent occurrence of a problem that when it is judged that the wireless channel is being used, transmission of the station is suppressed.
US08724650B2 Management of access to a medium
The present invention relates to, in a wireless network in which wireless stations transmit frames, a method of managing the access of the medium to a wireless station once a frame or a sequence of frames has been transmitted by the wireless station, the method comprising: (a) generating a time value resulting from a function of the duration of the frame or the sequence of frames to be transmitted, —(b) transmitting the frame or the sequence of frames; and (c) after step (b), the wireless station refraining from access to the medium by counting down a refraining time, the value of the refraining time being determined by taking account of the said time value.
US08724648B2 Enhanced control signaling for backhaul link
A method includes composing downlink control information having a format configured to support a presence of a plurality of transport blocks in a single subframe, where the downlink control information comprises, for the plurality of transport blocks, a common resource allocation and modulation/coding scheme field and a single cyclic redundancy check field. The method further includes transmitting the composed downlink control information to a relay node over a wireless link that comprises a backhaul link from the relay node.
US08724645B2 Performing computations in a distributed infrastructure
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for performing computations in a distributed infrastructure. Embodiments of the invention include a general purpose distributed computation infrastructure that can be used to perform efficient (in-memory), scalable, failure-resilient, atomic, flow-controlled, long-running state-less and state-full distributed computations. Guarantees provided by a distributed computation infrastructure can build upon existent guarantees of an underlying distributed fabric in order to hide the complexities of fault-tolerance, enable large scale highly available processing, allow for efficient resource utilization, and facilitate generic development of stateful and stateless computations. A distributed computation infrastructure can also provide a substrate on which existent distributed computation models can be enhanced to become failure-resilient.
US08724641B2 Communication system and control method for communication system
When connecting a plurality of packet processing parts each having a packet processing function as an added function of a virtual network for each user, there was a problem that the number of packet processing units that were connectable, a function of analyzing a communication packet, etc. were dependent on a transport technology of a core network of a virtual network. A communication system including the packet processing unit for performing an information processing of the communication packet on the virtual network has a virtual network system for the packet processing unit in addition to a wide area core network in a wide area network service.
US08724632B2 Programmable packet processor with flow resolution logic
A programmable packet switching controller has a packet buffer, a pattern match module, a programmable packet classification engine and an application engine. The packet classification engine has a decision tree-based classification logic for classifying a packet. The application engine has a number of programmable sub-engines arrayed in a pipelined architecture. The sub-engines include a source lookup engine, a destination lookup engine and a disposition engine, which are used to make a disposition decision for the inbound packets in a processing pipeline.
US08724631B2 Method, system and apparatus for transmitting data
The present invention discloses a method, a system and an apparatus for transmitting data, which are applied in an identification identifier locater separation network, the method includes: a source terminal sending a first data packet to a source Access Support Node (ASN), and taking an Access Identity (AID) of the source terminal and the AID of a destination terminal as a source address and a destination address of the first data packet respectively; the source ASN, after receiving the first data packet, if a Routing Identifier (RID) corresponding to the AID of the destination terminal is not queried out locally, encapsulating the first data packet which is as a payload data packet to a second data packet by using Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) format, and adding a GRE packet header and a delivery protocol packet header; and the source ASN sending the second data packet to a mapping forwarding plane, which queries the RID corresponding to the AID of the destination terminal and sends the first data packet to the destination ASN according to the queried RID. The present invention realizes a high data forwarding performance, and a network processor may be used to process, the encapsulation format is easy to extend, and the edition is convenient to upgrade.
US08724629B1 E-tree service having extended shared VLAN learning across VPLS network
Techniques are described for supporting metro Ethernet “E-TREE” service over a packet-switched MPLS network, including a VPLS core, in a manner that allows a service provide to easily integrate with different types of technologies deployed by its various customers. Moreover, the techniques described herein provide increased flexibility with respect to the topology of the roots and leafs of the E-TREE service and, in particular, allow roots and leaf nodes to be coupled to a common router that provides access to the VPLS core. An NNI port of a PE router may process network traffic to provide E-TREE service to a bridged network having both leaf nodes and root nodes process and direct traffic between logical interfaces as changed next hops.
US08724628B1 Methods and apparatus for destination based hybrid load balancing within a switch fabric
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a switch module configured to receive an order identifier of a first data packet from a first stage of a multi-stage switch. The switch module is configured to receive an indicator of an available capacity of the first module of a second stage of the multi-stage switch fabric, and an indicator of an available capacity of a second module of the second stage of the multi-stage switch fabric. The switch module is configured, when the order identifier is assigned, to direct the first data packet to the first module of a second stage of the multi-stage switch fabric when the available capacity of the second module is lower than the available capacity of the first module. The switch module configured, when the order identifier is unassigned, to direct the first data packet to the second module when the available capacity of the second module is higher than the available capacity of the first module.
US08724627B2 Single-homing and active-active multi-homing in a virtual private LAN service
In one embodiment, single-homing and active-active multi-homing is provided in a Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS). A customer edge node actively communicates frames of a same Virtual Private Network (VPN) instance with two or more VPLS nodes of a VPLS network. The VPLS nodes are configured to appropriately forward frames throughout the VPLS network: without looping of a frame sent by the same external node back to the same external node, without flooding multiple copies of a frame to the same external node, and while performing learning of addresses in forwarding tables of said VPLS nodes such that said forwarding tables of said VPLS nodes converge despite frames of the same LAN service being received by said at least two of said VPLS nodes from the same external node.
US08724622B2 System and method for instant VoIP messaging
Methods, systems and programs for instant voice messaging over a packet-switched network are provided. A method for instant voice messaging may comprise receiving an instant voice message having one or more recipients, delivering the instant voice message to the one or more recipients over a packet-switched network, temporarily storing the instant voice message if a recipient is unavailable; and delivering the stored instant voice message to the recipient once the recipient becomes available.
US08724620B2 Method and apparatus for managing calls
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, one or more components for receiving a call request at a first server from a first end user device, transmitting the call request from a first server to an intermediate server for establishing a voice or video call over an IP multimedia subsystem between the first end user device and a second end user device via a second server, and routing the voice or video call request from the first server to the second server using a second IP address when an undesired condition is determined to be associated with the IP multimedia subsystem. The second IP address can be obtained from a group of IP addresses stored in a memory of the first server and the group of IP addresses can be associated with other servers. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08724619B2 Transparently routing a telephone call between mobile and VOIP services
Systems and methods are provided for routing a telephone call intended for a communications device between a mobile network and a VOIP service, where the mobile network and VOIP service may be connected through the PSTN. The VOIP service may receive telephone calls and may direct the telephone calls to the communications device through the Internet when a stable Internet connection is present, and may route telephone calls to the mobile network through the PSTN otherwise. When a call is routed to the mobile network, the mobile network may make the call the communications device to establish a telephone connection through a cellular link. While a telephone call is in progress, the VOIP service and communications device may be configured to seamlessly switch the telephone call to a different service depending on the status of the communications device's Internet connection.
US08724618B2 System for connecting information processing devices associated with IP telephones
An information processing apparatus for call control and management stores a first telephone identification and a first IP address of a first IP telephone, a first device identification and a second IP address of a first information processing device associated with the first IP telephone by a first association identification, a second telephone identification and a third IP address of the second IP telephone, and a second device identification and a fourth IP address of a second information processing device associated with the second IP telephone. In response to a message requesting for establishing a session received from the first IP telephone or the first information processing device, the information processing apparatus sends a message requesting for establishing a session between the first IP telephone and the second IP telephone, by using the first IP address of the first IP telephone and the third IP address of the second IP telephone in accordance with the registration information, to thereby establish a session between the first IP telephone and the second IP telephone, and also notifies the IP address of one of the first and second information processing devices to the other information processing device, in accordance with the registration information, to thereby establish a session between the first information processing device and the second information processing device.
US08724611B2 Authorizing transmission of resource utilization messages
An authorization scheme limits the number of nodes that send out resource utilization messages. Here, a first node may determine whether a second node is allowed to transmit a resource utilization message, and send a message to the second node indicative of this determination. The second node may then determine whether to send out a resource utilization message based on the message from the first node and the quality of service associated with receive traffic at the second node. In some aspects, a node that is allowed to transmit a RUM may be identified based on whether the node is expected to be scheduled to use a given resource.
US08724608B2 Radio system with configurable links
A system includes radio devices where radio links between the devices are configured by bringing the radio devices in close proximity with hosts for a few seconds. A proximity detector in the device detects the proximity and an automatic registration process begins to configure a link between the device and nearby host. One-to-one or one-to-many links may be established. Links may be cancelled by repeating the process. The devices may include an indicator to indicate establishment of the link.
US08724603B2 Network access and a mobile station configured for the same
A method for network access and a mobile station configured for the same is described. In one embodiment, there is provided a method for network access on a mobile station comprising: scanning for Wi-Fi networks; receiving responses from available wireless access points (APs) of the Wi-Fi networks; selecting a Wi-Fi network in accordance with past connectivity data associated with the Wi-Fi networks of the available APs; and attempting to connect to the selected Wi-Fi network.
US08724602B2 Information terminal and computer program
An information terminal includes: a wireless communication section configured to communicate with an outside; a main functional section configured to perform an information processing operation that includes data communication with the outside, performed using the wireless communication section; a monitoring section configured to detect a state of power supply for the main functional section; and a communication control section configured to cause the wireless communication section to transmit data, preliminarily stored in a memory, to the outside when the state detected by the monitoring section corresponds to a state in which the main functional section is not capable of performing data communication using the wireless communication section.
US08724596B2 Mobile communication method, radio base station, and mobile station
A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of notifying, by a radio base station eNB, a mobile station UE of: a condition under which a measurement report is triggered; a measurement-report target CC having a measurement result that should be reported at the same time when the measurement report is performed; and the maximum number of cells, on the measurement-report target CC, having a measurement result that should be reported, and a step of transmitting, by the mobile station UE, a measurement result of a cell of which the number is equal to or less than the notified maximum number, for each notified measurement-report target CC.
US08724595B2 Terminal-assisted improvement of timing-based positioning accuracy
There are provided measures for enabling a terminal-assisted improvement of timing-based positioning accuracy. Such measures may exemplarily include measuring a cell-related timing value for timing-based positioning calculation on the basis of a cell-originated positioning-related signal and measuring a terminal-related timing value for timing-based positioning calculation at an apparatus to be positioned, and utilizing the measured cell-related timing value and the measured terminal-related timing value for timing-based positioning calculation relating to the apparatus to be positioned at a network side.
US08724590B2 System and method for primary point handovers
A method for operating a multiple point (MP) controller includes receiving, from a source primary point, a handover required message for a user equipment coupled to the source primary point, the handover required message including target primary point information and MP radio bearer information. The method also includes determining an MP configuration according to the handover required message, and sending, to a target primary point, a handover request message including the MP configuration and the MP radio bearer information. The method further includes sending, to the source primary point, a handover message including the MP configuration, the MP radio bearer information, and reconfiguration information for the user equipment, the handover message initiating a handover of a subset of the MP radio bearer from the source primary point to the target primary point, and receiving, from the target primary point, a handover complete message.
US08724586B2 Mobility solution indicator for voice over evolved packet system (EPS)
Embodiments of the present invention described herein include a Mobile Management Entity and a method that receive a handoff request for an active voice session of a terminal which is leaving an E-UTRAN to a GERAN/UTRAN and then determine if the handoff request is applicable to a SRVCC procedure or a CSoLTEvGAN procedure.
US08724583B2 Neighbor discovery message handling to support roaming of wireless mobile client devices
Techniques are provided herein to support roaming of wireless mobile client devices from one wireless local area network access point device to another wireless local area network access point device. Neighbor discovery messages are received from wireless mobile client devices. A neighbor discovery message specifies a target address for a neighbor discovery function. A response to a neighbor discovery message is sent to a wireless mobile client device such that the response message appears to have been sent by a wireless mobile client device that has an address that corresponds to the target address of the neighbor discovery message.
US08724576B2 Method and apparatus for sending physical uplink control channel
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for sending a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), which includes: performing a joint coding and modulation processing on Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information which is required to be sent simultaneously with Channel Status Information (CSI) information, and sending the modulated information to a base station by using the second pilot symbol of each slot of a plurality of orthogonal PUCCH resources. The present invention acquires a coding gain by the joint coding of the ACK/NACK information and makes the minimum Hamming distance extend, thereby enhancing the feedback quality of ACK/NACK.
US08724574B2 Method for transmitting control information and apparatus for same
A method according to an embodiment includes receiving, from a base station, first component information for transmitting first channel information for a first frequency band; receiving, from the base station, second component information for transmitting second channel information for a second frequency band added to the first frequency band; transmitting the first channel information to the base station in accordance with the first component information; and transmitting the second channel information to the base station in accordance with the second component information. When the point of time of the transmission of the first channel information and the point of time of the transmission of the second channel information coincide with each other, either the first channel information or the second channel information is transmitted in accordance with a predetermined drop rule.
US08724572B2 Channel state information feedback
In an embodiment, state of a wireless channel on which information is received is measured; the measured state is used to select from a codebook a plurality of N codewords which optimize a predefined measure, and first and second codewords of the plurality are reported which best optimizes and next-best optimizes the predefined measure. If by example the above is done by a user equipment UE, in another embodiment the network receives first and second indications, searches a codebook using the first and second indications to find the first and second codewords; and utilizes them to improve the channel state information, such as by interpolating between them to find an estimate of the channel. In examples the channel is a MIMO channel that is estimated at two or more antenna ports, there are interpolation weights sent with the codeword indications, and the interpolating uses a geodesic algorithm.
US08724568B2 Method of handling an uplink synchronization timer during a handover in wireless communication system
Disclosed is the radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and the terminal, and more particularly, to a method of handling an uplink synchronization timer during a handover procedure in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) evolved from the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system.
US08724567B2 Method and apparatus using frame structure for wireless mesh networks
Provided is a frame structure designed for distributed access control and OFDMA transmission in a wireless mesh network. Also, a communication method and a network node based on the frame structure are provided. Mesh nodes included in the wireless mesh network may use the frame structure and thus, may have a high prospect of transmitting a network configuration information message and scheduling information for obtaining a resource. Also, a scheduling process of the mesh nodes may be completed within a short period based on the frame structure.
US08724562B2 Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control channel
A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control channels through a wireless backhaul in an OFDM-based communication system including relay nodes is provided. A method for transmitting a control channel includes arranging control resources for at least one receiver; sorting the control resources and null resources in a control channel region; rearranging the control resources to be distributed and the null resources to be adjacent to the distributed control resources; and mapping the control resources and null resources to the control channel region.
US08724561B2 Apparatus and method for resource allocation information transmission in mobile communication system
An apparatus and method for resource allocation information transmission is provided. The method includes determining a search space for use in a second frequency band using resource allocation information of a first process detected in a first frequency band, detecting resource allocation information using the search space in the second frequency band, and when failing to decode received data according to the resource allocation information detected in the second frequency band, re-detecting resource allocation information of the first process in the second frequency band in a first time interval using the search space without detecting the resource allocation information of the first process in the first frequency band.
US08724558B2 Cellular telephones with configurable multiplexer circuitry and local bus power for field testing
A field testing system is provided that uses a personal computer tethered to an interface board. A cellular telephone plugs into the interface board during wireless field testing. The cellular telephone may include configurable multiplexer circuitry and power supply circuitry. During normal operation, the cellular telephone is configured so that its application processor is linked to its application processor and to an external bus. During field testing, the cellular telephone is configured to link the baseband unit to the external bus and the interface board. The baseband unit may support advanced communications busses (e.g., USB). To avoid consuming too many pins in the external bus between the interface board and the cellular telephone, power for the USB bus during field testing may be derived from a power management unit in the cellular telephone.
US08724557B2 Sensor network medium access control (MAC) system for multihop communication
A medium access control (MAC) technique of a multihop sensor network. In the multihop sensor network, the MAC technique may contribute to significantly reducing transmission delay, and allow real-time services to be provided to all nodes by extending a guaranteed time slot (GTS) restricted to one hop in a personal area network (PAN) coordinator (PNC) to all nodes. Furthermore, the MAC technique may allow the number of available GTSs to be significantly increased, by using all 16 frequency band channels instead of using only a single frequency band and setting a multi-superframe.
US08724553B2 Route optimization with location privacy support
The invention relates to a method for route optimisation of packet switched data transmissions between a first mobile node and a second mobile node in a mobile communication system comprising a plurality of access networks. The method comprises the step of transmitting return routability protocol packets and data packets. The return routability protocol packets and data packets are analysed, and at least part of an address comprised in headers of the return routability protocol packets and data packets is removed.
US08724550B2 Apparatuses and methods for handling secondary cell (SCell) reactivation
A method for handling Secondary Cell (SCell) reactivation by a mobile communication device supporting a Carrier Aggregation (CA) technique is provided. The method includes the following steps: receiving at least one Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) indicating activation of an already activated SCell with configured uplink from a service network, comparing an accumulated number of the at least one MAC CE with a predetermined number, and ignoring the MAC CE for the already activated SCell with configured uplink in response to the accumulated number of the at least one MAC CE being greater than or equal to the predetermined number.
US08724543B2 Method and arrangement in a wireless communications system
A method for assisting the adaptation of a signal from a first node (100) to a second node (120) is provided. The first node communicates with the second node in a wireless communication system (110) over a radio link (130). The second node is configured to comprise a codebook, which codebook comprises a set of possible information alternatives used for assisting the adaptation of a signal from the first node to the second node. The second node may select an information alternative from a codebook and send it to the first node to assist the first node how to adapt the signal. The first node is arranged to know a number of subsets, each subset comprising a part of possible information alternatives. The method comprises the steps of sending a configuration request to the second node to restrict the selection of information alternatives to one of the subsets; receiving an information alternative from the second node, which is selected among the at least one subsets configured according to the configuration request.
US08724542B2 Transmission using nested OFDMA
A transmission of information within a wireless cellular network may include a first and second group of samples. A first group of samples is created comprising at least a first and a last subgroup, wherein the last subgroup is same as the first subgroup. A second group of samples created. A transformed set of samples produced by jointly transforming the created first and second group with a discrete Fourier transform (DFT). The transformed set of samples is expanded to produce an expanded set, and the expanded set is transformed with an inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) to produce an OFDM symbol with a fractional payload. The first group of samples is a reference signal (RS), which is known to the receiver before the transmission occurs, while the second group of samples is information data.
US08724540B2 Reference signal transmission method and apparatus in wireless communication system including relay station
The present invention provides a reference signal transmission method and apparatus by a base station in a wireless communication system including a relay station. The base station generates a plurality of relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) reference signals for the demodulation of an R-PDCCH which is a control channel for the relay station relative to each of a plurality of layers, maps the plurality of R-PDCCH reference signals with R-PDCCH regions included in a relay zone within at least one resource block according to a predetermined reference signal pattern, and transmits at least one resource block through a plurality of antenna ports.
US08724539B2 Wireless communication system, wireless communication device and wireless communication method, and computer program
A wireless communication system, wherein packet transmission operations are carried out in an infrastructure mode, includes: a first terminal station serving as a data transmission source; a second terminal station serving as a data receiving destination; and a control station configured to contain each terminal station and relay a packet transmitted between the two terminal stations; wherein the first terminal station transmits a packet addressed to the second terminal station via the control station, and detects that the second terminal station is within range capable of a direct link, based on the first terminal station receiving a confirmation response packet replied from the second terminal station, the confirmation response packet being replied from the second terminal station upon a predetermined period of time having passed from the time of the control station transferring the packet to the second terminal station address.
US08724537B2 Method and apparatus for enhancing control channel transmission
Methods and apparatuses are provided that include enhancing decoding of multicast broadcast control communications, which can be of a relatively large size. A configuration message related to a broadcast channel structure can be received in multiple instances and/or segmented data units. A receiver can combine multiple instances and/or accumulate segmented data units to obtain and/or decode a control channel over which the configuration message is communicated. Communicating segmented data units of the configuration message can allow a broadcast station to utilize a lower data rate, more reliable modulation and coding scheme to encode the configuration message.
US08724534B2 Information service apparatus and method in wireless communication system
An information service apparatus and method in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a Radio Access Station (RAS) includes receiving information regarding business offices located in a cell coverage area of the RAS from a network entity of a core service network, classifying the received business office information according to a plurality of items and storing the classified information in a Data Base (DB), allocating a Multicast Connection IDentifier (MCID) for each item, determining a transmission period for each item, obtaining a business office list of a corresponding item from the DB when a Transmit (Tx) time elapses according to the Tx period, generating an advertisement multicast burst including the obtained business office list, and multicasting the generated burst to pre-registered Mobile Stations (MSs).
US08724530B2 Wireless mesh networks with improved radio segregation
A wireless mesh network comprises a first branch of access nodes and a second branch of access nodes. The first and second branches sharing a common access node and each access node is for facilitating wireless interconnection between a device and the network. The minimum separation distance (d1) between an access node in the first branch and an access node in the second branch is greater than K1/αd0, wherein d0 is the separation distance between a transmitting node and a receiving node in the first branch, K is the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) and α is the path loss exponential.
US08724529B2 Method and system for transmitting non-3GPP2 message in HRPD system
The present invention discloses a method for transmitting a non-Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) message in a High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) system, comprising: a transmitting end encapsulates the non-3GPP2 message in a non-3GPP2 Info Transfer message according to a preset format of the non-3GPP2 Info Transfer message and transmits the non-3GPP2 Info Transfer message to a receiving end through an HRPD air interface (301); and the receiving end decapsulates the non-3GPP2 Info Transfer message obtained from the HRPD air interface, according to the preset format of the non-3GPP2 Info Transfer message, to obtain the non-3GPP2 message (302). The present invention further discloses a system for transmitting the non-3GPP2 message in the HRPD system. The present invention realizes the transmission of the non-3GPP2 message in the HRPD system.
US08724525B2 Frame synchronization using bidirectional transit and receive zones
Methods and apparatus for synchronizing frames in wireless networks are disclosed. An example method includes delaying, at a wireless relay station, a start time of a frame. In the example method, the start time of the frame is delayed, such that the relay station receives one or more data symbols from a superordinate wireless station and one or more data symbols from a subordinate wireless station at substantially the same time during the frame.
US08724513B2 Methods and apparatus for distribution of IP layer routing information in peer-to-peer overlay networks
Methods and apparatus for distribution of IP layer routing information in peer-to-peer overlay networks. A method includes transmitting an advertisement to a first subnet advertising the accessibility of subnets and including unique subnet identifiers to disambiguate overlapping addresses, receiving a request from a network that includes the first subnet to communicate with a network that includes the second subnet, establishing a first tunnel with the second subnet and a second tunnel with the first subnet, and directing transmissions between the tunnels based on policy. An apparatus includes means for transmitting the advertisement, means for receiving a request, means for establishing the first tunnel with the second subnet and the second tunnel with the first subnet, and means for directing transmissions between the first and second tunnels based on policy information.
US08724500B2 Method, apparatus, and system of duplicate address detection proxy
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, apparatus, and system of DAD proxy. The method includes: obtaining a DAD-NS message; comparing the obtained DAD-NS message with locally stored DAD information, and adding the DAD-NS information to the locally stored DAD information when it is determined, according to a comparison result, that the IP address to be detected is not duplicate; when it cannot be determined whether the IP address to be detected is duplicate or not, initiating, according to the address information included in the locally stored DAD information after comparison, an unreachability detection to the IP address to be detected to determine whether the IP address to be detected is duplicate. The apparatus includes: an obtaining module, a storing module, and a processing module. The system includes: an apparatus of DAD proxy and an access device.
US08724499B2 Communication system
According to one embodiment, a communication device includes a first wireless device configured to transmit a signal and a second wireless device configured to transmit a positive acknowledge when reception of the signal is successful. In the first wireless device, a first controller controls a first transmission module to change a first frequency channel based on a change order stored in a first storage when the positive acknowledge is not received even after the time measured by a first timer exceeds a first period. In the second wireless device, a second controller controls a second reception module to change the first frequency channel based on the change order stored in a second storage when the positive acknowledge is not transmitted even after the time measured by a second timer exceeds the first period.
US08724498B2 Methods, systems, and computer readable media for performing long term evolution (LTE) channel delineation
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for performing long term evolution (LTE) channel delineation are disclosed. According to one method, the method includes storing a plurality of channel delineation maps in memory. The method further includes receiving downlink data from an LTE radio link. The method also includes identifying one of the channel delineation maps using the received data. The method further includes performing channel delineation on the data using a preconfigured channel delineation map.
US08724494B2 Network multi-path discovery
Potential paths between a source and destination of a network are identified based on trace-route information, then filtered to eliminate paths or links that are not supported by ancillary information associated with the network so as to identify feasible/actual paths between the source and destination. The ancillary information includes, for example, routing tables and ARP tables. If a feasible path cannot be identified based on the ancillary information, supplemental information regarding nodes further along the potential path is assessed to provide a basis for inferring the nodes that may provide a feasible path. The determined feasible paths are displayed for review, and provided to serve as filters for subsequent path-analysis tools.
US08724493B2 Method for link quality estimation in a wireless network
A method for link quality estimation in a wireless network, is characterized in that nodes of the wireless network perform the steps of sending packets to other nodes, monitoring all packets received from other nodes being located within their communication range, and calculating sent-received ratios with respect to other nodes and deriving thereof a link quality towards the respective nodes.
US08724492B2 Method and apparatus for multi-radio coexistence on adjacent frequency bands
A method and apparatus for a co-scheduler can mitigate UE-to-UE adjacent carrier frequency band interference by allocating three sets to a first user equipment uplink. Each set has at least one sub-carrier in a first frequency band, at least one uplink time period, and at least one transmission power parameter. The co-scheduler initially allocates the first set. The co-scheduler allocates the second set in response to detecting a second user equipment operating proximal to the first user equipment, and the second set differs from the first set in either at least one sub-carrier or at least one transmission power parameter. The co-scheduler allocates the third set in response to detecting that the second user equipment is no longer operating proximal to the first user equipment, and the third set differs from the second set in either at least one sub-carrier or at least one transmission power parameter.
US08724487B1 System and method for synchronized reporting in a network environment
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a plurality of packets and generating a data record that is based on information associated with the packets. The data record includes a synchronized time window field that defines a time boundary at which data aggregation associated with the data record is stopped, where the synchronized time window field remains constant as the data aggregation associated with the data record occurs. In other embodiments, the method includes creating a new cache entry for new packets arriving at a network element, where the new cache entry is created in response to a value of the synchronized time window field changing. The synchronized time window field can include a window size attribute that defines how long the synchronized time window remains unchanged.
US08724486B2 System and method for heartbeat signal generation
A system and method for heartbeat signal generation are provided. The method includes determining a communication condition and generating heartbeat signals based on the determined communication condition. The system includes a plurality of communication cells and at least one communication device configured to generate heartbeat signals. A rate of generating the heartbeat signals is based on one of (i) a service priority or user group and (ii) communication requirements for a network type for each of the plurality of communication cells.
US08724485B2 Home network system and method
A home network, in one embodiment including a home wiring system; a demarcation point unit in electrical communication with the home wiring system; and a home network module in electrical communication with the home wiring system. The home network module is adapted for connection to a home electronic device. The demarcation point unit passes data to and receives data from the home electronic device through the home network module.
US08724482B2 POTS extender for voice fallback in a subscriber line
A full services access multiplexer is described. A master DSL modem is coupled to a conductor pair. A POTS extender is coupled to the conductor pair and may sense the operation of a fallback or other signal on the conductor pair. A suppression signal may be transmitted to the master DSL modem upon occurrence of the fallback. The suppression signal may travel over a control circuit. Traffic over a backplane or other network segment may be uninterrupted to an Integrated Access Device by handling signals inbound and outbound to the backplane via packet assembler and disassembler (PAD). The PAD may transmit a data stream to vocoder and received a data stream from vocoder for injection onto the backplane.
US08724481B2 Field device controlling system
One or more field devices, and a controller are connected so as to be able to communicate with a field device through a first communication route, and a device monitoring unit that is connected so as to be able to communicate with the field device through a second communication route are provided, wherein the device monitoring unit is provided with a checking tool for checking a status of the field device and the status of communication through the first and/or the second communication routes, based on a response received through the second communication route from the field device in response to a signal sent through either the first communication route or the second communication route.
US08724479B1 Methods and apparatus for detecting errors within a distributed switch fabric system
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a validation engine configured to receive multiple validation packets from an edge device via multiple data paths from a set of data paths between the validation engine and the edge device. The validation engine is configured to compare a number of validation packets from the multiple validation packets received from the edge device to a number of data paths from the set of data paths to determine an error at a data path from the set of data paths. The validation engine is configured to send an indication of the error at the data path from the set of data paths to the edge device.
US08724478B2 Network device and network system
In a ring network including an old master node 100, a new master node 110 is used as a replacement for the old master node 110. During replacement operation, when detecting that two ring ports of the new master node 110 are set in link-up state, the new master node 110 gives a transit node 200 an instruction to forward a health check frame H102 sent from a ring port 102 of the old master node 100 by a forwarding route going through the new master node 110. The new master node 110 can monitor the status of the ring network by receiving the health check frame H102. This configuration enables continuous monitoring for a failure occurring in the ring network during replacement of the master node.
US08724475B2 Method and apparatus to estimate the sender's congestion window throughout the life of a TCP flow (socket connection)
Network monitoring method and apparatus estimates the congestion window throughout the life of a TCP flow (socket connection), providing information useful for network performance analysis and troubleshooting.
US08724471B2 Methods and systems for sliding bubble congestion control
A transmission method for multiple TCP sessions with the same host including methods for congestion control and retransmission of lost segments.
US08724466B2 Packet filtering
Ingress and egress port packets for a connection between a first node and second node are mirrored to a mirroring port on a network switch. A count of ingress and egress port packets associated with a handshake process is determined. Duplicate mirrored packets associated with the connection are filtered based at least in part on the count.
US08724444B2 Method and apparatus for forming signals in wireless communication systems
Provided is method of forming a signal in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of terminals commonly use a resource in the time domain and the frequency domain. The method includes multiplying a signal to be transmitted by a frequency domain orthogonal code symbol corresponding to a first cyclic shift index in a first slot to be transmitted to a base station, wherein the multiplying is performed by a first terminal and a second terminal; and multiplying information to be transmitted by a frequency domain orthogonal code symbol corresponding to a second cyclic index that is different from the first cyclic index of the first slot to be transmitted to the base station, in a second slot, wherein the multiplying is performed by the first terminal and the second terminal.
US08724443B2 Methods and apparatus for subframe configuration and generation in a multi-carrier communication system
Methods and apparatus for subframe configuration and generation in a multi-cell multi-carrier system. A frame for radio transmission in the system consists of multiple subframes, and each subframe consists of multiple Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. Training symbols, frequency-domain data scrambling, size of Fast-Fourier Transform (FFT), or length of cyclic prefix can be configured differently for each subframe to facilitate different applications, such as unicasting or broadcasting.
US08724437B2 Manufacturing method for optical disc, optical disc, playback method for optical disc, playback apparatus for optical disc, recording apparatus for optical disc
Address information that has been error correction encoded is recorded on a second version of a recording medium after being transformed such that such that the address decoding cannot be performed by a playback device that is not compatible with the second version of the recording medium. The address decoding for the second version of the recording medium cannot be performed by the incompatible playback device (for example, a playback device that was manufactured to be compatible only with a first version of the recording medium). In other words, in the playback device that is not compatible with the second version of the recording medium, a state is created in which address errors cannot be corrected, so access is impossible (recording and playback are impossible).
US08724436B2 Audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece among a plurality of audiovisual devices connected to a central server through a network
An audiovisual distribution system includes a central server and a plurality of audiovisual units. Each unit includes structure for interactively communicating with the user for selecting a piece or a menu, a payment device, a computer network card, and a permanent semiconductor memory containing a multitask operating system comprising at least a hard disc access management task. The order for performing a selected piece is processed as a hard disc sequential access task. The hard disc is declared as a peripheral corresponding to the network card of the unit, enabling a request to be sent through the network to the server for processing.
US08724434B2 Magnetic recording system and magnetic recording device
A magnetic recording system including follows: a recording head, a recording medium that includes a first recording medium layer, a second recording medium layer, and a substrate. The magnetic recording system includes an electric field applying device applying an electric field and a magnetic field applying device applying a magnetic field to the recording medium, a movement mechanism that moves them to an arbitrary position. The magnetic recording system has a function of controlling an applying direction of at least one of the electric field applying device and the magnetic field applying device, and the recording head is arranged at a position facing the recording medium.
US08724432B2 Timepiece with a modular analogue display
The invention relates to a timepiece with an analogue display, including a timepiece movement (1) provided with a mechanical output, located on an arbour (2) of said movement, and a display assembly (30) provided with at least one time display device (31, 32, 111, 112) driven by said mechanical output, wherein the display assembly is separate from the timepiece movement (1) and linked to a fixed part (10) of said movement (1) by support means which enables said display device to take several different positions around the output arbour (2) of the movement. According to the invention, the support means of the display assembly includes an intermediate support (34, 70, 72, 70′) secured to the fixed part (10) of the timepiece movement (1) and provided with support members (36, 87, 89, 87′, 89′) allowing said at least one display device (31, 32, 111, 112) to be assembled in several positions on the intermediate support (34, 70, 72, 70′).The invention concerns the field of timepiece display members.
US08724428B1 Process for separating data recorded during a continuous data acquisition seismic survey
Method for separating signals recorded by a seismic receiver and generated with at least two vibratory seismic sources driven with no listening time. The method includes receiving seismic data that includes data d recorded by the seismic receiver and data related to the first and second vibratory seismic sources; computing a source separation matrix based on the data related to the first and second vibratory seismic sources; calculating first and second earth impulse responses HA and HB corresponding to the two vibratory seismic sources, respectively, based on the data d recorded by the seismic receiver, the data related to the two vibratory seismic sources and the source separation matrix; and separating the signals recorded by the seismic receiver based on the first and second earth impulse responses HA and HB such that signals the two vibratory seismic sources are disentangled.
US08724427B2 Method for correcting input seismic traces from dissipative effects
A method and apparatus for correcting an input seismic trace. The method includes receiving the input seismic trace and creating a t by Q gather using the input seismic trace, where t represents traveltime, Q represents absorption parameter, and the t by Q gather has traveltime as the vertical axis and a ratio of t and Q as the horizontal axis. The ratio of t and Q is referred to as R. The method further includes applying an interpolation algorithm to the t by Q gather to derive a corrected input seismic trace.
US08724426B2 Marine seismic streamer system configurations, systems, and methods for non-linear seismic survey navigation
Methods for determining by acoustic ranging relative positions of marine seismic streamers in a network of streamers are described, as well as streamer configurations and systems which overcome weak or non-existent acoustic positioning signals. The acoustic network includes a plurality of acoustic transceiver pairs, and the methods include implementing a network solution-based reconfiguration of the acoustic transceiver pairs. When the network of streamers changes more than a critical amount, the network is reconfigured, the critical amount being when the network solution-based reconfiguration is no longer adequate to provide enough acoustic signals to give reasonable relative positions of the acoustic transceiver pairs in the network due to their spatial relation.
US08724425B2 Semiconductor storage device and memory system
A semiconductor storage device includes an external terminal to which a first signal is supplied, a core circuit, and an access operation control circuit that generates a signal indicating an access operation mode to the core circuit for subsequent cycles based on a pulse width of the first signal.
US08724424B2 Semiconductor memory device using only single-channel transistor to apply voltage to selected word line
A semiconductor memory device has a memory cell array, a first transistor of a first conductivity type, a second transistor of a second conductivity type and a third transistor of the first conductivity type. A source or drain of the first transistor is connected to each of word lines. A drain of the second transistor is connected to a gate of the first transistor. A source of the third transistor is connected to the gate of the first transistor. The gates of the second transistor and the third transistor are not connected, a source of the second transistor is not connected to a drain of the third transistor, and the gate of the second transistor and the drain of the third transistor have different voltage levels corresponding to opposite logic levels each other.
US08724421B2 Dual rail power supply scheme for memories
A dual rail memory operable at a first voltage and a second voltage includes an input circuit, an output circuit and a clock generator circuit coupled with the input circuit. The input circuit is operable to receive at least a first input signal referenced to the first voltage and to generate a second input signal referenced to the second voltage. The output circuit is operable to receive at least a first output signal referenced to the second voltage and to generate a second output signal referenced to the first voltage. The clock generator circuit is operable to receive a first clock signal referenced to the first voltage and to generate a second clock signal referenced to the second voltage, a logic state of the second clock signal being a function of a logic state of the first clock signal.
US08724414B2 System and method to select a reference cell
A system and method to select a reference cell is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving an address corresponding to a bit cell within a first bank of a memory. The method also includes accessing a second reference cell of a second bank of the memory in response to a first reference cell in the first bank being indicated as bypassed.
US08724411B2 Memory devices and memory systems including discharge lines
A non-volatile memory device can include a word line that is operatively coupled to a non-volatile memory cell. A local bit line can be operatively coupled to the non-volatile memory cell. A discharge line that is associated with the local bit line can be configured to discharge the local bit line and a discharge diode can be electrically coupled between the local bit line and the discharge line.
US08724406B2 Bidirectional shift register and the driving method thereof
A bidirectional shift register includes a first register circuit and a second register circuit. The first register circuit includes a first register stage and a first output buffer stage with n numbers of scanning signal output ends. The first register stage is electrically coupled to a third voltage source. The first output buffer stage is electrically coupled to a second voltage source and a first voltage source. The second register circuit has a similar circuit structure to the first register circuit; wherein the first register circuit and the second register circuit each use n+1 numbers clock signal lines, and the n is a positive integer.
US08724403B2 Cache system and information-processing device
According to one embodiment, a cache system includes a tag memory includes a volatile memory device, the tag memory includes ways and storing a tag for each line, a data memory includes a nonvolatile memory device including sense amplifiers for reading data, the data memory includes ways and storing data for each line, a comparison circuit configured to compare a tag included in an address supplied from an external with a tag read from the tag memory, and a controller configured to turn off a power of a sense amplifier for a way which is not accessed based on a comparison result of the comparison circuit.
US08724402B2 Graphene-based non-volatile memory
Embodiments relate to a method for representing data in a graphene-based memory device. The method includes applying a first voltage to a back gate of a graphene-based memory device and a second voltage to a first graphene layer of the graphene-based memory device. The graphene-based memory device includes the first graphene layer and a second graphene layer and a first insulation layer located between the first and second graphene layers. The first insulation layer has an opening between the first and second graphene layers. The back gate is located on an opposite side of the second graphene layer from the first insulation layer. The first graphene layer is configured to bend into the opening of the first insulation layer to contact the second graphene layer based on a first electrostatic force generated by the applying the first voltage to the back gate.
US08724399B2 Methods and systems for erase biasing of split-gate non-volatile memory cells
Methods and systems are disclosed for erasing split-gate non-volatile memory (NVM) cells using select-gate erase voltages that are adjusted to reduce select-gate to control-gate break-down failures. The adjusted select-gate erase voltages provide bias voltages on the select-gates that are configured to have the same polarity as the control-gate erase voltages applied during erase operations and that are different from select-gate read voltages applied during read operations. Certain additional embodiments use discrete charge storage layers for the split-gate NVM cells and include split-gate NVM cells having gap dielectric layer thicknesses that are dependent upon control gate dielectric layer widths.
US08724397B2 Non-volatile semiconductor memory device and method of reading data thereof
A memory string includes a semiconductor layer, a charge accumulation layer, and a conductive layer. The semiconductor layer extends in a direction perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate and functions as a body of a memory cell. The charge accumulation layer may accumulate charges. The conductive layer sandwiches the charge accumulation layer with the semiconductor layer, and functions as a gate of the memory cell. The control circuit performs, before a read operation, a refresh operation of rendering the selected memory cell and a non-selected memory cell conductive to conduct a current from a first end to a second end of the memory string.
US08724388B2 Adaptively programming or erasing flash memory blocks
Embodiments described herein generally relate to programming and erasing a FLASH memory. In an embodiment, a method of programming or erasing the contents of a block of a FLASH memory includes determining a voltage of a pulse based on an age of the block and outputting the pulse to at least a portion of the block. The pulse is used to program or erase the block.
US08724381B2 Methods and apparatus for storing data in a multi-level cell flash memory device with cross-page sectors, multi-page coding and per-page coding
Methods and apparatus are provided for storing data in a multi-level cell flash memory device with cross-page sectors, multi-page coding and per-page coding. A single sector can be stored across a plurality of pages in the flash memory device. Per-page control is provided of the number of sectors in each page, as well the code and/or code rate used for encoding and decoding a given page, and the decoder or decoding algorithm used for decoding a given page. Multi-page and wordline level access schemes are also provided.
US08724377B2 Memory device and method for manufacturing the same
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes: a first signal line; a second signal line; a transistor; a first memory region; and a second memory region. The transistor controls a conduction of each of a current flowing between the first and the second signal lines and an opposite current. The first memory region has a first magnetic tunnel junction element. A magnetization direction thereof becomes parallel when a current flows in one direction, and the magnetization direction becomes antiparallel when a current in another direction. The second memory region has a second magnetic tunnel junction element. A magnetization direction thereof becomes parallel when a current flows in one direction, and becomes antiparallel when a current flows in another first direction.
US08724376B2 Antiferromagnetic storage device
An antiferromagnetic nanostructure according to one embodiment includes an array of at least two antiferromagnetically coupled magnetic atoms having at least two magnetic states that are stable for at least one picosecond even in the absence of interaction with an external structure, the array having a net magnetic moment of zero or about zero, wherein the array has 100 atoms or less along a longest dimension thereof. An atomic-scale structure according to one embodiment has a net magnetic moment of zero or about zero; two or more stable magnetic states; and having an array of atoms that has magnetic moments that alternate between adjacent magnetic atoms along one or more directions. Such structures may be used to store data at ultra-high densities.
US08724375B2 SRAM cell having an N-well bias
A method for writing a low data bit value, writing a high data bit value, and reading a data bit value of an addressed SRAM cell. The method may include adjusting a bias level of the n-wells that contain the bit driver, bit-bar driver, bit passgate, and optional bit-bar passgate.
US08724372B2 Capacitor-less memory cell, device, system and method of making same
A capacitor-less memory cell, memory device, system and process of forming the capacitor-less memory cell includes forming the capacitor-less memory cell in an active area of a substantially physically isolated portion of a bulk semiconductor substrate. A pass transistor is formed on the active area for coupling with a word line. The capacitor-less memory cell further includes a read/write enable transistor vertically configured along at least one vertical side of the active area and operable during a reading of a logic state with the logic state being stored as charge in a floating body area of the active area, causing different determinable threshold voltages for the pass transistor.
US08724369B2 Composition of memory cell with resistance-switching layers
A memory cell including a first electrode, a second electrode and a first resistance-switching layer located between the first and second electrodes. The first resistance-switching layer comprises hafnium silicon oxynitride.
US08724366B2 Quantum dot optical devices with enhanced gain and sensitivity and methods of making same
Various embodiment include optical and optoelectronic devices and methods of making same. Under one aspect, an optical device includes an integrated circuit having an array of conductive regions, and an optically sensitive material over at least a portion of the integrated circuit and in electrical communication with at least one conductive region of the array of conductive regions. Under another aspect, a film includes a network of fused nanocrystals, the nanocrystals having a core and an outer surface, wherein the core of at least a portion of the fused nanocrystals is in direct physical contact and electrical communication with the core of at least one adjacent fused nanocrystal, and wherein the film has substantially no defect states in the regions where the cores of the nanocrystals are fused. Additional devices and methods are described.
US08724364B2 Electronic device including a nonvolatile memory structure having an antifuse component and a process of using the same
An electronic device can include a nonvolatile memory cell, wherein the nonvolatile memory cell can include an antifuse component, a switch, and a read transistor having a control electrode. Within the nonvolatile memory cell, the switch can be coupled to the antifuse component, and the control electrode of the read transistor can be coupled to the antifuse component. The nonvolatile memory cell can be programmed by flowing current through the antifuse component and the switch and bypassing the current away the read transistor. Thus, programming can be performed without flowing current through the read transistor decreasing the likelihood of the read transistor sustaining damage during programming. Further, the antifuse component may not be connected in series with the current electrodes of the read transistor, and thus, during read operations, read current differences between programmed and unprogrammed nonvolatile memory cells can be more readily determined.
US08724363B2 Anti-fuse memory ultilizing a coupling channel and operating method thereof
An anti-fuse memory with coupling channel is provided. The anti-fuse memory includes a substrate of a first conductive type, a doped region of a second conductive type, a coupling gate, a gate dielectric layer, an anti-fuse gate, and an anti-fuse layer. The substrate has an isolation structure. The doped region is disposed in the substrate. A channel region is defined between the doped region and the isolation structure. The coupling gate is disposed on the substrate between the doped region and the isolation structure. The coupling gate is adjacent to the doped region. The gate dielectric layer is disposed between the coupling gate and the substrate. The anti-fuse gate is disposed on the substrate between the coupling gate and the isolation structure. The anti-fuse gate and the coupling gate have a space therebetween. The anti-fuse layer is disposed between the anti-fuse gate and the substrate.
US08724361B2 DMA architecture for NAND-type flash memory
A device includes a nonvolatile memory array, a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) array including a plurality of bit lines, including first and second bit lines paired with each other, and a pad. A first circuit is coupled between the nonvolatile memory array and the first and second bit lines, and interfaces with the SRAM array. A second circuit is coupled between the pad and the first and second bit lines, and interfaces with the SRAM array. A control circuit performs a first operation to access the nonvolatile memory array via the SRAM array and the first and second circuits and performs a second operation by producing an electrical path connecting from the pad to the nonvolatile memory array through at least one of the first and second bit lines of the SRAM array without intervening at least one of the first and second circuits.
US08724359B2 Methods and circuits for limiting bit line leakage current in a content addressable memory (CAM) device
A content addressable memory (CAM) device can include a number of bit lines. One or more of the bit lines can be connected to storage circuits of CAM cells in a corresponding column. Each CAM cell can include compare circuits that compare a stored value one or more compare data values. An isolation circuit car have a controllable impedance path connected between the bit line and a precharge voltage node and can be controlled by application of a potential at a control node. A control circuit can be coupled to the control node and can switch the isolation circuit from a high impedance state to a low impedance state prior to, and for a duration of at least of a portion of, an access operation.
US08724358B2 Stacked structure of power conversion apparatus
A stacked structure of a power converter is disclosed. The stacked structure has a power conversion circuit that provides an output or input of alternating current in three phases and is composed of odd-numbered parallel-connected power semiconductor element modules for each phase, and a heat sink for cooling the power semiconductor element modules. An odd number of the parallel-connected power semiconductor element modules are arranged in a first phase and a third phase, and an even number of the parallel-connected power semiconductor element modules are arranged in a second phase respectively in two rows on the heat sink relative to a ventilation direction of air for cooling the heat sink.
US08724352B2 Power supply apparatus driving circuit, power supply apparatus driving integrated circuit, and power supply apparatus
In a power supply apparatus driving circuit, at startup, an input voltage of a switching power supply is used as a driving power supply, and loss generated in a starting circuit is reduced. The starting circuit and the driving circuit are configured as a single driver. A control IC generates a switching control signal to control a first switching element and a second switching element. A driving circuit in a high breakdown voltage driver IC generates gate drive voltage signals for the first switching element and the second switching element based on the switching control signal inputted from the control IC. A starting circuit supplies the partial voltage of a voltage inputted to a starting power supply terminal, to each of the driving circuit in the high breakdown voltage driver IC and the control IC that is externally provided, and shuts off a switching element after startup.
US08724349B2 Apparatus and method for output voltage calibration of a primary feedback flyback power module
An apparatus and method for output voltage calibration of a primary feedback flyback power module extract the difference between the output voltage of the power module and a target value, and according thereto, calibrate a reference voltage which is used in regulation of the output voltage, to thereby calibrate the output voltage to be the target value.
US08724348B2 Power-supply unit, hard-disk drive, and switching method of the power-supply unit
A power-supply unit including a transformer, a full bridge circuit having four arm switches on a primary side of the transformer, a rectifier and smoothing circuit including two synchronous rectifier switches on a secondary side of the transformer, a choke coil, and a capacitor, an output terminal in the rectifier and smoothing circuit, a control circuit controlling ON/OFF of the four arm switches of the full bridge circuit and the two synchronous rectifier switches of the rectifier and smoothing circuit, a resonant inductor including a leakage inductor component and a parasitic inductor component on the primary side of the transformer, and a resonant capacitor, and in which the control circuit includes a timing variable unit which varies switching timings of the two synchronous rectifier switches of the rectifier and smoothing circuit based on an output current flowing in the output terminal provided in the rectifier and smoothing circuit.
US08724347B2 Switching control circuit and switching power supply apparatus including an IC-based switching control circuit
In a switching control circuit, a length of a soft start period is set by a time constant of an external circuit that is connected to a soft start terminal of a switching control IC. After a voltage of the soft start terminal has reached a predetermined voltage at the termination of the soft start period, the on-pulse period of a first switching device is limited by a maximum value. When a Zener diode is connected between the soft start terminal and ground, the upper limit voltage of the soft start terminal is a Zener voltage and, hence, the maximum on-pulse period is limited by this voltage. As a result, the switching control circuit and a switching power supply apparatus, which have a soft start function and a power limiting function, are reduced in size and cost by limiting the number of terminals.
US08724345B2 Self power source apparatus
A switching power source apparatus has a pulse generator of a first pulse. A first resonant series circuit receives the first pulse signal and passes a current having a 90-degree phase delay with respect to the first pulse signal. The current of the first resonant series circuit turns on/off a switching element Q21. A second resonant series circuit receives the second pulse signal and passes a current having a 90-degree phase delay with respect to the second pulse signal. The current of the second resonant series circuit turns on/off a switching element Q22. The pulse generator has a third transformer T3 that has secondary windings to output the first and second pulse signals according to a voltage that is applied to the third transformer and is synchronized with drive signals for the switching elements Q11 and Q12.
US08724343B2 Hi-definition multimedia interface shield with fingers
An electromagnetic shield comprises a sheet of metal having slots along an edge of the sheet to form a plurality of resilient fingers. The single sheet is bent around first and second bends axes inwardly and approximately ninety degrees to form a top planar surface and first and second side walls. The single sheet of metal is sized and dimensioned to receive a connector in between the first and second side walls and top planar surface. The fingers are bent outward with a bend radius of approximately 0.020 inches with respect to a flat surface of the sidewalls and top planar surface. The fingers apply a biasing force against a surface of a faceplate. Each of the side walls includes an elongated leg, which is interconnected with a circuit board and each of the elongated legs extends beyond a bottom edge of each of the side walls.
US08724341B2 Backplane and backlight module
The present invention discloses a backplane and a backlight module. The backplane comprises a frame formed by a plurality of brackets, and bridges which are arranged on the brackets and used for fixing PCBs; the bridges can rotate relative to the fixed points of the bridges to the brackets; the bridges are provided with chutes or through holes used for installing hillocks. In the present invention, because the backplane is formed into a frame structure through a plurality of brackets, the manufacturing cost is lower and a large number of materials are saved. Simultaneously, the bridges can rotate relative to the fixed points of the bridges to the brackets, so that the positions of hillocks on the bridges can be adjusted to satisfy the needs of the PCBs of different dimensions and enhance the universality of the backplane. Further, the bridges are provided with chutes used for installing hillocks which can be installed in corresponding positions in the chutes as required; and then, the hillocks can obtain horizontal and vertical adjustment; therefore, the setting points of the hillocks are increased; the hillocks can adapt to PCBs of more dimensions and have preferable universality.
US08724337B2 Compact server power supply having high power density
The present invention discloses a compact server power supply having high power density has a casing, a main printed circuit board, a sub-printed circuit board, a power supplying circuit, a power output terminal set and a fan. The power supplying circuit has a primary side circuit unit, a transformer and a secondary side circuit unit. Electric elements of the primary and secondary side circuit units and the transformer are soldered on the main printed circuit board except parts of the electric elements of the secondary side circuit unit are soldered on the sub-printed circuit board. The sub-printed circuit board is vertically mounted and soldered on the main printed circuit board, so the length of the main printed circuit board is shortened to implement the server power supply having a compact size and high power density.
US08724336B2 Card guide system and method
A cardguide to be disposed in a computer chassis during use. The cardguide includes a track to accept an edge of a printed circuit board of a modular computer device to be disposed in the computer chassis during use. The cardguide further comprises an integral clip configured to retain at least a portion of a temperature sensing device during use. The clip provides for positioning the temperature sensing device within the computer chassis during use.
US08724331B2 Intelligent wall-mounted switch module
An intelligent wall-mounted switch module is provided so that plural electric appliances can be turned on or off mechanically with a single switching element through touch-based selection. The switch module includes a switching element mounted on a wall. The switching element has a control unit electrically connected to the electric appliances and a display for displaying, under control of the control unit, plural identification images whereby the electric appliances or the space or spaces where they are located can be identified. A touch panel is provided on a surface of the display. A user may slide a finger along the touch panel, thus instructing the control unit to switch the identification images displayed by the display. Then, the switching element can be switched so as for the control unit to turn on or off the electric appliance corresponding to the identification image displayed. The switch module features enhanced durability.
US08724330B1 Variable latch to position a sub-chassis within a chassis
An apparatus comprises a chassis securing a midplane at a known distance from the first end of the chassis, wherein a first electronic device is securable within the first end of the chassis in connection with a midplane connector on a first surface of the midplane. A sub-chassis is receivable within the second end of the chassis with a proximal end of the sub-chassis engaging a second surface of the midplane. A distal end of the sub-chassis has a sub-chassis latch that secures the sub-chassis in the second end of the chassis with the proximal end engaged against the second surface of the midplane. A second electronic device is securable within the sub-chassis with a second device connector coupled to a midplane connector on the second surface of the midplane and a second device latch secured to a sub-chassis slot adjacent the distal end of the sub-chassis.
US08724328B2 Electronic device and solid state disk module thereof
An exemplary electronic device includes a shell, a printed circuit board and a solid state disk module provided in the shell. The printed circuit board has a cable. The solid state disk module includes a solid state disk and a fixing structure encapsulating the solid state disk. The solid state disk has ports connected with the cable. The fixing structure includes a bottom panel, a top panel extending from one end of the bottom panel and two lateral panels extending from two lateral sides of the bottom panel. The bottom panel supports the solid state disk. The top panel is bent from the bottom panel and covers the end and a top of the solid state disk. The lateral panels are bent from the bottom panel and cover the solid state disk and connect to the top panel. A handle portion extends beyond the top of the solid state disk.
US08724324B2 Rotating rectifier
A rectifier comprising an electrically conductive support 32, a first plurality of rectifier components 24 carried by the support 32 and having their anodes connected to a first bus bar 26, a second plurality of rectifier components 28 carried by the support 32 and having their cathodes connected to a second bus bar 30, the cathode of each of the first rectifier components 24 being connected to the anode of an associated one of the second rectifier components 28, and first and second resistance paths 40, 42 between the first and second bus bars 26, 30 and the support 32.
US08724321B2 Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display having a display panel, a housing, and a plurality of heat pipes. The housing has a sealing part and has aeration paths. The sealing part seals the display panel to box the display panel therein, while making a display screen of the display panel viewable from outside. The aeration paths are arranged outside the sealing part and communicate with the outside of the housing. The heat pipes extend from a rear surface of the display panel to the aeration paths.
US08724317B2 Apparatus pertaining to a deployable keyboard and corresponding bottom surface
A housing has a front surface and a back surface. A keyboard and a corresponding bottom surface move between a non-deployed configuration and a deployed configuration. A tray slides in and out of the housing along one or more slots that are formed internal to the housing. This tray can include an internal surface having a first side that contacts the keyboard and an opposing second side that contacts the aforementioned bottom surface when the latter components are non-deployed. When moving to the deployed configuration the keyboard and bottom surface first move substantially parallel to the housing and then move substantially perpendicular to the housing. Projections on these components can interact with corresponding tracks formed in the housing to direct at the least this perpendicular movement.
US08724316B2 Handheld electronic device
A handheld electronic device includes a first body, a pivot member, a second body and a third body. The pivot member is pivoted to the first body. The second body is slidably disposed on the pivot member. The third body is pivoted to the first body and stacked between the first body and the second body, such that the handheld electronic device is in a stacked state. When the second body slides along the pivot member to expose the third body, the pivot member is pivotally rotated relative to the first body automatically to drive the second body to tilt, the third body is pivotally rotated relative to the first body automatically to tilt, and a top surface of the second body and a top surface of the third body together form a continuous surface, such that the handheld electronic device is in an expanded state.
US08724312B2 Mobile computer stand with integrated keyboard
A device for use with a portable computer includes a base, a stand having an upper portion and an adjustable linkage, and a connection mechanism. The base is adapted to rest upon a surface and includes a keyboard that is physically integrated with the base. The stand is attached to the base. The upper portion is adapted to provide a surface upon which a portable computer rests. The upper portion includes an attachment mechanism adapted to attach to a portable computer resting upon the upper portion to secure the portable computer physically to the upper portion. The adjustable linkage is connected to the base and is connected to the upper portion of the stand on another end. The adjustable linkage is adapted to position the upper portion of the stand. The connection mechanism provides data communication from the integrated keyboard to a portable computer resting upon the upper portion.
US08724308B2 Electronic device with data storage assembly
An electronic device includes a chassis and a data storage assembly slidably received in the chassis. The data storage assembly includes a bracket and a plurality of hard disk drives uprightly inserted in the bracket, which can arrange more hard disk drives in the bracket effectively.
US08724306B2 Hinge assembly
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to a hinge assembly. An example of the hinge assembly includes a pair of active hinges and a pair of passive hinges. The hinge assembly may be utilized in portable computing devices such as notebook computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
US08724305B2 Electronic device with quick-release supporting apparatus
An electronic device includes a main body, a base, a connecting member, a securing pole, a locking member, a sliding block. The main body includes a securing groove having a securing region, and a securing hole is defined on the bottom of the securing region. The connecting member is mounted between the main body and the base, and the connecting member comprising a channel. The securing pole is slidably received in the channel of the connecting member. The locking member is slidably received between the connecting member and the base, and forces the securing pole to disengage from the securing hole when the locking member is pushed. The locking member includes a second bevel abutting to a first bevel of the sliding block. When the locking member is pushed, the sliding block is actuated to pull the securing pole away from the main body.
US08724298B2 Panel display suspension system and a panel display provided with a panel display suspension system
A panel display suspension system comprising a first mounting part and a second mounting part. In order to be able to easily adjust the horizontal position of a suspended panel display (7) the first mounting part is provided with a supporting rail-shaped body (1) and the second mounting part is provided with supporting movers (3) for cooperation with the rail-shaped body. One of the mounting parts is configured for securing to the panel display and the other mounting part is configured for securing to a wall.
US08724294B2 Solid electrolytic capacitor and method of manufacturing solid electrolytic capacitor
A solid electrolytic capacitor having an anode element, a dielectric film covering a surface of the anode element, a conductive polymer layer provided on the dielectric film, and a water-repellent portion provided on the dielectric film not in contact with the conductive polymer layer and containing silicone oil is provided.
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