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US08775434B1	Resource catchment areas Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining a catchment area for a search result. In one aspect, a method includes receiving search log data specifying a resource that was referenced by search results that were presented to users, query locations for the resource, and whether the users interacted with the search results. A catchment area is determined for the resource based on the search log data, where the catchment area specifies a geographic region for which the resource is a candidate resource. In turn, the resource is indexed according to its catchment area. The catchment area is used in response to receiving a search query that is associated with a particular query location to select candidate search results that reference resources having catchment areas that include the particular query location. Final search results are selected from the candidate search results.
US08775433B2	Self-indexing data structure A machine based tool and associated logic and methodology are used in converting data from an input form to a target form using context dependent conversion rules, and in efficiency generating an index that may be utilized to access the converted data in a database. Once the data has been converted, an index data structure for each data object may be automatically generated that encodes one or more characteristics or attributes of the converted data so that an entity may access the data using the index structure. As an example, the one or more characteristics may include categories, subcategories, or other attributes of the data.
US08775432B2	Indexing long word lists in databases A vehicle navigation system having an input device, a storage device, a processor, and an output device. The storage device stores a database of geographical locations, such as the names of states, cities, streets, or countries. The database has a data list that includes data sub-lists, where the data sub-lists may have one or more data sub-list elements. Each data sub-list may have an assigned unique name. The data sub-lists also may be divided into parts, such that each part is assigned a unique name. The processor is operative to index the data sub-lists or the parts of a divided data sub-list. The processor may be further operative to search the database for a data sub-list element given an input from a user, and the output device may output one or more data sub-list elements from the database based on the search performed by the processor.
US08775431B2	Systems and methods for hot topic identification and metadata According to some embodiments, systems, apparatus, methods and computer program code are provided for receiving data from a plurality of remote data sources, the received data being associated with a plurality of search terms, analyzing the received data to identify at least a first trending search term, comparing the trending search term with a database of topical terms to determine whether the trending search term is relevant to a predetermined topic, querying a content database using the trending search term to identify a caption to be associated with the trending search term, and storing the trending search term and the caption in a database.
US08775428B2	Method and apparatus for predicting object properties and events using similarity-based information retrieval and modeling Method and apparatus for predicting properties of a target object comprise application of a search manager for analyzing parameters of a plurality of databases for a plurality of objects, the databases comprising an electrical, electromagnetic, acoustic and thermal spectral database (ESD), a micro-body assemblage database (MAD) and a database of image data whereby the databases store data objects containing identifying features, source information and information on site properties and context including time and frequency varying data. The method comprises application of multivariate statistical analysis and principal component analysis in combination with content-based image retrieval for providing two-dimensional attributes of three dimensional objects, for example, via preferential image segmentation using a tree of shapes and to predict further properties of objects by means of k-means clustering and related methods. By way of example, an evidence tree display showing a target object linked by a pathway to a predicted property comprises a similarity value, a speculation value and a model-based rank.
US08775425B2	Systems and methods for massive structured data management over cloud aware distributed file system Methods and arrangements for accommodating a query, directing the query to datasets, creating partitions and partitioning the datasets, and returning a response to the query, the response being structured in accordance with the created partitions.
US08775424B2	System for creative image navigation and exploration A system and method for assisting a user in navigation of an image dataset are disclosed. The method includes receiving a user's text query, retrieving images responsive to the query from an image dataset, providing for receiving the user's selection of a first feature selected from a set of available first features via a graphical user interface, providing for receiving the user's selection of a second feature selected from a set of available second features different from the first features via the graphical user interface, and displaying at least some of the retrieved images on the graphical user interface. The displayed images are arranged, e.g., grouped, according to levels and/or combinations of levels of the user-selected first and second features.
US08775415B2	Recommending media programs based on media program popularity A computer-implemented method includes receiving information expressing a user's interest in one or more media programs, obtaining information indicative of popularity for a plurality of media programs responsive to the received information by individuals other than the user, and transmitting one or more recommendations of media programs for display to the user, from the plurality of media programs that relate to the received information.
US08775405B2	Method for identifying and ranking news sources A search engine and/or news aggregator considers events and stories described in electronic documents, a location of a searcher/reviewer, and a situs associated with content of the document to determine how/if they should be presented to users.
US08775400B2	Extracting facts from social network messages Within a social network, users may submit various types of messages, such as personal messages to other users and status messages to be shared with all associated users. While these messages often relate to highly personal information such as opinions and personal emotions, such messages may also comprise one or more facts about a particular topic, such as a report of a weather condition in a particular location at a particular time. These facts may be identified in various messages, and may be stored in a fact store, such that when a user submits a query specifying a topic may receive from the fact store one or more facts that are responsive to the topic of the query. Additionally, user interfaces may be devised and provided to users submitting such messages, e.g., in order to reduce ambiguity and improve the reliable extraction of facts from messages.
US08775398B2	Method and system for determining an order of presentation of search results A method and system for determining an order of presentation of the search results is provided. An example system comprises a search request detector, a search engine, and an intermingler. The search request detector may be configured to receive a search request, and the search engine may be configured to determine search results based on the search request. The search results may comprise a first set of items in a first format and a second set of items in a second format. The number of items in the first set and the number of items in the second may reflect a predetermined target ratio and respective exposure percentages for items in the first format and items in the second format. The intermingler may be configured to determine an order of presentation of the search results in a list of search results based on the target ratio.
US08775397B2	Database access acceleration A system includes a request analyzer configured to receive a plurality of database requests and classify the plurality of database requests as transaction requester or non-transaction requests, and further configured to route the transaction requests to a transaction server for application against a transaction database, including write access to an identified portion thereof, and to route the non-transaction requests to a non-transaction server to thereby read data obtained from a non-transaction database. The system also includes an update manager configured to update the non-transaction database, based on the application of the transaction requests against the transaction database.
US08775396B2	Method and system for searching a wide area network A method and system for searching a wide area network that enables users to find the information they seek more quickly and more easily than prior art search engines are disclosed. Aspects of this disclosure include a process for making use of a user's prior search queries for query definition; a process for similarly making use of prior search queries by other users; a process for expanding and clarifying the meaning of queries; a process for including paid and other preferred results in an overall query result; and a process for using user evaluation data from previous search query results to identify results that should be included or removed from a current result.
US08775394B2	Transactional failover of data sets A network storage server implements a method to perform transactional failover of data sets. Multiple storage objects are organized into primary and secondary data sets, and a disaster recovery policy is configured for failing-over a primary data set to a secondary data set. A failover operation is defined for the disaster recovery policy. The failover operation includes multiple failover actions. During a failover situation, the failover operation is invoked to fail-over the primary data set. The failover operation is transactionally processed to ensure that all failover actions of the failover operation are performed in a single transaction.
US08775393B2	Updating a perfect hash data structure, such as a multi-dimensional perfect hash data structure, used for high-speed string matching A representation of a new rule, defined as a set of a new transition(s), is inserted into a perfect hash table which includes previously placed transitions to generate an updated perfect hash table. This may be done by, for each new transition: (a) hashing the new transition; and (b) if there is no conflict, inserting the hashed new transition into the table. If, however, the hashed new transition conflicts with any of the previously placed transitions, either (A) any transitions of the state associated with the conflicting transition are removed from the table, the hashed new transition is placed into the table, and the removed transitions are re-placed into the table, or (B) any previously placed transitions of the state associated with the new transition are removed, and the transitions of the state associated with the new transition are re-placed into the table.
US08775392B1	Revision control and configuration management In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus, computer-readable medium, or method may be configured to manage a configuration. Files may be inserted into a file container in a computing environment and state information on the files may be stored. A change to a file in the file container may be received. A comparison result may be obtained by comparing a previous version of the file container to the file container after receiving the change to the file. The comparison result may be provided.
US08775384B2	Adaptive quiesce for efficient cross-host consistent CDP checkpoints A disaster recovery system, including a target datastore for replicating data written to source datastores, and a checkpoint engine (i) for transmitting, at multiple times, quiesce commands to a plurality of host computers, each quiesce command including a timeout period that is adjusted at each of the multiple times, (ii) for determining, at each of the multiple times, whether acknowledgements indicating that a host has successfully stopped writing enterprise data to the source datastores, have been received from each of the host computers within the timeout period, (iii) for marking, at each of the multiple times, a cross-host checkpoint in the target datastore and reducing the timeout period for the quiesce commands at the next time, if the determining is affirmative, and (iv) for increasing, at each of the multiple times, the timeout period for the quiesce commands transmitted at the next time, if the determining is not affirmative.
US08775382B2	View maintenance on multiple tables located in different software components with the same primary keys A method performed by a processor allows an individual to update or maintain a database including a core and an extension. The core contains core tables including general data and the extension contains extension tables including specific data. The core tables and the extension tables have the same primary keys and the specific data are an extension of the general data. The method includes receiving an input from the individual for modifying the database, modifying the core using the received input, and automatically modifying the extension to reflect the modifying of the core.
US08775379B2	Ensuring partitioned dataset extended (PDSE) critical dataset redundancy (CDR) In one embodiment, a system includes a critical partitioned dataset extended (PDSE) stored to memory of the system; logic adapted for protecting the critical PDSE by creating a copy of the critical PDSE, referred to as a PDSE copy; logic adapted for providing a critical dataset redundancy (CDR) task with exclusive access to the PDSE copy; logic adapted for providing a replacement critical PDSE by redirecting corralled connections to the PDSE copy; logic adapted for protecting the replacement critical PDSE by creating a copy of the replacement critical PDSE, referred to as a replacement PDSE copy; and logic adapted for providing the CDR task with exclusive access to the replacement PDSE copy.
US08775378B2	Consistent backup of electronic information Systems and methods are provided for performing backup operations while a user is using a device. In one implementation, a method is provided. A backup operation of data including a plurality of related items is initiated. Modifications to one or more items of the plurality of related items are monitored for during the backup operation. The backup operation is completed. If a modification occurred to one or more items, a second backup operation is performed for the modified items.
US08775377B1	Efficient data backup with change tracking The present disclosure provides for efficiently creating a full backup image of a client device by efficiently communicating backup data to a backup server using a change tracking log, or track log. A present full backup image can be created using a track log that is associated with a previous full backup image. The client device can determine whether files, which were included in the previous full backup image, have or have not changed using the track log. The client device can transmit changed file data to the backup server for inclusion in the present full backup image. The client device can also transmit metadata identifying unchanged file data to the backup server. The backup server can use the metadata to extract a copy of the unchanged file data from the previous full backup image for inclusion in the present full backup image.
US08775376B2	Hybrid data backup in a networked computing environment Embodiments of the present invention provide a hybrid (e.g., local and remote) approach for data backup in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment). In a typical embodiment, a set of storage configuration parameters corresponding to a set of data to be backed up is received and stored in a computer data structure. The set of storage configuration parameters can comprise at least one of the following: a recovery time objective (RTO), a recovery point objective (RPO), and a desired type of protection for the set of data. Regardless, the set of data is compared to previously stored data to identify at least one of the following: portions of the set of data that have commonality with the previously stored data; and portions of the set of data that are unique to the set of data (i.e., not in common with any of the previously stored data). The above-described process is referred to herein as “de-duplication”. A storage solution is then determined based on the set of storage configuration parameters. In general, the storage solution identifies at least one local storage resource and at least one remote storage resource (e.g., a cloud storage resource) for backing up the portions of the set of data that are unique to the set of data. Once the storage solution has been determined, the unique portions of the set of data will be stored in accordance therewith.
US08775375B2	Higher efficiency storage replication using compression An improved scalable object storage system includes methods and systems allowing multiple clusters to work together. In one embodiment, there is a multi-cluster synchronization system between two or more clusters. The multi-cluster synchronization system uses variable compression to optimize the transfer of information between the clusters. Compression is used not only to minimize the total number of bytes sent between the two clusters, but to dynamically vary the size of the objects sent across the wire to optimize for higher throughput after considering packet loss, TCP windows, and block sizes. This includes both the packaging of multiple small files together into one larger compressed file, saving on TCP and header overhead, but also the chunking of large files into multiple smaller files that are less likely to have difficulties due to intermittent network congestion or errors.
US08775374B2	Data synchronization system and data synchronization method [PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED] To reduce a server load when synchronizing data between a client and a server.[SOLUTION] A client 10 sends a synchronization request 41 containing an anchor point to a server 20. The server 20 sends synchronization information 42 to the client 10, which synchronization information including change profile information on data updated between the anchor point and a boundary point and change profile information on a change log after the anchor point. Based on the synchronization information 42, the client 10 sends a download request 43 to the server 20, and the server 20 sends download information 44 to the client 10 in response to the download request 43. The client 10 registers data contained in the download information 44 to a client database 11.
US08775368B1	Fine grained tiered storage with thin provisioning A system for managing data includes providing at least one logical device having a table of information that maps sections of the logical device to sections of at least two storage areas. Characteristics of data associated with a one section of the logical device may be evaluated. The section of the data may moved between the at least two storage areas according to a policy and based on the characteristics of the data. The table of information is updated according to the movement of data between the at least two storage areas. Each of the at least two storage areas may correspond to a different storage tier, and each of the storage tiers may have different characteristic, such as speed of pools of storage devices within the tiers. A write target policy may be applied to store initial writes in a preferred location of the at least two storage areas.
US08775367B2	Enterprise data as office content Techniques for enterprise data as office content are described. An apparatus may comprise a client device having an application program, an insertion component and an update component. The insertion component may be arranged to insert source data elements from a data source into a document for the application program. The update component may be arranged to update the inserted data elements as the source data elements are modified. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08775366B2	Optimization of analytical effectiveness in an analyst network Optimization of analytical effectiveness of a plurality of analysts is achieved, in part, this through the routing of information elements (i.e., discrete quantities of content suitable for analysis by one or more analysts) to selected analysts in order to maximize achievement of analysis goals defined as part of an analysis plan. Within an analyst network, information elements are obtained by a routing controller from an information network. Based on the analysis goals provided to the routing controller, the routing controller selects specific analysts to receive the information elements. Various characteristics of individual or groups of analysts may be used to identify the selected analysts. In this manner, the present invention provides the ability to tailor the available analyst resources to best address the universe of available topics in the most efficient and productive manner.
US08775364B2	Model-theoretic approach to data anonymity and inference control A system and method for secure data management is presented. The method comprises receiving a query, performing the query and obtaining answers to it, creating certain formulas representing the answers; and determining whether there is a minimum number of distinct models of these formulas conjoined with the relevant anonymity predicates along with previous answers and general background knowledge, and when that number of models does not exist, suppressing the answers. In one aspect, the method further comprises creating formulas encoding the information conveyed by the answer; and combining the formulas encoding the information with prior information.
US08775362B2	Methods and apparatus to construct histogram and wavelet synopses for probabilistic data A disclosed example method involves generating a plurality of wavelet coefficient quantities. Each wavelet coefficient quantity is generated based on items represented by probabilistic data. Each wavelet coefficient quantity represents different ones of the items by multiplying corresponding wavelet vectors. The example method also involves determining an error measure associated with each of the plurality of wavelet coefficient quantities, and selecting at least one of the plurality of wavelet coefficient quantities based on its associated error measure. The method also involves displaying parameter information associated with the one of the plurality of wavelet coefficient quantities to represent the probabilistic data.
US08775358B2	Method and apparatus for performing probabilistic inference and providing related solution methods A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing probabilistic inference and providing related solution methods is presented. At least one state space (SS) is obtained for variables of interest relating to a problem of interest. None or more densities (D) defining pure functions over locations in the at least one SS are also obtained as is none or more kernels (K) defining a stochastic walk through the at least one SS. A virtual machine executes a stochastic walk through the state space to produce a solution for a problem of interest.
US08775356B1	Query enhancement of semantic wiki for improved searching of unstructured data Enhanced querying of unstructured data in enterprise knowledge base for improved collaboration and management of content is obtained by implementing the knowledge base using Semantic Wiki technology to afford semantic querying capability, and by annotating data in the knowledge base with reasoning supports that infer relations between different data using special properties that define transitive, symmetric and inverse of relations between data.
US08775351B2	System and method for providing recommendations with a location-based service A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar tastes have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order or rank recommendations within the interface.
US08775348B2	Method and system for automatic analysis of failure or state messages This method for automatic analysis of failure or state messages generated by at least one complex system is characterized in that it comprises the steps for integrating said messages to a database of failure or state messages, and for determining with a computer, for each of said messages, an index of overall interest characterizing a degree of relevance of said message, on the basis of at least one parameter representative of a frequency of occurrence of similar messages in said database, and a correlation between said or each representative parameter and a predefined number of indexes of overall interest. A corresponding analysis system is also provided.
US08775345B2	Recovering the structure of sparse markov networks from high-dimensional data A method, information processing system, and computer readable article of manufacture model data. A first dataset is received that includes a first set of physical world data. At least one data model associated with the first dataset is generated based on the receiving. A second dataset is received that includes a second set of physical world data. The second dataset is compared to the at least one data model. A probability that the second dataset is modeled by the at least one data model is determined. A determination is made that the probability is above a given threshold. A decision associated with the second dataset based on the at least one data model is generated in response to the probability being above the given threshold. The probability and the decision are stored in memory. The probability and the decision are provided to user via a user interface.
US08775344B2	Determining and validating provenance data in data stream processing system Techniques are disclosed for determining and validating provenance data in such data stream processing systems. For example, a method for processing data associated with a data stream received by a data stream processing system, wherein the system comprises a plurality of processing elements, comprises the following steps. Input data elements and output data elements associated with at least one processing element of the plurality of processing elements are obtained. One or more intervals are computed for the processing element using data representing observations of associations between inputs elements and output elements of the processing element, wherein, for a given one of the intervals, one or more particular input elements contained within the given interval are determined to have contributed to a particular output element. In another method, intervals are specified, and then validated by comparing the specified intervals against intervals computed based on observations.
US08775340B2	Detection and prediction of physiological events in people with sleep disordered breathing using a LAMSTAR neural network Apparatus and methods are disclosed for generating and outputting physiological event results from physiological data related to a patient. Physiological event results include results predicting and/or detecting individual physiological events related to a medical condition of the patient.
US08775337B2	Virtual sensor development Embodiments include processes, systems, and devices for developing a virtual sensor. The virtual sensor includes one or more inference models. A decision engine utilizes an inference model associated with a mobile device to determine another inference model that is configured to accept physical sensor data from another mobile device. In this way, the virtual sensor can be developed for use with many mobile devices using initial inference models developed for a small number of mobile devices or a single mobile device. Embodiments also include methods to select mobile devices from which to request physical sensor data for virtual sensor input. Embodiments also include architectures that provide a library of virtual sensors.
US08775334B1	Personalized campaign planner Campaign messages may be prioritized for a given potential recipient by generating one or more learning structures associated with the campaign message. The learning structure(s) is then evaluated relative to the potential recipient to determine potential effectiveness of the campaign messages for the potential recipient. One such learning structure is a decision tree comprising a hierarchy of attributes associated with past recipients of the campaign message. Attributes associated with the potential recipient are then applied to the decision tree to obtain a metric of potential value of the campaign message to the potential recipient.
US08775333B1	Systems and methods for generating a threat classifier to determine a malicious process A computer-implemented method for generating a threat classifier is described. A parameter collection module is distributed to a plurality of client processing systems. The module comprises a set of rules to detect a behavior in the client processing systems. If one or more of the set of rules are satisfied, input data indicative of a plurality of client processing parameters is received. The input data is scaled to provide a plurality of parameter vectors. Each of the parameter vectors are classified as a threat or a non-threat. A machine learning process is performed on at least one of the classified parameter vectors. The threat classifier is generated from the machine learning process. The threat classifier is transferred to at least one client processing system. The threat classifier is configured to automatically determine if a process to be performed in a client processing system is malicious.
US08775324B2	Compatibility scoring of users in a social network The compatibility score of individuals in a social network is computed based on the compatibility of interests expressed by these individuals. The compatibility score between any two interests is calculated as the log of the estimated probability that a member of the social network will express both interests as his/her interests divided by the product of: (i) the estimated probability that a member of the social network will express the first of the two interests as his/her interest and (ii) the estimated probability that a member of the social network will express the second of the two interests as his/her interest. The compatibility score between two individuals is calculated as the sum of the compatibility scores between each interest appearing in a set of interests expressed by the first of the two individuals and each interest appearing in a set of interests expressed by the second of the two individuals.
US08775323B2	Method and system for providing user tailored service using social network service Provided are a method and a system for providing a user tailored service using a social network service. The method includes at a user terminal, receiving a transaction approval message from a credit card company server when a customer uses a credit card, and obtaining purchase information of the customer based on the received transaction approval message, and forming a social network for sharing the purchase information of the customer with predetermined persons having a social relationship, wherein the predetermined persons include friends, family members, and colleagues of the customer.
US08775321B1	Systems and methods for providing notification of and access to information associated with media content Certain embodiments provide a user notification such as a cue in a media content player. The notification or cue indicates that there is additional content available for a piece of media being played or about to be played. The notification or cue may be superimposed on content or provided separate from the media content being provided. In certain embodiments, the notification may provide a link for accessing the additional content the notification identifies. For example, the user may click on a notification to link to a dynamically-generated webpage comprising information retrieved about the media content being presented.
US08775319B2	Secure content transfer systems and methods to operate the same Secure content transfer systems and methods to operate the same are disclosed. An example system includes a content server to encrypt content according to an encryption key, and to transfer the encrypted content, the encryption key and a license to a client that supports a digital rights management technology. The example system further includes a broadcast system headend to determine the encryption key, wherein the broadcast system headend is physically separate from the content server, and a digital rights management license server to provide the license.
US08775312B2	Alternative payment method for online transactions using interactive voice response A method for performing payments in remote transactions between a buyer and a vendor is provided. The method includes receiving buyer information from a vendor's network outlet when the buyer indicates a desire to purchase a selection at a later time through an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) center; providing a token to the buyer; receiving information about the token from the buyer through the IVR center; verifying the information about the token; transferring funds from a buyer account to a vendor account. Also provided is a system for processing payments in remote transactions including an IVR center to: receive a request for token from a buyer to purchase products from a vendor, and to receive information about the product; provide the token to the buyer; access a database, the database including information from vendor's and buyer's accounts; transfer funds from buyer's account to vendor's account upon buyer confirmation.
US08775311B2	Systems and methods for pre-authorized money transfer transactions Methods and systems which allow one or more money transfer transactions to be implemented in a manner which provides additional certainty to a receiving party are provided. In one embodiment, a money transfer service authorizes a sender to transfer up to a certain amount of money. With this authorization, a money transfer transaction regiment is established, while the money transfer service maintains an accounting of the balance to insure that the balance remains below the pre-determined authorized amount. In another embodiment, a money transfer services utilizes reliability criteria to authorize a sender to transfer money with the money and service charge being collected after the transfer is completed.
US08775310B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for allowing payment cards issued for only limited duration use to be reused multiple times to reduce the overall cost of issuance A recyclable contactless payment device is issued to a first patron of a venue. Use of the contactless payment device at the venue by the first patron is facilitated, as is return of the contactless payment device by the first patron for recycling. The contactless payment device is deactivated and stored. The issuing and facilitation of use are repeated for at least a second patron of the venue, with the same recyclable contactless payment device.
US08775307B2	Systems and methods for administering extended absence insurance A computer receives rating information relating to proposed issuance of an insurance policy endorsement. The rating information relates to a proposed insured that employs a number of employees. The computer processes the rating information to generate a premium amount to be charged for the insurance policy endorsement. The endorsement is then issued. The endorsement may provide reimbursement to the insured for losses incurred by the insured arising from absence from work by one or more of the employees.
US08775302B2	Method of and system for making purchases over a computer network A method of and system for making purchases over a computer network using an ATM card or the like is provided. In accordance with the invention, a consumer transmits his ATM card number over the network to an on-line merchant. The on-line merchant then forwards the ATM card number to a third party contractor, such as a bank, that will oversee and authorize the transaction. Simultaneously or thereafter, the consumer transmits his PIN over the network to the third party contractor, who verifies that the ATM card number and PIN are valid.
US08775301B2	Reducing risks related to check verification Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide scores that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. Share of wallet scores can be used as a parameter for determining whether or not to accept and/or guarantee a check. The share of wallet can be used to calculate a risk value of a customer. For example, the scores can weight one or more factors related to the check writer and differentiate between a low-risk customer and a high-risk customer.
US08775297B2	Automated trading system A computer trading system includes a quote screening function configured to accept quotes specifying a quote amount in a price where the quote amount is greater than a minimum quote amount to produce screen quote messages and to reject quotes specifying a quote amount less than the minimum quote amount. A market view generator generates market views from those quotes which specify an amount greater than or equal to the minimum quote amount. An order screening function only-accepts orders specifying an amount less than a maximum transaction amount submitted in response to the market views to produce screened order messages. A transaction processor receives screened quote messages and screened order messages and matches appropriate messages with each other. The minimum quote amount is substantially equal to or greater than the maximum transaction amount whereby a screened order message can be matched entirely with one screened quote message.
US08775296B2	Social based automatic trading of currencies, commodities, securities and other financial instruments The present invention includes methods, apparatuses, systems, platforms and associated software applications for facilitating semi-automatic or automatic trading of Financial Assets based on the past or present trading activities of other traders (e.g. “Social Trading”, optionally implemented as a “Linked Account Trading System”).
US08775295B2	Method and system for trading options Device, system and method of trading an option. A method may include executing, by a computing device, at least one transaction of an option on an underlying asset using at least one of a bid price and an offer price, wherein a bid/offer spread between the bid price and offer price is the result of a calculation using first data corresponding to at least one parameter defining the option and second data corresponding to at least one current market condition relating to the underlying asset.
US08775291B1	Systems and methods for enrichment of data relating to consumer credit collateralized debt and real property and utilization of same to maximize risk prediction Systems and methods for enrichment of data associated with risk prediction. Data may be enriched by incorporating one or more aspects of consumer credit, collateralized debt, mortgage, real property, and loan data for use in systems, products, and methods relying on risk prediction models to maximize the effectiveness of the risk prediction. A time-series of consumer credit data may be provided to provide historical context to data. In a particular application, enriched data is leveraged to predict occurrence of an event relating to underlying assets of a structured security, such as a mortgage-backed security. Other systems and methods are disclosed.
US08775288B2	Student venture management A technique involves providing an actual cost commitment and investing a retail value of the actual cost commitment to a student venture, and receiving a return on the retail value and a return on actual cost that is equal to the return on the retail value minus the actual cost commitment. A system constructed according to the technique may include an investment decision engine, a portfolio management engine, and a venture scholar fund operations engine. The system may further include, for example, an authentication engine and a public information engine.
US08775281B2	Color detection for tiered billing in copy and print jobs Disclosed herein are a method and an image processing apparatus implementing the method for determining a billing structure for outputting documents. The method determines if pixels of image data of a document in device independent space are neutral (e.g., gray) or non-neutral (e.g., color), and, based on at least the determined neutral pixels in device independent space, determines a billable pixel count of color pixels in the image data. In one example, the determined billable pixel count of color pixels is based on at least both an estimated color count in device independent space and a determined pixel count in device dependent space. In another, pixels are tagged based on the neutral and/or non-neutral determination in device independent space, and, if the tag indicates that a selected pixel is color in device dependent space, the selected pixel is counted for the billable pixel count.
US08775275B1	Inferring user intent based on network navigation paths Paths followed by a plurality of devices are recorded. Devices of the plurality have sent content requests similar to a current content request. Behaviors exhibited by respective ones of the plurality of devices. The respective ones of the paths are grouped into intent groupings. A path followed by a device is assembled. The assembling the path comprises recording a plurality of content requests generated by the device prior to the current content request. An intent grouping matching the path is identified. The intent grouping is associated with an expected behavior. Content calculated to facilitate the expected behavior is identified.
US08775272B2	System and method for enabling marketing channels in an IP marketplace A comprehensive platform for merchandising intellectual property (IP) and conducting IP transactions is disclosed. A standardized data collection method enables IP assets to be characterized, rated and valuated in a consistent manner. Project management, workflow and data security functionality enable consistent, efficient and secure interactions between the IP Marketplace participants throughout the IP transaction process. Business rules, workflows, valuation models and rating methods may be user defined or based upon marketplace, industry or technology standards.
US08775271B2	Method, medium, and system for automated creation of montage of matching products Automated electronic document design systems and methods for generating matching customized product designs and preparing images of matching customized products in a montage for displaying to a user.
US08775264B1	Spiral listing of items Disclosed are various embodiments for rendering images of items in a ranked listing as a spiral on a network page. In one embodiment, a page builder ranks a listing of items according to a criterion provided by the user and generates a network page that depicts a spiral comprising a plurality of images, where each image is associated with one of the items in the ranked listing. The page builder arranges the images such that the image associated with the highest ranked item is located at the center of the spiral and the remaining images are arranged along a path of the spiral in decreasing order according to the ranking of the items associated with each of the respective remaining images. In addition, the page builder embeds a client side application that renders a shifting of the images when an image is selected by the user.
US08775260B1	Apparatus and method for providing product location information to customers in a store A system and method are disclosed for providing product location information within a store. The system comprises a first user interface fixed within the store and an inventory information unit coupled to the first user interface. The first user interface is configured to receive an input signal from a user related to the identity of a product within the store, to process the input signal and to provide a product inquiry signal in response to the input signal. The first user interface is further configured to receive a location information signal, and to provide an output signal in response to the location information signal. The inventory information unit comprises a database containing product location information and is configured to provide the location information signal to the first user interface after receiving the product inquiry signal from the first user interface.
US08775259B2	Secure system and process for identification and identity registration An identification and registration system including a scanner (J) for making a digital copy of an identity document (K), a server (A), transmission means for transmitting said digitized copy, character recognition means (E) for extracting from said digital copy information relating to identity, a database (B) for storing said digital copy and said identity-related information, a EPT/POS electronic payment terminal (I), transmission means for transmitting said identity-related information to said EPT/POS, a telephone (H) associated with a secret code, transmission means for transmitting the number of said telephone from said EPT/POS to said server, means for sending by said server to said EPT/POS a melody to be played, means (C) for calling said telephone by said server, and means of audio identification (C) by said server of said melody via said telephone call to said cellular telephone.
US08775255B2	Internet business transaction processor Targeted products are offered over a communications network. Product data for a plurality of products from a plurality of distributors for the products is received. Customer data from a plurality of customers comprising personal information about customers is received. Using the data, at least one user-specific product offering from the plurality of products is generated. Automated messages comprising the at least one user-specific product offering to the one or more customers are then sent.
US08775252B2	Electronic media system The invention is a digital information display system (10), comprised of an electronically controlled display (20), usually used to display advertising, A video camera (30) is used to detect one or more viewers in the audience who are paying attention (100) to the display (20), and if so which part of the display (30). Based on which part of the display has the viewers attention, the advertising displayed is adjusted in real-time and based on the viewer analysis to promote continued attention from the viewer. It is an advantage of the invention that the display is able to continuously present relevant advertising content, and with reduced delay, to an audience by using its passive observation and analysis capabilities.
US08775247B2	Presenting personalized social content on a web page of an external system A social networking system generates socially-relevant stories for a user based on other users (e.g., based on actions taken by other users) to whom the user is connected. These socially-relevant stories, including news stories, social advertisements, etc., may be presented on a web page within a domain of an external system that is different from the domain of the social networking system. When a web page from an external system is requested for a viewing user, the social content about other users who are connected to the viewing user may be provided by the social networking system for that viewing user. This personalized social content may be presented in a frame (e.g., an iframe) of the external web page rendered and provided for display to the viewing user.
US08775246B2	System and method for enabling channel registration in an IP marketplace A comprehensive platform for merchandising intellectual property (IP) and conducting IP transactions is disclosed. A standardized data collection method enables IP assets to be characterized, rated and valuated in a consistent manner. Project management, workflow and data security functionality enable consistent, efficient and secure interactions between the IP Marketplace participants throughout the IP transaction process. Business rules, workflows, valuation models and rating methods may be user defined or based upon marketplace, industry or technology standards.
US08775245B2	Secure coupon distribution Systems and method are provided for ensuring secure and validated coupon generation and distribution, and the prevention of fraudulent coupon printing. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is provided to a consumer, where the URL points to a dynamic coupon webpage presentable to the consumer, and where the URL includes a link identifier indicative of a coupon contained on the dynamic coupon webpage to be printed. The URL may include a member identifier (MID) that uniquely identifies the consumer and provides security regarding the printing of the coupon by limiting the number of prints that the consumer can make of the coupon. Furthermore, a token may be utilized in conjunction with the MID for additional security regarding the printing of the coupon by preventing the printing of the coupon if the token is invalid or expired.
US08775244B2	Optimal scheduling of venue attendance based on queue size and location Embodiments of the invention provide for managing attraction attendance levels through tracking current attendance levels and notifying patrons of incentives to alter their attraction selections in real-time. Examples identify an attraction queue that has a customer wait time failing to meet a threshold and determine a geographic relationship of a tracking device associated with a registered customer to the queue. Accordingly, an incentive is created from metadata associated with the queue and offered to the registered customer to urge the registered customer to take a queue balancing action. The queue balancing action may be leaving the queue if the customer wait time exceeds a threshold maximum wait time and the tracking device is within the queue, or choosing to enter the queue if the customer wait time is less than a threshold minimum wait time and the tracking device is outside of the queue.
US08775238B2	Generating customized disincentive marketing content for a customer based on customer risk assessment A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for managing a level of marketing disincentives directed towards a customer using a risk assessment score. In one embodiment, a risk assessment score for a customer associated with a retail facility is retrieved. The risk assessment score is analyzed to determine whether the customer is a desirable customer or an undesirable customer. In response to the risk assessment score indicating that the customer is an undesirable customer, aggressive marketing disincentives targeted to the undesirable customer are generated. If the risk assessment score indicates the customer is a desirable customer, marketing incentives targeted to the desirable customer are generated.
US08775237B2	System and method for measuring and reporting user reactions to advertisements on a web page In one embodiment, a system comprises a first element viewable on a web page on or near an advertisement and soliciting user reactions concerning the advertisement; and a second element displayed in response to selection of the first element, soliciting one or more user reactions concerning the advertisement, and displaying the advertisement or a substantial duplicate thereof. In one embodiment, a method comprises collecting user reactions concerning an advertisement on a web page and presenting a report of the reactions comprising a bar graph with each bar representing a characteristic of the advertisement. In one embodiment, a method comprises collecting user reactions concerning advertisements included on web pages and presenting a report of the reactions comprising a graph including multiple icons, each representing an advertisement; an axis corresponding to a quantity of reactions; and an axis corresponding to ratings associated with the reactions for characteristics of the advertisements.
US08775231B1	System and method for identifying and presenting business-to-business sales opportunities The present invention relates to a system and method for efficiently identifying the sales opportunities in a business-to-business market environment. It provides a computer-implemented predictive sales intelligence system and method for identifying sales opportunities. The present invention is a computer implemented system and method for efficiently identifying reliable purchase pattern profiles through scientific analysis of customer data. It includes a system and method for calculating a customer's purchase profile, clustering customers based on similarity of their purchase profile, and efficiently providing a reliable set of opportunities including lost sales (retention) and cross-selling (wallet share expansion) opportunities. It uses this reliable estimate of sales opportunities to retain and expand wallet share for customers.
US08775229B1	Method of correcting a project schedule Automated methods for correcting the remaining portion of a project schedule in order to reflect actual performance to date are provided. For some embodiments, the remaining schedule is corrected by applying factors that are extrapolated from the actual completion times of project milestones in comparison to the scheduled times for the same milestones. This approach results in a project schedule that is more accurate, and thus enables improved management of the project.
US08775228B2	Methods and apparatus for agreement-based automated service provisioning Techniques are disclosed for automated provisioning of resources to fulfill a service agreement. For example, a technique for use by a service provider for automatically provisioning one or more resources based on at least one service agreement offer of a service client comprises the following steps/operations. The at least one service agreement offer is obtained. At least one implementation plan template is obtained. A provisioning description is then automatically derived in accordance with the service agreement offer and the implementation plan template, wherein the provisioning description is usable for configuring one or more resources such that a service may be provided to the service client.
US08775223B2	System and method for managing seat reservations This invention relates to an electronic means by which people can select the exact seat or seats they want for any type of event or reserve an appointment for any activity. More specifically, a customer or a ticket re-seller or a venue operator can go, for example, to the internet and select the event or activity for which he wants a ticket or tickets or reserve a time and reserve and order the exact seat or seats or the time of his choosing directly online. The seat or seats or reserved time he selects is then removed from the inventory for that activity or event and made not available for any other buyer and such is so indicated by a graphical representation or other such indicator on the online map or picture representing availability of seating or time for that event.
US08775220B2	Method and system for estimating economic losses from wind storms The present invention relates to systems and methods for estimating economic losses from wind storms. Accordingly, provided herein are methods estimating roughness length of an area surrounding a structure, methods calculating local wind speed at a structure, methods of estimating wind pressure on a structure, and methods of calculating the insurability of a structure. Also provided are systems and computer-readable storage media configured for performing the disclosed methods.
US08775218B2	Transforming data for rendering an insurability decision Transformation of disparate data for use in rendering a decision involving a potentially insurable risk. An Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process extracts the data and converts it from a plurality of formats into a standard format for processing. A heuristic engine inferentially processes the converted data to identify information relevant to the decision to be rendered. A consolidation and presentation engine generates presentable knowledge from the relevant information and then presents the knowledge to a decision-making entity for rendering the decision. And an optimization feedback process monitors one or more actions on the presented knowledge by the decision-making entity and adjusts one or more of the ETL process, the heuristic engine, and the consolidation and presentation engine as a function of the monitored actions.
US08775214B2	Management method and system for a user The invention provides a system, method, machine readable program and a graphical user interface for managing multiple accounts associated with a user. The method includes receiving a first set of information associated with identification of a user, in response to the first set of information, identifying a second set of information relating to a financial account associated with the user, the financial account being associated with a financial institution, in response to the first set of information. The method also includes identifying a third set of information relating to a health account associated with the user, the health account being associated with a healthcare institution. A fourth set of information is generated based upon the second set of information and the third set of information. The method also includes sending a signal representative of the fourth set of information. The signal may be sent to the user or a designee of the user.
US08775213B2	Method, apparatus, and system for reading, processing, presenting, and/or storing electronic medical record information A method for accessing, processing, presenting, and/or storing electronic medical record (EMR) information on a touch-sensitive display includes reading EMR information, displaying at least a portion of the EMR information on a touch-sensitive sliding timeline, detecting finger swipe or similar gestures, and scrolling the sliding timeline so that a different portion of the EMR information is displayed chronologically on the touch-sensitive sliding timeline. The resolution of the timeline can be expanded or collapsed in response to pinch gestures. The timeline is divided into a columns, each column including icons representing medical related events. A second timeline having a different time resolution from the first timeline is used for navigating the medical related events. Different levels of detail regarding the medical related events can be viewed in different detail panes. An EMR access device and system are also disclosed, which are configured to access and present EMR information.
US08775206B2	Healthcare privacy violation detection and investigation system and method A method for detecting privacy violations of patient personal healthcare information (PHI) can include receiving audit logs from all systems within a healthcare facility. These audit logs are generated any time PHI is accessed. The Healthcare Privacy Violation Detection System (HPV-DS) compares these generate audit logs to prior access history of the employee or authorized user that generated the audit log. If any field in the generated audit log is different from the authorized user's prior access history, the risk of a privacy violation is assessed and a risk score is assigned. For audit logs that differ from past access history enough, an alert turned on and the audit log is flagged for administrators to review.
US08775204B2	System and method for enabling group channels in an IP marketplace A comprehensive platform for merchandising intellectual property (IP) and conducting IP transactions is disclosed. A standardized data collection method enables IP assets to be characterized, rated and valuated in a consistent manner. Project management, workflow and data security functionality enable consistent, efficient and secure interactions between the IP Marketplace participants throughout the IP transaction process. Business rules, workflows, valuation models and rating methods may be user defined or based upon marketplace, industry or technology standards.
US08775203B2	Ice diet system and methods of implementing same Embodiments of the present invention relate to system and method of dieting, wherein safe increases to an individual's basal metabolic rate accelerates the burning of fat, and may be used as a primary method of weight loss and/or as a complementary technique to the success of other weight loss strategies. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method of weight loss comprises measuring a temperature and quantity of a consumable product; determining a gross caloric value of the consumable product; calculating an energy to be expended during consumption of the consumable product by an individual; calculating a net caloric value of the consumable product, wherein the net caloric value is equal to a gross caloric value of the consumable product less the caloric energy expended by an individual in consuming the consumable product; and tracking the net caloric value over a predetermined time interval.
US08775201B2	Data logger A data logging module and a method of monitoring a medical warming cabinet is disclosed. A temperature of the heating chamber and a state of a door of the heating chamber are sampled at predetermined intervals and recorded as data packets on a memory device. A display may provide a message when the memory device is reaching capacity. Moreover, a selected of the data packets may be analyzed (such as the data packets excluding the data packets when the door is open) for the generation of a report. The data packets from the memory device may be transferred from the memory device to an external memory device as necessary.
US08775195B2	Systems and methods for assets, personnel, and travel information and risk management A system(s) and method(s) for providing asset, personnel, and travel information accumulation, analysis, and reporting for improved risk assessment and management are disclosed. In various embodiments, risk assessments(s) may be provided and may include receiving intelligence from at least one intelligence source, receiving information about one or more asset(s), and generating a risk assessment report. Various embodiments may include receiving intelligence from at least one intelligence source, receiving asset information, and generating a risk assessment report based on the intelligence and a personnel or employee profile. Further, various embodiments methods and systems may provide travel information to a consumer, by for example, acquiring information from at least one information source, characterizing the acquired information by its pertinence to travel, transforming the characterized travel information into a useable format, applying rules to this transformed travel information in connection with the consumer-specific travel profile, and delivering a report to the consumer.
US08775191B1	Efficient utterance-specific endpointer triggering for always-on hotwording Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for classifying utterances. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio input signal representing an utterance of a user. Additional actions may include determining that a shape of at least a portion of the audio input signal matches a shape of at least a portion of an audio trigger signal corresponding to a keyword. Further actions may include, based at least on determining that the shape of at least the portion of the audio input signal matches the shape of at least the portion of an audio trigger signal corresponding to the keyword, classifying the utterance as a trigger utterance that corresponds to the keyword.
US08775190B2	Voice-operated control circuit and method for using same A voice-operated control circuit and method for using the voice-operated control circuit in connection with a toy vehicle. The voice-operated control circuit contains an audio detector, such as a microphone, to detect audible sound signals, and an integrated circuit that determines the duration of the audible sound signals received by the audio detector. At a user-defined time and based on the audible sound signals received, the integrated circuit determines and controls the duration of operation of various components of the toy vehicle, such as a motor, lights and/or sounds.
US08775187B2	Voice authentication system and methods A method for configuring a voice authentication system comprises ascertaining a measure of confidence associated with a voice sample enrolled with the authentication system. The measure of confidence is derived through simulated impostor testing carried out on the enrolled sample.
US08775186B2	Method for emotion communication between emotion signal sensing device and emotion service providing device Provided are a method for emotion communication to share a user's emotions between an emotion signal sensing device and an emotion service providing device. The method for emotion communication includes: the emotion signal sensing device's sensing biological and environmental information of the user and generating an emotion signal and emotion information of the user based on the biological and environmental information; establishing an emotion communication connection with the emotion service providing device; transmitting the emotion signal and the emotion information to the emotion service providing device by the emotion communication connection establishment; and breaking the connection with the emotion service providing device.
US08775185B2	Speech samples library for text-to-speech and methods and apparatus for generating and using same A method for converting translating text into speech with a speech sample library is provided. The method comprises converting translating an input text to a sequence of triphones; determining musical parameters of each phoneme in the sequence of triphones; detecting, in the speech sample library, speech segments having at least the determined musical parameters; and concatenating the detected speech segments.
US08775183B2	Application of user-specified transformations to automatic speech recognition results Textual transcription of speech is generated and formatted according to user-specified transformation and behavior requirements for a speech recognition system having input grammars and transformations. An apparatus may include a speech recognition platform configured to receive a user-specified transformation requirement, recognize speech in speech data into recognized speech according to a set of recognition grammars; and apply transformations to the recognized speech according to the user-specified transformation requirement. The apparatus may further be configured to receive a user-specified behavior requirement and transform the recognized speech according to the behavior requirement. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08775182B2	Method and apparatus for speech segmentation Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for speech segmentation are described. In some embodiments, a fuzzy rule may be determined to discriminate a speech segment from a non-speech segment. An antecedent of the fuzzy rule may include an input variable and an input variable membership. A consequent of the fuzzy rule may include an output variable and an output variable membership. An instance of the input variable may be extracted from a segment. An input variable membership function associated with the input variable membership and an output variable membership function associated with the output variable membership may be trained. The instance of the input variable, the input variable membership function, the output variable, and the output variable membership function may be operated, to determine whether the segment is the speech segment or the non-speech segment.
US08775181B2	Mobile speech-to-speech interpretation system Interpretation from a first language to a second language via one or more communication devices is performed through a communication network (e.g. phone network or the internet) using a server for performing recognition and interpretation tasks, comprising the steps of: receiving an input speech utterance in a first language on a first mobile communication device; conditioning said input speech utterance; first transmitting said conditioned input speech utterance to a server; recognizing said first transmitted speech utterance to generate one or more recognition results; interpreting said recognition results to generate one or more interpretation results in an interlingua; mapping the interlingua to a second language in a first selected format; second transmitting said interpretation results in the first selected format to a second mobile communication device; and presenting said interpretation results in a second selected format on said second communication device.
US08775174B2	Method for indexing multimedia information It comprises analyzing audio content of multimedia files and performing a speech to text transcription thereof automatically by means of an ASR process, and selecting acoustic and language models adapted for the ASR process at least before the latter processes the multimedia file, i.e. “a priori”.The method is particularly applicable to the automatic indexing, aggregation and clustering of news from different sources and from different types of files, including text, audio and audiovisual documents without any manual annotation.
US08775167B2	Noise-robust template matching Noise robust template matching may be performed. First features of a first signal may be computed. Based at least on a portion of the first features, second features of a second signal may be computed. A new signal may be generated based on at least another portion of the first features and on at least a portion of the second features.
US08775163B1	Selectable silent mode for real-time audio communication system A facility for conducting a real-time conversation in which the selected one of a number of participants utilizes a silent mode is described. Remark spoken by participants other than the selected one are transformed into text and displayed for the selected participant. Remarks entered textually by the selected participant are transformed into speech and played audibly for participants other than the selected one.
US08775155B2	Machine translation using overlapping biphrase alignments and sampling A system and method for machine translation are disclosed. Source sentences are received. For each source sentence, a target sentence comprising target words is generated. A plurality of translation neighbors of the target sentence is generated. Phrase alignments are computed between the source sentence and the translation neighbor. Translation neighbors are scored with a translation scoring model, based on the phrase alignment. Translation neighbors are ranked, based on the scores. In training the model, parameters of the model are updated based on an external ranking of the ranked translation neighbors. The generating of translation neighbors, scoring, ranking, and, in the case of training, updating the parameters, are iterated with one of the translation neighbors as the target sentence. In the case of decoding, one of the translation neighbors is output as a translation. The system and method may be at least partially implemented with a computer processor.
US08775153B2	Transitioning from source instruction set architecture (ISA) code to translated code in a partial emulation environment In one embodiment, a processor can operate in multiple modes, including a direct execution mode and an emulation execution mode. More specifically, the processor may operate in a partial emulation model in which source instruction set architecture (ISA) instructions are directly handled in the direct execution mode and translated code generated by an emulation engine is handled in the emulation execution mode. Embodiments may also provide for efficient transitions between the modes using information that can be stored in one or more storages of the processor and elsewhere in a system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08775149B2	Method and system for implementing parallel execution in a computing system and in a circuit simulator A method and mechanism for implementing a general purpose scripting language that supports parallel execution is described. In one approach, parallel execution is provided in a seamless and high-level approach rather than requiring or expecting a user to have low-level programming expertise with parallel processing languages/functions. Also described is a system and method for performing circuit simulation. The present approach provides methods and systems that create reusable and independent measurements for use with circuit simulators. Also disclosed are parallelizable measurements having looping constructs that can be run without interference between parallel iterations. Reusability is enhanced by having parameterized measurements. Revisions and history of the operating parameters of circuit designs subject to simulation are tracked.
US08775147B1	Algorithm and architecture for multi-argument associative operations that minimizes the number of components using a latency of the components An algorithm and architecture are disclosed for performing multi-argument associative operations. The algorithm and architecture can be used to schedule operations on multiple facilities for computations or can be used in the development of a model in a modeling environment. The algorithm and architecture resulting from the algorithm use the latency of the components that are used to process the associative operations. The algorithm minimizes the number of components necessary to produce an output of multi-argument associative operations and also can minimize the number of inputs each component receives.
US08775145B2	System and apparatus for modeling the behavior of a drilling assembly A method for drilling a borehole includes obtaining, while drilling the borehole, sensor data for the drilling assembly, analyzing, while drilling the borehole, the sensor data using a drilling behavior model to obtain results, and adjusting the drilling of the borehole based on the results. The drilling behavior model models drilling of the borehole using a distance drilled, a number of touch points, a number of bend angles, a number of external moments, a number of lengths of distributed weights, a lateral displacement of a center of the borehole at a bit, at least one vertical displacement from the center of the borehole, at least one angular offset, at least one force, and at least one mass per unit length.
US08775144B2	Constrained pressure residual preconditioner for efficient solution of the adjoint equation A method, system and computer program product is disclosed for using a constrained pressure residual (CPR) preconditioner to solve adjoint models. A linear system of fluid flow equations comprising a plurality of variables that represent fluid flow properties in a geological formation of a subterranean reservoir is provided. Matrix (Ã)T, which comprises a transpose of a Jacobian matrix associated with the linear system of fluid flow equations, is constructed. A constrained pressure residual preconditioner MCPRA−1 is constructed responsive to the matrix (Ã)T. Matrix equation (Ã)Ty=d is then solved using the constrained pressure residual preconditioner MCPRA−1.
US08775141B2	System and method for performing oilfield simulation operations The invention relates to a method of simulating operations of an oilfield, which has process facilities and wellsite operatively connected, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir. The method steps include selecting simulators for modeling the oilfield with at least one of the simulators having functionality to model fluid injection, selectively coupling each of the simulators according to a predefined configuration, and modeling an injection operation of the oilfield by selectively communicating between the simulators.
US08775139B2	Method for simulating fluid flow and recording medium for performing the method A method for simulating fluid flow includes: discretizing a space in which a fluid flows into a regular lattice; assuming that fluid particles repetitively move and collide in the lattice; deriving a univariate polynomial equation by comparing the n-th (n is a non-negative integer) order momentum of velocity between the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution and the discretized Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; calculating the weight coefficients corresponding to the discrete velocities of the fluid particles based on the univariate polynomial equation; and deriving a lattice Boltzmann model using the weight coefficients. A lattice Boltzmann model with superior stability and accuracy may be derived easily.
US08775138B2	Methods for handling withdrawal of streams from a linear programming model developed from a thermodynamically-based reference tool The invention relates to linear programming methods and systems. The linear programming model has at least one input streams, at least one intermediate stream, and at least one output stream. The linear programming model is utilized for simulating the effect of withdrawing at least a portion of an intermediate steam on one or more of the model's outputs.
US08775133B2	Personalized fit and functional designed medical prostheses and surgical instruments and methods for making Methods, devices and systems for virtual, remote and real-time collaboration between surgeons and engineers using system learning and intelligent and timely disbursement of design and performance information to engineering teams embarking on the preliminary design event of a personalized orthopedic implant or personalize surgical instrument utilizing a case-based reasoning expert system. Additive manufacturing technology and statistically controlled advanced manufacturing processes quickly produce personalized medical devices worldwide.
US08775126B2	Mobile device and method for performing black box function A mobile device and method for performing a black box function are provided. Each of a plurality of connection ports of the mobile device are electrically connected to an external entity. When a voltage exceeding a given critical value is applied through the connection port, a detection history recording unit of the mobile device not only checks detection time information, but also checks terminal ID information about the connection port. Then the detection history recording unit records the terminal ID information and the detection time information. Therefore, when any trouble or fault occurs in the mobile device, it is possible to easily find out the cause of such trouble or fault though data recorded in the detection history recording unit.
US08775125B1	System and method for improved processing performance The invention is directed to a computer-implemented method and system for improving processing performance for a group of computing resources, the method implemented on at least one computer having a processor and accessing at least one data storage area. The method comprises implementing the processor for calculating a benchmark for each computing resource in the group of computing resources and normalizing the benchmark across the group of computing resources to determine a number of performance units for each computing resource. The method additionally includes providing a graphical user interface for facilitating visual comparison for comparing processing performance indicators for multiple computing resources in the group of computing resources and reconfiguring at least some of the computing resources represented on the graphical user interface based on the comparison.
US08775120B2	Method of data synthesis Methods, devices, and computer programs are presented for consolidating overlapping data provided by multiple sources. One method includes operations for associating a plurality of devices to a user, each device operable to capture data associated with the user, and for receiving, from the plurality of devices, captured data about a first activity associated with a first period of time. Additionally, the method includes operations for detecting that the received captured data from two or more devices provide overlapping information about the first activity, and for evaluating one or more rules for consolidating the overlapping information to produce consolidated data. The consolidated data provides a unified view of the first activity during the first period of time. The consolidated data is stored in permanent storage and made available for presentation to the user.
US08775118B2	Angle detection apparatus According to one embodiment, in the angle detection apparatus, the first A-D converter unit receives the first signal, and performs analog-to-digital conversion of the first signal. The second A-D converter unit receives the second signal orthogonal to the first signal, and performs analog-to-digital conversion of the second signal. The first delay circuit receives a third signal outputted by the first A-D converter unit, and performs a phase adjustment of the third signal. The second delay circuit receives a fourth signal outputted by the second A-D converter unit, and performs a phase adjustment of the fourth signal. The phase detection adjustment unit monitors phases of signals outputted by the first and second delay circuits, and gives phase adjustment commands to the first and second delay circuits, when a phase shift occurs.
US08775114B2	Method and apparatus for determining phase sensitivity of an accelerometer based on an analysis of the harmonic components of the interference signal A method and apparatus for determining phase sensitivity of an accelerometer based on an analysis of the harmonic components of the interference signal, which can estimate phase lags of an accelerometer through an analysis of the interference signal obtained using a single photo-detector when the accelerometer moves in sinusoidal motion with an initial phase of vibration. The method comprises the steps of obtaining an interference signal in a time domain generated from a signal reflected by an accelerometer and a fixed mirror using a single photo-detector; transforming the interference signal in the time domain into a signal in a frequency domain including a plurality of harmonic signals by Fourier transform; and determining the phase sensitivity of the accelerometer using initial phase of vibration displacement of the accelerometer, which is included in the interference signal in the frequency domain.
US08775113B2	Automated portable media device testing system Circuits, methods, and apparatus for testing media devices. One example provides a test system for testing a number of media players. One or more computers can control the testing of the media players and collect results. Each media player tested may be connected to a computer via an adapter. The adapter may include a connection control circuit and an interface. The connection control circuit may connect and disconnect a power supply to the media player being tested. The voltage waveform produced when the power supply is connected and disconnected may be designed to mimic the voltage waveform produced when a user connects and disconnects a cable or docking station from the media player. The interface may receive commands to provide specific instructions to the media player. The interface may monitor the status and activities performed by the media player and report back to the computer.
US08775112B2	System and method for increasing die yield The present invention systems and methods facilitate increased die yields by flexibly changing the operational characteristics of functional components in an integrated circuit die. The present invention system and method enable integrated circuit chips with defective functional components to be salvaged. Defective functional components in the die are disabled in a manner that maintains the basic functionality of the chip. A chip is tested and a functional component configuration process is performed on the chip based upon results of the testing. If an indication of a defective functional component is received, the functional component is disabled. Workflow is diverted from disabled functional components to enabled functional components.
US08775110B2	Coriolis flowmeter with zero checking feature Descriptions are provided for implementing flowmeter zero checking techniques. In operating a flowmeter, it may be the case that, even if previously calibrated, the flowmeter will produce erroneous measurements, will indicate a non-zero flow during a period of zero flow. Therefore, zero checking features are provided that allow for fast and accurate determinations of the zero-flow values, for use in adjusting later measurements. The zero-checking features include a button attached to an exterior of a flowmeter, so that it is easily accessible to an operator of the flowmeter. The button, in conjunction with an internal zero checking system, allows for a display of a zero value in response to a request from the operator of the flowmeter.
US08775108B2	Method and architecture for pre-bond probing of TSVs in 3D stacked integrated circuits On-chip test architecture and design-for-testability methods for pre-bond testing of TSVs are provided. In accordance with certain embodiments of the invention, a die level wrapper is provided including gated scan flops connected to one end of each TSV. The gated scan flops include a scan flop structure and a gated output. The gated output is controlled by a signal to cause the output of the gated scan flop to either be in a “floated state” or take the value stored in the flip-flop portion of the gated scan flop. The gated output of the gated scan flop can be used to enable resistance and capacitance measurements of pre-bonded TSVs.
US08775107B2	Measurement and apparatus for electrical measurement of electrical drive parameters for a MEMS based display Methods and devices to measure voltage margins of electromechanical devices are disclosed. The voltage margins are determined based on responses to test voltages which cause the devices to change states. State changes of the devices are detected by monitoring integrated current or charge used to drive the devices with the test voltages.
US08775100B2	Cable for inspecting heat tubes and method of analyzing insertion force of cable A heat tube inspection cable and a method of analyzing an insertion force of the cable are disclosed. The heat tube inspection cable includes a sensor unit configured to detect a defect in a heat tube, a plurality of segment units each configured to comprise a body part and a wheel part rotatably connected to the body part, a signal cable configured to helically pass through the body part of each of the plurality of segment units to transmit electric signal from the sensor unit, and a wire configured to pass through the body part of each of the plurality of segment units to keep the linear configuration of the plurality of segment units like a bead necklace and to provide axial and bending strength.
US08775093B2	Pattern recognition system for classifying the functional status of patients with pulmonary hypertension, including pulmonary arterial and pulmonary vascular hypertension A method employing pattern recognition techniques for identifying the functional status of patients with Pulmonary Hypertension is described. This method describes a process by which sets of cardiopulmonary exercise gas exchange variables are measured during rest, exercise and recovery and stored as unique data sets. The data sets are then analyzed by a series of feature extraction steps, yielding a multi-parametric index (MPIPH) which reflects the current functional status of a patient. The method also employs a description scheme that provides a graphical image that juxtaposes the measured value of MPI to a reference classification system. An additional description scheme provides a trend plot of MPI values measured on a patient over time to provide feedback to the physician on the efficacy of therapy provided to the patient. The method will enable physicians to gather, view, and track complicated data using well-understood visualization techniques to better understand the consequences of their therapeutic actions.
US08775091B2	Marine seismic surveying employing interpolated multi-component streamer pressure data It is described a method of interpolating and extrapolating seismic recordings, including the steps of deriving particle velocity related data from seismic recordings obtained by at least one streamer carrying a plurality of multi-component receivers and using the particle velocity related data to replace higher derivatives of pressure data in an expansion series.
US08775087B1	System for acquiring and displaying in near real time gas analysis, well data collection, and other well logging data The system includes a gas processor with gas processor data storage and computer instructions to receive in various device protocols simultaneously information from rig based sensors and gas analysis devices drilling data, calibrate the devices and graphically present the data using both time events and depth events. Computer instructions scale the data and form the geological-hydrocarbon executive dashboard for transmission to various client devices to present real time streaming data, real time calibration information, real time alarms while enabling users to add and remove detection devices and sensors, including rig servers and remote servers, online without shutting down the entire monitoring and analysis system.
US08775086B2	Lag calculation with caving correction in open hole A gas analyzer system that can detect atmospheric air gasses in drilling mud is used to calculate an actual lag time in a well. The calculated lag time and a theoretical lag time may be compared to estimate a caving percentage in an open hole section of the well.
US08775084B2	Adaptive borehole corrections accounting for eccentricity for array laterologs Disclosed is an adaptive borehole correction (ABC) technique based on an inversion approach that advantageously corrects shallow laterolog measurements for borehole effects, including determining and accounting for unknown tool eccentricity. The algorithm is based on simplex radial 1-D inversion where at every logging up to four unknowns are determined, namely tool eccentricity, Rt, Rxo, and Lxo. After that a borehole correction methodology is employed wherein the tool response in a borehole with real mud resistivity Rm is modified to a response in the borehole with virtual mud resistivity equal to Rxo.
US08775082B2	Filtered model output statistics (FMOS) A computer-implemented method to provide stabilized and spatially smooth regression coefficients for weather forecast error correction from small training data sets. In accordance with the present invention, an MOS estimate of the regression coefficient calculated from a small data set can be optimally combined with a smooth prior estimate of the regression coefficient, an estimate of the spatial error covariance of that prior estimate, and an estimate of the spatial error covariance of the MOS estimate. The result is a filtered MOS (FMOS) regression coefficient which can be used to more accurately estimate and correct errors in weather forecasts even using only small data sets.
US08775078B1	Vehicle navigation using cellular networks The present disclosure provides a method for navigation of a vehicle using cellular networks that involves determining, with an inertial navigation system, a vehicle location estimate. The method also involves transmitting, with a transmit antenna, a transmit signal to the cellular tower requesting a cell identification (CID); and receiving, with a receive antenna, a receive signal from the cellular tower containing the CID. Further, the method involves determining the cellular tower location by looking up the CID in a lookup table; determining a difference in time from the time the transmit signal was sent to the time the receive signal was received; calculating the distance from the vehicle to the cellular tower by using the time difference; and refining the vehicle location estimate by using the cellular tower location, the distance from the vehicle to the cellular tower, and the angle of the transmit antenna and the receive antenna.
US08775077B2	Systems and methods for using location data to electronically display dispensing of markers by a marking system or marking tool One or more markers are dispensed on ground, pavement or other surface in a dig area to be excavated or disturbed during excavation activities, so as to provide a visual indication of a presence or an absence of one or more underground utilities in the dig area. One or more signals are wirelessly transmitted in response to the dispensing of the one or more markers, wherein the signal(s) represent(s) first data relating to a location at which the marker(s) is/are dispensed, and/or one or more characteristics of the dispensed marker(s).
US08775075B2	Terminal device and recording medium A mobile phone terminal has a positional information acquisition unit acquiring present positional information indicating a present position, a destination information acquisition unit acquiring destination information specifying a destination (where to return, and where to go), a navigation unit navigating a route from a position specified by the present positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition unit to a destination specified by the destination information, upon activation, a distance acquisition unit acquiring a distance between a position specified by the present positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition unit and a destination specified by the destination information, and an activation control unit activating the navigation unit depending on a distance acquired by the distance acquisition unit.
US08775072B2	Methods, devices, and computer program products for geo-tagged photographic image augmented files A method of providing augmented Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation can include detecting movement of a GPS enabled mobile device along a navigational route and displaying a photographic image on a display of the GPS enabled mobile device responsive to detecting movement of the GPS enabled mobile device along the navigational route provided by the GPS enabled mobile device. Related devices and computer program products are also disclosed.
US08775070B1	Method and system for user preference-based route calculation A method and system for providing user preference based route calculation whereby criteria based digital map data associated with one or more user criteria is generated and/or obtained. When a user makes a request for a map and/or directions from a first point to a second point that includes one or more user route criteria, the criteria based digital map data is searched based, at least in part, on the one or more user route criteria and one or more potential routes are determined that most closely match the one or more user route criteria. One or more user criteria based maps and/or sets of directions are then generated associated with the one or more potential routes that most closely match the one or more user route criteria. Data representing the one or more user criteria based maps and/or sets of directions is then provided to the user.
US08775067B2	Navigation service system and method using mobile device A navigation service system and a navigation service method are provided. The navigation service system includes a mobile device, and a web server for communicating with the mobile device, the mobile device includes a display unit for displaying at least one navigation widget icon, a wireless communication unit for executing wireless communications with the web server, a Global Positioning System (GPS) module for receiving location information of the mobile device, a memory unit for storing a navigation widget, and a navigation widget controller for controlling the wireless communication unit to transmit the location information of the mobile device to the web server, for controlling the wireless communication unit to receive map data related to the location information from the web server, and for controlling the display unit to display the map data and the location information.
US08775066B2	Three dimensional terrain mapping Disclosed is a technique for generating a three dimensional terrain map of a geographic area. Mobile units are equipped with satellite receivers (e.g., GPS receivers) for generating location data. A map generator uses the location data to generate a three dimensional terrain map. In one embodiment, the mobile units have primary uses other than mapping, and are traversing the geographic area to be mapped in connection with their primary function. The map generation process may be performed iteratively over time, as additional location data becomes available. During a time period when location data is unavailable for a portion of the three dimensional terrain map, the map generator may estimate the missing portion of the map using the available data. The estimated portion may later be updated with actual data as that data becomes available. The map may also contain enhancements based on enhancement data received by the map generator.
US08775065B2	Radio model updating The subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems, methods, apparatuses, devices, articles, and means for updating radio models. For certain example implementations, a method for one or more server devices may comprise receiving at one or more communication interfaces at least one measurement that corresponds to a position of a first mobile device within an indoor environment. At least one radio model that is stored in one or more memories may be updated based, at least in part, on the at least one measurement to produce at least one updated radio model. The at least one radio model and the at least one updated radio model may correspond to the indoor environment. The at least one updated radio model may be transmitted to enable a second mobile device to use the at least one updated radio model for positioning within the indoor environment. Other example implementations are described herein.
US08775064B2	Sensor alignment process and tools for active safety vehicle applications A method and tools for virtually aligning object detection sensors on a vehicle without having to physically adjust the sensors. A sensor misalignment condition is detected during normal driving of a host vehicle by comparing different sensor readings to each other. At a vehicle service facility, the host vehicle is placed in an alignment target fixture, and alignment of all object detection sensors is compared to ground truth to determine alignment calibration parameters. Alignment calibration can be further refined by driving the host vehicle in a controlled environment following a leading vehicle. Final alignment calibration parameters are authorized and stored in system memory, and applications which use object detection data henceforth adjust the sensor readings according to the calibration parameters.
US08775063B2	System and method of lane path estimation using sensor fusion A method for estimating a projected path of travel for a vehicle on a road includes monitoring a plurality of sensor inputs, determining a road geometry in front of the vehicle based upon the monitored sensor inputs, determining a vehicle position in relation to the road geometry based upon the monitored sensor inputs, determining a plurality of particle points in front of the vehicle representing a potential path of travel from the road geometry and the vehicle position, and utilizing iteratively determined ones of the plurality of particle points to navigate the vehicle including omitting ones of the plurality of particle points passed by the vehicle.
US08775057B2	Control device for in-cylinder fuel injection type internal combustion engine Provided is a control device for an in-cylinder injection engine which reduces an amount of fuel attaching and remaining on a piston crown surface so as to bring the first injection as advanced as possible and suppress an increase in the number of exhaust particles of PM, when fuel injection is performed a plurality of times in one cycle in the in-cylinder injection engine. At least the first fuel injection of the respective injections dividedly performed the plurality of times is performed in an intake stroke. At least the first injection start timing of the respective injections dividedly performed the plurality of times is set in accordance with an EGR amount. The first injection start timing is more advanced when the EGR amount is large than when the EGR amount is small.
US08775053B2	Control device for internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine control device having a particulate matter sensor which has a pair of electrodes disposed at a distance from each other and measures the amount of particulate matter in a gaseous body, and elimination means for burning and eliminating particulate matter attached to the particulate matter sensor. The control device performs a particulate matter elimination process to judge whether the amount of particulate matter attached to the particulate matter sensor is smaller than a reference particulate matter amount that is predefined as the minimum amount of remaining particulate matter required to bring the pair of electrodes into electrical conduction at one or more spots. When the amount of particulate matter is judged to be smaller than the reference particulate matter amount, the control device causes the elimination means to terminate the particulate matter elimination process.
US08775049B2	Method for evaluating the state of a fuel-air mixture A method for evaluating the state of a fuel-air mixture and/or the combustion in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, with sample signals of flame light signals being stored in a database, and with flame light signals of the combustion in the combustion chamber being detected and compared with the stored sample signals, and with an evaluation of the state being output in the case of coincidence between the measured and stored signal patterns. In order to enable the monitoring of the combustion in the simplest possible way the sample signals in the database are stored with the assigned emission values and an evaluation of the state of the combustion is performed with respect to the obtained emissions in the case of coincidence between the measured and stored signal patterns for the combustion chamber of the respective cylinder.
US08775048B2	Method and apparatus for determining a reference vehicle velocity and a rear wheel speed in a vehicle having three speed sensors The method for controlling a safety system (102-108) of a vehicle (10) determines a reference velocity from a first front wheel sensor (20A) and a second front wheel speed signal from a second front wheel sensor (20B). An axle speed sensor (20C) may be used to determine an axle speed signal. A first rear speed signal and a second rear speed signal are determined from the reference velocity, a slip effect and a yaw signal. The yaw signal may be determined from a yaw rate sensor (28). Safety system (102-108) may be controlled in response to the first rear wheel speed signal and the second rear wheel speed signal.
US08775039B2	Dynamically adjustable inch/brake overlap for vehicle transmission control A motorized vehicle includes a transmission system and an inch/brake device providing at least two ranges of motion. An engagement force of the transmission system is provided in a first range of motion of the inch/brake device, and a braking force of the motorized vehicle is provided in a second range of motion of the inch/brake device. An accelerator device moves between two or more positions, wherein moving the accelerator device from one position to another position causes an amount of overlap between the first and second ranges of motion of the inch/brake device to vary.
US08775038B2	Method and apparatus for selecting an engine operating state for a multi-mode powertrain system A method for operating a powertrain system including a multi-mode transmission configured to transfer torque among an engine, torque machines, and a driveline, includes executing a first search to determine a first engine operating point within an all-cylinder state and a corresponding operating cost for operating the powertrain system in response to an output torque request. A second search is executed to determine a second engine operating point within a cylinder deactivation state and a corresponding operating cost for operating the powertrain system in response to the output torque request. One of the first and second engine operating points is selected as a preferred engine operating point based upon the operating costs and the engine is controlled at the preferred engine operating point in the corresponding one of the all-cylinder state and the cylinder deactivation state.
US08775037B2	Travel controller A travel controller which controls the travel of a vehicle includes a road information acquisition unit which acquires road information of a scheduled travel route, a temporary target travel control pattern generation unit which generates a temporary target travel control pattern of the scheduled travel route on the basis of the road information, an engine state transition section estimation unit which estimates an engine state transition section where the state of an engine transits when the vehicle travels using the temporary target travel control pattern, a speed difference calculation unit which calculates a speed difference resulting from variation in engine output in the engine state transition section, a target travel control pattern generation unit which corrects the temporary target travel control pattern on the basis of the speed difference to generate a target travel control pattern, and a travel control unit which performs travel control on the basis of the target travel control pattern.
US08775036B2	Vehicle control device When a capacity coefficient (Cre) of a torque converter is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold (CreA), a speed ratio (e) is calculated on the basis of an actual power transmission efficiency (η) by referring to a predetermined unique relationship between a power transmission efficiency (η) and a speed ratio (e). Therefore, even in a second speed ratio variation range (R2) in which the capacity coefficient (Cre) is larger than or equal to the threshold (CreA) and the speed ratio (e) is not uniquely determined for the capacity coefficient (Cre), the speed ratio (e) is calculated using the unique relationship between the speed ratio (e) and the power transmission efficiency (η), so the speed ratio (e) may be calculated in all the speed ratio variation range of the torque converter.
US08775034B2	Shift control system for industrial vehicle A shift control system for an industrial vehicle includes: a vehicle speed detection device that detects a vehicle speed; a transmission device that shifts up and shifts down a speed stage of a transmission; a shift control device that permits shift up when a vehicle speed becomes equal to or greater than a shift up permission vehicle speed; a height position detection device that detects a height position of a working machine device; a forward/backward switch device that switches the industrial vehicle between forward travel and backward travel; and a shift up control switch selection device that switches between normal control, in which shift up is performed by the transmission device when the vehicle speed becomes equal to or greater than the shift up permission vehicle speed, and delay control, in which shift up timing is delayed with respect to the normal control.
US08775032B2	Agricultural machine with variable RPM control The present invention relates to a self-propelled agricultural machine, comprising: elements (5) for gathering and/or processing crops; an engine (1) operable to travel the machine through a first driving mechanism (3) and to drive the operation of said elements through a second driving mechanism (4); and a control unit (6) for controlling engine RPM, characterized in that the control unit (6) is configured for controlling the engine RPM (ni) on the basis of a target RPM (ns), which is in turn based on an assessment of the imposed engine load (Ti), wherein in at least in one sub-range between 0% and 100% of the maximum load, the target RPM is a constantly rising function of said engine load. The present invention relates also to a method of controlling the RPM of the engine.
US08775031B1	Automatic interior rearview mirror positioning system A rearview mirror control system for a vehicle that changes the rear viewing angle of an interior rearview mirror to eliminate blind spots. The control system receives inputs from a vehicle steering angle sensor, a vehicle yaw rate sensor, a vehicle speed sensor, a turn signal sensor, a global positioning system (GPS) receiver and map information and the vehicle operator's use of a switch housed on the vehicle's steering wheel apparatus.
US08775030B2	Vehicle seat belt system A vehicle seat belt system includes a reversible belt tensioner (12) adapted to apply a belt tightening force (F) on several predetermined levels to a belt strap (14) of a seat belt, a control unit (16) for controlling the belt tensioner (12) and a device (18) for detecting the course of a road (S1, S2) ahead of the vehicle and for identifying bends lying ahead of the vehicle. The control unit (16) causes the belt tightening force (F) to be kept on an increased level when in the course of the road a further bend follows a just taken bend within a predetermined distance.
US08775027B2	Electric power steering system An electric power steering system includes a motor control device that controls, based on an assist command value, driving of a motor that gives an assist torque to a steering mechanism. The motor control device computes a first assist component based on a steering torque and a vehicle speed. A steered-angle command value is computed based on the steering torque and the first assist component, and a second assist component is computed by performing a feedback control that matches the steered angle with the steered-angle command value. The motor control device adds the second assist component to the first assist component so as to compute an assist command value. The motor control device includes a road information compensation portion that decreases an absolute value of the second assist component included in the assist command value when a skid is detected by a vehicle state detecting portion.
US08775022B2	Methods and systems providing seat ventilation A method of providing seat ventilation using a seat ventilation system (SVS) within a vehicle is provided. The method includes determining whether a vehicle seat is occupied using an air bag ECU. Occupancy information is provided from the air bag ECU to an air conditioning ECU. The air conditioning ECU controls a seat climate module based on the occupancy information received from the air bag ECU.
US08775019B2	Active anti-vibration supporting device and anti-vibration control method for same In an active anti-vibration supporting device (301), an ACM_ECU (200) for estimating an engine vibration state by using output data from a crank pulse sensor (Sa) and a TDC sensor (Sb) drives a driving unit (41) so as to extend and contract and thereby suppresses the transmission of vibration. The ACM_ECU (200) calculates the number of STGs (S1F) that is a quotient obtained when dividing the phase delay (P1F) of a target current value waveform by an average STG time ((T1)/4) in a first cycle (C1) of engine vibration and the remaining time (P′1F) of the phase delay (P1F), wherein the target current value waveform is used for suppressing the transmission of the engine vibration calculated using the output data from the crank pulse sensor (Sa) and the TDC sensor (Sb). The timing at which the elapse of the STG time equivalent to the number of STGs (S1F) in a third cycle (C3) of the engine vibration in the driving timing of the driving unit has been detected is set as a phase delay reference. Further, after the remaining time (P′1F) has elapsed, the target current value waveform is output.
US08775017B2	Method and system for wear control of vehicle tyres A method for wear control of vehicle tires, includes: detecting deformation of an inner surface of a first tire by means of a first sensor; determining a first level of wear of the first tire; detecting a deformation of an inner surface of a second tire by means of a second sensor; determining a second level of wear of the second tire; comparing the first and second levels of wear with each other; and generating a notification signal representative of the comparison. Also disclosed is a system for wear control of vehicle tires, a method of determining the wear of a tire and a system for determining the wear of a tire.
US08775012B2	Motor vehicle ignition key, motor vehicle navigation device, motor vehicle system, and methods What is described is a motor vehicle ignition key and a method including a movement sensor for detecting the movement of the motor vehicle ignition key, a motor vehicle navigation device, and a method including a calculator for calculating a driving route in dependence of movement data, and a motor vehicle system and a method including a motor vehicle ignition key and a motor vehicle controller.
US08775010B2	System and method of conducting vehicle usage data analysis A method of conducting vehicle usage data analysis is provided. The method includes providing usage data about at least one vehicle to a database. The usage data may be analyzed and compared to a member of a set of vehicle development models to determine whether to update a vehicle development model. The usage data may also be analyzed to determine whether to transmit a communication to a vehicle.
US08775006B2	System and method for enhanced vehicle control A method and system may determine, in a vehicle, a desired path around an object based on a location of the object relative to the vehicle, relative speed, road parameters and one or more vehicle parameters. The method and system may calculate one or more vehicle control parameter values which minimize a predicted deviation from the desired vehicle path. The method and system may determine whether the one or more vehicle control parameter values would cause the vehicle to exceed one or more vehicle stability constraints. If the one or more vehicle control parameter values would cause the vehicle to exceed one or more vehicle stability constraints, the one or more vehicle control parameter values may be reduced to one or more vehicle control parameter values not causing the vehicle to exceed the one or more vehicle stability constraints. The method and system may output the one or more vehicle control parameter values to a vehicle automated control device.
US08775003B2	Methods and systems for controlling a proportional integrator Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling a boost converter. In one embodiment, the method processes a command signal in a slew rate limiting circuit. The output of the slew rate limiting circuit is then processed using one or more feedback parameters from the proportional integrator to provide a processed command signal. The processed command signal is processed with a controlled signal to provide an error signal which is provided to the proportional integrator to provide a current command signal. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an error generating circuit configured to provide a processed command signal using one or more feedback parameters from the proportional integrator, and to provide the error signal by subtracting a signal to be controlled from the processed command signal. A slew rate limiting circuit is used to receive a command signal and provide an output to the error generating circuit.
US08775001B2	Motorized wheelchair interlock A control system for a powered wheelchair that detects when a user is in a first orientation to cause movement of the powered wheelchair. The control system inhibits movement of the wheelchair when the user is not in the first orientation.
US08775000B2	Method and apparatus for controlling a multi-mode powertrain system A method for operating a powertrain system includes selecting a plurality of candidate transmission ranges associated with a present powertrain operating point and deselecting candidate transmission ranges not associated with the present powertrain operating point. A high resolution engine speed/torque search is executed for each of the selected candidate transmission ranges. A low resolution engine speed/torque search is executed for each of the deselected candidate transmission ranges. Each search is executed to determine a respective minimum power cost for operating the powertrain system in one of the candidate transmission ranges in response to an output torque request and output speed. A preferred transmission range is determined from the candidate transmission ranges. A preferred engine operating point is determined corresponding to the minimum power cost for the preferred transmission range. The powertrain system is controlled in the preferred transmission range with the engine operating at the preferred engine operating point.
US08774998B2	Vehicle control device Provided is a vehicle control device 1 for supporting deceleration in order to stop a vehicle at a predetermined stop location, the vehicle control device 1 including energy regeneration amount computation means 11 for computing an energy regeneration amount caused by deceleration, and operational timing determination means 12 for determining an operational timing in the deceleration based on the energy regeneration amount. It is possible to realize traveling of the vehicle with excellent fuel consumption without degrading the overall energy regeneration amount when the vehicle stops.
US08774995B2	Information processing apparatus, motor-driven movable body, and discharge control method There is provided an information processing apparatus including a travelable information display unit that displays before a discharge, regarding motor-driven movable bodies of a discharge source and a discharge destination driven by using electric power of batteries, information about places to which the motor-driven movable body of the discharge source can move using electric power of the battery left after the discharge by assuming, when information about a discharge amount discharged from the battery of the motor-driven movable body of the discharge source toward the motor-driven movable body of the discharge destination that receives power supply is input, a case in which the discharge amount is discharged from the battery.
US08774994B2	System and method for vehicle performance control A method is provided for controlling a drivetrain of a vehicle which includes a prime mover operatively connected to at least one tractive element. The method includes: (a) determining the vehicle's total weight; and (b) using an electronic controller carried by the vehicle, causing the prime mover to apply power to the tractive element so as to propel the vehicle, the magnitude of the power being a function of the vehicle's total weight.
US08774989B1	Aircraft energy state display A method and apparatus for displaying an energy state of an aircraft. The energy state of the aircraft is identified by a processor unit based on a speed of the aircraft and an altitude of the aircraft. An indication of the energy state is displayed by the processor unit.
US08774987B2	Vertical gust suppression system for transport aircraft A method for vertical gust suppression due to turbulence for an aircraft having at least one of direct lift control surfaces or pitch control surfaces. The method includes sensing atmospheric turbulence, measuring the sensed atmospheric turbulence to generate turbulence data, generating a command based on the turbulence data, and applying the command to aircraft controls to actuate the direct lift control surfaces or the pitch control surfaces based on the turbulence data. Therefore, an aircraft response to the actuation of the direct lift control surfaces or the pitch control surfaces reduces a vertical acceleration, a pitch acceleration, a pitch rate, a pitch attitude or a structural load of the aircraft due to the turbulence. Thus, the method reduces the effects of vertical gusts of wind on the aircraft, improves the comfort level for aircraft passengers and crew, and reduces diversions the aircraft may take to avoid the turbulence.
US08774981B2	Infantry robotic porter system and methods useful in conjunction therewith A robotic system comprising a robotic platform; a follow-path functionality enabling the robotic platform to follow a leading soldier, at least selectably, without reliance on GPS; and a Human Machine Interface between the platform and a leading soldier.
US08774980B2	Container data center and cooling system thereof A cooling system includes a first temperature sensor, a pump, a first controller, and a first filtering device. The first temperature sensor senses a temperature of an external water source and outputs a first temperature value. The pump pumps the water from the external water source. The first controller is connected between the first temperature sensor and the pump to receive the first temperature value, and compare the first temperature value with a first predetermined temperature value. If the first temperature value is less than the first predetermined temperature value, the first controller controls the pump to pump the water from the external water source. The first filtering device is connected to the pump to receive and filter the pumped water and output the filtered water to a cold water pipe of the container data center to cool servers of the container data center.
US08774975B2	Outage management algorithm Techniques and systems are described that assist in predicting, diagnosing, and/or managing an incident in a utility service area. A communication system is provided in the service area to communicate with nodes of the service area. In some instances, the communication system is configured to communicate with nodes of the service area according to a hierarchy of the nodes and/or a physical location of the nodes.
US08774970B2	Trainable multi-mode floor cleaning device A floor cleaning device that is manually trainable for subsequent automatic operation. Prior to automatic operation, a user trains the cleaning device by manually manipulating the device through one or more desired cleaning paths. After training of the device, the device is configured to automatically initiate subsequent cleaning operations in accordance with the trained routine(s). Preferably, the training routine includes user specification of one of a number of cleaning modalities that are supported by the flooring cleaning device. In addition to automatic navigation, the floor cleaning device is configured to initiate a desired cleaning modality as a function of the device's position with respect to one or more of the trained routine(s).
US08774968B2	Trajectory planning method, trajectory planning system and robot A trajectory planning system obtains a trajectory for controlling a state of an object toward a goal state. The system includes a search tree generating section which registers a state of the object as a root of a search tree in a state space, registers a next state of the object after a lapse of a predetermined time interval obtained through dynamical relationships during the time interval as a branch of the search tree in the state space. The system further includes a known-state registration tree storing section which stores a known-state registration tree and a known-state registration tree generating section which determines a cell to which the next state belongs among a plurality of cells previously prepared by segmenting the state space, determines whether or not a state which belongs to the cell has already been registered as a branch of the known-state registration tree, discards the next state when a state which belongs to the cell has been registered, and registers the next step as a branch of the known-state registration tree when a state which belongs to the cell has not been registered. The system further includes a trajectory generating section which selects a state whose distance to the goal state is minimum among states registered as branches of the known-state registration tree and obtains a trajectory using a sequence of states in a backward direction from the state toward the root of the known-state registration tree.
US08774966B2	Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface and a second cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arraigned to apply a cleaning fluid onto the surface and to thereafter collect the cleaning fluid up from the surface after it has been used to clean the surface. The robot chassis carries a supply of cleaning fluid and a waste container for storing waste materials collected up from the cleaning surface.
US08774965B2	Method and device for controlling a manipulator According to a method according to the invention for controlling a manipulator, in particular a robot (10), a planned path (z1(t)) of the manipulator is specified by a path generating device (1.1, 1.2, 1.3), a control path (z2(t)) is determined automatically on the basis of the planned path by a path conversion device (2), and the control path is traversed with the manipulator by a manipulator controller (3), with the path conversion device (2) determining curvature information (aij; t2(ti)) of the control path on the basis of curvature information (aij; t1(ti)) of the planned path.
US08774964B2	Secure medicament dispensing cabinet, method and system A medicament dispensing cabinet includes a frame, at least one controller, and a plurality of drawers each movably carried by the frame and each defining a plurality of dispensing cells. A plurality of dispensing devices is provided with each one carried by one of the dispensing cells. Each of the dispensing cells further comprises a motor for providing rotary motion to one of the removable dispensing devices in response to the controller, a sensor operating in conjunction with the controller for counting medicament dispensed from one of the removable dispensing devices, a chute for receiving medicament dispensed from one of the removable dispensing devices and a chute gate for controlling access to the chute. The cabinet may additionally comprise a chute gate release responsive to the controller for controlling the chute gate and a chute gate sensor connected to the controller and responsive to the position of the chute gate.
US08774961B2	Automatic delivery system for continuous batch order processing An automatic delivery system includes a conveyor including powered first rollers arranged in parallel with each other defining a spacing between sequential ones of the first rollers. Fixed second rollers or fixed members are each connected to and coaxially aligned with individual ones of the first rollers and sequentially separated by the first roller spacing. The second rollers are divisible into at least two groups, each defining a loading station. Each of the loading stations has a station positioning device including at least one extension rod extending through and horizontally displaceable within the spacing between sequential ones of the first and second rollers. The station positioning device displaces a container received on the powered first rollers into and out of the loading station. A computer controlling the system and the station positioning device includes data for components inserted into the container at the loading station of each group.
US08774957B2	Embroidery data generating device, computer readable medium storing embroidery data processing program, and sewing machine An embroidery data generating device is disclosed. The embroidery data generating device generates embroidery data that is used for sewing an embroidery pattern including multiple color-wise pattern sections with a sewing machine and that includes thread color data specifying a color of each of the color-wise pattern sections. The embroidery data generating device includes a first storage device that stores multiple entries of preset color information; an extractor that randomly extracts color data used as the thread color data from each entry of the color information stored in the first storage device; and an allocator that randomly allocates the color data extracted by the extractor to each of the thread color data associated with each of the color-wise pattern sections.
US08774955B2	Audio control of multimedia objects In some examples, aspects of the present disclosure may include techniques for audio control of one or more multimedia objects. In one example, a method includes receiving an electronic document that includes a group of one or more multimedia objects capable of generating audio data. The method also includes registering a multimedia object of the group of one or more multimedia objects, wherein registering the multimedia object comprises storing a multimedia object identifier that identifies the multimedia object. The method further includes receiving audio data; and determining, by a computing device, a volume level of the audio data generated by the registered multimedia object based on one or more configuration parameters, wherein the one or more configuration parameters define one or more volume levels associated with the multimedia object identifier. The method also includes outputting, to an output device, the audio data at the determined volume level.
US08774953B2	Information processing device, control method therefor, and program An information processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the following elements: a detection unit configured to detect an amount of change in position of an image data item that is displayed on a display screen; and a processing unit configured to perform image processing on the image data item in accordance with a detection result that is obtained by the detection unit, and to perform audio processing on an audio data item corresponding to the image data item in accordance with the detection result that is obtained by the detection unit.
US08774952B2	Adaptive mode control apparatus and method for adaptive beamforming based on detection of user direction sound An adaptive mode control apparatus and method for adaptive beamforming based on detection of a user direction sound are provided. The adaptive mode control apparatus includes a signal intensity detector that searches for signal intensity of each designated direction to detect signal intensity having a maximum value when a voice signal of each direction is input through at least one microphone; and an adaptive mode controller that compares the signal intensity having the maximum value detected through the signal intensity detector with a threshold value and determines whether to perform an adaptive mode of a Generalized Sidelobe Canceller (GSC) according to the comparison results. Therefore, a lack of control of adaptation of an adaptive filter of the conventional art is solved. That is, as one condition for guaranteeing performance of adaptive beamforming, adaptation of an adaptive filter is not performed when noise of a sound with a high autocorrelation is cancelled.
US08774951B2	System and method for enhanced media playback Systems and methods for enhanced media playback are disclosed. According to one aspect, during media playback, auxiliary (or secondary) media can be integrated with primary media. For example, an electronic device offering media playback can not only play back media item data but can also play back other auxiliary media data. In one implementation, presentation of a media group can involve not only presentation of media items of the media group but also presentation of auxiliary media. Another aspect pertains to how and when auxiliary media data is to be presented (e.g., played) by an electronic device. Another aspect pertains to updating or refreshing auxiliary media data. Still another aspect pertains to restricting presentation of primary media by an electronic device unless auxiliary data is also presented.
US08774950B2	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for apparatus operation and remote sensing A method and system for controlling an apparatus including receiving data indicative of an actual state of the apparatus, defining a first viewpoint relative to at least one of the environment and the apparatus, determining a first predicted state of the apparatus at time T, determining a first predicted state of the environment at time T, producing a first virtualized view from the first viewpoint, sending a first control signal to the apparatus after producing the first virtualized view, defining a second viewpoint relative to at least one of the apparatus and the environment, determining a second predicted state of the apparatus at time T+delta T, determining a second predicted state of the environment at time T+delta T, producing the second virtualized view from the second viewpoint, sending a second control signal to the apparatus after producing the second virtualized view, and changing the actual state of the apparatus based on the first control signal.
US08774949B2	Hybrid intelligent control method and system for power generating apparatuses A present invention relates to a novel hybrid intelligent control system and method for power generating apparatuses, in which the control system comprises: a fuzzy sliding mode speed controller, embedded with a fuzzy inference mechanism so as to be used for controlling the speed of a power generating apparatus; and a radial basis function network (RBFN) pitch controller, being embedded with an on-line training RBFN so as to be used for controlling the pitch angle of a turbine coupled to the power generating apparatus. In a variable-speed energy conversion system using the aforesaid control system, the turbine can be driven to operate at its maximum efficiency by adjusting its blade pitch angle in response to the variation of the input flowing into the turbine, while allowing the shaft speed of the power generating apparatus to be controlled by a fuzzy interference mechanism so as to achieve its maximum power output.
US08774947B2	Controller for a climate control system A system is provided for controlling at least one climate control apparatus for conditioning a space. The system includes a controller mountable to a climate control apparatus that is segregated from the space to be conditioned. The controller has a plurality of selectable setting parameters for configuring the controller to operate at least one of a plurality of climate control apparatus, and a plurality of visual indicators for visually indicating the selection of at least one selectable setting parameter. A user interface is adapted for installation in the space, and has a display for displaying selectable setting parameters for configuring the controller. The user interface includes user input controls for enabling selection of at least one displayed selectable setting parameter, where the controller responsively activates at least one visual indicator for indicating the selection of at least one selectable setting parameter by the user-interface.
US08774941B2	Systems and methods for making and using paddle lead assemblies for electrical stimulation systems A paddle lead assembly for providing electrical stimulation of patient tissue includes a paddle body. The paddle body includes four columns of electrodes, each column including at least one electrode. The columns include two outer columns flanking two inner columns. The paddle lead assembly further includes a plurality of lead bodies coupled to the paddle body. At least one terminal is disposed on each of the plurality of lead bodies. A plurality of conductive wires couple each of the electrodes to at least one of the plurality of terminals.
US08774940B2	Paddle lead body with insertion tab An implantable stimulation system including an epidural lead for spinal cord stimulation that includes a paddle having an array of electrodes coupled to conductors within the paddle body. The paddle is elongated in shaped with the distal end of the paddle having a tabbed or extended portion with the lead exiting the extended portion of the paddle an angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the paddle.
US08774939B2	Electrical stimulation leads having RF compatibility and methods of use and manufacture An implantable lead has an inner core, a plurality of coiled conductor guides, and a plurality of conductors. The inner core defines a plurality of lumens. Each coiled conductor guide defines a plurality of helical lumens. Each coiled conductor guide is disposed in a coiled arrangement over a portion of the inner core. Each of the conductors electrically couples at least one electrode to at least one terminal. At least one of the conductors includes a plurality of units. Each unit includes a first conductor segment extending along the inner core from a beginning point to a first position, a coiled conductor segment disposed at least partially in one of the lumens of the coiled conductor guides and extending from the first position to the second position, and a second conductor segment extending along the inner core from the second position to an endpoint.
US08774938B2	Implant having three-dimensional shape for electrically stimulating a nerve structure The invention relates to an implant which includes, in order to electrically stimulate a nerve structure, in particular the retina, an electrically insulating substrate (1), a array of recesses (2) formed in an upper surface of the substrate, stimulation electrodes (3) arranged at the bottom of the recesses, and an electrically conductive layer forming a ground plane (4) at the upper portion of the recesses. The sizes of the recesses and of the electrodes of the implant are such that the spatial selectivity of the stimulation current applied to the nerve structure is maximized.
US08774936B2	Photoelectrical devices for stimulating neurons The present invention provides a novel photoelectrical device for efficient transmission of electrical signals to a neuron. This photoelectrical device comprises one or more charging units for coupling to and stimulating one or more neurons by charge, the charging unit comprising: a nanostructure-based electrode having a surface, which has a predetermined developed surface area for coupling to a neuron and which carries a plurality of photosensitive regions (e.g. quantum dots) interfacing with a biocompatible macromolecule for tuning the relative energy levels between the photosensitive regions and the electrode, as well as for directing the spatial polarity of charge separation the surface being thereby electrically chargeable and dischargeable in response to light excitation of the photosensitive regions, the charges stimulating the neuron when coupled to the surface.
US08774934B2	Temperature sensor for an implantable medical apparatus A temperature sensor for detecting heating of at least one electrode pole of a temporarily or permanently implantable electrode line or a similar implant having at least one elongated electrical conductor which is connected to at least one electrode pole. The temperature sensor has an impedance detecting unit or is connected to one and is configured for evaluating an electrode pole impedance detected by the impedance detecting unit in such a manner that the evaluation takes place with respect to a temperature-dependent feature of the electrode impedance. The impedance detecting unit is electrically connected to the at least one electrode pole or is configured and arranged to be electrically connected to the at least one electrode pole.
US08774922B2	Catheter apparatuses having expandable balloons for renal neuromodulation and associated systems and methods Methods and apparatus are provided for treating contrast nephropathy, e.g., via a pulsed electric field, via a stimulation electric field, via localized drug delivery, via high frequency ultrasound, via thermal techniques, etc. Such neuromodulation may effectuate irreversible electroporation or electrofusion, necrosis and/or inducement of apoptosis, alteration of gene expression, action potential attenuation or blockade, changes in cytokine up-regulation and other conditions in target neural fibers. In some embodiments, neuromodulation is applied to neural fibers that contribute to renal function. In some embodiments, such neuromodulation is performed in a bilateral fashion. Bilateral renal neuromodulation may provide enhanced therapeutic effect in some patients as compared to renal neuromodulation performed unilaterally, i.e., as compared to renal neuromodulation performed on neural tissue innervating a single kidney.
US08774920B2	Implantable device header and method Systems and methods for implantable medical devices and headers are described. In an example, an implantable medical device header is provided with an epoxy material having properties that produce a high strength resistance to side load failure. Examples are shown that include a surface texturing at an interface between the header and a metallic container portion.
US08774910B2	Polymer linear actuator for micro electro mechanical system and micro manipulator for measurement device of cranial nerve signal using the same A polymer linear actuator for a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) and a micro manipulator for a measurement device of cranial nerve signal using the same are provided. The polymer linear actuator has first and second bodies positioned spaced apart to a distance from each other, and one or more pairs of V-type moving units connecting the first and second bodies together, wherein the moving units in pair are opposed to each other to convert a rotation motion of the respective moving units into a linear motion, thereby causing the first and second bodies to move linearly.
US08774904B2	Device with an OCT system for examining and treating living tissue by means of heating of the tissue by absorbing electromagnetic radiation A device for examining or treating living tissue by means of local heating of the tissue by absorbing electromagnetic radiation, with at least one radiation source emitting electromagnetic radiation, a control unit for controlling the irradiation parameters of the radiation source, and at least one FD-OCT apparatus with a light source emitting a measurement light for illuminating that tissue region in which the electromagnetic radiation is absorbed by the tissue, characterized by a computational unit for carrying out the following steps: determining the depth-resolved tissue velocity in the radiation direction of the measurement light at a predetermined measurement point of the tissue from the phase information from the FD-OCT interference light, integrating the established tissue velocity over time, differentiating the calculated time integral with respect to space, and displaying the spatial derivative as a function of space and time and/or feeding the spatial derivative as a function of space and time to an evaluation module and/or feeding the spatial derivative as a function of space and time to the control unit.
US08774903B2	Medical imaging apparatus and method A medical device is used to image a body cavity using a plurality of axially and angularly spaced imaging sensors. Each imaging sensor generates an image that is distinct from one another due to distinct fields of vision. Each image includes an overlapping zone with commonalities that are used to extrapolate a greater calibrated image.
US08774900B2	Computer-aided osteoplasty surgery system A method for performing computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery includes the steps of: (1) producing and displaying three-dimensional geometrical models of first and second bones, the first and second bones forming a joint; (2) identifying a zone of impingement between the first bone and the second bone on at least one of the bones; and (3) generating and displaying a color map of at least one surface of at least one bone, the at least one surface being within the zone of impingement, the color map including different colors representing different depths of bone to be removed in order to achieve an increased range of motion between the first and second bones.
US08774898B2	Oxygen-enhanced MR imaging technique The present invention relates to a method of characterising tissue function in a subject in need of such characterization. The method comprises performing an imaging technique, on a voxel defined within a tissue space of interest, wherein image data is generated over a time period during which the subject inhales gases with at least two different partial pressures of a paramagnetic gas. A compartmental model algorithm is applied to the image data generated for the voxel to provide information on metabolic function of the tissue.
US08774890B2	Electrode arrays and methods of making and using same Described herein are improved electrode array devices and improved active agent delivery devices. Further described are methods of making and using the improved devices. An improved electrode array device includes a substrate and a plurality of probes disposed on the substrate, wherein the probes are formed from a plurality of aligned carbon nanotubes that are not encapsulated by a structure-providing material. An active agent delivery device includes a substrate having an aperture therein, an active agent delivery member disposed on a first surface of the substrate and having an aperture therein, and an active agent chamber disposed on a second surface of the substrate configured to deliver an active agent through the aperture of the substrate and the aperture of the active agent delivery member.
US08774889B2	Patient monitoring system with efficient pattern matching algorithm A patient monitoring system with an efficient pattern matching algorithm, a method, and a computer product thereof are disclosed. The system may include a physiological data input device or sensor which receives a plurality of physiological measurements within a time window thereby generating at least one time window data set, a memory which stores a program, and a processor. The program when executed by the processor, causes the processor to compress the at least one time window data set to a reduced-rank basis, and perform a pattern match between a reference pattern and the compressed at least one time window data set using a distance metric.
US08774886B2	Analyte sensor Systems and methods of use for continuous analyte measurement of a host's vascular system are provided. In some embodiments, a continuous glucose measurement system includes a vascular access device, a sensor and sensor electronics, the system being configured for insertion into a host's peripheral vein or artery.
US08774884B2	Systems, devices, and methods including a dark-field reflected-illumination apparatus Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing a monitor or treatment device configured to, for example, detect hemozoin, as well as to monitor or treat a malarial infection.
US08774883B2	Superconducting direct current transmission system A DC superconducting coaxial transmission system provides electrical transmission of 5,000 megawatts of energy while simultaneously delivering liquid hydrogen. The transmission system includes a coaxial transmission segment including an inner superconductor, an outer superconductor disposed in surrounding relation to the inner conductor, and a dielectric insulator disposed between the inner superconductor and the outer superconductor. Liquid hydrogen surrounds the superconductors. Three phase transformers and poly phase rectifier/inverters provide a DC voltage source to the superconductors from the electrical grid. In one embodiment, a switching circuit connected between the voltage source and the superconductor injects a cancellation current component into the direct current flow. The cancellation current component is polarized to flow in a direction opposite to the direct current flow to produce a current zero, thus enabling safe interruption of the high DC current while minimizing the magnitude of transient voltages during switching.
US08774882B2	Mobile device case with removably insertable corners A mobile device case including a housing sized to receive a mobile device. The housing includes at least one corner defining an aperture there through. A corner element is included and is removeably insertable within the aperture.
US08774880B2	Mobile wireless communications device with electrically conductive continuous ring and related methods A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing that may include an electrically conductive continuous ring defining a perimeter of the portable housing. The electrically conductive continuous ring may be configured to function as an antenna. The mobile wireless communications device may further include a printed circuit board (PCB) carried by the portable housing and may include an electrically conductive layer defining a ground plane. The mobile wireless communications device may further include wireless transceiver circuitry carried by the PCB and coupled to the antenna. The mobile wireless communications device may also include an electrically conductive shorting member coupled between the electrically conductive continuous ring and the ground plane.
US08774878B2	Ultra mobile communicating computer with finger holes to ease grip An Ultra Mobile Communicating Computer, that can have all of the features and capabilities of a smart phone and pocket computer combined and more, plus many other features such as hands free carrying, one-hand and desk free, walk & type, ready to use operation, a fast, multi finger, one or two hand keyboard with full set of large, soft touch keys, large bi-directional screen, photo cell pads and others, and that can be made disintegrable, reconfigurable, custom made, in particular to be a talking machine for speech challenged, an car for deaf, a crime prevention device, computer remote control, translator, musical instrument and multi party game gadget, in addition to a thin earpiece, an ear borne music player, video player, radio and or TV.
US08774875B1	Spatial separation-enabled noise reduction Noise reduction is provided to audio captured by a headset by employing spatially separated microphones provided by a headset and a mobile phone. Primary audio is captured by a headset microphone and includes both voice audio and ambient noise. Secondary audio is captured by a mobile phone microphone and includes ambient audio. Noise reduction is performed using the primary and secondary audio to generate a noise-reduce audio.
US08774872B2	Methods and devices for providing a ring signal to a called party terminal Methods and devices for providing a ring signal to a called party terminal (450, 550, 650, 750, 124, 134) for a call from a calling party terminal (400, 500, 600, 700, 120, 130) to the called party terminal for alerting the called party regarding the call from the calling party. A communication network node (420, 520, 620, 720, 122, 132, D90) receives (S100) an indication of an attempt for the call and sends (S110) a ring signal specified by the calling party at a service node (430, 530, 630, 730, 125, 135, D100) of a calling party ring signal service to the called party terminal for alerting the called party regarding the call from the calling party.
US08774868B2	Power-saving system and method for a mobile terminal The present invention discloses a power-saving system and method for a mobile terminal. By way of monitoring the power level of the mobile terminal, the present invention adopts a high visual contrast power-saving mode while reducing the backlight lightness when the power level is low. The present invention achieves the object of increasing the display resolution and facilitating the user to obtain information while saving power.
US08774866B1	Electrically floating, near vertical incidence, skywave antenna An Electrically Floating, Near Vertical Incidence, Skywave (NVIS) Antenna comprising an antenna element, a floating ground element, and a grounding element. At least part of said floating ground element is positioned between said antenna element and said grounding element. The antenna is separated from the floating ground element and the grounding element by one or more electrical insulators. The floating ground element is separated from said antenna and said grounding element by one or more electrical insulators.
US08774865B2	Method for operating a base station and base station A method for operating a base station of a mobile wireless system, in particular of a mobile communications network, wherein the base station is configured to operate in different operation states, wherein the operation states at least include an active operational mode, in which the radio interface subsystem of the base station is fully activated, and a low-duty operational mode with reduced radio transmission activity, is characterized in that in the low-duty operational mode the base station implements a window mechanism including availability intervals during which radio transmissions are allowed and unavailability intervals in which no radio transmissions are allowed. Furthermore, a corresponding base station for deployment in a mobile wireless system is disclosed.
US08774858B2	Adaptive RF saturation detection in a wireless device implementing multiple wireless protocols System and method for detecting radio frequency (RF) saturation in a wireless device configured to simultaneously receive first signals according to a first wireless protocol and second signals according to a second wireless protocol. Signals having components of both the first and second signals may be received at a shared gain element. A level of saturation of the shared gain element may be determined. A current definition of a saturation event may be determined. A gain adjustment value may be determined based on the level of saturation and the current definition of a saturation event. A gain value of the shared gain element may be adjusted by the determined gain adjustment value.
US08774857B2	Schemes for the efficient reception of radio communications signals Receiving a Wi-Fi radio signal using a Bluetooth receiver architecture. Also, adapting a Wi-Fi receiver architecture to constrain a received radio signal to less than the bandwidth of a conveyed Wi-Fi signal for subsequent processing purposes.
US08774855B2	Method to estimate head relative handset location In one embodiment, the disclosure includes an apparatus comprising a processor configured to estimate a position of a wireless communication device relative to a user's body part based on an output of at least one sensor, wherein the position is selected from a group comprising: a left side position, a right side position, and a front-facing position, and configure at least one wireless communication device setting based on the estimated position. In another embodiment, the disclosure includes a mobile device comprising at least one sensor, an antenna subsystem, a transceiver subsystem coupled to the antenna subsystem, and a processor coupled to the transceiver subsystem and the sensor, and wherein the processor is configured to determine that the mobile device is in use, obtain a tilt angle of the mobile device from the sensor, and estimate the mobile device location relative to a user's body using the tilt angle.
US08774854B2	Cell type information sharing between neighbor base stations The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for cell type information sharing between neighbor base stations in a telecommunications system. One embodiment comprises informing a second radio base station serving a second cell and having a neighbor relation with a first cell served by a first base station, of at least the cell type of the first cell. This is accomplished by adding the cell type information to a set of information to be signaled to the second base station, and then signalling the set of information to the second base station.
US08774846B2	Methods and apparatus relating to wireless terminal beacon signal generation, transmission, and/or use A portable wireless terminal generates and transmits a beacon signal. The beacon signal includes a sequence of beacon signal bursts, each beacon signal burst including one or more beacon symbols. A beacon symbol is transmitted using the air link resources of a beacon symbol transmission unit at a relatively high transmission power level with respect to user data symbols transmitted from the same wireless terminal, thus facilitating easy detection by other wireless terminals. The beacon symbols of the beacon signal occupy a small fraction of the total available air link resources. Beacon signals can, and sometimes do, convey wireless terminal identification information, via the location of the beacon symbols within the portion of the air link resource reserved for beacon symbol transmission units.
US08774836B2	Method and system for optimized transfer of location database information A servicing communication device may receive a subset of a location reference database that is maintained by a plurality of location servers, and may provide location related data to a mobile device that is communicatively coupled to the servicing communication device based on the received subset. The servicing communication device may determine capabilities and/or requirements of the mobile device, and may generate the location related data based on that determination. The servicing communication device may determine attributes and/or parameters that may affect determination of the subset of the location reference database. The subset of location reference database may be requested based on the determined attributes and/or parameters. The attributes and/or parameters may comprise a location of the servicing communication device. The servicing communication device may determine its location, directly based on GNSS transmissions and/or indirectly based on assisted GNSS (A-GNSS) data received from the plurality of location servers.
US08774835B2	Methods, systems and computer program products for a remote business contact identifier This disclosure details the implementation of methods, systems and computer program products for remote business contact identification (hereinafter, “RBCI”). RBCI systems implement a remote business identification application whereby users may submit rich media including indicative information of at least one target business entity to a RBCI service provider, and the service provider may identify the target business entity within its database and return the contact information of the target business entity to the user instantly.
US08774833B2	Navigation system destination entry A system and method for entering a destination into a navigation system, usually a vehicle navigation system, that reduces the cognitive load on the vehicle user over known systems. The method includes contacting the destination by any suitable and available manner, such as by a cell phone provided on or in the vehicle, through the internet, through an ad-hoc network, etc., where information concerning the GPS location of the destination is sent back to the navigation system and is displayed on the navigation system screen. If the destination is accurate, the vehicle driver can select that destination, such as by touching an icon on the screen, which would allow the destination entry process to be performed while the vehicle was moving.
US08774831B2	Database seeding with location information for wireless access points A query device scans radio frequencies for visible transmitting devices. The querying device receives at least a signal strength and identifier information associated with each of the transmitting devices. The list of visible devices is used to query a database containing location information for a plurality of visible devices. The list may be sent to a locationing system that may perform a location analysis on the resulting data to return a location to the query device. The weighted average of the locations returned in the database query may be computed to determine the location of the querying device, with the weight for each of the locations being the current signal strength detected by the querying device. Neural network analysis may also be used to determine the location of the querying device. Learning and seeding operations many also be used to populate the database with location information for transmitting devices.
US08774830B2	Training pattern recognition systems for determining user device locations A query device scans radio frequencies for visible transmitting devices. The querying device receives at least a signal strength and identifier information associated with each of the transmitting devices. The list of visible devices is used to query a database containing location information for a plurality of visible devices. The list may be sent to a locationing system that may perform a location analysis on the resulting data to return a location to the query device. The weighted average of the locations returned in the database query may be computed to determine the location of the querying device, with the weight for each of the locations being the current signal strength detected by the querying device. Neural network analysis may also be used to determine the location of the querying device. Learning and seeding operations many also be used to populate the database with location information for transmitting devices.
US08774829B2	Sensor node positioning for location determination Systems, methods, and devices are described for determining a physical location of a wireless device. A receiver may be configured to receive associations between anchor locations and sensor nodes, wherein each sensor node uses near field communications to identify an anchor location. The receiver may also receive signal strength measurements from the wireless device measuring the signal strength of wireless sensor nodes. Arrangements may also be configured to determine physical locations of the sensor nodes based on physical locations of anchor locations and utilize received signal strength measurements with the determined physical locations of the sensor nodes to determine the physical location of the wireless device.
US08774827B2	Apparatus and method for generating position fix of a tracking device in accordance with a subscriber service usage profile to conserve tracking device power A tracking device is disclosed for communication of location coordinate information. In one embodiment, the tracking device includes a signal transceiver device, a location coordinate acquisition device, and a computational processor activated and deactivated in accordance with a subscriber service usage profile. The location coordinate acquisition device generates a position fix of the tracking device and a signal transceiver device reports the position fix to a location tracking server. A flash memory device stores a zone management map. In accordance with a fix reporting period based at least in part on a subscriber service usage application including or accessing the subscriber service usage profile, an internal clock activates or deactivates the signal transceiver device, the computational processor, and/or the location coordinate acquisition device. In one example, the internal clock updates a fix reporting period based on current position fix relative to restricted and allowed areas on the zone management map.
US08774826B2	System and method for reducing latency of location based information retrieved from a location service A system and method is provided for reducing latency when providing user location information services. The system is implemented in a computer infrastructure which comprises computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium. The executable code is operable to trigger a location based service to obtain user location information prior to the user registering for location services.
US08774824B1	Alleviating and overriding throttled conditions in LTE Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for alleviating and overriding throttled conditions in Long Term Evolution networks are provided. In embodiments, indications that throttled conditions have been reached are received at Mobile Management Entities. Cause codes are communicated, in embodiments, to mobile devices directing the mobile devices to refrain from further attach attempts. In embodiments, attach attempts associated with unique identifiers are received by the Mobile Management Entities that override throttled conditions. In embodiments, authentication failure conditions from the Mobile Management Entities are detected. Algorithms are invoked, in embodiments, to initiate cell barring modes for base stations and detect failure percentages.
US08774823B2	Cellular network load balancing A method and system are disclosed for operation of a cellular network comprising a first base station, a second base station and a mobile station being served by the first base station. Load information is received from the second base station at the mobile station, the load information indicating a load placed on the resources of the second base station and a load indication based on the received load information is communicated from the mobile station to the first base station. The first base station may be a macrocell base station and the second base station may be a non-planned or femtocell base station.
US08774822B2	Transmission of data within a communications network Transmission of control parameters from a controller of a communications network via an interface to a network element of the network, in order to enable the network element to configure high speed downlink packet access, is enable by an interference application protocol which allows the controller to add the control parameters to control messages transmitted from the controller to the network element via the interference.
US08774816B2	Dynamic shared forward link channel for a wireless communication system A dynamic shared forward link channel (or “data” channel) is used to send multicast data to a group of wireless devices, e.g., using a common long code mask for the data channel. Reference power control (PC) bits are also sent on the data channel and used for signal quality estimation. A shared forward link control channel is used to send user-specific signaling to individual wireless devices, e.g., using time division multiplexing (TDM) and a unique long code mask for each wireless device. A shared forward link indicator channel is used to send reverse link (RL) PC bits to the wireless devices, e.g., using TDM. The data channel is jointly power controlled by all wireless devices receiving the data channel. The control and indicator channels are individually power controlled by each wireless device such that the signaling and RL PC bits sent on these channels for the wireless device are reliably received.
US08774813B2	Interference management In a network containing a macro base station and wireless access points within the range of the macro base station, information from wireless access points are used to change the quantity of almost blank subframes delivered by the macro base station, adjust the cell range extension area of one or more of the wireless access points, or provide instructions to alter the number of wireless access points. The information is analyzed. The analysis allows determination of a capacity gain associated with using the wireless access points within an area associated with the macro base station and whether the capacity gain provides at least a threshold amount of gain permitting the macro base station and the wireless access points to provide service to mobile devices within the area.
US08774811B2	Method for selecting optimal radio access technology and communication apparatuses utilizing the same A communication apparatus is provided. A first subscriber identity card camps on a first cell, which is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and belongs to a first wireless network, via a radio transceiver module. A second subscriber identity card camps on a second cell, which is associated with a second RAT and belongs to a second wireless network, via the radio transceiver module. A processor constructs a first packet switch connection with the first wireless network via the first subscriber identity card to perform data transfer in the first wireless network, measures a first data transfer throughput of the first wireless network when performing the data transfer via the first subscriber identity card, and determines to perform the data transfer in the second wireless network via the second subscriber identity card when a theoretical data transfer throughput corresponding to the second RAT is higher than the first data transfer throughput.
US08774809B2	Electronic device and operating method thereof The present invention relates to an electronic device and a method of operating the electronic device. There are provided an electronic device and a method of operating the electronic device that may more effectively resolve handover request collisions by using a specific field value included in a handover request message.
US08774807B2	Method of performing handover in multi carrier wireless access system There is provided a method for handover of a terminal in a wireless access system using multi-carrier operation. The method comprises: receiving a handover command message from a serving base station; and performing network reentry to a target base station based on the handover command message, wherein the handover command message includes information required for handover to the target base station and information on whether the target base station supports handover using multi-carriers. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently perform the handover in the wireless access system supporting the multi-carriers.
US08774805B2	System and method for radio access technology-specific routing for multi-mode mobile devices Systems and methods for radio access technology specific routing for multi-mode mobile devices are provided. For each of a number of radio access technologies supported by a mobile device, the mobile device is configured to use respective routing information. This has the advantage of allowing radio access technology specific processing to be performed.
US08774802B2	Method and apparatus for EPLMN list management in mobile terminal An apparatus and method for Equivalent Public Land Mobile Network (EPLMN) list management in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes receiving a message from a network after storing an EPLMN list having at least one PLMN entry, determining whether an EPLMN list is present in the received message, and performing EPLMN list management by maintaining, when an EPLMN list is not present in the received message, the stored EPLMN list. As a result, the mobile terminal may retain an accurate EPLMN list and efficiently perform cell selection/reselection.
US08774800B2	UE initiated frequency partitioning based CoMP scheme for downlink cellular communications In the embodiments of the present invention, proposed is a method in which a CoMP enabled UE chooses the BSs to be in its cooperating set and a BS partitions its bandwidth to serve its own UEs and UEs from other cells that have requested it to be in its cooperating set.
US08774798B2	Determining capability to provide dynamic local time updates in a prepaid terminating call A method and system for setting a charging rate for a terminating call to a prepaid mobile subscriber in a telecommunications network is provided. A query from a GMSC to a mobile subscriber's HLR returns information from a VMSC where the mobile subscriber is registered, including local time information for the MSC where the mobile subscriber is registered. The local time information can be included in an Initial Detection Point at call setup so that a peak or off-peak rate for the call can be set. Additional messaging between the GMSC and the VMSC/VLR can determine the capability of the VMSC/VLR to provide updated local time information for the duration of the call.
US08774796B2	System using international roaming-capable mobile communication network The present invention provides a system using an international roaming-capable mobile communication network in which a server controls the form in which a service is provided in accordance with the country of a service area in which a mobile station is located. The mobile station 1 determines the service area in which the mobile station 1 is located in accordance with a mobile communication mode set by a mobile communication mode setting function. Alternatively, the mobile station 1 determines the service area in which it is located through notification information relating to a mobile communication network system, received from a base station. When the mobile station 1 transmits a request for a service to a content provider server 4, the mobile station 1 simultaneously adds a region header describing the determined service area. A gateway G/W63 may add the region header instead of the mobile station 1.
US08774795B2	Reconfigurable satcom avionics radio In one embodiment, a main radio unit for an avionic communication system is provided. The main radio unit includes a software defined radio (SDR) configured to simultaneously provide at least one safety certified channel for a cockpit of an aircraft and at least one other channel for cabin services of the aircraft, wherein the SDR is configurable such that the SDR can generate signals corresponding to different communication protocols. The main radio unit also includes an interface for the at least one safety certified channel, wherein the interface is configured to convert signals between a protocol for hardware in the cockpit and a satellite communication protocol used by the SDR for the at least one safety certified channel; and wherein the SDR is configured to communicate with an RF unit for transmission and reception of signals over an antenna.
US08774794B2	Flexible telematics system and method for providing telematics to a vehicle A method for providing telematics to a vehicle includes the steps of providing a user-removable telematics component that has a Global Positioning System device, a data pump, and a short range wireless personal area network transceiver (e.g., Bluetooth transceiver), communicatively connecting the telematics component to an integrated communication device of the vehicle, the integrated communication device having a memory holding a list uniquely identifying at least one mobile communication device selected from a currently paired mobile communication device, a previously paired mobile communication device, and a pre-defined mobile communication device, transmitting a request for information out from the telematics component utilizing a communications path of the data pump, receiving the request for information at an off-site telematics provider, and channeling a response to the request for information from the off-site telematics provider automatically through the at least one mobile communication device.
US08774792B2	Method, apparatus, and system for measuring aggregated carrier cell A method for measuring an aggregated carrier cell includes: obtaining, by a user equipment, measurement configuration information of an aggregated carrier cell, where the measurement configuration information includes signal estimation value information and a corresponding measurement period thereof; obtaining, by the user equipment, a measurement period of a non-active component carrier according to a signal estimation value of the non-active component carrier in the aggregated carrier cell and the measurement configuration information; and measuring the non-active component carrier according to the measurement period. With the method of the present invention, the user equipment can measure different component carriers in an aggregated carrier cell in different periods.
US08774789B2	Enhanced discontinuous mode operation with shared radio frequency resources A scheduling technique is described for discontinuous transmission and reception. The scheduling technique may be implemented in a mobile communication device with multiple SIMs. The scheduling technique facilitates enhanced communication capability for the mobile communication device. In one implementation, the scheduling technique helps avoid substantial overlap between discontinuous receive cycles of the SIMs, for example by renegotiating a discontinuous transmit/receive offset if too much overlap exists. The renegotiation process may be incorporated into a future industry standard communication protocol (e.g., 3GPP release 11 or later), or may be implemented as an extension to an existing communication protocol.
US08774787B2	Methods and systems for providing location-sensitive conference calling Systems and methods for providing location based conference calling services on communications networks. Location information relating to a device is passed to a location sensitive conference calling system. The location sensitive conference calling system uses the location information to identify a conference calling system, or a conference bridge associated with a conference calling system, to which to connect the device. The device is connected with the conference calling system, or a conference bridge associated with the conference calling system.
US08774785B1	Methods and systems for blocking unwanted communications Methods and systems are described for processing call blocking instructions and for managing mobile messaging. A method of processing call blocking instructions is described. A call processing system receives a call from a caller intended for a first user. A notification regarding the call is transmitted to a mobile device associated with the first user. A message from the user is received via the mobile device, wherein the message is a text or multimedia type message. At least partly in response to the message, the caller is placed on a blacklist indicating that future calls from the caller to the user are to be blocked.
US08774769B2	Updating timestamps of short messages A time stamp of a message from a sending mobile device may be modified to correlate with the time zone occupied by a recipient mobile device. A message from a sending mobile device may be received at a message center. The message center may then route the message to a switch that manages the recipient mobile device, in which the switch is in a time zone that is different from the time zone occupied by the recipient mobile device. Accordingly, the switch may update a time stamp of the message to correlate with the time zone occupied by the recipient mobile. Following the update, the switch may transfer the message with the updated time stamp to the recipient mobile device.
US08774767B2	Method and apparatus for providing phonebook using image in a portable terminal A method and apparatus for providing a phonebook using an image in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes recording contact information in metadata of an image, and performing a linkage function using the image having the contact information recorded therein.
US08774765B2	Systems and methods for providing mobile handset position to software applications Providing information as to location of a mobile station involves receiving a mobile station location request from a requesting software application at an API gateway of a wireless communications network. The API gateway provides a network-initiated request to the wireless communications network for the location of the mobile station after determining that the requesting application is authorized to receive the location of the specified mobile station. The location of the mobile station can be determined, according to either a coarse or granular location position resolution, or accuracy, based on the request of the application and/or the conditions of the wireless communication network. Information as to location of the mobile station can be produced, and provided to the requesting software application, which can be resident on the mobile station itself or at a different location/platform.
US08774764B2	Method and system for peer-to-peer enforcement The present invention concerns a method and a system for establishing a dynamic peer-to-peer communications channel between a first terminal and a second terminal. A first terminal and a second terminal are connectable over secured communications channels to a secured network. The first terminal sends a connection request for establishing a communications channel between the terminals. The connection request is intercepted and analyzed by an analyzer module. The analyzer modules requests network parameters from the first and the second terminals. Based on the intercepted connection request, and the network parameters of the terminals, the analyzer module instructs the terminal to establish a peer-to-peer communications channel over a network distinct from the secured network. Security of the peer-to-peer communications channel may be maintained by means of a central unit of the secured network. In this regard, the central unit may send to the terminal authentication keys and/or encryption keys.
US08774761B2	Mobile device to detect unexpected behaviour Disclosed is an apparatus and method for a mobile device to detect unexpected behavior associated with the mobile device. The mobile device may include a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to monitor at least one of physical conditions and/or device actions associated with the mobile device. If a call or a data transmission is requested, the processor may be configured to compare the monitored physical conditions and/or device actions to an anomaly threshold value and may execute an anomaly exception routine if the anomaly threshold value is exceeded.
US08774760B2	Method and system for providing real-time alert notification A system and method for providing real-time alert message to one or more subscribers in a service provider network is provided. The service provider network may be an enterprise, a communication service provider or a hosted service. A throttler application receives request for alert message generated by an alert originator application and relays the request to a gateway of an alert notification module. A token associated with the request is validated. Based on token parameter values which includes subscriber identities, delivery channel specifications, alert originator application priorities and end point identities, the alert message is customized and is presented to one or more appropriate delivery channel servers. The alert message is then delivered to the one or more subscribers.
US08774750B2	Method and apparatus for controlling a harmonic rejection mixer In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal and mixing the RF signal with a master clock to obtain a mixed signal, cyclically rotating the mixed signal to each of N gain stages for at least one cycle of the master clock, and summing the outputs of the N gain stages to provide an output signal.
US08774748B2	Receiver for FSK radio frequency signals with high sensitivity demodulator and method for activating the same The high sensitivity FSK radiofrequency signal receiver includes an antenna for receiving FSK radiofrequency signals, a LNA amplifier receiving signals picked up by the antenna, a local oscillator for supplying oscillating signals, a mixer for mixing the incoming signals with the oscillating signals to produce intermediate signals. The receiver includes a broadband or poly-phase filter for filtering the intermediate signals, and a sampler for supplying sampled intermediate signals to a high sensitivity demodulation stage, which supplies data signals. The receiver includes a processing circuit for performing a discrete Fourier transform of sampled intermediate signals. The selector at the processing circuit output determines the difference between the signal amplitude peak frequency above a determined threshold and the expected frequency of the intermediate signals. The frequency difference enables for correcting the oscillating signals frequency, to enable the demodulation stage to demodulate the data in the sampled intermediate signals and supply data signals.
US08774742B2	High efficiency transmitter A high efficiency transmitter is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a transmitter is provided that includes a first transmission path configured to receive a baseband signal and generate a first RF output when output power is in a first output power range, and a second transmission path configured to receive the baseband signal and generate a second RF output when the output power is in a second output power range.
US08774740B2	Power control for power amplifiers Aspects of a system for improving efficiency over power control for linear and class AB power amplifiers may include a current source circuit that enables determination of a bias current level for a PA circuit within an IC die based on an amplitude of an input modulation signal. The PA circuit may enable generation of an output signal based on a differential input signal and the input modulation signal to the current source circuit. A generated bias voltage may be applied to a transformer external to the IC die, but internal to an IC package containing the IC die and/or a circuit board containing the IC package. One or more amplifier bias voltage levels may be applied to the PA circuit wherein the amplifier bias voltage levels may be derived from the generated bias voltage level and/or the determined bias current level.
US08774739B2	Multi-mode power supply regulator for power amplifier control A radio frequency (RF) power amplification system in which a combination of a linear voltage regulator having a PFET pass device and a DC-DC converter having an NFET pass device is used to supply power to an RF power amplifier. The RF power amplifier receives power from either the linear voltage regular and its associated PFET pass device or the DC-DC converter and its NFET pass device, depending upon the condition of a mode signal.
US08774735B2	Extracting clock information from a serial communications bus for use in RF communications circuitry The present disclosure relates to RF front-end (RFFE) circuitry that includes multiple RFFE circuits, each of which may be provided by a separate integrated circuit (IC), front-end module, or both. As such, the RFFE circuits may be connected to one another using an RFFE serial communications bus. Further, one or more of the RFFE circuits may need an accurate clock source for analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), digital-to-analog conversion (DAC), calibration, sensor measurements, or the like. Instead of including an integral clock source circuit or receiving a separate external clock signal, an RFFE circuit may extract clock information from the RFFE serial communications bus to provide one or more clock signals. The clock information may be associated with one or more serial communications commands via the RFFE serial communications bus, may be associated with alternate functionality of the RFFE serial communications bus, or both.
US08774732B2	Wireless device, wireless communication system, and wireless communication method A wireless device selects another wireless device that is the relay destination of data and transmits data to a data collector that collects data. Then, the wireless device transmits data obtained by adding relay-destination-device identification information of identifying the another wireless device that is a relay destination to the same as data transmitted to the data collector to the selected wireless device that is the relay destination of data. Moreover, the wireless device transmits the received data to the data collector when data obtained by adding relay-destination-device identification information is received from another wireless device and the device itself corresponds to the relay-destination-device identification information.
US08774731B2	Compensation apparatus There is provided an apparatus for a satellite communication system comprising: a processor to determine at least one out of a phase offset for a frequency channel of a plurality of frequency channels demultiplexed from a carrier to compensate for group delay variation within the carrier and a gain offset for the frequency channel to compensate for gain variation within the carrier, wherein the processor is further configured to apply the at least one out of the determined phase offset and gain offset to the frequency channel before the carrier is reformed from said plurality of frequency channels. The invention therefore provides a way of digitally compensating for any undesired gain and group delay introduced by, for example, analogue components such as filters in the satellite communication system.
US08774728B2	Method for managing the operation of a wireless device, in particular for reducing interferences with a potential victim device A wireless device belongs to a wireless communication system and exchanges information within at least one band of frequencies. A method includes detecting a presence of at least one victim device operating within the at least one band of frequencies. The first wireless device is provided with an antenna array, and the detecting step includes analyzing an environment of the wireless device through the antenna array, and if the at least one victim device is detected, reducing interference by controlling the antenna array to steer the antenna beam toward an area located outside a vicinity of the potential victim device to exchanging information within the at least one band of frequencies with at least a second wireless device located in the area.
US08774726B2	Arrangement and method for simulating a radio access network The present invention relates to a reverberation chamber (RC) comprising at least one antenna head attached at a first side of the chamber and a stirrer adapted to rotate. The RC comprises an arrangement to enable UE antennas to be placed at a location within the RC such that the stirrer is adapted to rotate to simulate a fading condition for the UE antennas in relation to the antenna heads attached at the first side and that RF connections from the antenna heads arc adapted to be connected to a cellular network, such as a closed cellular network.
US08774725B1	Calibration correction for implicit beamforming in MIMO systems A transmitter beamforming technique for use in a MIMO wireless communication system determines a calibration factor and then applies the calibration factor to a transmit beamforming steering matrix developed using implicit beamforming. The beamforming technique first determines descriptions of both the forward and reverse channels, determines an estimate of the forward channel from the description of the reverse channel, determines right singular matrixes which model the forward channel and the estimated forward channel and then develops a calibration factor from the determined right singular matrixes. The beamforming technique then applies the determined calibration factor to a steering matrix which is calculated using an implicit beamforming technique. The use of this beamforming technique provides superior beamforming results when using implicit beamforming without having to take the necessary steps to determine a description of the actual forward channel each time a new steering matrix is to be calculated.
US08774720B2	Data control apparatus, data control method, and storage medium A data control apparatus that enables data communication among devices with simple operations. A first communication unit communicates with a first device placed on a predetermined surface of the data control apparatus. A second communication unit communicates with a second device. A detection unit detects a position of the first device placed on the predetermined surface of the data control apparatus. A communication control unit controls communication between the first device and the second device according to the position of the first device detected by the detection unit.
US08774717B2	Portable AISG controller with smartphone interface and system A Master Antenna Controller System is provided. In one example, the Master Antenna Controller System comprises a handheld wireless device and a RET Master. The handheld wireless device may comprise an Android OS or iOS based smartphone or tablet that includes Wi-Fi capabilities communications capabilities. The RET Master may provide full RET control based on the AISG 1.1 and 2.0 standards and communicate with the handheld wireless device via a wireless access point, such as a Wi-Fi server. The combination may be configured to provide extensive, screen-guided, intuitive RET diagnostics functionality. The RET Master itself may also include multiple different pre-defined tests (e.g. test one actuator, test one RET cable, test AISG signal from TMA) and also some standard electrical tests, e.g. measuring voltage, current etc. Additional higher-level functions may be provided on an Application on the handheld wireless device and communicated to the RET Master wirelessly or by USB connection.
US08774714B2	External power supply system for a lock comprising NFC-type contactless communication means The invention relates to a system comprising: a lock (10) provided with electronic circuits for transmission/reception via NFC and electric circuits for controlling mechanical locking/unlocking members, and a mobile phone (16) provided with circuits allowing same to operate in NFC mode. In addition, means are provided for transmitting power to the lock by means of remote power feeding (18) from the phone, such as to charge a buffer capacitor in order subsequently to provide power temporarily to the electronic and electric circuits of the lock while the lock is querying the NFC circuits of the phone in order to check the authorization of the person with the phone and to order to opening of the door.
US08774712B2	Contactless communication medium, antenna pattern-placed medium, communication apparatus, and antenna adjusting method A contactless communication medium includes a base made of an insulating material, an antenna coil section including a conductor wound in a planar shape on the base, an inductance adjusting conductor pattern that is connected in parallel to a part of the conductor in the antenna coil section, and is placed on the base, a capacitor connected to the antenna coil section, and a communication processing section that is connected to the antenna coil section and the capacitor to perform contactless communication processing.
US08774711B2	Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, and wireless communication method A wireless communication system is disclosed. The wireless communication system performs data transmission using spatially multiplexed streams from a first terminal including N antennas to a second terminal including M antennas (N and M are integers larger than or equal to 2 and N>M).
US08774710B2	Dynamic signal detection threshold A method for setting a signal detection threshold according to one embodiment includes determining a measure of a noise floor in a signal derived from a radio frequency signal received by an antenna using a same circuit used to detect a subcarrier signal during transmitting and prior to sending a command to a transponder to respond; and setting a signal detection threshold above the noise floor. Such methodology may also be implemented as a system using logic for performing the various operations. Additional systems and methods are also presented.
US08774707B2	Utility grid wireless node with powered emergency device A wireless node that bridges a wireless communications gap between a first wireless device, such as a smart meter, and a wireless network, such as a smart grid network, by repeating wireless communications received by the wireless node. The wireless node is integrated with another powered device common to buildings to provide a clandestine improvement to wireless communications. Additionally, the wireless node may effect testing of the powered device and provide results of the test wirelessly to remote devices. The wireless node may take the form of an exit sign, an emergency light, a speaker, and a combination of one or more of these devices. The wireless node may also track power consumption of the repeater portion of the wireless node to provide billing credit to power consumers.
US08774706B2	Short-range wireless mobile terminal method and system A mobile wireless terminal is provided. The mobile wireless terminal includes a wireless unit, an audio codec, and a processor unit. The wireless unit is configured to connect to a wireless relay to make a voice communication with a phone network via the wireless relay, which is coupled between the mobile wireless terminal and the phone network. The audio codec is configured to process the voice communication. Further, the processor unit is coupled to the wireless unit and is configured to obtain a phone number from a user for an outgoing call to an external party in the phone network, and to connect to the wireless relay over a short-range wireless link. When the connection to the wireless relay is successful, the processor unit is configured to establish a signaling connection on an asynchronous connection-oriented logical (ACL) transport channel, and a voice connection on a synchronous connection oriented (SCO) channel between the mobile wireless terminal and the wireless relay. Further, the processor unit is configured to send the dialed outgoing call to the wireless relay via the signaling connection, and to communicate with the external party via the wireless relay over the voice connection.
US08774704B2	Virtual reader for processing applications A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for the automated processing and scoring of applications. Application reader resources are selected to read and score individual categories of the application. The difference between the respective reader scores and an average delta value for each category of each application that the selected readers have previously score is calculated. The standard deviation of the average delta value for each category is calculated. If the selected reader's score for that category is not within one standard deviation of the average delta value, then the selected reader's score is adjusted the least amount necessary to be so. An additional application reader is selected to read and score the application. Reading and scoring operations are continued until at least two reader scores are within one standard deviation of the average of the adjusted scores. Final scoring of all applications is performed and the scored applications are ranked in descending order.
US08774703B2	Method of releasing determination of fully loaded state in a sheet stacking apparatus A stacking unit accommodates sheets stacked on it. The stacking unit is capable of moving up and down within an operation range from a predetermined upper limit to a predetermined lower limit. A determination unit releases a determination of the fully loaded state if elapsed time from the time when the determination unit determines that the stacking unit has been fully loaded with sheets to the time when a sheet detection unit again detects an uppermost sheet of the stacked sheets as a result of the stacking unit being lifted up when the sheet detection unit can no longer detect the sheet after detection of the sheet exceeding a first threshold time preset in correspondence with the amount of curl imparted to the sheet.
US08774702B2	Sheet post-processing apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same There are provided a sheet post-processing apparatus which can reliably stack a sheet bundle in imbricated state without bending it and an image forming apparatus having the same.A sheet post-processing apparatus includes: a stacking portion which stacks a folded sheet bundle subjected to the folding process; a discharge portion which discharges the folded sheet bundle onto the stacking portion with the folded end thereof set to the leading position; and a conveying portion which conveys the folded sheet bundle stacked onto the stacking portion, wherein the conveying portion starts the conveyance of a previous folded sheet bundle at the timing at which the folded end of a next folded sheet bundle discharged by the discharge portion is abutted onto the previous folded sheet bundle which is being conveyed to the downstream side in the discharge direction.
US08774701B2	Image forming apparatus with reduced height There is provided an image forming apparatus including a transferring unit, fixing unit, a first sheet conveying path section, a re-conveying unit and a charge-removing member. The transferring unit transfers developer onto a sheet. The fixing unit fixes the developer transferred to the sheet to form a visible image on the sheet. The first sheet conveying path section extends through the transfer unit and the fixing unit, the sheet being conveyed from the transfer unit to the fixing unit along the first sheet conveying path section. The re-conveying unit constitutes a second sheet conveying path section for re-conveying the sheet from the fixing unit to an inlet side of the transfer unit, the second sheet conveying path section being positioned below the first sheet conveying path section. The charge-removing member is disposed between the first sheet conveying path section and the second sheet conveying path section, the charge-removing member constituting a part of the second sheet conveying path section and removing charges from the sheet conveyed along the first sheet conveying path section.
US08774696B2	Delivery apparatus There is described an applicator for use in an image forming apparatus. The applicator comprises a blade applicator comprising an elastomeric matrix and a functional material dispersed therein. The applicator blade is positioned in a trailing position with respect to a surface and wherein the functional material diffuses from the elastomeric matrix to the surface.
US08774691B2	Image forming apparatus, fixing device, and fixing method An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism for forming a toner image on a recording medium, and a fixing device for fixing the toner image on the recording medium. The fixing device including a fixing film, a pressure member, a contact member, a heating device, a holding member, and at least one of a low friction member and a thermal conductivity improving member provided between the fixing film and the contact member. The fixing film heated by the heating device via the contact member comes into contact with the recording medium. The pressure member comes into pressure contact with the fixing film. The contact member comes into pressure contact with the pressure member via the fixing film to form, between the fixing film and the pressure member, a nip portion through which the recording medium is passed. The holding member holds the contact member and the heating device.
US08774688B2	Image forming apparatus with leading-end and trailing-end holding members to prevent sagging of recording medium during transportation An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a transfer member, a leading-end holding member, and a trailing-end holding member. The leading-end holding member is mounted on the transfer member and holds, on an outer peripheral surface of the transfer member, a leading-end portion of a recording medium fed to a sheet feeding position that is further upstream than a transfer position in a rotation direction of the transfer member. The trailing-end holding member rotates along the outer peripheral surface. The trailing-end holding member presses the recording medium against the outer peripheral surface while waiting at a waiting position that is further upstream than the transfer position and downstream than the sheet feeding position, and holds a trailing end portion on the outer peripheral surface while rotating together with the transfer member when the trailing end portion of the recording medium arrives at the waiting position.
US08774686B2	Developing device and image forming apparatus having the same A developing device is provided that facilitates developing agent delivery upward. A cartridge includes a developing roller, a supply roller, and a container disposed below the supply roller. The container can have an upper portion formed with an opening having upper and lower edges. A conveying member can be rotatably disposed and in rotational contact with an inner surface of the container for delivering the developing agent upward. The developing agent container can include a first wall portion for receiving the developing agent through the opening. The first wall portion extends from the lower edge in a downstream direction with respect to a rotational direction of the conveying member toward a bottommost portion of the supply roller. The container also includes a second wall portion extending from the upper edge in an upstream direction. The conveying member can be in simultaneous sliding contact with the first and the second wall portions.
US08774684B2	Toner cartridge having a pivoting exit port cover A toner cartridge for use in an image forming device according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for containing toner therein. The housing has an exit port in fluid communication with the reservoir. A cover is mounted on an exterior portion of the housing that is pivotable between a closed position blocking the exit port and an open position unblocking the exit port. The cover is biased toward the closed position. The cover has a projection extending therefrom such that a force on the projection causes the cover to move toward the open position.
US08774674B2	Image forming apparatus and transport guiding device having a smoothly operating door An image forming apparatus includes a body frame, a transport unit, an image carrier, a transfer device, a fixing device, a guide member assembly, a door, and a positioning member. The guide member assembly includes a guide member, a positioned portion, and a support member. The support member supports the guide member and has a side wall that extends in such a direction as to intersect a line drawn in the width direction and that has a hole through which a support shaft is inserted with some play being present. The guide member assembly is supported by the door with some play being present between the guide member assembly and a base plate and is urged by an urging member. The hole is a long hole having a major axis extending in an opening direction of the door away from a center line of rotation of the door.
US08774673B2	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 below the belt, and the cable passes a region outside the belt in the axial direction of the photoconductor drum and is connected to the main body circuit board.
US08774670B2	Image forming apparatus that prevents image deletion An image forming apparatus that can prevent image deletion in carrying out image formation upon turning-on of power supply after main power supply is turned off before the image forming apparatus goes into a sleep state. A movable member is moved between a shielding position at which it shields a photosensitive drum from a charger and a retracting position at which the photosensitive drum and the charger are opened to each other. When power supply is turned on, a time period for which the photosensitive drum is rotated by a driving unit is controlled according to the position of the movable member detected by a movable member sensor.
US08774669B2	Switching power source and image forming apparatus including the same In a switching power source, an OFF-period of switching is set according to a resonance cycle when a transformer is driven.
US08774667B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, an intermediate transfer section, a secondary transfer section, a fixing section, a power source, a voltage detection section, a temperature detection section, and a fixing section control circuit. The fixing section control circuit includes a switching control section, a voltage judgment section, a temperature judgment section, and a preparation control section. When the switching control section switches the current conduction state to the heat source and the driving section from an off conduction state to an on conduction state and the voltage judgment section judges to be less than a threshold voltage, the preparation control section controls the preparation operation of the heating section such that the switching control section continues the on conduction state over a given idle time after the temperature judgment section has judged to be a preset temperature or higher.
US08774666B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A fixing device includes a heating device to heat an endless rotary body with radiant heat, a power source to supply power to the heating device, a first heat source to heat a region on the endless rotary body corresponding to a width of the small size sheet, and a second heat source to heat regions on the endless rotary body corresponding to both widthwise ends of the large size sheet outside the width of the small size sheet. The power source supplies power only to the first heat source when the small size sheet is printed and to both the first and second heat sources when the large size sheet is printed. The power source supplies more power to the first heat source when the small size sheet is printed than when the large size sheet is printed within a maximum power available to the fixing device.
US08774660B2	Image forming apparatus capable of printing long sheets An image forming apparatus includes a separating unit for performing a stripping operation of forcibly returning toner particles carried on a toner bearing member to a developer bearing member, a sheet size discriminator for discriminating whether a sheet is a standard sized sheet or a long sheet, a determiner for determining whether or not there is any blank area of a predetermined length or longer in the sub scanning direction, where no toner image is to be substantially transferred, for each long sheet, and a controller for controlling the stripping operation. The controller causes the separating unit to perform the stripping operation at a developing timing of an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the blank area to be formed on the image bearing member when the sheet is a long sheet and when the blank area of the predetermined length or longer is present.
US08774659B2	Multi-toner discharged area development method Printing methods are provided. A surface charge is provided on the primary imaging member and the surface charge is partially discharged in areas in which a first toner is to develop. The charge pattern is formed with a first area having a surface potential that is at least 30 percent less than a surface potential of an adjacent second area that creates an inter-area field between the first area and second area that extends into a portion of the first area that is proximate to the second area. A first development field is applied and a first toner is partially developed in the first area based upon the influence of the inter-area and first development fields. The charge pattern and the first toner are further developed with a different second toner. The surface charge on the primary imaging member, first toner and second toner have the same polarity.
US08774656B2	Image position detector and image forming device An image position detector includes a light emitting element to emit light to an image on an image carrier, a first light receiving element to receive a specular reflection of light from a surface of the image carrier and output a first light receiving signal, and a second light receiving element to receive a diffuse reflection of light from a surface of the image and output a second light receiving signal. The image position detector is configured to find the end position of the image according to a multiplied value obtained by multiplying values of the first and second light receiving signals by a constant coefficient.
US08774651B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image to be formed on a recording medium. The image formed by the image forming unit has a size larger than a size of the recording medium that is transported, the image forming unit causing the image to adhere to the entire area of the recording medium. A width of the image in a direction substantially orthogonal to a transporting direction of the recording medium increases from a front end toward a rear end of the recording medium in the transporting direction of the recording medium.
US08774650B2	Rotary developing device and image forming apparatus A rotary developing device that rotates about a rotational axis includes plural developing units, an energized member, a hollow cylindrical unit, a first energizing member, a rotatable unit, a second energizing member, a first conductive member, and a second conductive member. Each developing unit develops a latent image formed on an image holding member into a visible image, and is rotatable about the rotational axis so as to be sequentially movable to a developing position facing the image holding member. The hollow cylindrical unit is arranged along the rotational axis. The rotatable unit is supported rotatably with respect to the hollow cylindrical unit. One end of the first conductive member is connected to the first energizing member supported on an outer periphery of the hollow cylindrical unit. The second conductive member connects the second energizing member supported by the rotatable unit to the energized member supported in a developing unit.
US08774648B2	Image forming apparatus with developer amount detection An image forming apparatus includes a detachably-mounted cartridge including a developer accommodating portion for accommodating a developer and an operation member, a remaining amount detector for detecting a remaining amount of developer in the developer accommodating portion, an operation amount detector for detecting a cumulative operation amount of the operation member, and a setting device for setting timing of subsequent remaining amount detection of the remaining amount detector. The remaining amount detector provides a remaining amount ratio of the developer remainder to a maximum accommodation capacity of the developer accommodating portion, and the operation amount detector provides an operation amount ratio of a remaining operation amount until the end of the service life from the detection of the cumulative operation amount to a total operation amount until the end of the service life from an initial state of the operation member. The setting device sets the timing on the basis of a comparison between the remaining amount ratio and the operation amount ratio.
US08774647B2	Image forming apparatus for checking connection status of developing unit and method thereof An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a multiplexer (MUX) which is able to be connected to at least one developer supplier, at least one pull-up resistor which is connected in parallel to at least one connection line between the at least one developer supplier and the MUX, and a central processing unit (CPU) which detects a connection signal from the at least one pullup resistor and the at least one connection line, and determines whether an initial developer supplier is mounted according to the value of the connection signal.
US08774639B2	Ultra high density pin-compatible four-channel enhanced small form-factor pluggable module An enhanced small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) transceiver module and an SFP+ host port are provided. The enhanced SFP+ transceiver module receives a reception data signal at a data rate of 40 gigabits per second (40G). The reception data signal is sent to a transceiver bidirectional transmission unit. The transceiver bidirectional transmission unit comprises a first SFP+ connector unit configured to interface with a second SFP+ connector unit of an SFP+ host port. The reception data signal is sent from the transceiver bidirectional transmission unit to the second SFP+ connector unit of the SFP+ host port via the first SFP+ connector unit.
US08774636B2	Nanowire antenna A method and apparatus comprising a signal generator and a wire. The signal generator is configured to generate an electrical signal having an amplitude. The wire is connected to the signal generator. The wire is configured to emit photons in response to receiving the electrical signal. The photons have a frequency based on the amplitude of the electrical signal.
US08774635B2	Fiber-optic automatic gain control systems and methods Methods and systems to control a gain applied to a free-space optical (FSO) signal to reduce time-varying intensity fluctuations. An optical pre-amplifier may provide a first, relatively moderate gain with low noise factor (NF). A second optical amplifier may provide a second gain. Amplification may include doped fiber amplification (DFA), such as erbium-doped fiber amplification (EDFA) and/or Raman amplification. A variable optical attenuator (VOA) may be controllable with a relatively fast response time to reduce the time-varying intensity fluctuations. The VOA may effectively control an overall system gain. The gain of the first and/or second optical amplifier may also be controllable to reduce the time-varying intensity fluctuations. Optical intensities may be detected at one or more locations to support one or more feed-forward and/or feedback control loops. A clamp may be applied when an optical power reaches a threshold.
US08774633B2	Element of a wavelength division multiplexing optical network A network element (10) comprises: a first optical input section (1), a first optical output section (2), a second optical input section (3) and a second optical output section (4) a first and second insertion and extraction modules (30, 40), each of said insertion and extraction modules comprising a wavelength selection switch (31, 41), a first optical coupler (8) comprising two bidirectional branches (21, 22) respectively connected to the first selectable port of the first and second insertion and extraction modules, and a second optical coupler (11) comprising two bidirectional branches (23, 24) respectively connected to the second selectable port of the first and second insertion and extraction modules.
US08774632B2	Reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer node automated topology discovery systems and methods The present disclosure provides reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer (ROADM) node automatic topology discovery systems and methods providing a mapping of optical connections within a mesh optical network that includes tunable lasers and multi-degree ROADM's with colorless/directionless add/drop. The present disclosure may include additional transceiver, receiver, and add/drop filter equipment integrated in or disposed at a ROADM degree. This equipment supports a so-called topology wavelength which is one of a plurality of wavelengths supported by a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) system that is dedicated and used solely for topology discovery. The topology wavelength may be utilized by the system to detect interconnects between ROADM degrees and between XCVRs/CDMDs. Further, the automated topology discovery may be integrated within a management system and/or control plane.
US08774631B2	Switch node A non-blocking telecommunications node comprising a plurality of ports. Each port adapted to pass telecommunications traffic comprising multiplexed signals. Each port is adapted to receive an incoming multiplexed signal comprising a plurality of component signals each having a predetermined wavelength. The node includes a plurality of transponders each arranged to receive a component signal. The plurality of transponders are arranged and connected to the ports such that each instance of a component signal having a specific wavelength received by each of the ports can be received simultaneously by the transponders. A node for adding component signals to an outgoing multiplexed signal is also disclosed.
US08774626B2	Distributed wavelength conversion control for signaling protocols A network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising obtaining a wavelength availability information for a path, determining whether to implement a wavelength assignment based on the wavelength availability information, updating the wavelength availability information when the wavelength assignment is to be implemented, and forwarding the wavelength availability information. Also included is a method comprising obtaining a wavelength availability information, comparing a number of wavelengths in the wavelength availability information to a threshold, determining whether to implement wavelength conversion along a path when the number of available wavelengths is less than or about equal to the threshold, and resetting the wavelength availability information when wavelength conversion is to be implemented.
US08774624B2	Optical transmission apparatus and optical communication system An optical communication system, where in an optical transmission apparatus arranged on a transmission side of respective repeating sections, an OSC optical amplifier is provided on an OSC light optical path between from an OSC transmitter to a multiplexer, and the OSC optical amplifier is controlled so that the power of OSC light transmitted on the transmission path becomes a previously set target value. As a result the OSC light is amplified by a different amplifying device to that for the main signal lights at the time of transmission. Therefore even in the case where the span losses are large, OSC light can be reliably received by the optical transmission apparatus on the reception side.
US08774616B2	Camera system and interchangeable lens The present invention provides an interchangeable lens mounted on a camera body in an exchangeable manner, and the interchangeable lens includes: an optical system in which a state of a subject light flux incident to the mounted camera body is adjustable by changing an optical state; a contact position detecting unit with a detection plane, which detects a contact state including a contact and a contact position of a finger of a photographer, to detect a change in a contact position on the detection plane in an approximately same direction as an optical axis direction of the optical system; and a lens controller to control an optical state of the optical system according to a contact state of the finger including the contact position detected by the contact position detecting unit.
US08774612B2	Formable photographic device A photographic device including a formable portion comprising a reflective surface, wherein said formable portion is for retainably forming the reflective surface into a plurality of shapes, and wherein the reflective surface is for reflecting light from a photographic light source; and a base portion coupled to the formable portion, wherein the base portion is configured for coupling the photographic device to an object.
US08774610B2	Steam generator Steam generator (1) is provided with an electric heating element (2) for heating water to be evaporated, consisting of an electric heating resistor (21) inserted in a profiled base (8) of a metal supporting element (7), fixed in a hole obtained in one of the vertical walls (15) of the container (4) for heating water.
US08774607B2	Re-addressable alternate content Providing re-addressable alternate video content to consumers during trickplay modes of operation. For example, providing first video content for standard playback to a consumer; receiving a first consumer request for a first trick mode operation during the standard playback of the first video content; responsive to the first consumer request, providing addressable second video content, different from the first video content, to the consumer; receiving, during providing of the addressable second video content, a second consumer request for a second trick mode operation on the addressable second video content; and responsive to the second consumer request, providing addressable third video content, different from the first and second video contents, to the consumer.
US08774600B2	Splicing system A device including a module to receive a stream including an insertion content item and first timecodes, a module to record the stream, a module to receive a live stream including a timeslot and second and third timecodes, a clock to provide a clock reading updated based on at least some of the third timecodes, a module to retrieve the recorded stream so that the insertion content item can be at least partially rendered during at least part of the timeslot, a module to calculate a desired timecode of the first timecodes from which to start rendering the recorded stream for output at real-time speed based one of the first timecodes, second timecodes, and third timecodes or the clock reading, and a module to render the recorded stream for output at real-time speed from the desired timecode. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US08774599B2	Method for transcoding and playing back video files based on grid technology in devices having limited computing power The present disclosure relates to the production of an application for transcoding video files for devices having limited computing power by means of using a grid computing platform. The platform offers storage space for the user (making use of the distributed storage capacity of the GRID platform and its own security mechanisms) where both the original video and the transcoded video will be stored. The solution also provides the device with middleware with GRID capacities in order to achieve complete GRID integration. That means that the transcoding application could either be run directly in the terminal or in the GRID.
US08774591B2	Content management apparatus, recording apparatus, operation apparatus, content management system, and control methods thereof A content management apparatus, which includes a recording unit for recording a content, and an operation unit for accepting a user operation required to append additional information to the content, executes at least one of a first process for recording additional information in association with a latest content of already recorded contents and a second process for recording additional information in association with a content to be recorded, and a third process for recording additional information in association with a currently recording content in response to respective execution instructions. Enabling and disabling user operations required to issue execution instructions of the first to the third processes are switched based on whether or not a content recording operation of the recording unit is in progress.
US08774587B1	Stress control structure for optical fibers in a high voltage environment Structure is provided for controlling the electrical stress on one or more optical fibers in a high voltage environment.
US08774586B2	Fiber optics connection box Disclosed herein is a fiber optics connection box in which a feeding cable introduced into the fiber optics connection box is processed by an optical processing module and is withdrawn as out cables, passing cables pass through a receiving space defined in the fiber optics connection box, thereby improving watertightness, work efficiency, and price competitiveness in a state in which the cables are mounted or while the cables are mounted.
US08774582B1	Etch-selective bonding layer for hybrid photonic devices “Hybrid photonic devices” describe devices wherein the optical portion—i.e., the optical mode, comprises both the silicon and III-V semiconductor regions, and thus the refractive index of the semiconductor materials and the refractive index of the bonding layer region directly effects the optical function of the device. Prior art devices utilize an optically compliant layer that is the same material as the III-V substrate; however, during the final sub-process of the bonding process, the substrates must be removed by acids. These acids can etch into the bonding layer, causing imperfections to propagate at the interface of the bonded material, adversely affecting the optical mode shape and propagation loss of the device.Embodiments of the invention utilize a semiconductor etch-selective bonding layer that is not affected by the final stages of the bonding process (e.g., substrate removal), and thus protects the bonding interface layer from being affected.
US08774580B2	Turning mirror for photonic integrated circuits An optical device comprising a substrate having a planar surface and an optical waveguide located on and parallel to the planar surface and having an end located and oriented to emit or receive light propagating substantially parallel to the planar surface. The device also comprises a crystalline turning mirror bound to the planar surface, the crystalline turning mirror having a bottom surface along the planar surface and having a reflecting surface that is slanted relative to said planar surface. The crystalline turning mirror and the substrate are formed of different materials.
US08774578B2	Optical module and manufacturing method thereof An optical module includes a substrate including an optical device chip disposed on a top surface thereof, a spacer having at least one through hole and combined with the substrate on the substrate to insert the optical device chip into the through hole, a cover combined with the spacer on the spacer to stop the through hole, and an optical fiber combined with the cover on the cover in a position corresponding to a position of the optical device chip. The optical module is configured such that light transmitted through the optical fiber is incident to the optical device chip or light emitted from the optical device chip is incident to the optical fiber. The optical module may be downscaled and produced in large quantities at low cost.
US08774572B2	Bistable element A bistable element (100) comprising: a multi-mode interference optical waveguide (1), has two ports on one edge face (1a) thereof, and has one port on the other edge face (1b) thereof; a first group of optical waveguides (2), and each of which is composed of two optical waveguides each having one edge face connected to each port arranged on the one edge face (1a) side of the multi-mode interference optical waveguide (1); and a second group of optical waveguides (3), and each of which is composed of one optical waveguide having one edge face connected to each port arranged on the other edge face (1b) side of the multi-mode interference optical waveguide (1). The multi-mode interference optical waveguide (1) has a saturable absorption region (22) where the absorption coefficient is reduced to cause the saturation of the amount of absorbed light when the intensity of incident light becomes high.
US08774567B2	Polarization multiplexing modulator A polarization conversion device converts a polarization state of a light which is input to a first waveguide, that is, TE/TM mode of the light, to output it from the first waveguide. The polarization conversion device includes: a mode converter that performs the inter-conversion of TE/TM modes of the light which is input to the first waveguide; and a polarization separator that receives the light passed through the mode converter and separates the received light into a first light, TE/TM of which mode has been converted by the mode converter and a second light, TE/TM of which mode has not been converted, to output the first light to the first waveguide.
US08774564B2	Optical waveguide element module Disclosed is an optical waveguide element module in which a filter circuit including a capacitor is provided on a line through which a modulation signal is input to a modulating electrode of an optical waveguide element. The module is capable of preventing the deterioration of an electric signal in the filter circuit or the occurrence of a resonance phenomenon within the frequency range used and obtaining flat electrical/optical response frequency characteristics in a wide band of more than several tens of gigahertz. The capacitor is a single-layer capacitor and the relative permittivity of a dielectric in the capacitor is equal to or less than 1000.
US08774562B2	Systems, methods, and media for creating multiple layers from an image A method for creating a plurality of layer images from an input image is provided. The method includes analyzing an input image for color content to detect at least one dominant color in the image and for shape recognition to detect at least one object in the image. The method also includes generating a concentric grid for the input image based on the color content analysis and the shape recognition for a depth calculation of the input image. The concentric grid includes a center point, a plurality of lines that radiate from the center point, and a plurality of concentric circles that expand at a spatial distance in the input image. The concentric circles divide the input image into a plurality of sections, each of which represents an equal spatial depth. The method further includes generating a plurality of layer images using at least two of the plurality of sections.
US08774556B2	Perspective correction using a reflection Techniques and tools are described for performing perspective correction using a reflection. Reflective properties of a surface being photographed can be used to determine a rotation of the device taking the photograph relative to the surface. Light sourced or produced by the device can be used to create a reflection spot in the picture. A position of the reflection spot within the picture is calculated and used to determine the rotation. The rotation can be used for performing perspective correction on the picture, or on another picture taken by the device.
US08774553B1	Advanced adaptive contrast enhancement A method of enhancing an image includes: dividing the input image into multiple tiles; and constructing a respective histogram for each respective multiple tile. The method further includes: dividing each respective histogram into multiple portions, in which each portion represents a count of pixels spanning across pixel intensity value bands. The method also includes: constructing a respective cumulative distribution function (CDF) for each of the multiple portions; and transforming each of the multiple portions using the respective CDF. Each histogram may be divided, as an example, into two portions.
US08774548B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes: an unit that performs second-order differentiation on an inputted image signal, and outputs the result as an edge enhancement signal; an unit that calculates a first difference value in a form of an absolute value of a difference between pixel values of two first pixels; an unit that calculates a second difference value in a form of an absolute value of a difference between pixel values of two second pixels; an unit that multiplies the second difference value by a first value; an unit that subtracts the multiplication result from the first difference value, limits a lower-limit value of the result to 0, and outputs the result as an edge adjustment coefficient; an unit that corrects the edge enhancement signal through multiplication by the edge adjustment coefficient; and an unit that adds the corrected edge enhancement signal to the image signal.
US08774546B2	Method and apparatus for single-image-based rain streak removal A method and an apparatus for single-image-based rain streak removal are introduced herein. In this method and apparatus, an original image is decomposed into a high frequency part and a low frequency part, and the high frequency image is then decomposed into a rain part and a non-rain part. The non-rain high frequency image and the original low frequency image are used to produce a non-rain image.
US08774542B2	Apparatus and method for multilayer picture encoding/decoding Provided is a multilayer picture encoding/decoding apparatus and method for reducing a dynamic range of residual pictures occurring in enhancement layers. The multilayer picture encoding method includes performing format down-conversion on an input picture, and generating a lower layer bitstream by encoding the format down-converted input picture; performing format up-conversion by adaptively or selectively applying a 1-dimensional (1-D) prediction filter to a picture of the lower layer depending on whether a lower layer prediction flag is set or not; and calculating a residual picture between the input picture and the format up-converted picture, and generating an enhancement bitstream by encoding the calculated residual picture.
US08774539B2	Encoder, decoder, encoder system, decoder system, transmission adapter, encoding method, decoding method, and imaging apparatus An encoder includes: an image decomposition unit configured to input an image and decompose the input image into a first component capable of being used as a monitoring image and a second component other than the first component by frequency decomposition, the input image being restored by coupling the first component and the second component to each other; a first transmission unit configured to output the decomposed first component as a first-channel transmission image; a compression coding unit configured to compression-code the second component; and a second transmission unit configured to output the compression-coded second component as a second-channel transmission image.
US08774537B2	Image processing device and method The present invention relates to an image processing device and method whereby deterioration of effects of filter processing due to local control of filter processing when encoding or decoding can be suppressed. A boundary control flag generating unit 132 of a control information generating unit 112 generates boundary control flags based on system specification information which a system specification managing unit 141 manages. A control unit 171 of an adaptive filter processing unit 113 determines a processing method for filter processing to be performed as to pixels nearby a slice boundary following the value of the boundary control flag. For example, selection is made to perform filter processing straddling slices or to perform filter processing closed at the present slice. The present invention can be applied to an image processing device, for example.
US08774536B1	Efficient processing of streams of images within a moving window session In one general aspect, a computer-readable storage medium can be configured to store instructions that when executed cause one or more processors to perform a process. The process can include sending from a client device to a host device an indicator of a size of a target display area of a moving window session with respect to a host display area of an application operating at the host device where the application can be remotely controlled via the client device and where the host display area can have a resolution different from a resolution of the target display area of the client device. The process can include analyzing a stream of images associated with the target display area of the moving window session, and defining at the client device a plurality of regions within the target display area based on the analyzing.
US08774533B2	Quantifying social affinity from a plurality of images A method of quantifying social affinity from multiple images includes identifying each image showing both a first person and a second person and determining a weighted affinity value between the first person and the second person. The weighted affinity value is determined based on a total number of persons appearing in each identified image, a physical distance between the first person and the second person represented in each identified image, and a total number of identified images.
US08774531B2	Image compression based on parameter-assisted inpainting Systems and methods provide image compression based on parameter-assisted inpainting. In one implementation of an encoder, an image is partitioned into blocks and the blocks classified as smooth or unsmooth, based on the degree of visual edge content and chromatic variation in each block. Image content of the unsmooth blocks is compressed, while image content of the smooth blocks is summarized by parameters, but not compressed. The parameters, once obtained, may also be compressed. At a decoder, the compressed image content of the unsmooth blocks and the compressed parameters of the smooth blocks are each decompressed. Each smooth block is then reconstructed by inpainting, guided by the parameters in order to impart visual detail from the original image that cannot be implied from the image content of neighboring blocks that have been decoded.
US08774526B2	Intelligent image search results summarization and browsing Techniques for intelligent image search results summarization and browsing scheme are described. Images having visual attributes are evaluated for similarities based in part on their visual attributes. At least one preference score indicating a probability of an image to be selected into a summary is calculated for each image. Images are selected based on the similarity of the selected images to the other images and the preference scores of the selected images. A summary of the plurality of images is generated including the selected one individual image.
US08774518B2	Digital pathology system with low-latency analytics Methods and systems for digital pathology with low-latency analytics include determining potential regions of interest within an image in accordance with one or more high-priority analyses, dividing the potential regions of interest into a plurality of sub-sections optimized for parallel computation, analyzing the sub-sections using one or more execution nodes, each including one or more processors, using a copy of the image stored in a shared memory according to the one or more high-priority analyses, and storing an intermediate analysis result based on analysis results from the one or more execution nodes in a shared memory.
US08774517B1	System for identifying regions of interest in visual imagery The present invention relates to a system for identifying regions of interest in visual imagery. The system is configured to receive a series of consecutive frames representing a scene as captured from N sensors. The frames include at least a current frame and a previous frame. A surprise map can be generated based on features found in the current frame and the previous frame. The surprise map having a plurality of values corresponding to spatial locations within the scene. Based on the values, a surprise in the scene can be identified if a value in the surprise map exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US08774514B2	Method of and apparatus for classifying image using histogram analysis, and method of and apparatus for recognizing text image using the histogram analysis Methods and apparatuses of classifying an image as either a text image or a non text image are provided. The method includes converting an input image into an image histogram comprising gray levels and a frequency of the gray levels; analyzing the image histogram to determine a characteristic of the image histogram; and classifying the input image as a text image or a non text image based on the characteristic. The characteristic of the image histogram may include the frequency of the gray levels, a number of peaks, a distance between peaks, and a peak width. The image may be split into blocks and a number of edge pixels determined for each block. The blocks with at least a predetermined number of edge pixels may then be classified. The entire image may then be classified based on the number of blocks determined to be a text image.
US08774513B2	Image concealing via efficient feature selection A novel technique for unsupervised feature selection is disclosed. The disclosed methods include automatically selecting a subset of a feature of an image. Additionally, the selection of the subset of features may be incorporated with a congealing algorithm, such as a least-square-based congealing algorithm. By selecting a subset of the feature representation of an image, redundant and/or irrelevant features may be reduced or removed, and the efficiency and accuracy of least-square-based congealing may be improved.
US08774512B2	Filling holes in depth maps Various implementations relate to improving depth maps. This may be done, for example, by identifying bad depth values and modifying those values. The values may represent, for example, holes and/or noise. According to a general aspect, a segmentation is determined based on an intensity image. The intensity image is associated with a corresponding depth image that includes depth values for corresponding locations in the intensity image. The segmentation is applied to the depth image to segment the depth image into multiple regions. A depth value is modified in the depth image based on the segmentation. A two-stage iterative procedure may be used to improve the segmentation and then modify bad depth values in the improved segmentation, and iterating until a desired level of smoothness is achieved. Both stages may be based, for example, on average depth values in a segment.
US08774507B2	Image processing device and image processing method to calculate a color correction condition A position of a pixel serving as an extraction subject is determined by using first image data photographed under a first light source. An extraction range corresponding to the determined position is also determined, by using a color value of the pixel at the determined position and a color value of a pixel at a peripheral position around the determined position in the first image data. A first representative color value is calculated from the first image data and a second representative color value from second image data photographed under a second light source, on the basis of the position of the pixel serving as the extraction subject and the extraction range. A color correction condition for converting a color value depending on the first light source into a color value depending on the second light source is then generated.
US08774504B1	System for three-dimensional object recognition and foreground extraction The present invention describes a system for recognizing objects from color images by detecting features of interest, classifying them according to previous objects' features that the system has been trained on, and finally drawing a boundary around them to separate each object from others in the image. Furthermore, local feature detection algorithms are applied to color images, outliers are removed, and resulting feature descriptors are clustered to achieve effective object recognition. Additionally, the present invention describes a system for extracting foreground objects and the correct rejection of the background from an image of a scene. Importantly, the present invention allows for changes to the camera viewpoint or lighting between training and test time. The system uses a supervised-learning algorithm and produces blobs of foreground objects that a recognition algorithm can then use for object detection/recognition.
US08774503B2	Method for color feature extraction A method for color feature extraction extracts a color feature vector representative of the color of each image pixel contained in an image signal. The method comprises: receiving the image signal; mapping the image signal to a color space model, where the color of each of the plural image pixels is represented by a first parameter, a second parameter, and a third parameter; obtaining an adjusted second parameter; clustering the plural image pixels into plural color regions or plural fuzzy regions of a color plane of the color space model; and designating the color feature vector to each of the plural image pixels based on the clustering result.
US08774502B2	Method for image/video segmentation using texture feature A method for image/video segmentation, capable of segmenting an image signal for obtaining plural texture color feature regions, by utilizing both of the advantages carried by the texture feature and the color feature is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: (A) receiving an image signal including plural image pixels; (B) executing a Gabor filtering process and a value operation process on each of the plural image pixels; (C) designating each of the plural image pixels a corresponding texture feature vector basing on the result of the value operation process; (D) executing a segmentation process on the image signal basing on the texture feature vector of each of the plural image pixels, for obtaining plural texture feature regions; and (E) executing a re-segmentation process on plural color feature regions basing on the distribution of the plural texture feature regions, for obtaining plural texture color feature regions.
US08774496B2	Compound object separation Representations of an object in an image generated by an imaging apparatus can comprise two or more separate sub-objects, producing a compound object. Compound objects can negatively affect the quality of object visualization and threat identification performance. As provided herein, a compound object can be separated into sub-objects. Topology score map data, representing topological differences in the potential compound object, may be computed and used in a statistical distribution to identify modes that may be indicative of the sub-objects. The identified modes may be assigned a label and a voxel of the image data indicative of the potential compound object may be relabeled based on the label assigned to a mode that represents data corresponding to properties of a portion of the object that the voxel represents to create image data indicative of one or more sub-objects.
US08774495B2	Image synthesizing apparatus and method of synthesizing images When a plurality of images are to be overlapped and synthesized, coincidence degrees between the plurality of images in an area near the boundary of a common area are calculated, and the plurality of images are overlapped and synthesized so that an area near the boundary having a high coincidence degree appears on the overlapped image. Thereby, it is possible to avoid the duplexing of the subject in the common area and unnatural ruptures on the boundary made by the overlapping while reducing the number of processes for the synthesizing.
US08774489B2	Ophthalmology information processing apparatus and method of controlling the same There is provided an ophthalmology information processing apparatus that allows to easily grasp a change in each part in continuously captured ophthalmology images. The ophthalmology information processing apparatus reads out a plurality of continuous captured images stored in a storage unit. An image analysis unit aligns the captured images. The ophthalmology information processing apparatus calculates the variation and position information of the pixel information of each pixel between the captured images based on the alignment information. An image generation unit generates a three-dimensional image which is displayed on a display unit simultaneously with the captured images.
US08774488B2	Method and device for identification of nucleated red blood cells from a maternal blood sample A method for concentrating and isolating nucleated cells, such as a maternal and fetal nucleated red blood cells (NRBC's), in a maternal whole blood sample. The invention also provides methods and apparatus for preparing to analyze and analyzing the sample for identification of fetal genetic material as part of prenatal genetic testing. The invention also pertains to methods and apparatus for discriminating fetal nucleated red blood cells from maternal nucleated red blood cells obtained from a blood sample taken from a pregnant woman.
US08774487B2	Method and apparatus for remotely performing hematologic analysis utilizing a transmitted image of a centrifuged analysis tube An apparatus for and method of analyzing hematologic samples deposited within a capillary tube is provided. The method includes the steps of: a) imaging a region of sample centrifuged within a capillary tube using a first analysis device, which region is defined by substantially all of the radial width and axial length of the sample residing within the internal cavity of the tube where the float resides after centrifugation, and producing signals representative of the image; b) communicating the signals representative of the image to a second analysis device independent of, and remotely located from, the first analysis device; c) processing the signals representative of the image using the second analysis device and producing analysis data based on the signals; and d) displaying the image of the region of the sample using the second analysis device.
US08774485B2	Systems and methods for performing segmentation and visualization of multivariate medical images A method for generating an image includes obtaining a first image and a second image of an object of interest, generating a joint histogram using the first and second images, transforming the information in the histogram from histogram space to image space using a look-up table, and generating a color image using the information output from the look-up table. A system and non-transitory computer readable medium are also described herein.
US08774484B2	X-ray apparatus An X-ray apparatus 10 executes a first scan of an object during a forward movement F and a second scan during a backward movement B. Due to the wiper-like movement of the X-ray imaging device 18 supported by an arm 12 of the X-ray apparatus 10, the time between two scans may be very short.
US08774481B2	Atlas-assisted synthetic computed tomography using deformable image registration Disclosed are systems for and methods of creating a synthetic image by registering a reference or atlas image to a clinical image using both rigid and deformable image registration algorithms. In some embodiments, a synthetic computed tomography (CT) image may be created by registering an atlas CT image to a clinical image such as an MR scan. Rigid registration in some embodiments may be followed by a smoothing B-spline transform algorithm with a mutual information similarity metric and an optimizer; followed then by an image signal intensity algorithm with displacement vectors at each voxel and diffeomorphic transformations.
US08774480B2	Medical image enhancement technique based on image transform resonance A method for medical image enhancement based on image transform resonance. A novel method for Stochastic Resonance of medical image enhancement device based on the Integral Transform of the image, comprising: generating specific types of integral transforms like radon transform for CT, Fourier transform for MRI with image transform component; preparing stochastic perturbation waveform, with perturbator component performing the stochastic resonance on the image transform, with stochastic resonator component; characterizing the image enhancement factor of the SR-processed image with performance monitoring component; adjusting and controlling the bistability parameters of the double-well system that induces stochastic resonance with control component; arranging the provisional display of the array matrix of the SR-enhanced images, as the bistability parameters are varied with matrix display component; subjecting the final image to the step of display with final image display component.
US08774477B2	System and method to determine slide quality of a digitized microscope slide Systems and methods for assessing the quality of a digital slide image. In an embodiment, the digital slide image is divided into a plurality of image regions. For each of a subset of the plurality of image regions, a quality of the image region is determined based on a determined spatial frequency of the image region. In addition, a visual depiction of the digital slide image may be generated that, for each of the subset of the plurality of image regions, indicates the determined quality of that image region.
US08774472B2	Method of host-directed illumination and system for conducting host-directed illumination A method of host-directed illumination for verifying the validity of biometric data of a user is provided that includes capturing biometric data from a user with an authentication device during authentication and directing illumination of the biometric data from a host authentication system during the capturing operation. Moreover, the method includes comparing illumination characteristics of the captured biometric data against illumination characteristics expected to result from the directing operation, and determining that the user is a live user when the illumination characteristics of the captured biometric data match the illumination characteristics expected to result from the directing operation.
US08774471B1	Technique for recognizing personal objects and accessing associated information The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that recognizes a personal object in an image and facilitates providing a related financial service. During operation, the system receives an image of an object associated with a user, where the image includes environmental features associated with the user. Next, the system extracts content from the image by processing the image (and the included environmental features) using an image-processing technique. The system then associates the extracted content with information in a pre-existing data structure, where the pre-existing data structure includes financial information associated with the object. Next, the system facilitates a financial service associated with the object based on the information. For example, the system may generate an insurance appraisal for the object based on the information.
US08774467B2	Predictive flight path and non-destructive marking system and method Systems and methods for acquiring and targeting an object placed in motion, tracking the object's movement, and while tracking, measuring the object's characteristics and marking the object with an external indicator until the object comes to rest is provided. The systems and methods include an acquisition and tracking system, a data capture system, and a marking control system. Through the components of the system, an object moving through two or three dimensional space can be externally marked to assist with improving the performance of striking the object.
US08774466B2	Image stabilization device, image stabilization method, and program Techniques for image stabilization may include detecting motion of an apparatus configured to display image data, the image data comprising one or more frames, a first frame of the one or more frames comprising a plurality of layers. The plurality of layers may be processed to correct for the detected motion. The processing may comprise applying a different degree of motion correction to a first layer of the plurality of layers than to a second layer of the plurality of layers. Such techniques may be performed via an apparatus comprising a display control unit configured to cause the image data to be displayed, and a motion correction unit configured to perform the processing.
US08774462B2	System and method for associating an order with an object in a multiple lane environment Images with respect to an object at an ordering, payment, and delivery locations can be captured utilizing an image capturing system. Capture can be after detecting the presence of the object at each location utilizing an object presence sensor. The captured image can be processed to associate it with a signature and can also be processed in order to extract a small region of interest (e.g., license plate) and can be reduced to a unique signature. Signature can be stored into a database together with the corresponding order and images. Signatures can be matched. The order associated with the object matched by the system together with at least one of the images captured at the delivery point and the order point can be displayed at a user interface located at the payment/delivery point to ensure that the right order is delivered to the right customer associated with the object.
US08774460B2	Method of processing body inspection image and body inspection apparatus A method of processing a body inspection image and a body inspection apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method may comprise recognizing a target region by means of pattern recognition, and performing privacy protection processing on the recognized target region. The target region may comprise a head and/or crotch part. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to achieve a compromise between privacy protection and body inspection.
US08774458B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, recording medium, and program An image processing apparatus includes: a calculating unit that calculates an evaluation value, which is expressed as a sum of confidence degrees obtained by mixing, at a predetermined mixing ratio, a matching degree of a first feature quantity and a matching degree of a second feature quantity between a target image containing an object to be tracked and a comparison image which is an image of a comparison region compared to the target image of a first frame, when the mixing ratio is varied and obtaining the mixing ratio when the evaluation value is maximum; and a detecting unit that detects an image corresponding to the target image of a second frame based on the confidence degrees in which the mixing ratio is set when the evaluation value is the maximum.
US08774457B2	Calculating time to go and size of an object based on scale correlation between images from an electro optical sensor A method and a system for calculating a time to go value between a vehicle and an intruding object. A first image of the intruding object at a first point of time retrieved. A second image of the intruding object at a second point of time is retrieved. The first image and the second image are filtered so that the first image and the second image become independent of absolute signal energy and so that edges become enhanced. An X fractional pixel position and a Y fractional pixel position are set to zero. The X fractional pixel position denotes a horizontal displacement at sub pixel level and the Y fractional pixel position denotes a vertical displacement at sub pixel level. A scale factor is selected. The second image is scaled with the scale factor and resampled to the X fractional pixel position and the Y fractional pixel position, which results in a resampled scaled image. Correlation values, are calculated between the first image and the resampled scaled image for different horizontal displacements at pixel level and different vertical displacements at pixel level for the resampled scaled image. A maximum correlation value at a subpixel level is found based on the correlation values. The X fractional pixel position and the Y fractional pixel position are also updated. j is set to j=j+1 and scaling of the second image, calculation of correlation values, finding the maximum correlation value and setting of j to j=j+1 are repeated a predetermined number of times. i is set to i=i+1 and selecting the scale factor, scaling of the second image, calculation of correlation values, finding the maximum correlation value, setting of j to j=j+1, and setting of i to i=i+1 are repeated a predetermined number of times. A largest maximum correlation value is found among the maximum correlation values and the scale factor associated with the largest maximum correlation value. The time to go is calculated based on the scale factor.
US08774452B2	Preferred images from captured video sequence In one embodiment, a computer system identifies a user in one or more frames of a video file, accesses a data store for image attitudinal data associated with the user, ranks the one or more frames based on the image attitudinal data associated with the user, and presents one or more top ranked frames to the user.
US08774451B2	Method and apparatus for embedding a watermark image in a host image The invention provides method of embedding a watermark image in a host image. The method includes generating a matrix code symbol, wherein the matrix code symbol includes information associated with the watermark image and the host image. The method further includes embedding the watermark image and the matrix code symbol in the host image at non-overlapping positions in the host image.
US08774444B2	Vented in-the-ear headphone A vented tip for in-the-ear headphones has a core portion to be mounted to a sound output tube of an in-the-ear earphone and a flange portion extending outward from and surrounding the core portion. The vented tip has a) an outer portion formed in the flange portion that is to be in contact with, and thereby form a seal with, a user's ear canal, and b) an inner portion spaced inwards from the outer portion to thereby not form the seal with the user's ear canal. The inner portion has a calibrated perforation or hole formed therein. Other embodiments that may help reduce bone conduction effects are also described and claimed.
US08774436B2	Display control apparatus and control method thereof An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a display control unit configured to cause a display screen to display image data, a determination unit configured to determine a position of an audio output device on the display screen based on the position of the audio output device which is placed within a first predetermined distance from the display screen, and a transmission control unit configured to perform control to transmit, to the audio output device, audio data corresponding to the image data displayed at a position within a second predetermined distance from a position on the display screen which is determined by the determination unit.
US08774435B2	Audio device, system and method A device and method for alleviating the effects of alternating or changing pneumatic pressures when sound is transmitted through an audio device into a substantially trapped volume to the tympanic membrane. Alternating or changing pneumatic pressures are partially or fully alleviated and allowed to remain as normal sound waves. The audio device and method could be any number of audio devices including ear buds, over-ear headphones or hearing aids. A passageway from the substantially trapped volume to an unsealed space at ambient pressure is blocked by a flexible compliant member.
US08774430B2	Linear interleaved magnetic motor and loudspeaker transducer using same A linear interleaved magnetic motor in which the B-field flows between a plurality of motor cell elements, creating a long, serpentine gap. The motor is used with at least one flex circuit as a drive coil. The motor can be used as a drive motor for a loudspeaker transducer. Multiple loudspeaker transducers can be connected together to make a loudspeaker frame or system.
US08774429B2	Voice input device, method for manufacturing the same, and information processing system A voice input device, a method for manufacturing the same, and an information processing system are provided. The voice input device has a function of removing a noise component and includes a first microphone 710-1 that includes a first vibrating membrane, a second microphone 710-2 that includes a second vibrating membrane, and a differential signal generation section 720 that generates a differential signal between a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal. The first and second vibrating membranes are disposed so that a noise intensity ratio is smaller than an input voice intensity ratio that represents the ratio to intensity of an input voice component. The differential signal generation section 720 includes a delay section 730 and a differential signal output section 740 that generates and outputs a differential signal with respect to a signal to which a delay is applied by the delay section.
US08774428B2	Very low power MEMS microphone A MEMS microphone is capable of operating with less-than-one-volt bias voltage. An exemplary MEMS microphone can operate directly from a power rail (i.e., directly from VDD), i.e., without a DC-to-DC step-up voltage converter or other high bias voltage generator. The MEMS microphone has high mechanical and electrical sensitivity due, at least in part, to having high-compliance, i.e. low stiffness, springs and a relatively small gap between its diaphragm and its parallel conductive plate. In some embodiments, a diode-based voltage reference or a bandgap voltage reference supplies the bias voltage.
US08774425B2	Method and apparatus for controlling gain in multi-audio channel system, and voice processing system A method and an apparatus for controlling gain in a multi-audio channel system as well as a voice processing system are disclosed. The method includes: judging whether signals on any audio channels are similar or correlated; sorting audio channels of similar or correlated signals into one group if the similar or correlated signals exist on the audio channels, and using the same Automatic Gain Control (AGC) unit to process signals of this group of audio channels; and using different AGC units to process other non-similar or non-correlated signals on audio channels. The gain control apparatus includes: a judging unit, a grouping unit, a control processing unit, and at least two AGC units. Therefore, in a multi-audio channel communication, the perception of the sound locations of similar or correlated audio channels is not damaged, and the non-similar or non-correlated audio channels doe not interfere with each other.
US08774423B1	System and method for controlling adaptivity of signal modification using a phantom coefficient Systems and methods for controlling adaptivity of signal modification, such as noise suppression, using a phantom coefficient are provided. The process for controlling adaptivity comprises receiving a signal. Determinations may be made of whether an adaptation coefficient satisfies an adaptation constraint and of whether the phantom coefficient satisfies the adaptation constraint. The phantom coefficient may be updated, for example, toward a current observation. The adaptation coefficient may be updated, for example, toward the phantom coefficient, based on whether the phantom coefficient satisfies an adaptation constraint of the signal. A modified signal may be generated by applying the adaptation coefficient to the signal based on whether the adaptation coefficient satisfies the adaptation constraint. Accordingly, the modified signal may be outputted.
US08774422B2	Apparatuses and methods for playing handheld media device signals An apparatus includes a support unit for a handheld media device. The support unit has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is coupleable to a substantially planar object. The substantially planar object is configured for mounting in a vertical position. The second surface is sized to support the handheld media device when the handheld media device is placed thereon.
US08774419B2	Thermal control of voice coils in loudspeakers In an embodiment of the invention, the voice coil of an electro dynamic transducer is protected against thermal overload by estimating the temperature of a magnet in the electro dynamic transducer. When a power limit based on the temperature of the magnet and on a predetermined voice coil temperature limit is reached by an audio signal, the power applied to the voice coil is reduced.
US08774414B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving encryption information in a mobile broadcast system A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving encryption information in a mobile broadcast system providing broadcast service (BCAST) are disclosed. In the mobile broadcast system, a broadcast (BCAST) Service Distribution/Adaptation (BSD/A) unit comprises a transmitter for transmitting a Registration Key Material (RKM) request message for requesting delivery of an RKM for registration of the BCAST service of a terminal to a BCAST Subscription Management (BSM) unit managing subscriber information of the terminal, and a receiver for receiving an RKM request response message from the BSM unit. The RKM request message includes an identifier (ID) of the BCAST service, and the RKM request response message includes the ID of the BCAST service and the RKM. The transmitter transmits a Long-Term Key Message (LTKM) request message for requesting delivery of an LTKM provided to the terminal during subscription of the BCAST service to the BSM unit.
US08774404B2	Modular broadcast receiver system and method The construction of a receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast from a plurality of broadcasting providers is simplified. In a receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcast from a plurality of broadcasting providers, of the function blocks which constitute the receiving apparatus, a block used in common irrespective of the broadcasting provider is formed as a common block, and a block different from one broadcasting provider to another is formed as an independent block. These blocks are connected to each other through an IEEE1394 interface, and the common block is shared among the plurality of blocks which are not used in common, so that a receiving process is performed.
US08774401B2	Right object renewal method and apparatus for right-protected broadcast service A Right Object renewal method and apparatus for a right-protected digital broadcast service that is capable of predicting the expiration of a Right Object issued for the right-protected broadcast channel and renewing the Right Object prior to the expiration of the Right object based on the predicted expiry is provided. A right object renewal method for a right-protected broadcast service using a long term right object having a purchased license duration and a short term right object having a temporary license duration which is shorter than the purchased license duration according to the present invention includes determining whether the time to expire of a previously issued short term right object is less than a predetermined threshold value; requesting, when the time to expire of the previously issued short term right object is less than the threshold value, requesting and receiving a new short term object; and renewing the duration of the short term right object based on the received new short term right object.
US08774400B2	Method for protecting data against differntial fault analysis involved in rivest, shamir, and adleman cryptography using the chinese remainder theorem Systems and methods for effectively protecting data against differential fault analysis involved in Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman (“RSA”) cryptography using the Chinese Remainder Theorem (“CRT”) are described herein. A CRT RSA component facilitates modular exponentiation of a received message, and a verification component reconstructs the received message. An exponentiation component performs a first modular exponentiation and a second modular exponentiation of the received message. A recombination component performs a recombination step utilizing CRT computation as a function of the first and second modular exponentiations. A modular exponentiation component performs first and second public exponent derivations as a function of a private exponent. The verification component can reconstructs the received message as a function of the first and second public exponent derivations. The verification component calculates the received message utilizing Chinese Remainder Theorem computation.
US08774395B2	IVR recording management and control A computing device may receive a record order from a client device. The record order may include recording instructions for a communication session involving an interactive voice response recording system. The computing device may provide the record order to the interactive voice response recording system and, in response to providing the record order to the interactive voice response recording system, receive record metadata corresponding to the communication session and store the record metadata locally. The record metadata may include a storage location of record data corresponding to the communication session, and the record data may include a recording of the communication session.
US08774387B2	System and method for avoiding hold times on a telephone call A method and system including receiving a communication from a source, the communication including a request to connect to a destination, connecting, via a communication link, to the destination, detecting an event on the communication link to the destination, and connecting the source to the destination after detecting the event.
US08774384B2	Disposable telephone numbers Methods, systems, and products are disclosed that provide disposable numbers for a conference service. A disposable number is assigned to a conference bridge that is only activated for a defined period of time, after which the disposable number is disposed and deactivated. A call is received to the disposable number, and the call is routed to the conference bridge. A database is queried that associates the disposable number to a subscriber's number. Subscriber information is retrieved that describes when a conference bridge subscription is active. If the conference bridge subscription is active, then a caller is connected to the conference bridge. If the conference bridge subscription is inactive, then the caller is prompted to pay for a conference service.
US08774382B2	Online reporting tool for conferencing customers Embodiments consistent with the present invention provide an integrated system for conferencing services reporting to support customer billing needs. Systems consistent with the present invention enable a customer to retrieve and use integrated usage data, including data for unbilled conferencing services. Furthermore, systems consistent with the present invention provide an integrated account management interface to enable a customer to retrieve and use account information in real time and to manage a conferencing services account with ease. Still further, systems consistent with the present invention enable a customer to establish multiple levels of security to easily manage multiple users with multiple information needs and responsibilities. Systems consistent with the present invention also provide tools to analyze and track moderator conferencing schedules to enhance accurate timekeeping and billing.
US08774380B2	Methods and systems for call management with user intervention Methods and systems for managing a call in real-time are disclosed. Methods and systems consistent with the present invention manage a call in real-time based on input from a user. A service center receives information pertaining to a call to the user from a service control point and sends a notification of the call to a device associated with the user. The service center receives a response to the notification from the user. Thereafter, the service center instructs the service control point to connect the call based on the response.
US08774379B1	Incoming spoof call detection Systems, methods, and computer-readable media, for facilitating incoming spoof call determinations are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving call-setup data including a point code associated with origination of a call intended for a receiving device. The point code can be utilized to determine that the call intended for the receiving device is a spoof call. Such a spoof call can be initiated by a spoof-calling party associated with a number and is intended to provide an indication to the receiving device that the call is associated with another number.
US08774377B2	Call receiving device, call receiving method, and call receiving program A call receiving device includes an identification information acquisition part configured to acquire identification information by receiving calls each made based on identification information that is explicitly or implicitly provided in a web page and that identifies a call receiver. An information associating part is configured to associate the acquired identification information with discrimination information to discriminate each of the calls. A call connection part is configured to connect each of the calls to the call receiver. A discrimination information sending part is configured to send the discrimination information to the call receiver through the call connected to the call receiver. A discrimination information receiving part is configured to receive the discrimination information input into a predetermined device. A call related information sending part is configured to send, to the predetermined device, call related information indicated by the identification information associated with the discrimination information.
US08774374B2	Managing visual voicemail from multiple devices A network device may include a memory to store a database including voicemail message information associated with a voicemail mailbox, a transmitter, and a receiver. The transmitter may send a notification to each of a plurality of communication devices, the notification including an indication of a number of new voicemail messages in the voicemail mailbox, an indication of a total number of voicemail messages in the voicemail mailbox, and an identifier of a most recent voicemail message in the voicemail mailbox, where each of the plurality of communication devices uses the notification signal to determine whether to request a list of voicemail messages. The receiver may receive, from one of the communication devices in response to the notification, a request for the list of voicemail messages associated with voicemail message information stored in the database. The transmitter may sends, to the one of the plurality of communications devices, the list of voicemail messages.
US08774372B2	Telephone call inbox A system and method for extracting and presenting useful data from calls received by a client is disclosed. The resulting “telephone call inbox” is a way for a client view pay per call advertising as a stream of consumers with information available to understand the call activity of the consumers and for the client to navigate their call history. The system automatically filters non-consumer fraudulent calls, extracts the identity of a consumer, aggregates several calling entities into a single consumer, transcribes the call into a call stream using voice recognition software, extracts patterns and draws conclusions from the call stream, and presents a list of call streams in a user friendly set of web pages configured as the telephone call inbox. The telephone call inbox includes, for each call, the caller ID, one or more key words, phrases or major conclusions concerning the call, and the voice recognized call stream.
US08774371B1	Dynamic multiple server interactive response system A multiple server based interactive voice response (IVR) system in which individual IVR strings on an index computer are associated with connections to external servers, the IVR system index computer accessible by each individual IVR string's self-identification telephone number either from Dialed Number Identification Service (DNIS) information, Automatic Number Identification (ANI) service information, item ID information provided by a caller or a combination thereof. When a call is received to the IVR system index computer, it uses DNIS, ANI and/or item ID information to route the call to string information (outgoing messages, menu options, etc) which might be located the index computer or on a clientele computer. In embodiments, the client business might be able to easily access the information associating options to messages and the message files themselves and change their IVR string without technical support.
US08774361B2	System for identifying radiation zones in X-ray imaging A system displays potential radiation zones in an angiography X-ray laboratory during an angiography procedure, for example, and identifies areas of potentially harmful radiation due to X-ray scatter in an imaging room. An input processor receives data identifying an emitted X-ray dose level applied to an area of a patient anatomy. An image data processor determines level of X-ray radiation dose scatter in different regions of an imaging room indicating regions of potentially harmful radiation, by calculating X-ray scatter dose at different distances from an irradiated patient area as being substantially in proportion to the size of the irradiated area and substantially inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the irradiated area. A visual alert system visually identifies areas of a room of potentially harmful radiation in response to the determination.
US08774358B2	Radiation therapy treatment plan improvement through use of knowledge base A radiation therapy dose distribution method starts with selecting a treatment type. Then an organ at risk (OAR) distance to target map is determined. The OAR distance to target map comprises distances to a target organ for portions of an OAR. The OAR distances are determined from at least one segmented patient organ image. A cohort average dose distance to target histogram is selected. A dose value to the portions of the OAR are assigned to form a first 3D dose distribution map. The dose values are from the selected cohort average dose distance to target histogram. A second 3D dose distribution map is determined based on a field arrangement determined by the treatment type and the first 3D dose distribution map. A dose distance to target histogram is calculated using the second 3D dose distribution map and the distance to target map.
US08774356B2	Wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer In the wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer of the present invention, a counting loss correcting unit (11), when correcting a counting rate of pulses determined by a counting unit (10) on the basis of a dead time of a detector (7), stores beforehand a correlation between a predetermined pulse height range, within which pulses are selected by a pulse height analyzer (9), and the dead time and determines the dead time so as to correspond to the predetermined pulse height range during a measurement on the basis of the stored correlation.
US08774352B2	X-ray CT apparatus An X-ray CT apparatus according to the embodiments has a rotation base that includes a plurality of units, including an X-ray generator that irradiates a subject with X-rays, and an X-ray detector that detects X-rays transmitted through the subject. It also has a pathway that communicates between the X-ray detector and at least one other unit excluding the X-ray generator and the X-ray detector. It also has an air supplier that supplies air in the other units to the X-ray detector via the pathway. It also has a temperature measuring part that measures the temperature in the X-ray detector. It also has a controller that performs control of the air supplier based on the measured result from the temperature measuring part.
US08774348B2	Shift register circuit A shift register circuit includes plural shift register stages for providing plural gate signals. Each shift register stage includes a pull-up unit, a pull-up control unit, an input unit, a first pull-down unit, a second pull-down unit, and a pull-down control unit. The pull-up control unit generates a first control signal according to a driving control voltage and a first clock. The pull-up unit pulls up a corresponding gate signal according to the first control signal. The input unit is utilized for inputting the gate signal of a preceding shift register stage to become the driving control voltage according to a second clock having a phase opposite to the first clock. The pull-down control unit generates a second control signal according to the driving control voltage. The first and second pull-down units pull down the corresponding gate signal and the first control signal respectively according to the second control signal.
US08774345B2	Bottom end-piece having an anti-debris device with a baffle for a nuclear assembly and corresponding assembly This bottom end-piece includes nozzles for directing the flow of water of the reactor along the lower ends of the fuel rods, the nozzles being arranged at nodes of the substantially regular network of the fuel rods, and an anti-debris device which delimits water flow channels. At least some of the water flow channels are arranged at nodes of the substantially regular network. Direction nozzles are arranged at least partially in the channels in order to delimit water passages therewith, and at least one water passage includes a first section and a second section which are mutually offset radially relative to the corresponding node of the network in order to form a baffle.
US08774340B2	Nuclear reactor vibration surveillance system and its method A nuclear reactor vibration surveillance system has a first ultrasonic transducer for transmission, an ultrasonic transmitter, a second ultrasonic transducer for reception, an ultrasonic receiver, a signal processor, and a display unit. The first ultrasonic transducer for transmission is arranged on the outer surface of a reactor pressure vessel and is configured to convert a transmission signal into an ultrasonic pulse signal and allow the ultrasonic pulse to be transmitted to a reactor internal component. The second ultrasonic transducer for reception is arranged on the outer surface of the reactor pressure vessel and is configured to receive a reflected ultrasonic pulse reflected by the reactor internal component and convert the received reflected ultrasonic pulse into a reception signal.
US08774333B2	Signal processing apparatus and related method for generating target estimated signal of specific signal component in input signal A signal processing apparatus includes a signal generating block arranged to generate a target estimated signal of a specific signal component in an input signal. The signal generating block includes a reference signal generating circuit, a signal processing circuit, and a signal adjusting circuit. The reference signal generating circuit is arranged to generate a reference estimated signal for the specific signal component in the input signal. The signal processing circuit is coupled to the reference signal generating circuit, and arranged to process the reference estimated signal and accordingly generate a signal processing result. The signal adjusting circuit is coupled to the signal processing circuit and the reference signal generating circuit, and arranged to output the target estimated signal by adjusting the reference estimated signal according to the signal processing result.
US08774332B2	Characterizing channel response based on composite gain determination Based on tracked amplitude modulation (e.g., which may be hum modulation), compensation for amplitude modulation is applied across all orthogonal signal components of a non-time based orthogonal coded signal. Some examples of such non-time based orthogonal coded signals include an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, a synchronous code division multiple access (S-CDMA) signal, or a code division multiple access (CDMA) signal, etc. The compensation may be applied to the signal across multiple frames, on a frame by frame basis, or intra-frame (i.e., changing and compensating differently within a frame). This compensation for amplitude modulation may be applied in conjunction with adaptive equalization in which different filter taps are applied to each respective orthogonal signal component of the signal. Also, automatic gain control (AGC) may be performed (e.g., before digital sampling) of a received signal in conjunction with the amplitude modulation compensation.
US08774330B2	Coarse timing acquisition A coarse timing acquisition technique includes generating a sequence detection indicator. The sequence detection indicator indicates detection of a sequence of repeated symbols in a received signal. The sequence detection indicator is based on a first energy threshold and a normalized moving sum of an autocorrelation signal. The autocorrelation signal is based on the received signal.
US08774324B2	Systems and methods for changing decoding parameters in a communication system A communication system includes an iterative multi-stage decoder that may be dynamically configured to achieve a particular bit-error-rate. In one embodiment, a circuit comprises a first decoder block and a second decoder block to decode data received over a communication channel. A control circuit may change a number of iterations performed by the decoder blocks to decode received data based on a specified bit error rate and a detected signal-to-noise ratio of said received data. The number of computational units used in the decoders may be changed dynamically to achieve desired system performance. In one embodiment, resources are allocated based on a system initiating the connection. Programmable circuits are used in some embodiments to reconfigure the multi-stage decoder.
US08774321B2	Clock data recovery circuit and clock data recovery method A clock data recovery circuit includes: a demodulation filter that receives a transmission signal transmitted by two orthogonal carrier waves having I and Q phases and executes demodulation to obtain a demodulated wave having an phase and a demodulated wave having a Q phase from the transmission signal; a first determination circuit that determines whether an absolute value of one of the two demodulated waves is greater than an eye opening maximum value at an ideal clock phase of the transmission signal; a second determination circuit that determines whether the one demodulated wave is greater than zero; a third determination circuit that determines whether the other one of the two demodulated waves is greater than zero; and a phase comparison unit that detects whether a phase of a clock signal included in the transmission signal is leading a phase of a data signal included in the transmission signal, based on determination results obtained by the first to third determination circuits.
US08774315B2	Phase-optimized constant envelope transmission (POCET) method, apparatus and system An apparatus and method for generating a composite signal includes electronics configured to modulate a carrier utilizing a finite set of composite signal phases to generate a composite signal, the finite set of composite signal phases being determined through an optimization process that minimizes a constant envelope for the phase modulated carrier, subject to constraints on desired signal power levels of the signals to be combined and either zero or one or more relative phase relationships between the signals. The apparatus and method can be extended to generating an optimized composite signal of different frequencies.
US08774312B2	Method and means for the scalable improvement of the quality of a signal encoding method The invention relates to a method for the scalable improvement of the quality of an encoding method according to IT-U Recommendation G.722, including the following steps: —a digital error signal (E) derived from an input signal to be encoded and a prognosis signal is compared in sections to a number of M*LN different reference signals in an iterative process having a number of repeated steps depending on the scope of the expansion, and the reference signal having a minimum error signal of a prescribed error criteria is derived therefrom, —the reference signals are each made up of equidistant Dirac impulses δ(n) according to (I), wherein off=[0 . . . M−1], indicates the distance of the first impulse from a zero time point, αε{α, α, . . . , α} indicates the amplitude value, M the distance between the individual pulses, N the number of pulses, and L the number of different levels, —the information about the reference signal having the minimum error signal is transmitted. c ⁡ ( n ) = ∑ p = 0 N - 1 ⁢ α p · δ ⁡ ( n - off - M · p ) ( I )
US08774305B1	Bit slip circuitry for serial data signals Circuitry for use in aligning bytes in a serial data signal (e.g., with deserializer circuitry that operates in part in response to a byte rate clock signal) includes a multistage shift register for shifting the serial data signal through a number of stages at least equal to (and in many cases, preferably more than) the number of bits in a byte. The output signal of any shift register stage can be selected as the output of this “bit slipping” circuitry so that any number of bits over a fairly wide range can be “slipped” to produce or help produce appropriately aligned bytes. The disclosed bit slipping circuitry is alternatively or additionally usable in helping to align (“deskew”) two or more serial data signals that are received via separate communication channels.
US08774302B2	Wireless communication system and wireless communication method A wireless communication system 1 performs MIMO communication between a wireless base station 10 with a plurality of antennas 14 and a mobile terminal 20 with a plurality of antennas 24. A wireless base station 10 includes a selector 25 that selects, from the pairs of the antennas, one pair for which the gain is largest; the selector 25 that updates an inverse matrix of a channel matrix with respect to a group of pairs of unselected antennas to acquire inverse matrices and that selects a pair from the group on the basis of the acquire inverse matrices; and a RF switch 13 that performs communication by using the selected antennas. The selector 25 continues to update the inverse matrix and continues to select a pair from the group until a predetermined number of antennas have been selected.
US08774301B1	Low complexity technique for log-likelihood ratio computation Systems and methods for detecting data in a multiple input/multiple output signal. The method includes receiving a first signal associated with a first data value and a second signal associated with a second data value. A distance value between the received second signal and each possible second data value is calculated. Coordinates for a hypothetical first signal in light of a first possible second data value are calculated, and the first coordinate value is quantized to a nearest constellation point. A distance value between the received second signal and each possible second data value is calculated using the calculated constellation points. A determination is made of a log-likelihood ratio based on the determined distance values.
US08774299B2	Transmitting spread signal in communication system The present invention provides for transmitting a spread signal in a mobile communication system. The present invention includes spreading a signal using a plurality of spreading codes, wherein the plurality of spreading codes have a spreading factor, multiplexing the spread signal by code division multiplexing, transmitting the multiplexed signal via a plurality of neighboring frequency resources of one OFDM symbol of a first antenna set, and transmitting the same multiplexed signal via a plurality of neighboring frequency resources of one OFDM symbol of a second antenna set.
US08774298B2	Transmitter with adaptive back-off A transmitter for transmitting data symbols using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, the transmitter comprising: a modulator for generating a plurality of mutually orthogonal sub-carriers, each of the plurality of sub-carriers being modulated with a stream of data symbols to be transmitted; an amplifier for amplifying a signal containing the plurality of modulated sub-carriers for transmission of the signal; and a symbol processor for processing the data symbols of the plurality of sub-carriers, the symbol processor being configured to compute a plurality of EVM values for each data symbol to be transmitted, each of the plurality of EVM values being computed based on a different one of a plurality of candidate back-off values for the amplifier, and to select one of the plurality of candidate back-off values to apply to the transmitter for the data symbol based on the computed EVM values.
US08774296B2	Apparatus and method of calculating channel frequency domain correlation An apparatus and a method of calculating a channel frequency domain correlation are disclosed in the invention. The apparatus of calculating the channel frequency domain correlation includes: a pilot channel preliminary estimation unit configured to preliminarily estimate a frequency domain channel response at pilot subcarriers of a receiving signal to obtain a pilot channel preliminary estimation value; a determination unit configured to determine a channel frequency domain correlation value which can be reliably calculated; a first channel frequency domain correlation value calculation unit configured to calculate the channel frequency domain correlation value which can be reliably calculated using the pilot channel preliminary estimation value to obtain a reliably calculated channel frequency domain correlation value; and a second channel frequency domain correlation value calculation unit configured to calculate an other channel frequency domain correlation values using the reliably calculated channel frequency domain correlation value. The invention may also effectively apply to calculation of the channel frequency domain correlation and channel estimation.
US08774294B2	Compressed sensing channel estimation in OFDM communication systems Methods and devices for receiving Orthogonal Frequency Domain Multiplexed (OFDM) wireless signals employ compressed sensing-based estimation techniques, exploiting the common sparseness of the wireless channel, to achieve signal reception in the presence of significant Doppler spread. When implemented for an ISDB-T mobile TV standard signal, the compressed sensing channel estimation algorithm enables data reception in Doppler spread conditions beyond the capabilities of conventional channel estimation methods.
US08774291B2	Pulse harmonic modulation systems and methods An embodiment provides a pulse harmonic modulation method comprising transmitting a first data initiation pulse to an input of a first resonant circuit thereby creating an oscillating waveform at an output of a second resonant circuit and transmitting a first modifying pulse to the input of the first resonant circuit. The first modifying pulse can modify a first portion of the oscillating waveform.
US08774289B1	Soft decoding of coded bit-streams A transmitter can include an encoder configured to encode a data sequence based on a first encoding rate to generate a first encoded bit stream having first bits with at least one first repeated bit and encode the data sequence based on a second, different encoding rate to generate a second encoded bit stream having second bits with at least one second repeated bit, where the first and second encoded bit streams each fully represent the data sequence. A receiver can include circuitry configured to produce identified repeated bits by identifying a repeated bit in the first encoded bit stream and a repeated bit in the second encoded bit stream that correspond to a same bit position, combine the first encoded bit stream and the second encoded bit stream including the identified repeated bits to generate a combined bit stream, and decode the combined bit stream.
US08774284B2	Signaling of multiple decoding times in media files The exemplary embodiments of this invention provide in one aspect thereof an ability to signal multiple decoding times for each sample in a file format level in order to allow, for example, different decoding times for each sample (or sample subset) between decoding an entire stream and decoding a subset of the stream. An alternate decoding time box is specified to allow for the signaling of multiple decoding times for each sample. Such a box can contain a compact version of a table that allows indexing from an alternate decoding time to a sample number, where an alternate decoding time is a decoding time to be used with a sample when only a subset of an elementary stream stored in a track is to be decoded. Furthermore, each entry in the table provides the number of consecutive samples with the same time delta, and the delta between those consecutive samples. By adding the deltas a complete time-to-sample map can be constructed.
US08774282B2	Illumination compensation method and apparatus and video encoding and decoding method and apparatus using the illumination compensation method Provided are an illumination compensation method and apparatus and video encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses using the illumination compensation method. The illumination compensation method for a reference block used for motion estimation includes receiving pixel values of reconstructed neighboring pixels around a current block to be encoded and pixel values of reconstructed neighboring pixels around the reference block, and performing illumination compensation with respect to the reference block based on the input pixel values of reconstructed neighboring pixels around the current block and the input pixel values of reconstructed neighboring pixels around the reference block.
US08774281B2	Implementation of a DV video decoder with a VLIW processor and a variable length decoding unit A decoder for decoding a plurality of digital video data is described. In an embodiment, the decoder comprises a DV video decoder for decoding digital video data which is formatted according to the DV standard. The DV video decoder has a Very-Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor and a variable length decoding unit. The VLIW processor includes a preparser unit for recovering a decoding order of the digital video data so that the variable length decoding unit can process the digital video data. The variable length decoding unit decodes a variable length coding format of the digital video data which has been preparsed by the VLIW processor. Furthermore, the VLIW processor includes a decompression unit for decompressing the digital video data which has been decoded by the variable length decoding unit. In an embodiment, the VLIW processor and the variable length decoding unit are formed on the same semiconductor device.
US08774279B2	Apparatus for decoding motion information in merge mode Disclosed is an apparatus for decoding motion information in merge mode for reconstructing a moving picture signal coded at a low data rate while maintaining a high quality of an image. The apparatus for decoding motion information in merge mode discloses the position of a merge mode candidate and the configuration of a candidate in order to predict motion information in merge mode efficiently. Furthermore, a merge candidate indicated by the merge index of a current block can be efficiently reconstructed irrespective of a network environment by adaptively generating a merge candidate based on the number of valid merge candidate.
US08774274B2	Compressing and decompressing multiple, layered, video streams employing multi-directional spatial encoding A process for compressing and decompressing non-keyframes in sequential sets of contemporaneous video frames making up multiple video streams where the video frames in a set depict substantially the same scene from different viewpoints. Each set of contemporaneous video frames has a plurality frames designated as keyframes with the remaining being non-keyframes. In one embodiment, the non-keyframes are compressed using a multi-directional spatial prediction technique. In another embodiment, the non-keyframes of each set of contemporaneous video frames are compressed using a combined chaining and spatial prediction compression technique. The spatial prediction compression technique employed can be a single direction technique where just one reference frame, and so one chain, is used to predict each non-keyframe, or it can be a multi-directional technique where two or more reference frames, and so chains, are used to predict each non-keyframe.
US08774273B2	Method and system for decoding digital video content involving arbitrarily accessing an encoded bitstream A technique for decoding an encoded bitstream of digital video content involves decoding a bitstream, wherein decoding the bitstream generates decoded syntax elements and decoded pixel information, creating an access point in the currently decoded bitstream by saving state information related to the decoding, saving the decoded syntax elements, and saving the decoded pixel information, and synchronizing a subsequent decoding operation to the access point utilizing the saved state information, the saved decoded syntax elements, and the saved decoded pixel information.
US08774270B2	Method and apparatus for generating video packet Methods and apparatuses for generating video packets are provided. A method of generating a video packet includes generating at least one pixel block including at least one reference pixel and at least one neighboring pixel adjacent to the at least one reference pixel from pixels of a video frame; replacing a pixel value of the at least one neighboring pixel in the at least one pixel block with a pixel difference value, which is a difference value between a pixel value of a pixel adjacent to the at least one neighboring pixel and the pixel value of the at least one neighboring pixel; and generating packets so that a pixel value of the at least one reference pixel and the pixel difference value of the at least one neighboring pixel are allocated to different packets according to positions of the pixels.
US08774268B2	Moving image encoding apparatus and method for controlling the same The invention generates encoded data that properly conforms to pre-specified image quality and suppresses a large change in image quality. An encoding unit encodes pictures block by block according to a parameter. A distortion amount calculation unit calculates a picture distortion amount between a decoded picture and a picture before being encoded. A scene distortion amount calculation unit calculates a scene encoding distortion amount from the picture distortion amounts of a plurality of pictures having been encoded. A distortion bit rate conversion unit calculates a corrected bit rate by calculating a difference between a target distortion amount and the calculated scene encoding distortion amount, and multiplying the calculated difference by a coefficient. A target bit rate calculation unit calculates a bit rate for a picture subsequent to a picture of interest by adding a current target bit rate to the corrected bit rate, and sets it as the parameter.
US08774265B2	Encoding apparatus, decoding apparatus, encoding method, decoding method, program of encoding method, program of decoding method, recording medium in which program of encoding method is recorded, and recording medium in which program of decoding method is recorded The present invention provides an encoding apparatus that executes encoding processing for input video data, including: a distributor configured to distribute the input video data into a plurality of channels on a picture basis; and a plurality of encoders configured to be provided on the plurality of channels and each execute encoding processing for video data of a corresponding one of the channels output from the distributor.
US08774264B2	Image insertion device for compressed video data Input MPEG compressed data is input into a partial decoder and a logo insertion controller. A block DCT coefficients (a) output from the partial decoder is divided into a logo insertion region (c) and a non-logo insertion region (d) in a logo insertion region separator. Logo data (e) supplied from a logo information supply section is combined into the logo insertion region (c) with an arbitrary mixing ratio in a logo information insert section. In a logo region partial re-encoder, intra-frame coding of an image insertion region is executed when a starting frame for inserting an image is an intra-coded frame or a predictive coded frame, and, when the starting frame is a bidirectionally predictive-coded frame, inter-frame coding of the image insertion region is executed, and intra encoding of the image insertion region is executed in a frame to which the starting frame for inserting the image can refer.
US08774263B2	Transmitter and receiver for pulse density modulated signals and signal processing method A transmitter (TX) for transmitting a pulse density modulated signal comprises means (SDM) for generating a pulse density modulated input signal (SI) and an encoder (ENC). The encoder (ENC) comprises a first input for receiving the pulse density modulated input signal (SI) and a second input for receiving additional information (AI) comprising at least one data bit. The encoder (ENC) is configured to generate a multi-bit telegram (TG) on the basis of the additional information (AI), the telegram (TG) comprising a predefined bit-sequence, and to replace an appropriate number of consecutive bits of the input signal (SI) with the telegram (TG) in order to generate an output signal (SO).
US08774258B2	PAPR (peak-to-average power ratio) determining device and communication device A PAPR determining device includes a detecting unit and a PAPR determining unit. The detecting unit detects a predetermined value's changes, which is a cause of changes in a saturation power of a power amplifier. When the detecting unit detects any change in the predetermined value, the PAPR determining unit determines a PAPR value that corresponds to the saturation power of the power amplifier.
US08774256B2	Method for robust crosstalk precoder training in channels with impulse noise An apparatus comprising a first transceiver at a central office (CO) coupled to a second transceiver at a customer premise equipment (CPE) via a digital subscriber line (DSL), a crosstalk precoder coupled to the first transceiver at the CO, and a vectoring control entity (VCE) coupled to the transceiver via a feedback channel and to the crosstalk precoder, wherein the second transceiver comprises a noise monitor configured to detect non-crosstalk noise in a downstream signal from the CO to the CPE, and wherein the first transceiver is configured to receive a predefined special feedback signal from the second transceiver that indicates whether non-crosstalk noise is detected in the downstream signal instead of a measured error value.
US08774253B2	Wireless relay device and wireless relay method Disclosed is a wireless relay device wherein the number of stream multiplexes between a wireless transmission device and a wireless reception device can be increased without increasing the number of antennas for the wireless transmission device or the number of antennas for the wireless reception device. Specifically disclosed is a wireless relay device (100) for relaying and transmitting a signal between a wireless transmission device and a wireless reception device, which has Nrelay number (Nrelay is a natural number of 2 or more) of antenna ports, wherein a diversity reception unit (106) diversity-receives the signal which is transmitted from the wireless transmission device, and which has been modulated by the modulation multi-value number of M (where M=Nrelay 2) via the Nrelay number of antenna ports, a stream generating unit (112) divides the signal so as to generate Nrelay pieces of streams, modulation units ((114-1) to (114-Nrelay)) QPSK-modulate the Nrelay pieces of streams, and transmission RF units ((115-1) to (115-Nrelay)) transmit the N pieces of streams after modulation to the wireless reception device via the Nrelay number of antenna ports.
US08774249B2	Spread-spectrum clock acquisition and tracking Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise: a phase detector configured to generate an error signal representing a phase difference between a recovered spread-spectrum clock signal and a serial data stream that includes a spread-spectrum clock signal; and a phase selector configured to provide the recovered spread-spectrum clock signal based on an error signal from a current spread-spectrum cycle of the spread-spectrum clock signal and an error signal from a previous spread-spectrum cycle of the spread-spectrum clock signal.
US08774247B2	Echelle diffraction grating, excimer laser, manufacturing method of Echelle diffraction grating, and ArF excimer laser An Echelle diffraction grating has a Littrow configuration. Each grating includes a resin layer made of light curing resin and having a thickness between 2 μm and 10 μm, and a reflective coating layer formed on the resin layer, having a thickness between 120 nm and 500 nm, and made of aluminum. An apex angle between a blazed surface and a counter surface is between 85° and 90°. A first blaze angle is an angle that maximizes diffraction efficiency of a set blazed order for incident light of a wavelength of 193.3 nm. A blaze angle has an initial value of a second blaze angle smaller than the first blaze angle. 0.25°≦bd−ba≦1.2° is satisfied where bd denotes the first blaze angle and ba denotes the second blaze angle.
US08774246B1	Semiconductor light sources including selective diffusion for optical and electrical confinement A semiconductor vertical resonant cavity light source includes an upper mirror and a lower minor that define a vertical resonant cavity. A first active region is within the vertical resonant cavity for light generation between the upper minor and lower mirror. The vertical resonant cavity includes an inner mode confinement region and an outer current blocking region. A depleted heterojunction current blocking region (DHCBR) is within the outer current blocking region of at least one of the upper minor, lower minor, and first active region. A conducting channel within the inner mode confinement region is framed by the DHCBR. The DHCBR forces current flow into the conducting channel during operation of the light source.
US08774243B2	Dual mode semiconductor laser and terahertz wave apparatus using the same Provided are a dual mode semiconductor laser and a terahertz wave apparatus using the same. The dual mode semiconductor laser includes a distributed feedback laser structure section including a first diffraction grating on a substrate and a distributed Bragg reflector laser structure section including a second diffraction grating on the substrate. A first wavelength oscillated by the distributed feedback laser structure section and a second wavelength oscillated by the distributed Bragg reflector laser structure section are different from each other, and the distributed feedback laser structure section and the distributed Bragg reflector laser structure section share the same gain medium with each other.
US08774240B2	Frequency-drift amplification device for a pulsed laser A frequency-drift amplification device for a pulsed laser, including: a stretcher for time-stretching an incident laser pulse; at least one amplifying medium for amplifying the laser pulse; a main compressor for time-compressing the laser pulse to a desired duration for an output pulse of the amplification device; and at least one adjustment compressor between the stretcher and the main compressor, and in which the laser pulse undergoes four diffractions on diffraction gratings to time-compress the stretched laser pulse to a duration that is greater than the desired duration for the output pulse of the amplification device.
US08774237B2	Pulsed laser system with saturable absorber A high power pulsed laser system is configured with at least two gain blocks and with at least one saturable absorber (SA) coupled to the output and input of the respective gain blocks. The SA is configured so that Qsat_sa
US08774236B2	Ultraviolet fiber laser system Laser master oscillator—power amplifier system for generating high pulse energy, high average power laser pulses in the ultraviolet 191.25-201.25 nm and 243-246.25 nm spectral ranges, and in the visible 450-537.5 nm spectral range with controllable pulse duration and pulse repetition rate employ a master oscillator seed laser operating in the infra-red spectral range, and a single series connected chain of hybrid fiber—bulk crystalline amplifiers coupled to a non-linear frequency conversion unit to convert the laser pulses to the ultraviolet and visible spectral ranges.
US08774234B2	Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and computer-readable storage medium A data processing apparatus includes an input unit to input data and processing modules. The processing modules may be connected as part of a ring-shaped data transfer path to transfer data in one direction. Each processing module includes a communication unit configured to implement a first data processing path and a setting path and a processing unit configured to process data received by the communication unit. When using switching data to switch the processing modules performing on the first data processing path to the processing modules performing on the setting path, the switching data is processed on the first data processing path.
US08774232B2	Systems and methods of measuring latency and routing thereon in optical networks The present disclosure provides systems and methods for making latency measurements and using these measurements in routing in optical networks. In an exemplary embodiment, a method is defined whereby two nodes sharing a line automatically determine whether both nodes are capable of making a latency measurement and then which node will initiate and which node participates in making the latency measurement. In another exemplary embodiment, an on-demand latency measurement may be made between any two arbitrary nodes within a domain. Routing messages may be used to disseminate the latency of links via a signaling and routing protocol. Advantageously, the present invention provides measurement of latency and latency variation of customer circuits (i.e., SNCs) using an in-band, non-intrusive calculation with a high-degree of accuracy. Furthermore, the present invention may consider these calculations for circuit routing based on the latency and circuit acceptance based on maximum latency restrictions.
US08774228B2	Timing recovery method and apparatus for an input/output bus with link redundancy Methods and apparatus are provided for timing recovery for an input/output bus with link redundancy. A parallel input/output interface receiver includes a plurality of data receivers, each configured to respectively receive input data from a respective one of n+m channels, where n is an integer greater than one and m is an integer greater than or equal to one. The input data is non-calibration data for the n channels and is calibration data for the m channels. The interface receiver further includes a first phase adjustor configured to provide a first clock signal to the plurality of data receivers for sampling of only the non-calibration data at any given time, and a second phase adjustor configured to provide a second clock signal to the plurality of data receivers for sampling of only the calibration data at any given time.
US08774223B2	Scattered pilot pattern and channel estimation method for MIMO-OFDM systems Methods and apparatus are provided for inserting data symbols and pilot symbols in an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) transmission resource utilizing frequency hopping patterns for the data symbols and/or the pilot symbols. Data symbols and pilot symbols are allocated for down link (base station to mobile station) and up link (mobile station to bases station) transmission resources in a two-dimensional time-frequency pattern. For each antenna of a MIMO-OFDM (multiple input multiple output OFDM) communication system, pilot symbols are inserted in a scattered pattern in time-frequency and data symbols are inserted in an identical frequency-hopping pattern in time-frequency as that of other antennas.
US08774221B2	Apparatus and method for reporting buffer status of UE in mobile communication system A method for reporting buffer status of a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The method for reporting buffer status of the UE in the mobile communication system includes being allocated a transmission resource from a node B; determining information to add to a certain region of a first Medium Access Control (MAC) subheader through an N-th MAC subheader using the transmission resource; generating a MAC Protocol Data Unit (PDU) by concatenating the first MAC subheader through the N-th MAC subheader with corresponding payload elements; and transmitting the generated MAC PDU.
US08774216B2	Exchange mechanisms for digital information packages with bandwidth securitization, multichannel digital watermarks, and key management Responsibility can be established for specific copies or instances of copies of digitized multimedia content using digital watermarks. Management and distribution of digital watermark keys (e.g., private, semiprivate and public) and the extension of information associated with such keys is implemented to create a mechanism for the securitization of multimedia titles to which the keys apply. Bandwidth rights can be created to provide for a distributed model for digital distribution of content which combines the security of a digital watermark with efficient barter mechanisms for handling the actual delivery of digital goods. Distributed keys better define rights that are traded between transacting parties in exchanging information or content. More than one party can cooperate in adding distinguished watermarks at various stages of distribution without destroying watermarks previously placed in the content. Additionally, the amount of information which any one party must divulge to another party can be minimized, and “downstream” parties can be prevented from compromising or otherwise gaining control of watermarks embedded by “upstream” parties.
US08774215B2	Fibre channel over Ethernet The use of Ethernet as an underlying transport for Fiber Channel (FC) frames is disclosed in the Fiber Channel Over Ethernet (FCOE) protocol. In FCOE, the FC physical layer and part of the FC-2 link layer are replaced with the Ethernet physical and link layers. Each FC frame is encapsulated within an Ethernet Frame. The payload of the FCOE frame contains type information from the FC Start Of Frame (SOF) indicator, the FC header, an optional FC payload, and type information from the FC End Of Frame (EOF) indicator. In one embodiment, an Ethernet network carrying FCOE replaces a standard FC network. In another embodiment, devices implementing FCOE may be implemented in a blade server. The entire backplane is Ethernet, over which both storage and networking traffic can be run. The Ethernet links are connected to an Ethernet switch, a FCOE/FC converter, and a FC switch.
US08774212B2	System and method for managing network traffic A system and method for managing network traffic is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a data switch having a controller element to transmit telemetry data representative of bandwidth usage by one or more users of the data switch. At least one higher bandwidth user can have an increased polling frequency based at least in part on a differential in upstream and downstream data transfer rates for the one or more users. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08774210B2	Communication protocol system and method for a distributed-architecture heating, ventilation and air conditioning network The disclosure provides an HVAC data processing and communication network and a method of manufacturing the same. In an embodiment, the network includes a local controller. The local controller is configured to publish a first message to a data bus, and to detect a collision between the first message and a second message published to the data bus. The local controller is further configured to republish the first message in the event that the first message collides with a second message published to the data bus; a bit error results in response to publishing the message.
US08774209B2	Apparatus and method for spectrum sharing using listen-before-talk with quiet periods Apparatus and method for spectrum sharing using listen before talk (LBT) and quiet periods are disclosed. This includes assessing using LBT to determine if a shared spectrum channel is being used by at least one other network, and transmitting transmission frames over the shared spectrum channel in at least one of an uplink or a downlink when the channel is determined as not being used. The accumulated time of transmission use of the spectrum channel is counted based on predetermined conditions, and a determination made when the accumulated time exceeds a maximum allotted time. Transmission of frames by a network is allowed to continue if the maximum time has not been exceeded and the spectrum remains available. A quiet period is then executed once the maximum time period is exceeded.
US08774205B2	Network device and its control method and computer program product A network device 200 for relaying packets includes a network interface 220, a forwarding engine 240, a state change controller 274, a device state controller 276 and a device information table 278. The state change controller 274 and the device state controller 276 cooperatively determine whether a packet receiver port that has received a sleep notification packet among a plurality of ports included in the network interface 220 has setting of link aggregation. When link aggregation is set for the packet receiver port, the state change controller 274 and the device state controller 276 keep the packet receiver port in a power ON state, while all other ports, which belong to an identical link aggregation group are to a power OFF state.
US08774197B2	Line-timing in packet-based networks In a packet-based (e.g., Ethernet) network, such as the network of central offices and base stations of a wireless telephone system, a node receives one or more incoming packet-based signals from one or more other nodes of the network and recovers a clock signal from each incoming packet-based signal. The node selects one of the recovered clock signals as the node's reference clock signal. When the node is part of a base station, the node uses the selected clock to generate and transmit one or more outgoing packet-based signals to one or more central offices. The node also uses the selected clock to generate the base station's wireless transmissions. In one implementation, the base stations and central offices are connected by Ethernet facilities.
US08774191B2	Method and apparatus for auto detection of AAL5 type frames for VCC and VPC switches In Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) communications networks, certain congestion control features, such as Partial Packet Discard (PPD) and Early Packet Discard (EPD), operate on ATM cells that have been segmented from ATM Adaptation Layer #5 (AAL5) frames (packets). AAL5 frames are automatically detected by observing transitions of an indicator in the ATM cell header unique to AAL5 traffic. Automatic detection of AAL5 traffic allows enablement of packet-aware cell discarding techniques such as PPD and EPD on a Virtual Channel Connection (VCC) basis, whether in a switch for a VCC or for a Virtual Path Connection (VPC) to which the VCC belongs.
US08774190B2	Enhanced resequencing of data received over a wireless communication system An apparatus and method for efficiently decoding data received in the form of data packets is provided. The design includes at least one decoding unit configured to receive and decode multiple packet groups, each packet group comprising a plurality of data packets received over at least one wireless transmission channel; a buffer arrangement configured to collect complete and incomplete packet groups received over each wireless transmission channel, and a processor configured to direct data packets from the at least one decoding unit to specific locations in the buffer arrangement. The processor further inserts later received data packets into associated packet groups maintained in the buffer arrangement to minimize sequence gaps in the data packets. The design subsequently provides multiple packet groups and any later received data packets from the buffer arrangement to a resequencer.
US08774181B1	Reducing unnecessary upstream traffic in PIM-bidirectional mode Techniques are described for reducing unnecessary upstream traffic toward a rendezvous point (RP) of a network using Protocol Independent Multicast Bidirectional Mode. The RP may be either a router configured with the rendezvous point address (RPA) on its loopback interface, or one of several routers connected to an RP link with the RPA. The techniques include determining whether the RP needs to receive multicast traffic for a multicast group and, when the RP does not need to receive the multicast traffic, sending RP-prune control messages for the multicast group to downstream routers on non-RP links. Upon receiving an RP-prune control message, a downstream router may prune an outgoing interface for the multicast group to prevent the downstream router from forwarding multicast traffic for the multicast group toward the RP. The downstream router may terminate or propagate the RP-prune control message to a further downstream router.
US08774175B2	Relay system, relay apparatus, and relay method A relay system includes a first relay apparatus connected to a node through a first line and a second relay apparatus connected to the node through a second line. The first line and the second line belong to the same link aggregation group. The first relay apparatus includes a first control unit. The first control unit notifies, before relaying a received frame, the second relay apparatus of a source address included in the received frame in the absence of first relation information related to the source address in the first storage unit upon receiving the received frame via a port connected to the first line. The second relay apparatus includes a second control unit. The second control unit stores, in the second storage unit, second relation information regarding a relationship between the source address notified by the first relay apparatus and an output port connected to the second line.
US08774174B2	System and method for conveying end-to-end call status A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Unified Messaging System having a controller element to submit to a Calling Card Server (CCS) over a primary call leg a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SUBSCRIBE message requesting outdial event notification for a call placed on a secondary call leg responsive to a reply of a voicemail message, and receive over the primary call leg a SIP NOTIFY message from the CCS indicating outdial events associated with placing the call over the secondary call leg. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08774171B2	SS7 ANSI-41 to SIP based call signaling conversion gateway for wireless VoIP E911 An SS7-based call protocol conversion gateway that translates between circuit-switched SS7 protocols and session initiation protocol (SIP) oriented protocol, allowing an E911 call initiated over a switched network to be routed by a VoIP network. The SS7-based call protocol conversion gateway provides a PSAP with MSAG quality (street address) information about a VoIP dual mode phone user without the need for a wireless carrier to invest in building out an entire VoIP core. Thus, wireless carriers may continue signaling the way they are today, i.e., using the J-STD-036 standard for CDMA and GSM in North America, yet see benefits of a VoIP network core, i.e., provision of MSAG quality location data to a PSAP.
US08774163B2	Communication system and method for implementing IP cross-domain interconnecting via border media gateway A communication system for implementing IP cross-domain interconnecting via Border media Gateway (BG) includes: different IP domains, each of which includes: a Media Gateway Controller (MGC) for call control and a Media Gateway (MG) for media bearing; the communication system includes a BG for implementing interconnecting of the IP domains as well. A communication method based on the communication system, includes: a calling MG and a called MG located in different IP domains implements call switching and media stream creating with a BG under the control of MGCs in the different IP domains; and the calling MG communicates with the called MG based on the media streams created. Thus the cross-domain interconnecting between different IP domains via BGs is realize.
US08774159B2	Communication apparatus enabling coexistence of systems A frequency band is divided into N subchannels. Sub-channels are first allocated for a power line communication system having a higher priority, such as public communication or the like. Sub-channels for a power line communication system having a relatively low priority, such as in-home communication or the like, are allocated from free subchannels. In this case, the subchannels used by the power line communication system having the high priority are limited to a plurality of consecutive subchannels from an upper side or a lower side of the frequency band.
US08774158B2	Method and apparatus to shorten the duration of initial network selection and handover decisions in multicomm platforms by utilizing alternate fragmented scanning An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter capable of combining more than one wireless communication technology (comm) for wireless communication in a wireless network, wherein the apparatus includes a network detection phase implemented by doing a full scan of one comm followed by one or more additional comm scans; and wherein the network adapter breaks a scan into buckets, and alternates between different scanning buckets of different comms to provide faster scanning, connection time and handover from one wireless technology to another wireless technology.
US08774153B1	Base station code processing assistance for a code division multiplex format A first base station transceiver wirelessly receives communications from a first user in a code division multiplexing format using a first code assigned to the first base station transceiver. A second base station transceiver wirelessly receives communications from a second user in the code division multiplexing format using a second code assigned to the second base station transceiver. The base station transceivers determine and transfer wireless communication performance measurements. A network control system selects the second base station transceiver to assist the first base station transceiver based on the communication performance measurements. In response, the second base station transceiver wirelessly receives communications from a third user in the code division multiplexing format using the first code assigned to the first base station transceiver.
US08774147B2	Asynchronous wireless dynamic ad-hoc network A method for establishing and maintaining a dynamic network designed to allow wireless devices to communicate with one another on an ad-hoc basis. The wireless network is designed specifically to function autonomously, remaining completely independent from relying on any internet service provider or any other subsidiary systems such as any access points or routers. Rather than using central routers, all nodes in the network share the same capabilities as one another, and allow for a dynamic routing protocol to be executed directly by the network nodes.
US08774140B2	Method and apparatus to provide hidden node protection A method and a wireless communication device to overcome a hidden node problem in a BSS The method includes detecting that transmitting one or more data frames causing one or more nodes of an unsynchronized wireless communication network to become hidden nodes. The wireless communication device that causes the hidden node problem requests a time allocation for transmitting one or more data frames to at least one node of the unsynchronized wireless communication network and to transmit the one or more data frames using an antenna beam forming technique at the allocated time frame.
US08774135B2	Method and apparatus for radio link failure recovery A method (300) and apparatus (200) for radio link failure recovery is disclosed. The method may include detecting (320) the presence of an intra-frequency neighbor base station (145) of a serving base station (135). The method may include determining (330) that a radio link parameter of an inter-frequency neighbor base station is better than a threshold. The method may include acquiring (350) system information of the inter-frequency neighbor base station if the intra-frequency neighbor base station is present and if the radio link parameter of the inter-frequency neighbor base station is better than the threshold.
US08774122B2	Symbol timing synchronization obtaining method and apparatus robust to frequency offset in cell search of wireless communication system Disclosed is a symbol synchronization obtaining apparatus robust to a frequency offset in a cell search of a wireless communication system. The symbol synchronization obtaining apparatus robust to a frequency offset in a cell search of a wireless communication system may include a sequence generator to generate a base sequence for obtaining the symbol synchronization, a synchronization pattern generator to generate a modified sequence based on the base sequence, and to generate a synchronization pattern by combining the modified sequence and the base sequence, a frequency mapping unit to perform mapping of transmission information to a time area and a frequency area, based on the synchronization pattern, for generating a transmission frame, and a transmitting unit to transmit the transmission frame.
US08774118B2	Method and apparatus for control of enhanced dedicated channel transmissions A method and apparatus for controlling enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transmissions are disclosed. An enhanced uplink medium access control (MAC-e/es) entity processes a received scheduling grant to calculate a serving grant. The MAC-e/es entity determines whether both a hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) process for scheduled data and scheduled data are available. If an H-ARQ process for scheduled data and scheduled data are available, the MAC-e/es entity determines whether a serving grant exists. The MAC-e/es entity calculates a remaining power based on maximum allowed power and restricts an E-DCH transport format combination (E-TFC) based on the remaining power. The MAC-e/es entity selects an E-TFC using the serving grant and generates a MAC-e protocol data unit. The MAC-e/es entity may process the received scheduled grant is at each transmission time interval or may store the received scheduled grant in a grant list until there is E-DCH data to transmit.
US08774110B2	Link adaptation and antenna selection in cooperative multiple access systems Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for applying link adaptation and antenna selection in cooperative multiple access systems where multiple user devices act cooperatively to communicate with a network access station through a MIMO channel.
US08774107B2	Radio communication system, radio transmission apparatus, and retransmission method Provided is a retransmission method capable of improving reception quality in retransmission control. In this method, for the first transmission, LRB (Localized Resource Block) method is selected as a resource allocation method according to the CQI fed back from the mobile station. A frequency resource having the best reception quality according to the LRB format is allocated for the transmission data. For the second transmission, the same resource allocation method (LRB) as the first transmission is used and the transmission data is allocated fro the same frequency resource. For the third transmission, the resource allocation method is switched from the method of the first and the second transmission and transmission data is allocated to the frequency resource by using DRB (Distributed Resource Block) format.
US08774097B2	Method and apparatus for planning of cell sizes and frequency use in a wireless communications network A method including providing at least a first and a second operationally adjacent base stations; each base station providing at least one cell in respect of a first carrier and at least one cell in respect of a second carrier, and wherein for each carrier, the respective cell areas overlap, and wherein for a first carrier, the cell area provided by the first base station is substantially larger than the cell area provided by the second base station.
US08774095B2	Wireless access point device and communication collision avoiding method A wireless access point device receives a packet including a first source port number from a source wireless terminal device, determines if the packet is a control packet according to the first source port number, and obtains a time interval and a second source port number from the control packet and to receive a new packet. The wireless access point device further determines if the new packet is the data packet according to whether the first source port number of the new packet is the same as the second source port number, starts a timer to time for the time interval once the new packet is the data packet, and transmits a Clear-to-Sent packet to other wireless terminal devices once the timer times out.
US08774091B2	Cellphone WLAN access point An integrated cell phone/WLAN AP for providing cell phone functionality and cellular-based data connectivity to a WLAN enabled device. The cell phone AP comprises a WLAN radio, a WLAN AP coupled to the WLAN radio, a cellular radio coupled to the WLAN radio, for communicatively connecting to a cellular system having a cellular-based data service and passing data between the WLAN-enabled device and the cellular system, a cell phone function block coupled to the cellular radio for providing conventional cell phone functionality, and a power supply.
US08774085B2	Relays in wireless communications A method is provided, in a wireless communications network comprising a source node, a destination node and at least one relay node, of selecting spatial subchannels for use. The method comprising the steps of: spatially decomposing channels into spatial subchannels; and selecting a subset of the subchannels for use that at least approximately maximises predicted throughput rate.
US08774082B2	Ethernet digital storage (EDS) card and satellite transmission system An Ethernet Digital Storage (EDS) Card and satellite transmission system is provided for receiving, storing, and transmitting files. A data stream is received and may be stored at the receiver or routed as TCP/IP packets. The EDS Card includes an HTTP server. A DHCP on the EDS card provides dynamic configuration of the card's IP address. The EDS card includes a PPP and modem processor. The EDS card includes an event scheduler. A command processor keeps a built-in log of audio spots played. Files may be transmitted from the EDS card via an M&C port, an Ethernet port, or an auxiliary RS-232 port. Files may be received from a data stream from a satellite, an M&C port, an Ethernet port, or an auxiliary RS-232 port. The EDS card also provides time shifting and may be used without a satellite feed as an HTTP-controlled router with storage.
US08774081B2	Method for transmitting an uplink signal and feedback information, and relay apparatus using the method The invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink signal and feedback information of a relay, and to a relay apparatus using the method. The relay can receive information, constituting a downlink backhaul subframe and an uplink backhaul subframe from a base station. The relay can transmit an uplink signal via the relevant uplink backhaul subframe on the basis of the received information constituting the uplink backhaul frame. Further, the relay can receive a downlink reference signal from the base station, measure the status of a channel, and transmit the status of the channel in values, in various formats and in various points in time and cycles, to the base station.
US08774078B2	Method and user equipment for receiving multicast control channel notification message The present invention discloses a method for receiving multicast control channel notification message and user equipment. The method comprises user equipment receiving MCCH notification message for one or more times within the time interval of the modification period MP of the MCCH indicated by the broadcast control channel BCCH when the user equipment acquires that the multimedia broadcast service MBMS service that it is interested in is corresponding to some multicast control channel MCCH; the user equipment receiving MCCH notification message for one or more times within the time interval of the shortest MP of the MCCH MP indicated by the broadcast control channel BCCH when the user equipment cannot acquire that the multimedia broadcast service MBMS service that it is interested in is corresponding to some multicast control channel MCCH. The present invention reduces the times of UE receiving MCCH notification so as to reduce UE power consumption.
US08774076B2	Optimizing OTV multicast traffic flow for site local receivers In one embodiment, a first Edge Device may join a multicast group via a multicast router, wherein the first Edge device is in a first site of a network and the multicast router is in a second site of the network. The first Edge Device may ascertain an existence of both a first multicast source in the first site of the network and a second multicast source in the second site of the network. The first Edge Device may select the first multicast source as a multicast source from which to receive multicast data for the multicast group. The first Edge Device may notify the second multicast source in the second site of the network that the first Edge Device is not interested in receiving multicast data for the multicast group from the second multicast source.
US08774074B2	Apparatus and method for adaptively enabling discontinuous transmission (DTX) in a wireless communication system Apparatus and methods are disclosed for gating reverse link transmissions of ¼ rate, ½ rate, ¾ rate, and/or full rate frames in a wireless communication system, such that an access terminal can reduce its power consumption. The gating or discontinuous transmission (DTX) of the reverse link transmission may be conditionally applied based on factors such as the state of the access terminal, the filtered average power of gated the transmissions, or other factors. Further, the gating utilizes a pattern configured to be orthogonal to a pattern utilized for 1x smart blanking, and further configured not to interrupt forward link or reverse link power control signaling. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and discussed.
US08774073B1	Issuance of sleep commands to mobile communication devices from radio network controller A radio network controller may be configured to issue a sleep command to each of a plurality of mobile communication devices commanding the mobile communication devices to stop sending requests for data services to the radio network controller. The sleep commands may be issued based on the performance of the radio network controller, including any authentication, authorization, and accounting server with which it communicates.A mobile communication device may be configured to receive a sleep command from the radio network controller. The mobile communication device may be configured to stop sending requests for data services to the radio network controller upon receipt of a sleep command.
US08774072B2	System and method for adaptive network technique using isochronous transmission A network including a plurality of nodes each configured as transmitters, receivers, or transceivers. At least one of the nodes may be configured to wirelessly transmit a repeating isochronous signal for reception by one or more of the other nodes. The isochronous phase and/or frequency of the repeating isochronous transmission may be variably adjusted to reduce signal interference.
US08774071B2	Method and system for intercommunication between mobile terminal and WiMAX base station, and mobile terminal A method for intercommunication between a mobile terminal and a WiMAX base station comprises: connecting the mobile terminal with a WiMAX wireless data card via an interface (S102); obtaining configuration information of the WiMAX wireless data card, and fulfilling the logic connection between the mobile terminal and the WiMAX wireless data card according to the configuration information (S104); and using the WiMAX wireless data card to fulfill the intercommunication with the WiMAX base station (S106). A system and a mobile terminal are used to implement the method.
US08774067B2	Antenna impedance stabilization with stabilization load in second antenna circuitry There are first and second antennas proximally disposed and configured to resonate within respective first and second frequency bands, which may overlap. An impedance stabilization circuitry is coupled to ground. There is a selective coupler (for example, diplexer, directional coupler, switch) interfacing the second antenna selectively with the impedance stabilization circuitry and with radio circuitry. The selective coupler comprises a first port coupled to the second antenna, a second port coupled to the impedance stabilization circuitry, and a third port configured to couple with radio circuitry that is configured to operate in the second frequency band. The selective coupler provides a predetermined impedance to signals within the first frequency band and a low insertion loss to signals within the second frequency band, thus providing a stable impedance for the first antenna's view of the second antenna.
US08774065B2	Radio front end and power management architecture for LTE-advanced A front end radio architecture (FERA) with power management is disclosed. The FERA includes a first power amplifier (PA) block having a first-first PA and a first-second PA, and a second PA block having a second-first PA and a second-second PA. First and second modulated switchers are adapted to selectively supply power to the first-first PA and the second-first PA, and to supply power to the first-second PA and the second-second PA, respectively. The first and second modulated switchers have a modulation bandwidth of at least 20 MHz and are both suitable for envelope tracking modulation. A control system is adapted to selectively enable and disable the first-first PA, first-second PA, the second-first PA, and the second-second PA. First and second switches are responsive to control signals to route carriers and received signals between first and second antennas depending upon a selectable mode of operation such as intra-band or inter-band operation.
US08774059B2	Multicasting apparatus IP data is multicast from one or more servers (4) in sessions through a network (N) comprising a plurality of routers (R) in a multicast tree to transmission sites (S) of a DVB-T network, where the data is encapsulated by IPEs 28 and transmitted uni-directionally to mobile user equipment (UE). A controller (38) builds up a schedule of session data concerning sessions transmitted by the servers (4) and instructs the IPEs to send join messages to receive data for selected sessions. The join messages may include the address of the source and may be transmitted in good time before the start of the session.
US08774054B2	Network policy configuration method, management device, and network management center device A network policy configuration method. The network policy configuration method includes: establishing correlation information between a virtual switch and physical network devices; when an operation event aimed at a virtual machine occurs, sending a first network policy configuration message aimed at the virtual machine to a virtual switch corresponding to the virtual machine, where the first network policy configuration message is used to instruct the virtual switch to perform network policy configuration; and acquiring, according to the correlation information, physical network devices correlated to the virtual switch, and sending second network policy configuration messages aimed at the virtual machine to the physical network devices correlated to the virtual switch, where the second network policy configuration messages are used to instruct the physical network devices to perform network policy configuration. The technical solution is capable of automatically configuring a network policy, thereby supporting the server virtualization technology.
US08774052B2	Virtual port world wide names A network switch allows defining a virtual port worldwide name (VPWWN) and associating the VPWWN with an F_port of the network switch, for use by a host bus adaptor (HBA) connecting to the network switch. Both a default and a user VPWWN may be defined, with the user VPWWN typically taking precedence over the default VPWWN. A database of VPWWN associations may be used to ensure uniqueness of the user VPWWN. Where the HBA allows dynamic assignment of WWNs, the VPWWN may be pushed to the HBA. The VPWWNs may be deleted, and moved to another port as desired.
US08774050B2	Dynamic wake-up time adjustment based on designated paths through a computer network In one embodiment, a computer network may include nodes and at least one root node. A first subset of the nodes may be located along a designated path (a directed acyclic graph (DAG)) through the computer network to the root node, where the first subset of nodes is configured to operate according to a first wake-up timer. A second subset of the nodes that are not along the designated path are in communication to at least one node of the first subset of nodes along the designated path, and operate according to a second wake-up timer that is longer than the first wake-up timer. In this manner, second subset of nodes may be awake less often, e.g., conserving energy.
US08774047B2	Method for providing virtual private network services between autonomous systems The present invention relates to providing virtual private network (VPN) services between two or more Autonomic Systems (AS). An aggregation edge router (ASBR) is provided in two or more autonomous systems (Asx,Asy). The aggregation edge routers are configured such that routing peering between the two or more autonomous systems is done between the aggregation edge routers in these autonomous systems. Each aggregation edge router is a routing peer of other edge routers (PE) in its own autonomous system. The Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network is used between the different autonomous systems.
US08774044B2	Method and arrangement for adjusting reported channel quality in multi-hop wireless communication system Method and arrangement in a base station for adjusting a channel quality indicator value of a wireless transmission between the base station and a user equipment. The base station, the user equipment and a relay node are comprised in a multi-hop wireless communication system and adapted to intercommunicate in a first transmission mode and a second transmission mode. The method comprises sending a radio signal to be received by the user equipment, obtaining a measurement of the channel quality indicator value, determining if the transmission mode of the sent radio signal is different from the transmission mode of the obtained channel quality indicator value measurement, and adding a channel quality indicator offset value to the channel quality indicator value, if the transmission mode of the relay node is determined to be the first transmission mode while the channel quality indicator was measured and obtained in the second transmission mode.
US08774039B2	Communication system, mobile terminal, network node, and base station apparatus Disclosed is a technique for enabling a mobile terminal, which is capable of using a plurality of communication routes for communication with a correspondent node, to select an appropriate communication route to communicate with the correspondent node. According to the technique, the mobile terminal (UE/MN 313B) requests a predetermined network node (P-GW 317) to detect whether or not the correspondent node (CN 318B) exists in the same domain. The P-GW monitors a packet sent from the CN to the UE/MN and, when detecting the packet, determines whether or not the CN exists in the same domain. In the case of determining that the CN exists in the same domain, the P-GW reports information that the CN exists in the same domain, to the UE/MN. The UE/MN selects an interface used for communicating with the CN, based on the reported determination result.
US08774037B2	Method and apparatus for feeding back channel state information A method of a user equipment feeling channel state information in a wireless communication system including receiving a reference signal from a base station; generating first channel state information by measuring the reference signal; generating second channel state information based on the first channel state information; and transmitting the first channel state information and the second channel state information to the base station. The first channel state information is channel state information of a single user single cell Multi-input Multi-Output (MIMO) mode, and the second channel state information is channel state information of a multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) mode or a Cooperative Multiple Points Transmission and Reception (CoMP) mode.
US08774036B2	Multi-mode mobile networking device Establishing a mobile ad-hoc network between mobile network devices may include transmitting a signal from a first mobile network device using a plurality of communications formats. One or more other mobile network devices may receive the broadcast signal, select a communications format from the plurality of communications formats and respond to the signal using the selected communications format.
US08774034B2	Method and apparatus for frequency offset estimation and correction in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system A frequency offset estimation and correction method in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is disclosed in present invention, including: obtaining a pilot frequency domain channel estimation value of a target user, and smoothing the channel estimation value in frequency domain; obtaining the link quality state of a receiver; adopting a history smoothing algorithm or a multi-branch attempt algorithm to perform frequency offset estimation and frequency offset compensation, performing frequency domain demodulation for the data for which frequency offset compensation has been performed, and outputting a link quality state parameter; and updating the link quality state of the receiver according to the link quality state parameter, determining the output value of this frequency offset estimation and outputting a history frequency offset value required by next frequency offset estimation according to the determined output value of this frequency offset estimation. A corresponding apparatus is also disclosed in the present invention.
US08774033B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting frame in vehicle communication system based on wireless access for vehicular environment In a vehicle communication system, a frame transmitting apparatus gives a transmission opportunity to an emergency frame received from an upper layer without EDCA (Enhanced Distributed Channel Access), and gives a transmission opportunity to a generic frame received from an upper layer through EDCA.
US08774032B2	Integrity check in a communication system A method of communication between a first node and a second node for a system where a plurality of different channels is provided between said first and second node. The method comprises the step of calculating an integrity output. The integrity output is calculated from a plurality of values, some of said values being the same for said different channels. At least one of said values is arranged to comprise information relating to the identity of said channel, each channel having a different identity. After the integrity output has been calculated, Information relating to the integrity output is transmitted from one of said nodes to the other.
US08774029B1	Web application server configuration deployment framework The method and article for dynamically generating, reinstalling, replicating, or reconfiguring a framework on an application server is presented. A list of configuration files is identified. A server administrator identifies, and a routine receives, a selection of the configuration files to be generated on the application server. The routine generates a temporary configuration file based on the selection. The server administrator configures one or more settings of the temporary configuration file, and the routine generates, on the computer of the application server, an actual configuration file using the temporary configuration file and the setting.
US08774028B2	Method and apparatus for estimating delay of buffer data of UE in a mobile communication system A method and apparatus estimate a delay of buffer data of a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system. A message comprising the size of buffer data is received from a UE. The size of the buffer data of the UE is distributed into a plurality of groups based on a time point of receiving the message comprising the size of the buffer data of the UE. A delay for each of the plurality of groups is estimated using a time interval of execution of delay estimation for the buffer data of the UE.
US08774027B2	Channel state information request/feedback method and apparatus A Channel State Information (CSI) request/feedback method and apparatus for a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation or bandwidth extension are provided. A base station sets a CSI request field of an Uplink (UL) grant for scheduling UL transmission on a UL Component Carrier (CC) corresponding to a Downlink (DL) CC of which CSI is requested, to a request value. The UL grant is transmitted to a terminal.
US08774017B2	Data transmission method, data transmission apparatus, data reception apparatus, and packet data structure A data transmission apparatus for sequentially transmitting data in units of packets each containing transmission data to the receiving end, comprises: a reception unit for receiving the transmission data as an input signal; a packet formation unit for receiving the transmission data received, and forming an uncompressed packet in which predetermined transmission data is stored as uncompressed data, and a compressed packet in which at least a portion of transmission data that follows the predetermined transmission data is compressed and stored as compressed data; a reference information management unit for holding and managing, as reference information, information relating to the uncompressed packet formed by the packet formation unit; and a transmission unit for transmitting the respective packets formed by the packet formation unit, as a transmission signal, to the receiving end. The packet formation unit forms compressed data to be stored in a compressed packet, on the basis of the transmission data of the uncompressed packet and the reference information stored in the reference information management unit. Therefore, the number of packets to be discarded at the receiving end due to an error which has occurred in the radio section is reduced, whereby the quality of data transmitted in the transmission path including the radio section is improved.
US08774016B2	Ethernet communication device with reduced EMI A network device includes a physical layer transceiver configured to receive incoming data on a data link at an input clock rate and to store the incoming data in a buffer. The physical layer transceiver includes a Media Independent Interface (MII) controller configured to receive the incoming data stored in the buffer and to transmit the incoming data over a MII bus based on a MII clock where the MII clock is a spread spectrum clock. The network device further includes a Media Access Control (MAC) device configured to receiving incoming data from the physical layer transceiver over the MII bus where the incoming data is clocked by the spread spectrum MII clock.
US08774010B2	System and method for providing proactive fault monitoring in a network environment An example method is provided and includes communicating a request packet to a first network element. The request packet is associated with a request for a list of flow parameters. The method also includes receiving a response to the request for the list of flow parameters, and communicating a test packet to initiate fault monitoring. The test packet is communicated to a second network element and the test packet includes at least one of the flow parameters provided by the first network element. The method also includes receiving a plurality of fault monitoring results. The results are limited to reflect multiple paths associated with the first network element.
US08774009B2	Methods and arrangement in a MPLS-TP telecommunications network for OAM functions Extensions to a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) frame forwarding procedure in an MPLS node are described. A context descriptor is defined for each frame received on a connection terminated at that node, and where this context descriptor is provided together with the frame to a corresponding function (e.g. Operations, Administration and Maintenance, OAM) if needed. The context descriptor is constructed based on key attributes characterizing the terminated connection, over which the frame is received, and addresses a particular function endpoint (Maintenance Endpoints (MEPs), Selector Bridge of a protection instance etc.) of a corresponding function (OAM, protection, etc.). In one embodiment, a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) node is directed to check not only the first but also the second label, and not to drop the first label (and the label space if relevant) when the second label is the Generic Association Channel Label (GAL). In this way, the original context of the packet is kept (i.e. the information relating to the connection over which the packet was received), and can be used for de-multiplexing to the corresponding MEP. Then the identifiers within the OAM payload can be used for verification of the connectivity. Other embodiments describe alternative solutions.
US08774008B2	Real-time network measurement A method of operation within a device coupled to a network. A first set of data is received from a first data path of the network. A first set of measurement information is identified from the first set of data, and a quality of the first data path is determined based on the first set of measurement information. A second set of data is then selectively transmitted via either the first data path or a second data path of the network, based on the quality of the first data path.
US08774007B2	Apparatus and method for data communication in an energy distribution network A system for communicating information on an energy distribution network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a local supervisor on a communication network, wherein the local supervisor can collect data from one or more energy generation/monitoring devices. The system also includes a command center on the communication network, wherein the command center can generate one or more commands for controlling the one or more energy generation devices. The local supervisor can periodically transmit a data signal indicative of the data to the command center via a first channel of the communication network at a first interval. The local supervisor can also periodically transmit a request for a command to the command center via a second channel of the communication network at a second interval shorter than the first interval. This channel configuration provides effective data communication without a significant increase in the use of network resources.
US08774002B2	Traffic control apparatus and data communication system including same The present invention relates to a traffic control apparatus and the like for optimizing a communication performance of each of local networks to be monitored. The traffic control apparatus (100) temporarily stores in the memory (120) communication band information items of relay nodes (211B, 212B, 213B) through the I/O (140). The controller (110) specifies a bottleneck relay node based on the obtained communication band information items, calculates transmittable/receivable bands to be allocated to the PCs (220B), and notifies the PCs (220B) of the calculated transmittable/receivable bands. In response to this notification, the PCs (220B) divide data to be transmitted, with the divided data corresponding to the allocated bands, and transmit the divided data to the Internet (10), in a manner that the divided data are arranged temporally evenly.
US08773999B2	Distributed chassis architecture having integrated service appliances A distributed virtual chassis comprises scaled-out fabric coupler (SFC) boxes. Each SFC box has fabric ports and a cell-based switch fabric for switching cells associated with a packet among the SFC fabric ports of that SFC box. Distributed line cards (DLCs) include switching DLCs and an appliance DLC (A-DLC). Each switching DLC has network ports. Each switching DLC and A-DLC has DLC fabric ports. Each switching DLC and A-DLC is connected to each of the SFC boxes. The A-DLC provides an upper layer service for packets arriving on the network ports of the switching DLCs. To forward a packet to the A-DLC, a switching DLC divides the packet into cells and distributes the cells among the SFC boxes. The SFC boxes forward the cells to the A-DLC, and the A-DLC reassembles the packet from the cells and provides the upper layer service to the packet.
US08773996B2	Switching architecture with packet encapsulation The invention includes, among other things, a system for passing TDM traffic through a packet switch. In one embodiment, the system includes a packet switch that has a plurality of data ports and is capable of routing FSDU packets between the plurality of data ports. A TDM encapsulation circuit process a TDM data flow that is incoming to the switch. A circuit demultiplexer processes the incoming data flow to buffer data associated with different TDM circuits into different buffer locations. A timer monitors the amount of time available to fill the FSDU, and when the time period reaches the frame boundary, an FSDU generator generates an FSDU that is filled with data associated with the TDM circuits. Header information is added for allowing the packet switch to route the generated FSDU to a port associated with the respective TDM circuit.
US08773994B2	Signaling method and apparatus to enable multiple antenna communications in wireless systems A method (200) for signaling a transmission mode in a wireless communication networks comprises selecting a signature sequence corresponding to the transmission mode of a transmitting device (S210); forming, for each antenna in the transmitting device, a synchronization field based on the selected signature sequence, wherein the synchronization field is included in a preamble (S220); and transmitting, from each antenna in the transmitting device, the data frame that comprises the preamble.
US08773993B2	Adaptive bandwidth estimation Some embodiments provide a method of combining multiple streams of data packets into a single combined stream in a manner that facilitates accurate estimation of bandwidth of a connection over a network between two devices. When combining the streams into the combined stream, the method associates a set of packets from a first stream and a reference packet from a second stream to form a longer sequence of packets in the combined stream. The method sends the combined stream from a first device to a second device so that the second device can estimate the bandwidth of the connection between the first and second devices based on the inter-arrival times of the packets in the sequence of packets.
US08773992B2	Methods and apparatus for hierarchical routing in communication networks Methods and apparatus for hierarchical routing in communication networks are disclosed. An example hierarchical routing method for a communication network disclosed herein comprises determining a plurality of constrained weighted paths to connect pairs of border nodes of a cluster in the communication network, each constrained weighted path having a respective bandwidth and a respective weight, a constrained weighted path for a pair of border nodes of the cluster being selected, based on a bandwidth threshold, from a set of possible paths capable of connecting the pair of border nodes, and advertising the plurality of constrained weighted paths determined for the cluster.
US08773991B2	Bandwidth control method A bandwidth control method is provided. A router is provided to establish a network connection to a remote apparatus. The remote apparatus is allocated with a downlink bandwidth for servicing the gateway. A plurality of downlink packets are received by the gateway. In response to reception of the downlink packets, the gateway transmits a plurality of uplink packets to the remote apparatus to allow the remote apparatus to transmit more downlink packets to the gateway after the remote apparatus acknowledges reception of the uplink packets. A transmission rate of the uplink packets is limited within an uplink threshold by the gateway so that a transmission rate of the downlink packets is smaller than the downlink bandwidth allocated to the remote apparatus. The uplink threshold is determined based on the downlink bandwidth.
US08773990B1	Detecting unauthorized tethering In systems and methods of detecting a wireless device utilizing unauthorized tethering, a plurality of wireless devices in communication with an access node is detected, and a suspect device list of wireless devices which are not authorized for tethering is determined from among the plurality of detected wireless devices. An expected hop value is stored for each suspect device, a data packet is received from each suspect device, and a first hop value is determined for each suspect device. Based on a first comparison of the expected hop value and the first hop value at least one suspect device is identified as performing unauthorized tethering.
US08773985B2	Method and appartus for admission control in a radio communications system A method for admission control in a radio communications system that includes determining a quality of service (QoS) type of a service according to a QoS property of the service, determining a service satisfaction ratio of services that belong to the determined QoS type according to a result of the determining a QoS type, comparing the determined service satisfaction ratio with an admission threshold, and admitting the service if the determined service satisfaction ratio is greater than or equal to the admission threshold. An apparatus for admission control in the radio communications system is also provided. With the embodiments in the present disclosure, the resource utilization may be accurately calculated, and the admission control algorithm may be more easily developed and maintained.
US08773984B2	Method and system for measuring network convergence time A method and system for measuring a convergence time of a network. Test traffic including a plurality of packet groups may be transmitted and received via the network. The network may be instructed to redirect packets belonging to a selected packet group from a first port of the network to a second port of the network. A first test port unit coupled to the first port may determine an arrival rate for the selected packet group and store a below threshold timestamp when the arrival rate first falls below a predetermined threshold rate. A second test port unit coupled to the second port may determine an arrival rate for the selected packet group and store an above threshold timestamp when the arrival rate first equals or exceeds the predetermined threshold rate. The convergence time may be determined based on the below threshold timestamp and the above threshold timestamp.
US08773981B2	Systems and methods for dynamic congestion management in communications networks Systems and methods for dynamic congestion management in communications networks are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method can include determining traffic statistics of at least one node in a communications network. The method can also include determining whether the at least one node is congested based on the traffic statistics. Further, the method can include dynamically changing or provisioning a set of at least one traffic shaping rule for application to the at least one node in response to determining that the at least one node is congested.
US08773979B2	System and method for assisting user in troubleshouting network connection problems The present invention is to provide a system for assisting a user in troubleshooting network connection problems, which includes a main terminal device (e.g., a computer) and a mediation device (e.g., a router) connected to the main terminal device and storing an assisting web page. Upon receiving a web page request instruction from the main terminal device, the mediation device redirects the web page request instruction to a website address. When the mediation device determines that itself is not connected to the Internet (i.e., a network connection problem occurs), the mediation device will send the assisting web page to the main terminal device. The assisting web page is displayed by the main terminal device through a browser thereof, so as for the user to troubleshoot the network connection problem according to the steps specified in the assisting web page (e.g., to perform a line inspection, a light signal check, etc.).
US08773978B2	System and method for protecting ingress and egress of a point-to-multipoint label switched path A network comprising a first edge node, a second edge node, a third edge node that backs up either the first edge node or the second edge node, and an internal node coupled to the first edge node, the second edge node, and the third edge node, wherein a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) label switched path (LSP) extends across the network from the first edge node, through the internal node, and to the second edge node, and wherein a LSP sub-tree extends between the third edge node and the internal node, but does not extend across the network.
US08773976B1	Method and system for communication acknowledgement Disclosed is a method and apparatus for helping to reduce latency that may arise from requesting retransmission of non-received packets. A device carrying out the method may be arranged to not send negative acknowledgements for non-received packets. Further, in an implementation where the device is to send for each packet of an incoming sequence either a positive acknowledgement indicating that the device received the packet or a negative acknowledgement indicating that the device did not receive the packet (and constituting a request for retransmission of the packet), the device will send for each packet a positive acknowledgement regardless of whether the device received the packet. The device will thus send a positive acknowledgement for at least one packet even though the device did not receive the packet.
US08773975B2	Network coding enhancements A method performed by a base station is provided. The method includes receiving, at the base station, a signal containing a transmitted first signal including a network coded message and a transmitted second signal including a non-network coded message, where the second signal is transmitted according to at least one transmission parameter. The method further includes receiving, at the base station, the at least one transmission parameter and determining, by the base station, an interference to the transmitted first signal caused by the transmitted second signal, where the interference is determined using the at least one transmission parameter. The method further includes removing the determined interference from the signal to recover the transmitted first signal.
US08773970B2	Method and device for detecting a signal in a long term evolution system The present disclosure discloses a method for detecting a signal in an LTE system, the method includes that: an eNodeB calculates a signal power Ps and a noise power Pn according to the data part of a signal sent by a UE on a channel resource, a Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation (CAZAC) sequence, an orthogonal sequence W distributed to the UE, and a sequence Wn orthogonal to the W stored by itself; and the ratio of Ps to Pn is compared with a predetermined threshold and a corresponding detection result is determined according to the comparison result. The present disclosure further discloses a device for detecting a signal in an LTE system. The method and device can be used for accurately, simply and easily detecting whether the UE initiates a scheduling request or whether DTX occurs to the UE, so that the eNodeB can determine to whether to continuously send a subsequent message or whether to resend the message which the UE has failed to receive, thereby improving the scheduling performance of the eNodeB.
US08773969B1	Multi-radio device for WLAN The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to wireless local area network devices. Systems and techniques include multiplexing information for a single wireless communication device onto multiple radio pathways to produce a data packet, operating the multiple radio pathways to generate different portions of the data packet, and transmitting the data packet to the single wireless communication device by concurrent transmissions of the different portions of the data packet over different wireless channels.
US08773968B2	Signaling of random access preamble sequences in wireless networks Transmission of random access preamble structures within a cellular wireless network is based on the use of cyclic shifted constant amplitude zero autocorrelation (“CAZAC”) sequences to generate the random access preamble signal. A pre-defined set of sequences is arranged in a specific order. Within the predefined set of sequences is an ordered group of sequences that is a proper subset of the pre-defined set of sequences. Within a given cell, up to 64 sequences may need to be signaled. In order to minimize the associated overhead due to signaling multiple sequences, only one logical index is transmitted by a base station serving the cell and a user equipment within the cell derives the subsequent indexes according to the pre-defined ordering. Each sequence has a unique logical index. The ordering of sequences is identified by the logical indexes of the sequences, with each logical index uniquely mapped to a generating index. When a UE needs to transmit, it produces a second sequence using the received indication of the logical index of the first sequence and an auxiliary parameter and then produces a transmission signal by modulating the second sequence.
US08773961B2	Copy-protected optical recording medium, method for driving thereof and method for manufacturing thereof A copy-protected optical recording medium, a method for driving thereof and a method for manufacturing thereof, wherein the optical recording medium includes at least one region whose address is designated to be said same with that of other region of the medium.
US08773960B2	Photodetector unit, optical pickup including the photodetector unit, and optical system including the optical pickup Provided is a photodetector unit including a photodetector integrated circuit (PDIC). The photodetector may reduce a height of a conventional optical pickup by improving the input/output terminals of the PDIC and accordingly improving the contact points and wires of a corresponding printed circuit board (PCB).
US08773958B2	Estimation method of Curie temperature distribution width An estimation method includes a heating step in which a recording bit, on which a reference signal is recorded, is heated under each of heating conditions having different heating temperatures, the recording bit being at least one recording bit in the magnetic recording medium, and a measurement step in which a signal intensity with respect to the reference signal recorded in the recording bit after heating is measured under each of the heating conditions of the heating step. Based on the signal intensities with respect to the reference signal respectively measured in the measurement step, the distribution width of the Curie temperatures of the plurality of magnetic grains that form the magnetic recording layer is estimated.
US08773956B1	Bi-layer NFT-core spacer for EAMR system and method of making the same Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward a bi-layer spacer structure and related fabrication processes for improving an interface between a near-field transducer (NFT) and a spacer on an optical waveguide core for an energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) system. The embodiments provide a solution for improving the adhesion between the NFT and the spacer.
US08773955B2	Time adjustment device, timekeeping device with a time adjustment device, and time adjustment method A time adjustment device can acquire time information in a short time, reduce power consumption, and display the correct time. A GPS wristwatch has a reception unit that receives satellite signals; a time information generating unit that generates internal time information; a reception control unit that controls the reception unit; and a time information adjustment unit that adjusts the internal time information. The time information adjustment unit has a first information time adjustment means that receives first information containing year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and satellite health information, and adjusts the internal time information; a second information time adjustment means that receives second information including leap second information, and adjusts the internal time information; a third information time adjustment means that receives third information of hour, minute, second information, and adjusts the internal time information.
US08773953B2	Transducer assembly for an echoscope The present invention relates to a transducer assembly (1) for an echoscope, comprising a first row of ultrasonic transducers (2) and a second row of ultrasonic transducers (3), said transducer assembly (1) combining the advantages of a linear transducer and of transducers with various rows of transducers which are arranged at an angle with respect to one another, due to the fact that the first row of ultrasonic transducers (2) forms part of a first transducer element (4), due to the fact that the second row of ultrasonic transducers (3) forms part of a second transducer element (5) and due to the fact that the first transducer element (4) and the second transducer element (5) are detachably connectable to one another in at least two positions to form a composite transducer element (6).
US08773952B2	Apparatus and method to track positions of multiple sound sources Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method to track positions of multiple sound sources which can simultaneously track the positions of multiple sound sources. Sound signals input to an array of microphones are separated into independent sound source signals, correlation coefficients between the sound signals input to the microphones and the separated sound source signals are estimated, and the estimated correlation coefficients are analyzed to track the positions of the sound sources.

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