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US08893087B2	Automating functionality test cases A computer implemented method and system including techniques for developing and executing automated test cases are described herein. In one embodiment, a test case automation tool provides functionality for defining an automated test set and associated test cases within a testing user interface without the use of scripting languages or compiled programming. The definition of each test case may occur within a testing user interface, including displaying and receiving user selection of available methods for testing; displaying user parameter fields and receiving user parameter values in response for testing; abstracting parameter types in the user parameter values; and generating XML-format definitions of the test case. The test case automation tool may then execute the selected methods of the software application using parameters provided in the XML-format definitions, and return testing results of the test case execution.
US08893086B2	System and method for resource modeling and simulation in test planning A method includes generating a test model based on at least one of test group dependencies and test group constraints and generating a resource base. The method includes generating a cost model and generating a resource allocation plan based on the test model, the resource base, and the cost model.
US08893084B2	Methods and apparatuses for deferred object customization A method and apparatus to record one or more customization messages in a storage are described. Each customization message may include one or more predicates specifying applicability of the customization message for a plurality of objects. An operation on the objects may be performed to generate a configuration of a device in response to receiving an event. The configuration may include the objects. Each customization message may be selectively applied to the objects in the configuration to customize the configuration. An object may be updated via the customization message if the predicates match the object in the configuration. The device may be configured via the customized configuration.
US08893079B2	Methods for generating code for an architecture encoding an extended register specification There are provided methods and computer program products for generating code for an architecture encoding an extended register specification. A method for generating code for a fixed-width instruction set includes identifying a non-contiguous register specifier. The method further includes generating a fixed-width instruction word that includes the non-contiguous register specifier.
US08893072B2	Equivalent circuit of semiconductor device, simulation method for semiconductor device, and simulation device for semiconductor device An equivalent circuit includes: a first transistor having a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; a second transistor having a second gate electrode, a second drain electrode, and a second source electrode electrically connected to the first drain electrode; and a charging and discharging circuit which includes a first capacitor having a terminal electrically connected to the second gate electrode and another terminal electrically connected to the second source electrode, and charges and discharges the first capacitor with predetermined time constants.
US08893069B2	Method of schematic driven layout creation A computer-implemented method is disclosed for layout pattern or layout constraint reuse by identifying sub-circuits with identical or similar schematic structure based on a topology comparison strategy. The selected sub-circuit is transformed into a topology representing the relative positions among the instances of the selected sub-circuit. Based on the topology, one or more sub-circuits with identical or similar topologies in a predefined scope of a schematic are recognized and identified. Accordingly, the layout or the layout constraint of the selected sub-circuit is copied and associated to each of the identified sub-circuits. Furthermore, once the sub-circuits are identified, they can be listed on a user interface with notations to allow users to confirm each of the identified sub-circuits respectively.
US08893063B2	Area and power saving standard cell methodology A semiconductor integrated circuit including a circuit for adaptive power supply regulation and designed using a process that increases operating speed used for characterizing circuit operation at a slow corner. In some embodiments a slow corner voltage is set to a higher than expected level for timing analysis performed by automated design tools.
US08893061B2	Incremental concurrent processing for efficient computation of high-volume layout data Some embodiments of the present invention overcome I/O bottlenecks of an EDA work flow by keeping layout data distributed during handoffs among different processing stages. Specifically, some embodiments leverage a concurrent computation paradigm where data is propagated incrementally between stages, and where data processing among consecutive stages and the I/O between stages are executed concurrently. Specifically, different data processing stages can partition the layout data differently, and portions of the layout data that are not required by a data processing stage can be either passed-through or passed-around the data processing stage.
US08893058B2	Methods and system for model-based generic matching and tuning The present invention relates to a method for tuning lithography systems so as to allow different lithography systems to image different patterns utilizing a known process that does not require a trial and error process to be performed to optimize the process and lithography system settings for each individual lithography system. According to some aspects, the present invention relates to a method for a generic model-based matching and tuning which works for any pattern. Thus it eliminates the requirements for CD measurements or gauge selection. According to further aspects, the invention is also versatile in that it can be combined with certain conventional techniques to deliver excellent performance for certain important patterns while achieving universal pattern coverage at the same time.
US08893054B2	Devices, systems, and methods for conveying gesture commands Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed which relate to conveying gestures associated with commands by displaying images that a user associates with a gesture. Upon performance of the gesture, the commands are carried out by a device, system, etc. For example, a mobile device displays a gesture icon of a hammer. The gesture icon is labeled with a command. When a user makes a downward motion with the forearm, the mobile device senses that gesture through a gesture sensor. The mobile device interprets the gesture and executes the command in the label of the gesture icon.
US08893051B2	Method for selecting an element of a user interface and device implementing such a method A method for selecting at least one element of a user interface on an electronic unit, including a step during which an action of an initialisation tool, positioned into an initialisation position on the user interface on the unit, triggers a display of a virtual magnifier encompassing the initialization position; and then a step during which an action of a validation tool triggers a display in the magnifier of a cursor centered on the initialization position; and then a step during which any movement of the validation tool causes an identical movement of the cursor and the virtual magnifier on the interface and which depends on the movement of the validation tool; and then a step during which at least one element of the interface is selected when the validation tool is picked up from the interface or that a selection tool is put onto the interface.
US08893047B2	Activity triggered photography in metaverse applications A system, method and program product for collecting image data from within a metaverse. A system is provided that includes: a graphical user interface (GUI) for allowing a user to install and administer a camera within the metaverse; a system for collecting image data from the camera based on an occurrence of a triggering event associated with the camera; and a system for storing or delivering the image data for the user.
US08893046B2	Method of managing user-selectable elements in a plurality of directions A method of visualizing and manipulating data on a display of a computer is provided, the method comprising retrieving a plurality of documents from a file system operably connected to the computer, each said document having at least one attribute associated therewith; graphically organizing the plurality of documents retrieved from the file system along a first substantially linear axis on the display; selecting a selected attribute associated with a selected document, the selected document being selected from among the plurality of documents organized along the first substantially linear axis; and graphically organizing a subset of the plurality of documents retrieved from the file system along a second substantially linear axis on the display, the first and second axes being organized such that the first and second substantially linear axes are non-parallel to one another, wherein the subset of the plurality of documents only includes documents having attributes associated therewith that match the selected attribute. A program, an interface and a system thereof are also provided.
US08893040B2	Systems, devices, or methods for accessing information employing a tumbler-style graphical user interface Systems, methods, and devices employing tumbler-style graphical user interfaces (TSGUI) are presented. TSGUI can facilitate high context rapid selection of content objects from at least a plurality of tumbler components. Selection of content objects can relate to a path for a memory to access a related final information. TSGUI can be employed in mobile computing devices, including telephonic mobile computing devices. In an embodiment a TSGUI of a mobile device can facilitate access to content in relation to messaging applications native to the mobile device.
US08893039B2	Apparatus and method for automatic focus shift The focus is automatically shifted among a plurality of application windows which are displayed concurrently. In order to achieve this, an interruption of communication processing started by an application corresponding to a first window displayed with the focus is detected. Then a second window to which the focus is to shift is determined based on the detection result and state data. As a result, the focus is automatically shifted, based on the determination result, from the first window displayed on a display section to the second window.
US08893038B2	Graphical association of task bar entries with corresponding desktop locations Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to task bar management and provide a method, system and computer program product for graphical association of task bar entries. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for graphically associating a window with a task bar entry in a windowing operating system GUI can be provided. The method can include rendering multiple windows in a z-space sequence in a desktop of the windowing operating system graphical user interface and detecting a proximity event for an entry in a task bar for the windowing operating system graphical user interface. In response to detecting the proximity event, a corresponding one of the windows in the desktop can be highlighted without re-ordering the z-space sequence.
US08893037B2	Interactive and dynamic medical visualization interface tools User interfaces facilitate user interaction with virtual representations of anatomical structures that are displayed on computing systems. The user interfaces demonstrably reflect the relative impact of different medical conditions on the anatomical structures. The impact of the medical conditions can be reflected in real-time, as a slider object is manipulated to pull a slide transition screen over the anatomical object. Portions of the anatomical object that become overlapped by the slide transition screens are displayed with dynamic modifications that reflect the impact of the medical conditions associated with the slide transition screens.
US08893033B2	Application notifications Application notification techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.
US08893030B1	Personal user highlight from popular highlights A popular highlight may be presented to a user who wishes to make the popular highlight a personal user highlight. Upon activation of a control, a personal user highlight is generated from the popular highlight. The user may then manipulate the resulting personal user highlight as they would any other user highlight.
US08893027B2	Providing hosted virtual desktop infrastructure services In an example embodiment, a device provides a connection to an endpoint coupled with a first network to a virtual desktop client coupled with a second network. The device obtains data from the virtual desktop client which client which includes at least one link to data available from an external server, such as streaming media. The device obtains the data from the external server and provides the data with data obtained from the virtual desktop client to the endpoint.
US08893026B2	System and method for creating and broadcasting interactive panoramic walk-through applications The system and method provides for creating, storing and broadcasting interactive panoramic walk-through applications. The combination of images is determined by the array of possibilities for the user to choose the direction of displacement at each intersection point and from each point or geographical coordinate, to have a complete view from a first person's point of view. The system uses geo-streaming methods to optimize broadcast and real-time construction of panoramic applications. The system provides a visual perspective which approaches that of human vision.
US08893017B2	Tracking changes in a database tool In one example embodiment, a system and method is illustrated that includes receiving input to execute a function associated with a display element of a Graphical User Interface (GUI), the display element to display edit history data relating to a displayed portion of structured data. The system and method also includes retrieving the edit history data for the displayed portion of the structured data based upon the function, the edit history data reflecting changes made to the displayed portion of the structured data. The system and method also includes displaying the edit history data in the GUI as part of the display element.
US08893015B2	Multi-directional and variable speed navigation of collage multi-media In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, methods and apparatus are provided for flexible and user-friendly navigation of loaded media in a multi-media presentation, such that a user may be able to view and/or edit the presentation. In one embodiment, a method for navigating loaded media comprises loading a page of a collage document to a client device, the page having a plurality of layers with each layer being associated with a media object. The method further includes creating a list of layers of the loaded page, each layer indexed by at least a position in the collage document; navigating the collage document in at least one direction and at at least one speed based on user input; and filtering the list of layers based on at least the position in the collage document and a visual window of a user interface to display visible layers of the page within the visual window. A client device for navigating loaded media is also disclosed.
US08893012B1	Visual indicator based on relative rating of content item A popularity score or rating may be provided for a third-party content item. The popularity score may be compared with an average score of similar genre third-party content items to determine a relationship of the popularity score relative to the average score of similar genre third-party content items. A popularity or other visual indicator may be provided proximate to the third-party content item to provide a visual indication of the relationship. The popularity indicator may include a bar or a plurality of symbols in some implementations.
US08893011B2	Chronology display and feature for online presentations and webpages A chronology display is generated for use with a web presentation or other form of network presentation. The chronology display may include a plurality of intervals, with each interval representative of a period of time. In an embodiment, some of the intervals may indicate a number of content items provided on the network presentation during the time period that corresponds to each particular interval. The indication may be provided by a characteristic, such as for example, a color or shading that represents the number of content items provided on the network presentation.
US08893005B2	Method, device, and system for providing indicia on a display A display of an icon includes creating and displaying an icon that provides indicia regarding information relevant to an application to which the icon is assigned. The indicia provides information to a user and is always in the foreground of a display when the application is running regardless of whether the application is currently actively in use and being interacted with by a user or not. At least one expandable indicia is included within the icon. Input provided by clicking the expandable indicia actuates an expanded window for displaying more detailed information. Indicia is also presentable on the icon to provide real time information to a user who is actively using another application such as whether a connection to a server hosting services for the application is lost. A presence state of the user is displayable via presence indicia located on the icon as well.
US08893001B2	Strong password entry A processor executing a password manager randomly selects a first requirement and a second requirement for creating a password from a set of requirements, wherein the second requirement is selected independently of the first requirement. The processor provides the first requirement for creating the password, receives characters for the password, determines whether the characters satisfy the first requirement, and provides information that indicates whether the characters satisfy the first requirement. Responsive to the characters satisfying the first requirement, the processor provides the second requirement for creating the password.
US08893000B2	Relocation between virtual environments based upon promotional and alert conditions Awards of value are awarded to residents of a virtual universe for consenting to be teleported in response to invitations for teleportation. The consent can be made conditional upon any of a variety of circumstances which can be specified by a resident of the virtual universe for a corresponding avatar and which form rules for auto-teleportation. These conditions can be stored and searched and avatar and location status monitored and compared to the conditions to control issuance of invitations to increase the likelihood that an invitation will be automatically accepted. A delay before acceptance is also preferably provided to provide for graceful conclusion or termination of current avatar activity.
US08892998B2	Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an receiving unit that receives e-mail via a first path, an acquiring unit that acquires an acquired file via a path other than the first path, a determining unit that determines whether an attached file and synthesization information for synthesizing the attached file and the acquired file are included in the received e-mail, and a synthesizing unit which, when the attached file and the synthesization information are included in the received e-mail, synthesizes the attached file and the acquired file based on the synthesization information.
US08892997B2	Overflow stack user interface Systems and methods for providing an overflow stack. An overflow stack can be generated based upon adjustments to a group display area and based upon application of one or more display criterion. An overflow stack can include representation of any system objects that can not be displayed in an adjusted group display area based upon the one or more display criterion.
US08892995B2	Method and system for specialty imaging effect generation using multiple layers in documents A computer-implemented system and method for generating specialty imaging effects from layered documents are provided. The method includes providing a layered document that contains one or more effect layers and one or more visual layers. For each visual layer, the method includes identifying visual graphical elements within the visual layer. For each of the visual graphical elements, the method identifies, as a next effect layer, a closest effect layer above the visual layer which includes an effect graphical element that overlaps, at least in part, the identified visual graphical element. A new graphical element is created by merging at least part of the identified visual graphical element with at least part of the overlapping effect graphical element. The merging may be performed with regular specialty imaging techniques. The input layered document is transformed by replacing the identified visual graphical element on the visual layer with the new graphical element.
US08892994B2	System, method, and architecture for displaying a document Data defining a document is received from an online document processing service, and a plurality of elements within the document is identified. The plurality of elements may comprise paragraphs, lines of text, images, tables, headers, footers, footnotes, footnote reference information, etc. For each of the plurality of elements, a respective object comprising a layout function and a render function is generated. An object corresponding to an element is invoked to generate layout data associated with the element, and the element is rendered based on the layout data.
US08892992B2	Methods for efficient cluster analysis Some embodiments provide a method for defining structure for an unstructured document that includes a number of primitive elements that are defined in terms of their position in the document. The method identifies a pairwise grouping of nearest primitive elements. The method sorts the pairwise primitive elements based on an order from the closest to the furthest pairs. The method stores a single value that identifies which of the pairwise primitive elements are sufficiently far apart to form a partition. The method uses the stored value to identify and analyze the partitions in order to define structural elements for the document.
US08892991B2	Encoder compiler, computer readable medium, and communication device The reading unit reads mapping information that maps a particular point in a document structure defined by XML schema to the name of a variable and a training XML document that includes a substitute character string positioned at a particular point and tags. A parser converts the training XML document into a sequence of events each specifying one of substitute character string and the tag names. The reading unit reads in an EXI grammar form. A code composer processes the sequence of events and generates an EXI event code based on the EXI grammar form, generates a function to retrieve the value of a variable mapped to the particular point at which the substitute character string is positioned when the event is an event specifying substitute character string, and produces an EXI encoder including output instruction codes to output EXI event codes and the retrieved value of the function.
US08892982B2	Method and system for network latency virtualization in a cloud transport environment A cache device is disposed on a connection path between a user computer executing a software application and a network. The application exchanges data with a further computer via the network. The cache device includes a cache memory and a processor. The cache device is configured to measure, by the processor, a first latency between the user computer and the further computer. The cache device is further configured to determine an acceptable latency range based on the latency and a requirement of the software application. The cache device is further configured to measure a second latency between the user computer and the further computer. The cache device is further configured to store, in the cache memory, a set of data transmitted from the user computer to the further computer, if the second latency is not within the acceptable latency range.
US08892981B2	Data recovery using outer codewords stored in volatile memory Systems and methods are disclosed for data recovery using outer codewords stored in volatile memory. Outer codewords can be associated with one or more horizontal portions or vertical portions of a non-volatile memory (“NVM”). In some embodiments, an NVM interface of an electronic device can program user data to a super block of the NVM. The NVM interface can then determine if a program disturb has occurred in the super block. In response to detecting that a program disturb has occurred in the super block, the NVM interface can perform garbage collection on the super block. The NVM interface can then use outer codewords associated with the super block to recover from any uncorrectable error correction code errors detected in the super block.
US08892980B2	Apparatus, system, and method for providing error correction An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for providing error correction for a data storage device. A determination module determines an error-correcting code (“ECC”) characteristic of the data storage device. An ECC module validates requested data read from the data storage device using a hardware ECC decoder. In response to the requested data satisfying a correction threshold, a software ECC decoder module validates the data using a software ECC decoder. The software ECC decoder is configured according to the ECC characteristic of the data storage device.
US08892979B2	Coding schemes for wireless communication transmissions Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate transmitting low-density parity-check encoded communications in a wireless communications network and incrementing such codes in response to requests from receiving devices. The LDPC codes can have associated constraints allowing the codes to be error corrected upon receipt. The requests for incremented codes can be in cases of low transmission power or high interference, for example, where the original code can be too error-ridden to properly decode. In this case, additional nodes can be added to current and/or subsequent communications to facilitate adding a more complex constraint to the LDPC code. In this regard, the large codes can require less validly transmitted nodes to predict error-ridden values as the additional constraint renders less ambiguity in possible node value choices.
US08892978B2	HARQ process continuation after CQI-only report Techniques for controlling synchronous HARQ retransmissions are disclosed, in which non-adaptive retransmissions scheduled for a first transmission time interval are automatically deferred to a later transmission time interval in the event that a control message prohibiting the retransmission during the first transmission interval is received. In an exemplary method, a NACK message is received in response to a previous data transmission corresponding to a stop-and-wait HARQ process, and a synchronous HARQ retransmission is scheduled for a first transmission interval in response. A control message indicating that data for the stop-and-wait HARQ process may not be sent during the first transmission interval is received, and the synchronous HARQ retransmission is automatically deferred to a second transmission interval, responsive to the control message. An explicit grant is not required to trigger the retransmission during the second transmission interval.
US08892975B2	Optimal error protection coding for MIMO ACK/NACK/PRE/POST information Error protection based on a nonlinear code set may be used in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radio communications system. A decoder decodes received MIMO data streams and generates an automatic repeat request (ARQ) message for data units received for the MIMO data streams for each transmission time interval. An encoder codes the ARQ message using a code word from a nonlinear code set. At the data transmitter, which transmits one or more data units in transmission time intervals from two or more MIMO data streams, the ARQ message associated with the transmitted data units is decoded using a code word from the nonlinear code set.
US08892974B2	Dynamic synchronization of data capture on an optical or other high speed communications link A method that dynamically adjusts link control parameters of a communications network. The communications network includes a transmitter coupled through a first data link to a receiver. The transmitter and receiver each have at least one associated link control parameter that affects the operation of that component. According to one method, data signals are transmitted over the first data link and the transmitted data signals are captured. The values of the captured data signals are compared to expected values for those signals, and the values of the link control parameters are adjusted to successfully capture the transmitted digital signals.
US08892973B2	Debugging control system using inside core event as trigger condition and method of the same A debugging control system using inside-core events as trigger conditions and a method of the same are revealed. The method includes following steps. First set up at least one trigger condition and a search range of the clock cycle according to internal states of a core under debug. Pause clock and recover clock of each clock cycle within the search range. Retrieve data of scan chains of the core under debug by a shift buffer during the clock pausing. Next combine data of the scan chains by a trigger comparator circuit to form trigger signals and check whether the trigger signals satisfy the trigger condition. If the trigger condition is satisfied or the trigger signal is over the search range, the clock is paused continuingly and internal states of the scan chains of the core under debug are output otherwise the core under debug is recovered.
US08892969B2	Apparatus, methods, and system of NAND defect management Various embodiments comprise apparatus, methods, and systems including method comprising searching for a group address among a plurality of group addresses in a mapping table, and if a match is found, performing a memory operation on a first plurality of memory blocks indicated by the mapping table, and if a match is not found, performing a memory operation on a second plurality of memory blocks, the second plurality of memory blocks having the group address.
US08892966B2	Methods and apparatus for soft data generation for memory devices using decoder performance feedback Methods and apparatus for soft data generation for memory devices using decoder performance feedback. At least one soft data value is generated in a memory device, by obtaining performance feedback from a decoder; obtaining an error statistic based on the performance feedback; and generating the at least one soft data value based on the obtained error statistic. The performance feedback comprises one or more of decoded bits, a number of erroneous bits based on data decoded by the decoder and a number of unsatisfied parity checks.
US08892965B2	Automated trouble ticket generation Control over servers and partitions within a computer network may be automated to improve response to disaster events within the computer network. For example, a monitoring server may be configured to automatically monitor servers through remote communications sessions. A disaster event may be detected based on information received from the partitions and servers within the network. When a disaster event or events leading to a disaster event are detected, a trouble ticket may be generated. The trouble ticket may also generate an alert displayed to an administrator through a customized hierarchical graphical display. When the administrator is not logged in, messages may be generated to alert the administrator to the problem. The administrator may then log in remotely and respond to the alert.
US08892961B2	Methods and systems for optimizing information technology costs based on outage costs A method that includes monitoring, by a computing device including a processor, transaction activity level of a plurality of pre-defined IT transactions, and determining, by the computing device, that an IT outage has occurred when the activity level is below a threshold.
US08892958B2	Dynamic hardware trace supporting multiphase operations In a data processing system a plurality of signals associated with an operation are received during execution of the operation. In response to an indication that the operation is a multiphase operation, during execution of the operation, selection logic, during a first phase of the multiphase operation, selects and outputs as a trace signal a first signal of the plurality of signals, and during a second phase of the multiphase operation, selects and outputs as the trace signal a second signal of the plurality of signals.
US08892956B2	Electronic device and method for managing test results In a method for managing test results of an electronic device, the electronic device includes one or more expansion slots. The method selects a hard disk drive to insert into each expansion slot, executes a read-write test on each expansion slot, and saves test result(s) of the tests on each expansion slot into a file. Before managing the test results, the method sets a file name for each expansion slot for which test results is to be managed, and selects a test item from the read-write test. The method determines test results which expansion slots with are required to be managed and determines a test order of the expansion slots. After the test results are imported, the method amends a file name corresponding to each expansion slot according to the test order, and manages the test results of each expansion slot.
US08892954B1	Managing groups of application versions The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for application lifecycle management. The method includes receiving crash reports from a first version of an application at multiple initial computing devices. The first version of the application is from a first group of versions. The method further includes determining that the crash reports include more than a threshold amount of crash reports. The method further includes determining that a second version of the application from a second group of versions corrects a cause of the crash reports. The method further includes providing instructions to the initial computing devices to retrieve updates to the application from the second group of versions rather than the first group of versions.
US08892950B2	Failure diagnosis method and apparatus using resource relationship map A failure diagnosis method includes: generating a resource relationship map of resources to be managed on a network; and when a failure occurs in a certain service object within the network, extracting a topology relationship map from the resource relationship map by using the failed service object as a root node. The failure diagnosis method further includes searching a resource object caused the failure while checking related objects, starting from the root node in the topology relationship map.
US08892946B2	Verifying speculative multithreading in an application Verifying speculative multithreading in an application executing in a computing system, including: executing one or more test instructions serially thereby producing a serial result, including insuring that all data dependencies among the test instructions are satisfied; executing the test instructions speculatively in a plurality of threads thereby producing a speculative result; and determining whether a speculative multithreading error exists including: comparing the serial result to the speculative result and, if the serial result does not match the speculative result, determining that a speculative multithreading error exists.
US08892944B2	Handling a failed processor of multiprocessor information handling system A method for handling a failed processor of a multiprocessor system, the multiprocessor system comprising at least two processors interconnected by processor interconnects for transactions between processors, the processors comprising a first processor and a second processor, the first processor being set as a default boot processor in response to a boot-up operation of the multiprocessor system. The method comprises: detecting and receiving, via a baseboard management module, health information of the at least two processors; providing a multiplexer operative to switch between the at least two processors, the multiplexer being coupled to the baseboard management module and respectively to the at least two processors; and, in response to the health information indicating the first processor has failed, setting, via a processor ID controller, the second processor as the default boot processor and enabling, via the baseboard management module, the multiplexer to switch to the second processor.
US08892939B2	Optimizing a RAID volume Optimization of a RAID volume is described. In an example, a method of optimizing a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) volume includes: identifying a RAID level used for a plurality of disks in the RAID volume; defining a relation among rebuild rate, scrub rate, and annualized data loss event rate (ADLER) for the RAID volume using constant values and the RAID level; selecting a value for the ADLER; applying a policy to the relation to choose a value for one of the rebuild rate or the scrub rate; and determining a value for the other of the rebuild rate or the scrub rate from the relation using the value of the rebuild rate or the scrub rate as determined from the policy.
US08892938B1	Clustered RAID assimilation management In one embodiment, RAID-related metadata may be stored on a distributed database of a cluster (i.e., a cluster database), which is separate and apart from a storage array of SSDs configured to serve as main storage for nodes of the cluster. The RAID-related metadata may be embodied as RAID labels (or other data structures) having configuration information that identifies one or more RAID groups associated with an extent store and storage devices, e.g., SSDs, within each RAID group. Each SSD may be part of a RAID configuration topology tree structure that defines an extent store using a multi-level hierarchy (e.g., three levels), wherein the first level of the tree identifies the SSD, the second level identifies the RAID group to which the SSD belongs, and the third level identifies the extent store or storage container to which the RAID group belongs.
US08892929B2	Reducing power consumption of uncore circuitry of a processor In one embodiment, a multi-core processor includes multiple cores and an uncore, where the uncore includes various logic units including a cache memory, a router, and a power control unit (PCU). The PCU can clock gate at least one of the logic units and the cache memory when the multi-core processor is in a low power state to thus reduce dynamic power consumption.
US08892928B2	System and method for maintaining connectivity to remote application servers A system and method for maintaining connectivity between a host system running an Always-On-Always-Connected (AOAC) application and an associated remote application server. The system further includes circuitry configured to establish a communication link between the host system and the remote application server. The circuitry is configured periodically transmit keep-alive messages to the remote application server after the host system transitions to and remains in a low-power state. The keep-alive messages are configured to maintain connectivity and presence of the AOAC application with the remote application server while the host system is in the low-power state.
US08892922B2	Voltage detection Techniques are disclosed relating to detecting a voltage change. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit may include a monitor circuit and a power management unit. The power management unit may be configured to request a voltage change. The monitor circuit may be configured to detect the requested voltage change and to provide an indication that the voltage change is complete. In response to the indication that the voltage change is complete, the power management unit may adjust a clock frequency.
US08892921B2	Power management for systems on a chip A method for controlling a multitasking microprocessor system includes monitoring the multitasking microprocessor system connected to an interconnect, the monitoring comprising monitoring performance of a plurality of processing units forming a producer-consumer system on the interconnect, and issuing commands to the plurality of processing units to provide operations and power distributions to the plurality of processing units such that the performance and power modes are assigned to the plurality of processing units based on the monitoring.
US08892920B2	System and method for conserving energy in a digital home networking device A method and apparatus configures a power level for a device able to receive audio, video, and data signals. An input signal is received by a receiver capable of receiving broadcast data signals and digital home networking signals. The system determines if the receiver is operating in a first mode having a first power level or a second mode having a second power level based on a type of input signal received by the receiver. A control signal is generated for modifying at least one setting on a first circuit for configuring the first circuit to operate according to the first power level if the input signal is a first type of input signal. The control signal is provided to the first circuit and the first circuit is configured to operate according to the first power level based on the control signal.
US08892915B2	Method and apparatus of Power over Ethernet The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus of power over Ethernet, and belongs to the field of communications. An Ethernet power sourcing equipment sets a power supply port to a sleep state, and sets a timer for the power supply port; enables the power supply port when the timer reaches a set time; and detects whether a powered device PD is connected to the power supply port, and if a PD is connected to the power supply port, triggers the power supply port to supply power to the PD; if no PD is connected to the power supply port, resets the power supply port to the sleep state, and sets the timer for the power supply port. Implementation of the present disclosure effectively reduces power consumption of the system and saves energy.
US08892914B2	Programmable fault protect for processor controlled high-side and low-side drivers A Multi-Tile Power Management Integrated Circuit (MTPMIC) includes a processor, a fault protect circuit, a first terminal, a driver that drives the first terminal, a second terminal, and detection circuitry that outputs a digital detection signal indicative of whether a predetermined condition is detected on the second terminal. The processor can program the fault protect circuit so that the fault protect circuit will later disable the driver as a function of multiple signals, including the digital detection signal. The function is programmable by the processor. In one example, if the detection circuitry detects the predetermined condition on the second terminal then the fault protect circuit disables all the high-side drivers and all low-side drivers of the MTPMIC independently of and without input from the processor.
US08892912B2	Adaptive USB charging method and system An adaptive universal serial bus (USB) charging method and system are disclosed. In a low-power state, a USB device is charged with a non-USB charging mode. The non-USB charging mode is retained when no variation of a data signal coupled to the USB device is detected. When the data signal possesses variation for a first period, it is switched to a third proprietary charging mode.
US08892908B2	Cryptography module for use with fragmented key and methods for use therewith A cryptography module includes a key store having a plurality of storage locations for storing a key as k key fragments including a plurality of random key fragments and a remainder key fragment. One or more crypto-processing segments each operate based on corresponding ones of the k key fragments to process an input signal to produce an output signal.
US08892906B2	Method and apparatus for improved information transactions Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image.
US08892905B2	Method and apparatus for performing selective encryption/decryption in a data storage system One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for performing selective encryption/decryption in a data storage system. During operation, the system receives a data block from a storage medium at an input/output layer, wherein the input/output layer serves as an interface between the storage medium and a buffer cache. Next, the system determines whether the data block is an encrypted data block. If not, the system stores the data block in the buffer cache. Otherwise, if the data block is an encrypted data block, the system retrieves a storage-key, wherein the storage-key is associated with a subset of storage, which is associated with the encrypted data block. Using the storage-key, the system then decrypts the encrypted data block to produce a decrypted data block. Finally, the system stores the decrypted data block in the buffer cache, wherein the data block remains encrypted in the storage medium.
US08892900B2	Privacy-protecting integrity attestation of a computing platform Systems, apparatus and methods for privacy-protecting integrity attestation of a computing platform. An example method for privacy-protecting integrity attestation of a computing platform (P) has a trusted platform module (TPM}, and comprises the following steps. First, the computing platform (P) receives configuration values (PCRI . . . PCRn). Then, by means of the trusted platform module (TPM}, a configuration value (PCRp) is determined which depends on the configuration of the computing platform (P). In a further step the configuration value (PCRp) is signed by means of the trusted platform module. Finally, in the event that the configuration value (PCRp) is one of the received configuration values (PCRI . . . PCRn), the computing platform (P) proves to a verifier (V) that it knows the signature (sign(PCRp}} on one of the received configuration values (PCRI . . . PCRn).
US08892898B2	Projector system A projector system includes an information processing apparatus and a projector. The projector includes a device connection unit which enables communication between the information processing apparatus and the projector, a password generating unit which generates a password, and an encryption unit which encrypts the password and outputs the encrypted password to the information processing apparatus through the device connection unit. The information processing apparatus includes a device connection unit which enables communication between the projector and the information processing apparatus, a decryption unit which decrypts the encrypted password input through the device connection unit of the information processing apparatus using a decryption key, and a password determining unit which has functions of determining whether the decrypted decryption password is correct and outputting a signal directing to start the process for projection to be performed by the information processing apparatus in a case where the decrypted password is correct.
US08892892B2	System for enabling digital signature auditing A computer method, computer system, and article for enabling digital signature auditing. The method includes the steps of: receiving at least one signature request issued by at least one application, forwarding a first data corresponding to the received at least one signature request to at least one signing entity for subsequent signature of the first data, storing an updated system state that is computed using a function of: i) a reference system state and ii) a second data corresponding to the received at least one signature request, where the reference system state and the updated system state attest to the at least one signature request, and repeating the above steps, using the updated system state as a new reference system state, where the steps of the method are executed at a server of a computerized system.
US08892891B1	Method and system for establishing a communications pipe between a personal security device and a remote computer system A method and a system is provided for establishing a communications path over a communications network between a personal security device (PSD) and a remote computer system without requiring the converting of high-level messages such as API-level messages to PSD-formatted messages such as APDU-formatted messages (and inversely) to be installed on a local client device in which the PSD is connected.
US08892887B2	Method and apparatus for mutual authentication Disclosed is a method for mutual authentication between a station, having a digital rights agent, and a secure removable media device. The digital rights agent initiates mutual authentication by sending a message to the secure removable media device. The secure removable media device encrypts a first random number using a public key associated with the digital rights agent. The digital rights agent decrypts the encrypted first random number, and encrypts a second random number and a first hash based on at least the first random number. The secure removable media device decrypts the encrypted second random number and the first hash, verifies the first hash to authenticate the digital rights agent, and generates a second hash based on at least the second random number. The digital rights agent verifies the second hash to authenticate the secure removable media device.
US08892886B2	Method and system for establishing cryptographic communications between a remote device and a medical device A method and system establishing cryptographic communications between a remote device and a medical device, with the medical device having less processing power than the remote device are disclosed. The method may comprise establishing unencrypted communication between the remote device and the medical device, generating an asymmetric key pair by the remote device comprising a public key and a private key, generating a key request message and sending of the key request message together with the public key to the medical device, generating a pre-master key and encryption of the pre-master key with the received public key by the medical device, generating a key response message and sending of the key response message together with the encrypted pre-master key from the medical device to the remote device, decrypting the encrypted pre-master key with the private key by the remote device, and deriving a master key as a symmetric key from the pre-master key.
US08892885B2	System and method for delivering a challenge response in an authentication protocol A system and method for authenticating a user that includes receiving an access-request of a network protocol at a challenge-response server; determining if an access-challenge message is required; delivering an active script component through a parameter of an access-challenge message of the network protocol when an access-challenge is required; receiving a challenge-response of a user; validating the challenge-response; and selectively sending an access-accept response for a valid challenge-response and sending an access-denied response for an invalid challenge-response.
US08892883B2	Render service for remote access to applications The present disclosure relates to providing remote access to applications with an increased level of security. A server for providing access to applications is provided, as well as a method therefor, comprising an input channel and an output channel to connect a client with said server, an interface coupled to said input channel and an application, said interface to receive input data from said client via said input channel and to communicate said received input data to the application, and a renderer coupled to said output channel and said application, said renderer to render the output of said application into a data stream to be transferred via the output channel to the client, wherein the input data and the data stream are both encrypted.
US08892882B2	Content transmission security protection device system and method The invention relates to information security technologies, provides a content security transmission device and a content security transmission system which separate data transmission function of a digital interface from data management and processing function thereof, and provides a content security transmission method based on the device and the system. The content security transmission protection device comprises digital interfaces and a management/processing unit, the management/processing unit is configured in a specific chip in the device, used for updating a revocation list stored therein and collecting information from downstream devices. A transmitting device and a forwarding device in the content security transmission protection system comprise digital interfaces and management/processing units. The invention employs software in the specific chip CPU to implement data management and processing function without increasing cost, thus being capable of increasing any functions, improving flexibility and expansibility of the system, and greatly reducing size and cost of digital interface chips, namely reducing the development difficulty. The digital interfaces only implement simple data transmission function at fast processing speed.
US08892877B2	Method and device for accessing files of a secure file server A method and a device are provided for accessing data files of a secure file server, wherein a user or a process is authenticated; wherein access to the data files of the secure file server takes place by way of an encryption module of the secure file server; wherein the encryption module comprises an encryption agreement of a centralized security application; and wherein the access of the authenticated user or process to the secure file server takes place by way of an encrypted protocol taking into consideration the encryption agreement. Such a device may be included in a corresponding computer network.
US08892872B2	Secure redacted document access Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for secure redacted document access. A viewing application for viewing documents is executed, the viewing application comprising standard code for the viewing application that can not process the container data type, and custom code configured to allow the viewing application to process a container data type. A container of the container data type is received from a remote computing device comprising a set of redacted documents corresponding to an original document, each redacted document having a level of redaction corresponding to a viewing location, and a header comprising encryption information for each redacted document in the set of redacted documents. The container is processed based on a location of the computing device and the custom code.
US08892868B1	Hardening tokenization security and key rotation A method of using a hardware security module and an adjunct application programming interface to harden tokenization security and encryption key rotation is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method comprises receiving encrypted data at a processor of a computer system, decrypting the encrypted data to cleartext in the processor, and issuing a unique token associated with the data.
US08892865B1	Multiple authority key derivation Systems and methods for authentication generate keys from secret credentials shared between authenticating parties and authenticators. Generation of the keys may involve utilizing specialized information in the form of parameters that are used to specialize keys. Keys and/or information derived from keys held by multiple authorities may be used to generate other keys such that signatures requiring such keys and/or information can be verified without access to the keys. Keys may also be derived to form a hierarchy of keys that are distributed such that a key holder's ability to decrypt data depends on the key's position in the hierarchy relative to the position of a key used to encrypt the data. Key hierarchies may also be used to distribute key sets to content processing devices to enable the devices to decrypt content such that sources or potential sources of unauthorized content are identifiable from the decrypted content.
US08892862B2	Secure boot method for executing a software component including updating a current integrity measurement based on whether the software component is enabled A method for executing a predetermined software component which is verifiable against integrity measurements, the method including (i) providing a first mapping from logical identifiers to software component enabled status flags, (ii) providing a second mapping from the logical identifiers and previous software component statuses information to actual integrity measurement certificates containing verification data, (iii) looking up the first mapping for a given logical identifier identifying the predetermined software component to get a status flag indicating whether the predetermined software component is enabled, (iv) if the status flag indicates that the predetermined software component is not enabled, updating a current integrity measurement stored within a disabled integrity measurement certificate, and (v) if the status flag indicates that the predetermined software component is enabled and verification of the predetermined software component is successful, updating a current integrity measurement stored within an integrity measurement certificate.
US08892857B2	Quantum rejection sampling Systems and methods for transforming an initial quantum state to a target quantum state are disclosed. The initial quantum state is denoted by superposed initial quantum sample states and the target quantum state is denoted by superposed target quantum sample states. The initial quantum state is initialized with a set of primary registers for the initial quantum state and with at least one ancillary register. The initial quantum state is transformed such that the set of primary registers reflects the initial quantum sample states and the at least one ancillary register is varied to compose an intermediate quantum state. In addition, the intermediate quantum state is amplified by implementing quantum state rotations in accordance with a plurality of reflections on the intermediate quantum state such that the reflections result in the target quantum sample states of the target quantum state with a discarding of the at least one ancillary register.
US08892853B2	Hardware to support looping code in an image processing system An image processing system including a vector processor and a memory adapted for attaching to the vector processor. The memory is adapted to store multiple image frames. The vector processor includes an address generator operatively attached to the memory to access the memory. The address generator is adapted for calculating addresses of the memory over the multiple image frames. The addresses may be calculated over the image frames based upon an image parameter. The image parameter may specify which of the image frames are processed simultaneously. A scalar processor may be attached to the vector processor. The scalar processor provides the image parameter(s) to the address generator for address calculation over the multiple image frames. An input register may be attached to the vector processor. The input register may be adapted to receive a very long instruction word (VLIW) instruction. The VLIW instruction may be configured to transfer only: (i) parameters for image processing calculations over the image frames by the ALU units and (ii) a single bit to the address generator.
US08892851B2	Changing opcode of subsequent instruction when same destination address is not used as source address by intervening instructions A circuit arrangement and method support compression and expansion of instruction opcodes by detecting successive address targeting and decoding a first opcode of an instruction into a second opcode in response to detecting successive address targeting. The circuit arrangement and method execute instructions in an instruction stream and detect successive address targeting by two or more instructions in the instruction stream without the targeted address being utilized as a source address in an instruction executed between the first and second instructions in the instruction stream. Then, based on that detection, the opcode of the second instruction is modified, changed, or appended to such that a different opcode is indicated by the second instruction, such that executing the second instruction causes a different unique type of operation to be performed.
US08892847B2	Volume management and page allocation method The storage apparatus comprises a storage unit storing data read/written by the host apparatus, and a control unit controlling writing of the data to the storage unit. The control unit configures one or more pools from the storage unit and divides one of the pools into first pages having an area of a first size and divides the first pages into second pages having the second area, and manages the pages, manages a data storage area of a first volume storing the data by using the first-size area and manages a data storage area of a second volume storing the data by using the second-size area, assigns the first page to the data storage area of the first volume, and assigns the first page in units of the second volume and assigns the second page obtained by dividing the first page to the data storage area of the second volume.
US08892846B2	Metadata management for virtual volumes Methods, apparatus, and systems, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, manage metadata for virtual volumes. In some implementations, a method includes: loading into memory at least a portion of metadata for a virtual volume (VV) that spans data extents of different persistent storage devices, wherein the metadata comprises virtual metadata block (VMB) descriptors and virtual metadata blocks (VMBs); mapping an address of the VV to a VMB number and an index of an extent pointer within a VMB identified by the VMB number, wherein the extent pointer indicates an extent within one of the different persistent storage devices; locating a VMB descriptor in the memory based on the VMB number; and locating the identified VMB in the memory or not in the memory based on the located VMB descriptor.
US08892845B2	Segmenting data for storage in a dispersed storage network A method begins by a processing module receiving data of a file for storage in a dispersed storage network (DSN) memory and determining a segmentation scheme for storing the data. The method continues with the processing module determining how to store the data in accordance with the segmentation scheme to produce information for storing the data and generating an entry within a segment allocation table associated with the file, wherein the entry includes the information for storing the data and the segmentation scheme. The method continues with the processing module facilitating storage of the segment allocation table in the DSN memory. The method continues with the processing module segmenting the data in accordance with the segmentation scheme to produce a plurality of data segments and facilitating storage of the plurality of data segments in the DSN memory in accordance with the information for storing the data.
US08892842B2	Memory systems and methods of operating the same A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device, a memory controller for controlling the nonvolatile memory device and a virtual data interface layer that manages reading and/or writing of patterned data from/to the nonvolatile memory device. In a read operation, the virtual data interface layer generates patterned data that is requested to be read. Accordingly, a read speed of the memory system may be improved.
US08892839B2	Methods, systems, and storage mediums for managing content storage and selection Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and storage mediums for managing content storage and selection activities. The method includes aggregating content from content providers and presenting the content to a content device. The method also includes monitoring consumption of storage space with respect to storage capacity in the content device, relocating content contained in the storage space of the content device when a predetermined condition is met, and providing access to relocated content. The relocation is operable for freeing up the storage space of the content device.
US08892837B2	Integrated circuit with tamper-detection and self-erase mechanisms Methods and apparatuses for improving security of an integrated circuit (IC) are provided. A tamper condition is detected and a digital key stored in the IC is erased. The digital key is associated with a first image loaded onto the IC from a first memory. The memory may be a non-volatile memory module. A second image is loaded into a second memory module. The second memory module may be an embedded memory module, e.g., a control random access memory (CRAM) module. The first image is then erased from the first and second memory modules.
US08892835B1	Insertion of a virtualization layer into a replication environment In one aspect, a method includes continuously replicating a physical volume with no disruption to the replicating while inserting a virtualization layer which virtualizes the physical volume with a virtual volume and replicating the virtual volume instead of the physical volume after the inserting. In another aspect, an article includes a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores executable instructions. The instructions cause a machine to continuously replicate a physical volume with no disruption to the replicating while inserting a virtualization layer which virtualizes the physical volume with a virtual volume and replicate the virtual volume instead of the physical volume after the inserting. In a further aspect, an apparatus includes circuitry configured to continuously replicate a physical volume with no disruption to the replicating while inserting a virtualization layer which virtualizes the physical volume with a virtual volume and replicate the virtual volume instead of the physical volume after the inserting.
US08892834B2	Cyclic point-in-time-copy architecture with data deduplication A method for performing a write to a volume x in a cyclic point-in-time-copy architecture is described. In one embodiment, such a method includes determining whether the volume x has a child volume. The method then determines whether the target bit maps (TBMs) of both the volume x and the child volume are set. If the TBMs are set, the method finds a higher source (HS) volume from which to copy the desired data to the child volume. Once the HS volume is found, the method determines whether the HS volume and the child volume are the same volume. If the HS volume and the child volume are not the same volume, the method copies the data from the HS volume to the child volume. The method then performs the write to the volume x.
US08892832B2	Storage apparatus, storage management method, and storage medium storing storage management program Provided are a storage apparatus, a storage management method, and a storage management program capable of performing a backing-up operation under the condition that a host computer is in operation. A storage apparatus 1 according to the present invention includes a cache memory 20, a storage device 30 that stores data, a data copy unit 12 that copies the data to be stored in the storage device 30 in a storage device for duplication 40, and a control unit 11 in which, when writing data in the storage device 30, if the data copy unit 12 is executing a separation copy which does not allow data rewriting during copying, the data to be written in the storage device 30 is stored in the cache memory 20, and after completing the separation copy, the data stored in the cache memory 20 is written in the storage device 30.
US08892825B2	Method and system for improving serial port memory communication latency and reliability A method, apparatus and system for reducing memory latency is disclosed. In one embodiment, data between a host computer system and a memory is communicated via a port or a group of ports at the memory over multiple time intervals, wherein the host computer is coupled to the memory. Further, a command associated with the data is communicated between the host computer system and the memory via the port or the group of ports over a single time interval.
US08892824B2	Store-operate-coherence-on-value A system, method and computer program product for performing various store-operate instructions in a parallel computing environment that includes a plurality of processors and at least one cache memory device. A queue in the system receives, from a processor, a store-operate instruction that specifies under which condition a cache coherence operation is to be invoked. A hardware unit in the system runs the received store-operate instruction. The hardware unit evaluates whether a result of the running the received store-operate instruction satisfies the condition. The hardware unit invokes a cache coherence operation on a cache memory address associated with the received store-operate instruction if the result satisfies the condition. Otherwise, the hardware unit does not invoke the cache coherence operation on the cache memory device.
US08892822B2	Selectively dropping prefetch requests based on prefetch accuracy information The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that selectively drops a prefetch request at a cache. During operation, the system receives the prefetch request at the cache. Next, the system identifies a prefetch source for the prefetch request, and then uses accuracy information for the identified prefetch source to determine whether to drop the prefetch request. In some embodiments, the accuracy information includes accuracy information for different prefetch sources. In this case, determining whether to drop the prefetch request involves first identifying a prefetch source for the prefetch request, and then using accuracy information for the identified prefetch source to determine whether to drop the prefetch request.
US08892821B2	Method and system for thread-based memory speculation in a memory subsystem of a data processing system A data processing system includes a system memory, one or more processing cores, and a memory controller that controls access to a system memory. The memory controller includes a memory speculation mechanism that stores historical information regarding prior memory accesses. In response to a memory access request, the memory controller speculatively initiates access to the system memory based upon the historical information in the memory speculation mechanism in advance of receipt of a coherency message indicating that the memory access request is to be serviced by reference to the system memory.
US08892815B2	Optimized fragmented block compaction with a bitmap A memory system may include an optimized data compaction algorithm. The compaction may include transferring only valid data from a source block to a destination block. A compaction bitmap that is maintained in random access memory (“RAM”) may be populated during the compaction process. The populated bitmap may be used to copy valid fragments to the destination block.
US08892811B2	Reducing write amplification in a flash memory An apparatus having a memory circuit and a manager is disclosed. The memory circuit generally has (i) one or more Flash memories and (ii) a memory space that spans a plurality of memory addresses. The manager may be configured to (i) receive data items in a random order from one or more applications, (ii) write the data items in an active one of a plurality of regions in a memory circuit and (iii) mark the memory addresses in the active region that store the data items as used. Each data item generally has a respective host address. The applications may be executed in one or more computers. The memory addresses in the active region may be accessed in a sequential order while writing the data items to minimize a write amplification. The random order is generally preserved between the data items while writing in the active region.
US08892810B2	Semiconductor device and memory protection method According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a processor, and a memory device. The memory device has a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device and is configured to serve as a main memory for the processor. When the processor executes a plurality of programs, the processor manages pieces of information required to execute the programs as worksets for the respective programs, and creates tables, which hold relationships between pieces of information required for the respective worksets and addresses of the pieces of information in the memory device, for the respective worksets. The processor accesses to the memory device with reference to the corresponding tables for the respective worksets.
US08892805B2	High performance system that includes reconfigurable protocol tables within an ASIC wherein a first protocol block implements an inter-ASIC communications protocol and a second block implements an intra-ASIC function A high performance computing system is provided with an ASIC that communicates with another device in the system according to a protocol defined by the other device. The ASIC is coupled to a reconfigurable protocol table, in the form of a high speed content-addressable memory (“CAM”). The CAM includes instructions to control the execution of the protocol by the ASIC. The CAM may include instructions to control the ASIC in the event that unanticipated signals or other errors are encountered while executing the protocol. Internal ASIC state data may be routed to the CAM to permit the ASIC to generate a reasonable response to errors either in the design or fabrication of the ASIC or the device with which it is communicating.
US08892803B2	Interrupt on/off management apparatus and method for multi-core processor Provided are an interrupt on/off management apparatus and method for a multi-core processor having a plurality of central processing unit (CPU) cores. The interrupt on/off management apparatus manages the multi-core processor such that at least one of two or more CPU cores included in a target CPU set can execute an urgent interrupt. For example, the interrupt on/off management apparatus controls the movement of each CPU core from a critical section to a non-critical section such that at least one of the CPU cores is located in the non-critical section. The critical section may include an interrupt-disabled section or a kernel non-preemptible section, and the non-critical section may include an interrupt-enabled section or include both of the interrupt-enabled section and a kernel preemptible section.
US08892802B2	Enhancing interrupt handling in a virtual environment Systems and methods for enhancing the handling of interrupts in a virtual computing environment are disclosed. A CPU is configured such that the CPU, when in a virtual machine (VM) mode, directs an interrupt to a VM. When in the VM context, a guest in the VM is run with a hypervisor interrupt descriptor table (hypervisor IDT) to determine how the interrupt should be handled. The hypervisor IDT directs an interrupt that is to be handled by the VM to an interrupt handler in a guest IDT without causing a transition to the hypervisor. If an interrupt is to be handled by the hypervisor, the hypervisor IDT causes a transition to the hypervisor.
US08892793B1	Techniques for oversampling a data stream in an integrated circuit Techniques for sampling input data streams with an integrated circuit (IC) are provided. The technique includes receiving a first input stream at a first operating rate. The first input stream is transmitted to a plurality of subsequent transceiver channels on the IC. The first input stream is then sampled at a second operating rate at each of the plurality of subsequent transceiver channels with each of the plurality of subsequent transceiver channels outputting a data stream at the second operating rate. The data stream from each of the plurality of subsequent transceiver channels is adjusted. A data stream from one of the plurality of subsequent transceiver channels is selected as an output of the IC.
US08892792B2	Distributed media system An in-flight system provides a user with an entertainment environment including movies, music, games, internet, map, etc. The in-flight system provides stored media content on one or more servers located throughout an aircraft cabin and each server is associated with a plurality of seats. In a preferred embodiment, the in-flight system provides for a communication port (e.g., USB or mini-USB connector or micro-USB connector) for connection to personal electronic device providing access to the server containing the stored media, access to an internet connection, and power. In one embodiment, the in-flight system provides for a seat display unit (typically located in the seat back of the next forward seat) and associated media module hardware to process the stored media content and drive the display. In one embodiment, the in-flight system comprises an isolation module or equivalent circuitry or logic that can isolate the media module and/or the personal electronic device from the remainder of the in-flight system, allowing for updates to the in-flight system without recertification from the FAA.
US08892788B2	Exposing a DMA engine to guests in a virtual machine system A method and system for copying data within a guest using a direct memory access (DMA) engine. A computer system hosts a hypervisor and a guest. The hypervisor detects an inquiry of the guest about a DMA engine. In response to the inquiry, the hypervisor indicates to the guest that a DMA engine is available. The hypervisor then receives a DMA request from the guest, the DMA request indicating a source address and a target address for copying data. Both the source address and the target address are within an address space allocated to the guest. Based on one or more data transfer policies, the hypervisor determines whether to direct the DMA engine to copy the data for the guest.
US08892782B1	System for and method of translating motion-based user input between a client device and an application host computer A system that translates motion-based user input between a client device and an application host computer. In various embodiments, the system and methods enable an application host computer, application server, or cloud server that supports a first type of input/output (I/O) devices (e.g., mouse, keyboard, and display) to interpret I/O commands from a client device that supports a second type of I/O devices (e.g., touchscreen display), wherein the I/O commands of the client device support motion-based user input. The operations of the interpreted I/O commands are then returned from the application host computer, application server, or cloud server to the client device and rendered on the display thereof. The system and methods enable cross-platform application execution by translating I/O operations that are native to the user's remote device to I/O operations that are native to the application host computer, application server, or cloud server.
US08892781B2	Bi-directional data transfer within a single I/O operation A computer program product, apparatus, and a method for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing for an I/O operation at a host computer system configured for communication with a control unit. The method includes receiving a command block from the channel subsystem, the command block including at least one input command and at least one output command specified by a transport command word (TCW) and associated with the I/O operation, the I/O operation having both input and output data, the TCW specifying a location in the memory of the output data and a location in the memory for storing the input data; receiving the output data specified by the TCW and executing the at least one output command; and forwarding the input data specified by the TCW to the channel subsystem for storage at a location specified by the TCW.
US08892777B2	Method for address transmission A method for transmission of an address of a first network device from the first network device through a network node to a second network device, wherein the method comprises receiving a first request signal by the network node from the second network device, creating a second request signal by the network node, sending a second response signal to the first network device, receiving a first response signal as a response to the second request signal by the network node, and sending a second response signal to the second network device as a response to the first request signal.
US08892775B2	Apparatus, system, and method for redundant device management An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for redundant device management. The apparatus is provided with a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of receiving a communication message, determining whether an address associated with the communication message designates a local processor as a destination for the communication message, wherein the address is stored in an address field associated with the communication message, and transmitting the communication message to a remote device. These modules in the described embodiments include a transmitter module, a receiver module, and an addressing module.
US08892774B2	Method and system of providing IP-based packet communications in a utility network One example embodiment provides a method and system where a node in a utility network registers with one or more access point devices associated with one or more local area utility networks. The utility node generates a unique network address using a network address prefix of a network address associated with the access point device. The utility node registers with a DNS server. Messages sent to the utility node are routed through the access point corresponding to the received prefix used to generate the unique network address for the utility node. The network address for the utility node and access point may be IPv6 addresses and the network address prefix may be an IPv6 prefix, or may be an IPv4 address.
US08892772B1	Limiting candidate routing backup paths based on policy considerations In one embodiment, candidate routing backup paths are limited based on policy considerations. In one embodiment, a smaller plurality of next-hop candidates is established by policy filtering a plurality of next-hop candidates for backing up one or more routes over one or more links to a first packet switching device in a network, with the smaller plurality of next-hop candidates consisting of fewer next-hops than in the plurality of next-hop candidates. A shortest-path, loop free backup route is determined for each of the plurality of routes by considering each of the smaller plurality of next-hop candidates and not all of the plurality of next-hop candidates. This routing information corresponding to each of said determined shortest-path, loop free backup routes for use in backing up corresponding routes is installed in a routing data structure.
US08892771B2	Method and System for remote activation and management of personal security devices Managing a Personal Security Device (PSD) includes retrieving proprietary information from a remote storage location using a first Remote Computer System, providing at least one Client as a host to the PSD and establishing a communications pipe over a first network between the PSD and the Remote Computer System. The communications pipe communicates with the PSD through the Client. Managing a PSD also includes transmitting the proprietary information from the Remote Computer System to the PSD by sending a PSD-formatted message through the communications pipe, where the proprietary information provided in the PSD-formatted message and passing through the Client is at least partially inaccessible by the Client, processing the PSD-formatted messages at the PSD to extract the proprietary information and storing the proprietary information in the PSD.
US08892763B2	Live television playback optimizations In embodiments of live television playback optimizations, streaming video content is received for distribution to a client device that is implemented to playback a video content stream for display. The video content stream is associated with a content manifest file that identifies video segments of the video content stream. An input can be received from the client device to switch from the video content stream to a new video content stream, and video segments of the new video content stream are buffered. A new content manifest file that correlates to the buffered video segments of the new video content stream is generated. The new content manifest file can then be published to the client device to indicate that a minimum of buffered video segments have been buffered for distribution to the client device before the minimum of buffered video segments have been buffered.
US08892760B2	User customizable views of multiple information services Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for generating a user configurable interface view for a media device or other information handling system that is independent of any interface views defined by media content providers. Generating the user configurable interface view includes identifying content data streams that are included in user interface views defined by the media content providers and then selecting a desired subset of the data content streams. The selected data content streams are then aggregated and the user configurable interface view is generated. The resulting user interface view will be independent of any interface views defined by the media content providers.
US08892759B2	Method and system for pacing, acking, timing, and handicapping (path) for simultaneous receipt of documents having trader markups A computing device determines impactful content in transmittable content. The computing device assigns the impactful content to one or more impactful block units. Each impactful block unit comprises a determined numbers of characters and an impactful block of characters comprises one or more impactful block units. The computing device inserts an identifier associated with the impactful content into the transmittable content proximal to the impactful block of characters. The identifier causes a message concerning a financial-related action to be communicated to a plurality of intended recipients when one or more conditions are met. The computing device transmits the one or more impactful block units and the identifier to the plurality of intended recipients using a time delay for a particular intended recipient and a pacing method such that the impactful block units are received substantially simultaneously by the plurality of intended recipients.
US08892757B2	Methods and apparatus for intelligent selection of a transport protocol for content streaming A method and apparatus for intelligent selection of a transport protocol for streaming content is presented. Successful use of transport protocol over each data network infrastructure is tracked for each streaming content server. Subsequent content playback requests sent to streaming content servers default to previous successfully employed transport protocol over a data network infrastructure.
US08892756B2	Method and system of publishing campaign data One embodiment of the invention provides a method of publishing campaign metadata from a database to a plurality of channel systems, the method includes: querying the database to select campaign metadata ready for publishing to a target channel system; selecting the target channel system from a plurality of channel systems based on an target indicating attribute of the campaign metadata; determining whether the target channel system has a SOAP enabled webservice API or whether the target channel system only accepts HTTP posts; if the target channel system has a SOAP enabled webservice API, packaging the campaign metadata as an XML message object; if the target channel system only accepts HTTP posts, packaging the campaign metadata as an HTML request; and transferring the packaged campaign metadata to the target channel system.
US08892750B1	Transparent HBA replacement Described is a technique for providing a host identifier for a host. A first portion associated with a characteristic of said host is received. A second portion including a non-deterministic component is received. The host identifier is formed using the first portion and the second portion. The host identifier is used to uniquely identify the host in a storage area network.
US08892745B2	Redirection of a request for information A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes identifying a first data center configured to receive a request initiated by an end user. The method also includes detecting a presence of a wide area application service (WAAS) and identifying a second data center. The method further includes signaling, in response to the presence of the WAAS, to redirect data packets associated with the request to the second data center. In more specific embodiments, the signaling includes adding a TCP option to packets of a session associated with the end user to inform components of redirecting capabilities of a WAAS element. The detecting can include recognizing a transmission control protocol (TCP) option in detecting the presence of the WAAS. The TCP option can be used to identify capabilities of a WAAS element that is involved in servicing the request of the end user.
US08892741B2	Presentation and user selection of timeslots In an embodiment, a method of facilitating presentation and user selection of at least one timeslot, such as for an appointment, is presented. In this method, a request for available timeslots within a time period is received from a user device. In response, timeslot data identifying the available timeslots is retrieved from a scheduling system. An identifier key for each of the available timeslots, as well as graphical display data indicating the available time slots, are generated based on the timeslot data. The keys and the graphical display data are transmitted to the user device. A selection of at least one of the identifier keys is received from the user device. In response to receiving the selection, the at least one available timeslot corresponding to the selection is determined and forwarded to the scheduling system to reserve the at least one corresponding available timeslot.
US08892738B2	Deriving component statistics for a stream enabled application A technique for generating component usage statistics involves associating components with blocks of a stream-enabled application. When the streaming application is executed, block requests may be logged by Block ID in a log. The frequency of component use may be estimated by analyzing the block request log with the block associations.
US08892735B2	Phone home servlet in a computer investigation system A system for conducting forensic investigations is provided which includes a target device, an examining device, and a server. The target device includes a phone home servlet which is configured to periodically transmit to the server a request for connection. The server grants the request for connection if there is an investigation request pending from the examining device for the requesting target device. If no such request is pending, the request is denied. The servlet is programmed with various phone home parameters for determining whether the target device should transmit the request for connection.
US08892733B2	Network adapter based zoning enforcement Embodiments of the present invention are directed to enforcing zoning at a network adapter of an end point device. Thus, a network adapter can monitor the communications that are sent and/or received by the adapter and discard communications that are prohibited based on the zoning rules applicable to the adapter. In some embodiments, zoning configuration information can be defined and stored at a central entity and sent to the various network adapters. Alternatively, or in addition, each network adapter can also check outgoing communications to ensure that they include a proper source address. More specifically, outgoing communications may be checked to ensure that their source address is the address (or one of the addresses) that are associated with the network adapter. This can be used to detect and/or prevent malfunctions and/or intentional tampering or hacking.
US08892730B2	Performance management implementation method and network management system A method for implementing performance management and a network management system are disclosed in the present invention. The method for implementing performance management includes the following steps of: a network management system obtaining a performance management information model which is used for describing related information of all performance data that need to be collected; the network management system instantiating the performance management information model according to a current telecommunication network in application to obtain a performance management information model instance; the network management system collecting the performance data according to the performance management information model instance. The present invention may be applied in performance management in various specialized telecommunications networks.
US08892728B2	Automatic zone-based management of a data center Automatic zone-based management of a data center. Nodes are assigned to a first zone. One of the nodes is selected as zone leader. A load ratio of the zone leader is monitored, nodes are identified for shedding if the load ratio exceeds a predetermined maximum, and the identified nodes are assigned to a new zone. One of the nodes in the new zone is selected as zone leader. The load ratio of each zone leader is monitored, nodes are identified for shedding if the load ratio exceeds a predetermined maximum, and the identified nodes are assigned to an additional new zone, the zone leaders negotiate for reassignment of loads.
US08892715B2	Systems and methods facilitating relocatability of devices between networks Provided is a software entity adapted to operate in a first network on behalf of a relocatable device to negotiate services for the relocatable device from the network, and to be transportable or replicable to operate in a second network to negotiate services for the relocatable device from the second network.
US08892714B2	Managing inventory data for components of a server system Techniques are disclosed for managing inventory data for components of a server system. In one embodiment, a global management controller is provided, that is operatively connected to a plurality of local management controllers. Each local management controller is configured to manage a subset of the components of the server system. Each local management controller is also configured to generate, for each component, a checksum based on vital product data (VPD) of the component. Each local management controller is also configured to compute a composite checksum based on the checksums generated for the components in the subset. The global management controller is configured to maintain a global view of the VPD in the computer system, based on the checksums and/or composite checksums.
US08892712B2	Upgrading enterprise managers Techniques are described for upgrading systems that include a first set of agents for collecting target data from a plurality of targets and sending the target data to a first management server. In an embodiment, a second set of agents is pre-deployed. Each pre-deployed agent is configured to, upon activation, collect target data from a respective target of the plurality of targets and send the target data to a second management server. While the pre-deployed agent remains inactive, an agent from the first set of agents collects and sends the target data to the first management server. When a first batch of one or more pre-deployed agents is activated, each activated agent begins collecting target data and sending the target data to the second management server. For agents not in the first batch, the first set of agents continues to collect and send the target data.
US08892711B2	Method for acquiring node information, and client and server The present invention discloses a method for acquiring node information, and a Client and a server, wherein the method includes: a Client receiving a Get command sent from a server, acquiring values of nodes in all items in the Get command, and determining that acquirement of values of nodes in partial items fails; and the Client sending to the server a response message which carries a new status value, wherein the new status value is adapted to indicate that acquirement of values of nodes in partial items fails when a Get command is executed, and the response message also carries a predetermined tag, wherein the predetermined tag is adapted to packet information of nodes in items in which acquirement of values is successful. By the above technical solution of the present invention, useful nodes can be acquired more effectively, nodes which can not be acquired can be located.
US08892709B2	Early generation of service requests A method, data processing system, and computer program product for managing services. A computer identifies information in a number of discussions in a discussion forum. The computer determines that the information is associated with a service. The computer then generates a new request for the service in an absence of a current request for the service.
US08892708B2	Placement of service delivery locations of a distributed computing service based on logical topology In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a request for a distributed service, the distributed service offered by a service provider via a data communications network having service delivery locations reachable via a prescribed physical topology; identifying the service delivery locations within a prescribed logical topology overlying the prescribed physical topology, the prescribed logical topology segregating the distributed service from other network traffic on the prescribed physical topology; and identifying one or more of the service delivery locations optimized for providing the distributed service to at least one service consumption location in the prescribed logical topology according to a prescribed service level agreement with the service provider.
US08892707B2	Identification of virtual applications for backup in a cloud computing system Exemplary embodiments provide various techniques for identifying a virtual application for backup in a cloud computing system. A cloud service layer of the cloud computing system is queried for a listing of virtual applications. In response to the querying, an attribute associated with the virtual application is received from the cloud service layer. The attribute associated with the virtual application is then transformed into an attribute associated with a hypervisor-managed virtual machine, and this transformation of the attribute exposes the hypervisor-managed virtual machine associated with the virtual application such that the hypervisor-managed virtual machine is identifiable for backup. As a result, the virtual application can be backed up based on the attribute of the hypervisor-managed virtual machine.
US08892706B1	Private ethernet overlay networks over a shared ethernet in a virtual environment Methods, systems, and computer programs for implementing private Ethernet overlay networks over a shared Ethernet infrastructure in a virtual environment are presented. In one embodiment, a method includes an operation for sending a packet on a private virtual network from a first virtual machine (VM) in a first host to a second VM. The first and second VMs are members of a fenced group of computers that have exclusive direct access to the private virtual network, where VMs outside the fenced group do not have direct access to the packets that travel on the private virtual network. Further, the method includes encapsulating the packet at the first host to include a new header as well as a fence identifier for the fenced group. If the encapsulated packet is too big for the underlying network, the packet is fragmented for transmission between hosts. The packet is received at a host where the second VM is executing and the packet is de-encapsulated to extract the new header and the fence identifier. Additionally, the method includes an operation for delivering the de-encapsulated packet to the second VM after validating that the destination address in the packet and the fence identifier correspond to the destination address and the fence identifier, respectively, of the second VM. The private virtual network scheme is transparent to the VM's operating system, and unicast messaging within the fenced group improves network efficiency.
US08892702B2	Policy driven autonomic computing-programmatic policy definitions An autonomic computing system and method determine that a desired end state cannot be reached, determine that an acceptable sub-state can be reached using at least one of priority ratings, conditional relationship specifications, and alternative relationship specifications, and place the computing system in an acceptable sub-state. The priority ratings can contain an attribute assigned to a policy definition that determines a sequence for applying the policy definition. The attribute can be “mandatory”, a numerical value, or “not required”. The conditional relationship specifications have policy definitions that are applied when the state of a specified resource meets a predetermined requirement. An alternative relationship specification has policy definitions and/or conditional relationship specifications that are applied when the state of a specified resource does not meet a predetermined requirement.
US08892700B2	Collecting and altering firmware configurations of target machines in a software provisioning environment A provisioning server can provide and interact with a firmware tool on target machines. The firmware tool can communicate with the firmware of the target machines and collect data representing the configuration of the firmware of the target machines, independent of the types of the target machines. To communicate independent of the type of target machine, the firmware tool can include a translation library. The translation library enables the firmware tool to receive common instructions for interacting with firmware and convert those common instructions into specific instructions that are compatible with different types of the target machines.
US08892699B2	Automatic firmware updates for intelligent electronic devices A method for automatically updating an existing firmware file stored in a memory of an intelligent electronic device (IED) communicatively coupled to a network in a monitoring system. The IED downloads from a remote server to the IED an update file that includes a version of a firmware file and a filename of the firmware file. The IED determines whether the firmware version specified in the update file is updated compared to a version of the existing firmware file. If the firmware version in the update file is greater than the existing version, the IED communicates to the remote server an instruction to download to the IED the updated firmware file specified in the update file. The IED receives from the remote server the updated firmware file. If a criterion is satisfied, the IED automatically updates the firmware file stored in its memory with the updated firmware file.
US08892696B1	Methods and apparatus for automatic configuration of virtual local area network on a switch device An apparatus includes a switch that has a module implemented in at least one of a processor or a memory, and multiple ports including a first port and a second port in a predefined sequence relative to the first port. The module is configured to automatically associate a first compute device with a first virtual local area network (VLAN) when the first compute device is coupled to the first port with a first cable. The module is configured to automatically associate a second compute device to the first VLAN when the second compute device is coupled to the second port with a second cable based on the second port being in a predefined sequence relative to the first port. The predefined sequence can include, for example, the second port being next in physical sequence after the first port.
US08892693B2	Enabling fragment-based mobile device application streaming Technology for decomposing an application into fragments and streaming the application in fragments is disclosed herein. According to at least one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes steps of running an intermediary application at a mobile device to enable the mobile device to run the video game application by running multiple game application fragments, the intermediary application acting as an intermediary between the video game application and the game application fragments by determining a next game application fragment for each of the game application fragments; running, at the mobile device, an instance of the video game application by running a first application fragment of the game application fragments at the mobile device; requesting, by the intermediary application, a second application fragment of the game application fragments corresponding to a second portion of the video game application; and receiving, at the mobile device, the second application fragment.
US08892689B1	Method and apparatus for a storage server to automatically discover and join a network storage cluster A method and system for automatic configuration and installation of network storage server to a network storage cluster is described. When the first storage server is installed, the automatic configuration process extracts from the user information necessary for configuration of the cluster. Upon entering all the configuration information, the storage server is rebooted and the new cluster is created. For a network storage server attempting to join an existing cluster, broadcast packets are sent by the joining storage server on its cluster port requesting a response from all available clusters. If a single response is received the joining storage server initiates the configuration process and joins the cluster. If multiple responses are received the joining storage server let the operator choose the cluster to join. If no responses are received the joining storage server retries the broadcast request repeatedly until a response is received.
US08892688B2	Portable terminal, information processing apparatus, content display system and content display method A portable terminal includes a receiving unit which receives content information, an external device communication unit which conducts communication with an external information device, a display unit which displays the content information received by the receiving unit, an acquiring unit which acquires identification information identifying the content information displayed by the display unit, an operation unit which receives an operation indication from a user, and a control unit which conducts control such that if a transmission indication of the identification information is received by the operation unit while the content information is being displayed, the identification information acquired by the acquiring unit is transmitted to the external information device and the display of the content information by the display unit is terminated.
US08892686B1	Dynamic content transformation for multiple devices A method for generating and delivering highlight versions of content for special case delivery through a Content Delivery Network (CDN) may include storing and distributing content in response to user requests using a plurality of edge servers, the plurality of edge servers being organized into a plurality of geographically distributed Points of Presence (POPs) in the CDN comprising a first POP that stores first content. The method may also include receiving a request for the first content and directing the request for the first content to the first POP. The method may additionally include automatically determining that the request for the first content originated from a mobile device and in response, providing a limited portion of the first content to the mobile device, wherein the limited portion of the first content comprises less than the first content.
US08892681B2	Peer to peer metadata distribution A metadata distribution node includes a memory configured to store metadata. The metadata includes description information such as a description of a segment of a content item or social commentary on the content item. The metadata distribution node further includes a processor configured to receive a user profile from a client device, identify a portion of the metadata based on the user profile, and provide the portion of the metadata to the client device.
US08892680B2	System and method for caching content elements with dynamic URLs A system and method for allowing requests generated as a result of dynamic URLs to be efficiently looked up in a cache are provided. The system and method involve receiving a request for a content element, the request being generated from a dynamic URL. A static content element identifier is generated from the request. In an embodiment, the static content element identifier includes only the content identification parameters and the dynamic parameters are removed. The static content element identifier is then used to determine whether the content element is in the cache.
US08892677B1	Manipulating objects in hosted storage In aspect an application may be configured to issue a request to store an object, with the request including an object reference. A delegate may be configured to receive the request to store the object, determine a hosted storage service, from among multiple hosted storage services, and a corresponding access protocol based on the object reference, and store the object in the hosted storage service using the corresponding protocol.
US08892674B2	Integration of a computer-based message priority system with mobile electronic devices Methods for integrating mobile electronic devices with computational methods for assigning priorities to documents are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first receives a new document such as an electronic mail message. The method assigns a priority to the document, based on a text classifier such as a Bayesian classifier or a support-vector machine classifier. The method then alerts a user on an electronic device, such as a pager or a cellular phone, based on an alert criteria that can be made sensitive to information about the location, inferred task, and focus of attention of the user. Such information can be inferred under uncertainty or can be accessed directly from online information sources. One embodiment makes use of information from an online calendar to control the criteria used to make decisions about relaying information to a mobile device.
US08892668B2	Reference notification method and apparatus A method and an apparatus of reference notification comprises obtaining an instant message that is sent from a sending user. A contact is selected that satisfies a predetermined criterion from contacts of the sending user. For the selected contact, content is determined that is of interest to the selected contact, and content is found that is of interest and is included in the obtained instant message based on the determined content of interest. Based on the found content of interest, a reference notification message is sent to a contact corresponding to the found content of interest, for notifying the contact that the content of interest is referenced. By using the technical scheme of the present disclosure, the problems of existing technologies that a user cannot accurately and quickly determine whether an instant message references content with which he/she is concerned are solved.
US08892667B2	Systems and methods for sending and receiving communications A computer system includes instructions recorded on a computer-readable storage medium and executable by at least one processor. The computer system includes a process component of a first deployment unit and a component module. The process component has a handling module and an object module. The handling module is operatively coupled to the object module. The handling module is operatively coupled to the component module. The handling module is configured to receive a message from a second deployment unit.
US08892663B2	Apparatus and method for establishing partnership with a peer-to-peer (P2P) service based on gossip Provided is gossip-based peer-to-peer service apparatus and a method for quickly establishing a partnership. A first node that desires to join a service receives partial view information of a second node from the second view that is participating in the service. In response to receiving the partial view information from the second node, the first node extracts one or more candidate nodes to establish a partnership with, and engages the candidate nodes in a temporal partnership.
US08892661B2	Detecting spam from a bulk registered e-mail account The invention provides for at least three processes for detecting the probability of abusive use of a message account for sending large amounts of unsolicited messages, such as spam, to other message accounts. For example, information provided at registration for a new message account can be processed to determine the likelihood of abusive use of that message account. Also, inbound messages can be processed to determine if the message account that sent the inbound message is abusing the use of that message account. Additionally, outbound messages can be processed to determine if the message account that is attempting to send an outbound message is abusing the use of that message account. Each of these three processes can operate separately or in any combination with each other to further improve the probability that abusive use of a message account will be detected promptly and accurately.
US08892660B2	Dynamic email content update process An email update system dynamically updates the content of an email when the originator of an email has sent the email, and the originator later determines that the email requires editing. The updating may take place transparent to the recipient and without the introduction of duplicative content into the recipient's email program. The email update system comprises a delta engine program and a delta temporary storage in a sender's computer, a queue manager program and an intermediate email queue in a server computer, and a recipient email retrieval program in a recipient's computer.
US08892659B2	Adaptive electronic introductions A method for providing electronic introductions includes providing, with an electronic communication, an electronic introduction that gives additional information regarding a party to the electronic communication that is in addition to the electronic identification of that party. A system for providing an electronic introduction may include a computer configured to search at least one database for information about a party being introduced and compile an electronic introduction for the party incorporating the information; and an electronic communication function configured to provide access to the electronic introduction to a recipient of an electronic communication sent by the party using the electronic communication function.
US08892658B2	Break-through mechanism for personas associated with a single device A single device that receives communications intended for a user having multiple contact addresses associated with different user roles is provided. The single device can receive communications intended for multiple telephone numbers, email aliases, screen names, aliases, other means of contact, or combinations thereof. Since a user engaged in a particular role might not desire to be interrupted with communications intended for a different role, the communications for the other roles can be maintained until the user is actively engaged in the role for which the communication was intended. In situations where there is an important communication sent to a non-active role, selective convergence between roles is initiated and the important communication is presented to the user.
US08892656B2	Personalized information subscribing and delivering over instant messaging A method for providing information to an instant messaging (IM) user includes sending information to the user via an instant message based on interest information provided by the user. The interest information may not be restricted to a predetermined set of interest information.
US08892652B2	E-meeting summaries A method, computer program product, and system for determining a custom summary of a web conference is described. A first input associated with a first portion of a web conference is received. A first content associated with the web conference is selected based upon, at least in part, the first input. A custom summary of the web conference is determined based upon, at least in part, the selected first content and a relation associated with a socially-connected group.
US08892651B1	Revealing connections for persons in a social graph An on-line system utilizing a social graph allows users to establish an account with the system and establish connections to nodes in the system. The social graph uses system-provided nodes that are created and maintained by the system, so that users cannot edit the system-provided nodes. The system aggregates and analyzes the social graph to present information in ways useful to its users. For example, the system reveals connections between persons in the system, with a corresponding strength of each connection.
US08892650B2	Sponsored stories application programming interface (API) To provide a sponsored story unit, the social networking system receives a story request from an advertiser. The story request specifies properties of content used to generate the sponsored story. When the social networking system stores an object or an action performed on an object, properties associated with, and describing, the object or the action are also stored. For example, properties of an object include an object type, an object identifier, metadata describing the object or other suitable information. The social networking system identifies actions or objects associated with users connected to a viewing user having one or more properties included in a story request. A sponsored story is generated from the identified actions or objects and presented to a viewing user.
US08892645B2	Method and system for selective sharing of flagged information in a group chat environment A system for selective sharing of flagged information in a group chat (i.e. instant messaging) that generates a user interface object enabling a flag setting participant to indicate which of the other chat participants can see a visible flag they are setting in association with selected content of the chat session. The flag is then visible only to those indicated other participants, both during the chat session and within copies of the saved chat transcript. A user interface object (e.g. a context window) provides chat participants with the ability to conveniently identify information about individual flags in the chat session, such as the identity of the participant that set a flag, when the flag was created, the priority associated with the flag, and/or other information. The system further enables chat participants to filter the contents of a chat transcript, so that only a subset of the chat transcript is displayed, based on flags contained in the transcript. Chat participants can also associate priorities with specific individual flags and/or all flags set by a given participant, and/or generate a “to do” list based on the flags in the transcript.
US08892643B2	Method and device for determining and notifying users having matching preference profiles for accessing a multiple access online application Method and device for starting a multiple access to a multiple access online application such as an online game. The method enables a plurality of mobile terminal devices each being connected to a wireless communication network and each being related to a user, to participate multiple access online application. The devices in said wireless communication network are configured to perform transferring identification data and preference data related to each of said users, from at least one of said mobile terminals to a server. The method proceeds with, storing said identification data and said received preference data in a user database at a server, wherein said user database containing preference data of at least one other user. The method further compares said received preference data with preference data of said at least one other user for groups of matching preference data, and determining a plurality of users having matching preference data. The method further comprises sending a notification to each of said users with matching preference data.
US08892642B2	Computer-based comparison of human individuals A test person is compared to a reference person by comparing detailed information regarding the configuration, capabilities and usage of computers—such as installed hardware devices, makes and models and firmware versions of such hardware devices, installed software, versions of installed software, and usage logs—used by the respective individuals. In effect, each person's computer is considered a proxy for the person herself, representing countless purchasing, maintenance, pastime choices in the configuration and use of a thoroughly complex personal and professional tool.
US08892640B2	Access control method and system and access terminal Embodiments of the present invention provide an access control method, an access control system, and an access terminal. The method includes: receiving, by an access terminal, an HTTP request message transmitted by a UE where a destination IP address is an IP address of the access terminal; obtaining an actual IP address corresponding to a website domain name according to DNS resolution when the website domain name is not the IP address of the access terminal, and controlling, according to the actual IP address, the UE to access a target site corresponding to the website domain name. The technical solutions of the present invention solve the problem that a user cannot access the target site because of the cache characteristic of the user equipment.
US08892639B2	Method and system for processing file stored in cloud storage and computer readable storage medium storing the method A method for processing a file stored in cloud storage includes the following step: an original file is added to a sharing folder, which belongs to the owner account for sharing to at least one sharing account, on a cloud storage machine through an owner client device, which is logged in an owner account. The original file stored in the sharing folder is synchronized to at least one sharing client device, which is logged in the at least one sharing account. At least one changed file, which is amended utilizing the original file, is received from the at least one sharing client device. Difference between the at least one changed file and the original file is generated to be taken as at least one changed content. A summary about the at least one changed content is generated for being displayed on the owner client device.
US08892638B2	Predicting and retrieving data for preloading on client device Retrieval and local storage of data at mobile devices is managed by employing a scheduling policy based on a prediction policy of a preloader, a pre-render policy, and with respect to a current viewport state to reduce waiting time and mobile device resource usage. Portions of data maintained on a server associated with a client device are retrieved and preloaded into the client device memory to enable a user to view documents seamlessly while navigating through a document without overburdening the client device memory and/or processing capacity based on a prediction. A current viewing position of the document and user navigation on the document via a touch action or gesture are detected and next portion of data to present another portion of the document is predicted. A request manager may retrieve the requested data from the server and pre-rendered so that it is available when requested by the user.
US08892633B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a user interface in a communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting a User Interface (UI) to a client in a communication system supporting a Remote User Interface (RUI), in which a representation level of a UI requested by the client is determined, whether the representation level is available in a service provided to the client is determined, and a UI having an available representation level is provided to the client, according to the determination results.
US08892632B2	Client-server interaction frequency control Client-server interaction frequency control may be provided. First, a collaborative electronic document may be loaded at a client device in a document collaboration session. The client device may then request a client-server interaction with a server hosting the collaboration session. Next, the client may receive input from the server indicating a state of the server. This input may then be used by the client device to adjust a rate at which the requested client-server interaction may occur.
US08892630B1	Facilitating discussion group formation and interaction Facilitating discussion group formation and interaction is described. In one example, a server sends an eBook to a client device. The server determines whether the eBook is associated with at least one book club in response to sending the eBook to the client device. The server sends book club identifiers to the client device when the eBook is associated with at least one book club. The book club identifiers specify one or more book clubs associated with the eBook.
US08892625B2	Hierarchically clustered P2P streaming system A HCPS (hierarchically clustered P2P streaming system) comprising peers grouped into clusters and hierarchies. The HCPS actively balances the uploading capabilities among clusters and executes an optimal scheduling algorithm within each cluster to ensure that system resources are optimally utilized. The HCPS comprises an architecture which can be used in practical applications, yet can achieve the streaming rate close to the theoretical upper bound.
US08892624B2	Method for the interoperation of virtual organizations A cooperative data stream processing system is provided that utilizes a plurality of independent, autonomous and possibly heterogeneous sites in a cooperative arrangement to process user-defined job requests over dynamic, continuous streams of data. A method is provided to organize the distributed sites into a plurality of virtual organizations that can be further combined and virtualized into virtualized virtual organizations. These virtualized virtual organizations can also include additional distributed sites and existing virtualized virtual organizations and all members of a given virtualized virtual organization can share data and processing resources in order to process jobs on either a task-based or goal-based allocation mechanism. The virtualized virtual organization is created dynamically using ad-hoc collaborations among the members and is arranged in either a federated or cooperative architecture. Collaborations between members is either tightly-coupled or loosely coupled. Flexible management of resources is provided with resources being provided under exclusive control or based on best-effort access.
US08892620B2	Computer for Amdahl-compliant algorithms like matrix inversion A family of computers is disclosed and claimed that supports simultaneous processes from the single core up to multi-chip Program Execution Systems (PES). The instruction processing of the instructed resources is local, dispensing with the need for large VLIW memories. The cores through the PES have maximum performance for Amdahl-compliant algorithms like matrix inversion, because the multiplications do not stall and the other circuitry keeps up. Cores with log based multiplication generators improve this performance by a factor of two for sine and cosine calculations in single precision floating point and have even greater performance for loge and ex calculations. Apparatus specifying, simulating, and/or layouts of the computer (components) are disclosed. Apparatus the computer and/or its components are disclosed.
US08892619B2	Floating-point multiply-add unit using cascade design A floating-point fused multiply-add (FMA) unit embodied in an integrated circuit includes a multiplier circuit cascaded with an adder circuit to produce a result A*C+B. To decrease latency, the FMA includes accumulation bypass circuits forwarding an unrounded result of the adder to inputs of the close path and the far path circuits of the adder, and forwarding an exponent result in carry save format to an input of the exponent difference circuit. Also included in the FMA is a multiply-add bypass circuit forwarding the unrounded result to the inputs of the multiplier circuit. The adder circuit includes an exponent difference circuit implemented in parallel with the multiplier circuit; a close path circuit implemented after the exponent difference circuit; and a far path circuit implemented after the exponent difference circuit.
US08892618B2	Methods and apparatuses for convolutive blind source separation Methods and apparatuses for convolutive blind source separation are described. Each of a plurality of input signals is transformed into frequency domain. Values of coefficients of unmixing filter corresponding to frequency bins are calculated by performing a gradient descent process on a cost function at least dependent on the coefficients of the unmixing filters. In each iteration of the gradient descent process, gradient terms for calculating the values of the same coefficient of the unmixing filters are adjusted to improve smoothness of gradient terms across the frequency bins. With respect to each of the frequency bins, source signals are estimated by filtering the transformed input signals through the respective unmixing filter configured with the calculated values of the coefficients. The estimated source signals on the respective frequency bins are transformed into time domain. The cost function is adapted to evaluate decorrelation between the estimated source signals.
US08892617B2	Jitter generator for generating jittered clock signal A jitter generator for generating a jittered clock signal, includes a jitter control signal generator and a jittered clock generator. The jitter control signal generator is utilized for selecting a digital control code from a plurality of candidate digital control codes at individual time points and respectively outputting a plurality of selected digital control codes. The jittered clock generator is coupled to the jitter control signal generator, and utilized for generating the jittered clock signal. The jittered clock generator dynamically adjusts the jittered clock signal according to the plurality of different digital control codes.
US08892613B1	Method and system for efficiently reading a partitioned directory incident to a serialized process A method of reading data from a partitioned directory incident to a serialized process. A first read and an offset value are received. A first data block in a modeled fully partitioned directory is identified based on the offset value and a predetermined number of entries associated with a buffer. It is determined whether the first data block in the fully partitioned directory is present in the actual partitioned directory. Zeros are written in the buffer if the first data block in the fully partitioned directory is not present in the actual partitioned directory otherwise the first data block associated with the actual partitioned directory is written to the buffer. A second data block is similarly read by a second read operation and written. The second data block is associated with a second subdirectory, selected based on a horizontal node traversal at a node level of said first subdirectory.
US08892610B1	System and method for garbage collection pause reduction A method to schedule garbage collection operations may be executed in a client/server system using multiple servers. The method includes comparing usage of memory in respective ones of the plurality of servers to one or more memory usage thresholds and dynamically identifying one or more servers in which to perform garbage collection of memory objects during a particular time period. By distributing the durations over which garbage collection is performed on respective servers, the client server system, among other things, reduces the pauses in servicing client requests.
US08892609B1	Method and system for generating a unified database from data sets A method for generating a unified database includes receiving a structured set of data, where each set is made up of records having fields, aggregating values within a first field of the records, automatically applying a set of rules to the first field values to determine correlations among the first field values, calculating a confidence level regarding a label for the first field, providing the label to the first field, storing the first field values in the first field in the unified database, and receiving more information to increase the confidence level. A system for generating a clinical database and a method for using the database are also described.
US08892607B2	Graph transformations to correct violations of service level objections in a data center Graph transformations are used by a data management system to correct violations of service-level objectives (SLOs) in a data center. In one aspect, a process is provided to manage a data center by receiving an indication of a violation of a service-level objective associated with the data center from a server in the data center. A graph representation and a transformations data container are retrieved by the data management system from data storage accessible to the data management system. The transformations data container includes one or more transformations. The transformation is processed to create a mutated graph from a data center representation from the graph representation. An option for managing the data center is determined as a result of evaluating the mutated graphs.
US08892606B2	Method and system for media collection expansion Systems and methods have been developed for expanding collections of media objects that are stored remotely. More specifically, systems and methods have been developed for continuously monitoring and updating collections of media objects stored in a user's media repository (e.g., a “media locker”).
US08892604B2	Pre-audit system, apparatus, and method A pre-audit system, apparatus, and method is provided to perform a pre-audit of form data. Form data is received from a supplier prior to the form data being delivered to one or more purchasers. The form data is compared with rules or conditions set by the one or more purchasers. A response message is transmitted to the supplier, where the response message includes one or more results and one or more descriptions related to the one or more results.
US08892603B2	Restoring deduplicated data objects from sequential backup devices Provided are computer program product, system, and method for restoring deduplicated data objects from sequential backup devices. A server stores data objects of extents having deduplicated data in the at least one sequential backup device. The server receives from a client a request for data objects. The server determines extents stored in the at least one sequential backup device for the requested data objects. The server or client sorts the extents according to an order in which they are stored in the at least one sequential backup device to generate a sort list. The server retrieves the extents from the at least one sequential backup device according to the order in the sort list to access the extents sequentially from the sequential backup device in the order in which they were stored. The server returns the retrieved extents to the client and the client reconstructs the requested data objects from the received extents.
US08892601B2	Creating web applications using cloud-based friction-free databases without requiring web hosting knowledge Creating web application using cloud-based friction-free databases without web hosting knowledge. User credentials are received at a web application service for initiating a web application task via client software. The user credentials are analyzed to determine whether to grant the user permission to initiate the requested web application task. The web application task is initiated when the permission is granted. Data associated with the initiated web application task is received at the web application service for analysis of the data to host and render a web application based solely on received data provided without basis of web hosting knowledge.
US08892588B2	Search system employing multiple image based search processing approaches An Internet infrastructure supports searching of images by correlating a category selection with that of plurality of images hosted in Internet based servers in selected categories. An image search server supports delivery of search result pages to a client device based upon a search image or category selection, and contains images from a plurality of Internet based web hosting servers. The image search server delivers characteristic analysis of an image to the client device upon request. The selection of images is based upon: (i) word match, that is, by selecting images, titles of which correspond to the search image; and (ii) image correlation, that is, by selecting images, image characteristics of which correlates to that of category selection. The selection of images in the search result page also occurs on the basis of popularity. The category selection server also selects category based upon user's choice.
US08892587B2	On-the fly pattern recognition with configurable bounds Some embodiments of on-the-fly pattern recognition with configurable bounds have been presented. In one embodiment, a pattern matching engine is configured based on user input, which may include values of one or more user configurable bounds on searching. Then the configured pattern matching engine is used to search for a set of features in an incoming string. A set of scores is updated based on the presence of any of the features in the string while searching for the features. Each score may indicate a likelihood of the content of the string being in a category. The search is terminated if the end of the string is reached or if the user configurable bounds are met. After terminating the search, the scores are output.
US08892585B2	Metadata driven flexible user interface for business applications Business application adaptation to changes in business processes is enabled through real time modification of business application schema and metadata at runtime employing business rules to accommodate changing business processes without a need to change the underlying data and models. A business application user interface reacts to runtime changes and enforces validation and business rules as if the changes are made to the underlying structure.
US08892577B2	Apparatus and method for storing medical information There are provided an input unit which inputs an object with scan information attached thereto into an image of a subject acquired on the basis of the scan information, and an insertion unit which inserts report information to the object when preparation of an image interpretation report of a study based on the image is completed.
US08892574B2	Search apparatus, search method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program that input a query representing a subset of a document set stored to a document database and output a keyword that often appears in the subset Provided is a search apparatus, a search method, and a program that can improve search speed for a document set even when an object to be searched is a large-scale document set. A search apparatus, in an embodiment, includes an abstract matrix storage unit, a word frequency calculation unit, and a document frequency reference unit.
US08892566B2	Creating indexes for databases An index is created for a database by selecting at least one column of a database table as a basis to create the index, generating at least one index of a tree structure according to the at least one column, where a pointer stored in a leaf node of the at least one index is null. In an example embodiment, a value to a pointer is stored in a leaf node according to an intermediate result in response to the intermediate result being generated, where the pointer stored in the leaf node points to a data page storing the intermediate result. The created index can be reused and the intermediate result can be effectively used, such that the efficiency of database operation is improved.
US08892565B2	Method and apparatus for accessing an audio file from a collection of audio files using tonal matching There is provided a method for accessing at least one audio file from a collection comprising more than one audio file stored within or accessible with an electronic device. The method includes generating one index comprising of information entries obtained from each of the more than one audio file in the collection, with each audio file in the collection information being linked to at least one information entry; receiving an input during an input reception mode; converting the input into a digital signal using an analog-digital converter; analyzing the digital signal using either frequency spectrum analysis or melody contour analysis into discrete portions; and comparing the discrete portions with the entries in the index. It is advantageous that the audio file is accessed when the discrete portions substantially coincide with at least one of the information entries in the index. The discrete portions may be musical notes, melody contours or waveforms. The at least one information entry may also be musical notes, melody contours or waveforms. An apparatus employing the aforementioned method is also disclosed.
US08892562B2	Categorization of multi-page documents by anisotropic diffusion A computer implemented system and method are provided for refining category scores for pages of a sequence of document pages that potentially includes document boundaries. The method uses initial category scores provided by a categorizer that considers one page at a time or concatenated pairs of pages (called bipages). The category scores represent the probability that a page belongs to a particular category. The method uses anisotropic diffusion to refine the initial page category scores using the scores of neighboring pages as a function of the probability that there is a boundary between the pages. The method may be performed iteratively.
US08892560B2	Intuitive management of electronic files A method includes identifying interrelated files stored on one or more storage devices for each topic grouping. The interrelated files correspond to a particular topic grouping and are determined based on metadata associated with the interrelated files. A relative importance for each of the interrelated files within each topic grouping is determined. The relative importance indicates an importance of each of the interrelated files in a corresponding topic grouping relative to the other files in the corresponding topic grouping based on metadata associated with the interrelated files. A montage of visual representations of the interrelated files for each topic grouping is displayed using a visual indication of the relative importance.
US08892559B2	Annotation of data in an operating plan data aggregation system In an embodiment a method is provided. The method includes receiving forecast information in a computer from a first group of users. The method also includes integrating the forecast information into a database and corresponding OLAP cube accessible by the computer. The method further includes receiving comments on specific entries of the forecast information in the computer from a second group of users. The method also includes receiving changes of the forecast information in the computer from a second group of users The method further includes integrating comments and changes into the database and OLAP cube. Moreover, the method includes providing a display of the comments and the changes to the first group of users in an interface to the computer.
US08892557B2	Optimal persistence of a business process Aspects of the invention provide for automatically selecting optimal fetch settings for business processes as a function of database query load and relational context by determining whether data loaded for data retrieval points is dependent upon a query result from another query process and automatically selecting an eager fetch setting if dependent upon a query result from another query process, or a lazy fetch setting if not. Usage of the data retrieval points is monitored with respect to defined units of work to define retrieval patterns and automatically update the fetch settings, including by revising selected eager fetch settings to lazy fetch settings if a data size of a defined retrieval pattern is larger than a permissible memory resource threshold.
US08892550B2	Source expansion for information retrieval and information extraction System, method and computer program product for 1) preparing queries for retrieving related content based on existing data content. For instance, titles of existing documents or entities extracted from documents can be used as queries. 2) Retrieving content from other repositories of unstructured, semi-structured, or structured data. For instance, web pages can be retrieved using existing search engines. 3) Extracting smaller units of text from the retrieved content. For instance, web pages can be split into coherent paragraphs of text. 4) Judging the quality of the smaller units of text and their relatedness to existing data. For instance, paragraphs can be scored using a statistical model based on lexico-syntactic features and topic models. 5) Synthesizing new sources from high-quality related text. For instance, paragraphs that score above a threshold can be concatenated into a new document.
US08892541B2	System and method for query temporality analysis A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to determine temporality of a query in order to generate a search result including a list of objects that are not only based on matching of the objects to the query but also based on temporality analysis of the query. Here, the temporality of the query can be defined as the distribution over time of the objects matching the query, i.e., the chronology histogram of the query. Such distribution can be analyzed to provide a classification of the intent of the query. Classification of the intent of the query can result either in discrete classification of the query into categories, or in continuous classification of the query which may be a scalar or vector value resulting from transformations of the chronology histogram.
US08892533B2	Accelerated cached object retrieval Efficiency of cached objects such as singleton objects and other software constructs having a first-invocation cost is improved by replacing the software code for creating a method instance (the “creation code”) with the instance itself. Upon first invocation, the calling method causes the first version of the method to be performed, and also causes the first version to be replaced by the second version. Thus, the invention facilitates creation of singleton objects that run without any branch logic, so as to improve speed and efficiency. The need for locking and exception handling is reduced, resultant code is simplified, and potential for error is reduced.
US08892529B2	Data processing method and apparatus in cluster system In embodiments of the present invention, when a duplicate data query is performed on a received data stream, a first physical node which corresponds to each first sketch value and is in a cluster system is identified according to a first sketch value representing the data stream, and then the first sketch value representing the data stream is sent to the identified physical node for the duplicate data query, and a procedure of the duplicate data query does not change with an increase of the number of nodes in the cluster system; therefore, a calculation amount of each node does not increase with an increase of the number of nodes in the cluster system.
US08892528B2	Accelerated deduplication Mechanisms are provided for accelerated data deduplication. A data stream is received an input interface and maintained in memory. Chunk boundaries are detected and chunk fingerprints are calculated using a deduplication accelerator while a processor maintains a state machine. A deduplication dictionary is accessed using a chunk fingerprint to determine if the associated data chunk has previously been written to persistent memory. If the data chunk has previously been written, reference counts may be updated but the data chunk need not be stored again. Otherwise, datastore suitcases, filemaps, and the deduplication dictionary may be updated to reflect storage of the data chunk. Direct memory access (DMA) addresses are provided to directly transfer a chunk to an output interface as needed.
US08892527B1	Use of predefined block pointers to reduce duplicate storage of certain data in a storage subsystem of a storage server A method and system for eliminating the redundant allocation and deallocation of special data on disk, wherein the redundant allocation and deallocation of special data on disk is eliminated by providing an innovate technique for specially allocating special data of a storage system. Specially allocated data is data that is pre-allocated on disk and stored in memory of the storage system. “Special data” may include any pre-decided data, one or more portions of data that exceed a pre-defined sharing threshold, and/or one or more portions of data that have been identified by a user as special. For example, in some embodiments, a zero-filled data block is specially allocated by a storage system. As another example, in some embodiments, a data block whose contents correspond to a particular type document header is specially allocated.
US08892523B2	Auto summarization of content A method of summarizing data files includes implementing, at a server, a storage event for a data file, analyzing the data file and creating a summary of the data file, and storing the summary linked to the data file.
US08892521B2	Managing redundant immutable files using deduplication in storage clouds A method includes receiving a request to save a first file as immutable. The method also includes searching for a second file that is saved and is redundant to the first file. The method further includes determining the second file is one of mutable and immutable. When the second file is mutable, the method includes saving the first file as a master copy, and replacing the second file with a soft link pointing to the master copy. When the second file is immutable, the method includes determining which of the first and second files has a later expiration date and an earlier expiration date, saving the one of the first and second files with the later expiration date as a master copy, and replacing the one of the first and second files with the earlier expiration date with a soft link pointing to the master copy.
US08892515B2	Enforcing temporal uniqueness of index keys utilizing key-valued locking in the presence of pseudo-deleted keys Techniques are described for identifying conflicts between a prospective temporal key and an index of temporal keys, the index sorted based on a time value associated with each of the temporal keys. Embodiments determine whether a first temporal key within the index of temporal keys conflicts with the prospective temporal key. Here, the keys within the index may be sorted based upon a respective time value associated with each of the keys. Upon determining that the first temporal key conflicts with the prospective temporal key, the prospective temporal key is designated as conflicting with at least one existing temporal key in the index of temporal keys.
US08892514B2	Multi-path replication in databases Systems, methods and computer program products for multi-path replication in databases are described herein. A non-limiting embodiment includes instantiating a plurality of replicate connections to a replicate database, providing transactions to the replicate database through a plurality of transaction streams, where the transaction streams associated with respective instantiated replicate connections. Transactions occurring in distinct transaction streams are applied, in parallel, at the replicate database. Another non-limiting embodiment includes instantiating a plurality of replication sender threads, where the replication sender threads communicate in parallel with respective replication servers over respective replication paths. Data sharing one or more attributes can be bound to a replication path in communication with the respective replication servers.
US08892512B2	Synchronization for initialization of a remote mirror storage facility A method includes computing, in a local storage system having a local volume with a plurality of local regions, respective local signatures over the local regions, and computing, in a remote storage system having a remote volume with remote regions in a one-to-one correspondence with the local regions, respective remote signatures over the remote regions. A given remote region is identified, the given remote region having a given remote signature and a corresponding local region with a given local signature that does not match the given remote signature. The data in the given remote region is then replaced with data from the corresponding local region.
US08892509B2	Systems and methods for a distributed in-memory database Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide managing an in-memory database. An in-memory database is provided. The in-memory database is distributed over at least two of data processing systems in memory.
US08892507B1	Providing file system quota support for a file system having separated data and metadata Described are techniques for performing quota management in a distributed file system. An allocation quota specifies an upper limit of storage for allocation for a quota set of the distributed file system. The distributed file system includes metadata file system(s) and data file system(s). For files in the distributed file system, metadata is stored in one of the metadata file systems and file content data is stored in the data file systems. A quota coordinator partitions the allocation quota among the data file systems. The data file systems are allocators of storage and each receives a portion of the allocation quota specifying an upper limit of storage that the data file system has available for allocation for the quota set. Storage is allocated for client requests. The storage allocation is performed by each of the data file systems in accordance with the portion of the allocation quota assigned.
US08892503B1	Journaling tool Journaling technology, in which a tool, that is separate from a journaling process executed by a server system, causes display of an interface that enables user selection of information derivable from journaling data collected by the journaling process. The tool receives, through the displayed interface, user input selecting desired information derivable from the journaling data collected by the journaling process. Based on the user input, the tool determines one or more commands that are understood by the journaling process and that control the journaling process to retrieve journaling data needed to derive the desired information. The tool controls the journaling process to execute the one or more commands, accesses journaling data retrieved through execution of the one or more commands, and reformats the accessed journaling data into a presentable format of the desired information.
US08892502B2	Parallel processing of semantically grouped data in data warehouse environments A system and method for parallel processing of semantically grouped data in data warehouse environments is disclosed. A datastore object having a number of records is generated in a data warehouse application. A hash value is added to each record. The hash value has an integer domain, and is uniformly distributed over the integer domain across the datastore object. A selection table is generated to create a number of tasks based on discrete ranges of the hash value. Then, a transformation routine is executed on each of the number of tasks in parallel to generate an infocube of data that corresponds to each range of the discrete ranges of the hash value.
US08892500B2	Method and apparatus for assisting with construction of data for use in an expert system A display device to display a representation of a set of states, each one of the states being associated with a corresponding variable. Each of the states displayed is designated as being a most significant state for the corresponding variable. Input representing a probability estimate to be associated with a displayed state is entered and used to generate data for use in an expert system.
US08892497B2	Audio classification by comparison of feature sections and integrated features to known references To classify moving images using audio signals. An audio signal is acquired, a section feature relating to an audio frequency distribution is extracted with respect to each of a plurality of sections each having a predetermined length contained in the acquired audio signal, each extracted section feature is compared with each of reference section features to calculate a section similarity indicating a degree of correlation between each section feature and each reference section feature. An integrated feature relating to the plurality of sections and being calculated based on the section similarity calculated with respect to each of the plurality of sections is extracted from the acquired audio signal. The extracted integrated feature is compared with each of one or more reference integrated features, and the audio signal is classified based on comparison result. Then, classification result is used for moving image classification.
US08892494B2	Device for classifying defects and method for adjusting classification Disclosed is a technique wherein an object that requires adjustment in order to increase the reliability of automatic classification can be easily identified. A device (140) for adjusting classification classifies defects into a first class group according to the feature amount of the defects that are obtained from image data obtained from an electron microscope (110), and classifies the defects into a second class group according to the feature amount of the defects classified into the first class group. And, the device (140) for adjusting the classification calculates classification performance by comparing the defects that have been classified into the second class group, and outputs the calculated classification performance in a predetermined display format to an output unit (180).
US08892492B2	Declarative network access control A system and method for declarative network access control are provided. The system includes an interpreter, a rules engine, a storage device, and a processor. The interpreter transforms sentences in a declarative network access control language to rules. The rules engine evaluates the rules to produce actions for providing access control to a network at a point of access. The storage device stores instructions for the interpreter, the rules and the rules engine and the processor executes those instructions.
US08892491B2	Substructure and boundary modeling for continuous action recognition Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for improved state space modeling (SSM) comprising two added layers to model the substructure transition dynamics and action duration distribution. In embodiments, the first layer represents a substructure transition model that encodes the sparse and global temporal transition probability. In embodiments, the second layer models the action boundary characteristics by injecting discriminative information into a logistic duration model such that transition boundaries between successive actions can be located more accurately; thus, the second layer exploits discriminative information to discover action boundaries adaptively.
US08892484B2	System and method for predicting events A method and apparatus for predicting significant future events based on previous events. Plural messages representing events are received. Attributes of the messages are mapped to respective feature dimensions to define a multidimensional histogram. Co-occurrence of at least two event types are determined based on queries of the multidimensional histogram. Anomalous event types are detected from the messages by comparing feature dimensions of incoming messages to probability density functions of the cluster corresponding to the event type and highly anomalous event types are determined. Causal relationships between each pair of event types are determined and a Bayesian belief network of the pairs of event types is created and used to predict future events based on occurrence of additional events.
US08892481B2	Health and fitness management system A health and fitness management system is provided that has a health and fitness application operating, e.g., on a smart phone, that can wirelessly communicate with an activity module worn on the user which has a motion sensor, e.g., an accelerometer. The application accepts food and weight inputs (e.g., from the smart phone) and user activity units (e.g., from the activity unit) and develops a user intrinsic metabolism. The application includes fitness arc and health quotient graphical indicators that guide the user on health and fitness activities.
US08892477B2	Method and system for fuzzy constrained sootblowing optimization A system and method to control of sootblowers in a fossil fueled power plant, in particular to plant applications systems using a graphical programming environment in combination with a set of rules to activate sootblowers. The system can be constrained by time limits and/or rule based time limits. Actual blower activation is typically based on the current status of key control variables in the process which alter the actual activation time within a constraints system. The system does not typically require knowledge or models of specific cleanliness relationships. The result is a system without sequences or queues that readily adapts to changing system conditions.
US08892476B2	Server for an image forming apparatuses which calculates charges according to printing usage amounts A server for image forming apparatuses which calculates charges reasonable to both a service manager and a user, and a control method thereof is provided. The server for image forming apparatuses includes a server input unit to receive charging criteria of image forming apparatuses and a charging criterion of a virtual image forming apparatus, a server communication unit to receive information regarding output amounts from the image forming apparatuses, and a server control unit to generate the virtual image forming apparatus and to calculate charges of the image forming apparatuses according to the charging criterion of the virtual image forming apparatus, when the output amounts of the image forming apparatuses are less than basic output amounts of the charging criteria of the image forming apparatuses, thereby being capable of calculating charges reasonable to both the service manager and the user.
US08892475B2	Provision of authorization and other services Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for providing authorization and other services. In a preferred embodiment, an authorization service includes both a messaging specification and a set of rules that govern its use. A first customer wishing to use the authorization service prepares a request that complies with the service's messaging specification and transmits it to a first participant. The first participant transmits the request to a second participant, which processes the request according to authorization information provided by a second customer and rules that have been specified for the service. The second participant then prepares a response that complies with the service's messaging specification.
US08892473B2	Method and system for subscription digital rights management A system and method for managing use of items having usage rights associated therewith. The system includes an activation device adapted to issue a software package having a public and private key pair, the public key being associated with a user, a license device adapted to issue a license, a usage device adapted to receive the software package, receive the license and allow the user to access the item in accordance with the license, and a subscription managing device adapted to maintain a subscription list including the public key associated with the user. License's is issued by the license device upon verifying presence of the public key in the subscription list corresponding to requested content.
US08892471B2	Modifying a digital media product Producing, by a digital media production hub from users' digital expressions of preferences, information describing a user community's preference for replacing the modifiable part of the digital media product with a replacement part; receiving, in the digital media production hub from a media product owner, the digital media product and a digital grant of rights to modify and distribute the digital media product; receiving, by the digital media production hub from a media parts provider, at least one replacement part, a digital grant of rights to use the replacement part to modify the digital media product, and a digital grant of rights to distribute the replacement part with the digital media product; and replacing, by the digital media production hub in accordance with the information describing the user community preference and the digital grants of rights, the modifiable part with the replacement part.
US08892469B2	Gaming device security mechanism At least one aspect disclosed herein relates to a wager-based gaming device which includes a security monitoring and reporting system. In at least one embodiment, the security monitoring/reporting system may be configured or designed to automatically monitor various conditions, events, and/or activities at the gaming device for various types of security-related issues, and to automatically and/or dynamically report the detection of security-related issues to one or more devices, systems and/or other entities.
US08892460B2	Cell-allocation in location-selective information provision systems Systems and methods for allocating cells within a virtual grid to content providers according to various priority and selection schemes are used to target content delivery to information playback devices in a geographically and/or application selective manner. The priority schemes, geographical selectivity, and application selectivity of the system and methods of the invention allow a content provider to specifically target a desired demographic with high cost efficiency and flexibility.
US08892459B2	Affiliate investigation system and method Given an advertisement placed by a rogue affiliate that takes steps to hide its affiliate ID from affiliate investigators, the affiliate ID may be identified using a step-wise link follower to process the advertisement's target URIs. For each redirection step inclusively between the original target URI and the ultimate destination URI, the current URI is analyzed and requested according to either a trusted request method or a non-trusted request method depending on whether the resource to which the URI refers is known to be a trusted resource. The non-trusted request method is designed to thwart the rogue affiliate's efforts to identify an affiliate investigator as the source of the request.
US08892457B2	Vehicle lock box A relocatable and remotely actuatable vehicle security system. In some embodiments, the vehicle security system includes a relocatable structure forming an enclosure over a parking surface and an electronic actuation system. The relocatable structure has a closeable opening through which a vehicle enters and leaves the enclosure. The electronic actuation system is configured to actuate a drive mechanism to close the opening or to expose the opening upon receipt of a remotely generated signal.
US08892454B2	Configuration of web services Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for configuration of web services. In general, data is received characterizing web service calls for an application, a placeholder destination for the web service calls, and an identification of a system to be mapped to the placeholder; and a configuration is generated for the web service calls, where the configuration maps the placeholder destination to the system. The configuration may be a configuration of proxy objects to make the web service calls. Mapping the placeholder destination to the system may include generating a configuration including the system in lieu of the placeholder destination. Systems may be included in domains, where a security policy may be applied to systems in a domain.
US08892452B2	Systems and methods for adjusting insurance workflow Systems and methods are disclosed herein for identifying potential insurance prospects. The potential customers or prospects are identified by determining prospect underwriting affinity scores, prospect affinity scores, and prospect context scores with predictive models. The scores are then combined into a combined prospect score, which is used to adjust insurance underwriting, workflow, and premium determination processes for the prospects.
US08892451B2	Vehicle monitoring system A data logging device tracks the operation of a vehicle or driver actions. The device includes a storage device, which may be removable or portable, having a first memory portion that may be read from and may be written to in a vehicle and a second memory portion that may be read from and may be written to in the vehicle. The second memory portion may retain data attributes associated with the data stored in the first removable storage device. A processor reads data from an automotive bus that transfers data from vehicle sensors to other automotive components. The processor writes data to the first memory portion and the second memory portion that reflect a level of risk or safety. A communication device links the storage device to a network of computers. The communication device may be accessible through software that allows a user to access files.
US08892446B2	Service orchestration for intelligent automated assistant Methods, systems, and computer readable storage medium related to operating an intelligent digital assistant are disclosed. A user request is received, the user request including at least a speech input received from the user. The user request is processed to obtain a representation of user intent, where the representation of user intent associates the user request with a task flow operationalizing a requested task, and the task flow is operable to invoke a plurality of services each supporting functions according to a respective plurality of service parameters. Based on the representation of user intent, one or more relevant task parameters are identified from a plurality of task parameters of the task flow. A subset of the plurality of services are selectively invoked during execution of the task flow, where the selectively invoked subset of the plurality of services support functions according to the identified one or more relevant task parameters.
US08892442B2	System and method for answering a communication notification Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for answering a communication notification. The method for answering a communication notification comprises receiving a notification of communication from a user, converting information related to the notification to speech, outputting the information as speech to the user, and receiving from the user an instruction to accept or ignore the incoming communication associated with the notification. In one embodiment, information related to the notification comprises one or more of a telephone number, an area code, a geographic origin of the request, caller id, a voice message, address book information, a text message, an email, a subject line, an importance level, a photograph, a video clip, metadata, an IP address, or a domain name. Another embodiment involves notification assigned an importance level and repeat attempts at notification if it is of high importance.
US08892438B2	Apparatus and method for analysis of language model changes An apparatus, a method, and a machine-readable medium are provided for characterizing differences between two language models. A group of utterances from each of a group of time domains are examined. One of a significant word change or a significant word class change within the plurality of utterances is determined. A first cluster of utterances including a word or a word class corresponding to the one of the significant word change or the significant word class change is generated from the utterances. A second cluster of utterances not including the word or the word class corresponding to the one of the significant word change or the significant word class change is generated from the utterances.
US08892437B1	Method and apparatus of providing semi-automated classifier adaptation for natural language processing Example embodiments of the present invention may include a method that provides transcribing spoken utterances occurring during a call and assigning each of the spoken utterances with a corresponding set of first classifications. The method may also include determining a confidence rating associated with each of the spoken utterances and the assigned set of first classifications, and performing at least one of reclassifying the spoken utterances with new classifications based on at least one additional classification operation, and adding the assigned first classifications and the corresponding plurality of spoken utterances to a training data set.
US08892436B2	Front-end processor for speech recognition, and speech recognizing apparatus and method using the same A method of recognizing speech is provided. The method includes the operations of (a) dividing first speech that is input to a speech recognizing apparatus into frames; (b) converting the frames of the first speech into frames of second speech by applying conversion rules to the divided frames, respectively; and (c) recognizing, by the speech recognizing apparatus, the frames of the second speech, wherein (b) comprises converting the frames of the first speech into the frames of the second speech by reflecting at least one frame from among the frames that are previously positioned with respect to a frame of the first speech.
US08892434B2	Voice emphasis device There is provided a voice emphasis device with which voice clarity can be improved. This voice emphasis device comprises a correlation component removal filter circuit that removes a correlation component from a voice signal produced at a specific sampling frequency, a multiplication circuit that produces an extracted signal by multiplying a specific gain coefficient by the output of the correlation component removal filter circuit, and an arithmetic circuit that adds or subtracts the extracted signal to or from the voice signal. The correlation component removal filter circuit is a lattice-type filter circuit that combines a feedforward filter and a feedback filter. The feedforward filter and the feedback filter update the filter coefficient at the specific sampling frequency based on the formula ki,j+1=ki,j+α×fi/bi−l.
US08892433B2	Method of selecting one microphone from two or more microphones, for a speech processor system such as a “hands-free” telephone device operating in a noisy environment The method comprises the steps of: digitizing sound signals picked up simultaneously by two microphones (N, M); executing a short-term Fourier transform on the signals (xn(t), xm(t)) picked up on the two channels so as to produce a succession of frames in a series of frequency bands; applying an algorithm for calculating a speech-presence confidence index on each channel, in particular a probability a speech that is present; selecting one of the two microphones by applying a decision rule to the successive frames of each of the channels, which rule is a function both of a channel selection criterion and of a speech-presence confidence index; and implementing speech processing on the sound signal picked up by the one microphone that is selected.
US08892432B2	Signal processing system, apparatus and method used on the system, and program thereof Provided is a signal separation system including a rendering unit which receives a first and a second input signal and positions the first input signal according to rendering information.
US08892431B2	Smoothing method for suppressing fluctuating artifacts during noise reduction A smoothing method for suppressing fluctuating artifacts in the reduction of interference noise includes the following steps: providing short-term spectra for a sequence of signal frames, transforming each short-term spectrum by way of a forward transformation which describes the short-term spectrum using transformation coefficients that represent the short-term spectrum subdivided into its coarse and fine structures; smoothing the transformation coefficients with the respective same coefficient indices by combining at least two successive transformed short-term spectra; and transforming the smoothed transformation coefficients into smoothed short-term spectra by way of a backward transformation.
US08892424B2	Audio analysis terminal and system for emotion estimation of a conversation that discriminates utterance of a user and another person An audio analysis system includes a terminal apparatus and a host system. The terminal apparatus acquires an audio signal of a sound containing utterances of a user and another person, discriminates between portions of the audio signal corresponding to the utterances of the user and the other person, detects an utterance feature based on the portion corresponding to the utterance of the user or the other person, and transmits utterance information including the discrimination and detection results to the host system. The host system detects a part corresponding to a conversation from the received utterance information, detects portions of the part of the utterance information corresponding to the user and the other person, compares a combination of plural utterance features corresponding to the portions of the part of the utterance information of the user and the other person with relation information to estimate an emotion, and outputs estimation information.
US08892416B2	System and method of generating equation-level diagnostic error messages for use in circuit simulation A mechanism for providing equation-level diagnostic error messages for system models undergoing circuit simulations is discussed. The components in a model of a system being simulated are converted into multiple numerical equations where each equation corresponds to a component in the system being simulated or a topology equation for the system model. Each numerical equation is numerically analyzed in order to identify illegal configurations in the system. Upon detection of an error, an error message listing the components associated with the illegal configuration is generated for the user.
US08892414B1	Transmission-line simulators and methods In various embodiment, a simulator includes an analysis module for extracting transmission-line parameters of a transmission-line system from a network-parameter representation thereof, using discontinuity-detection-based phase unwrapping without introducing artificial discontinuities, and a simulator module for simulating the response of the transmission-line system to an input based on the extracted transmission-line parameters.
US08892413B2	Convergence rate of full wavefield inversion using spectral shaping Method for speeding up iterative inversion of seismic data (106) to obtain a subsurface model (102), using local cost function optimization. The frequency spectrum of the updated model at each iteration is controlled to match a known or estimated frequency spectrum for the subsurface region, preferably the average amplitude spectrum of the subsurface P-impedance. The controlling is done either by applying a spectral-shaping filter to the source wavelet (303) and to the data (302) or by applying the filter, which may vary with time, to the gradient of the cost function (403). The source wavelet's amplitude spectrum (before filtering) should satisfy D(f)=fIp(f)W(f), where f is frequency, D(f) is the average amplitude spectrum of the seismic data, and Ip(f) is the average amplitude spectrum for P-impedance in the subsurface region (306,402) or an approximation thereof.
US08892411B2	Information processor, power generation determining method, and program An estimated value or a predicted value of an output of photovoltaic generation is easily and properly determined. A learning processor constructs an output calculating model based on a measured value of an output of photovoltaic generation, sunshine hours, and a solar altitude in a learning period. The output calculating model calculates the output of the photovoltaic generation based on the sunshine hours and the solar altitude. An output calculator calculates an estimated value of the output of the photovoltaic generation in an estimation period and a predicted value of the output of the photovoltaic generation in a prediction period based on a measured value of the sunshine hours in the estimation period and the solar altitude or a predicted value of the sunshine hours in the prediction period and the solar altitude. Additionally, the features may be applied to a photovoltaic power system.
US08892405B1	System and method for transferring analysis properties between geometry models A system enables a transfer of analysis properties between geometry models and includes a memory for storing analysis properties of a first model that includes a plurality of components, each component assigned to one or more of the analysis properties and each component assigned to one or more voxels in a coordinate system based on component location. The system includes a processor programmed to receive data corresponding to a second model comprising a plurality of components, access analysis properties of the first model, apply the coordinate system to the second model, using the coordinate system and analysis properties assigned to each voxel in the coordinate system, map the plurality of components of the second model to one or more voxels in the coordinate system, and assign analysis properties of the first model to components of the second model based on voxel mapping to the components of the second model.
US08892404B2	Methods and systems for consistent concurrent operation of a plurality of computer-aided design applications Computer-aided design (CAD) concurrent design management includes a common data model, comprising chapters of different information items to describe various aspects of the CAD model, and lightweight change instructions representative of modifications made by a user to a chapter of the CAD model. By utilizing a common data model and difference-based change instructions, a plurality of users may concurrently collaborate on the design of a CAD model, or a single user may utilize a plurality of applications of a CAD suite efficiently and with an enhanced user experience. Furthermore, the system may manage undo stacks across a plurality of applications concurrently operating on the same shared CAD model, such that the user experiences seamless operation of the plurality of applications.
US08892396B2	Apparatus and method for determining a distance measure on wound-up materials A distance measure between a beginning and an end of a material strip wound onto a body in a tangential direction can be determined by creating a height profile of a surface of the material strip, which covers the beginning and the end of the wound material strip in the tangential direction. If a position value of the beginning of the material strip is determined in the created height profile, the distance measure can be determined using this position value and the height profile covering the end of the material strip.
US08892391B2	Activity detection Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining a presumed activity associated with a mobile device. A plurality of sensor values detected by one or more sensors onboard the mobile device is received over a period of time. A plurality of derived values is calculated from the plurality of sensor values. The derived values are selectively combined to generate one or more abstract values. A presumed activity is identified from a plurality of possible activities based on a level of similarity between the one or more abstract values and expected values of each of the plurality of possible activities that correspond to the one or more abstract values.
US08892390B2	Determining motion states Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining a motion state of a mobile device. Accelerometer data is received from accelerometer sensors onboard the mobile device, wherein the accelerometer data represents acceleration of the mobile device in three-dimensional space. An accelerometer signal vector representing at least a force due to gravity on the mobile device is determined. Two-dimensional accelerometer data orthogonal to the accelerometer signal vector is calculated. A motion state of the mobile device is determined based on the two-dimensional accelerometer data.
US08892385B2	System and method for use with an accelerometer to determine a frame of reference A system and method for use with a device that includes an accelerometer, which can be used to determine a frame of reference for the device relative to a moving vehicle or other equipment, and which can be subsequently used in assessing or monitoring the status of the vehicle or an operator thereof. In accordance with an embodiment, by sampling accelerometer data over a period of time, the system can determine a rotation matrix or skew between the device/accelerometer's orientation and understanding of direction, and the vehicle's true orientation or direction in three-dimensions. The information can be used to provide corrections to the accelerometer data, and to more accurately determine the vehicle's true orientation/direction and motion within a three-dimensional frame of reference.
US08892384B2	Systems and methods for providing temperature compensation in structural health monitoring A method for compensating for environment induced variations in structural health monitoring data is described. The method includes imparting a vibration onto a structure first location, the structure at a first temperature, receiving a comparison signal resulting from the vibration at a second location, accessing data representing a reference signal previously received at the second location, based on vibration at the first location, the reference signal received when the structure was at a second temperature, dividing the signals across multiple time windows, performing a cross correlation between the signals in each window to maximally correlate the signals within each window, performing a weighted regression on time to estimate time shift, the weights based on reference signal energy in each window, to determine a relationship between time and time shift, and using the relationship between time and time shift of the comparison signal to reduce the effects of environment on the comparison signal.
US08892383B2	Calibration device In a calibration device, a calibration matrix calculation processing part estimates a calibration matrix by using an orthogonal vector stored in an orthogonal vector storage part and an array mode vector stored in an array mode vector storage part. A calibration matrix output part transmits the calibration matrix computed by the calibration matrix calculation processing part to an unknown parameter estimation device.
US08892382B2	Systems and methods for condition-based power plant sensor calibration Embodiments of the invention can provide systems and methods for condition-based power plant sensor calibration. According to one embodiment of the invention, a system can be provided. The system can include a computer processor. The system can also include a memory operable to store computer-executable instructions operable to: receive data from the one or more power plant sensors; reconcile detected errors within the data from the one or more power plant sensors; calibrate the one or more power plant sensors based at least in part on the detected errors within the data; generate at least one performance model based at least in part on the reconciled data from the one or more power plant sensors; detect anomalies within the at least one performance model; and tune the at least one performance model to account for the anomalies.
US08892376B2	Data processing device, data processing method, and program A data processing device includes: a data obtaining section obtaining time series data on a total value of current consumed by a plurality of electric apparatuses; and a parameter estimating section obtaining a model parameter when states of operation of the plurality of electric apparatuses are modeled by a factorial HMM on a basis of the obtained time series data.
US08892374B2	Identifying electrical sources of acoustic noise Systems and methods of identifying electrical sources of audible acoustic noise may involve identifying first frequency content of a circuit board, wherein the first frequency content is associated with at least one of acoustic noise and a vibration of the circuit board. Second frequency content of an electrical signal associated with the circuit board may also be identified. In addition, a coherence between the first frequency content and the second frequency content may be determined.
US08892372B2	Estimating fluid levels in a progressing cavity pump system A method and apparatus for operating a pumping system includes the following: determining a motor operating parameter of a motor configured to drive a pump in a well; determining a pump operating parameter of the pump based on the motor operating parameter; operating the pump in a first mode to determine pump characteristics at a desired fluid level; generating first mode output data based on operation of the pump in the first mode; operating the pump in a second mode based on the first mode output data; determining an estimated fluid level in the well based on the motor operating parameter, the pump operating parameter and the first mode output data; and adjusting the pump speed based on the estimated fluid level in order to maintain a desired fluid level.
US08892371B2	Wet gas measurement A first apparent property of a multi-phase process fluid is determined based on the motion of the vibratable flowtube. One or more apparent intermediate values associated with the process fluid are determined based on the first apparent property. One or more corrected intermediate values are determined based on a mapping between the apparent intermediate values and the corrected intermediate values. One or more phase-specific properties of the multi-phase process fluid are determined based on the corrected intermediate values. A measure of wetness of the multi-phase process fluid is determined based on the one or more phase-specific properties that are determined based on the corrected intermediate values. A second apparent property of the multi-phase process fluid is determined using the differential pressure flowmeter. A phase-specific property of a phase of the multi-phase process fluid is determined based on the measure of wetness and the second apparent property.
US08892366B2	Method of measuring torque and torque measuring system for said method A method of measuring torque acting on a drive shaft (13) and a torque measurement system for implementing said method. Vibration sensors (18, 20) are attached to each of said main gearbox (11) and said tail gearbox (15) in order to detect gear mesh vibrations resulting from interaction of said drive shaft (13) with said main gear (12) and said tail gear (16), said detected gear mesh vibrations being transferred to an evaluation unit (19) for analysis.
US08892362B2	System and method for improving surface electromagnetic surveys A technique provides a methodology for improving surveys of subterranean regions. The methodology comprises estimating macro anisotropy and an intrinsic or micro anisotropy of an overburden. A surface electromagnetic survey is conducted, and the data from the survey is inverted based on or including information gained from estimating the macro anisotropy and/or intrinsic anisotropy. A processor system can be used to conduct the inversion with the adjustments for anisotropy to improve the information provided by the survey.
US08892361B2	Route calculation apparatus An information center calculates, from a specific departure point to a specific destination, (i) an optimal route for an in-vehicle terminal when a request terminal of a route search request is the in-vehicle terminal and (ii) an optimal route for a mobile terminal when the request terminal of the route search request is the mobile terminal, respectively. The calculated optimal route for the in-vehicle terminal is different from the calculated optimal route for the mobile terminal.
US08892359B2	Systems and methods for estimating time of arrival for vehicle navigation Systems and methods for estimating time of arrival for vehicle navigation are described. One embodiment of a method includes determining a route for a vehicle to reach a destination from a current location determining, by the computing device, an estimated time for reaching the destination from the current location. Embodiments of the method additionally include determining, by the computing device, a current range of the vehicle, based on current fuel level and vehicle fuel efficiency and determining, by the computing device and based on the current range, whether the vehicle can reach the destination without refueling. Some embodiments include revising, by the computing device, the estimated time for reaching the destination to include a waypoint to refuel in response to determining that the vehicle cannot reach the destination without refueling and providing, by the computing device, the estimated time for reaching the destination for display to a user.
US08892358B2	System and method for distortion correction in three-dimensional environment visualization A method for graphics in a three-dimensional virtual environment corresponding to a physical environment around a vehicle includes photographs in a plurality of directions extending outward from the vehicle, generating sensor data corresponding to a relative distance from the vehicle and a direction from the vehicle of an object in the physical environment, generating a default three-dimensional projection surface centered around a virtual representation of the vehicle in a virtual environment, deforming the three-dimensional projection surface at relative locations and distances corresponding to the sensor data, projecting the plurality of photographs onto the deformed three-dimensional projection surface, and displaying graphics corresponding to the deformed three-dimensional projection surface with the plurality of projected photographs with a display device.
US08892355B2	Navigation system with point of interest validation mechanism and method of operation thereof A method of operation of a navigation system includes: selecting a search keyword; marking a point of interest as closed with the search keyword; and generating a notification with the point of interest marked as closed for displaying on a device.
US08892351B2	System and method for obtaining, in a vehicle, information concerning points of interest To obtain point of interest information in a vicinity of a vehicle, the vehicle selects a reference point away from the current location of the vehicle. A region is formed, including the current location of the vehicle, based on the reference point. Points of interest falling within the region are communicated to the vehicle.
US08892350B2	Journey learning system A system and method for estimating journey destinations is disclosed. The system comprises a conversion module, a frequency module, a metric module, a quality module and a summary module. The conversion module converts a set of driver history data to a set of learning parameters. The frequency module analyzes the set of learning parameters and current journey data to generate estimated journey data describing one or more potential journeys. The metric module analyzes the estimated journey data and the set of current status data to determine one or more metrics associated with the estimated journey data. The quality module determines one or more quality scores associated with the estimated journey data. The summary module determines one or more status summaries and one or more estimate summaries. The summary module associates the one or more status summaries and the one or more estimate summaries with the estimated journey data.
US08892349B2	Aviation advisory In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, in a computer-based airspace monitoring system, airspace information from a plurality of different sources via a plurality of different communication networks, receiving, in the computer-based airspace monitoring system, a first flightpath parameter from a first aircraft at a first point in time, wherein the first flightpath parameter comprises at least one of a three-dimensional position parameter, a flight trajectory parameter, or a speed parameter, establishing, in the computer-based airspace monitoring system, a first defined airspace in a region proximate the first aircraft, processing, in the computer-based airspace monitoring system, the airspace information for the first defined airspace based on the first position parameter received from the first aircraft to define a first data set of airspace information relevant to the first aircraft, and transmitting the first dataset of airspace information from the computer-based airspace monitoring system to the first aircraft.
US08892347B1	System and method for node adaptive filtering and congestion control for safety and mobility applications toward automated vehicles system In one example, we describe a method and infrastructure for DSRC V2X (vehicle to infrastructure plus vehicle) system. This can cover a communication circle up to 800 m, and in some cases 1000 m, and as a result, in congested traffic areas, the onboard unit is communicating with high number of units and may end up saturating its processing capability very quickly. In one example, the task is to provide different levels of node filtering algorithms to intelligently select the node data to be processed. This results in optimally using the available processing power by only processing the data of the desired nodes. This method is based on combination of range, velocity, heading, direction, transmitted power, received power threshold, and map database, if available. This also reduces the V2X communication congestion problem resulted in high number of one-to-many nodes communication.
US08892345B2	Trend based predictive traffic A method for predicting traffic wherein the method is a trend based extrapolation method that uses real time traffic data and historic traffic data to generate a predictive traffic product. The predictive traffic product provides expected traffic speeds for the short term future, for example, between two to twelve hours into the future.
US08892335B2	Method for controlling a corona ignition device The invention relates to a method for controlling a corona ignition device which, in a cyclically operating combustion engine, ignites a fuel-air mixture by means of a corona discharge originating from an ignition electrode in that by means of a primary voltage applied to a primary side of a DC/AC converter, an electrical oscillator circuit is excited, which oscillator circuit is connected to the ignition electrode, wherein the impedance on the primary side of the DC/AC converter is successively measured. According to the invention it is provided that by evaluating the impedance measurements, a time of the start of a corona discharge is determined, this time is compared with a target value, and the activation of the primary side of the DC/Ac converter is changed depending on a result of this comparison.
US08892334B2	Control apparatus for internal combustion engine An intake air quantity information determining arrangement senses or computes one of an intake air quantity and a torque of an internal combustion engine as intake air quantity information. A misfire-avoidance control arrangement executes a misfire-avoidance control operation, which avoids misfire by controlling a throttle opening degree of a throttle valve such that a value of the intake air quantity information does not decrease below a normal combustion threshold value.
US08892333B2	Vehicle rank distinction device for vehicle and travel sound generator device A signal processing circuit inputs a signal from a rotation speed sensor for detecting a rotation speed of the engine. The signal processing circuit further inputs at least one of a noise signal, which is from a noise detection unit for detecting a noise caused by combustion in an engine equipped to a vehicle, a control signal, which is for controlling a fuel injection valve and/or an igniter of the engine, and a combustion state signal, which is from a combustion state sensor for detecting a combustion state of the engine. A distinction circuit distinguishes a vehicle rank of the vehicle equipped with the engine, according to the rotation speed and the at least one of the noise signal, the control signal, and the combustion state signal.
US08892331B2	Drive assist system and wireless communication device for vehicle A drive assist system includes: wireless communication devices on first and second vehicles. The wireless communication device on the first vehicle includes: a distance calculation device for calculating a satellite positioning distance between the first and second vehicles; and a difference calculation device for calculating a distance difference between the satellite positioning distance and a distance to the second vehicle obtained by a ranging sensor in the first vehicle. The wireless communication device of the second vehicle includes: a distance calculation device for calculating a satellite positioning distance between the second vehicle and a third vehicle; and an inter-vehicle distance determination device for estimating an inter-vehicle distance between the second and third vehicles based on the distance difference and the satellite positioning distance calculated by the distance calculation device of the second vehicle, assuming the inter-vehicle distance is not detected by a ranging sensor in the second vehicle.
US08892330B2	Hybrid vehicle with cylinder deactivation A variety of methods and arrangements for operating an internal combustion engine and one or more motor/generators in a hybrid vehicle are described. Generally, the engine is operated in a variable displacement or skip fire mode. Depending on the state of charge of an energy storage device and/or other factors, the engine is operated to generate more or less than a desired level of torque. The one or more motor/generators are used to add or subtract torque so that the motor/generator(s) and the engine collectively deliver the desired level of torque. In some embodiments, the engine may be run with a substantially open throttle to reduce pumping losses and improve fuel efficiency.
US08892328B2	Electric parking brake control device An EPB-ECU is an electric parking brake control device which generates a braking force by driving an electric motor to press pads and to a disc rotor. The EPB-ECU includes a current supply unit for supplying a motor current to the electric motor and stopping the supply of the motor current when the motor current reaches a predetermined target current value, a supply time measurement unit for measuring a supply time of the motor current, a waiting time setting unit for setting a waiting time from when the supply of the motor current is stopped to when the supply of the motor current is restarted next time on the basis of the measured motor current supply time, and a control unit for instructing the current supply unit to supply the motor current according to the set waiting time.
US08892322B2	Clutch parameters A method of determining clutch parameters at the initial start of operation of a friction clutch in a motor vehicle comprising the steps of: in a first phase, moving the clutch from an open state into a closed state and into an open state again at a predetermined constant slip of the clutch and determining and storing the position of the clutch during the movement when predetermined clutch torque thresholds are reached; in a second phase, in a first step, determining a touch point, a position hysteresis, and a torque hysteresis from the determined positions; determining a preliminary friction coefficient; determining preliminary form factors; determining a final friction coefficient; and determining final form factors.
US08892321B2	Clutch controlling apparatus A clutch controlling apparatus includes a shift change transmission having a plurality of gear trains between a main shaft on an input side and a countershaft on an output side. A clutch controls transmission of power between the shift change transmission and an engine between engagement an disengagement. The clutch controlling apparatus automatically controls the clutch upon shift change of the shift change transmission. An input power ratio is calculated as a ratio between a rotation of the engine and a rotation of the countershaft. If the input/output power ratio exceeds a predetermined value in a direction of a rise of the rotation of the engine during shift change of the shift change transmission, a target control amount of the clutch is corrected in a clutch engagement direction.
US08892319B2	Power transmitting apparatus A power transmission apparatus is provided with a control device for starting each of first shift control, which is control associated with shifting of a stepless transmission unit, and second shift control, which is control associated with shifting of a stepped transmission unit, such that shift end timing of the stepless transmission unit is synchronized with shift end timing of the stepped transmission unit, in a condition that shift requests for the stepless transmission unit and the stepped transmission unit are detected in the same timing. According to the power transmitting apparatus, each of the first shift control and the second shift control is started such that the shift end timing of the stepless transmission unit is synchronized with the shift end timing of the stepped transmission unit.
US08892317B2	Method and apparatus for managing speeds in a multi-mode transmission A multi-mode powertrain system includes a transmission configured to transfer torque among an internal combustion engine, torque machines and an output member. A method for controlling the powertrain system includes determining a desired acceleration profile for the internal combustion engine, determining a constrained acceleration profile by imposing prioritized constraints on the desired acceleration profile, integrating the constrained acceleration profile to determine a preferred speed profile, determining a preferred acceleration profile including a derivative of the preferred speed profile constrained by minimum and maximum hard acceleration constraints, and controlling operation of the internal combustion engine in response to the preferred acceleration profile and the preferred speed profile.
US08892316B2	Control system for vehicle A demand driving force parameter indicative of a demand driving force of the engine is set based on the accelerator pedal operation amount, and a target value of an engine driving force control amount is set based on the demand driving force parameter. The engine driving force control amount is controlled so as to coincide with the target value. A target rotational speed of the engine is set based on the demand driving force parameter, and the continuously variable transmission is controlled so that the rotational speed of the engine coincides with the target rotational speed. One of a first operation mode and a second operation mode is selectable, wherein the fuel consumption rate in the second operation mode is less than the fuel consumption rate in the first operation mode. When the second operation mode is selected, the demand driving force parameter corresponding to the accelerator pedal operation amount is set to a value which is smaller than a value of the demand driving force parameter in the first operation mode, and the target value is calculated based on a first predetermined characteristic preliminarily set according to the engine rotational speed and the demand driving force parameter. The first predetermined characteristic is set so that the target value corresponding to the same engine rotational speed is substantially constant in a first predetermined range of the demand driving force parameter.
US08892314B2	Rejection of under-hood airflow A system for controlling airflow through an under-hood compartment of a vehicle includes a first grille opening and a second grille opening each disposed at an entrance to the under-hood compartment. The first and second grille openings are configured to admit a first portion of the airflow and a second portion of the airflow, respectively, to the under-hood compartment from the ambient. The system also includes a selectable position shutter assembly disposed at the second grille opening and configured to control the second portion of the airflow admitted to the under-hood compartment. The system additionally includes a vent opening at least partially defined by the body and configured to exhaust at least a fraction of the first portion of the airflow from the under-hood compartment to the ambient. A vehicle employing the system and housing an internal combustion engine and a heat exchanger in the under-hood compartment is also disclosed.
US08892310B1	System and method to detect execution of driving maneuvers This disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting execution of driving maneuvers based on pre-determined driving maneuver profiles. Some or all of the system may be installed in a vehicle and/or be otherwise coupled with a vehicle. In some implementations, the system may detect execution of driving maneuvers by the vehicle based on pre-determined driving maneuver profiles. The system may include one or more sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicle. In some implementations, the system may detect execution of the driving maneuvers by the vehicle based on a comparison of the information conveyed by the output signals from the sensors to criteria included in the pre-determined driving maneuver profiles.
US08892307B2	Vehicle axle control method, device and system A control method is provided for a vehicle, especially a utility vehicle trailer, that has at least one lifting axle that can be lowered and raised in a controllable manner and/or at least one steered axle that can be locked and unlocked in a controllable manner, and that also has a control device operable to control the lifting axle and/or the steered axle. When the vehicle is traveling in reverse, the control device automatically generates a control signal that lowers the lifting axle, and/or automatically generates a control signal that unlocks the steered axle. The control device can be embodied as an electronic control unit having a processor suitably programmed to carry out the foregoing process steps. The control device can be incorporated into a vehicle control system for a vehicle having an anti-lock braking system or an electronically controlled braking system.
US08892298B2	Method of detecting wear of a tyre A method for detecting a wear condition of a tire utilizes tread pattern elements included on the tire. The elements are adapted to generate first and second acoustic footprint noises (BEA1, BEA2), with one of the first and second acoustic footprint noises being characteristic of the wear condition of the tire. According to the method, a parent frequency spectrum, which is capable of forming a frequency spectrum of one of the first and second acoustic footprint noises, and a child frequency spectrum, which is capable of forming a frequency spectrum of the other of the first and second acoustic footprint noises, are selected from a frequency spectrum of an acoustic signal acquired from the tire. Two detection confidence indices are determined. If each detection confidence index meets a predetermined condition, a warning is emitted indicating that tire wear has been detected.
US08892295B2	Control and monitoring system and method A monitoring system and a monitoring method applied to the monitoring system, in which the monitoring system includes detectors detecting a state of a turbojet thrust reverser, a monitoring computer device controlling the reverser monitored by the computer as a function of information from the detectors provided to the computer by way of the control device, and a device regulating the turbojet monitored by the computer as a function of the information from the detectors provided to the computer by way of the control device.
US08892290B2	Methods and systems for providing uniform driveline braking Systems and methods for improving operation of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, negative torque of an electric machine is adjusted to mimic negative torque of an engine during engine braking so that the vehicle may transition from regenerative braking to engine braking in a seamless manner.
US08892288B2	Method and device for controlling the drive train of an electric vehicle A method for controlling an electric vehicle drivetrain having least two drive units with wheels located on opposite axles are driven by respective drive units, includes in a first operating mode, the ratio of the torques provided by the drive units in each case for a given torque requirement is set taking into account the efficiency applicable to each drive unit under the given operating conditions, and in a second operating mode, the ratio of the torques provided by the drive units in each case for a given torque requirement is set independently of the efficiency applicable to each drive unit under the given operating conditions.
US08892287B2	Hybrid vehicle control unit and control method With a hybrid vehicle driven at extremely low speeds only by power from the electric motor, when a state-of-charge of the battery becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined level or when a rotational speed required on the air conditioner compressor is less than a desired rotational speed, power from the internal combustion engine is transmitted to the output shaft by engaging the first engaging and disengaging mechanism, starting the internal combustion engine by power from the electric motor, and thereafter, engaging the first engaging and disengaging mechanism or the second engaging and disengaging mechanism between a fully applied state and a fully released state.
US08892283B2	Method and apparatus to control a multi-mode powertrain system A method for controlling a powertrain system includes determining minimum and maximum states for an object component of interest based upon a plurality of linear constraints that are associated with operating parameters for the torque machines and the multi-mode transmission. Minimum and maximum objective battery powers are determined based upon the minimum and maximum states for the object component of interest. When the minimum and maximum objective battery powers are outside the minimum and maximum battery power limits, a problem recomposition process is executed to recompose the minimum and maximum battery power limits and the linear constraints. Recomposed minimum and maximum states for the object component of interest are determined based upon the recomposed minimum and maximum battery power limits and the recomposed linear constraints. The recomposed minimum and maximum states for the object component of interest are employed to control the powertrain system.
US08892275B2	Method and device for an optimal management of the vertical trajectory of an aircraft A method and device optimize the vertical trajectory of an aircraft in flight along a predetermined approach trajectory. The method and device include the use of a calculator, which is structured to predict a predicted stabilization altitude at which the aircraft will reach a setpoint approach speed as a function of the current aircraft parameter values, a theoretical vertical trajectory, and predetermined models of aerodynamic efficiency of the aircraft. A comparator is structured to determine absolute value differences between the predicted stabilization altitude and the setpoint stabilization altitude and to compare the differences against a predetermined altitude threshold. A vertical trajectory determination unit is structured to determine an optimized vertical trajectory as a function of the current aircraft parameter values, auxiliary parameter values corresponding to a final approach axis, and the absolute value differences between the predicted stabilization altitude and the setpoint stabilization altitude.
US08892274B2	Method and a device for adapting the man-machine interface of an aircraft depending on the level of the pilot's functional state A method of adapting a man-machine interface (20) of an aircraft (50) depending on the functional level of a pilot, the method comprising a plurality of successive steps. Firstly, before starting a mission, the characteristics of said mission and the characteristics and the physiological state of said pilot are determined. Thereafter, during said mission, the state of the mission and the current state of said aircraft together with a current behavior of said pilot are determined and a current functional level of said pilot is estimated. Thereafter, said current functional level of said pilot is compared with reference functional levels, and said man-machine interface (20) is then adapted in order to assist said pilot automatically and in optimum manner in making the pilot aware of the situation, in the pilot's decision-making, or in the actions taken by the pilot depending on the pilot's stress state or work load state.
US08892271B2	Information Transmittal Techniques for Vehicles Method for transmitting information to a vehicle in which, at a location separate and apart from the vehicle, a determination is made by a processor whether a condition relating to transmission of information to the vehicle is satisfied and only when the condition is determined to be satisfied, the information is transmitted to the vehicle using a transmitter. The condition may be a weather pattern, for example, snow in which case, the information being transmitted may be road icing information.
US08892270B2	System and method for obtaining, transmitting and/or providing freight transportation information An apparatus, a system and a method obtain, transmit and/or provide transportation information. A microprocessor is configured to receive and/or transmit real time information concerning the operation of a vehicle. Real time information, such as, for example, a weight of a vehicle, an air pressure of tires, a location of the truck and the trailer, brake wear of brakes of the truck and/or the trailer, and/or engine measurements may be obtained. The real time information may be encrypted and may be transmitted to a central location using Wi-Fi communication, a cellular telephone network, radio transmission, a transponder, and/or the like. The real time information may be accessed by a terminal communicatively linked to the microprocessor and/or the central location. The signal may indicate vehicle compliance and/or non-compliance with a private commercial requirement and/or state and federal regulations.
US08892269B2	Power down and quick start of thermal sensor A thermal sensor is placed in a low power state. When the sensor is triggered to wake from the low power state, it initiates a thermal sensor scan from the sensor value measured prior to the low power state. The thermal sensor initially adjusts the measured value with a fast count by a configurable adjustment of greater than 1, and after reaching an inflection point performs normal count by adjustments of 1.
US08892268B2	Power flow measurement and management Methods and systems for measuring and/or managing power consumption by power units connected to an electricity distribution network are disclosed. Power flow to and/or from a power unit connected to an electricity distribution network is controlled in accordance with a control sequence, such that the consumption and/or provision of power by the power unit results in a power flow having a predefined flow pattern, and having a characteristic, such as an amplitude, which can be remotely measured. This measurement may be performed using a method in which a signal indicative of power flowing at a measurement node is measured and correlated with a predefined pattern, and a characteristic of the correlated signal is measured. Thus, power flow characteristics resulting from a group of one or more power flow devices can be remotely detected and measured.
US08892267B2	Real-time monitoring, controlling, and optimizing electrical generation assets based on emission level measurements A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure and includes receiving data defining a detected gas emission level of a power generation facility. The method also includes communicating the data defining the detected gas emission level to at least one subscriber device using one of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based communication and Session Initial Protocol (SIP) based communication.
US08892260B2	Mobile robot for telecommunication A system including a mobile telepresence robot, a telepresence computing device in wireless communication with the robot, and a host computing device in wireless communication with the robot and the telepresence computing device. The host computing device relays User Datagram Protocol traffic between the robot and the telepresence computing device through a firewall.
US08892258B2	Variable strength magnetic end effector for lift systems A device and method for adjusting the magnetic strength of a magnetic end effector for lift systems is described. The magnetic end effector is capable of lifting discriminate payloads by selectively varying the strength of the magnetic forces output by the magnetic end effector. An actuator can be operatively coupled to the variable strength magnet end effector, wherein the actuator is selectively actuatable to control the adjustment of the variable strength magnet. The actuator may also be configured to maintain the variable strength magnet at a desired magnetic force output strength once achieved for any given amount of time.
US08892253B2	Swarm robot and sweeping method using swarm robot A swarm robot and a sweeping method using the swarm robot are provided. The swarm robot removes a plurality of objects in a given sweeping area, and at least two swarm robots collaborate to remove the individual object. The swarm robot searches the sweeping area, detects environment information of the sweeping area, locates the swarm robot in the sweeping area, generates a local map and an object map using the environment information and the acquired position, moves to the object according to the local map and the object map, and removes the object.
US08892252B1	Motion capture tracking for nondestructive inspection A system that uses optical motion capture hardware for position and orientation tracking of non-destructive inspection (NDI) sensor units. This system can be used to track NDI sensor arrays attached to machine-actuated movement devices, as well as in applications where the NDI sensor array is hand-held. In order to achieve integration with NDI hardware, including proprietary systems commercially available, a data acquisition device and custom software are used to transmit the tracking data from the motion capture system to the NDI scanning system, without requiring modifications to the NDI scanning system.
US08892250B2	Robot and recovery method thereof Disclosed herein are a robot capable of recovering from a failure of one of a plurality of symmetrically structured modules, and a recovery method thereof. When a hardware or software failure occurs, the robot recovers by itself by replacing the failed module with another corresponding module. Accordingly, resources of the robot can be more efficiently utilized.
US08892249B2	Substance control system and method for dispensing systems A substance control dispensing system which receives containers of ingestible material for use in dispensing ingestible products individually or in combination with other ingestibles available to the system. A container is sealed at a point of origin and maintains information regarding the origin, integrity of the container since packing, or substance contained by the containers among other types of information. The system is configured to acquire the information from the container upon the container being inserted into the system, and the information may be used to prepare a display of available selections which includes a status related to the information from the container or its insertion into the system, increasing confidence toward the integrity in labeling of ingestible products to be dispensed. Other sorts of ingestible products can include but are not limited to food bars, meal replacements, snacks, full meals, plant and/or animal based products, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, smoothies, etc.
US08892248B2	Manipulator auto-teach and position correction system A substrate processing system including a housing for housing at least part of a processing device, at least one target affixed to the processing device, the processing device having a first processing device reference point in a known relationship with the at least one target, at least one transmitter located within the housing and configured to transmit an identification signal identifying the at least one transmitter to the at least one target and a controller operably connected to the at least one target and the at least one transmitter, the controller being configured to receive data signals, based on the identification signal, from one of the at least one target and the at least one transmitter and control an operational characteristic of the processing device, based on the data signals.
US08892247B2	System for determining a relative location of a plurality of items upon a plurality of platforms A system is described for determining a relative location of a plurality of items upon a plurality of platforms. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a first item, a second item, a first period of time and a second period of time. The interface may be operative to communicate with a user and an antenna. The antenna may be able to detect an item for a period of time. The processor may be operative to receive from the antenna, via the interface, the first item, the first period of time, the second item and the second period of time. The processor may determine whether the periods of time overlap. If the periods of time overlap the processor may communicate to the user that the items are upon the same platform, otherwise that the items are on consecutive platforms.
US08892246B2	Method for processing items such as pieces of meat The invention relates to a method for processing items such as pieces of meat, comprising the steps of providing a stream of items 10 by means of a primary conveyor means 4, allocating at least partly by means of a computer system 8, 20 one or more of said items 10 to one of at least two workstations 1 where said items 10 are processed, e.g. cut and/or trimmed, resulting in one or more processed items 11, registering in said computer system 8, 20 information about a return of at least one of said one or more processed items 11 to said primary conveyor means 4, and returning said at least one of said one or more processed items 11 to said primary conveyor means 4 in accordance with said information about a return.The invention further relates to a system for processing items such as pieces of meat, said system comprising the means essential to carry out the above-mentioned method.
US08892243B1	Universal system and method of handling a container A universal system and method for handling a container is disclosed. The system can include: a support structure (10) defining a bay (32), the support structure (10) including support shoes configured to support a container; a sensor (58) for determining a length of a container in the bay; and a controller (60) configured to operate the support structure (10) including a storage mode and a retrieval mode.
US08892241B2	Robot-enabled case picking A robot-enabled method of picking cases in a warehouse is provided. A robotic vehicle includes a processor configured to access a memory, a user input device, an output device, and a load platform, and has access to an electronically stored representation of a warehouse. The representation includes a map that defines aisles for storing items arranged as pick faces within the warehouse. A pick list is generated from an order; the pick list provides identifications of items to be picked to fulfill the order. Determined from the pick list is a plurality of stops at pick faces associated with the items. A route within the map is generated that includes the plurality of stops. The robotic vehicle iteratively guides itself along the route and automatically stops at each of the plurality of stops to enable loading of the items from the pick list onto the load platform.
US08892239B2	Method for slicing foodstuffs The disclosure describes a method for cutting a food product into slices for producing portions by taking into account the target weight thereof. Information about a remainder of the food product to be sliced is used to control corresponding actuators for a successive food product to be sliced.
US08892231B2	Audio classification method and system Embodiments for audio classification are described. An audio classification system includes at least one device which executes a process of audio classification on an audio signal. The at least one device can operate in at least two modes requiring different resources. The audio classification system also includes a complexity controller which determines a combination and instructs the at least one device to operate according to the combination. For each of the at least one device, the combination specifies one of the modes of the device, and the resources requirement of the combination does not exceed maximum available resources. By controlling the modes, the audio classification system has improved scalability to an execution environment.
US08892228B2	Concealing audio artifacts At least one segment is identified in an audio signal. The audio segment is associated with an artifact within the audio signal and has a time duration. At least one stored sound clip is retrieved, which has a time duration that exceeds the time duration associated with the audio segment. The retrieved sound clip is mixed with the audio signal and the retrieved sound clip audibly compensates for the audio artifact.
US08892227B2	In-vehicle device and method for controlling the same A processing unit executes at least one of a task of a radio tuner, a task of a television tuner, a task of a playback control unit for playback of stored image and sound, a task of an indication unit for indicating image according to image data, a task of a navigation unit for detecting a present position and indicating the detected position on a map, and a task of a route search unit for searching for a route and indicating the searched route on the map, in accordance with a predetermined priority. When execution of multiple tasks by the processing unit exceeds processing performance of the processing unit, a processing suspension unit suspends a task, which satisfies a predetermined condition, among the multiple tasks currently executed by the processing unit, irrespective of a priority of the task.
US08892226B2	Audio repair methods and apparatus An audio recording may be repaired by implementing a processor to process the harmonic signal content of the audio recording; calculating a difference signal from the harmonic signal content by subtracting a predicted harmonic signal from a detected harmonic signal, the predicted harmonic signal being obtainable by a predictor means and the detected harmonic signal being detected by the processor; defining a threshold for the difference signal above which the difference signal indicates the occurrence of one or more acoustic excitation events; and thereby producing an events display which allows an operator to visually distinguish between indicated excitation events that are present as a result of a disturbance in the audio recording and indicated excitation events that are present as a result of natural harmonics in the audio recording; and repairing one or more of the displayed excitation events by a repair circuit which is in communication with the processor.
US08892221B2	Integrated resource monitoring system with interactive logic control for well water extraction A system for resource usage optimization employs an automatically controlled sensor suite providing data to a computer system for the analysis of spatial relationships of the sensors and resources. A control module incorporates an interactive logic, in an exemplary embodiment of well-stream coupled dynamic or game theory engines, operating in conjunction with the spatial data processing algorithms, GIS in an exemplary embodiment, receives as an input an objective function set for the use of the resource and constraint sets which are then monitored by the sensor suite. Incoming data is compared to the constraint sets and upon impact to any of the elements of the objective function set, creates a report/alarm for action or to trigger a corrective action.
US08892216B2	Lead anchor and related methods of use A lead anchor includes a core housing defining a cavity; a swivel anchor disposed in the cavity and having a tubular portion and a locking portion; at least two locking members; and at least two sleeves with a portion of each of the sleeves and each of the locking members disposed within the cavity at a periphery of the cavity. The tubular portion is adapted to receive an external tool to rotate the swivel anchor within the cavity. The lead anchor has an unlocked configuration, in which the swivel anchor can rotate within the cavity of the core housing without compressing the sleeves, and a locked configuration, in which opposing ends of the locking portion of the swivel anchor each lie between one of the sleeves and one of the locking members and compress the sleeves and any lead disposed within the sleeves to hold that lead in place.
US08892214B2	Multi-electrode peripheral nerve evaluation lead and related system and method of use An implantable electrical lead for applying stimulation energy to bodily tissue, such as a patient's nervous system, from an external power source. The lead is defined by a distal section, an intermediate section and a proximal section, and includes a lead body, a plurality of insulated wires, and a plurality of connector elements. The lead body includes a plurality of electrodes and an anchoring device. The insulated wires are electrically coupled to the electrodes, respectively. A wire intermediate segment extends proximal the lead body and is characterized as having a non-coiled configuration, terminating at a respective connector element for coupling to an external power source. The wire intermediate segments are extendible through a patient's skin and are sealable relative to the skin. The lead is adapted for providing temporary electrical stimulation to a sacral nerve in a bipolar mode, with the anchoring device inhibiting electrode migration.
US08892211B2	System and method for selective retinal stimulation A method for electrically stimulating a retina of an eye to induce visual perception includes placing an electrode adjacent a retinal ganglion cell (RGC) layer and selectively applying a biphasic asymmetrical waveform (BAW) to a portion of the axon. The BAW includes a pre-pulse phase and a stimulation-pulse phase. The pre-pulse phase has a first polarity, a first amplitude, and a first duration. The first amplitude and the first duration together define a pre-pulse charge having a first magnitude. The stimulation-pulse phase has a second polarity opposite the first polarity, a second amplitude, and a second duration less than the first duration. The second amplitude and the second duration together define a stimulation charge having a second magnitude. Application of the pre-pulse phase and the stimulation-pulse phase effects a change in excitability of the at least one ganglion cell and induces visual perception, respectively.
US08892209B2	Selective high frequency spinal cord modulation for inhibiting pain with reduced side effects, and associated systems and methods Selective high-frequency spinal cord modulation for inhibiting pain with reduced side effects and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In particular embodiments, high-frequency modulation in the range of from about 1.5 KHz to about 50 KHz may be applied to the patient's spinal cord region to address low back pain without creating unwanted sensory and/or motor side effects. In other embodiments, modulation in accordance with similar parameters can be applied to other spinal or peripheral locations to address other indications.
US08892200B2	Systems and methods for stimulating tissue using focused energy The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for stimulating tissue using focused energy. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for stimulating tissue that includes a first energy source, a second energy source, and a focusing element that focuses at least the first or second energy source so that the first and second energy sources target the same region of tissue such that the combined effect stimulates the tissue.
US08892199B2	Chemical compound delivery device and method Devices and methods for delivering a chemical compound to, through or into a membrane, tissue or layer are provided. The device may include an AC signal source and at least one electrode. In one application, an interdigitated electrode may be electrically connected to the AC signal source. In one application, the chemical compound such as a medicament containing a drug may be disposed on or within the electrode and logic may control the AC signal source to provide the signal, including setting or selecting characteristics such as voltage, frequency and the like to orient and/or motivate an amount of the chemical compound through the electrode and into the tissue.
US08892198B2	Devices and methods for evaluating tissue Embodiments of devices and methods for evaluating tissue are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for measuring a characteristic of a tissue may include passing a current through the tissue, measuring a signal corresponding to the voltage resulting from passing the current through the tissue, analyzing current passed through the tissue and resulting voltage to determine the electrical characteristics of the tissue; and analyzing the electrical characteristics of the tissue to determine a status of the tissue.
US08892197B2	Method and apparatus to control conduction through the heart to treat cardiac conditions Control of conduction through a heart is described. A lead with a proximal end and a distal end is provided. The distal end of the lead is inserted into a target area. An agent is delivered through the lead to the target area. Delivery of the agent is monitored via a closed loop feedback system.
US08892194B2	Method and system to measure ECG and respiration A method for monitoring the respiration rate of a patient includes attaching a plurality of electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes and a pressure sensor to a patient, producing a first respiration signal based on variations detected in signals provided by the ECG electrodes attached to the patient, and producing a second respiration signal based on pressure variations detected in the pressure sensor secured to the patient. The method also includes selecting at least one of the first respiration signal and the second respiration signal based on respective signal qualities and producing a respiration rate from the selected signal. The method also includes providing indicia of the respiration rate. The method may also include displaying ECG signals with the indicia of the respiration rate.
US08892192B2	Efficient modulated imaging An apparatus for turbid sample measurement comprising a plurality of light sources for illuminating a turbid sample target area with non-spatial structured light, a projection system for illuminating the turbid sample target area with spatial structured light, a sensor for collecting light from the turbid sample target area, and a processor to analyze the data captured by the sensor to yield scattering and absorption coefficients of the turbid sample. A method comprises illuminating the sample with spatial structured light, collecting light reflected from the sample at a number of wavelengths, illuminating the sample with non-spatial structured light, collecting light reflected from the sample at a number of wavelengths, and combining the measurements of the collected light to obtain the optical properties of the sample and/or the concentration of absorbing or fluorescent molecules. The wavelengths of the spatial and non-spatial light sources are preferably different.
US08892188B2	Identifying abnormal tissue in images of computed tomography An imaging method for identifying abnormal tissue in the lung is provided, comprising the recording of slice images of the lung by means of X-ray radiation, recording of blood vessels, differentiation of blood vessels and abnormal tissue, segmentation of the abnormal tissue and display of the segmented abnormal tissue on an output device. In addition, a computer tomograph for identifying abnormal tissue in the lung is provided, having a radiation source for recording slice images of the lung and blood vessels by means of X-ray radiation, a computer unit for differentiating the blood vessels from the abnormal tissue and for segmenting the abnormal tissue, as well as an output device for displaying the segmented abnormal tissue. Furthermore, a computer program is provided for controlling a computer tomograph for an identification of abnormal tissue in the lung by means of a radiation source, designed to record slice images of the lung and blood vessels by means of X-ray radiation, to differentiate the blood vessels from abnormal tissue, to segment the abnormal tissue and to control an output device for displaying the abnormal tissue.
US08892183B2	Method for planning a combined examination of an examination object A method for planning a combined examination of an examination object using two imaging modalities is disclosed, with measurements being taken in at least two regions of the examination object. In at least one embodiment, the method includes planning of at least one measuring protocol of the first modality, which includes at least one measurement in a first of the regions and at least one measurement in a second of the regions; planning of at least one measuring protocol of the second modality, which comprises at least one measurement in the first region; and automatic production of a combined measuring sequence by arranging the measurements in such a manner that carrying out the measuring sequence taking into account modality preparations to be carried out between measurements takes as little time as possible.In at least one embodiment, the automated production of the actual measuring sequence allows the measuring protocols of the individual modalities to be planned in a simple manner for a number of regions. The focus can therefore be on diagnostic questions at the measurement planning stage.
US08892177B2	Mobile communication device with low power signal detector Various embodiments of the present disclosure include a communication device having first circuitry and second circuitry. The first circuitry is capable of operating in a plurality of modes. The second circuitry is capable of determining whether to transition operation of the first circuitry from a sleep mode to a non-sleep mode based at least in part on whether a non-informational characteristic of a received communication signal matches a non-informational characteristic of a particular one of a plurality of communication protocols.
US08892173B2	Mobile electronic device and sound control system According to an aspect, a mobile electronic device includes: a sound production unit for producing a sound based on a sound signal; an input unit for receiving input; a processing unit configured to cause the sound production unit to produce a sound, and set, when a response to the produced sound is received by the input unit, a compensation parameter for adjusting sound volume for each audio frequency based on the response; and a compensation unit configured to compensate a sound signal based on the compensation parameter, and supply the compensated sound signal to the sound production unit.
US08892172B2	Method of enabling a remote communications device with a telematics functionality module Method of enabling a remote communications device (106) with a telematics functionality module (150) can include providing a docking apparatus (114) coupled to interface with a vehicle (109). The remote communications device is communicatively coupled to the docking apparatus, wherein the remote communications device is non-enabled with a telematics functionality module (150). The docking apparatus and the remote communications device enable the remote communications device with the telematics functionality module.
US08892170B2	Unlock screen Unlock screen and notification techniques are described. In an implementation, an unlock screen is displayed by a mobile communications device that indicates that the mobile communications device is locked. If an input is detected to remove the lock by dragging across a Y-axis of the display device, an animation is displayed that gives an appearance that the unlock screen is being removed and the lock on the mobile communications device is removed.
US08892169B2	Mobile terminal, display control method thereof, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing display control program A mobile terminal according to an exemplary embodiment includes a display unit that displays predetermined information, a display control unit that controls the display unit, an input unit that allows input of predetermined information, and a setting unit that sets the display unit to a first low brightness display state, in which the first low brightness display state displays the display unit with low brightness. When the setting unit sets a display state of the display unit to the first low brightness display state, the display control unit controls the display unit to display only predetermined information that should be displayed while controlling the display unit to display a background screen of the display unit with lowest brightness or brightness near the lowest brightness, which is first low brightness, at the time of displaying the predetermined information on the display unit.
US08892165B2	Device and a method for enhancing user experience in mobile communications A method of operating a mobile data processing apparatus comprises executing one or more programs which make use of mobile data access; a wireless interface communicating with a mobile data network, the wireless interface and the mobile data network cooperating to provide wireless data services to the one or more programs; in respect of a first predetermined set of data services, providing data to the wireless interface from a non-removable, identification module so as to identify the mobile data processing apparatus to the mobile data network according to a first mobile identity; and in respect of other data services, providing data to the wireless interface from a user-removable, identification module so as to identify the mobile data processing apparatus to the mobile data network according to a separate mobile identity, different to the first mobile identity.
US08892163B2	Image sensor having a pulsed mode of operation An image sensor includes a pixel array having a plurality of pixels. A readout circuit is coupled to the pixel array. A controller circuit is coupled to control the pixel array and is coupled to the readout circuit to receive array data from the pixel array. The controller circuit includes a mode control logic unit providing logic which when executed causes the image sensor operate in an idle mode of operation and then sample in response to receiving an event signal array data received from the pixel array in a pulsed mode of operation. A pattern in the array data samples over time is recognized and a mode of operation is selected in response to the recognized pattern.
US08892158B2	Semiconductor device An object is to achieve low power consumption and a long lifetime of a semiconductor device having a wireless communication function. The object can be achieved in such a manner that a battery serving as a power supply source and a specific circuit are electrically connected to each other through a transistor in which a channel formation region is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The hydrogen concentration of the oxide semiconductor is lower than or equal to 5×1019 (atoms/cm3). Therefore, leakage current of the transistor can be reduced. As a result, power consumption of the semiconductor device in a standby state can be reduced. Further, the semiconductor device can have a long lifetime.
US08892154B2	Method and device in a communication network A method of operating a base station such that the method comprises determining whether there are any mobile devices that are not associated with the base station that require protection from interference caused by downlink transmissions of the base station and setting a maximum permitted transmission power for the base station based on the result of the step of determining. A base stations operating according to this method is also disclosed.
US08892153B2	Method and apparatus for uplink power control using ranging signal in wireless communication system A method and an apparatus for uplink power control using a ranging signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting ranging channel information to a pico Base Station (BS), receiving power control information on a macro terminal from the pico BS, controlling a transmit power strength for the macro terminal based on the power control information, and instructing the macro terminal to control a transmit power to the controlled strength.
US08892150B2	Communication method of neighboring terminal and target terminal Provided is a communication method of a neighboring terminal and a target terminal in which a cooperative terminal that has a better SINR or a better channel condition provides help to a target terminal through cooperation between terminals based on a random access mode or a scheduling mode, so that an SINR of the target terminal is improved without help from a base station.
US08892149B2	Interoperability and communications system dynamic media proxy based on capability negotiation A system and methodology to facilitate communication between non-compatible communication devices by utilization of a dynamic media proxy is provided. Information associated with an endpoint, such as, media capabilities, identity and system resource information is collected. Media proxy'ing is performed as part of capability negotiation. A dynamic media proxy is employed based on an analysis of the collected information. An analysis component can identify an endpoint that does not adhere to specific rules of transmission and can dynamically connect such an endpoint to a VTG (virtual talk group) via a proxy to prevent the endpoint from transmitting media into an active VTG that already has multiple talkers streaming media. Additionally, the location where media processing can occur can be dynamically determined based on the available system resources.
US08892148B2	System and method for sharing media in a group communication among wireless communication devices A system, method, and wireless communication device for sharing media in a group communication among a plurality of wireless communications devices, such as among a Push-to-Talk (PTT) group. A wireless communication device that is a member of the communication group can send group-directed media, such as graphics, multimedia and applications, to other members of the communication group, either during a ongoing PTT communication, or independently there from. In one embodiment, a communication computer device stores information on communication groups on the wireless communication network that includes the member wireless communication devices of one or more communication groups, and receives group-directed media from a sending wireless communication device sends the group-directed media either directly to the other member wireless communication devices of the communication group or stores the group-directed media such that the other member devices can access and download the group-directed media.
US08892145B2	System and method for selective media object removal in group communications among wireless communication devices A system and method for selectively removing a media object from a group communication that includes media that may not be accessible or executable by all target members of the group. The group communication can have one or more discrete media objects that are sent from an originating wireless communication device across a wireless communication network and received at a group communication server that controls group communications between a group of member wireless communication devices and determines the media-handling capability of the target wireless communication device members of the communication group. Upon a determination that a media object sent is unable to be handled by at least one target wireless communication device, the group communication server removes the one or more media objects notifies the originating wireless communication device and/or that target wireless communication device of the removal of the media object.
US08892143B2	Communication apparatus and methods for managing a communication indication assessment procedure and a wireless communications service in communications apparatus A communication apparatus is provided. The communications apparatus includes multiple radio modules and a manager. Each of the radio modules is arranged to provide a predetermined wireless communications service in compliance with a predetermined protocol. The manager is arranged to handle a communication indication assessment procedure of the radio modules to obtain an assessment result. The communication indication assessment procedure is performed by at least one of the radio modules, and the assessment result is shared with all of the radio modules.
US08892141B2	Base stations, cellular communication systems, methods for controlling a base station, and methods for controlling a cellular communication system In various embodiments, a base station may be provided. The base station may include a first determiner configured to determine whether user data has been received from a radio communication terminal by the base station; a second determiner configured to determine whether information from which it may be determined that the user data has been received from the radio communication terminal by another base station has been received from the other base station; and a transmitter configured to transmit to the radio communication terminal information indicating whether at least one of the base station and the other base station has received the user data based on at least one of the result of the determination of the first determiner and the result of the determination of the second determiner.
US08892139B2	Systems and methods enabling a short message service gateway via cloud computing services A solution enables the exchange of SMS or other short messaging information via alternate paths than cellular operators infrastructure and allows for communications with standard devices that may not be party to the additional service.
US08892137B2	Method and apparatus for optimizing CBS service in a multiple SIM environment In a communication device having multiple subscriber identification modules (SIMs), the processing of cell broadcast service (CBS) messages is optimized. A geographic scope of an incoming CBS message is determined. If all SIMs belong to the determined geographic scope, the message is only received and processed by a single one of the SIMs.
US08892133B2	Apparatus and methods Apparatus comprising a first antenna configured to receive alignment signalling from a first transmitter over a first communication channel, the first communication channel having a first set of characteristics, and a second antenna configured to exchange data with a second transmitter over a second communication channel, the second communication channel having a second different set of characteristics. The apparatus also comprising a processor configured to process the alignment signalling received from the first antenna and determine the location of the second transmitter relative to the apparatus; and generate control signalling representative of the determined location of the second transmitter relative to the apparatus. The apparatus further comprising a user interface configured to provide a user with an indication of the relative location of the second transmitter relative to the apparatus in accordance with the control signalling to allow for the second antenna to be aligned for data exchange with the second transmitter.
US08892132B2	Analytic and tracking systems and methods using over-the-air identifiers of mobile devices Analytic and tracking systems and methods are described that use over-the-air identifiers (OTAIs) of mobile devices for tracking, dispatch, identification, etc. In particular, the analytic and tracking systems and methods can include various OTAI sensors that are communicatively coupled to a server and with one another. The OTAI sensors are configured to identify proximate mobile devices concurrent with at least one additional piece of information. The analytic and tracking systems and methods can process identified mobile devices and the additional pieces of information for a plurality of applications.
US08892118B2	Methods and apparatuses for use in providing position assistance data to mobile stations Methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented in various devices to provide position assistance data and/or the like to a mobile station with regard to at least one of a plurality of different indoor regions.
US08892117B2	GPS publication application server A GPS publicaton application server. A mobile location knowledgeable device is in communication with a server. The server provides indications of the device's location to a home page associated with the device. The home page includes information about a user of the device and methods of contacting the user at any particular time. The server is also in communication with a variety of application servers. The application servers push information to the device depending on the device location and preferences listed in the home page of the device.
US08892114B2	Power saving in a radio base station by determining number of active and idle users camping on cell Methods of operating a radio base station of a first cell in a wireless cellular network are disclosed. Each of one or more user equipment devices of the wireless cellular network has an idle mode in which the radio base station is not aware of whether the user equipment device is currently camping on the first cell, and an active mode in which the radio base station is aware of whether the user equipment device is currently camping on the first cell. By setting the radio base station in a disabled state based on various criteria, energy may be saved in the radio base station.
US08892112B2	Selection of a radio access bearer resource based on radio access bearer resource historical information The disclosed subject matter provides for selecting a radio access bearer resource based on historical data related to the radio access bearer resource. Location information can be employed to determine a radio access bearer resource. Historical information related to the radio access bearer resource can then be employed to determine the suitability of the radio access bearer resource. A set of radio access bearer resources can be ordered or ranked to allow selection of a suitable radio access bearer resource from the set. Incorporation of historical information can provide for additional metrics in the selection of a radio access bearer resource over simple contemporaneous radio access bearer resource information. In some embodiments timed fingerprint location (TFL) information can be employed to determine a location.
US08892109B2	Method and apparatus of dynamic spectrum sharing in cellular networks According to a disclosed method, an MME in a network analyzes KPIs from the cells it serves and based on the KPIs, it decides to engage in sharing. The MME then contacts a sharing entity (SE) to announce that it wants to supply spectrum for sharing. The MME obtains terms of a sharing agreement from the SE and the MME obtains the identity of the other network. In response to this information, the MME configures its base stations to support the supplying of spectrum to the other network. The SE applies knowledge of network topology and of services offered. This knowledge is obtained from a sharing database. At the expiration of the sharing agreement, the SE tells the MMEs to deactivate the sharing agreement.
US08892106B2	Cell transfer controller and method for selecting a radio cell A cell transfer controller is described comprising a detector configured to detect radio cells available for a mobile terminal; a determiner configured to determine, for a first radio cell detected by the detector, a waiting period after which the radio cell is selectable by the cell transfer controller as a target cell for a cell transfer and a controller, configured to increase the length of the waiting period in case that during the waiting period, the detector detects a second radio cell which fulfills a predetermined criterion.
US08892103B2	Methods and nodes supporting cell change The invention relates to a method for supporting cell change between frequency layers. The method is performed in a UE and/or a RN node of a wireless communication network deploying two frequency layers. The RN node serves a UE in a cell of a first of the two frequency layers. The UE is configured to perform measurements on the first frequency layer, and to exclude measurements on a second of the two frequency layers. The method comprises receiving (610) measurement results from the UE, for measurements performed on a cell of the first frequency layer, determining (620) a location of the UE based on the measurement results, assessing (630) a coverage of a target cell of the second frequency layer based on the location and a coverage map for the two frequency layers, and determining (640) whether to change to the target cell based on the assessment.
US08892101B2	Radio problem detection assisted rescue handover Rescue handovers of user equipment, for example, may be accomplished by a method that includes detecting that a downlink radio link cannot be reliably received. The method can also include initiating sending a report that the downlink radio link cannot be reliably received when the detecting indicates that the downlink radio link cannot be reliably received. The method can further include initiating performing a handover upon obtaining handover instructions responsive to the report.
US08892097B2	Method for optimized high priority PLMN search and normal service scan in limited service Methods and apparatus are provided for selecting a serving cell in a communication network for reducing power consumption in a UE, is provided. Network topology information is determined by obtaining cell rank information for the UE, extracting a mobility state of the UE, and applying a double moving average principle to the cell rank information of the UE. The network topology information is employed to determine a change in network topology. Radio Frequency (RF) scans are optimized based on the network topology.
US08892093B1	Wireless communication system for increasing the rescan timer in a wireless communication device Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for operating a home wireless communication network to facilitate increasing the rescan timer for a wireless communication device. In a particular embodiment, a method comprises determining a location of a wireless communication device that is roaming on a visited wireless network. The method further includes determining a communication load in a portion of the home wireless network that is proximate to the location of the roaming wireless communication device and processing the communication load to determine if a home network rescan timer in the wireless communication device should be increased. If the home network rescan timer in the wireless communication device should be increased, the method further comprises transferring a first message for delivery to the wireless communication device indicating an increase to the home network rescan timer.
US08892090B2	System for providing voice communication A system and method for providing voice communication to an occupant of a vehicle through a mobile device. The system communicates with a mobile device with an occupant of the vehicle, for example using a telematics controller or network access device. The system receives an identification from the mobile device and transmits a request, as well as, the identification to a service provider. The service provider then initiates a communication to the mobile device based on the request and identification.
US08892089B2	Communications system, base station apparatus, and communication method In a communication system, an upper-level carrier has communication functions for both first and second sessions. A first communication unit communicates with the upper-level carrier through a first communication session established therewith. A second communication unit communicates with the upper-level carrier through a second communication session established therewith. A communication control unit controls the first and second communication units. The communication control unit disconnects the first communication session and directs a signal intended for the first communication session to the second communication session, so that the signal is delivered to the upper-level carrier by using the second communication session as a detour.
US08892087B2	Cell phone multimedia controller A system and method is provided for remotely controlling and interacting with a multimedia device using a mobile phone. This is accomplished by utilizing cell and mobile phones capable of establishing persistent Internet connections. A software application is provided for the mobile phone that receives inputs entered by a user on the mobile phone's keypad and translates the inputs into commands that are recognized by a multimedia device. For example, the multimedia device may be a television, set top box, or a digital video recorder such as a Tivo or ReplayTV. The software application transmits the data input by the user to the device, either directly, or through at least one central server. Mapping of the commands entered on the mobile phone into commands recognized by the remote device may occur on the phone, at a central server, or at the device itself.
US08892085B2	Mobile information apparatus and manner mode shifting program Memory 42 stores conditions (schedule, position, and travel condition) for triggering switching to a manner mode. When any of the conditions is met, a CPU 33 requests a user for an instruction as to whether or not to switch to the manner mode according to the condition stored in the memory 42. In response to a user instruction for approvable of the switching to the manner mode, the CPU 33 executes control to switch the mobile phone to the manner mode.
US08892084B2	Deactivation system and method for a transferable device Methods and systems for deactivation of one or more applications operating on a transferable device are provided.
US08892081B2	Multi-service content broadcast for user controlled selective service receive A multimedia communications system for broadcast distribution of multimedia content to mobile terminals over a cellular network is disclosed. The disclosed system accesses content providers, receives corresponding content information associated with provider content, and broadcasts content information to user terminals. The user terminals include software and/or hardware for receiving the content information and enabling a user to subscribe to one or more content items. Once a subscription is in place for one or more content items, corresponding content IDs are sent to and stored at the terminal. The system facilitates broadcast of the content. Content IDs stored in the terminal and broadcasted content IDs are compared. Only the content associated with the matching content IDs is then downloaded to the user terminal for storage and/or presentation. Content associated with unmatched content IDs is prevented from being received.
US08892079B1	Ad hoc endpoint device association for multimedia conferencing A system for ad hoc endpoint device association for multimedia conferencing may include one or more processors and memory. The one or more processors may prepare to provide sets of video streams corresponding to a multimedia conference to first, second, and third participant devices, where the set of videos streams prepared for each participant device includes video streams associated with the other participant devices. The one or more processors may determine that the first and second participant devices are in a same physical area and may generate, in response to the determining, a location association between the first and second participant devices for the multimedia conference. The one or more processors may exclude the video stream associated with the third participant device from set of video streams prepared for the first participant device based at least in part on the location association between the first and second participant devices.
US08892077B2	Method and apparatus for providing multimedia content on a mobile media center A method and apparatus for providing multimedia content over a wireless network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request from a customer via a data enabled cellular phone for accessing one or more multimedia content from a multimedia content server of the customer, and performs an authentication for obtaining the one or more multimedia content from the multimedia content server. The method obtains the one or more multimedia content from the multimedia content server, and transmits the one or more multimedia content to the data enabled cellular phone.
US08892075B2	Selective generation of conversations from individually recorded communications In one embodiment, a method includes recording a communication at a mobile device, wherein the recorded communication is a user's portion of a conversation between the user and at least one other participant, transmitting the recorded communication to a network device, transmitting a request for the conversation to the network device, and receiving the conversation generated from the recorded communication and at least one other recorded communication from the other participant. An apparatus is also disclosed.
US08892071B2	System for managing unregistered terminals with shared authentication information and method thereof Provided are a system and method for managing unregistered devices with authentication information sharing. The method includes receiving an authentication information duplication request from the unregistered device by the registered device, obtaining authentication information from a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) by the registered device when the registered device receives the authentication information duplication request, and transmitting the obtained authentication information to the unregistered device by the registered device.
US08892067B2	Method of displaying fitness data and related fitness system A method of displaying fitness data on a portable electronic device in communication with a mobile phone includes storing a database in a memory of the mobile phone, the database including geographic data, receiving, with the mobile phone, position signals indicating a current position of the mobile phone, and generating fitness data on the mobile phone according to position signals received by the mobile phone over time. The method also includes transmitting a request from the portable electronic device to the mobile phone for requesting fitness data to be sent from the mobile phone to the portable electronic device, the portable electronic device being separate from the mobile phone, transmitting requested fitness data from the mobile phone to the portable electronic device in response to the request received by the mobile phone, and displaying the requested fitness data on a display of the portable electronic device.
US08892065B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for wireless signal storage with signal recognition detection triggering Various methods for wireless signal storage with signal recognition detection triggering are provided. One method may include receiving a plurality of wireless signals via a plurality of frequency channels, storing representations of the plurality of wireless signals in a signal buffer, and receiving a trigger request for a signal of interest. In this regard, the trigger request may have been generated based on an analysis of at least one wireless signal within the plurality of wireless signals to thereby identify the signal of interest. The method may also include retrieving a representation of the signal of interest from the signal buffer based on the trigger request, and analyzing the retrieved representation of the signal of interest with associated signal characteristics to determine a location of a source of the signal of interest. Similar apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
US08892064B2	Systems and methods for providing product information over a carrier wave A method is provided that comprises tuning a radio system to a frequency band that contains a locally-broadcast terrestrial radio signal. The locally-broadcast terrestrial radio signal comprising a main signal component and a side data component is thereby received. In response to receiving the locally-broadcast terrestrial radio signal a determination is made as to a permissible time for processing the side data component using a time slot schedule. The side data component is processed at the permissible time. A message corresponding to the side data component is outputted to an output device. In some instances, the side data component includes the message. In other instances, the method further includes searching a message lookup list using a code included in the side data component. When a stored code is found that matches the code, the message corresponding to the matching stored code is outputted.
US08892060B2	Method for tuning a digital compensation filter within a transmitter, and associated digital compensation filter A method for tuning a digital compensation filter within a transmitter includes: obtaining at least one resistance-capacitance (RC) detection result, wherein the digital compensation filter includes an RC compensation module; and tuning the digital compensation filter by inputting the RC detection result into the RC compensation module. For example, the RC detection result may correspond to a detected value representing a product of a resistance value and a capacitance value. In another example, the at least one RC detection result may be obtained by performing RC detection on at least a portion of the transmitter without individually measuring resistance values of resistors therein and capacitance values of capacitors therein. An associated digital compensation filter and an associated calibration circuit are also provided.
US08892057B2	Carrier aggregation radio system A carrier aggregation radio system is provided. The carrier aggregation radio system includes a transceiver having a main receiver, a diversity receiver and a carrier aggregation receiver. The carrier aggregation radio system further includes a control system adapted to command a radio front end to route diversity signals from a diversity antenna to the main and diversity receivers in a first mode and to command the radio front end to route carrier aggregation signals from the diversity antenna to the carrier aggregation receiver in a second mode. The control system may also command a third mode in which diversity signals are routed to the main and diversity receivers while carrier aggregation signals are routed to the carrier aggregation receiver.
US08892053B2	Cache hits via a users speed, direction of movement, location, and band within a cellular network A method, system, and computer program product for caching data in a cellular network is provided. Information from a cellular network regarding location, speed, direction of travel, and bandwidth for a user can be used to determine how much data should be cached for the user. More specifically, the time period for how long a user will be in a cell of a cellular network can be calculated using information received from the cellular network. The calculated time period can be used to calculate how much data will be used by a user for the calculated time period with only the amount of data needed for the time period being cached.
US08892051B2	Telematics provisioning system for deactivated devices The disclosed invention provides a system and method for efficiently establishing a data call connection from a TSP call center to deactivated telematics units without a subscriber profile being in an HLR or VLR and without the use of a “500” number. An equipment identifier associated with a deactivated telematics unit may be delivered to the wireless network provider, and a calling line ID based on the equipment identifier and a common number for deactivated telematics units may be translated into a paging address through which the deactivated telematics unit may be paged. An appropriate paging strategy based on the network topology may be used to page the deactivated telematics unit and establish a data call connection with the deactivated telematics unit. The deactivated telematics unit may then be provisioned or perform or have performed on it other functions based on the data call connection.
US08892042B2	Immediate connection following device discovery An electronic device is described. During operation, this electronic device activates a communication channel having a carrier frequency in a radio in an interface circuit to listen for an advertising frame of interest from another electronic device during a scan window having a predefined duration. If the advertising frame of interest is received from the other electronic device, the electronic device terminates the listening before the predefined duration has expired and, using the communication channel in the radio, transmits the connect request to the other electronic device to establish the connection with the other electronic device. In this way, the delay between discovery of the other electronic device and establishing the connection is reduced. In addition, the power consumed by the electronic device while scanning for the other electronic device and initiating the connection is reduced.
US08892040B2	Mobile communication terminal and data download method The present invention aims to relay data by using two kinds of communication systems for continuous and smooth transferring of data in accordance with a connection state. A mobile communication terminal 2 includes: a mobile communication unit 121 that connects to a mobile communication network NW to download data therethrough, a short-range communication unit 122 that transmits the data downloaded to opposing equipment through short-range communication, a communication management unit 123 that detects a state of connection with the opposing equipment, a data storage unit 126 that temporarily stores the data downloaded, and a data management unit 125 that successively hands over the data temporarily stored to the short-range communication unit 122. In the case that the state of connection indicates an out-of-service-area state, the data storage unit 126 additionally stores data being downloaded by the mobile communication unit 121. In the case that the state of connection has changed from the out-of-service-area state to a normal state, the data management unit 125 hands over not-yet-transmitted data blocks stored by the data storage unit 126 to the short-range communication unit 122.
US08892039B2	Three-dimension (3D) glasses and method for controlling power and pairing thereof 3D glasses and a method of controlling power and pairing thereof are provided. The method of controlling power and pairing includes: restricting supply of a specific power of 3D glasses; performing, by the 3D glasses, pairing with a display apparatus; and if it is determined that the pairing is performed, lifting the restriction on the supply of the specific power. Therefore, a user may perform pairing between the 3D glasses and the 3D display apparatus easily and prevent power of the 3D glasses from being unnecessarily wasted.
US08892037B2	Methods and systems for community-wide information exchange via individual communications terminals A method for detecting matching profiles in an environment of wireless terminals each having a short range communications capability, comprises the steps of: —generating profiles respectively belonging to a plurality of users, —storing said profiles in wireless terminals associated with said user, —when a pair of terminals become in range with each other, automatically establishing a short range bidirectional communications channel therebetween, —through this channel, transmitting the profiles stored in each terminal to the other terminal, performing a matching test between said received profiles and other profiles previously stored in the terminal, and—when a matching between profiles is determined by a terminal, providing profile matching information so that the users to which said profiles belong can be put in connection with each other. The present invention also provides other related communication methods, as well as a terminal and a system for implementing the methods.
US08892035B2	Repeaters for enhancement of wireless power transfer Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless power transfer. A wireless power transfer system include a transmit circuit with a transmit antenna driven from a power amplifier to generate a near field radiation at a resonant frequency within a first coupling mode region surrounding the transmit antenna. One or more repeater antennas are disposed at different locations within the first coupling mode region. Each repeater antenna generates an enhanced near field radiation at the resonant frequency within a coupling mode region corresponding to that repeater antenna. One or more receive circuits including a receive antenna receive power when they are disposed in one of the coupling mode regions corresponding to that repeater antenna.
US08892028B2	Method and apparatus for a cellular assisted intelligent transportation system A method, apparatus and computer program product are therefore provided according to an example embodiment to provide a cellular based ITS environment. The cellular based ITS environment may be configured based on LTE based interfaces. In this regard, a method includes receiving configuration information from a first access point, wherein the configuration information defines an ITS target area comprising at least the first access point and a first RSU. A method also includes receiving an ITS paging message from the first access point. A method also includes causing a reselection of the first RSU while in the communications range of the first access point in the ITS target area and in response to the received ITS paging message.
US08892027B2	Method and apparatus for providing preauthorization for a mobile receiving device to access wireless networks A mobile wireless system includes a transmitter such as a satellite that broadcasts wireless signals such as boundaries for wireless networks to a mobile receiving device. Mobile receiving device may include an antenna. A locating receiver is used to generate locating signals so that a determination may be made to the location of the mobile receiving device. Preauthorizations may be obtained to allow the mobile receiving device to communicate back to business controller to enable functions such as pay-per-view or on-demand, interactive television, gaming, and the like. The preauthorizations enable access to various wireless networks as the mobile receiving device moves.
US08892023B2	Image forming apparatus with width-wise sheet shifting mechanism An image forming apparatus acquires an amount of deflection of the transporting sheet from a reference position thereof and calculates a required shift amount of the sheet. It determines whether or not the sheet is shifted frontward. If so, the image forming apparatus acquires a second specified shift value which is determined based on an urging force and the required shift amount using a second correction equation. Alternatively, if the sheet is shifted backward, the image forming apparatus acquires a first specified shift value which is determined based on the urging force and the required shift amount using a first correction equation. The image forming apparatus performs a registration roller shift correction based on the acquired first or second specified shift value.
US08892018B2	Fixing device A fixing device includes a heat roller and a heater. The heat roller extends in an axial direction and includes a cylindrical-shaped roller section and a coil, the roller section having an inner peripheral surface defining an internal space therewithin and the coil being wound along the inner peripheral surface, the heat roller being configured of a plurality of zones in the axial direction, the plurality of zones including a low zone whose heat capacity is less than a predetermined value and a high zone whose heat capacity is not less than the predetermined value. The heater is disposed within the internal space of the roller section and has a heating wire configured to generate heat, the heating wire having at least a first portion which is in confrontation with the high zone and a second portion which is in confrontation with the low zone, and the heating wire being configured such that the first portion has an amount of heat generation greater than an amount of heat generation at the second portion.
US08892016B2	Nip surface configuration for a fixing device A fixing device which may include a nip plate which has roll marks formed on at least a first surface of the nip plate, a flexible cylindrical member having an inner peripheral surface that is configured to slide on the nip plate and a pressure member that is configured to rotate while the pressure member and the nip plate pinch the flexible cylindrical member, so that the pressure member and the cylindrical member convey a recording sheet. Further, a lubricant may be provided between the nip plate and the flexible cylindrical member. Also, the nip plate may be arranged so that the roll marks extend along a conveying direction of the recording sheet.
US08892013B2	Transfer device and image forming apparatus A transfer device comprises a freely rotatable transferring member contacting an image bearing member to form a transfer nip therebetween; a transfer bias applying member to apply a first bias created by superimposing an alternating current component on a direct current component to the transferring member to transfer a toner image borne on the image bearing member to a recording medium in the transfer nip; and an applicator to apply a protective agent to a surface of the transferring member.
US08892012B2	Development device and image forming apparatus A development device includes a developer carrier configured to supply developer on a latent image formed on a latent image carrier to visualize the latent image. Wherein the developer carrier includes: an elastic layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of a conductive support body, the elastic layer including urethane rubber; and a top layer formed by treating a surface of the elastic layer with treatment solution that includes urethane polymer, silicone-based additive and conductive agent. The top layer includes convex parts that include the urethane rubber and concave parts in which the silicone-based additive and the conductive agent are laminated.
US08892011B2	Developing apparatus having thickness regulating member A developing apparatus includes a housing, a developing roller, a supply roller, and a thickness regulating member. The housing is configured to accommodate developer that includes developer particles having a mean volume diameter. The developing roller is rotatably supported in the housing and has a peripheral surface configured to carry the developer. The supply roller is rotatably supported in the housing, contacts the developing roller, and configured to supply the toner to the developing roller. The thickness regulating member includes a contact member contacting the peripheral surface. The contact member is configured to regulate a thickness of the developer on the peripheral surface such that an average of the thickness of the developer on the peripheral surface becomes smaller than or equal to the mean volume diameter.
US08892010B2	Developing device and image forming apparatus A developing device includes two developer-transporting members, a container, and four gap retainers. The container contains a developer and rotatably supports rotation shafts of the developer-transporting members using side walls located on both end portions. The gap retainers are supported at end portions of the developer-transporting members and are brought into contact with a subjected-to-development member or a supporter to maintain a gap between the subjected-to-development member and each developer-transporting member. A force with which the two developer-transporting members are pressed toward the subjected-to-development member is applied to the container and all the gap retainers are brought into contact with the subjected-to-development member or the supporter, while axes of rotation of the two developer-transporting members are allowed to become non-parallel with an axis of rotation of the subjected-to-development member.
US08892007B2	Image forming apparatus, toner supplying method, and computer program product A control unit drives a driving unit for a correction driving time to supply toner to a developing unit from a toner supplying unit, when a detecting unit detects that an amount of toner stored in the developing unit is equal to or less than a threshold value. A calculating unit calculates an amount of toner consumption from when the toner is supplied to the developing unit to when the detecting unit detects that the amount of the toner stored in the developing unit is equal to or less than the threshold value. The control unit calculates a unit amount of toner supply from the correction driving time and the amount of toner consumption, and supplies the toner to the developing unit by driving the driving unit on the basis of the calculated unit amount of toner supply.
US08891995B2	Image forming apparatus provided with function to calculate charge based on the number of sheets printed, print system including image forming apparatus, method for counting the number of sheets printed executed by image forming apparatus, and program for counting the number of sheets printed executed by image forming apparatus In order to properly count the number of sheets printed which serves as the basis on which a charge is calculated, an MFP that acts as a designated printer includes a job accepting portion to accept a print job, a job executing portion to carry out printing based on the print job, a requesting portion to, when the job executing portion is not available for executing the print job, transmit an alternative instruction including the print job to an alternative printer, and an adding portion to add the number of alternative sheets printed by the alternative printer based on the print job included in the alternative instruction to the number of sheets printed by the job executing portion.
US08891990B2	Image forming apparatus and method for forming toner image on recording medium An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device disposed downstream from an image forming device in a recording medium conveyance direction to fix a toner image formed by the image forming device on a recording medium. The fixing device includes a pressing rotary body separatably pressed against a fixing rotary body to form a nip therebetween through which the recording medium bearing the toner image passes, and a moving assembly to move the pressing rotary body bidirectionally to press the pressing rotary body against the fixing rotary body and separate the pressing rotary body from the fixing rotary body. A controller controls the moving assembly to change a post-fixing pressing time period for which the moving assembly presses the pressing rotary body against the fixing rotary body after the recording medium bearing the toner image is discharged from the nip according to image data.
US08891988B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming method including an alarm that, under a predetermined condition, indicates that a front side and a back side of the recording paper are inverted An image forming portion has a transfer portion for transferring a toner image formed on an image carrier onto the recording paper, and a fixing portion for heating and compressing the recording paper on which the toner image is transferred to fix the toner image to the recording paper. A control portion controls to heat and compress the recording paper by the fixing portion without performing transfer of the toner image by the transfer portion to smooth the recording paper under predetermined condition. At this time, the control portion is able to set variably the number of times to pass through the fixing portion without performing transfer of the toner image onto the recording paper and pressure force when the recording paper passes through the fixing portion.
US08891985B2	Bias power supply device and image forming apparatus A bias power supply device includes: a temperature detecting unit; a control signal generation unit generating and outputting an output frequency setting signal for setting a frequency of an alternating current power in accordance with a repetition frequency and a resonance frequency signal being set at a lower or higher repetition frequency according to the measured temperature; a waveform signal generation circuit generating a waveform signal for pulse-width modulation having a time constant for rising set by capacity and resistance based on the resonance frequency signal; a modulation circuit generating a pulse-width-modulated modulation signal based on the waveform signal and the output frequency setting signal; a switching circuit driven by the modulation signal; and a transformer having a first winding and a second winding, and supplying an alternating current power with a repetition frequency of the output frequency setting signal to an external load connected to the second winding.
US08891979B2	Photon detector A photon detection system including a photon detector configured to detect single photons, a signal divider to divide the output signal of the photon detector into a first part and a second part, wherein the first part is substantially identical to the second part, a delay mechanism to delay the second part with respect to the first part, and a combiner to combine the first and delayed second parts of the signal such that the delayed second part is used to cancel periodic variations in the first part of the output signal.
US08891978B2	Information-acquisition device and optical communication system At least one cell implementing a sensor array embraces a photoelectric-conversion accumulation element configured to generate and accumulate signal charges, a potential detection circuit configured to detect the signal charges generated by the photoelectric-conversion accumulation element as a potential change, and an amplification circuit configured to amplify the potential change and to transmit to an output-signal line. The photoelectric-conversion accumulation element and the potential detection circuit are connected in series between a first potential terminal and a second potential terminal, and the potential detection circuit has an insulated-gate transistor, which detects the potential change in a weak inversion state, in a period when an optical-communication signal is received.
US08891977B2	Receiver chip and method for on-chip multi-node visible light communication A receiver chip, system and method for on-chip multi-node visible light communication, the receiver chip comprising: an array of receiver cells comprising an array of photodetectors, each receiver cell comprises at least one photodetector and is to receive light through the at least one photodetector, and a logical layer for independently configuring at least one selected receiver cell as a communication receiving channel. The system comprises an array of receiver cells comprising an array of photodetectors, each receiver cell includes at least one photodetector and is to receive light through the at least one photodetector, a logical layer to independently configure at least one selected receiver cell as a communication receiving channel, and a processor to receive data from the logical layer and control the logical layer for configuration of the receiver cells.
US08891968B2	Method and apparatus for loading, detecting, and monitoring channel-associated optical signals A method and apparatus for loading, detecting, and monitoring channel-associated signals are provided. Channel-associated signals are identified with spread spectrum codes in the electrical domain, and after being modulated to an optical service signal at respective loading points separately, the channel-associated identification signals are transmitted in the optical channel along with the optical signal. At any downstream detecting point, passing optical signals can be converted through photoelectric conversion, and the channel-associated identification signals are de-spread. By detecting the channel-associated signals, it is possible to learn about whether the upstream loading point work normally, whether the optical channel operates normally, etc., and thereby to find possible failures, solve problems, and monitor quality parameters of optical signals in real time, and improve reliability of the optical signal transmission.
US08891966B2	Optical communication device and signal adjusting method An optical packet switching device causes branching of an optical packet that is input to an optical switch and detects a synchronization pattern having a predetermined number of bits from the branched optical packet. Then, the optical packet switching device calculates a synchronization point indicating a location of the synchronization pattern with respect to a detection timing and controls, in accordance with the calculated synchronization point, a delay amount of a delay element that delays an optical packet ON signal that is output to the optical switch.
US08891965B2	Method for automatic configuration of an optical network element A method for automatic confirmation of an optical network element optical modules each having multiple fibers; a fiber shuffle interconnector having ports to which said optical modules are connected; and a configuration unit which performs an automatic configuration of said optical network element by controlling all optical modules connected to said fiber shuffle interconnector to transmit a fiber identifier associated with a fiber of the respective optical module to the respective port of said fiber shuffle interconnector to which said optical module is connected, wherein said fiber shuffle interconnector forwards the received fiber identifier via another port of said fiber shuffle interconnector to another optical module of said optical network element which detects said forwarded fiber identifier being monitored by said configuration unit to generate a connectivity matrix indicating the connection of said optical modules to said fiber shuffle interconnector on the basis of the detected fiber identifiers.
US08891963B2	Hybrid signal router Various signal routing systems are disclosed. Some routing systems include a crosspoint switch or switching fabric for coupling input ports to output ports, allowing an input signal received at one of the input ports to be transported to one or more of the output ports. The systems may include aggregation or compression modules to allow multiple input signals to be combined into one or more compressed signals, which may be converted into optical signals for transmission to a communication network. In some embodiments, the communication network may include a packet switched router which extracts some of the input signals from the optical signals and produced corresponding packetized signals that are coupled to output ports. Some routing system may include only a packet switched router. Some routing systems may be configured to receive compressed or aggregated signals and to decompress or deaggregate such signals to form individual signals as output signals.
US08891960B2	Optical data communications A method of communicating data between a network device and a data network to which the device is connected via an optical fiber data link in which the device is connected to the optical fiber data link and the connection is monitored to detect data communication at a first standard. If data communication is detected at the first standard, data communication is established using the first standard. If not, the connection is monitored at the second standard. If data communication is detected at the second standard, data communication is established using the second standard.
US08891954B1	Light focusing device A device for detachably coupling with a camera. The device includes a mount configured to detachably couple with a hot shoe of the camera. The mount includes a resilient retaining feature protruding from a bottom surface of the mount and configured to physically contact a bottom surface of the hot shoe such that the mount is pushed upwards within the hot shoe to securely retain the mount within the hot shoe.
US08891952B2	Image sensing apparatus, control method, and user interface display apparatus An image sensing apparatus on which a plurality of lens units are interchangeably mountable includes a system controller configured to acquired information specific to a mounted lens unit from the mounted lens unit, a detection unit configured to detect a focus shift amount of the mounted lens unit, a display circuit configured to display the specific information acquired by the system controller in association with a focus correction value for correcting the focus shift amount detected by the detection unit, an operation switch configured to be operated by a user, and a setting unit that sets the focus correction value according to an operation on the operation switch.
US08891951B2	Lens barrel and camera system capable of correcting tracking data and camera system A lens barrel includes a moving lens unit that moves in accordance with a zooming operation, a focus lens that moves to correct an image plane variation caused by a movement of the moving lens unit, a driver that moves the focus lens, a controller that controls the driver, a zoom state detector that detects a zoom state, a focus lens detector that detects a position of the focus lens, a storage portion that stores tracking data indicating the position of the focus lens to correct the image plane variation, and a data correction portion that measures a real position of the focus lens in an in-focus state in a plurality of zoom states for each zooming operation in directions from wide angle to telephoto sides and from the telephoto to wide angle sides to generate correction data and correct the tracking data based on the correction data.
US08891948B2	Heat treatment apparatus and heat treatment method for heating substrate by irradiating substrate with flashes of light A photodiode excellent in responsivity receives flashes of light emitted from flash lamps in the process of heating a semiconductor wafer by irradiation with flashes of light, and the waveform of the intensity of the flashes of light versus time is acquired using voltage data obtained from an output from the photodiode. Then, a temperature calculating part performs a heat conduction simulation using the acquired data to calculate the temperature of the semiconductor wafer irradiated with the flashes of light from the flash lamps. The temperature of the semiconductor wafer is computed using data corresponding to the intensity of the flashes of light obtained from the output from the photodiode. This allows the determination of the surface temperature of the semiconductor wafer irradiated with the flashes of light, irrespective of the waveform of the emission intensity of the flash lamps.
US08891937B2	Encoded stream generating apparatus and method, data transmission system and method, and editing system and method A method and apparatus for generating an encoded data stream representing a number of pictures or frames and having a number of layers including a picture layer in which time code information attached to the original data is described or inserted therein for each picture. Such time code information may be inserted into a user data area of the picture layer of the encoded data stream.
US08891934B2	Video display control using embedded metadata In a system comprising capture, post production, any known video delivery channel, decoding and display subsystems, an apparatus and method are provided for generating, editing, delivering, processing and displaying video data to preserve the video creator's creative intent. Reference display metadata, used to guide the subsequent processing and display of the video data, is dynamically generated at the post-production stage and embedded into the video data.
US08891931B2	Fiber optic enclosure with internal cable spool A fiber optic enclosure assembly includes a housing having an interior region and a bearing mount disposed in the interior region of the housing. A cable spool is connectedly engaged with the bearing mount such that the cable spool selectively rotates within the housing. A termination module disposed on the cable spool so that the termination module rotates in unison with the cable spool. A method of paying out a fiber optic cable from a fiber optic enclosure includes rotating a cable spool, which has a subscriber cable coiled around a spooling portion of the cable spool, about an axis of a housing of the fiber optic enclosure until a desired length of subscriber cable is paid out. A termination module is disposed on the cable spool.
US08891925B2	Low bend loss optical fiber An optical fiber having both low macrobend loss and low microbend loss. The fiber has a first inner cladding region having an outer radius r2>8 microns and refractive index Δ2 and a second outer cladding region surrounding the inner cladding region having refractive index Δ4, wherein Δ1>Δ4>Δ2. The difference between Δ4 and Δ2 is greater than 0.002 percent. The fiber exhibits a 22 m cable cutoff less than or equal to 1260 nm, and r1/r2 is greater or equal to 0.25.
US08891921B2	Optical waveguide There are provided an optical waveguide including: a substrate 1; a lower clad layer 2; a core pattern 3 with a taper in thickness direction; and an upper clad layer 4, the lower clad layer, the core pattern, and the upper clad layer being sequentially laminated on the substrate 1, in which the lower clad layer 2 has a cutting part 5. There also provided with an optical waveguide including: a substrate 1; a lower clad layer 2; a core pattern 3 with a taper in thickness direction; and an upper clad layer 4, the lower clad layer, the core pattern, and the upper clad layer being sequentially laminated on the substrate 1, in which the lower clad layer 2 has a dummy part on the top. These optical waveguides can secure alignment tolerance when connected with an optical element.
US08891919B2	Optical device, optical connector, and optical module An optical device includes first and second optical waveguides that each include a core and a cladding, and a connector that optically couples the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide with a lens interposed therebetween, wherein, in at least one of the first and the second optical waveguides, a difference in refractive index between the core and the cladding in a first direction differs from a difference in refractive index between the core and the cladding in a second direction that is different from the first direction, and wherein, in at least one of the first and the second optical waveguide, a first point of emergence of first rays that are output at angles in the first direction and a second point of emergence of second rays that are output at angles in the second direction are offset from each other along an optical axis.
US08891918B2	Methods, systems, and products for image displays Methods, systems, and products illuminate display devices. An image is injected into a tapered portion of a waveguide. The tapered portion reflects the image to create total internal reflectance of the image within the waveguide. A frustrator withdraws a frustrated image from the waveguide, and the frustrated image is displayed to a viewer.
US08891917B2	Transverse mode filter for waveguides The invention relates to a transverse mode filter in an optical waveguide (3). The aim of the invention is to produce a transverse mode filter that permits a monolithic construction of a laser in a multi-mode waveguide. To achieve this, according to the invention the filter comprises a Fabry-Perot cavity integrated into the optical waveguide (3) and comprising two reflective elements (5) situated at a distance from one another. In addition, the waveguide (3) is modified in the region of the Fabry-Perot cavity and/or in the region of the reflective elements (5) in relation to the remaining regions of the waveguide with respect to the effective refractive index of at least one mode of the waveguide.
US08891909B2	Information processing apparatus capable of modifying images based on audio data, program and information processing method An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a playback unit to play back music data, an analysis unit to analyze a feature of a relevant image of the music data, an image correction unit to perform image correction with use of any of a plurality of correction types, a storage unit to store one or more than one image, a selection unit to select a correction type corresponding to the feature of the relevant image analyzed by the analysis unit from the plurality of correction types, a correction control unit to cause the image correction unit to perform image correction of an image stored in the storage unit with use of the correction type selected by the selection unit, and an output unit to output the image corrected by the image correction unit.
US08891903B2	Method, arrangement, computer program and computer readable storage medium for scaling two-dimensional structures A method for scaling two-dimensional structures, which is especially usable for resizing digital 2D images with a rational scaling factor, is based on efficient implementation of a diamond-shaped filter. The conventional “1”-diamond matrices of variable size are replaced by a (m×n) coefficient matrix. For any given rational scaling factor, the computational load for calculating an output pixel is reduced to filtering (m×n) input pixels with a corresponding (m×n) filter matrix. The coefficients of this filter matrix depend from the phase of the output pixel to be calculated and the factor of interpolation, but are always integer numbers. The coefficients may be stored in lookup tables (LUT), which leads to a very efficient implementation of the inventive method. In one embodiment, a (3×3) coefficient matrix has been found to be advantageous.
US08891897B2	Block noise detection and filtering Systems and methods for block noise detection and filtering are disclosed. One embodiment includes, computing difference magnitudes in pixel values for adjacent pixels in the image. The difference magnitudes can include horizontal difference magnitudes for horizontally adjacent pixels and vertical difference magnitudes for vertically adjacent pixels. One embodiment further includes using normalized sums of the difference magnitudes to determine a set of noise characteristics of the block noise and a set of image characteristics of the image and configuring inputs to the block noise filter using the set of noise and image characteristics.
US08891896B2	Estimating blur degradation of an image using specular highlights A method and apparatus (70) is provided for estimating blur degradation of an image (75) that includes a specular highlight. A specular highlight in the image is first identified (77), for example with user assistance. A blur kernel is then derived by extracting (78A) the identified specular highlight as foreground from the image (75) and using the extracted foreground as the blur kernel (78C). The image (75) can then be deblurred by deconvolution (79) with the derived blur kernel.
US08891894B2	Psychovisual image compression Psychovisual image compression techniques are disclosed that compress pixel data by a fixed compression ratio with little or no perceptual loss of detail. In some implementations, a psychovisual compression process is selected among several psychovisual compression processes based on characteristics of the pixel data. Compression is achieved during encoding by discarding psychovisually unnecessary bits from the pixel data. The psychovisual compression processes can be implemented in hardware and operate on scan lines of pixels captured by the image sensor. The psychovisual compression techniques can be used with image compression techniques to compress further the pixel data.
US08891888B2	Entropy coding for recompression of images A code is received. The code conveys data about a quantized coefficient that corresponds to a pixel of an image file. A decoding mode and a version of a code mapping format for decoding the received code is determined. The decoding mode and the version of the code mapping format dynamically change based on a previously-decoded code. The received code is decoded, during the decoding mode, according to the version of the code mapping format to obtain the data about the quantized coefficient.
US08891883B2	Summarizing a photo album in a social network system Embodiments generally relate to summarizing a photo album in a social network system. In one embodiment, a method includes grouping photos into a plurality of groups of photos, and selecting a plurality of representative photos, where each representative photo represents a respective group from the plurality of groups, where the selecting is based on a quality score of each of the photos, and where each quality score is based on different types of attributes. The method also includes enabling the plurality of representative photos to be shared.
US08891876B2	Mouth corner candidates A device to apply detection schemes to texture information of a face detected within an image to generate mouth corner candidates and identify best matching mouth corners by applying a geometric model to the moth corner candidates.
US08891871B2	Form recognition apparatus, method, database generation apparatus, method, and storage medium One system to which the present invention is applied obtains the digitized form image of a form, recognizes a character string existing in the obtained form image, extracts a headline wording being a predetermined character string from the recognized character strings, determines a table structure existing in the form image, on the basis of the extracted headline wording and the arrangement of headline wordings in the form image and specifies a correspondence relationship between a headline wording and a character string other than the headline wording that is recognized, using the determination result.
US08891869B2	System and method for effectively performing an integrated segmentation procedure A system and method for effectively performing an integrated segmentation procedure comprises an image segmenter that includes a texture modeler, a contrast modeler, and a model integrator. The texture modeler creates a texture model based upon an original image. Similarly, the contrast modeler creates a contrast model based upon the original image. The model integrator then performs a model integration procedure to create a final segmented image by integrating the texture model and the contrast model according to a calculated texture model metric. A processor of an electronic device typically controls the image segmenter to perform the integrated segmentation procedure.
US08891868B1	Recognizing gestures captured by video Motions and gestures can be detected using a video capture element of a computing device even when the video capture element is not able to accurately capture the motion. Information about the background in the image information can be determined, and the way in which that background information is occluded can be used to determine the motion. In at least some embodiments, edges are detected in the video information. Images of foreground objects can then be isolated from edges of background images by comparing histograms of multiple frames of video. The remaining data is indicative of a direction and speed of motion, which can be used to infer a determined gesture even though that gesture was not visible in the captured video information.
US08891867B2	Image processing method An image processing method is provided and includes the following steps. A source image arranged in a Bayer pattern is captured. A first-order image process is performed on the source image to produce a first image in YCbCr format. A second-order image process is performed on the source image to produce a second image in YCbCr format. Then, a noise-reducing process is performed on the first image in YCbCr format to produce a noise-reduced image. A blending operation is performed on luminance image of the noise-reduced image and luminance image of the second image in YCbCr format, and thereafter a chrominance image is combined with the blended image to produce a processed image. A noise reducing degree of the noise-reduced image is higher than that of the second image in YCbCr format.
US08891866B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program Provided is an image processing apparatus including an image signal correction section that performs an image correction process. The image signal correction section performs a direction determination process of detecting a direction having a minimum pixel value gradient as a pixel value gradient direction in a pixel area including a target pixel; a defect detection process of calculating a Laplacian based on a pixel value of a reference pixel in a minimum gradient direction detected in the direction determination process with respect to the target pixel, and determining presence or absence of a defect of the target pixel; and a defect correction process of performing calculation of a corrected pixel value, which is obtained by applying the pixel value of the reference pixel in the direction detected in the direction determination process, with respect to a target pixel from which a defect has been detected in the defect detection process.
US08891860B2	Color name determination device, color name determination method, information recording medium, and program In a color name determination device, a color receiver receives input of a color, a document retriever retrieves for documents in which images relating to the received color are disposed, a key word extractor extracts key word character strings appearing in the retrieved documents, an image retriever retrieves for images relating to the extracted key word character strings, a degree acquirer represents, with a predetermined accuracy, colors appearing in the images as a retrieval result and acquires degrees at which the colors appear in the images, a color determiner determines color indicated by the received character string on the basis of the acquired degrees, and a color naming determiner determines, if the received color and the determined color are the same or similar, the a key word character string corresponding to the determined color is a color name character string indicating the received color.
US08891855B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for generating an image including virtual information whose size has been adjusted An information processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit for acquiring a real-world image, a space analysis unit for analyzing a three-dimensional space structure of the real-world image, a scale reference detection unit for detecting a length, in a three-dimensional space, of an object to be a scale reference that is included in the real-world image, and a scale determination unit for determining, from the length of the object detected by the scale reference detection unit, a scale of the three-dimensional space.
US08891850B2	System and methods for digital evaluation of cellblock preparations Digital evaluation of cellblock preparations to determine the type and extent of disease in order to identify the best approach for treatment without the need for additional testing or sampling.
US08891849B2	Extended low contrast detectability for radiographic imaging systems Systems and methods for determining an extended low contrast detectability performance function for an operating range for a core operating mode of a radiographic imaging system using actual reconstructed images characterize the contrast performance of a radiographic imaging system over its operating range and for any patient size based on the off-line calibration, uses ordered pairs of flux index and contrast index for each scanned object to provide a contrast index for each protocol for each contrast set, and uses the ordered pairs of flux index and contrast index to determine an extended low contrast detectability performance function for the operating range of a radiographic imaging system. Extended low contrast detectability performance data compilation and methods of clinical use, and low contrast phantom configurations and methods of calibration are also disclosed.
US08891846B2	Correction of changing local transmit phases during parallel transmission The present embodiments relate to a device and a method for data postprocessing of K-space data acquired using a magnetic resonance tomography device. Each part of a K-space matrix is generated with one recording using a magnetic resonance tomography device in a plurality of recordings with the aid of a plurality of transmitting transmit channels of the magnetic resonance tomography device using excitation signals of one amplitude and phase. A field generated in total by the plurality of transmitting transmit channels is determined through addition of the spatial distribution of field distribution datasets representing a field generated by at least one transmit channel of the plurality of channels. A spatially dependent phase correction of the data is performed for data acquired in one recording using phases resulting from the added field distribution datasets.
US08891844B2	Time synchronization calibration method and system for image taking and coordinate reading and delay time calculation method thereof A time synchronization calibration method and system for image taking and coordinate reading and a delay time calculation method thereof are disclosed. The time synchronization calibration method is as follows. Firstly, every time point, a calibrator coordinate, an operation target coordinate and an image thereof are obtained. The image similarity index of every image and the image of previous time point thereof is calculated. When the image similarity index is lower than a preset similarity index, a reading time of the image is output followed with calculating the difference of the reading time and a time delay to obtain a taking time of the image. Finally, calculating the coordinate transformation of the calibrator coordinate and the operation target coordinate, and corresponding it to the image to output an image-coordinate correspondence relation. The time delay can be obtained correctly with only one test, and provided for the consequent synchronization calibration.
US08891840B2	Dynamic steered spatial compounding in ultrasound imaging Dynamic steered spatial compounding is provided in ultrasound imaging. The compounding adjusts for variance. The compounding dynamically reacts to variance due to motion and/or view direction. For each location, the weights are set based on the motion or signal variance for the respective location. The weighting used for compounding or the results of the compounding adapt to maintain or increase signal fidelity.
US08891839B2	System and method for assessment of health risks and visualization of weight loss and muscle gain The present system combines image morphing technology, exercise programming, supplement sales, and motivational techniques into one product. Users begin by entering their current measurements, measurement goals and current picture into the system, preferably via a Web site. The picture is segmented into body components, and each affected segment is morphed based upon the measurements, goals, and the segment's responsiveness to weight loss in order to create a modified image representative of the user in a post-regimen condition. This system helps health and fitness businesses obtain new members and retain existing members by showing the members how they will look after following a specific regimen of diet and/or exercise. The system also predicts health risks of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke associated with the user's pre-regimen and post-regimen conditions.
US08891837B2	Noncontact biometric identification device A biometric identification device acquires enrollment data in such a manner as to improve usability while maintaining identification accuracy. The noncontact biometric identification device includes: a sensor that detects feature data including a feature of a part of a living body at a plurality of positions in a range defined in advance in a real space when the part of the living body moves in the range to acquire enrollment data; a processor that arranges a specified number of hyperspheres in a comparison range along a line defined by a locus of the living body in the real space such that the hyperspheres run over the comparison range, do not overlap one another, and have maximum radii, and then selects the feature data detected at one of the positions in the real space closest to the position corresponding to the center of one of the hyperspheres as the enrollment data.
US08891834B2	Face recognition system and face recognition method thereof A face recognition system and a face recognition method thereof. The face recognition system comprises a storage module, a processing module and a display module. The storage module stores a plurality of face recognition codes, a plurality of face images or face coordinates corresponding to the plurality of face recognition codes. The processing module calculates an overlap rate of the (T−1)th face image that overlaps the Tth face image in the plurality of face images. When the overlap rate is greater than a first preset value, the processing module calculates a similarity between the (T−1)th face image and the Tth face image. If the similarity is smaller than a second preset value, the processing module retains the face recognition code of the (T−1)th face image. The display module displays the face recognition code in the Tth face image.
US08891833B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method Provided is an image processing apparatus including a segmentation unit configured to segment image data into a plurality of segments to create a plurality of segmented image data, a detection unit configured to execute face detection processing for detecting a face area from image data before being segmented and each of the plurality of segmented image data, a recognition unit configured to execute recognition processing for determining whether the face detected by the detection unit is a face of a registered person, in each of the plurality of segmented image data, and a control unit configured to control whether to cause the recognition unit to execute the recognition processing as to each of the plurality of segmented image data depending on a result of the face detection in the image data before being segmented.
US08891829B2	Image processing device, method of controlling image processing device, and program for causing computer to execute the same method There is provided an image processing device including a depth acquisition unit and a smoothing processing unit. The depth acquisition unit acquires a depth to a subject in correlation with a pixel in a captured image of the subject, and the smoothing processing unit designates a pixel in a region excluding a predetermined region in the image as a target pixel, and performs a smoothing process of the degree according to the depth corresponding to the target pixel for a pixel value of the target pixel in a predetermined direction. This causes a pixel in a region excluding the predetermined region in the image to be blurred, thereby generating a panning image.
US08891828B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing device includes a processor, and a memory which stores an instruction, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to execute an operation including obtaining an image including information on a traveling direction of a vehicle and information of side regions of the image relative to the traveling direction. The operation includes reducing a size of an arbitrary region of the image nonlinearly toward a center of the image from side ends of one of the regions of the image, extracting feature points from the arbitrary region, calculating traveling amounts of the feature points included in a plurality of arbitrary regions which are obtained at different timings and determining an approaching object which approaches the vehicle in accordance with the traveling amounts of the feature points.
US08891825B2	Tracking method The present invention relates to a method for tracking at least one object in a sequence of frames, each frame comprising a pixel array, wherein a depth value is associated to each pixel. The method comprises grouping at least some of said pixels of each frame into several regions, grouping said regions into clusters (B1, . . . , B5) of interconnected regions; and determining that a cluster (B2, . . . , B5) which is adjacent to another cluster (B1) in a two-dimensional projection belongs to an object partially occluded by said other cluster (B1) if it has a different depth value than said other cluster (B1).
US08891823B2	Apparatus, control method, and storage medium for acquiring and storing position information in association with image data A position information acquiring apparatus comprises: a first acquiring unit configured to acquire first position information of the position information acquiring apparatus upon image capturing; a first storage unit configured to store image data generated by the image capturing and the first position information in a memory in association with each other; a second acquiring unit configured to acquire second position information of the position information acquiring apparatus upon image capturing; and a second storage unit configured to store the second position information in the memory in association with the image data when the second position information higher in accuracy than the first position information is acquired after the first storage unit stores the image data and the first position information in association with each other.
US08891815B2	Invisible information embedding apparatus, invisible information detecting apparatus, invisible information embedding method, invisible information detecting method, and storage medium An invisible information embedding apparatus for embedding invisible information at a position in an obtained image includes an image analysis unit configured to obtain object information and positional information of an object included in the image, an embedding target image determining unit configured to determine whether the image is an embedding target based on the object information obtained by the image analysis unit, and an image synthesizing unit configured to combine the image with the invisible information based on the determination result of the embedding target image determining unit.
US08891811B2	Hierarchical watermark detector The present invention relates generally to digital watermarking. In one implementation, we provide a hierarchical digital watermark detector method. The method includes: i) in a first layer of a hierarchical search, performing watermark detection on blocks of at least a portion of an incoming suspect signal; ii) identifying a first block in the portion that is likely to include a decodable digital watermark; and iii) in a second layer of the hierarchical search, performing additional watermark detection on overlapping blocks in a neighborhood around the first block. Another implementation provides a hierarchical watermark detector including a buffer and a detector. The buffer stores portions of an incoming signal. The detector evaluates watermark detection criteria for blocks stored in the buffer, and hierarchically zooms into a neighborhood of blocks around a block associated with watermark detection criteria that satisfies detection criteria.
US08891809B2	Split magnet loudspeaker A loudspeaker can provide magnetic flux from polarity-aligned split magnets to drive voice coils and generate sound. The loudspeaker may have reduced stray magnetic fields and a BL curve with symmetric and linear characteristics. The loudspeaker can include a core, split magnets, a magnet housing, a core cap, and a voice coil gap formed between the magnet housing and the core cap. Magnetic flux produced by the split magnets may be combined, directed, and/or concentrated by the core cap and magnet housing within the voice coil gap. At least portions of a voice coil may be positioned within the voice coil gap and a diaphragm may be coupled to the voice coil. A bucking magnet assembly may contain a magnetic flux of the magnet structure to further improve performance. The bucking magnet assembly may include split magnets with an aligned polarity that is opposite the polarity of the magnet structure.
US08891805B2	Speaker apparatus A speaker apparatus selects a path which emits a speaker sound. The speaker apparatus includes a speaker unit for outputting the sound generated from voice data, a body including at least one or more emission paths for guiding and emitting the sound output from the speaker unit, and a member for opening or shutting out at least one emission path.
US08891801B1	Prenatal sound device An audio attenuation device for attenuating audio for transmission to an unborn baby includes a body and an attachment mechanism for attaching the body to an article of clothing of an expectant mother. The body is configured to receive at least one audio earbud that includes an audio producing side from which an audio signal is transmitted from the earbud. The body further includes a layer of material configured to be positioned in contact with the audio producing side to receive the audio signal from the earbud and to attenuate an intensity of the audio signal. The layer of material is configured such that, when the audio signal that is received by the layer of material has a maximum sound level of approximately 90 decibels or greater, the attenuated audio signal exiting the layer of material has a maximum sound level between approximately 45 and 85 decibels.
US08891796B2	Apparatus and a method for providing sound An apparatus for providing sound. The apparatus includes a sound receiver for receiving sound and outputting an output signal, a first part comprising a signal generator for generating a second signal corresponding to the output signal, a second part comprising receiving means for receiving the second signal and outputting sound corresponding to the second signal, and an element for transporting the second signal from the signal generator to the receiving means. The transporting element comprises a sound guiding channel connected to the sound receiver and for guiding sound from outside the apparatus to the sound receiver along a portion of a length of the transporting element.
US08891794B1	Methods and devices for creating and modifying sound profiles for audio reproduction devices Method and devices for processing audio signals based on sound profiles are provided. A reproduction device can request a sound profile based on user information, device information, media metadata or a combination. The sound profiles can be customized and shared across multiple devices. User interfaces allow for the input of information that allows the reproduction device or a server in the cloud to select, modify, store, and analyze sound profiles. Deeper analysis allows for the improvement of sound profiles for individuals and groups. Intensity scoring of a music library can also be conducted.
US08891792B2	Bone conduction speaker and compound vibration device thereof The present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present invention and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader.
US08891789B2	Adjusting the loudness of an audio signal with perceived spectral balance preservation The loudness of an audio signal is adjusted while reducing changes in its perceived spectral balance, using a dynamically-controllable filter having a high-frequency response characteristic and a low-frequency response characteristic, controlled by dynamically-changing information on the desired gain in each of a plurality of frequency bands of the audio signal.
US08891787B2	POP noise suppressing circuit and its method A POP noise suppressing circuit includes a blocking capacitor, an outputting element connected to the blocking capacitor, a current generating unit, a charging unit connected to the current generating unit, a discharging unit connected to the current generating unit, a switching unit connected to the charging unit and the discharging unit and a power amplifying unit connected between the switching unit and the blocking capacitor. The current generating unit provides two slowly increasing currents respectively to the charging unit and the discharging unit. The switching unit is for switching between the charging unit and the discharging unit. The charging unit forms a charging current. The discharging unit forms a discharging current. The voltage of the blocking capacitor increases smoothly in a process of powering on and decreases smoothly in a process of powering off. A POP noise suppressing method is also provided.
US08891785B2	Processing signals Signals are received, over a range of angles, at an input of a device. The signals include a primary signal with a principal direction of arrival and an interfering signal with a respective interfering direction of arrival at the input. Measurements are determined for the received signals over the range of angles. Each measurement relates to a particular angle and indicating the energy of the received signals which are received from the particular angle. For each angle over the range of angles, a value is removed from the measurement for that angle, the value being based on the minimum of: (i) the energy of the measurement for that angle, and (ii) the energy of a corresponding measurement for a corresponding angle mirrored around the principal direction of arrival, whereby the remaining values of the plurality of measurements are indicative of said at least one interfering direction of arrival.
US08891782B2	Apparatus and method for sound focusing A sound focusing technique is provided to transfer sound to a particular direction. In a sound focusing apparatus, first and second speakers may be arranged to emit sound in opposite directions to form a sound zone. An amplitude and/or a phase of a received signal may be adjusted by a signal processing unit to assign the received signal and the adjusted signal to the first and second speakers, respectively.
US08891775B2	Method and encoder for processing a digital stereo audio signal The invention discloses a method and an encoder for processing a digital audio stereo signal. A digital audio encoder for coding such audio signal comprises a predictive Temporal Noise Shaping (TNS) filter, a Mid-/Side (M/S) coding unit, a control unit for determining a first prediction gain related to the unmodified L/R signal processed by the TNS filter and for determining a second prediction gain related to the M/S-coded L/R signal processed by the TNS filter, wherein the control unit is adapted to disable TNS-filtering—i.e. to bypass the TNS filter—for a current signal frame, if the first and second prediction gains differ by more than a pre-determined mismatch range. Preferably, the first and second prediction gains are determined from signal energy ratios calculated for each channel of the stereo signal including the signal energies of both the TNS-processed (unmodified) L- respectively (unmodified) R-signal and the TNS-processed M/S coded L- respectively M/S coded R-signal divided by the respective signal energies before TNS processing. Furthermore, the control unit is preferably adapted to overrule the disabling of the TNS filter, if the input signal is a near-mono audio signal exhibiting only low energy either in its M- or S-band. In that case, operation of the TNS filter on the stereo audio signal is maintained.
US08891773B2	System and method for key wrapping to allow secure access to media by multiple authorities with modifiable permissions Aspects of the disclosure pertain to a system and method for key wrapping via a storage system to allow secure access to media of the system by multiple authorities with modifiable permissions. The keys used to encrypt ranges of the drive are not stored in plaintext and are recoverable using the credentials of an administrator or user with access to that particular range. An outside attacker cannot recover these keys and a malicious user can only recover the keys to the ranges that user is allowed to access. This is maintained while allowing administrators to modify permissions at any time and, while allowing both administrators and users to change their credentials at any time.
US08891772B2	Cloud key escrow system Embodiments are directed to allowing a user to store encrypted, third-party-accessible data in a data store and to providing third party data access to a user's encrypted data according to a predefined policy. A data storage system receives encrypted data from a user at a data storage system. The data is encrypted using the user's private key. The data storage system stores the received encrypted data according to a predefined policy. The encryption prevents the storage system from gaining access to the encrypted data, while the policy allows the encrypted data to be released upon receiving a threshold number of requests from verified third parties. The data storage system implements a verifiable secret sharing scheme to verify that the encrypted data can be reconstituted without the data storage system accessing the encrypted data. The data storage system synchronously acknowledges that the received encrypted data has been verified and successfully stored.
US08891766B2	Input consistency verification for two-party secure function evaluation Secure function evaluation SFE) with input consistency verification is performed by two parties to evaluate a function. For each execution, the first party computes a garbled circuit corresponding to the function and uses an Oblivious Transfer protocol to provide wire secrets that are an encrypted version ki of the input xi of the second party. The second party stores the encrypted version ki of the input xi of the second party for the plurality of executions. The second party receives the garbled circuit for computation of an output, which is sent to the first party. To verify the inputs of the second party for two executions, the first party computes a check garbled circuit corresponding to a verification function based on the input keys of the garbled circuits being verified; and sends the check garbled circuit to the second party for computation of a verification output. The verification output is computed by applying the stored encrypted versions ki for the two executions to the check garbled circuit. The verification output is evaluated to verify the inputs xi of the second party for the two executions.
US08891765B1	Method, manufacture, and apparatus for content decryption module A method, apparatus, and manufacture for a content decryption module (CDM) is provided. A user agent loads a web application. The web application gets a license for encrypted media content. The web application instructs a media stack of the user agent to play the encrypted media content. The license is sent from the web application to the media stack. Next, the license is sent from the media stack to the CDM. The media stack and the CDM are distinct binaries from each other. Encrypted data is sent from the media stack to the CDM. The encrypted data includes at least a portion of the encrypted media content. Next, the CDM provides decrypted data by decrypting the encrypted data.
US08891761B2	Block encryption device, decryption device, encrypting method, decrypting method and program A block encrypting device of the present invention includes: a mixing means (101) that applies universal hash function-based permutation to the (n+m)-bit plaintext to generate a first intermediate variable of n bits and a second intermediate variable of m bits; a first tweakable unit block encrypting means (102) that encrypts the first intermediate variable by use of an encrypting function of an m-bit tweakable n-bit block cipher, using the second intermediate variable as the tweak to generate a third intermediate variable of m bits and a fourth intermediate variable of (n−m) bits; a second tweakable unit block encrypting means (103) that encrypts an n-bit intermediate variable formed by connecting the second intermediate variable and the fourth intermediate variable, by use of the encrypting function, using the third intermediate variable as the tweak to generate a fifth intermediate variable of n bits; and an inverse mixing means (104) that applies universal hash function-based inverse-permutation to result obtained by connecting the third intermediate variable and the fifth intermediate variable to generate (n+m)-bit ciphertext.
US08891758B2	Block encryption device and method and computer program In block cipher based on generalized Feistel network, pseudorandomness and strong-pseudorandomness may be fulfilled efficiently. In encrypting a plaintext of kn-bit blocks, Feistel permutation is applied in terms of 2n bits as a unit, and then block-based permutation based on a binary de Bruijn graph with symmetrical type 2 branch coloring is applied. The Feistel permutation and the block-based permutation are grouped together to form a round. The round is repeatedly performed a preset number of times to output a ciphertext.
US08891757B2	Programmable cryptographic integrated circuit A cryptographic integrated circuit including a programmable main processor for executing cryptographic functions, an internal memory, and a data transmission bus to which the main processor and the internal memory are electrically connected. The cryptographic integrated circuit also includes a programmable arithmetic coprocessor that has specific hardware arithmetic units each being designed to carry out a predetermined arithmetical operation. The programmable arithmetic coprocessor is separate from the main processor and is also electrically connected to the data transmission bus.
US08891756B2	Collision-resistant elliptic curve hash functions Elliptic curve hash functions are provided which do not require a pre-existing hash function, such as that required by the MuHash. The elliptic curve hash functions can be built from scratch and are collision free and can be incremental. In one embodiment, rather than a pre-existing hash function, the identity function with padding is used; and in another embodiment, rather than a pre-existing hash function, a block cipher with a fixed non-secret key is used.
US08891755B2	Telephone set and method of controlling off-hook/on-hook state of the telephone set The present disclosure discloses a telephone set and a method of controlling off-hook/on-hook state of a telephone set, and belongs to the field of communications devices. The telephone set includes a handle and a host, where the handle includes a first switch, and the host includes a second switch. According to the present disclosure, the first switch is added on the handle of the telephone set, the second switch is correspondingly added into the host of the telephone set, and a state of the first switch is used to control the second switch to send an off-hook/on-hook signal, so as to enable the telephone set to be off-hook/on-hook.
US08891751B2	Method and apparatus for providing call parking A method and apparatus for providing call parking for a communication network are disclosed. The method first determines a disconnection of a first party's endpoint device, wherein said first party is either a calling party or a called party. The method then determines if said disconnection of said first party's endpoint device is due to hanging up. If said disconnection is not due to hanging up, the method parks a second party wherein said second party is either a calling party or a called party communicating with said first party prior to said disconnection. The method determines if said first party's device is back online and reconnects said first party and second party if said first party's device is back online.
US08891750B2	Identifying recycled telephone numbers An automated method begins by receiving a list of numbers that have been de-activated by a carrier. Periodically, and for each number, a request is made to identify a current carrier for the number. If the current carrier matches the carrier that provided the de-activation information, the mobile number is considered to be in a first state, i.e., shut off and returned to a pool of numbers that are available to this same carrier. Upon a determination that the number is in the first state, the provider issues a request to any opt-in database to delete any express consent or other similar data associated with the number. If, however, the number does not match the carrier of deactivation, the number is considered to be in a second state, i.e., likely to have been ported by the same user to a new carrier. This state is logged in an audit trail.
US08891748B2	System and method for establishing a call A system and method for providing a voice communication service between a first user and a second user after the first user and the second user are communicating via a non-voice communication service is described. The non-voice communication service may be processed through a server in communication with the first and second users. The non-voice communication service is monitored for a voice service request, and upon receipt of the voice service request, establishment of a voice communication service is initiated between the first and second users through the server. The first and second users may be anonymous to each other over the non-voice communication service and the voice communication service.
US08891746B2	System and method for profitable operation of an unlimited communications plan A system and method for profitably operating communications services may include providing a service plan inclusive of at least a portion of the communications services being unlimited for a user. A computing system may collect usage data of the user during a time period associated with the unlimited portion of the service plan. The computing system may determine whether the usage data is indicative of the user using the communications services in violation of service terms and conditions associated with the unlimited portion of the service plan. The computing system may perform an action in response to determining that the user is in violation of the terms and conditions.
US08891744B2	Cloud computing call centers Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a cloud computing call center that may provide a multi-tenanted platform for scalable, dynamic allocation of telephony, PBX, and call center capabilities. Embodiments of the invention include implementations of a software telephony switch in a cloud computing environment that may dynamically allocate software based PBXes, virtual interactive voice responses (IVRs), and other system components to particular calls.
US08891737B2	Call management interfaces Systems, methods and computer program products for generating and displaying various user interfaces for configuring one or more call handling rules associated with managing virtual PBX services rendered at an extension are described. The user interfaces can be used to configure virtual PBX services for a single- or multi-extension environment. The virtual PBX services can provide, for example, a main number, and calls made to the main number can be managed according to one or more sets of call handling rules associated with the virtual PBX services and which can be configured through the user interfaces. The user interfaces can be web-based interfaces accessible through a browser, and can be accessed only after a user or administrator has setup and activated the virtual PBX services.
US08891736B2	Method and device for clustering lines of a wireline network in a number of virtual binders A method and a device for clustering lines of a wireline network in a number of virtual binders includes obtaining a noise value samples pertaining to different lines of the wireline network at substantially coinciding sampling moments, detecting corresponding features in these series, determining degrees of correlation between these features, and assigning the lines to one or more virtual binders on the basis of their mutual degrees of correlation.
US08891733B2	Power and communication interface between a digital X-ray detector and an X-ray imaging system A system for eliminating image artifacts caused by electromagnetic interference (EMI) on a portable digital x-ray detector that is capable of non-contact wireless inductively coupled power transfer. An X-ray imaging system comprising a portable digital X-ray detector having detector circuitry coupled to at least one receiver coil, and a power source including a power supply coupled to a signal filter device and coupled to at least one transmitter coil, wherein the power source is coupled to a detector receptacle of the X-ray imaging system, and wherein the at least one receiver coil and the at least one transmitter coil are inductively coupled to each other when the portable digital X-ray detector is located within the detector receptacle of the X-ray imaging system to transfer power from the power supply to the detector circuitry.
US08891726B2	Multiple-source imaging system with flat-panel detector When performing nuclear (e.g., SPECT or PET) and CT scans on a patient, an imaging system (10) includes three or more carbon nanotube x-ray sources (20) are circumferentially spaced along an arc of a rotatable gantry (16) that spans a distance larger than a maximum cross-sectional dimension of a section of a patient (14) to be imaged. The x-ray sources are sequentially pulsed to emit x-rays for scanning a section of a patient (14) including a volume of interest (VOI) (13). Only one source (20) is in an ON state at a time to create a duty cycle, which reduces cooling time for the respective sources as well as radiation dose to the subject. X-rays traversing the patient (14) are received at a flat panel x-ray detector (22) that has a width smaller than the maximum cross-sectional dimension, which further reduces the weight and size of the system (10).
US08891724B2	Dual-cooled nuclear fuel rod having annular plugs and method of manufacturing the same A dual-cooled nuclear fuel rod and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The nuclear fuel rod includes an outer cladding tube having a circular cross section, an inner cladding tube having an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the outer cladding tube, and a length longer than the outer cladding tube, and located in parallel in the outer cladding tube, a pellet charged in a space between the outer and inner cladding tubes and generating energy by nuclear fission, and first and second end plugs coupling opposite ends of the outer cladding tube to stepped outer joints formed on outer circumferences of first ends thereof and coupling opposite ends of the inner cladding tube to stepped inner joints formed on inner circumferences of the first ends thereof.
US08891723B2	Stable startup system for a nuclear reactor A nuclear reactor module includes a reactor vessel containing coolant, a reactor core submerged in the coolant, and a heat exchanger configured to remove heat from the coolant. The nuclear reactor module further includes one or more heaters configured to add heat to the coolant during a startup operation and prior to the reactor core going critical.
US08891722B2	Support apparatus for supporting dosimetry system in proximity to reactor apparatus An improved support apparatus is structured to support a dosimetry system within an interior region of a containment apparatus. The dosimetry system is supported in a region between an interior surface of the containment apparatus and an exterior surface of a reactor apparatus that is disposed within the interior of the containment apparatus. The support apparatus includes a retention apparatus having a plurality of brace elements that each have a receptacle formed therein. The receptacles are aligned with one another when installed within the interior of the containment apparatus. The support apparatus further includes a tube apparatus that includes a plurality of tube segments that are connectable together. The dosimetry system is situated within an elongated cavity formed in the tube apparatus. The tube apparatus is situated in the receptacles and thereby supports the dosimetry system on the containment apparatus.
US08891719B2	Systems and methods for plasma compression with recycling of projectiles Embodiments of systems and methods for compressing plasma are disclosed in which plasma can be compressed by impact of a projectile on a magnetized plasma in a liquid metal cavity. The projectile can melt in the liquid metal cavity, and liquid metal may be recycled to form new projectiles.
US08891714B2	System and method for synchronizing digital bits in a data stream A system for synchronizing a receiver of a bit stream to the bit stream include a correlator to remove the PN code modulation and to generate a stream of time sequence values (samples) from the received bits. Multiple accumulators are included, each accumulator corresponding to a different offset from a first time period. The accumulators add a number of values equal to a number of samples in a bit period. Multiple magnitude calculators receive sums from the corresponding accumulators and calculates respective magnitudes. Multiple non-coherent summers are then used to add the magnitudes for each offset in each bit period for all of the received bits. The outputs of the non-coherent summers are analyzed to find the highest value, to identify the location of the bit transition in the bit period.
US08891709B2	Adaptive equalization and interference cancellation with time-varying noise and/or interference A method and apparatus is disclosed to compensate for interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communication signal in the presence of one or more time-varying noise and/or interference conditions. A communications receiver includes a noise analyzer to characterize the composition of the interference and/or the distortion and produce a selection signal indicating the composition of the interference and/or the distortion. The communications receiver selects at least one set of equalization coefficients and/or updates at least one parameter of a least-squares algorithm or the suitable equivalent algorithm to compensate for the interference and/or the distortion impressed onto a transmitted communication signal in the presence of a particular time-varying noise and/or interference condition.
US08891707B2	Receiving device and method thereof A receiving device includes: a mixer module arranged to receive an input signal to generate a down-converted output; a first active filter, the first active filter arranged to receive the down-converted output and perform an active filtering process upon the down-converted output to generate a first filtered output; a passive filter, the passive filter arranged to receive the first filtered output and perform a passive filtering process upon the first filtered output to generate a second filtered output; and a processing circuit, the processing circuit arranged to receive the second filtered output and process the second filtered output to generate an output signal corresponding to the input signal.
US08891705B1	Methods for signal processing to reduce inter-symbol-interference A method for processing a signal by a receiver, comprises the steps of: receiving the signal by the receiver, calculating one or more symbols based on the received signal; determining a multipath delay spread from the received signal; rebuilding one or more of the calculated symbols as a function of the multipath delay spread; and processing the rebuilt symbols for decoding by the receiver.
US08891704B2	Transimpedance amplifier with equalization In one embodiment, a method includes applying, by a transimpedance amplifier at a receiving end of a communication link, equalization to a signal carried by the communication link at the receiving end of the communication link.
US08891702B2	Quantization of channel state information in multiple antenna systems A method of transmission over multiple wireless channels in a multiple antenna system includes storing channel modulation matrices at a transmitter; receiving quantized channel state information at the transmitter from plural receivers; selecting a transmission modulation matrix using the quantized channel state information from the stored channel modulation matrices; and transmitting over the multiple channels to the plural receivers using the selected transmission modulation matrix. In another embodiment, the method includes storing, at one or more receivers, indexes of modulation matrices generated by a capacity enhancing algorithm; upon a selected one of the one or more receivers receiving a transmission from the transmitter, the selected receiver selecting a modulation matrix from the stored modulation matrices that optimizes transmission between the transmitter and the selected receiver; the selected receiver sending an index representing the selected modulation matrix; and receiving the index at the transmitter from the selected receiver.
US08891701B1	Nonlinearity compensation for reception of OFDM signals An electronic receiver may comprise nonlinear distortion modeling circuitry, interference estimation circuitry, and sequence estimation circuitry. The receiver may receive an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in the form of an electromagnetic signal. The nonlinear distortion modeling circuitry may generate a nonlinear distortion model that models nonlinear distortion introduced to the received electromagnetic signal en route to the sequence estimation circuitry. The interference estimation circuitry may estimate inter-subcarrier interference present in the received OFDM symbol based on the generated nonlinear distortion model. The estimating of the inter-subcarrier interference may comprise applying the nonlinear distortion model to one or more candidate vectors generated by the sequence estimation circuitry. The sequence estimation circuitry may sequentially process a plurality of received virtual subcarrier values of the OFDM symbol using the estimated inter-subcarrier interference.
US08891700B1	Method for detecting, classifying, and reducing interference in wireless networks Interference in a wireless network is detected by first applying during a detection stage a two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test to samples obtained from a channel in the wireless network to obtain a KS statistic. When the KS statistic is larger than a predetermine threshold, it is determined that the samples include narrowband interference, and wideband otherwise.
US08891696B1	Wireless sensor with fast correlator A wireless sensor with fast correlator to detect a known pattern. The wireless sensor with fast correlator comprises a wireless receiver with bank of detectors and bank of correlators, a receive signal strength measurement circuit, and a control processor with timing counter. The fast correlator comprises of a shift register, an array of ENXOs gates, an array of AND gates and Delays and a final AND gate. The control processor utilizes the received information, received signal strength and timing information to estimate and calculate various environmental parameters which can be used to activate different devices.
US08891689B2	Demodulating data streams Embodiments for demodulating data streams are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a multiple-input device, a plurality of data streams. The method also includes determining a degree of correlation among the plurality of data streams. The method also includes selecting a demodulator based on the degree of correlation.
US08891685B2	Reference voltage generator for single-ended communication systems In various embodiments, a reference voltage (Vref) generator for a single-ended receiver in a communication system is disclosed. The Vref generator in one example comprises a cascoded current source for providing a current, I, to a resistor, Rb, to produce the Vref voltage (I*Rb). Because the current source isolates Vref from a first of two power supplies, Vref will vary only with the second power supply coupled to Rb. As such, the Vref generator is useful in systems employing signaling referenced to that second supply but having decoupled first supplies. For example, in a communication system in which the second supply (e.g., Vssq) is common to both devices, but the first supply (Vddq) is not, the disclosed Vref generator produces a value for Vref that tracks Vssq but not the first supply.
US08891682B2	Harmonic elimination mixer A mixer for the elimination of harmonic mixing in signal transmission is presented. The mixer incorporates a mixing unit and a modulation output unit. The mixing unit receives an input signal and a modulated signal, and outputs an output signal after signal mixing. The modulation output unit is for the generation of modulated signals, which are usually pulse-width modulated. The modulation output unit includes a delta sigma modulator and a digital domain code generator. The delta sigma modulator outputs the modulated signal responding to the received oscillation signal and digital domain code, the digital domain code generator generates the digital domain code in order to provide digital domain sine wave code for the use of the delta sigma modulator. The oscillation signal may be a signal of constant hi-frequency, or a signal that has a frequency larger or equal to that of the input signal by an integer factor.
US08891674B2	Digital transmission system for transmitting additional data and method thereof A digital transmission system is provided. The system includes a transmission signal generation unit which generates transmission signals by loading data to be transmitted on carrier waves; and an additional data processing unit which loads a low power signal expressing additional data on the carrier waves on which the data is loaded by the transmission signal generation unit. The system may be embodied as an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system such as a Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) system, or a single carrier system such as a Vestigial Sideband (VSB) system.
US08891672B1	Method and apparatus for maximizing power output based on linearity of a transmitter A transceiver including a filter, a transmitter, a receiver, a measurement module and a gain module. The filter is configured to (i) receive an input signal, and (ii) filter the input signal to generate an output signal. The transmitter is configured to transmit the output signal based on (i) a gain of the transmitter, and (ii) a power output of the transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive the output signal, where the output signal is fed back from the transmitter to the receiver. The measurement module is configured to, based on the output signal, generate a linearity signal, where the linearity signal is indicative of the linearity of the transmitter. The gain module is configured to, based on the linearity signal, adjust the gain of the transmitter to maximize the power output of the transmitter. The filter is configured to filter the input signal based on the linearity signal.
US08891671B2	Method, apparatus and system for calibrating channel A method for calibrating a channel which includes: performing slide-window correlation on a delayed downlink service signal of a current transmit channel and a feedback signal of the transmit channel, and performing sampling to obtain a group of correlation values of the transmit channel in a sliding window; determining a peak amplitude value among amplitude values of the group of correlation values in the sliding window, and amplitude values at two points that are left adjacent and right adjacent to a point corresponding to the peak amplitude value; performing an interpolation operation on the peak amplitude value and the amplitude values at the two points that are left adjacent and right adjacent to the point to obtain an amplitude value, a delay and a phase at an actual peak point in the group of correlation values of the transmit channel in the sliding window; and calibrating the transmit channel.
US08891663B2	Method and apparatus for providing high speed data communications in a cellular environment A method and apparatus for transmitting digital data in a cellular environment. Adjacent cells of the cellular system are prevented from simultaneously transmitting data. Because the noise from transmissions of adjacent cells is a primary source of interference, the transmission rate of power limited base stations can be dramatically increased when the noise from adjacent cells is eliminated. The transmissions to each subscriber station are made at a fixed transmission power level. However, the data rate of transmitted signals differs from one subscriber station to another depending the path loss differences. In a first exemplary embodiment, the data rate of transmissions to a subscriber station is determined by selecting an encoding rate for the transmitted signal while holding the symbol rate constant. In a second exemplary embodiment, the data rate of transmissions to a subscriber station is determined by selection a modulation format for the transmitted signal which directly changes the symbol rate of transmission to a subscriber station.
US08891661B2	Techniques for data transmission using high-order modulation Techniques for data transmission using high-order modulation are provided. According to one aspect, parameters of a transmission link are determined, and a multilevel coding scheme and a high-order modulation signal constellation are selected on the basis of the determined parameters. An information indicating the selected multilevel coding scheme and high-order modulation signal constellation and data symbols encoded according to the selected multilevel coding scheme and high-order modulation signal constellation are transmitted. In other aspects, QPSK data symbols are embedded between M-QAM data symbols or M-PSK data symbols with M>4. The QPSK data symbols may be used to improve the efficiency of the decoding process.
US08891660B1	Onboard activity influenced multi-antenna pairing system for mobile communication platform A system includes a vehicle and logic that performs predictive pairing of multiple antenna of the vehicle with multiple fixed antenna of a port the vehicle is approaching, the predictive pairing performed using data obtained about the multiple fixed antenna obtained via a satellite, the predictive pairing prioritizing maximum spatial diversity in the pairings of the antenna of the vehicle with the fixed antenna.
US08891652B2	Structured MIMO codebook Provided is a method of wireless communication which includes selecting a codebook from a plurality of codebooks in accordance with an antenna characteristic, and transmitting an indication of the selected codebook. Each of the plurality of codebooks is associated with one of a plurality of antenna characteristics. In some designs, channel state information is received from a user equipment. The channel state information may be used to determine downlink scheduling and/or precoding. In some designs, the channel state information may include feedback elements associated with different subband granularity. The feedback elements may also indicate a selection of a subset of precoder column vectors and/or a phase offset between two groups of transmit antennas.
US08891649B2	Apparatus and method for saving power consumption in broadband wireless communication system An apparatus and method reduce power consumption in a broadband wireless communication system. A transmitting end apparatus that includes a plurality of transmit (Tx) antennas includes a control block, a Processor (DSP) block, a modem block, and at least one power controller. The control block determines a traffic amount based on an amount of used resources. The Digital Signal Processor (DSP) block performs scheduling by using a subset of Tx antennas and a subset of resources on a frequency axis if the traffic amount is less than a threshold. The modem block applies boosting to a signal transmitted using the subset of resources. And at least one controller turns off an operation of at least one power amplifier that corresponds to at least one Tx antenna that is not included in the subset of Tx antennas.
US08891648B2	System for transmitting and receiving channel state information A system for transmitting and receiving Channel State Information (CSI) is provided, in which a terminal receives a pilot signal transmitted from a transmitter, the terminal estimates CSI of part of downlink channels based on the received pilot signal, the terminal superposes the CSI of part of downlink channels onto a uplink sounding signal orthogonally, and transmits them together; the transmitter obtains the CSI of the rest part of downlink channels by estimating the uplink sounding signal, the transmitter performs orthogonal de-multiplexing on the received signal to obtain the CSI of the part of downlink channels, the transmitter, by using the CSI of the two parts of downlink channels, pre-codes downlink data and transmits it to the terminal.
US08891646B2	Method, apparatus, and system for using common and demodulation pilot signals in multi-antenna wireless communications Multiple antennas employed at transmitting and receiving nodes can significantly increase a MIMO system capacity, especially when channel knowledge of link(s) between the transmitting and receiving nodes is available at the transmitting node. Channel knowledge may be acquired through feedback provided by the receiving node based on a plurality of common pilots transmitted by the transmitting node. The common pilots may include legacy and non-legacy pilots. If the feedback indicates that data demodulation at the receiving node can be enhanced, the transmitting node may also transmit demodulation pilot signal(s), which may coincide with the transmission of data. The receiving node can use the demodulation pilot signal(s), alone or with the common pilot signal(s), to demodulate data received from the transmitting node. The transmitting node may notify the receiving node to monitor for the demodulation pilot signal(s) through higher layer signaling and/or scheduling orders over a control channel.
US08891645B2	Systems/methods of carrier aggregation providing increased capacity communications Various embodiments of carrier aggregation are provided that increase communications capacity and throughput. Responsive to an aggregate bandwidth of a signal that is to be transmitted exceeding a limit associated with an antenna and/or other element of a transmitter, the signal is decomposed/segmented/divided into a plurality of components each one of which comprises a bandwidth that is smaller than the bandwidth of the signal. Accordingly, the transmitter is configured with a corresponding plurality of antennas and/or corresponding plurality of other elements to transmit the plurality of components. Systems/methods of spatial multiplexing are also provided further increasing network capacity and throughput.
US08891644B2	Communication apparatus and communication method A serial-parallel converter generates a subcarrier modulation signal from a modulation signal which is generated from the input signal by a modulator. An IFFT unit performs an inverse fast Fourier transformation on the subcarrier modulation signal. A divider divides a calculation result to generate first subdata. A disperser adds dispersion coefficients to elements of first subdata. A sorter generates second subdata from post-dispersion first subdata. An operator performs a predetermined calculation using elements in the same line of the post-dispersion first subdata and second subdata. A corrector subtracts correction coefficients from elements of post-average first subdata. A synthesizer arranges post-correction first subdata in positions at the time of division and synthesizes them to generate a baseband signal. A transmitter generates a transmission signal to transmit.
US08891643B2	Method and apparatus for allocating transmission power in multi input multi output system A method and apparatus for allocating transmission power in a transmission terminal having at least one antenna of a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system are provided. The method includes: measuring inter-stream interference of a plurality of streams; measuring inter-user interference of a plurality of users; and determining the transmission power based on the inter-stream interference and the inter-user interference, wherein the transmission power is determined using an iterative water-filling algorithm in which the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) system is iteratively applied to all of the plurality of streams and all of the plurality of users. According to the present invention, several receive antennas are mounted in the MIMO system, thereby making it possible to receive multiple streams. In addition, when the multiple streams are received, transmission power may be allocated to each transmission stream.
US08891642B2	Mixed mode preamble for MIMO wireless communications A preamble of a frame for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication for a first transmit antenna of the MIMO communication includes a legacy preamble portion in accordance with a legacy wireless communication protocol. The preamble of the frame for the MIMO wireless communication for the first transmit antenna also includes a current protocol preamble portion in accordance with a protocol of the MIMO wireless communication. The preamble of a frame for at least a second antenna of the MIMO communication includes a cyclically shifted legacy preamble portion for the frame. The preamble of the frame for the MIMO wireless communication for the second transmit antenna also includes a second current protocol preamble portion in accordance with a protocol of the MIMO wireless communication.
US08891641B2	OFDM modulated wave transmitter apparatus, OFDM modulated wave transmission method, and program In an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) modulated wave transmitter apparatus, a symbol mapping circuit and a serial/parallel (S/P) converter generate an OFDM symbol signal from transmission data. An inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) circuit, a parallel/serial (P/S) converting and guard interval (GI) adding circuit, a timing adjusting circuit, a digital/analog (D/A) converter, a frequency converter, a local oscillator and an analog filter generate an OFDM modulated wave signal from the OFDM symbol signal. A power amplifier (PA) control circuit limits a band of the OFDM symbol signal and generates a PS control signal and a PA control signal. A PA designates a voltage supplied from a DC/DC converter as a PS voltage and amplifies and outputs the OFDM modulated wave signal based on the PA control signal.
US08891637B2	Spectral shaping to reduce peak-to-average ratio in wireless communication Techniques for performing spectral shaping to achieve a desired peak-to-average ratio (PAR) are described. Spectral shaping may be selectively performed for a single-carrier frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDM) signal based on one or more criteria, e.g., in transmit power limited conditions and/or if a modulation scheme with lower PAR is unavailable. At least one parameter of a window function or spectral shaping filter may also be adjusted based on at least one characteristic of the SC-FDM signal. For example, the roll-off of the spectral shaping filter may be adjusted based on the modulation scheme and/or the number of subcarriers used for the SC-FDM signal. A transmitter may perform spectral shaping on modulation symbols, if enabled, to obtain spectrally shaped symbols. Spectral shaping may be performed in the frequency domain either within an allocated bandwidth or with bandwidth expansion. The SC-FDM signal may be generated based on the spectrally shaped symbols.
US08891633B2	Video compression for high efficiency video coding using a reduced resolution image Method for multi-level motion estimation in block-based video coding. The method is targeted to HEVC specifications of video compression, however, may be used with other video coding standards.
US08891629B2	Filter process in compression/decompression of digital video systems A method for calculating pixel values of interpolated pixel positions located between integer pixel positions in frames of a video picture by a predefined filter operation, the method including: storing the pixel values of the integer pixel position; determining to which of a number of predefined resolution formats the video picture is adapted; defining a fixed width (W) and fixed height value (H) for the frames corresponding to a resolution format determined by the determining; loading a first set of memory addresses for the memory of the video processing apparatus corresponding to a plurality of the pixel values of integer pixel positions; and executing a filter operation on the plurality of the pixel values of integer pixel positions and calculating a plurality of the pixel values of the interpolated pixel positions.
US08891628B2	Methods for encoding and decoding a signal of images, corresponding encoding and decoding devices, signal and computer programs A method is provided for encoding an image signal that includes motion information, by selecting a motion vector from among a set of at least three candidate vectors for at least one actual block of an actual image to be encoded. The method includes: determining an optimal-selection subset containing some of the candidate vectors; selecting the motion vector from among the vectors of the optimal-selection subset; and inserting into the signal a piece of information designating the motion vector selected from among the vectors of the optimal-selection subset.
US08891625B2	Stabilization method for vibrating video frames A method of performing video stabilization may be applied to unstable frames captured by a vibrating camera. The method includes checking if the frame is vibrating and calculating a degree of vibration for compensating a vibration area. Based on block motion estimation, a feature block selected from nine fixed observation blocks is used to obtain a vibration vector. The vibration vector is used to adjust the vibration frame for restoring the frame.
US08891621B2	Image coding apparatus and image coding method To use both intraframe prediction coding and interframe prediction coding, and at the same time restrict a transfer volume of reference data used in motion detection in interframe prediction coding. In a coding apparatus that compression-codes moving images, both intraframe prediction coding and interframe prediction coding are applied and prediction coding is carried out using a prediction image produced by the coding system deemed to have the higher coding efficiency.
US08891620B2	Picture coding device, picture coding method, picture coding program, picture decoding device, picture decoding method, and picture decoding program There is provided a picture coding device that performs intra prediction coding of a picture signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal in units of blocks and codes information relating to an intra prediction mode. When the intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of coding blocks, in a case where a chroma format is 4:2:2, in a mode for setting a chroma intra prediction mode in accordance with the luma intra prediction mode, an intra prediction unit sets the chroma intra prediction mode based on the luma intra prediction mode and the chroma format and makes an intra prediction of the chroma signal.

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