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US09084384B2	Component supply method in component mounting device A method includes: detecting a splice by splicing in a tape feed process of supplying a component by pitch-feeding the carrier tape; and performing data processing of writing splice component information over in-use component information when the splice is detected, and rewriting only a number of remaining component of the in-use component information by means of the number of remaining component of the splice component information without issuing a component depletion alarm when the splice is not detected and when the number of remaining component in the in-use component information has decreased to a predetermined value.
US09084383B2	Variable stiffness chassis for ultrathin devices An information handling system (IHS) chassis includes a chassis base. A center portion of the chassis base comprises at least ninety-five weight percent of a first metal element that is one of Aluminum or Magnesium. An edge section of the chassis base extends around the circumference of the chassis base adjacent the center portion. The edge section is comprised of an alloyed material that includes the first metal element and at least five weight percent of at least one second metal element that is selected from the group including Lithium, Titanium, Tungsten, Chromium, Hafnium, Lanthanum, and Ytterbium. The center portion and the edge section may comprise a first layer of the chassis base, and a second layer may be bonded to the first layer. In one example including the second layer, the first metal element is Magnesium and the second layer is at least ninety-five weight percent of Aluminum.
US09084379B2	Process for fabricating wiring board A process for fabricating a wiring board is provided. In the process, a wiring carrying substrate including a carry substrate and a wiring layer is formed. Next, at least one blind via is formed in the wiring carrying substrate. Next, the wiring carrying substrate is laminated to another wiring carrying substrate via an insulation layer. The insulation layer is disposed between the wiring layers of the wiring carrying substrates and full fills the blind via. Next, parts of the carry substrates are removed to expose the insulation layer in the blind via. Next, a conductive pillar connected between the wiring layers is formed. Next, the rest carry substrates are removed.
US09084376B2	Heat sink cooling arrangement for multiple power electronic circuits The present invention relates generally to tuning the flow of cooling air across converter and inverter heat sinks in a motor drive system. More specifically, present techniques relate to motor drive duct systems including heat sinks with separate, sequential heat sink fin sections disposed in a common cooling air path and having different geometries to optimize the flow of cooling air across and between fins of the separate heat sink fin sections. For example, the heat sink fin sections may have different fin lengths, fin heights, fin counts, fin pitch (e.g., distance between adjacent fins), and so forth. Each of these different geometric characteristics may be tuned to ensure that temperatures and temperature gradients across the heat sinks are maintained within acceptable ranges.
US09084375B2	Airflow module and data storage device enclosure An airflow module for being received in a module bay of a data storage device enclosure is disclosed. The airflow module comprises a body having: a first face having a first opening therein; a second face having a second opening therein, the first face being adjacent to the second face; and, an airflow channel between the first opening and the second opening so as to allow the passage of air between the first opening and the second opening. The first and second openings are arranged to co-operate with airflow openings in modules positioned in adjacent bays of a said data storage device enclosure to direct a cooling stream of air between said modules in use. The airflow channel is free from components that generate substantial amounts of heat in their normal operation.
US09084374B2	Electronic device and electronic instrument An electronic device includes: a plurality of slots where a plurality of electronic instruments are mountable; and an electronic instrument inserted in any of the plurality of slots; wherein the electronic instrument includes a flow rate limiting member that protrudes to a side of an adjacent slot where no electronic instrument is mounted and limits a flow rate of cooling air flowing through the adjacent slot.
US09084373B2	Thermally conductive adhesive A thermally conductive adhesive having: a thermosetting adhesive containing a curable component and a curing agent for the curable component, and a metal filler dispersed in the thermosetting adhesive uses a silver powder and a solder powder as the metal filler. The solder powder to be used has a melting temperature lower than the thermal curing temperature of the thermally conductive adhesive and produces a high-melting-point solder alloy having a melting point higher than the melting temperature of the solder powder when the solder powder is reacted with the silver powder under thermal curing conditions of the thermally conductive adhesive. A curing agent having flux activity to the metal filler is used as the curing agent.
US09084368B2	Single FPC board for connecting multiple modules and touch sensitive display module using the same A single flexible printed circuit (FPC) board for connecting multiple modules including a thin film is provided. The thin film has a first module connecting portion, a second module connecting portion and a third module connecting portion. The first module connecting portion is located on a first side of the thin film. The second module connecting portion and the third module connecting portion are located on a second side of the thin film. The first side is opposite to the second side. At least one first line is disposed between the first module connecting portion and the second module connecting portion. At least one second line is disposed between the first module connecting portion and the third module connecting portion.
US09084366B2	Electric component having a shallow physical shape, and method of manufacture Electric components and methods of manufacture are specified. An electric component comprises a carrier having a recess which penetrates the carrier and also a first chip and external contact area. The first chip is arranged in the recess in the carrier. The external contact area is provided for connecting up the first chip to an external circuit environment.
US09084364B2	Printed circuit board and printed wiring board On a surface layer of a printed wiring board, main power supply patterns to be applied with different DC voltages are disposed in a second region. Power supply patterns are disposed on the surface layer, and the power supply patterns are led from the main power supply patterns to a first region. The power supply patterns connect power supply terminals of terminal groups in the second region. The power supply patterns connect the power supply terminals between the terminal groups in the first region. Power supply terminals of the terminal groups of a semiconductor package are electrically connected to the main power supply patterns by the power supply patterns. Thus, potential fluctuations are reduced and radiation noise is suppressed, and the number of layers of the printed wiring board is reduced.
US09084362B2	Reducing impedance of a printed circuit board through a square wave pattern of plated-through holes Disclosed are a method and system to reduce impedance of printed circuit boards through an interconnecting of printed circuit boards using a square wave pattern of plated-through holes. A method of connecting a first printed circuit board to a second printed circuit board comprises forming a square wave pattern of the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board and adjoining the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board. The method also involves producing plated-through holes along the square wave pattern, a top section, and/or a bottom section of the adjoined first printed circuit board and second printed circuit board. The method further involves securing the top section and the bottom section using a first metal clip and a second metal clip, respectively, and connecting the first printed circuit board to the second printed circuit board by a wave soldering process.
US09084359B2	Wired circuit board having enhanced contrast between conductive pattern and insulating layer during inspection A method for producing a wired circuit board includes the steps of preparing a metal supporting layer; forming an insulating layer on the metal supporting layer; roughening the surface of the insulating layer; forming a conductive pattern on the insulating layer; and inspecting the presence or absence of a defect of the conductive pattern by using an inspection device provided with a light emitting portion emitting incident light that enters the insulating layer and the conductive pattern and a light receiving portion receiving reflected light that is reflected from the incident light. The incident light has a wavelength in the range of 435 to 500 nm and includes inclined light that inclines so as to form an angle of more than 0° to not more than 30° with respect to the optical axis thereof.
US09084358B2	Subsea pressure compensation system A system for pressure compensation, e.g., for pressure compensation in a subsea environment, may include a fluid filled enclosure surrounding a cavity, a first pressure compensator having a first chamber and a second chamber, the first chamber being in fluid communication with the cavity, and a second pressure compensator having a third chamber and a fourth chamber, wherein the third chamber of the second pressure compensator is in fluid communication with the second chamber of the first pressure compensator.
US09084356B2	Portable electronics case An improved, self-supporting portable electronics case for withstanding impact forces, dead loads and torsional forces, the case comprising a first plate having a first surface, a second surface, and at least one first sidewall defining at least one opening extending between the first surface and the second surface, and a first set of flanges. The case further includes a second plate having a third surface, a fourth surface, at least one second sidewall defining at least one opening extending between the third surface and the fourth surface, and a second set of flanges extending from the second plate; and at least one spacer joined to the first set of flanges and the second set of flanges.
US09084355B2	Flexible printed circuit board assembly and flat panel display apparatus using the same A flexible printed circuit board assembly includes a circuit board main body and a connection terminal provided at one side of the circuit board main body. The connection terminal has a shape in which a width of a portion farther from the circuit board main body is greater than a width of a portion closer to the circuit board main body.
US09084353B2	Structured circuit board and method A circuit board (1) is provided comprising a plurality of insulating layers, at least one ground layer and at least one layer comprising signal traces. The circuit board comprises at least a first conductive via (17) and a second conductive via (17). The first conductive via and the second conductive via penetrate through at least a first insulating layer of the plurality of insulating layers and are connected to a signal trace. The first conductive via and the second conductive via are arranged adjacent each other. At least in the first insulating layer the first conductive via and the second conductive via are separated in a first direction of separation (R) by a first adjustment portion comprising a dielectric material property different from the first insulating layer.
US09084351B2	Structure and circuit board having repeatedly arranged connection members A structure (10) includes a conductor (151), conductors (111, 131) that are located on the same side with respect to the conductor (151), that are opposed to at least a part of the conductor (151), and that overlap each other when seen in a plan view, a connection member (101) that penetrates the conductors (111, 131, 151), that is connected to the conductor (151), and that is insulated from the conductors (111, 131), openings (112, 132) that are formed in the conductors (111, 131), respectively, and which the connection member (101) passes through, and conductor elements (121, 141) that are formed to be opposed to the openings (112, 132), that are connected to the connection member (101) passing through the openings (112, 132), and that are larger than the openings (112, 132). The number of layers in which the conductor elements (121, 141) are located is two or more and less than or equal to the number of layers in which the conductors (111, 131) are located.
US09084343B2	Electronic device having an inductive receiver coil with ultra-thin shielding layer and method An electronic device (10,40) which is inductively powered or charged has a receiver coil (12) on which a metal object (24,42) can be placed without causing deterioration of the coil's magnetic field and without generating heat in the metal object. An ultra-thin, flexible, high magnetic permeability metal foil (14) having a thickness of 50 μm or less is provided as a shielding layer between the coil and the object. Radial slits (22) are provided in the shielding layer, which suppress unwanted eddy currents in the layer to reduce power transfer losses and heat generation.
US09084342B2	Manufacturing method of circuit board A manufacturing method of a circuit board is provided. Providing a substrate, where a first laser resistant structure is disposed on a first dielectric layer and at the periphery of a pre-removing area, a second dielectric layer covers the first laser resistant structure, a circuit layer is disposed on the second dielectric layer, a second laser resistant structure is disposed on the second dielectric layer and at the periphery of the pre-removing area, a third dielectric layer covers the circuit layer and the second laser resistant structure. There are gaps between the second laser resistant structure and the circuit layer, and the vertical projection of the gaps on the first dielectric layer overlaps the first laser resistant structure. A laser machining process is performed to etch the third dielectric layer at the periphery of the pre-removing area. The portion of the third dielectric layer within the pre-removing area is removed.
US09084339B2	Wiring substrate and method of manufacturing the same A wiring substrate includes: a wiring substrate body including a first surface and a second surface; a first electrode pad including a first recess therein and formed on the first surface of the wiring substrate body; a second electrode pad including a second recess therein and formed on the first surface of the wiring substrate body; a first solder resist layer on the first surface of the wiring substrate body to cover the first and second electrode pads, the first solder resist layer including a first opening and a second opening whose opening area is larger than that of the first opening; and a first metal layer electrically connected to the first electrode pad and made of a material whose ionization tendency is smaller than that of a material of the first electrode pad. A depth of the first recess is larger than that of the second recess.
US09084334B1	Balanced barrier discharge neutralization in variable pressure environments Methods and apparatus for static charge neutralization in variable pressure environments are disclosed. In particular, barrier discharge ionization apparatus may include a hollow dielectric channel disposed within a variable pressure environment and may have at least one open end, a reference emitter disposed on the outer surface of the channel, and a high voltage electrode disposed within the channel. The high voltage electrode may present a high intensity electric field to the reference emitter through the dielectric channel in response to the provision of a variable-waveform signal dictated by conditions in the variable pressure environment. This results in the generation of a plasma region with electrically balanced charge carriers within the variable pressure environment due to barrier discharge occurring at the interface of the reference emitter and the outer surface of the dielectric channel. The disclosed apparatus are compatible with either radio frequency or micro-pulse voltage power supplies.
US09084333B2	System for monitoring and controlling high intensity discharge (HID) lamps The present invention provides a system for monitoring and controlling high intensity discharge (HID) lamps. The system includes a digital electronic ballast integrated with PLCC modem and PLCC concentrator. The digital electronic ballast is capable of monitoring and controlling operation of each of the HID lamp in the system. The PLCC concentrator is located in AC power line network and connected to each of the digital electronic ballast connected to the respective HID lamps in AC power line network. Further, the PLCC concentrator sends the command signals such as lamp ON/OFF, lamp dimming, lamp scheduling rules to the digital electronic ballast. The PLCC concentrator also receives lamp status, real time electric parameters, failure information, end of lamp life (EOLL) or lamp burning hours, temperature conditions and warning from the digital electronic ballast thereby the PLCC concentrator provide reports to server to enable remote monitoring of the network.
US09084331B2	Active matrix organic light emitting diode circuit and operating method of the same An active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) circuit and an operating method thereof are disclosed herein. The AMOLED circuit includes an organic light emitting diode, a switching circuit, a compensating circuit, a driving circuit, and a reset circuit. The compensating circuit is connected to the switching circuit and includes a first capacitor. The driving circuit is configured to be driven by the compensating circuit to provide the organic light emitting diode with a driving current. The reset circuit is connected to both ends of the first capacitor and to a control line. The reset circuit is configured to change the voltage levels on both ends of the first capacitor according to the voltage level on the control line, such that one end of the first capacitor and a reference power supply are conducted and charges stored inside the first capacitor are released.
US09084328B2	Lighting device and lighting method A lighting device comprising first and second groups of solid state light emitters, which emit light having wavelength in ranges of from 430 nm to 480 nm and from 600 nm to 630 nm, respectively, and a first group of lumiphors which emit light having dominant wavelength in the range of from 555 nm to 585 nm. If current is supplied to a power line, a combination of (1) light exiting the lighting device which was emitted by the first group of emitters, and (2) light exiting the lighting device which was emitted by the first group of lumiphors would, in an absence of any additional light, produce a sub-mixture of light having x, y color coordinates within an area on a 1931 CIE Chromaticity Diagram defined by points having coordinates (0.32, 0.40), (0.36, 0.48), (0.43, 0.45), (0.42, 0.42), (0.36, 0.38). Also provided is a method of lighting.
US09084325B2	Adaptive dimmer detection and control for LED lamp An LED lamp is provided in which the output light intensity of the LEDs in the LED lamp is adjusted based on the input voltage to the LED lamp. A dimmer control unit detects a type of dimmer switch during a configuration process. Using the detected dimmer type, the dimmer control unit generates control signals appropriate for the detected dimmer type to provide regulated current to the LEDs and to achieve the desired dimming effect. The LED lamp can be a direct replacement of conventional incandescent lamps in typical wiring configurations found in residential and commercial building lighting applications that use conventional dimmer switches.
US09084316B2	Controlled power dissipation in a switch path in a lighting system A lighting system includes one or more methods and systems to control dissipation of excess power in the lighting system when the power into a switching power converter from a leading edge, phase-cut dimmer is greater than the power out of the switching power converter. In at least one embodiment, the lighting system includes a controller that controls dissipation of excess energy in the lighting system to prevent a premature disconnection of the phase-cut dimmer. In at least one embodiment, the controller actively controls power dissipation by generating one or more signals to actively and selectively control power dissipation in the lighting system. By actively and selectively controlling power dissipation in the lighting system, the controller intentionally dissipates power when the power into the lighting system should be greater than the power out to a lamp of the lighting system.
US09084311B2	Lighting device A lighting device includes a first light source having a first S/P ratio, a second light source having a second S/P ratio that is higher than the first S/P ratio, and a controller configured to performing dimming control of light output from the first and second light sources. The controller performs the dimming control separately on the first and second light sources at least under a snow covered condition.
US09084310B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting an ambient light threshold A load control device adapted to be coupled between an AC power source and an electrical load for controlling the power delivered to the load includes a controller, an actuator for turning the electrical load on and off, an occupancy detection circuit, and an ambient light detector. The load control device automatically turns on the electrical load in response to the presence of an occupant only if the detected ambient light is below a predetermined ambient light level threshold. After first detecting the presence of an occupant, the load control device monitors actuations of the actuator to determine whether a user has changed the state of the load. The load control device automatically adjusts the predetermined ambient light level threshold in response to the user actuations that change the state of the load.
US09084309B2	Digital phase angle detection and processing Apparatus and methods operate to perform digital time sampling of a waveform associated with a rectified alternating current, edge-controlled power signal, whether leading or trailing edge-controlled. A dimming code (DIM code) is generated based upon rising and falling edge zero crossing timing. The DIM code is normalized with respect to an allowable edge control window synchronized with the waveform. A minimally-dimmed waveform results in a maximum DIM code corresponding to a full-scale DAC maximum brightness analog output signal. The DIM code is loaded into a DAC to be converted to an analog brightness signal. The analog brightness signal may be used by a lighting power controller to control the brightness of one or more lighting elements. Accurate and repeatable light intensities independent of dimmer type may result.
US09084308B2	Self calibrating, adaptive setpoint daylighting A method and means for creating a daylight harvesting controller with a self calibrating light sensor and an adaptive setpoint that maintains a user determined light level is disclosed herein. The system includes a light sensor for monitoring the ambient light level of a designated control zone and a means to receive and interpret light level adjustment commands created by a user or user surrogate. The system includes means to limit the setpoint to a maximum value, suspend daylighting activity when lights are being adjusted or are turned off, and to delay setpoint capture and the start or resumption of daylighting until an adjustment cycle is completed and the zone light sources have reached a nominally steady state.
US09084301B2	Electromagnetic induction heating device, fixing device and image forming apparatus using the same An electromagnetic induction heating device includes a heat generation body, a heating rotary body, a magnetic filed generating unit and a magnetic path forming member. The heat generation body generates heat through electromagnetic induction. The heating rotary body receives the heat and rotates. The magnetic field generating unit is opposed to the heating rotary body and generates a magnetic field for causing the heat generation body to produce heat through the electromagnetic induction. The magnetic path forming member is opposed to the magnetic filed generating unit across the heating rotary body. The magnetic path forming member includes controlling portions and a continuous portion. The controlling portions control a magnitude of eddy current which is generated through the electromagnetic induction. The continuous portion allows heat transfer along a direction of an axis of the heating rotary body. The continuous portion is opposed to an aperture portion or an end portion of the magnetic field generating unit.
US09084297B2	Induction heat treatment of an annular workpiece Apparatus and method are provided for inductively heat treating a circular surface of annular workpieces where at least one inductor pair is used to perform a scan induction heat treatment of the circular surface. Controlled movement of the inductors and application of quenchant is provided particularly at the initial and final heat treatment locations on the circular surface to enhance metallurgical uniformity of the annular workpiece at these locations. In combination with controlled movement of the inductors, a simultaneous power-frequency control scheme can be applied to the inductors during the heat treatment process.
US09084292B2	Communications system for an aircraft The invention relates to a communications system (10, 110) for an aircraft comprising a transceiver (22) having at least one transmitter (24), at least one receiver (26, 28) and at least one antenna, at least one data processing device (12) connected to the transceiver (22) by means of a data transfer device (20) and having at least one operating device (14), connected to the at least one data processing device (12), having manually activated switches, buttons and/or rotary knobs (18) for entering data into the at least one data processing device (12). According to the invention, the at least one operating device (14) is mechanically connected to the at least one data processing device (12) to form an assembly (16).
US09084289B2	Method of processing reference signal configuration information in wireless communication system, base station and terminal The present invention provides a method of processing reference signal configuration information, a base station and a terminal. The method includes: sending, by a base station, first reference signal configuration information and at least one piece of second reference signal configuration information to a terminal, such that the terminal performs detection of downlink channel state information according to the first reference signal configuration information and the at least one piece of second reference signal configuration information, wherein the first reference signal configuration information includes configuration information of a reference signal sent by antenna port(s) identified by a first number of ports, and the second reference signal configuration information includes configuration information of a reference signal sent by at least one antenna port of other antenna ports than the antenna port(s) identified by the first number of ports among the antenna ports configured by the base station.
US09084288B2	Dual-SIM wireless communications device and method for mitigating receiver desense in dual-active operation Aspects of the disclosure provide for an access terminal configured to enable communication with two or more wireless communications networks simultaneously. According to some aspects of the disclosure, an access terminal (e.g., dual-SIM access terminal) can be active simultaneously on both networks with reduced interference between transmission and reception. A number of different techniques for mitigating desense on a victim's Rx are illustrated in this disclosure with a GSM aggressor and an EV-DO victim as non-limiting examples. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09084286B2	Front end module and method of operation in different circuit environments A front end module has two signal paths for operation in two different frequency ranges which can be operated both with one antenna in the multiplex operating mode and with two antennas in a second operating mode. The respective operating mode is actuated via corresponding contact being made with the module substrate, and therefore by the user.
US09084283B2	Peer-to-peer communication using a wide area network air interface A method for peer-to-peer wireless communication by a first user equipment (UE) includes communicating with a second UE, and using a wireless area network air interface during the communication with the second UE. The communicating with the second UE comprises transmitting a downlink signal configured for downlink of the wireless area network air interface.
US09084280B2	Apparatus and method for resolving a serving grant deadlock at a mobile station configured for enhanced uplink (EUL) A user equipment (UE) and a method of using the UE are provided for fulfilling a network's intent to increase or decrease the serving grant for the UE in spite of a deadlock condition that may otherwise prevent fulfillment of the network's intent. That is, upon determining the network's intent, the UE may alter its serving grant according the intent by altering the number of packets for transmission in a TTI.
US09084279B1	Downlink interference mitigation based on uplink transmission configuration of other coverage area A method and apparatus to help mitigate interference from an adjacent coverage area. A user equipment device (UE) determines a time division duplex (TDD) frame arrangement of a neighboring base station and reports the determined TDD frame arrangement to a serving base station. The serving base station uses the reported TDD frame arrangement of the neighboring base station as a basis to avoid scheduling downlink transmission of bearer traffic to the UE at times when the TDD frame arrangement of the neighboring base station defines uplink transmission.
US09084276B2	Dynamic transmission control for a wireless network In one possible embodiment, a wireless network with dynamic transmission control is provided that includes a multiple of nodes. The nodes include an arbiter and multiple client nodes. The arbiter is configured to control an operation of the client nodes by defining communications operation cycles and allocating a bandwidth to each of the client nodes on a cycle by cycle basis in response to requests for bandwidth from the client nodes.
US09084273B2	Apparatus and method for adaptive channel quality feedback in a multicarrier wireless network A subscriber station for use in a wireless network capable of communicating according to a multicarrier protocol determines a total average signal level across N subbands within a channel, where each subband comprises a plurality of subcarriers. The subscriber station also determines a first average signal level within a first subband. The subscriber station then transmits a channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback message to the wireless network. The CQI feedback message comprises a first data indicating the total average signal level across the N subbands and a second data indicating the first average signal level within the one subband. The first data may indicate the total average signal level as an absolute value and the second data may indicate the first average signal level relative to the total average signal level using one of two or more unequal quantization levels.
US09084269B2	Fourier transform for a signal to be transmitted on a random access channel Method and apparatus for processing a signal using a recursive method for determining a plurality of frequency components of the signal, the signal being a chirp-like polyphase sequence, wherein a first frequency component of the plurality of frequency components is determined; a component factor is determined by accessing a factor table for use in determining a second frequency component of the plurality of frequency components; and the second frequency component is determined using the determined first frequency component and the determined component factor.
US09084266B2	Method for granting a transmission opportunity in a wireless LAN system that uses a combined channel constituted by a plurality of subchannels, and station supporting the method According to one embodiment, a method for granting a transmission opportunity in a wireless local area network includes: transmitting a transmission opportunity (TXOP) granting frame to grant a TXOP to a plurality of target stations; and receiving a frame from each of the plurality of target stations that has acquired the TXOP upon receiving the TXOP granting frame.
US09084265B2	Spectrum sharing in multi-RAT radio base stations Embodiments herein disclose a method in a radio base station (12) for allocating a radio resource to be used for communication in a radio communications network, which radio base station (12) serves a first cell (13) of a first radio access technology and a second cell (15) of a second radio access technology. The first cell (13) and second cell (15) are comprised in the radio communications network, and which radio base station (12) controls a radio resource that supports communication over a frequency band The method comprises determining (1010) a load in at least one of the first cell (13) and second cell (15), and allocating (1020) the radio resource supporting communication over the frequency band to the first radio access technology of the first cell (13) or the second radio access technology of the second cell (15) based on the determined load.
US09084263B2	Network connection method and system The present invention discloses a network connection method and system. The method includes: grouping a plurality of terminals, allocating group identities, and establishing a mapping relationship between the group identities and terminal identities; establishing a group-based signaling radio bearer and a group-based data radio bearer for each group; allocating, when a terminal in each group access a network, the terminal the group-based signaling radio bearer and group-based data radio bearer corresponding to the group to which the terminal belongs according to a mapping relationship between a group identities and a terminal identity, so that the terminals initiate network access by using the group-based signaling radio bearer and the group-based data radio bearer. The signaling overhead of establishing signaling connection and data bearer may be reduced though the technical solution of the present invention.
US09084261B2	Discontinuous uplink transmission operation and interference avoidance for a multi-carrier system Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for discontinuous multi-carrier uplink management in a wireless communication system. Common timing parameters may be identified for use in relation to discontinuous uplink transmissions on each of a two or more wireless carriers concurrently transmitting from an access terminal. A first operational state is associated with a first wireless carrier, while a second, different state is associated with a second wireless carrier. The first carrier may be operated in the first operational state concurrently with the second carrier being operated in the second operational state, with each carrier operated in accordance with the common timing parameters.
US09084260B2	Systems for communicating using multiple frequency bands in a wireless network Communication signals using a first and a second frequency band in a wireless network is described herein. The first frequency band may be associated with a first beamwidth while the second frequency band may be associated with a second beamwidth. An apparatus may include receiver circuitry arranged to receive first signals in a first frequency band associated with a first beamwidth and second signals in a second frequency band associated with a second beamwidth, the first signals comprising a frame synchronization parameter and the second signals comprising frame alignment signals. The apparatus may further include processor circuitry coupled to the receiver circuitry, the processor circuitry arranged to activate or deactivate the receiver circuitry to receive the frame alignment signals based on the frame synchronization parameter. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09084259B2	Method for maintaining direct device-to-device communication in wireless access system supporting device-to-device communication and apparatus for supporting same The present invention discloses methods for maintaining direct device-to-device communication when one device from devices that are in direct device-to-device communication performs a handover, and apparatuses for supporting same. A method for maintaining the direct device-to-device communication in the wireless access system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: a second device moving to a second base station of a target cell; and the second device receiving from a first device of serving cell resource allocation information on a newly allocated resource region for direct device-to-device communication, wherein the resource allocation information can be received through an existing device-to-device link (D2D link), which is formed for direct device-to-device communication between the second device and the first device.
US09084253B2	Interference randomization of control channel elements A method and a radio base station for interleaving control channel data to be transmitted in a telecommunications system are described. The method comprises grouping the control channel elements CCE1-CCEn into a first order of control channel symbol groups, adding symbol groups comprising dummy values or zeros to the first order of control channel symbol groups based on a number of available symbol group positions, interleaving the first order of the control channel symbol groups resulting in an a second order, and mapping the second order of control channel symbol groups to the control channel transmission resources.
US09084252B2	Processing enhanced PDCCH (ePDCCH) in LTE A method of wireless communication includes configuring a virtual cell identifier (ID) for a user equipment (UE). The method determines a first candidate for an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) for the UE. The method also determines a first virtual cell ID for the first candidate. Furthermore, the method scrambles the ePDCCH based on the first virtual cell ID and transmits, to the UE, the scrambled ePDCCH using the first candidate.
US09084251B2	Communication units, integrated circuits and methods for supporting a virtual carrier A network element for controlling a usage of at least one resource is described. The network element comprises: a transmitter for transmitting a signal identifying at least one uplink resource to at least one wireless communication unit; a signal processor operably coupled to the transmitter for generating the signal; and a receiver for receiving a transmission from the at least one wireless communication unit on the identified at least one uplink resource. The signal processor is arranged to allocate the uplink resource for the at least one wireless communication unit in a first portion of a first sub-frame on a first frequency and a first portion of a second sub-frame on a second frequency wherein a time gap is allocated between an end of the first portion of the first sub-frame and a beginning of the first portion of a second sub-frame.
US09084247B2	Method of transmitting control signals in wireless communication system A method of transmitting control signals in a wireless communication system includes multiplexing a first control signal with a second control signal in a slot, the slot comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in time domain, the plurality of OFDM symbols being divided into a plurality of data OFDM symbols and a plurality of reference signal (RS) OFDM symbols, wherein the first control signal is mapped to the plurality of data OFDM symbols after the first control signal is spread by a base sequence in the frequency domain, the RS is mapped to the plurality of RS OFDM symbols, the second control signal is mapped to at least one of the plurality of RS OFDM symbols, and transmitting the first control signal and the second control signal in the slot.
US09084246B2	Method for transmitting uplink control information in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a method for allocating a resource which enables a relay node to transmit uplink control information to a base station in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method for allocating the resource include the steps of: generating a control information sequence for a backhaul downlink sub-frame between a relay node and a base station; setting symbols for mapping the control information sequence when a plurality of symbols are punctured at a front end or a rear end of a backhaul uplink sub-frame between the relay node and the base station; and performing the time-first-mapping for the control information sequence with respect to resource elements corresponding to the set symbols in a descending order of sub-carrier indexes.
US09084243B2	Method and device for transmitting control information The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting uplink control information where a plurality of cells are configured, and comprises: a step for receiving one or more PDCCH; a step for generating reception response information corresponding to the one or more PDCCH; and a step for transmitting through PUCCH the reception response information in a subframe, wherein the reception response information is transmitted using a PUCCH resource provided in advance by an upper layer signaling when only one PCell PDCCH is detected and the predetermined conditions are met, and is transmitted using a PUCCH resource linked to an index of a resource that makes up the PCell PDCCH when only one PCell PDCCH is detected and the predetermined conditions are not met.
US09084234B2	Method and base station for supporting a connection between a communication device and a destination device in a target network A method for supporting a connection between a communication device and a destination device in a target network over intermediate network nodes, in particular in the context of Internet Protocol based communication, wherein data between the communication device and the destination device is transmitted via a tunnel established between the communication device or a base station connected to the communication device, as a first tunnel endpoint and a gateway in the target network as a second tunnel endpoint. One or more dummy packets are sent via the tunnel from the first tunnel endpoint towards the second tunnel endpoint, information is encoded in the packet headers of the one or more dummy packets, and at least one of the intermediate network nodes, upon receiving the one or more dummy packets, performs the steps of detecting and/or decoding the encoded information and performing a predefined action dependent on the encoded information.
US09084231B2	Methods and apparatus for acquiring and using multiple connection identifiers Methods and apparatus related to a peer to peer wireless communications system supporting the association of multiple connection identifiers with a single connection between a pair of wireless terminals are described. A differentiated quality of service is supported by assigning different numbers of connection identifiers to different connections. The number of connection identifiers assigned to a wireless terminal pair for a connection is a function of one of: data rate, priority information, and quality of service information. Being allocated a higher number of connection identifiers results in being allocated a higher number of traffic transmission request resources, thus increasing the likelihood that the connection is permitted to use a traffic transmission segment. The allocation of connection identifiers is performed in a distributed manner in which handshake signaling occurs between a wireless terminal pair seeking to establish a connection, e.g., as part of a multi-step paging scheme.
US09084224B2	Method and apparatus for multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) service feedback A method and apparatus are described for providing multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) service feedback. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive an MBMS service query message over an MBMS control channel and transmit an MBMS service response. The MBMS service query message and MBMS service response message may be radio resource controller messages. The MBMS service query message may include MBMS service identifiers which identify MBMS services that the WTRU is receiving or intending to receive. The WTRU may generate a report with MBMS service identifier index values, where each MBMS service identifier index value indicates a position of a service identifier corresponding to an MBMS service in the original query list that the WTRU is currently receiving or intending to receive. The MBMS service status query message may be received alone or along with a MBSFNAreaConfiguration message. The WTRU may respond within a predetermined or configured time limit.
US09084220B2	Method of providing route update messages and paging access terminals The present invention provides a method for providing route update messages and paging access terminals. One embodiment of the method includes storing information indicative of at least one sector. The sector(s) are determined based on geographic information indicative of a route associated with an access terminal. Another embodiment of the method includes providing information indicative of a route associated with an access terminal. The provided information is used to determine at least one sector associated with the route.
US09084219B2	User equipment with timer controller As a result of ISR being enabled between a portable terminal device and a network which are capable of communicating by using the communication protocols of a plurality of wireless access technologies, the portable terminal device performs position registration processing between the plurality of wireless access technologies and the portable terminal device each time a fixed period of time elapses, and the portable terminal device is able to move between the plurality of wireless access technologies that have already been registered, without conducting new position registration processing. At this time, if there is a possibility of there being a difference in ISR states (activated or not activated) between the portable terminal device and the network, the portable terminal device ignores any instructions issued by the network for ISR to be enabled in the portable terminal device.
US09084217B2	Single-site localization via multipath fingerprinting Single-site localization of wireless emitters in a rich multipath environment is presented. The localization method is based on exploiting the spatio-temporal characteristics of the multipath signals, referred to as the multipath fingerprint, as captured by the base station antenna array. The method is applicable to all modern communication techniques such as WiFi and LTE and to any rich multipath environment in indoors and outdoors.
US09084215B2	Transmitting positioning information via wireless communication A system for providing positioning information within a wireless communication signal. An example process may start by positioning resources being activated in an apparatus. Activation of the positioning resources may occur automatically, in response to user interaction, etc. The apparatus may then engage in a discovery process via wireless communication in order to identify other apparatuses within communication range that are enabled to transmit positioning information. Upon discovering another apparatus, the apparatus may interact with the other apparatus in order to determine a location for the other apparatus. For example, the apparatus may transmit one or more messages comprising a request for positioning information from the other apparatus, and may in turn receive one or more messages from the other apparatus comprising positioning information. The apparatus may then utilize the positioning information to determine its position (e.g., relative to the other apparatus).
US09084214B2	System and method for continuous mobile service geochronous validation In one embodiment of the present invention, a system and method may be provided for validating communications permissions for an in progress communication. The system and method may include receiving location information, at a service provider, from a wireless communications device. The location information may be communicated to a database that is able to determine communications permissions based upon some predetermined criteria, such as time, date, and location. Based upon the received location information and a related database record, permissions for the wireless communications device may be determined. The determined permissions may be communicated to the service provider. The wireless communications device may be notified about restrictions on its communications, in response to receiving the permissions. The permissions determination may be repeated, as necessary, in response to receiving updated location information.
US09084213B2	Method and device for obtaining transmission power control (TPC) command The disclosure provides a method for obtaining a Transmission Power Control (TPC) command, relating to the field of wireless communications. The method comprises the following steps: presetting a Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) value threshold, wherein the SINR value threshold comprising a highest value HSINR, a median value MSINR, and a lowest value LSINR; comparing a current SINR value with a target SINR value to obtain a difference value ΔSINR; and comparing the ΔSINR with the SINR value threshold, and obtaining a TPC command according to a result of comparison. The disclosure also provides a device for obtaining a TPC command. By the method or device in the disclosure, the accuracy and instantaneity of obtaining a TPC command are improved.
US09084212B2	Power ramping for RACH The present invention relates to a method for requesting access to a resource,said method comprising a secondary station transmitting an access preamble to a primary station,upon failure of correct transmission of the access preamble, the secondary station starting a first power ramping scheme for transmitting the access preamble,upon failure of correct transmission of the access preamble with the first power ramping scheme, the secondary station transmitting a second access preamble with a second power ramping scheme being different from the first power ramping scheme.
US09084203B2	Methods and apparatus for providing transmit power control for devices engaged in D2D communications A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided for using power control to reduce potential interference to a macro eNB by a UE engaged in D2D communications. An eNB may be operable to generate a fractional power control parameter based on a macro eNB power saturation value and broadcast the factional power control parameter. A UE may be equipped to receive the factional power control parameter and determine whether the fractional power control parameter plus a path loss value between the UE and the macro eNB is less than a maximum power used for the D2D communications. The UE may reduce the maximum transmit power used for D2D communications when the fractional power control parameter plus a path loss value between the UE and the macro eNB is less than a maximum power used for the D2D communications.
US09084200B2	Fast adaptive power control for a variable multirate communications system A system and a method of controlling transmitter power in a wireless communication system in which user data is processed as a multirate signal in which the user data signal having a first rate is converted into a transmission data signal having a faster second rate for transmission. The transmission power is adjusted on a relatively slow basis based on quality of data received by a receiver of the transmitted data. The transmitter power is determined as a function of the first and second rates such that a change in the data rate in the multiple channels or the rate of the transmission data signal is compensated in advance of a quality of data based adjustment associated with such data rate change.
US09084199B2	Utilization of overhead channel quality metrics in a cellular network In a 3G cellular network, a Reverse Link Channel Quality Indicator Channel (R-CQICH) may be transmitted on a reverse link to support forward link high-speed data transmissions. Accordingly, the R-CQICH may be utilized to track the quality of the signal path between the wireless unit and the base station. The base station may include a CQI component that utilizes a received Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) signal from the wireless unit to generate CQI quality metrics based on the quality of the received signal. Also, the CQI quality metrics may be compared to different thresholds to adjust various system configurations in the base station. The base station may also provide feedback to the wireless unit with the updated system configurations. This technique allows CQI quality metrics to be utilized to adjust system configurations dynamically and enhance the operation of a wireless system.
US09084198B2	Wireless communication system and wireless communication apparatus, both for use in broadcast wireless transmission According to one embodiment, a wireless terminal communicates with a server via wireless base stations. The wireless terminal has devices which transmit a signal in a normal-power transmission mode and the signal in a low-power transmission mode, a power control device which switches the normal-power transmission mode to the low-power transmission mode, or vice versa, and a device which transmits current position data to the server. The server detects the position of the wireless terminal, designates one of the base stations which is close to the wireless terminal, when the wireless terminal is set to the low-power transmission mod, and detects whether the base station designated has a problem or not according to detect the signal from the wireless terminal.
US09084196B2	Apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in portable terminal An apparatus and method minimize power consumption in a portable terminal which enters a low-power mode during connection with an access point (AP). The apparatus includes a memory for storing a Wi-Fi profile including position information of APs, a wireless LAN module for performing connection with the AP, an AP connection unit for performing connection with the AP using the wireless LAN module only when an AP exists around the portable terminal, a position determining unit for determining APs which exist around the portable terminal, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a position of the portable terminal, determine a position of an AP which exists around the portable terminal, and operate the wireless LAN module at only a position where the AP exists.
US09084195B2	Multiple timing advance and carrier aggregation At least one of transmissions and receptions over allocated radio resources within a first timing advance group are synchronized using a first timer; and similar for allocated radio resources within a second timing advance group that are synchronized using a second timer. In response to determining that the first timer remains synchronized while the second timer is not synchronized with a radio network which has allocated the respective radio resources, a first procedure is followed for the case in which there is a primary component carrier within the second timing advance group and a different second procedure for the case in which there is no primary component carrier within the second timing advance group. In an exemplary embodiment, a message is sent to the radio network indicating that the second timer has expired. Various distinctions between the two procedures, and how the message is sent, are detailed for different embodiments.
US09084191B2	Method and apparatus for determining timing information for cells Techniques for determining timing information for cells are disclosed. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a serving cell and may need to make measurements of other cells, e.g., to support positioning of the UE. Each cell may transmit reference signals based on its timing. Different cells may operate asynchronously or with unknown timing. The UE may send a request for measurement gaps to the serving cell and may include timing information in the request. The timing information may (directly or indirectly) convey relative timing between the serving cell and a reference cell. The serving cell may determine measurement gaps at the proper time for other cells based on the timing information from the UE and may avoid scheduling the UE for data transmission during the measurement gaps. The UE may make measurements of other cells during the measurement gaps, without losing any data from the serving cell.
US09084188B2	Carrier aggregation wireless network system and base station, wireless communication device, and synchronization method thereof A carrier aggregation wireless network system and a base station (BS), a wireless communication device, and a synchronization method thereof are disclosed. The wireless communication device receives a wireless signal from the BS. The wireless signal includes a primary cell (pcell) and a secondary cell (scell). A subframe of the scell includes a first OFDM symbol and a second OFDM symbol. The first OFDM symbol includes an extended primary synchronization signal (PSS). The second OFDM symbol includes a PSS. The scell includes a secondary synchronization signal (SSS). The wireless communication device acquires synchronization according to the extended PSS and/or the PSS. In addition, the wireless communication device may also acquire synchronization according to a cell ID, the PSS, and the SSS.
US09084186B2	Call management for location-aware mobile devices A positioning system (e.g., GPS) integrated in, or coupled to, a mobile device determines the position of the mobile device. An availability status manager (ASM) in a vPBX acquires the position of the mobile device. The ASM can contain rules on how to route or otherwise control incoming phone calls based on availability status of one or more mobile devices in the vPBX network. When a call is received by the vPBX, the ASM determines the availability status of the receiving mobile device based on the geographic location of the receiving mobile device. The ASM then routes the call to the receiving mobile device, to another mobile device, or to a landline based on the availability status of the receiving mobile device and the availability status based rules.
US09084183B2	Robust frequency scan in presence of strong adjacent systems A method for performing a frequency scan in presence of an adjacent jammer signal is provided. The method can include a wireless communication device determining an occurrence of an acquisition (ACQ) failure on a candidate system in a frequency scan candidate list (FSCL) generated based on a first frequency scan; identifying the candidate system as a jammer signal in response to the ACQ failure; suppressing the jammer signal to derive a jammer suppressed signal; and performing a second frequency scan based at least in part on the jammer suppressed signal.
US09084181B2	Motion-based kinetic fingerprint radio selection Motion adaptive wireless user equipment (UE) in a wireless network are provided. Kinetic information is leveraged to select a preferred radio (or radio technology) or adapt a reselection scanning interval. This can serve to improve the performance of a UE by reducing the amount of power expended in maintaining an adequate level of connectedness to the wireless network components in the face of UE movement. In a further aspect, kinetic power generators can be employed as a source of UE transit data. Kinetic fingerprints can be compared to UE transit data, e.g., that acquired from a kinetic generator of the UE, to facilitate selection of preferred radios and reselection intervals. In this aspect, radio selection schema and reselection scanning schema can effectively be selected with little to no drain on a UE power source.
US09084178B2	System and method for services access Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in services access. For example, a node and/or other computer that moves to another area may act to determine the availability of services to which service entries correspond, and/or the availability of similar services. As another example, a node and/or other computer that moves to another area may act to modify service entries.
US09084170B2	GSM rescue handover utilizing adaptive multirate half-rate Call handover in a cellular telecommunication system is improved by adjusting a rate-based parameter, such as that controlled by an adaptive multi-rate (AMR) codec in a time-division multiple access (TDMA) network, to increase call handling capacity when handover is indicated but the candidate handover cell does not have sufficient capacity to handle another call.
US09084167B2	Wireless device communication An indication is received from a wireless device in communication with a first communication system using a first radio access technology that the wireless device has detected a second communication system using a second access technology. Network information of the first communication system is provided and stored at the wireless device when performing a first handover of the wireless device from the first communication system to the second communication system. The network information is provided to the first communication system to perform a second handover from the second communication system to the first communication system.
US09084165B2	Systems and methods for deployment operations for small cells in self-organizing networks A multi-modal multi-modulation base station such as a small cell eNB is disclosed. The small cell eNB includes multiple radio devices that can be configured to communicate with user devices using different protocols and different frequencies. The small cell eNB also includes a sniffer module to detecting signal from other base stations. The small cell eNB include functions to automate deployment in a self-organizing network, such as network monitoring, neighbor peer discovery, processing of neighbor peer reports, automated transmit-power adaptation, processing of user equipment reports, physical cell identity selection, automatic neighbor relation, handover configuration, private access connections, load balancing, RACH preamble power control, RACH preamble set selection, RACH preamble splitting, PRACH configuration, and mobility robustness.
US09084161B2	Femtocell hand-offs An exemplary method of facilitating hand-offs between Femtocells includes receiving an indication of a cell identifying code detected by a mobile station currently communicating with a serving Femtocell. A determination is made whether the received cell identifying code corresponds to a known Femtocell. The known Femtocell becomes a target Femtocell if a successful hand-off was previously made from the serving Femtocell to the known Femtocell. A hand-off is instigated to the target Femtocell.
US09084149B2	Radio link monitoring (RLM) and reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement for heterogeneous networks A method for communicating in an advanced long term evolution (LTE-A) network using common reference signal (CRS) resources associated with different interference levels due to resource partitioning is disclosed. Signals are received from an eNodeB indicating a subset of CRS resources for radio link monitoring (RLM) and/or reference signal received power (RSRP) measuring. The subset of CRS resources includes the CRS resources expected to have lower interference from the interfering eNodeBs. RLM and/or RSRP measurements are performed based on the indicated subset.
US09084148B2	Communications based on measurements using and not using a measurement gap A mobile station apparatus provided in a mobile communication system that includes a base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus, where the mobile station apparatus is configured to perform communications with the base station apparatus by using a plurality of frequencies together and the plurality of frequencies being configured by the base station apparatus. The mobile station apparatus includes a first circuitry configured or programmed to notify the base station apparatus of a mobile station apparatus capability indicating measurement ability for first measurement or second measurement on the communication, where the first measurement using a measurement gap and the second measurement not using a measurement gap. The mobile station apparatus also includes a second circuitry configured or programmed to perform the first measurement or the second measurement, based on information for the measurement gap, reception quality of one of the frequencies and the measurement ability.
US09084147B2	Parallel registration to offload PLMN with single SIM A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus establishes a first cellular communication link with a first cellular network based on a subscriber identifier, establishes a second cellular communication link with a second cellular network based on the subscriber identifier, and maintains the first cellular communication link concurrently with the second cellular communication link.
US09084144B2	Power saving features in a communication device A method in a communication network includes receiving a data unit that includes a request to transmit an aggregate data unit to a communication device, and, in response to receiving the data unit, generating an aggregate data unit for transmission to the communication device, where the aggregate data unit includes a plurality of component data units, each having a respective media access channel (MAC) header, and a duration of the aggregate data unit is determined using a parameter negotiated with the communication device.
US09084143B2	Network migration queuing service in a wireless network In embodiments of the present disclosure improved capabilities are described for increasing the bandwidth in a wireless communication network, where centralized optimization servers with publish-subscribe broker services are utilized in conjunction with a queuing service application that provides packet service continuity when a mobile device moves between different access control nodes of the wireless communication network, and wherein the queuing service application is connected to a publish/subscribe broker network to receive service packets matching the service packets directed to the mobile device, wherein the service application makes the matching service packets available to the mobile device to replace service packets that the mobile device did not receive during a time in which the mobile device is in transition between being connected to any of the access control nodes.
US09084142B2	Activating and deactivating semi-persistent scheduling for an LTE VoIP radio bearer A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus determines an operational state of a header compressor or a header decompressor by determining a transition between different operational states associated with the header compressor and/or by determining a transition between different operational states associated with the header decompressor. A persistent scheduling mode is changed in response to a change in the operational state of the header compressor. The persistent scheduling mode may be changed by activating uplink persistent scheduling when the operational state of the header compressor changes from a first order state to a second order state, and/or by deactivating the uplink persistent scheduling when the operational state of the header compressor exits the second order state.
US09084141B2	Systems and methods for grouping nodes to reduce collisions Systems, methods, and devices for grouping nodes to reduce collisions are described herein. In one aspect, a method for reducing collisions in a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes receiving a packet from a first wireless device, the packet including an indication of a packet loss observed by the first wireless device. The method then determines that a collision occurred based on the indication of a packet loss. The method then assigns at least one wireless device to at least one group, based at least in part on the detected collision.
US09084139B2	Intelligent load balancing bandwidth allocation for multiple interface wireless devices A system and method is provided for intelligent bandwidth allocation in a wireless communication device supporting multiple interfaces. A wireless communications device operating in connection with a first communications interface and a second communications interface is capable of switching channels back and forth so as to receive beacons from both interfaces effectively and provide enough bandwidth for each interface for data traffic to continue without any observable interruptions.
US09084134B2	Method and arrangement for probing of alternative antenna configurations in a communication network system The present invention relates to an arrangement, a communication network node and a user equipment allowing for probing of alternative antenna configurations in a communication network system as well as a method for such probing. The method comprises making one of the reconfigurable antennas (15a2, 15b2) of at least one cell (19a, 19b) temporarily available for probing and reconfiguring one or more antenna parameters thereof in accordance with a probing antenna parameter set. A new probe cell (20a, 20b) is transmitted from the prepared antenna (15a2, 15b2) and measurement reports collected from the user equipments (18) within the at least one cell (19a, 19b) and the probe cell (20a, 20b). The probing antenna parameter set is evaluated based on the collected measurement reports whereupon is determined if the reconfigurable physical antennas (15a1, 15a2, 15b1, 15b2) of the cell shall use the probing antenna parameter set or the initial antenna parameter set. Finally the probing cell (20a, 20b) is removed and the antennas (15a1, 15a2, 15b1, 15b2) adjusted in accordance with the determination.
US09084133B1	Joint estimation of channel and preamble sequence for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems A mobile station including an estimation module, a filter module, and a control module. The estimation module is configured to generate first channel estimates based on an input signal received, through a channel, from a base station. The input signal includes subcarriers used by the base station to transmit preamble sequences. The filter module is configured to generate second channel estimates by filtering the first channel estimates using a first filter or a second filter. The first filter or the second filter is selected according to a number of the subcarriers used to transmit the preamble sequences. The control module is configured to, based on the first channel estimates and the second channel estimates, estimate (i) one of the preamble sequences and (ii) the channel.
US09084126B2	Methods and apparatus for determining a location of a mobile station Methods and apparatuses are presented for determining a location of a mobile station. In some embodiments, a mobile station may acquire at least one attribute of a reference base station to obtain the identity of the reference base station. A first and a second locally unique attribute of a local base station may then be acquired. The mobile station may then compute a distance metric from the mobile station to the reference base station based on the at least one attribute, and the first and second locally unique attributes. The location of the mobile station may be determined based at least in part on the distance metric. In some embodiments, the distance metric may include a number of how many base stations away (i.e. “hops” or number of handovers) the mobile station is from the reference base station.
US09084125B2	Method of performing polling procedure in a wireless communication system A method of generating a data block for performing a polling procedure in a wireless communication system, a method of transmitting data and a method of performing a polling procedure are disclosed. A protocol layer performs the polling procedure for requesting a receiving side to transmit status report if there are no data to be transmitted to the receiving side in both a transmission buffer and a retransmission buffer. When determining whether there are no data to be transmitted to the receiving side in the retransmission buffer, it is preferable that a data block for which retransmission request information is not received from the receiving side is excluded.
US09084123B2	Radio communication devices and methods for controlling a radio communication device A radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include: a measurement circuit configured to measure a reception quality of a signal from another radio communication device; a retention time determiner configured to determine a retention time based on the measured reception quality; and a memory configured to store information related to the other radio communication device for a period of time, the period of time based on the determined retention time.
US09084122B2	Processing of access point crowdsourcing data Method and apparatus for processing access point (AP) crowdsourcing data are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving WiFi scan lists and their corresponding location descriptions, consolidating the WiFi scan lists and their corresponding location descriptions based at least in part on a set of selection criteria to generate a WiFi AP record, and uploading the WiFi AP record to a crowdsourcing server. The method consolidating the WiFi scan lists and their corresponding location descriptions comprises quantizing data received in accordance with time segment of the WiFi scan lists and their corresponding location descriptions. The set of selection criteria comprises a maximum number of scan lists to be uploaded in a predetermined period of time, a maximum number of scan lists to be uploaded in a single upload, ratio of MNoO to remaining unprocessed observations, similarity between scan lists, and comparison of HEPE values between similar scan lists.
US09084115B2	System and method for data verification using a smart phone A system and method for data verification using a smart phone which verifies data and biometric identity information using only locally stored biometric information. The system and method for data verification using a smart phone generally includes a mobile device, a central validating server, and an activation client. The validating server and activation client are utilized upon initial activation of the mobile device to verify data information (i.e. name, date of birth, social security number, etc.) and/or biometric data regarding an individual and then flag the mobile device as activated and verified. The biometric data is not stored in any location other than the memory of the mobile device. The activated and verified mobile device may then be utilized in combination with a wide range of verification clients to easily verify data information and/or biometric data of an individual.
US09084114B2	Technique to authenticate in a mobile application using near-field communication A method for operating a mobile communication appliance enabled for Near Field Communication (NFC) has steps for (a) positioning the communication appliance and an article associated with a person, the article enabled for NFC and storing a unique identifier, within a near-field threshold; (b) acquiring by the communication appliance through NFC the unique digital identifier from the article; and (c) using the identifier to select and initiate a particular functionality of the communication appliance.
US09084111B2	System and method for determining leveled security key holder The present disclosure discloses a network device and/or method for determination of leveled security key holders for a wireless client in a wireless network. The network device detects a roaming or connection pattern of one or more wireless clients in the wireless network based on requests received from the wireless clients. Furthermore, the network device determines one or more selecting rules for selecting an appropriate key holder for the wireless client among a plurality of network devices. Next, the network device prioritizes the one or more selecting rules, and selects the appropriate key holder based on the determined rules and their corresponding prioritization. Through selection of appropriate key holders, the disclosed method provides for better load balancing among possible leveled key holders, and shortens the latencies experienced by wireless clients during fast basic service set transition.
US09084110B2	Apparatus and method for transitioning enhanced security context from a UTRAN/GERAN-based serving network to an E-UTRAN-based serving network Disclosed is a method for transitioning an enhanced security context from a UTRAN/GERAN-based serving network to an E-UTRAN-based serving network. In the method, the remote station the remote station generates first and second session keys, in accordance with the enhanced security context, using a first enhanced security context root key associated with a UTRAN/GERAN-based serving network and a first information element. The remote station receives a first message from the E-UTRAN-based serving network. The first message signals to the remote station to generate a second enhanced security context root key for use with the E-UTRAN-based serving network. The remote station generates, in response to the first message, the second enhanced security context root key from the first enhanced security context root key using the s first and second session keys as inputs. The remote station protects wireless communications, on the E-UTRAN-based serving network, based on the second enhanced security context root key.
US09084104B2	Prepaid service in a packet-switched mobile communication network A method and system for implementing a prepaid service in a packet-switched mobile communication network, in which information requested by a mobile station is delivered to the mobile station so long as the subscriber has maintained a sufficient prepaid balance from which the service charges can be deducted. An access point name definition, which points to a service node via which access to or use of an associated prepaid service is provided, is defined. A control server is used to monitor the service traffic between the mobile station and the content server after the access point name definition identified in an activation request for data service has been sent from the mobile station. Traffic monitoring continues as long as the data service is active, and the prepaid service balance in a billing database is dynamically updated to reflect the subscriber's ongoing use of the data service based on the continued monitoring of the control server.
US09084103B2	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.
US09084100B2	System and method for routing a call to a landline communication unit or a wireless communication unit Methods and systems are provided for routing a call to a landline communication unit or a wireless communication unit based on the availability of the wireless communication unit. A call placed to a landline communication unit is routed to the wireless communication unit if the wireless communication unit is determined available. Otherwise, the call is routed to the landline communication unit.
US09084098B2	RFID-based methods A cell phone is used to sense information, such as digital watermark data or RF ID data, from a physical object (e.g., a product package). Thereafter, a user of the cell phone engages in a transaction (e.g., downloading content from the internet). Normally, a charge may be assessed for this transaction. However, the user is spared this charge by reason of said earlier sensing of information from the physical object. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09084097B2	Interactive display response system An interactive display response (IDR) system. The IDR system comprises an interactive display server (IDS) for communicating display requests from a call center to a plurality of mobile devices that established a connection with the call center; an interactive display agent (IDA) installed on each of the plurality of mobile devices for at least displaying the display requests received from the IDS and communicating user's selections to the call center responsive to the display requests; and an IDR interface for interfacing with interactive voice response (IVR) scripts carried out by the call center and generating display requests based on the IVR scripts.
US09084095B2	Method and system to deliver SMS messages in long term evolution (LTE) evolved packet core (EPC) A system and methodology that facilitates Short Message Service (SMS) delivery in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) environment is provided. In particular, an interface is provided, which enables a Mobility Management Entity (MME) to communicate directly with a Short Message Service Center (SMSC) to facilitate delivery of SMS in an evolved packet core (EPC). In one aspect, the interface can be most any SS7-based interface, such as a Gd interface. In another aspect, the interface can be an IP based (e.g., SS7 over IP) interface. Accordingly, the MME can utilize the interface to establish direct communication with the SMSC, without employing intermediate network elements (e.g., mobile switching centers).
US09084091B2	Registration and data exchange using proxy gateway A system and method is presented for broadcasting from a utility node a request for network routing information, receiving at the utility node routing information from neighboring utility nodes in response to the broadcast request, and registering the utility node with an access point that provides ingress and egress to and from the network. A node is selected to function as a proxy gateway for one or more other nodes in the network. A new utility node becomes connected to one or more utility networks by registering with the proxy gateway. The proxy gateway transmits registration requests and registration information from each node to a back office server and/or a Domain Name Server via an access point for which the proxy gateway functions as its proxy.
US09084090B1	Automatic device mode based on physical location of user in a vehicle One aspect of the disclosure provides a control device that is located inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle. The control device may include a portable computing device configured to execute software that effectively enables passengers to use a touch screen (or another input device) to perform control actions for the vehicle that would otherwise take a flip of a switch, turning of a knob, or pressing of a pedal. For example, the portable computing device may be used to steer the vehicle or apply the brakes of the vehicle. The capabilities of the portable computing device are subject to location-specific permissions. The portable computing device, for example, may be allowed to steer the vehicle only when it is located in the area of the vehicle's driver seat.
US09084089B2	Media data exchange transfer or delivery for portable electronic devices Methods and systems that facilitate data delivery to electronic devices are disclosed. One aspect pertains to data delivery to electronic devices that are portable, such as, mobile devices. In one embodiment, one mobile device discovers another mobile device within its vicinity. The mobile devices can then wirelessly transmit data from one mobile device to the other. The mobile devices, or their users, can control, request or influence the particular data content being delivered.
US09084088B2	Wireless communication provisioning using state transition rules A method for wireless communication provisioning is disclosed. A first wireless communication provisioning state associated with one or more identifiers is defined. A second wireless communication provisioning state associated with one or more identifiers is defined. A state transition rule is defined, wherein the state transition rule defines a transition between the first wireless communication provisioning state and the second wireless communication provisioning state, wherein the first wireless communication provisioning state and the second wireless communication provisioning state are based on the lifecycle of the service of a wireless communication device associated with the first and second wireless communication provisioning states.
US09084086B2	Matching based on geolocation information from a mobile application Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for location matching. The method may include tracking, by the user equipment, a plurality of locations of the user equipment, the plurality of locations mapped to a plurality of time values representative of when the user equipment traversed the plurality of locations; determining, by the user equipment, a first location of the user equipment, wherein the determining is based on a first time value received from an interface; providing, by the user equipment, at least one of the determined first location and the received first time value to a database searchable based on the at least one of the determined first location and the received first time value; and receiving, at the user equipment, an indication of whether the database includes one or more items matching the at least one of the determined first location and the received first time value. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US09084085B2	Method and system for changing operation mode of portable terminal An apparatus and method for changing an operation mode of a portable terminal includes checking a moving distance of the portable terminal during a predetermined time period using received location information, checking a moving speed of the portable terminal from the checked moving distance and the predetermined time period, and changing the operation mode of the portable terminal to an airplane mode if the checked moving speed is higher than a preset speed.
US09084079B2	Selectively formatting media during a group communication session In an embodiment, during a group communication session, media is received from a first set of access terminals that belong to a communication group, wherein the received media corresponds to content for presentation to a second set of access terminals that belong to the communication group. In an example, the media can be received either at an application server arbitrating the group communication session, or alternatively at a target access terminal for the received media that belongs to the second set of access terminals. Location information associated with an access terminal among the first or second sets of access terminals is determined, and the received media is selectively reformatted based on the determined location information.
US09084078B2	Systems and methods for secure intermediary data transfers using close proximity wireless communication The present disclosure provides systems and methods for utilizing close proximity wireless communication (CPWC) technology for a secure out-of-band (OOB) transfer of communication information between two or more devices at close range. The communication information may be used to establish a secure communication channel over a greater distance than possible using CPWC technologies. A host device may include a processing unit in communication with a communication module and a CPWC module. An edge device may include a processing unit in communication with a communication module and a CPWC tag. The CPWC tag may receive communication information from the CPWC module of the host device. In other embodiments, the edge device may receive communication information from an intermediary transfer device. The edge device may then use the communication information to facilitate secure communication via the communication module of the edge device and the communication module of the host device.
US09084073B2	Methods and apparatus for index based peer discovery Base station assisted peer to peer discovery methods are described. A wireless terminal communicates peer discovery expression information to a base station and information identifying a peer discovery resource that it intends to use but which may also be used by other devices. The base station associates the peer discovery expression and peer discovery resource with an index value to be communicated on the peer discovery resource. The base station transmits the peer discovery expression and information associating the peer discovery expression with the peer discovery resource and the index value. The wireless terminal transmits the index value on the peer discovery resource. A wireless terminal receiving the index value determines the peer discovery expression being communicated using information from the base station. Use of different indexes allows multiple devices to use the same discovery resource.
US09084072B2	Techniques for using software application-related metadata in near field communication transmissions A computer-implemented method includes determining, at a first mobile device associated with a first user, whether a second mobile device is within range for near field communication (NFC). When in range, the method includes receiving, at the first mobile device, first data and second data from the second mobile device via an NFC transmission, the first data being based on input from a second user associated with the second mobile device, the second data being metadata indicating a software application configured to process the first data. When the first mobile device does not have the software application indicated by the second data, the method includes retrieving, at the first mobile device, the software application via a network. The method also includes providing, at the first mobile device, the first data to the first user via the software application.
US09084067B2	Method of manufacturing resonant transducer A method of manufacturing a resonant transducer having a vibration beam includes: (a) providing an SOI substrate including: a first silicon layer; a silicon oxide layer on the first silicon layer; and a second silicon layer on the silicon oxide layer; (b) forming a first gap and second gap through the second silicon layer by etching the second silicon layer using the silicon oxide layer as an etching stop layer; (c) forming an impurity diffusion source layer on the second silicon layer; (d) forming an impurity diffused layer in a surface portion of the second silicon layer; (e) removing the impurity diffusion source layer through etching; and (f) removing at least a portion of the silicon oxide layer through etching such that an air gap is formed between the first silicon layer and a region of the second silicon layer surrounded by the first and second gaps.
US09084066B2	Optimization of hearing aid parameters The present invention relates to a new method for effective estimation of signal processing parameters in a hearing aid. It is based on an interactive estimation process that incorporates—possibly inconsistent—user feedback. In particular, the present invention relates to optimization of hearing aid signal processing parameters based on Bayesian incremental preference elicitation.
US09084063B2	Hearing aid compatible audio device with acoustic noise cancellation A portable audio device, which includes active noise cancellation circuitry, a hearing aid compliant magnetic radiator, and a speaker/earpiece, is surrounded by ambient acoustic noise. The active noise cancellation circuitry provides an anti-noise signal at an input of the speaker to control/reduce the ambient acoustic noise outside of the device. In addition, the active noise cancellation circuitry provides an inverse anti-noise signal to an input of the magnetic radiator. The magnetic fields produced by the speaker driven by the anti-noise signal and the magnetic radiator driven by the inverse anti-noise signal cancel each other out through phase cancellation such that a hearing aid using a telecoil coupled to the audio device does not produce significant audio waves based on either of these signals. Other embodiments are also described.
US09084055B2	Audio listening system A headphone assembly is provided and includes a headband assembly comprising at least one end; an ear-cup assembly pivotably engaged to the headband assembly by an engagement structure positioned proximate to the at least one end of the headband assembly, the ear-cup assembly comprising a cap and a housing, wherein the cap and the housing are connected to form an enclosed space inside the ear-cup assembly; a transducer configured to produce sound and positioned within the enclosed space of the ear-cup assembly; and a damper rim positioned between the ear-cup assembly and the at least one end of the headband assembly, the damper rim covering the engagement structure and being engaged to the ear-cup assembly and the at least one end of the headband assembly.
US09084053B2	Microphone environmental protection device A device for protecting a microphone sensing surface, such as a diaphragm, from the detrimental effects of the ambient environment. The device incorporates a perforated surface to protect the microphone and in conjunction with a chamber volume creates an acoustic resonance in the 1 kHz to 20 kHz spectrum, which improves the microphone signal-to-noise ratio performance. The microphone is acoustically coupled to the chamber volume for sensing pressure of the ambient environment. There is no line of sight to the microphone sensing surface from the ambient environment, so that rain, wind and sand have no direct path to the microphone sensing surface. The perforations of the outer surface are small to prevent objects from contacting the microphone sensing surface via a direct path. Water drains from the chamber volume and does not become trapped if an embodiment of the invention is temporarily submerged so that the microphone returns to normal operation quickly.
US09084050B2	Systems and methods for remapping an audio range to a human perceivable range A system for remapping an audio range to a human perceivable range includes an audio transducer configured to output audio and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive the audio from an audio input, analyze the audio to determine a first audio range, a second audio range, and a third audio range. The processing circuit is further configured to use frequency compression on the first audio range based on the second audio range and third audio range to create a first open frequency range, move the second audio range into the first open frequency range to create a second open frequency range, move the third audio range into the second open frequency range, and provide audio output including the compressed first audio range, the moved second audio range, and the moved third audio range.
US09084046B2	Flip out dog leg mountable ceiling speaker enclosure A manually operated flip dog mountable ceiling speaker enclosure, for ceiling or other panel installation, provides a plurality of flip dogs mounted tangentially on an annular flange around an opening of a speaker can and operated by either pulling on an actuator to create a cam-driven rotation to a radial alignment and a downward dog movement to a ratcheted clamping position, or by first rotating the manual actuator to rotate the dog and then pulling the actuator to pull the dog down into a ratcheted clamping position. Ratchet points on the dog are urged into ratchet points on a wall by a releasable biasing member. Three embodiments are illustrated.
US09084041B2	Water resistant holder with a speaker for electronic product A water resistant holder with a speaker for electronic products, which is used to contain a portable electronic product, and is designed to be water resistant by way of the provision of the base that can be disposed at an appropriate angle and simultaneously allows the sound to be amplified and played out through the base; said holder includes a base and a cover for mounting on the base, wherein the base is provided on its top with a platform, which has a surrounding groove for receiving the edge of the cover for fastening purpose; the interior of the platform has locking pieces accommodating to the portable electronic product, and has a sound receiving hole at an appropriate position for connecting to the sound outlet; the sound receiving hole is connect to the loudspeaker hole via a through path in the speaker under the base, such that the sound can be amplified.
US09084037B2	Audio beamforming An audio beamforming apparatus includes a receiving circuit (103) which receives signals from an at least two-dimensional microphone array (101). A reference circuit (105) generates reference beams and a combining circuit (107) generates an output signal corresponding to a desired beam pattern by combining the reference beams. An estimation circuit (109) generates a direction estimate by determining angles corresponding to local minima for a power measure of the output signal in at least a first and respectively second angle interval. The direction estimate is generated by selecting one of the angles. The combining circuit (107) determines combination parameters to provide a notch in an angle corresponding to the direction estimate and a maximization of a directivity cost measure where the directivity cost measure is indicative of a ratio between a gain in the first direction and an energy averaged gain.
US09084031B2	Content license storage Content license storage is provided by holding, in a temporary license store on the content consumption device, a plurality of content licenses for a plurality of content streams, wherein each content license of the plurality of content licenses includes a removal date. The method further includes for each content license of the plurality of content licenses corresponding to a content stream of the plurality of content streams which is designated for archived playback, copying the content license into an embedded license store within the content stream to form an archived content stream. The method further includes removing one or more of the plurality of content licenses held at the temporary license store if the removal date included in the content license has been reached, while leaving each content license stored within an archived content stream even if the removal date has been reached.
US09084029B2	On-screen program guide with interactive programming recommendations A subscriber to a video service generally has available to them an on-screen program guide. The program guide lists programming (e.g., TV shows) that are available to the subscriber for a certain upcoming time period. The programming guide may sort the listings by channel and time, areas of interest, age appropriateness and/or MPAA or TV rating, free or additional cost, etc. In an embodiment, the programming guide includes an ability to make a selection to see which TV shows are recommended by reviewers. Such reviewers may be individuals or panels or institutions to which some credibility may be attached—a trusted source. After selecting a reviewer, the subscriber is made aware of the programs recommended by the selected reviewer.
US09084027B2	Internet protocol television system and implementation method thereof An Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system and an implementation method thereof are disclosed. The method includes: installing a wireless data card in a television Set Top Box (STB) device through a personal computer (PC), establishing a connection with the STB device, and starting the wireless data card to wirelessly access to the IPTV network; accessing to the IPTV network resources through the PC or the STB device, implementing the IPTV service. This solution realizes that the IPTV user terminal device can access to the network wirelessly so that the IPTV terminal device have mobility in space, thus extending the application scenarios of the IPTV system.
US09084023B2	Image processing device, image processing method and image processing program An image processing device is provided where it is possible to determine a reproduction form of preview moving images in an expression form which does not currently exist which is determining the reproduction form of the preview moving images using a comic which are elements of the base moving images in two dimensions by arranges panel images of base moving images in a comic region and determining the reproduction form of the preview moving images according to the comic panels arranged in the comic region, and it is possible to impress expressiveness.
US09084021B2	Call-in participation for a live video broadcast Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for call-in participation for a live video broadcast. A method includes, in a server residing in a network of interconnected computers, alerting a media player of a call-in feature during a live streaming broadcast, receiving an indication from a viewer of the media player to participate in the live streaming broadcast, receiving audio/video device specifications from the media player, and dispatching an active participant stream to be used in conjunction with the live streaming broadcast.
US09084019B2	Information descriptor and extended information descriptor data structures for digital television signals According to an aspect, there is provided a digital television (DTV) data stream including program and system information protocol (PSIP) data associated with content of the DTV data stream, the PSIP data including a virtual channel table (VCT) and an event information table (EIT), the EIT comprising: a source identification field identifying a source of an associated event in a DTV data stream; an event identification field indicating an identification of the event; a start time field indicating a star time of the event; a title field indicating a title of the event; and a descriptor comprising: a descriptor tag identifying the descriptor as a genre descriptor, a descriptor length indicating a total length of the descriptor; and at least one category code for an associated event in a DTV data stream, each category code specifying genre, program type, or category information of the associated event, wherein the at least one category code specifies at least one of a set of basic categories.
US09084015B2	Display control apparatus and method for mobile device An apparatus and a method for controlling a display of a mobile device are provided. The method includes identifying a resolution of video data to be displayed in a video display mode, retrieving brightness control data corresponding to the identified resolution from a memory unit that stores a plurality of values of the brightness control data each of which corresponds to each of a plurality of resolution values, and sending the retrieved brightness control data to a display unit to display the video data with specific brightness determined based on the brightness control data.
US09084006B2	Interactive television program guide system having multiple devices within a household An interactive television program guide system based on multiple user television equipment devices in a single household is provided. The system provides a user with an opportunity to adjust program guide settings with a given one of the interactive television program guides. The system coordinates the operation of the interactive television program guides so that the program guide settings that were adjusted with the given interactive television program guide are used by the other interactive television program guides. Program guide setting include features related to setting program reminders, profiles, program recording features, messaging features, favorites features, parental control features, program guide set up features (e.g., audio and video and language settings), etc. The operation of applications such as web browser applications, home shopping applications, home banking applications, game applications, etc. may also be coordinated.
US09084005B2	Two-dimensional barcode system An end-user device, including a processor to prepare barcode-input data including (a) at least one of an identification of a user of the end-user device, and an identification of the end-user device, and (b) data based on activity of at least one of the end-user device, the user of the end-user device, and a security element removably inserted into the end-user device, and prepare a two-dimensional barcode including the barcode input data, the two-dimension barcode being prepared for displaying on a display in a manner suitable for scanning by a communication device. Related apparatus and methods are also included.
US09084002B2	Heterogeneous image sensor synchronization A computer implemented method for synchronizing information from a scene using two heterogeneous sensing devices. Scene capture information is provided by a first sensor and a second sensor. The information comprises video streams including successive frames provided at different frequencies. Each frame is separated by a vertical blanking interval. A video output comprising a stream of successive frames each separated by a vertical blanking interval is rendered based on information in the scene. The method determines whether an adjustment of the first and second video stream relative to the video output stream is required by reference to the video output stream. A correction is then generated to at least one of said vertical blanking intervals.
US09084000B2	Systems and methods for remote web query and image selection exchange to video screen Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving a request to display, on an first communications device, media content, where the request comprises a first logical address for accessing the media content at a first storage location, transmitting to a second communications device, a second logical address for accessing a copy of the media content at a second storage location, where the second logical address differs from the first logical address, and where the second storage location differs from the first storage location. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09083995B1	Customer premise equipment fraud detection Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to detect possible fraudulent use of a customer premise equipment device. Information identifying a device connected to a customer premise equipment device can be retrieved and compared to historical information identifying one or more devices previously connected to the customer premise equipment device. The customer premise equipment device can be classified as a device suspected of fraudulent use when the current information identifying a device connected to the customer premise equipment device is different than the historical information identifying the one or more devices previously connected to the customer premise equipment device.
US09083991B2	Broadcasting receiver and a method of determining an operation mode of broadcasting receiver A broadcasting receiver and a method of determining an operation mode of broadcasting receiver are disclosed. A host device transmits the resource information including A-mode resource information. And a POD receives the resource information and determining an operation mode based on the received resource information and operation mode setting information. The broadcasting receiver can protect content data received from all the transfer protocols including the wired/wireless network and the IP protocol, using the conditional access provided from the conventional cable card. The broadcasting receiver determines whether the host supports the A-mode and determines a method for receiving broadcast data, such that the operation mode of the broadcasting receiver can be properly established according to the determined result.
US09083990B2	Electronic device and method for managing video snapshot Method of managing video snapshot of receiving bitstreams of a video and bitstream parameters of the received bitstreams from a server through a network channel. The electronic device is connected to the server. The server encodes the video into an encoded file using an encoder of the server. The encoded file comprises a plurality of bitstreams. The plurality of bitstreams in the encoded file comprising a plurality of enhancement layers. According to a selection of a user of the electronic device, a snapshot grade is determined. According to the received bitstreams and the determined snapshot grade, additional enhancement layers which are not comprised in the received bitstreams are acquired from the encoded file in the server through the network channel. Based on the acquired additional enhancement layers, a video snapshot is generated.
US09083989B2	Output system and display system A system (1) includes a monitor (10) and a STB (20). The STB (20) notifies the monitor (10) of a request for reconnection with the monitor (10) with the use of a new channel in a case where it is determined that overflow has occurred. The monitor (10) determines whether or not underrun has occurred in a receive buffer in which video data supplied from the STB (20) is buffered.
US09083986B2	Method and system for adaptive rate video compression and transmission For a portion of video data, a video processing device generates a plurality of compressed video bit streams comprising different bit rates, and selects one stream per portion of video data to transmit to a display device. The streams may be generated concurrently. Bit rates are determined based on operating conditions and link performance. The selections are determined dynamically in response to received information. The streams may be compressed utilizing different compression schemes, for example, DPCM and/or transform compression. The bit rates may be dynamically adjusted by adjusting compression scheme, compression parameters, frame size, frame rate, color space and/or chroma sampling. The portion of video data may comprise contiguous horizontal rows or portions of rows of pixels, a full frame and/or a scaled frame. Information is communicated to the display device for control of decompression operations. The display device receives, decompresses, reconstructs and displays the selected bit stream.
US09083981B2	Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method using a determination whether or not a reference block has two reference motion vectors that refer forward in display order with respect to a current picture A moving picture coding apparatus includes: an inter prediction control unit which determines to code a motion vector using, among candidate predicted motion vectors, a candidate predicted motion vector having the least error with relative to a motion vector derived by motion estimation; a picture type determination unit which generates picture type information; a temporal direction vector calculation unit which derives a candidate predicted motion vector in temporal direct; and a co-located reference direction determination unit which generates, for each picture, a co-located reference direction flag.
US09083976B2	Processing a video stream in real time based on binary information of the video stream A system (and a method) are disclosed for a video processing system with enhanced entropy coding performance. The system includes an entropy decoder configured to divide decoding of an input video stream into arithmetic decoding and syntax decoding. The entropy decoder includes an arithmetic decoding module, a syntax decoding module, a memory management module and a memory buffer connecting the two decoding modules. The arithmetic decoding module is configured to decode the input video stream into multiple bins of decoded input video stream and the syntax decoding module is configured to decode the bins of arithmetically decoded input videos stream into one or more syntax elements. The memory management module uses the memory buffer to accelerate the coding performances of arithmetic decoding and syntax decoding. The system also includes a corresponding entropy encoder configured to encode a video stream with improved coding performance.
US09083972B2	Encoder and decoder Provided are bitstream encoding/decoding methods and devices. The decoder includes: a condition information extracting unit creating recognition information using syntax tree information indicating a hierarchical structure between syntax elements corresponding to bits of an input bitstream, respectively and rule description information indicating connectivity between the syntax elements; and a decoding unit decoding data contained in the bitstream into moving image data using the recognition information. Accordingly, it is possible to decode bitstreams encoded in a variety of types (syntax, semantics) corresponding to a variety of standards (for example, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and MPEG-4 AVC) by the use of the same information recognition method.
US09083970B2	Method of displaying stereoscopic images, and stereoscopic image display device A method of displaying stereoscopic images is provided. By the method, a stereoscopic image frame having an active period and a vertical blank is received, a length of the vertical blank varying for each stereoscopic image frame, the stereoscopic image frame is divided into a first image frame and a second image frame based on an end point of the active period of the stereoscopic image frame, and the first image frame and the second image frame are sequentially outputted.
US09083969B2	Methods and systems for independent view adjustment in multiple-view displays Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for independently increasing the perceived brightness of a view in a multiple-view display. In some embodiments this increase compensates for a decrease in display light-source illumination.
US09083968B2	Mobile terminal and image display method thereof A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal may include a display unit and a controller. The display unit may display a plurality of content items. The controller may display the plurality of content items on the display unit as a two-dimensional image and may convert the two-dimensional image corresponding to at least one content item among the plurality of content items into a three-dimensional stereoscopic image to display the three-dimensional stereoscopic image on the display unit when a predetermined event is generated.
US09083967B2	Method for displaying a stereoscopic image and display apparatus for performing the same A method for displaying a stereoscopic image, the method comprises generating k images for a left eye and k images for a right eye based on a left-eye image and a right-eye image, where ‘k’ is a natural number greater than two, correcting an image currently received using an n-th image of the k images for the left eye and the k images for the right eye that are previously received, where ‘n’ is a natural number greater than ‘k’, displaying corrected k images for the left eye and corrected k images for the right eye on a display panel, and providing the display panel with lights based on the image displayed on the display panel.
US09083966B2	Display device and method for manufacturing phase retarder film thereof A display device includes a display panel and a phase retarder film disposed on the display panel. The display panel has a first pixel region, a second pixel region and a third pixel region disposed between the first pixel region and the second pixel region. The phase retarder film has a first phase region, a second phase region and a third phase region disposed between the first phase region and the second phase region. The first phase region is disposed corresponding to the first pixel region, the second phase region is disposed corresponding to the second pixel region, and the third phase region is disposed corresponding to the third pixel region. A phase retardation of the third phase region is different from phase retardations of the first phase region and the second phase region. A method for manufacturing the phase retarder film is also provided.
US09083965B2	Stereoscopic display device Provided is a liquid crystal display device 10 that divides “3m” video signal lines into groups of three lines according to an order of arrangement, and drives the video signal lines in the group within one horizontal period in a time-division manner. A pixel array 17 is configured such that columns each including pixel circuits for left eye 21 arranged along a vertical direction of a display screen and columns each including pixel circuits for right eye 22 arranged along the vertical direction of the display screen are arranged along a horizontal direction of the display screen. When driving the video signal lines in a time-division manner, a writing order to pixel circuits 18 within one horizontal period and a polarity of a voltage to be applied to the pixel circuits 18 are changed every two scanning signal lines. This improves image quality of both an image for left eye and an image for right eye, thereby improving image quality in stereoscopic display.
US09083964B2	Stereoscopic image display device A stereoscopic image display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix format, the pixels including left-eye and right-eye pixels alternately arranged in one direction; a memory including a left-eye image area for storing left-eye image data corresponding to the left-eye pixels and a right-eye image area for storing right-eye image data corresponding to the right-eye pixels; an address comparator for the respectively storing the left-eye and right-eye image data at corresponding addresses of the left-eye and right-eye image areas and making an arrangement of the left-eye and right-eye image areas in the memory in response to a first signal; a data synthesizer for synthesizing a stereoscopic image signal from the data stored in the memory; and a data driver for applying a data signal corresponding to a stereoscopic image signal to the display unit.
US09083956B2	System and method for creating 3D video A system and method for generating 3D video from a plurality of 2D video streams is provided. A video capture device for capturing video to be transformed into 3D video includes a camera module for capturing a two-dimensional (2D) video stream, a location module for determining a location of the video capture device, an orientation module for determining an orientation of the video capture device, and a processing module for associating additional information with the 2D video stream captured by the camera module, the additional information including the orientation of the video capture device and the location of the video capture device.
US09083955B2	Three-dimensional image pickup system Provided is a three-dimensional image pickup system including: a pair of lens apparatus; a camera apparatus for picking up subject images formed by the pair of lens apparatus; a convergence angle changing unit for changing a convergence angle of the pair of lens apparatus; a controller for controlling the convergence angle of the pair of lens apparatus in association with an operation of focus lens units of the pair of lens apparatus; and an interlock switching unit for switching between an interlocked state in which the convergence angle is interlocked with the operation of the focus lens units and a non-interlocked state in which the convergence angle is not interlocked with the operation of the focus lens units.
US09083953B2	3D caption display method and 3D display apparatus for implementing the same A 3D caption display method for harmoniously merging and displaying closed caption with 3D image in a 3D display apparatus, and a 3D display apparatus suitable for implementing the method. The 3D display apparatus receives a broadcast signal containing caption data, and obtains caption control commands including a 3D parameter setting command from the caption data. Afterwards, the 3D display apparatus displays a plurality of 3D caption images according to the caption control commands.
US09083951B2	Adaptable video architectures Various methods and systems are provided for adaptable video architectures. In one embodiment, a method for adapting video processing of a video device includes processing a video stream along a first pipeline pathway defined by a plurality of interconnected pipeline elements. In response to detecting a change in a system condition of the video device, the pipeline pathway is transitioned to a second pipeline pathway by reconfiguring at least one of the pipeline element interconnections. In another embodiment, a method includes obtaining a video stream. A first subset bitstream having a first resolution is processed in a video pipeline of a video device and video information is extracted from the video pipeline during the processing. At least a portion of the extracted video information is then to a video pipeline of the video device for processing a second subset bitstream having a second resolution higher than the first resolution.
US09083949B2	High speed scalable video coding device and method using multi-track video The present invention relates to a high speed scalable video coding device and method using a multi-track video, and the scalable video encoding device comprises: a video array unit for arraying a multi-track video in a plurality of layers according to a set standard; a bit stream analyzing unit for analyzing each layer of a bit stream and extracting encoding information including an encoding mode and prediction information; a layer for carrying out scalable video encoding; and a scalable video coding (SVC) encoding unit for determining the encoding mode using the encoding information of an upper or a lower layer of a layer carrying out the scalable video encoding, and for encoding in the determined encoding mode. The scalable video encoding device and method of the present invention enhance the speed of encoding a multi-track video into a scalable video by using the encoding information of a standard multi-track video.
US09083941B2	System for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior A system for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The viewer may request that certain content be captured. Capture requests also allow the service to determine content to be recorded by the client system in the same manner that a viewer requests that certain content are recorded but are more powerful than what a viewer can request. Recording requests for a capture request can preempt viewer requests or be entered at the same or lower priority as a viewer request. Capture requests can adjust all aspects of a recording request and affect the capture request itself. Client system operational functionality are also manipulated by the service using capture requests.
US09083939B2	Moving image playback apparatus, control method therefor, and recording medium One of a plurality of skip search modes including a first skip search mode in which the playback position of moving image data currently played back is changed to a frame a predetermined time before or after a frame currently played back, and a second skip search mode in which the playback position of the moving image data currently played back is changed to a frame corresponding to a chapter before or after the frame currently played back is selected according to the moving image data currently played back.
US09083935B2	Combining multiple images in bracketed photography Embodiments provide a unified method for combining images such as high dynamic range images, flash-no-flash image pairs, and/or other images. Weight masks are defined for each of the plurality of images by calculating coefficients for each of the weight masks. Calculating the coefficients includes, at least, performing histogram alignment between a reference image and each of the other input images and by applying a mismatch bias to the coefficients as a function of the histogram alignment. After applying the weight masks to the corresponding images, the images are combined to produce a final image.
US09083931B1	Visual display system for customer interaction Sanitary handle cover and dispenser systems and methods include a sanitary cover for shopping carts and/or other handled devices along with a corresponding dispensing system and method. In an exemplary embodiment, the sanitary handle cover includes two layers with a first layer including static polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and a second layer disposed thereon with a plurality of imprintable coupons. In use, the PVC layer may be a wrapper around a shopping cart handle providing a sanitary cover therein with the second layer optionally adhesively and removably attached to the PVC layer for a user to remove and redeem coupons on the second layer. In another exemplary embodiment, the sanitary handle cover includes a single layer of static PVC with a plurality of imprintable coupons disposed thereon.
US09083929B2	Image-pickup apparatus and white-balance control method provided therefor The present invention allows for selecting a predetermined chromatic color for extraction from among a plurality of chromatic colors based on the result of identification of acquired photographing information. When the value of a white extraction area of the photographing information is smaller than a first threshold value, it is determined whether the value of the area of the selected predetermined chromatic color is greater than or equal to a second threshold value. If the value of the predetermined chromatic-color area is determined to be greater than or equal to the second threshold value, white balance is controlled by bringing the value of the predetermined chromatic-color area near to a predetermined target color value.
US09083926B2	Multi-display device and method therefore A multi-display device comprising: a plurality of display panels wherein each display panel is arranged in a housing; and a single video processor arranged within one of the housings and configured to output a different video signal to each of the plurality of display panels.
US09083924B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a measurement image on a recording paper by using a color material, a fixing unit configured to fix a plurality of measurement images onto the recording paper by heating the measurement images, a measurement unit configured to measure the measurement images fixed onto the recording paper downstream of the fixing unit in a conveyance direction of the recording paper, a cooling unit configured to cool the recording paper heated by the fixing unit, and a control unit configured to perform control such that a cooling capacity of the cooling unit in a case where the measurement unit measures color of the measurement images is higher than a cooling capacity of the cooling unit in a case where the measurement unit measures density of the measurement images.
US09083917B2	Television system and video processing method A video signal processing method applied for a TV system is disclosed. In this method, the received video signal is processed by a video decoding process, and then the decoded video signal is processed by a de-interlacing process. A still or corresponsively still image signal is generated and blended with the de-interlaced video signal to generate a blended signal which is displayed to make sure the OSD information can always be shown at the top layer of the screen of the LCD panel.
US09083916B2	Generation of a customizable TV mosaic Method for generating at least one mosaic of content-transport streams, said method comprises the following steps after displaying a screen including at least a first area (Z1) intended for displaying a mosaic and a second area (Z2) comprising a content identifier list: a/ detecting a command for selecting an identifier from a list coming from a user control interface; b/ modifying the screen definition (E2) by adding a mosaic element (Em1) showing the stream representing the content identified by the selected identifier in the first area (Z1); c/ transmitting the screen definition data to the display device for displaying the modified screen.
US09083903B2	Solid-state imaging device and camera system A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array with unit pixels each having a photoelectric conversion device arranged in a matrix. Column signal lines are wired with respect to one column in the pixel arrangement and pixels are regularly connected to the column signal lines in accordance with rows in which pixels are positioned. A pixel signal reading unit has a column processing unit that reads pixel signals in units of plural pixels from the pixel array and performs column processing to read signals on a column basis, wherein the pixel signal reading unit includes a column input unit which can connect one or plural column signal lines arranged at a corresponding column to an input of one column processing unit through plural capacitors connected in parallel The column input unit has switches which can change a connection state between capacitors and column signal lines corresponding to the column.
US09083895B2	Embedded document destination routing restrictions Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for restricting transmission of a document. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for restricting transmission of a document is provided. The method includes loading an image of a document into memory of a computer, receiving a request to transmit the image to a specified destination, and in response to receiving the request, locating an embedded code within the document, extracting a restriction as to the transmission of the image of the document, applying the restriction, and transmitting the image of the document to the specified destination only if permitted by the restriction.
US09083891B2	Video monitoring apparatus A video monitoring apparatus capable of efficiently superimposing additional information on a monitoring camera image is provided. The video monitoring apparatus holds image specifying information for specifying an image picked up by a camera and additional information in correspondence with each other. In superimposing additional information on an image, additional information corresponding to images having a distance therebetween falling within a prescribed range is searched for, and out of the thus found additional information, one that may be fit within an image currently picked up by the camera is superimposed on the camera image.
US09083889B2	Signal processing circuit capable of selectively adjusting gain factor of sample-and-hold circuit and signal processing method thereof A signal processing circuit including an amplifying circuit, a control circuit, and a sample-and-hold circuit is provided. The amplifying circuit receives an analog input signal and outputs a first analog signal by amplifying the analog input signal. The control circuit outputs a control signal according to the analog input signal. The sample-and-hold circuit is coupled to the amplifying circuit and the control circuit to selectively adjust a gain factor of the sample-and-hold circuit according to the control signal, thereby outputting a second analog signal according to the first analog signal and the gain factor.
US09083888B2	Shutter driving system and camera device having the same, and driving method thereof A shutter driving system and a camera device having the same, and a driving method thereof are provided. The shutter driving system includes a base plate including an opening part, a front-curtain and a rear-curtain, a front-curtain link and a rear-curtain link supporting respective folding and unfolding operations of the front-curtain and the rear-curtain, a front-curtain drive lever and a rear-curtain drive lever controlling respective drives of the front-curtain link and the rear-curtain link for opening and closing the opening part, a front-curtain electromagnet and a rear-curtain electromagnet selectively and respectively stopping the front-curtain and rear-curtain drive levers, a cam gear mechanically closing the opening part of the front curtain and mechanically opening the opening part of the rear-curtain, a motor rotating the cam gear, and a reduction gear train including at least one gear disposed between the cam gear and the motor.
US09083887B2	Image capture devices configured to generate compensation gains based on an optimum light model and electronic apparatus having the same An image capture device can include an analysis unit that can be configured to determine a refined light model that models a light source based on first and second image signals sampled with first and second exposure times, respectively, and corresponding to first and second rows of pixels. A compensation unit can be coupled to the analysis unit, and can be configured to generate an output image signal by compensating the first and second image signals and the second image signal using compensation gains associated with the refined light model.
US09083881B2	Focus adjustment apparatus and focus adjustment method Focus adjustment apparatus and methods for effectively auto-focusing on a subject by adaptively changing a shape of a focus area according to a determined image condition, and in particular, setting the focus area in a shape of which a width of an upper part is narrow according to the condition.
US09083879B2	Focus detection apparatus, control method thereof, and image pickup apparatus A focus detection apparatus which performs a center-of-gravity adjustment of a pair of image restoration filters for restoring the pair of image signals, on the basis of an image shift amount which is calculated from a pair of image signals of an object which are formed by focus-detecting pixels of an image pickup element having a plurality of focus-detecting pixels for respectively receiving light which passes through different exit pupil areas of a photographing lens; calculates the image restoration filters; generates a pair of restored image signals by restoring the pair of image signals by the calculated pair of image restoration filters; and detects a defocus amount of the photographing lens by using the pair of restored image signals.
US09083874B2	Camera module An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first PCB Printed Circuit Board mounted with an image sensor, a housing unit arranged on an upper portion of the first PCB, a holder module spaced apart from an inner bottom surface of the housing unit at a predetermined distance, wound on a periphery with a first coil and having at least one lens thereinside, a second PCB mounted on an upper portion of the holder module, a plate member coupled to a bottom surface of the holder module, a plurality of wire springs connected at one end to the second PCB and connected at the other end to the plate member, and a coil fixing unit configured to fixedly position the first coil to a periphery of the holder module.
US09083872B2	Imaging device with adhesive filling openings and related methods An imaging device may include a housing, an image sensor IC in the housing, a lens adjacent the image sensor IC, and a cap over the lens and having an adhesive filling opening therein. The cap, the housing, and the lens may define an adhesive receiving cavity therein and in communication with the adhesive filling opening. The imaging device may also include adhesive material within the adhesive receiving cavity touching the cap, the housing, and the lens.
US09083868B2	Supporting means for video surveillance The present invention relates to a support for video surveillance, formed by a supporting column on which there is rotationally assembled a horizontal disc having a rotation-actuating motor, whereas in said disc there is swivel-mounted at least one video camera having a respective swivel-actuating motor, the entire functional assembly being included inside a transparent protective bubble.
US09083866B2	Network camera A network camera comprises a base, a casing and a fasten element. The base has a screw hole. The casing has a through hole. The fasten element passes through the through hole to be fastened within the screw hole, so as to fix a relative position between the base and the casing.
US09083862B2	Biosensor with a visually identifiable character pattern, and biosensor measuring system incorporating the same In a biosensor measuring system, a biosensor includes a bio-sensing unit embedded in a main body formed with a visually identifiable character pattern that corresponds to identification information associated with the biosensor. A biosensor measuring device includes an image capturing unit for capturing an image of the character pattern. An image processing unit identifies the captured image to obtain identification data, which is displayed on a display unit. A signal processing unit analyzes a reactive signal generated by the bio-sensing unit and associated with a specific component in a test sample based on an input signal, which is generated by an input unit when the displayed identification data matches the character pattern, to obtain a measurement result.
US09083860B2	Method of and apparatus for automatically controlling operation of a user-mounted recording device based on user motion and event context An event in a public safety (PS) network is recorded by mounting a video recording device for capturing images in a field of view (FOV) on a PS person, by tracking the PS person's point of view (POV) by mounting a motion sensor on the PS person's head for joint movement therewith to generate an output direction control signal indicative of a direction along which the POV is directed; by determining a context of the event in which the PS person is engaged by generating from a context sensor an output context signal indicative of the context of the event; and by automatically controlling operation of the video recording device based on the context and control signals by controlling one of direction of the FOV, angle of the FOV, size of the images, and resolution of the images.
US09083857B2	Systems and methods for analyzing body fluids Systems and methods analyzing body fluids contain cells including blood, bone marrow, urine, vaginal tissue, epithelial tissue, tumors, semen, and spittle are disclosed. The systems and methods utilize an improved technique for applying a monolayer of cells to a slide and generating a substantially uniform distribution of cells on the slide. Additionally aspects of the invention also relate to systems and method for utilizing multi-color microscopy for improving the quality of images captured by a light receiving device.
US09083856B2	Vehicle speed measurement method and system utilizing a single image capturing unit A vehicle speed measurement method and system for identifying a violating vehicle utilizing single image capturing unit. A vehicle image can be captured by the image capturing unit in order to estimate speed of the vehicle utilizing an ALPR unit. The license plate characters can be located and extracted from the captured image. A distance of the license plate from the image capturing unit can be calculated utilizing a physical character height from a reference point of the image capturing unit and a pixel character height generated by the ALPR unit. A position of the license plate in the field of view of the image capturing unit along with the distance information can be utilized to determine a height of the license plate from a road surface. The height of the license plate can be employed to accurately estimate the vehicle speed.
US09083852B2	Data transmission systems A data tracking system comprises a hub (1) for monitoring data transmissions passing through the hub. The hub (1) includes a store of audiovisual data files (2) and also has access to a number of external stores 3 of data files via respective Internet links (4). Data receivers (5), located within geographical territories (6), can access the hub (1) via respective Internet links (7) so as to request selected data files from one or more of the stores (2, 3). Each receiver (5) accesses the hub (1) in order to request a combination of data files in a desired format and for a selected platform. In response, the hub (1) collects the requested files from the appropriate stores combines them into a single file, together with an identity tag, and transmits the combined file and identity tag in an encrypted version to the receiver (5). Data transmissions are monitored in real time by a monitoring station (8), where information from the identity tag is used for accounting purposes.
US09083850B1	Video blurring in a secure environment Methods and systems for video blurring in a secure environment are described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving video at a video visitation device in a secure environment, adjusting a depth of field parameter for the video, such that an image of a first object at a first distance from the video visitation device is in focus and an image of a second object at a second distance from the video visitation device is blurred, and providing the video to a viewing device located outside of the secure environment.
US09083848B2	Speaker displaying method and videophone terminal therefor A speaker displaying method displaying who is a speaker while many users are performing a videophone call and a videophone terminal implementing the same are provided. The method includes detecting voice characteristic information of other characters when a videophone call starts so as to match the characteristic information with character images of a received image in a one-to-one correspondence, detecting voice characteristic information from a voice received after the matching, and displaying a character image matching the detected voice characteristic information distinguished from other character images.
US09083841B2	Image reading apparatus efficiently illuminating light An image reading apparatus for reading an image of an original document includes a document placement surface, an illumination unit, a light-receiving unit, and an illumination control unit. The illumination unit includes: a first light guiding body in a bar shape extended in a first direction configured to irradiate a light to the original document along a second direction, a second light guiding body arranged at a distance from the first light guiding body configured to irradiate a light to the original document along a third direction, a pair of first light sources emits illuminating lights to be injected into the first incident surfaces, a pair of second light sources emits illuminating lights to be injected into the second incident surface. The illumination control unit is configured to control light-emitting operations of the first light source and the second light source corresponding to the reading mode.
US09083840B2	Illumination device and image reading apparatus An illumination device and an image reading apparatus having improved heat resistance and spectral characteristics are provided. An illumination device used in an image reading apparatus that moves relative to a read area of a document includes: a light source; a light guide including an incident surface on which light from the light source is incident and an exit surface from which light from the light source exits; and a spectroscopic unit that is provided between the light source and the light guide and includes, on a surface of a glass substrate facing the light source, a multi-layer film for reflecting infrared light toward the light source.
US09083825B2	Communication system, communication method, information processing apparatus, and storage medium A communication system for one or more communication apparatuses communicable with an external apparatus includes a storing unit to store data received by a communication apparatus from the external apparatus used as a transmission sender of the received data, and transmission/reception information including information of the external apparatus as transmission sender information and identification information of the communication apparatus used for receiving the received data; an identification unit to identify received data, selected by a user, from the received data stored in the storing unit; a transmission data obtaining unit to obtain transmission data to be transmitted to the external apparatus; and a transmission control unit to transmit the transmission data to the external apparatus from the communication apparatus that has received the selected received data among the one or more communication apparatuses based on the transmission/reception information stored in the storing unit.
US09083824B2	Image forming apparatus for detecting an abnormality An image forming apparatus capable of selectively executing a plurality of functions includes a first control unit for transmitting an image forming job, a second control unit for receiving the image forming job transmitted from the first control unit and controlling an image forming operation, an abnormality detection unit for detecting an abnormality of the image forming apparatus, a function restriction unit for restricting a function corresponding to the detected abnormality, and an execution unit for executing a first preparation operation if a power of the second control unit is turned on while the function is not restricted by the function restriction unit, and for executing, if the power of the second control unit is turned on while the function is restricted by the function restriction unit, a second preparation operation in which a preparation operation corresponding to the restricted function is excluded from the first preparation operation.
US09083823B2	Context oriented billing The present invention is directed toward networks and more particularly to a method and system for providing information related to context-oriented billing in such networks. In one more embodiments, a computer implemented method provides for billing invoices in response to one or more of a customer's network elements which have been correlated with detailed network data, classified into one or more billing event categories, and rated in accordance with a predetermined hierarchy.
US09083820B2	Network connection communication system Network connection systems and methods for managing a variety of services over different kinds of networks. A network connection and communication system is provided that monitors and displays units of network usage over a selected network. The information can be displayed in terms of usage units that are easy to understand from the viewpoint of a user. For instance, a display screen can indicate the number of available or used usage units, eg, connection minutes (time), the number of books purchased and downloaded over the network, the number of connections to a communicating partner. Multiple conversions can occur between various services that are available depending on the type of service and selected network.
US09083819B2	Customized hardware selection for a mobile phone A computerized method of customizing hardware for a mobile phone is provided. The method includes receiving shell selection information from a user input device, identifying a set of hardware components, the set of hardware components generated based on a compatibility between the hardware components and the shell selection information, and outputting the identified set of compatible hardware components.
US09083808B2	Unknown speaker identification system An apparatus for use in a verbal communication between a speaker and at least one listener, where the speaker and the at least one listener are spatially separate from each other, the apparatus provides the listener with a sensory output associated with the identity of the speaker, the apparatus including an identification device including a vibration sensor for detecting vibrations associated with speech of the speaker, is configured to store identification data representative of the identity of the speaker or the identification device, is associable with the identity of the speaker, and, in response to detecting vibrations, transmits an identification signal comprising or generated from the stored identification data, and a display device operable to receive the identification signal and to generate from the received identification signal a sensory output indicating the identity of either or both of the speaker and the identification device.
US09083807B2	System for connecting two client entities The invention relates to a system for connecting a first client entity (10) to a second client entity (11) in a communications network. Said first client entity has subscribed to a connection service. A routing module routes via a connecting device (50) a first call made by the second client entity to the first client entity and redirected to a third client entity (12). Said connecting device inserts a linking module (40) for the interception of said first call. A first branch is established between the second client entity and the linking module and a second branch is established between the linking module and the third client entity. The connecting device then detects a second call associated to the connection service made by the first client entity via the linking module, and then connects the first and second client entities by connecting the first branch and this second call by means of the linking module.
US09083806B2	Method of bootstrapping contact center Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method to generate skill information. The method includes retrieving information relating to an agent of a contact center, wherein the information includes document and information repositories, knowledge sharing reports, mail repositories, and customer, supervisor, and peer feedbacks. The information may also include information from external sources including social network. The method further includes determining keywords from the retrieved information, and generating skill information for the at least one agent.
US09083804B2	Optimized predictive routing and methods The methods, apparatus, and systems described herein facilitate optimizing routing decisions. The methods include retrieving and/or predicting a profile of a current customer and future customers, determining which agents are currently available and which agents are expected to be available, and providing a routing recommendation based on the profile retrieval or prediction for the current customer and the future customers, and the currently available agents' and expected available agents' proficiency at handling customers with the retrieved and/or predicted profiles.
US09083803B2	Systems and methods for allocation of telephony resources on-demand Organizations may employ private computer networks to enable customers to place a telephone call to customer service agents (CSAs). To maintain high customer service, it may desirable to expand the private computer network's ability to respond to customer calls on-demand. One or more requests for additional telephony resources may be submitted to a telephony resource allocation service in communication with a configurable network service. The telephony resource allocation service may determine telephony resources available for allocation to the private computer network and facilitate communication between the configurable network service and the private computer network. In this manner, additional computer private network extensions executing instances of call distribution services may also be generated and configured. Thus, the capacity of the private computer network to respond to customer calls may be expanded, while the additional private network extensions may manage distribution of calls to the CSAs transmitted over the allocated telephony resources.
US09083798B2	Enabling voice selection of user preferences A method, system and apparatus for voice enabling a user preference interface in a multimodal content browser. A method for voice enabling a user preference interface in a multimodal content browser can include matching voice input to a bound command in a speech grammar and invoking logic in the user preference interface consistent with the bound command in the speech grammar. The matching step can include comparing voice input to entries in a markup language specified speech grammar and locating the bound command in the specified speech grammar based upon the comparison. In this regard, the method further can include identifying a variable in the bound command, looking up the variable in a table, retrieving a corresponding parameter for the variable from the table, and replacing the variable with the corresponding parameter in the bound command.
US09083784B2	Techniques for providing multimedia communication services to a subscriber A technique for providing multimedia communication services to a subscriber includes receiving a communication query for the subscriber, the communication query having an associated requested communication mode. The technique also includes servicing the communication query for the subscriber using the requested communication mode when the requested communication mode corresponds to one of one or more selected communication modes.
US09083777B2	Image communication apparatus and signal processing unit This image communication apparatus receives a digital signal having a voice bandwidth from an external apparatus capable of communicating through a network, and processes the received digital signal by means of a signal processing unit. If it is determined that the digital signal includes a CNG signal, the image communication apparatus determines that the digital signal is a facsimile signal received as deemed voice, and executes facsimile reception according to the T.30 standard. If it is determined that the digital signal does not include a CNG signal, the image communication apparatus determines that the digital signal is a voice signal, and executes a voice call.
US09083773B2	Real-time priority-based media communication Representative embodiments are disclosed of a real-time priority-based communication system and method for communicating media streams made up of multiple media message sub-streams, the communication system comprising a chunk configurator for dividing media message sub-streams into chunks, a state machine configured to translate between information regarding the media message sub-streams and the chunks and state associations to the information, the state associations written into a header for each of the chunks, a queue for holding the chunks waiting to be transmitted, and a processor for executing a scheduling algorithm, wherein the scheduling algorithm determines ones of the chunks in the queue to transmit next.
US09083772B2	Exchanging data associated with a communication session within a communications system In an embodiment, a communications device exchanges, between first and second access terminals, higher priority data in association with a communication session of a first type and also lower priority data in association with a communication session of a second type. If the communications device determines a transition of the first access terminal to a lower data-rate environment, the communication device reduces a size of data packets exchanged between the first access terminal and an application server for the communication session of the second type. If the communications device determines an upcoming data packet is a low-data packet (e.g., a silence packet), the low-data packet is suppressed. If the communications device determines that the first access terminal has attempted transmission of a set of last or near-last data packets in the sequence, the communications device re-transmits the set of last or near-last data packets without waiting for ACKs.
US09083770B1	Method and system for integrating real time communication features in applications A computer has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to receive a real time communication request from a client device and perform an evaluation of the number of client devices associated with the real time communication request. The evaluation results in the coordination of peer-to-peer communications in the event of two client devices and an attempt to host a real time communication session using a first protocol in the event of three or more client devices. A second protocol for the real time communication session is invoked in the event that the attempt to host the real time communication session using the first protocol is unsuccessful.
US09083766B2	Maintaining consistent globally unique identifiers via an asynchronous interface Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for maintaining consistent globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) for content items accessible via an asynchronous interface in a multi-user network-based content management environment (storage environment). The example content management system can make a content item within a data storage available to an authorized user via the asynchronous interface, and receive, from a client device, content item change information derived from data generated by an operating system function at the client device. Then the content management system can analyze the content item change information to determine a corresponding action at the content management system, and implement the corresponding action on the server side. The content management system can optionally provide a confirmation of the corresponding action to the client device.
US09083764B2	Content caching device for managing contents based on content usage features The present invention relate to a content caching device, and more particularly, to such a content caching device in which the priority of a content requested by a user terminal is calculated based on content usage features such as the number of requests or the latest request interval of the requested content, and the like, the requested content is controlled to be selectively stored in a short-term storage unit based on the calculated priority of the requested content, and among the contents stored in the short-term storage unit, a content needed to be stored for a long time period is controlled to be stored in a separate long-term storage unit based on the storage time of the requested content in the short-term storage unit.
US09083762B2	System and method for providing hybrid on demand services to a work unit The present document describes a method and system for providing Hybrid On Demand (HOD) software and/or data to a plurality of normal nodes associated with a work unit. The normal nodes are serviced via two or more parent nodes using different communication networks. Normal nodes, which are connected to the Local Area Network (LAN) of the work unit, may receive software and/or data services from a local node via the LAN, and normal nodes which are outside of the LAN may receive software and/or data services from a SUPR node via a Wide Area Network (WAN) such as the internet. After synchronization with one the normal nodes, the parent nodes synchronize the updated data with each other, and then they push the updated data to all the normal nodes associated with the work unit to mirror the same data on all the normal nodes. Frequencies of synchronization and provision of software and/or data services and/or updates is governed by a set of synchronization rules that are embedded in the business layer of the nodes. This scenario may also be used for synchronizing data in a cache cloud manner between the different nodes of the wide and the local networks.
US09083755B2	System and method for managing and appling history information of terminal in converged personal network service environment, and converged personal network service server, mobile communication and end device therefor Disclosed herein is a system for managing and using history information of terminals in a Converged Personal Network Service (CPNS) environment. The system includes a CPNS server for collecting and storing access information and history information of mobile communication terminals and end devices which transmit and receive information over a wireless local area network, and, if the previously stored history information is requested while a CPNS service is active between a mobile communication terminal and an end device, extracting the corresponding information, and providing the extracted information to the mobile communication terminal and the end device, the mobile communication terminals each for, while using the CPNS service, performing a CPNS service-related procedure using the history information received from the CPNS server, and the end devices each for, while using the CPNS service, performing a CPNS service-related procedure using the history information received via the mobile communication terminal.
US09083750B2	Method and system for authentication by defining a demanded level of security A computer-implemented method for authentication involves defining a level of trust required for access to a resource independently of any particular authentication mechanism or instance, determining levels of trust associated with a plurality of authentication instances, and selecting and combining two or more of the authentication instances to meet or exceed the required level of trust.
US09083746B2	Method of providing assured transactions using secure transaction appliance and watermark verification Disclosed is a method of improving electronic security by establishing a path between a user and a secure transaction appliance. The secure transaction appliance receiving information destined for the user which includes a tagged portion, said tagged portion triggering the secure transaction appliance to forward the information to the computer from which the request was issued, and to seeking an electronic signature to verify the content or transaction by transmitting a watermark, tagged portion of the content, or similar electronic content. The secure trusted path providing the user with the tagged portion incorporating additional elements such as a watermark, or in some embodiments only the additional elements, upon a personalized security device associated with the user making interception or manipulation more complex and difficult.
US09083745B2	Network independent location services Techniques for supporting network independent location services (LCS) are described. In one design, a location center may communicate with a terminal to establish an account for the terminal with the location center for location services. The location center may establish the account for the terminal independent of a home network or a serving network for the terminal. During signup to establish the account, the location center may (i) provide address information for the location center, security information, and/or other information for the location center and (ii) receive public identity information and/or other information for the terminal. The location center may thereafter provide location services to the terminal based on the established account and without interacting with the home or serving network for the terminal. Techniques for supporting delivery of assistance data are also described.
US09083744B2	Use of a distributed hash table to federate many small-sized IMS core infrastructures Multimedia subsystem, IMS, containing a set of call session control function elements, CSCF, suitable for sending a signaling message (m) between a first communication client (T) connected to said multimedia subsystem and at least one second communication client, where this second communication client may be connected to said multimedia subsystem or remote and accessible through an interrogating functional element, I-CSCF, and routing methods used to determine a path for the transmission of the signaling message, based on a logical address contained in the signaling message. The multimedia subsystem, IMS, is characterized in that the routing methods implement a distributed hashing table.
US09083743B1	Managing request routing information utilizing performance information Systems and methods for managing requesting routing functionality associated with resource requests for one or more resources associated with a content provider are provided. The request routing functionality can correspond to the processing of domain name service (“DNS”) requests for resources by computing devices and the resolution of the DNS requests by the identification of a network address of a computing device that will provide the requested resources. Based on the processing resource requests initiated by a client computing device, a CDN service provider can obtain performance information from client computing devices and correlate the performance information into a prioritized list for classes of client computing devices. The prioritized list can be utilized in resolving subsequent DNS queries.
US09083742B2	System and method for uploading and verifying a document A computer implemented method may allow for the upload and verification of a document. In one aspect, the method may receive a file associated with an insurance company event, determine if the file contains malicious code and transmit the file to a temporary data server. The method may also determine if the file is in a supported file format and if the file meets a supported file size, convert the file and transmit the converted file to the client device for a verification that the converted file can be uploaded. The method may further receive the verification from the client device that the converted file can be uploaded, flag the converted file for association with a customer account associated with the client device and transmit the converted file to a permanent storage server.
US09083741B2	Network defense system and framework for detecting and geolocating botnet cyber attacks A network defense system is described that provides network sensor infrastructure and a framework for managing and executing advanced cyber security algorithms specialized for detecting highly-distributed, stealth network attacks. In one example, a system includes a data collection and storage subsystem that provides a central repository to store network traffic data received from sensors positioned within geographically separate networks. Cyber defense algorithms analyze the network traffic data and detect centrally-controlled malware that is configured to perform distributed network attacks (“botnet attacks”) from devices within the geographically separate networks. A visualization and decision-making subsystem generates a user interface that presents an electronic map of geographic locations of source devices and target devices of the botnet attacks. The data collection and storage subsystem stores a manifest of parameters for the network traffic data to be analyzed by each of the cyber defense algorithms.
US09083740B1	Network traffic pattern matching using adaptive deterministic finite automata In general, techniques are described for network traffic pattern matching using adaptive deterministic finite automata (DFA). A network device may implement the techniques to promote pattern matching. The network device comprises a control unit that stores first and second data defining first and second portions of a DFA, respectively. The first data defines first states of the DFA in an uncompressed format. The second data defines second states of the DFA in a compressed format. The network device also includes an interface that receives network packets. The control unit processes the network packets to traverse the first and second states. The control unit then compares a number of times the first and second states have been traversed. Based on the comparison, the control unit dynamically reallocates the first states of the DFA in the uncompressed format and the second states of the DFA in the compressed format.
US09083734B1	Integrated forensics platform for analyzing IT resources consumed to derive operational and architectural recommendations A method for facilitating forensic analysis of operational data for an IT infrastructure includes deriving performance data from a plurality of physical systems, network elements and storage devices in an IT infrastructure via a toolset comprising a plurality of IT monitoring and metrics tools, importing the performance data into an integrated forensics platform, aggregating the imported data, and analyzing the aggregated data to determine resources consumed. Each tool is communicatively interfaced with one or more of the physical systems, network elements and storage devices.
US09083719B2	Controller for the intelligent interconnection of two communication networks, and method of use for same A caller ID based call routing feature. A processing system in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) receives first identifying information for identifying the source of a telephone call and associates additional information stored in a memory with the first identifying information. The additional information may then be transmitted to the subscriber via the Internet for display. Another feature is a branch calling feature where the subscriber may program a processing system within the PSTN to forward an incoming call to two or more end units (e.g., telephones) simultaneously. If the call at an end unit is answered, answer supervision signaling is transmitted back to the processing system which then terminates all other calls. The processing system then connects the calling party to the subscriber. The branch calling may be made for any combination of local, long distance, and cellular telephone numbers.
US09083715B2	Method and apparatus for load balancing based on packet header content A technique to load balance network packet traffic using content switching is provided. Packets are routed to a particular server or otherwise processed based on the HTTP header content of the packets. In an embodiment, the HTTP header contents of the packets are used in such processing. Content switching decisions are based on any field in the HTTP header, including both known and unknown fields. A plurality of content switching policies is provided. A policy includes a set of rules and actions associated with these rules. Complex nested rules are defined. The evaluation of these nested rules is simplified by converting the nested rules in to their sum of products or minterm representations, and then a bit mask technique is used in conjunction with the minterm representations to determine which set of complex rules in a policy is valid and thus require the corresponding content switching action.
US09083714B2	Method and apparatus for an IMS restoration procedure The present invention faces the issue of carrying out an IP Multimedia Subsystem Restoration procedure with help of Policing and Charging Control “PCC” architecture with new functions recently standardized and which conventional PCC nodes do not support. Thus, the present invention provides for making use of an enhanced Deep Packet Inspection device included in a Policing and Charging Enforcement Function “PCEF” server for inspecting signalling traffic and for detecting an identifier of a Proxy Call Session Control Function “P-CSCF” server during IMS registration by a user's equipment; so that the PCEF can monitor the P-CSCF availability without impacting other conventional PCC nodes.
US09083704B2	Computer implemented frameworks and methodologies for enabling identification verification in an online environment Described herein are computer implemented frameworks and methodologies for enabling identification verification in an online environment. Embodiments of the invention have been particularly developed to enable Internet users to have their identities verified by a central authority, and use that verification in the context of later online interactions.
US09083697B2	Deriving a username based on a digital certificate One embodiment of a method for determining a username comprises obtaining a digital certificate from a first computer application requesting a service; authenticating the digital certificate of the first computer application; and retrieving the username from the digital certificate that is recognized by a second computer application performing the service as a user of the second computer application. Other methods and systems are also provided.
US09083696B1	Trusted peer-based information verification system A system for providing a trusted peer-based information verification system may include one or more processors and a memory. The one or more processors may facilitate steps of receiving an identification item from a server hosting a web site and providing a request for verification of the identification item to devices of trusted peers. The steps may further include receiving verification responses from the devices of the trusted peers. The verification responses may be indicative of whether identification items received by the devices of the trusted peers via the web site are different than the identification item received from the server hosting the web site. The steps may further include determining a validity of the identification item based on the verification responses received from the devices of the trusted peers. In one example the identification item may be a digital certificate, such as a public key certificate.
US09083695B2	Control and management of electronic messaging A method for controlling a message from a sender. A referee can evaluate a credential associated with a message to determine its desirability to the intended recipient, and take an action based upon the results of the determination. A sender that includes a trusted component can send a credential with the message, and the message can be controlled without a referee.
US09083693B2	Managing private information in instant messaging A computer-implemented method for managing private information in instant messaging is provided in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure. In the method, first private information including details of a first instant messaging user is stored. Further, access authority of the first private information is maintained. When a second instant messaging user initiating a private information request has the access authority, provide the first private information to the second instant messaging user.
US09083692B2	Apparatus and method of providing security to cloud data to prevent unauthorized access A method and apparatus for providing security of an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes identifying an environment of a client to be provided with a cloud service from at least one cloud server, determining one of an address size and an address range of a memory of the client used to execute a cloud process of the cloud service, and executing the cloud process, determining and storing a process state of the cloud process in response to the executing the cloud process in the memory, monitoring the cloud process accessing the at least one cloud server, and preventing an unauthorized access according to a result of the monitoring.
US09083691B2	Fine-grained user authentication and activity tracking In one embodiment, the finer grained control may be in the form of controlling the validity period after which credentials need to be provided anew or access is denied. In another embodiment, the control may be provided by enabling the period of inactivity after which access is denied to be controlled. In yet another embodiment, techniques may be provided for enabling isolation of applications for a session.
US09083687B2	Multi-device behavioral fingerprinting Disclosed herein are example embodiments for multi-device behavioral fingerprinting by a user device or a server device. For certain example embodiments, at least one device may obtain at least one behavioral fingerprint that is associated with at least one authorized user, with the at least one behavioral fingerprint including one or more indicators of utilization of two or more user devices by the at least one authorized user. The at least one device may perform at least one authentication-related operation based at least partially on the at least one behavioral fingerprint.
US09083685B2	Method and system for content replication control A method and system for content replication control are provided. In one embodiment, a content replication system receives a request to replicate content in a plurality of memory devices, wherein each memory device is associated with a respective unique identifier. For each of the plurality of memory devices, the content replication system sends a request to a transport encryption key server for a transport encryption key, the request including the unique identifier of the memory device. If the unique identifier of the memory device is authorized to receive the transport encryption key, the content replication system receives the transport encryption key and sends the transport encryption key to the memory device. The content replication system then receives encrypted content from a content server, wherein the encrypted content is encrypted with the transport encryption key. The content replication system then sends the encrypted content to the plurality of memory devices.
US09083683B2	Encryption/decryption device for secure communications between a protected network and an unprotected network and associated methods The encryption/decryption device includes a plaintext unit, a ciphertext unit and a cryptographic unit connected therebetween. The plaintext unit may include a logic device such as a first programmable logic device (PLD), e.g. a field programmable gate array (FPGA), for interfacing with the protected network to perform encapsulation of data from the protected network to define outgoing datagrams, and to perform decapsulation of incoming datagrams from the cytographic unit. The ciphertext unit may include a second logic device such as a PLD or FPGA for interfacing with the unprotected network to perform routing of incoming encrypted datagrams from the unprotected network to the cryptographic unit, and to perform routing of outgoing encrypted datagrams from the cryptographic unit to the unprotected network. The cryptographic unit may also be a PLD or FPGA and performs encryption of outgoing datagrams from the plaintext unit, and to perform decryption of incoming encrypted datagrams from the ciphertext unit to define the incoming datagrams.
US09083682B2	Communication device and computer program product According to an embodiment, a communication device includes a cryptographic communication unit, a first communicating unit, and a control unit. The cryptographic communication unit is configured to perform cryptographic communication with an external device via a first network. The first communicating unit is configured to perform communication with a key generating device via a second network, the key generating device being configured to generate a cryptographic key to be used in the cryptographic communication. The control unit is configured to perform control to transmit an address registration request containing address information to the key generating device via the first communicating unit when a predetermined specific request is issued from among requests used in the cryptographic communication.
US09083678B2	Firewall policy inspection apparatus and method A firewall policy inspection apparatus and method is provided. The firewall policy inspection apparatus includes an intrusion prevention rule obtainment unit for obtaining intrusion prevention rules from a target firewall policy. An anomaly rule detection unit detects an anomaly rule in a relationship between the intrusion prevention rules. A screen display unit displays an anomaly rule graph on a screen using results of the detection.
US09083676B2	Systems and methods for reliably using ping to account for interactions with electronic content A method for reliably using ping to account for interactions with electronic content includes receiving a request for a content item from a user device, selecting a content item in response to the request, determining whether the user device is ping enabled, and generating a hyperlink for inclusion with the selected content item. The hyperlink has a target URL and a ping attribute. At least one of the target URL and the ping attribute is based on a result of the determination whether the user device is ping enabled. The method further includes distributing the content item and the hyperlink to the user device and receiving a ping request from the user device. The ping request includes the target URL and an identifier of the distributed content item. The method further includes accounting for the interaction in response to receiving the ping request from the user device.
US09083674B2	Systems and methods for sharing audio feeds Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling sharing of audio feeds. One method includes receiving, from a user over a network, a request to add an audio feed to a collection managed by the user; storing, in a database, a URL of the audio feed in relation to the collection; receiving, from the user over the network, a request to share the collection; and generating an RSS URL of the collection by searching the database for URLs of audio feeds stored in relation to the collection.
US09083673B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for facilitating claims processing Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for facilitating upload of one or more electronic files from a user device to a remote server. In some embodiments, a background upload process manages connectivity of the user device to the remote server and staging file uploads in a disconnected mode for automatic processing when connectivity is restored.
US09083667B2	System and method for follow-on message processing A follow-on message processing system for an integrated information management application. The follow-on message processing system includes a client computer coupled to a network, an email client coupled to the client computer, and a follow-on message controller coupled to the email client. The email client receives an email and a follow-on command from another email client. The follow-on command is associated with the email received from the other email client. The follow-on message controller interrupts access to the email client in response to a determination that an email draft is in progress. The email draft in progress is associated with the received email.
US09083664B2	System and method for acquiring and/or configuring a mobile platform to provide a suite of services A system and method for determining a service provider set of one or more service providers to provide a service suite of one or more services in a platform (e.g., a mobile device platform) and configuring such platform to utilize such service provider set to provide such service suite to a user, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
US09083663B2	Reminder system A reminder system is provided. The system provides a user-friendly interface to a user's existing email, and in some embodiments to the user's document management, calendar and other systems, in order to ensure that an appropriate user is notified when action should be taken, and also provides notation to the user indicating the appropriate course of action to be taken. The system provides a calendaring feature where a supervisor or manager can determine the workload of a group of workers for an upcoming time period. The system provides an easily accessible and traceable database of information pertaining to a project checklist, document, a client name, a client matter number, a document type, or other customizable fields in order for a user to search and sort the information for their own use.
US09083660B2	Enforced unitasking in multitasking systems A computer system includes one or more devices that are capable of multitasking (performing at least two tasks in parallel or substantially in parallel). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a first one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the first task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a second one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the second task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task).
US09083658B2	Method and apparatus for delegating resources between devices A system performs operations including detecting a request to present a game application, receiving a resources identifier from a second communication device, determining from the resources identifier that the second communication device has one of a computing resource, a presentation resource, or both, selecting a configuration from a plurality of configurations according to an identity of the gaming application and the resources identifier, selecting according to the configuration at least one resource from one of the computing resource, the presentation resource, or both of the second communication device, and delegating processing by the first communication device of a portion of the gaming application according to the at least one resource of the second communication device.
US09083656B2	Service communication method and system for access network apparatus A service communication method for an access network apparatus. The access network apparatus comprises a source terminal and a target terminal both connected to the same access switch. The method comprises: a node server, according to a request of a current service, notifying the access switch connected to both the source terminal and the target terminal to set a downlink port of the access switch, to which a data packet of the current service is directed, in an internal data packet address table thereof; the source terminal sending an uplink data packet of the current service; and after receiving the data packet, the access switch directing the data packet to the corresponding downlink port according to the setting of the internal data packet address table thereof, and transmitting the data packet to the target terminal through the downlink port. The present invention can effectively save the bandwidth and routing resources, ensure a steady and smooth transmission path, avoid delay of multimedia services, satisfy national information security requirements, and save hardware resources, thereby ensuring network transmission quality.
US09083653B2	Automated cloud set up Automated cloud set up may include collecting compute resources available for setting up a cloud, identifying packages available to apply to the compute resources, and determining which subsets of the packages to apply to which compute resource.
US09083649B2	Systems and methods for managing network bandwidth via content buffering Systems and methods for buffering or delaying data packets to facilitate optimized distribution of content associated with the data packets are disclosed. Data packets sent from content providers may be received by a service provider, where information associated with the data packets may be identified. The identified information may be used to associate the data packets with an intended destination for the data packets and identify a type of the data packets, such as a video data packet. Video data packets (and other data packets) may be buffered or delayed such that more time-critical data packets may be accelerated into one or more QAM channels carrying the content. The delayed data packets may be time-sliced into the one or more QAM channels, which may displace empty slots or gaps that may waste bandwidth associated with the QAM channels.
US09083648B2	Method and system for performing remote network management on a voice home gateway terminal This disclosure provides a method for performing remote network management on a voice home gateway terminal, and the method includes that: a remote network management server transmits voice signaling to the voice home gateway terminal; the voice home gateway terminal determines whether the voice signaling contains a non-voice triggering identifier, processes a voice service according to the voice signaling when no non-voice triggering identifier is contained, requests non-voice configuration information from the remote network management server when a non-voice triggering identifier is contained, and processes a non-voice service according to the received non-voice configuration information. This disclosure further provides a system for performing remote network management on a voice home gateway terminal. Application of the method and system enables the remote network management server to manage simultaneously a voice service and other non-voice services. The remote management performed on the voice home gateway terminal having a voice function is reliable, and this disclosure realizes the convergence for managing the integrated services of the voice home gateway terminal.
US09083642B2	Systems and methods for optimizing layer three routing in an information handling system An information handling system is provided. The information handling system includes systems and methods for providing an anycast MAC addressing of a virtual redundancy router protocol instance that spans a plurality of aggregation switches. The anycast MAC address may be provided by a virtual bridging device and then used as an address of a virtual IP instance accessible through the virtual bridging device. Using the anycast MAC address with the virtual IP instance, a packet to be routed from one rack to another rack in a data center may be dynamically routed based a current load distribution.
US09083640B2	Adaptive bit rate switching In one embodiment, a method determines data describing a temporal variability of a bit rate of a first bitstream and receives the first bitstream through a communication channel. A throughput for the communication channel is determined. The method then compares the throughput of the communication channel with the data describing the temporal variability of the bit rate of the first bitstream to determine a variance of the first bitstream from the throughput for the communication channel for a portion of the media program not already received. An amount of data currently buffered in a buffer for the media program is determined and then the method compares the amount of data currently buffered to the variance for the portion to determine whether to switch to receiving a second bitstream. The second bitstream has a different bit rate from the first bitstream.
US09083635B1	Enqueue policing systems and methods Embodiments of the present disclosure generally pertain to systems and methods for policing packet networks. A system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes an enqueue policer positioned within an intermediate node of a packet network prior to at least one egress queue. The enqueue policer utilizes information related to destination end-point capacity limits for a given customer in order to police packets based on such information at a relatively early point in the packet network. Thus, a packet that would have been dropped by an egress node due to capacity limits is dropped by the intermediate node thereby preventing the packet from needlessly consuming bandwidth of the network beyond the intermediate node.
US09083625B2	Communication with components using component-independent driver An improved technique for communicating with components of an electronic system includes operating a driver according to a designated protocol but agnostically to the components themselves. Information about particular system components is supplied to the driver by respective data sources. To obtain discovery information about a component, the driver accesses a data source for the component and communicates with the component using the designated protocol. The driver thus operates merely as a conduit for component-specific information, which is supplied by the data sources rather than by the driver itself.
US09083616B2	Packet communication method and equipment therefor To reduce or prevent effect of deterioration of communication quality caused from packet loss in a packet communication, a plurality of Packet Assembly Disassembly devices (PDAs) are installed at a first terminal equipment and at a second terminal equipment, and a packet communication is performed using one PDA in such plurality of PDAs. If the packet loss of received data in such packet communication is detected exceeding the predetermined value, a request is sent using another PDA to the first terminal equipment for transmitting the same data that above-stated one PDA is handling and the data transmitted at the request is received. On reception of the data at the request, sizes of the packet loss rate of received data with above-stated one PDA and of the packet loss rate of received data with above-stated another PDA are compared and the packet communication is continued selecting a system of which packet loss rate is smaller.
US09083615B2	Diagnosing network problems in an IPV6 dual stack network Embodiments of the present invention are directed to diagnosing problems in a dual stack network supporting Internet Protocol Version Six (IPV6). Inventoried information can be retrieved from an inventory system in response to a problem associated the dual stack network. It can be determined whether a mismatch exists between live customer address information associated with a customer edge router and the inventoried information. A notification can be generated in response to determining whether a mismatch exists. The notification includes information representing a cause of the problem and resolution of the problem.
US09083614B2	System and method for supporting out-of-order message processing in a distributed data grid A system and method can support out-of-order message processing in a distributed data grid. A cluster node in the distributed data grid can receive a plurality of messages at a cluster node in the distributed data grid. The distributed data grid allows each message in the plurality of messages to determine whether it needs to be handled in a particular order on a first thread. The cluster node can dispatch one or more of said messages that do not need to be handled in the particular order on the first thread to one or more different threads.
US09083612B2	Communication system, control apparatus, communication method, and program When calculating a forwarding path for a packet, a control apparatus determines a second node on the exit side of the packet forwarding path and an output port thereof. Next, the control apparatus sets in a second node located upstream of the first node on the packet forwarding path a packet handling operation for writing flow identification information associated with the output port in a packet header field not to be referred to when the first node forwards the packet and rewriting address information in the packet header such that the packet arrives at the second node on the exit side, and then causing the packet to be forwarded. A packet handling operation for causing the packet with the flow identification information given thereto to be transmitted from the port associated with the flow identification information is set in the second node on the exit side.
US09083611B2	Method and system for virtual network interface cards (VNICs) over aggregation spanning multiple switches A method for remapping VNICs associated with an aggregation layer. The method includes making a first determination that a first network interface card (NIC) has failed, where the first NIC and a second NIC are part of the aggregation group, the aggregation layer manages the aggregation group, where a first virtual NIC (VNIC) is mapped to the first NIC and a second VNIC is mapped to the second NIC, and the first NIC is connected to a first switch and the second NIC is connected to a second switch. The method further includes, based on the first determination, remapping the first VNIC to the second NIC, and after the remapping, receiving packets by the first VNIC from the second NIC.
US09083609B2	Network operating system for managing and securing networks Systems and methods for managing a network are described. A view of current state of the network is maintained where the current state of the network characterizes network topology and network constituents, including network entities and network elements residing in or on the network. Events are announced that correspond to changes in the state of the network and one or more network elements can be configured accordingly. Methods for managing network traffic are described that ensure forwarding and other actions taken by network elements implement globally declared network policy and refer to high-level names, independently of network topology and the location of network constituents. Methods for discovering network constituents are described, whereby are automatically configured. Routing may be performed using ACL and packets can be intercepted to permit host to continue in sleep mode. The methods are applicable to virtual environments.
US09083608B2	Automatically selecting appropriate platform to run application in cloud computing environment A method, system and computer program product for selecting an appropriate platform to run an application deployed in a cloud computing environment. The appropriate platform is selected by employing a two phase process, where the first phase occurs prior to the deployment of the application and the second phase occurs after the application has been deployed. In the first phase, the cloud computing node selects a platform using various factors, such as application binaries, application metadata and artifacts, and qualities of service and application requirements. In the second phase, the cloud computing node determines whether an alternative platform needs to be implemented for subsequent deployments of the application using various factors, such as application runtime metrics and garbage collection metrics. In this manner, an appropriate platform is automatically selected thereby removing the requirement for the user to indicate the type of platform for the target environment.
US09083602B2	Communication system and communication device Provided is a communication system which is provided with a plurality of communication devices and transfers a packet between the plurality of communication devices through a communication path. When a packet is looped back at any of the communication devices on the communication path to verify connectivity of the communication path, a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices stores, in a first region of header information of the packet, first information for designating the communication device at which the packet is looped back, further stores, in a second region of the header information of the packet, second information on a loopback point in the designated communication device at which the packet is looped back, and sends the packet to which the first information and the second information have been added.
US09083600B1	Providing presence information within digital items Providing presence information within digital items is described. In one example, a server system receives presence information from a plurality of client devices. The presence information indicates a portion of a digital item associated with at least one user of each respective client device. The server system also receives a user identification request from a requesting client device to identify one or more users of the plurality of client devices associated with a particular portion of the digital item. Additionally, the server system identifies a user of a particular client device associated with the particular portion of the digital item based on the presence information of the particular client device and sends an identifier of the user of the particular client device to the requesting client device.
US09083595B2	Signal modulation method resistant to echo reflections and frequency offsets A method of modulating communications signals, such as optical fiber, wired electronic, or wireless signals in a manner that facilitates automatic correction for the signal distortion effects of echoes and frequency shifts, while still allowing high rates of data transmission. Data symbols intended for transmission are distributed into N×N matrices, and used to weigh or modulate a family of cyclically time shifted and cyclically frequency shifted waveforms. Although these waveforms may then be distorted during transmission, their basic cyclic time and frequency repeating structure facilitates use of improved receivers with deconvolution devices that can utilize the repeating patterns to correct for these distortions. The various waveforms may be sent in N time blocks at various time spacing and frequency spacing combinations in a manner that can allow interleaving of blocks from different transmitters. Applications to channel sounding/characterization, system optimization, and also radar are also discussed.
US09083594B2	Mechanism for performing equalization without prior knowledge of modulation type or constellation order A system, method and memory medium for performing blind equalization. A block {un} of the baseband samples is received. A function J of a vector f is minimized to determine a minimizer fMIN. The function J depends on vector f according to J(f)=Σ(\|yn\|2−γ)2. The summation Σ corresponds to a sequence {yn} of equalized samples. The sequence {yn} of equalized samples is related to the block {un} according to a convolution relation {yn}={un}*f. Parameter γ is a current modulus value. The current modulus value γ is updated to equal a ratio of a fourth moment of the sequence {yn} to a second moment of the sequence {yn}. The minimization and parameter update operations are repeated for a series of received blocks of baseband samples. The minimizer fMIN from a last of the repetitions is used to determine final equalized samples.
US09083593B2	Method and system for multiple training sequences for peak-to-average power ratio reduction in precoded bursts A method and apparatus for peak to average power ratio reduction, the method precoding the data symbols using an inverse discrete Fourier transform (‘IDFT’), choosing, at a transmitter, a set of training sequence symbols from a plurality of sets of training sequence symbols, and creating, at the transmitter, an IDFT precoded burst by adding the IDFT of the data symbols and an IDFT of the chosen set of training sequence symbols. Further, a method and receiver, the method receiving a burst, performing a discrete Fourier transform on the burst, choosing a training sequence among a known plurality of training sequences sets, the chosen training sequence resulting in the least noise estimate among the plurality of training sequence sets, and demodulating the burst with the detected pilot burst.
US09083584B2	Common mode modulation with current compensation The present disclosure provides systems and methods for compensating channel modulation effects. Some embodiments comprise a differential switching circuit, a common mode modulation circuit, and a current compensation circuit. The current compensation circuit compensates for channel modulation effects.
US09083583B1	Latency reduction via adaptive speculative preconnection Methods, systems, and computer program products for reducing web latency using adaptive speculative preconnection are provided. Exemplary methods, systems, and computer program products for reducing web latency include initiating a connection to a first URL hostname, and obtaining speculative information associated with the first URL hostname. The speculative information includes a likelihood of connecting to a second URL hostname as a result of initiating a connection to the first URL hostname. The methods, systems, and computer program products also include determining whether to preconnect to the second URL hostname based on the speculative information. The methods, systems, and computer program products further include providing an instruction to preconnect to the second URL hostname when a determination to preconnect is made.
US09083582B2	Transmitter noise cancellation in a multi transmitter-receiver system In a multi transmitter-receiver system, transmitter noise cancellation may be applied selectively for certain transmitters by exploiting asymmetries of the system. Hence, observation receiver(s) numbering less than the number of transmitters may be provided saving space and cost. Each observation receiver may selectively couple to a transmitter path and estimate the leakage noise from that transmitter. Based on the estimated leakage noise, noise cancellation may be applied to corresponding receiver path(s). Selection of the transmitters for leakage estimation may be based on system conditions at that time, which may be known to the system or may be estimated dynamically.
US09083580B2	Receiver device, system, and method for low-energy reception of data A receiver device, A system and a method for reception of a signal having an amplitude that has been modulated with information, wherein a resistive element is provided that converts an electrical quantity into a physical parameter.
US09083579B1	Stateless services in content management clients Techniques to provide stateless services in a content management client are disclosed. A session manager is instantiated to service a request to access a content item. The session manager is used to obtain from a global session pool that is not specific to the session manager a session to service the request. The session is used to service the request. Once the request has been completed the session manager may be terminated, but the global session pool and associated object cache remain.
US09083575B2	Devices having different effective series resistance states and methods for controlling such devices Devices and methods are described, such as those including parallel paths coupled between a first power supply and a second power supply. The parallel paths include different values of capacitance to reduce unwanted variations as a function of current demand frequency such as resonance. A selectable resistance is provided along one or more parallel paths, and can be varied during different times in a signal burst.
US09083572B2	Channel estimation method and apparatus A method and apparatus for estimating a channel efficiently though pilot subcarrier signal transformation and noise reduction in the mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a time domain transformer for transforming received pilot subcarrier signals to time domain signals, a noise reducer for reducing noises of the time domain signals, a frequency domain transformer for transforming the noise-reduced time domain signals to frequency domain signals, and a final channel estimator for estimating channel values of data subcarriers received using the frequency domain signals. The channel estimation method and apparatus of improves performance with the reduction of computational complexity.
US09083567B2	Automatic gain control techniques for detecting RF saturation Functionality can be implemented for automatic gain control (AGC) in a wireless network device to determine whether to change the gain of the wireless network device based on determining the strength of an RF signal. At various time instants, the strength of the RF signal can be compared against different thresholds to determine the presence of and severity of the saturation of the RF front end. The gain settings can be adjusted based on comparing the strength of the RF signal with a set of thresholds. This can help the wireless network device receive RF signals with little or no distortion, and can minimize RF saturation, gain compression, false detection and other performance degradation at the wireless network device.
US09083564B2	System and method of delivering notifications The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of delivering notifications. The method can include receiving a communication at a server within an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network, where the communication is directed to a destination device outside of the IPTV network. The method can also include identifying the destination device and associating the destination device with a set-top box device. The method can also include transmitting a notification of the communication to the set-top box device via a private data network within the IPTV network.
US09083551B2	Method and apparatus for media distribution using VPLS in a ring topology A method or corresponding apparatus is employed for distributing media on a ring network. Multiple nodes and communications links are configured to distribute media in the ring network. Distribution of the media is disabled on a communications link between a selected pair of adjacent nodes in the ring network in a manner maintaining communications between the selected pair of adjacent nodes other than for distribution of the media. This configuration results in a “horseshoe” topology of the ring network with respect to the media, where distribution of the media on the ring network occurs in one or two downstream directions from head-end ingress node(s) on the ring network. Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) may be employed to transport the media. In an event of a link or node failure, the disabled link is enabled, allowing for continued distribution of the media with network recovery in a timeframe typically unobservable by an end user.
US09083540B2	Method and apparatus for listening for incoming calls on multiple port/socket combinations In a computer system having a memory, a processor, and a network interface, a method for listening on multiple conferencing interfaces having the steps of loading a set of transport components into the memory; initializing each transport components of the set of transport components to listen on a particular conferencing interface using the network interface, each transport component of the set of transport components listening to a different conferencing interface; receiving an incoming call signal on the network interface having an incoming conferencing interface; processing the incoming call signal to detect the incoming conferencing interface; and launching an application based on the incoming conferencing interface.
US09083537B2	Device and method for energy management in a household An energy management system comprises one or more appliances, a remote device, and a communication device. In one embodiment, the communication device forms a physical connection with the remote device and thereafter a physical connection with an associated appliances. The first physical connection binds the communication to the remote device, thereby forming a secure connection over which inputs and outputs can be exchanged between the remote and the associated appliance when the communication device is connected to the appliance.
US09083535B2	Method and apparatus for providing efficient management of certificate revocation A method for providing efficient management of certificate revocation may comprise storing a list of identifiers of digital certificates including a revocation list defining a list of revoked certificates in an accumulator, storing a witness value in association with at least some entries in the revocation list in which the witness value provides proof of the membership or non-membership of an identifier in the revocation list, enabling generation of a new accumulator and a new witness value responsive to each insertion or deletion of an entry in the revocation list, and enabling batch updates to the revocation list using a reduced bitlength value generated based on to a ratio of a value generated based on elements added to the revocation list to a value generated based on elements deleted from the revocation list. A corresponding apparatus is also provided. A method for certificate authorities (CA) that use Bloom filters for certificate revocation list (CRL) compression that enables the CA to hash only the entry that is to be un-revoked so that a good compression rate may be provided while avoiding computation of the entire CRL for each un-revocation.
US09083532B2	Physiological response PIN entry Methods and systems are provided for facilitating the secure entry of a user's PIN for electronic transactions such as merchant checkout, payment authorization, or access authorization. A physiological response of the user can indicate which one of a random sequence of numbers is a number of the user's PIN. For example, the user can blink, wink, or make a subtle facial movement to provide the indication.
US09083523B2	Systems and methods for wirelessly communicating multidrop packets via wireless networks The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for wirelessly communicating multidrop packets via wireless networks. In one exemplary embodiment, communication devices of a multidrop system are respectively coupled to nodes of a wireless network. At least one of the nodes stores data for mapping multidrop addresses to network addresses. Upon receiving a multidrop packet, such node maps the multidrop address of the received packet to a network address identifying the packet's destination communication device within the multidrop system. The receiving node then inserts the multidrop packet into a unicast message and wirelessly transmits the unicast message through the wireless network to the remote node. The remote node depacketizes the unicast message to recover the multidrop packet and provides the multidrop packet to its destination.
US09083520B2	Apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system and method thereof In a wireless communication system, a method of transmitting control information, which is transmitted to a base station by a user equipment, includes the steps of receiving at least one of PDCCH and PDSCH from the base station via at least one serving cell configured in the user equipment and transmitting a 2nd control information to the base station together with a 1st control information resulting from performing a bundling on at least one portion of the control information on a reception of the PDCCH or a reception of the PDSCH indicated by the PDCCH, wherein the 1st control information and the 2nd control information are transmitted using PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel) resource selected in accordance with a preset rule and a modulation value and wherein the 1st control information and the 2nd control information are identified by a combination of the selected PUCCH resource and the modulation value.
US09083517B2	Method and apparatus for aggregating carriers of a backhaul connection The described aspects include methods and apparatus for aggregating carriers over a backhaul link between a relay and an evolved Node B (eNB). A first set of subframes of at least a first carrier of a plurality of carriers configured for communicating with an eNB over a backhaul link can be determined. A second set of subframes of at least a second carrier of the plurality of carriers configured for backhaul link communications is also determined, wherein the second set of subframes are different from the first set of subframes. Data received over a plurality of access link carriers can then be communicated to the eNB over the first carrier and the second carrier based at least on the first set of subframes and the second set of subframes.
US09083516B2	Securing virtual lane physical layers A data stream with a given data rate is distributed into a plurality of virtual lanes or streams, each with a lower data rate than the data stream. Virtual lanes permit the use of lower cost electronics at the optical-electrical conversion points. Security information is generated that includes a unique initialization vector. The security information is distributed or allocated across some or all of the of the virtual data streams in a virtual lane alignment marker in a portion of the alignment marker used to maintain direct current (DC) transmission balance, but that otherwise does not provide useful information.
US09083509B2	System and method of lawful access to secure communications The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for secure communications. In some aspects, one or more values used to generate an encryption key used to encrypt a packet are stored in a header of the packet. The packet is transmitted with the encrypted data portion in a communication. In some aspects, one or more values used to generate an encryption key are received. The encryption key is regenerated using the one or more values.
US09083507B2	Data processing device, data processing method, and program A miniaturized non-linear conversion unit is achieved. Included is an encryption processing part configured to divide and input configuration bits of data to be processed into a plurality of lines, and to repeatedly execute a data conversion processing applying a round function as to the data in each line, wherein the encryption processing part includes an F function executing unit configured to input one line of data configuring the plurality of lines, and to generate conversion data, wherein the F function executing unit includes a non-linear conversion processing unit configured to execute a non-linear conversion processing, and wherein the non-linear conversion processing unit includes a repeating structure of a non-linear calculation unit made up from either one NAND or NOR, and either one XOR or XNOR calculation unit, and a bit replacement unit. The miniaturized non-linear conversion unit is achieved by this repeating configuration.
US09083505B2	Manchester code receiving circuit A Manchester code receiving circuit includes an analog circuit configured to convert an analog signal received through a communication transmission path, to a digital signal based on a Manchester code, and a characteristic compensating unit configured to compensate at least one of rise delay characteristics in which a rising time of the digital signal is longer than a falling time, and fall delay characteristics in which the falling time of the digital signal is longer than the rising time.
US09083503B2	Synchronized clock event report The present application discloses monitoring a plurality of time inputs to detect a defined time event and providing a report of the plurality of time inputs for analysis in response to detecting the defined time event. To create the report, an event monitor records data relating to the plurality of time inputs in a temporary memory for a defined window of time. In response to detecting the defined time event, the event monitor transfers the data recorded in the temporary memory to a persistent memory and continues to record data relating to the plurality of time inputs to the persistent memory for a second defined window of time. The event monitor provides a report of the data relating to the plurality of time inputs stored in the persistent memory for analysis.
US09083500B2	Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier communication systems with automatic repeat request (ARQ) Hybrid ARQ is employed in a multi-carrier communication system for retransmission of erroneous packets by taking advantage of time/frequency/space diversity and by combining ARQ functions at physical layer and MAC layers, making the multi-carrier system more robust in a high packet-error environment.
US09083491B2	Method for transmitting a signal while avoiding the influences of an interference signal existing in the same channel in a communication system having a main communication device and a plurality of terminal communication devices The method for transmitting a signal while avoiding the influences of an interference signal in the same channel according to the present invention comprises: a process in which communication devices in the communication system perceive, in a distributed manner, whether or not an interference signal exists in a transmission channel being used; a process in which the communication devices in the communication system temporarily transceive signals using a plurality of available transmission channels other than the transmission channel currently being used so as to avoid an interference signal if the interference signal is perceived; and a process of determining the channel having a best link state as a transmission channel from among the plurality of used transmission channels and returning to an existing transmission system using a single channel.
US09083489B2	Block encryption method and apparatus In accordance with an embodiment, the logical exclusive operation on the random number RAND and the OPc value are performed several times, the logical operation and encryption processing using a random number RAND and logical operation and encryption processing using a random number S are done in any order, which brings an increase of an attack complexity as to whether to calculate the correlation coefficient from the power consumption waveform at any point when analyzing the correlation power, whereby it is possible to defend the CPA attack effectively.
US09083485B2	Defragmentation of optical networks According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of spectrum defragmentation in an optical network may include assigning an optical signal within an optical network to a first frequency slot that spans a first portion of an optical spectrum of the optical network. The method may also include constructing a frequency slot dependency map based on the assignation of the optical signal to the frequency slot. The method may also include reassigning, as a result of an optical signal departure event, the optical signal to a second frequency slot based on the frequency slot dependency map. The second frequency slot may span a second portion of the optical spectrum of the optical network.
US09083481B2	System, method and computer-readable medium for actively cancelling interfernce signals This invention discloses a system, method and computer-readable medium for actively cancelling interference signals. The system mentioned above communicates with at least one first transceiver. The abovementioned system includes at least one second transceiver, and a relay base station receiving a feedback signal from the at least one second transceiver and an environmental signal to execute a signal correlation function to get a result and determining to generate an anti-interference signal depending on the result. Herein, the relay base station cancels interference signals around the at least one first transceiver by sending the anti-interference signal to the at least one first transceiver via at least one third transceiver having an optimal communication channel to the at least one first transceiver.
US09083464B2	Systems and methods for scheduling business and residential services in optical networks A passive optical network (PON) has an optical line termination (OLT) that terminates an optical fiber servicing a plurality of optical network units (ONUs). Each ONU has one or more traffic containers (TCONTs) addressable by the OLT. The PON dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) implements a scheduling hierarchy, including several scheduling layers, such that disjoint sets of TCONTs can be grouped together, then disjoint sets of groups can be grouped, and so on. In such hierarchy, the residential traffic can be grouped separately from the business traffic. Further, within either the residential or business group, traffic may be grouped to define scheduling layers (“sub-groups”) within the residential or business group. Scheduling in one group or sub-group is performed independently of the scheduling in other groups or sub-groups, subject to the available bandwidth for each group. The scheduling may be controlled to allow the residential services to be oversubscribed while still ensuring compliance of service level performance metrics for the business services.
US09083459B2	Optical transmission system, method of testing optical transmission system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium An optical transmission system includes: an optical transmission device that has a plurality of optical transmitters configured to output at least one different wavelength and a multiplexer configured to multiplex wavelength lights output by the plurality of optical transmitters and output a multiplexed wavelength light; and a detection unit configured to detect each wavelength light that is branched before being fed into the multiplexer by sweeping an objective wavelength for detection, wherein, in a single sweeping, the detection unit selects and detects two or more wavelength lights with a wavelength interval that is wider than a wavelength interval of an output light of the multiplexer.
US09083458B2	Self-tuning an optical network at an operating point Techniques are presented for automatic tuning of operating parameters, e.g., amplifier gain, in an optical network. A section of an optical network comprises a plurality of spans between optical nodes, and each optical node has an amplifier to amplify optical signals for transmission between optical nodes. Physical network layer data is obtained from the optical nodes for use as input to an analytical model. A set of powers defining an optimum working point of the amplifiers is computed based on variations in amplifier noise figure which depend on amplifier gain. A figure of merit representative of network section performance is computed based on linear and non-linear noise at current power levels of the amplifiers. The figure of merit is evaluated. The set of powers is applied to the amplifiers in the network section when evaluation of the figure of merit indicates that network performance improvement can be achieved.
US09083456B2	Method and apparatus for detecting uncharacteristic power level changes of an optical signal A monitoring apparatus for detecting uncharacteristic short-term power level changes of an optical signal transmitted through an optical fiber, said monitoring apparatus comprising a power level variance calculation unit adapted to calculate a power level variance on the basis of a long-term power level and a current power level of said optical signal and a short-term variance filter adapted to filter transient changes indicated by the calculated power level variance and to generate a trouble occurrence indication indicating an uncharacteristic short-term power level change, if the filtered power level variance exceeds a predetermined power level variance.
US09083454B2	Systems and methods for beamforming measurements Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide communication test systems for the testing of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radio frequency wireless data communication devices, systems and networks, including Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) devices and systems. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a test system containing an integrated MIMO signal analyzer is disclosed that includes a protocol engine operative in conjunction with a waveform generator and waveform analyzer that analyzes the signal waveform of a device under test. Such a test system may offer improved capabilities such as a simpler and more flexible measurement of complex MIMO signal waveforms, more automated measurements of MIMO waveforms including beamforming functions, and more accurate measurement of the efficiency of MIMO related functions such as channel estimation, transmit precoding and beamforming.
US09083453B2	Power supply generator with noise cancellation Techniques for performing noise cancellation/attenuation are disclosed. In one design, an apparatus includes a power supply generator having a switcher, a coupling circuit, an envelope amplifier, and a feedback circuit. The switcher generates DC and low frequency components and the envelope amplifier generates high frequency components of a supply voltage for a load, e.g., a power amplifier. The switcher receives a first supply voltage and provides a switcher output signal having switcher noise. The coupling circuit receives the switcher output signal and provides a first output signal having a first version of the switcher noise. The feedback circuit receives the switcher output signal and provides a feedback signal. The envelope amplifier receives an envelope signal and the feedback signal and provides a second output signal having a second version of the switcher noise, which is used to attenuate the first version of the switcher noise at the load.
US09083448B2	Preamble capture and medium access control An apparatus and method for wireless communications configured to receive simultaneous transmissions from a plurality of wireless devices, with each of the transmissions having a reference signal, acquire the reference signals and, based on information obtained from the acquisition of the reference signals, select the transmission from one of the wireless devices for timing synchronization and decoding.
US09083445B2	Symbol interleave for wireless communications A receiver includes a plurality of de-spreading correlators that are programmed to only correlate a specific portion of the full spreading code according to an interleave factor. Each correlator may be associated with a different symbol. The received signal may be received at all correlators and is multiplied by a code generated by a code generator according to the symbol associated with the correlator. While each correlator may be despreading the received signal at all times, an enable signal is used to determine when information for an associated cell should be accumulated for each correlator.
US09083439B2	Direct current signal transmission system A method and apparatus for sending data. Input signals from input wires are received. The input signals include data. Information about the input signals is identified. The data and the information are sent in digital signals over a wire to a second location. The input signals are recreated from the data and the information received in the digital signals over the wire.
US09083438B2	Card connector and electronic apparatus A card connector configured in a circuit board for accommodating a subscriber identify module card. The card connector includes a terminal set, a sensing terminal, a housing, and a tray. The subscriber module card is electrically connected to the circuit board via the terminal set. The sensing terminal is electrically connected to the circuit board. The housing has an opening and an accommodating space connected to the opening, and the housing is electrically connected to the circuit board. At least a portion of the tray is a conductor. When the tray is configured in the accommodating space via the opening, the tray is electrically connected to the housing, and the tray abuts the sensing terminal, allowing the housing, tray, sensing terminal to constitute a conductive loop with the circuit board. Furthermore, an electronic apparatus having the card connector is also disclosed.
US09083437B2	Front-end transceiver In an embodiment, a front-end transceiver may be provided. The front-end transceiver may include a receiver path, including a first receiver frequency converter configured to convert a received signal with a receiver frequency into a first receiver intermediate signal with a first receiver intermediate frequency; and a receiver direct conversion stage coupled to the first receiver frequency converter so as to receive the first receiver intermediate signal. The front-end transceiver may further include an oscillator signal generator respectively coupled to the first receiver frequency converter and to the receiver direct conversion stage so as to provide a first oscillator signal with a first oscillator frequency to the first receiver frequency converter and a first stabilizing signal with a first stabilizing frequency to the receiver direct conversion stage; wherein the oscillator signal generator may be configured so that the first oscillator frequency of the first oscillator signal may be selected such that any integer multiple of the first oscillator frequency of the first oscillator signal may be different from any integer multiple of the receiver frequency of the received signal. The front-end transceiver may also include a transmitter path.
US09083434B2	System and method for operating a repeater A method of operating a repeater for wireless communication includes broadcasting, from the repeater, a pilot signal in a service area associated with the repeater. The pilot signal carries a scrambling code that permits mobile terminals to decode information transmitted by the repeater. The method further includes receiving a request to initiate communication from a mobile terminal that has received the pilot signal and, in response to receiving the request, establishing a communication link with the mobile terminal. The method further includes receiving, at a first antenna of the repeater, data transmitted wirelessly by the mobile terminal and transmitting, over a second antenna of the repeater, the received data to a base station.
US09083432B2	Relay method, and relay apparatus in wireless communication system A relay station performing wireless communications with a plurality of other relay stations and at least one wireless terminal, the relay station including: a scheduler, when at least one of the relay station and the other relay stations receives data from a wireless terminal controlled thereby, generating a first map such that the data is exchanged among the relay station and the other relay stations during a first period, and generating a second map such that the data as received during the first period is transmitted to the controlled wireless terminal during a second period.
US09083431B2	Communication apparatus and communication method A modulator generates a modulation signal from an input signal. A serial-parallel converter generates a subcarrier modulation signal from the modulation signal. An IFFT unit performs an inverse fast Fourier transformation on the subcarrier modulation signal, generating first data. A decomposer decomposes the first data into real data and imaginary data. An operator performs a predetermined operation using a predetermined threshold value, a boundary value and the real data, generating positive data and negative data. Another operator performs a similar operation on the imaginary data. A generator adds the positive data and negative data based on the real data, and adds the positive data and negative data based on the imaginary data, generating real operation data and imaginary operation data. A synthesizer synthesizes both operation data to generate a baseband signal. A transmitter generates a transmission signal from the baseband signal, and transmits it to another apparatus via an antenna.
US09083425B1	Distributed airborne wireless networks Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing distributed airborne wireless communications are provided herein. In some embodiments, an airborne wireless communication node includes: an airborne fleet comprising a plurality of airborne platforms having flight control electronics configured to control flight of individual airborne platforms and coordinate a flight plan of the airborne fleet as a whole; and a distributed communication payload, wherein the communication payload is subdivided into constituent parts, wherein the parts are distributed and positioned on respective ones of the plurality of airborne platforms. In some embodiments, the distributed communication payload includes: air-to-user link equipment to provide communication links with end-users, the air-to-user link equipment further comprising an RF antenna; air-to-air link equipment to provide communications between individual airborne platforms; and payload control electronics to control the air-to-user and air-to-air link equipment and managing communication services.
US09083424B2	Frequency multiplying transceiver Described herein is a wireless transceiver and related method that enables ultra low power transmission and reception of wireless communications. In an example embodiment of the wireless transceiver, the wireless transceiver receives a first-reference signal having a first-reference frequency. The wireless transceiver then uses the first-reference signal to injection lock a local oscillator, which provides a set of oscillation signals each having an oscillation frequency that is equal to the first-reference frequency, and each having equally spaced phases. Then the wireless transceiver combines the set of oscillation signals into an output signal having an output frequency that is one of (i) a multiple of the first-reference frequency (in accordance with a transmitter implementation) or (ii) a difference of (a) a second-reference frequency of a second-reference signal and (b) a multiple of the first-reference frequency (in accordance with a receiver implementation).
US09083423B2	Semiconductor circuit, D/A converter, mixer circuit, radio communication device, method for adjusting threshold voltage, and method for determining quality of transistor According to an embodiment, a semiconductor circuit includes a substrate, a tunnel oxide film, a charge storage film, a blocking layer, and plural nodes. The substrate is made of a semiconductor in which two diffusion layers each serving as either a source or a drain are formed. The tunnel oxide film is formed on a region of the substrate between the diffusion layers. The charge storage film is formed on the tunnel oxide layer and stores charge. The blocking layer is formed between the charge storage film and a gate electrode and has layers of a first oxide film, a nitride film and a second oxide film to have a thickness of 5 nm or larger but 15 nm or smaller. The nodes allow external application of voltages so that the source and the drain are reversed and allow detection a gate voltage, a drain current and a substrate current.
US09083422B2	Wireless communications methods and apparatus A method of relaying a signal in a wireless communications network comprising a plurality of wireless devices, the method being performed by at least one of said wireless devices to relay a signal in a communication path between one of said plurality of wireless devices and another one of said wireless devices, the method comprising receiving a signal from said one of said plurality of wireless devices, determining channel statistical information relating to a part or the whole of said wireless communications network, selecting a mode of relaying said signal from a plurality of predetermined relay modes based on said determined channel statistical information, such that the outage probability for said communication path satisfy a predetermined condition, and transmitting said signal to said another one of said plurality of wireless devices using said selected mode.
US09083418B2	Versatile antenna received signal strength measurement system not affecting antenna pattern and receiver performance A system and method of manufacturing the same adapted for use with an electromagnetic receiver or transceiver system comprising at least one antenna, wherein the electromagnetic receiver or transceiver system is adapted to measure signal levels for in situ antenna pattern or link budget measurements using at least one signal measurement probe placed in the signal receive path without affecting said antenna's emission pattern or receiver performance. The system further includes an output section adapted to send results from said in situ antenna pattern or link budget measurements to a remote location away from said receiver or transceiver system for recording and/or analysis.
US09083417B2	Method and device for interference cancellation An interference cancellation method performed by a receiver includes: determining a strong interference code channel among all code channels that carry a received signal, and determining a signal that corresponds to the strong interference code channel to be a strong interference signal, wherein the received signal has been matched filtered. The method further includes obtaining a reconstructed strong interference signal based on the determined strong interference signal and using a system matrix, performing the interference cancellation for the received signal using the reconstructed strong interference signal, to obtain the signal without interference. The strong interference signal can be reconstructed using the system matrix, and the interference cancellation can be performed for the received signal using the reconstructed strong interference signal. The complexity of inverting the matrix is reduced and the performance is enhanced by reducing the order of the matrix, and thus increasing the efficiency of cancelling the interference.
US09083416B2	Combining in receive diversity systems A receiver apparatus includes a first receiver having an input for receiving a first version of a signal received by a first receive antenna. The receiver apparatus further includes a second receiver having an input for receiving a second version of the same signal received by a second receive antenna. The first receiver includes a first constellation demapper for demapping constellation symbols generated in the first receiver into a first soft decision bitstream and the second receiver includes a second constellation demapper for demapping constellation symbols generated in the second receiver into a second soft decision bitstream. A combiner is configured to combine the first soft decision bitstream and the second soft decision bitstream to provide a combined soft decision bitstream.
US09083412B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving feedback information in a wireless packet data communication system A Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) expression and feedback method prevents an excessive increase in the CQI feedback overhead while supporting both Single-User MIMO and Multi-User MIMO operations. When a default MIMO operation is set to Single-User MIMO or Multi-User MIMO, an access network can receive MIMO CQI feedback optimized for the corresponding MIMO operation. However, when a scheduler has selected an alternative MIMO operation other than the default MIMO operation, the access network calculates a CQI necessary for the alternative MIMO operation based on the default MIMO CQI feedback for the default MIMO operation and the DELTA CQI feedback for the alternative MIMO operation. In this manner, the invention enables the best operation in the default MIMO operation by providing a correct CQI, and enables the second best operation in the alternative MIMO operation. With use of the invention, the access network can dynamically select the Single-User MIMO and Multi-User MIMO operations, contributing to an increase in the resource management efficiency.
US09083411B2	Device and method of channel information feedback for multi-cell MIMO A mobile terminal is provided in the present invention, comprising: a channel state information feedback calculating unit configured to calculate a channel state information feedback between the mobile terminal and a serving cell of the mobile terminal and those between the mobile terminal and all cooperating cells; a channel quality information feedback calculating unit configured to calculate a channel quality information feedback for the serving cell of the mobile terminal; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the channel state information feedbacks and the channel quality information feedback to the serving cell. The present invention greatly improves the performance of a LTE-A system and greatly reduces feedback overhead. The present invention is a scalable feedback solution and may be flexibly applied to various coordinated multipoint transmission scenarios.
US09083409B2	Wireless communication device, communication method and storage medium A wireless communication device forms a second directivity response pattern having a null value in the direction of a main lobe of a first directivity response pattern, and communicates with a communication partner device by using the first directivity response pattern and the second directivity response pattern.
US09083406B2	Data transmission method, apparatus, and system Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method, apparatus, and system. The method includes receiving transmitter antenna quality information sent by a receiver; determining, according to the transmitter antenna quality information, a transmitter antenna that transmits data; switching a first transmission mode to a second transmission mode when the transmitter antenna quality information satisfies a preset condition; and transmitting the data by using the second transmission mode and the determined transmitter antenna.
US09083405B2	Uplink switched antenna transmit diversity method and apparatus A first wireless communication device is in communication with a second wireless communication device over an uplink communication link from the first wireless communication device to the second wireless communication device. Adaptive uplink antenna switching is performed at the first wireless communication device by switching between at least two antennas at the first wireless communication device in accordance with at least one antenna switching parameter to support the uplink communication link, determining whether each antenna switch is successful or unsuccessful and accumulating a history of successful and unsuccessful antenna switches. The at least one antenna switching parameter is modified based on the accumulated history of successful and unsuccessful antenna switches.
US09083402B2	High frequency circuit and high frequency module including the same A front-end circuit includes a power amplifier circuit, a low noise amplifier circuit, a connection switching circuit, a bypass circuit and an attenuation unit. The connection switching circuit switches connections in response to a control signal. The bypass circuit forms a bypass in response to a control signal. The attenuation unit includes a plurality of attenuation circuits. The plurality of attenuation circuits include attenuation circuits. In the case where an antenna terminal is electrically connected to the power amplifier circuit, the attenuation circuits attenuate a branch signal leaked from the transmission signal into a transfer line for transferring the reception signal in response to the control signal. In the case where the antenna terminal is electrically connected to the low noise amplifier circuit, the attenuation circuit attenuates the reception signal in the transfer line in response to the control signal.
US09083399B2	Precoding for single transmission streams in multiple antenna systems Precoding for multiple transmission streams in multiple antenna systems. Disclosed herein is a general method that transmits signal from multiple antennas using a one/two dimensional precoder. This precoder is fixed in a given resource block (RB) or slot, which is composed of P subcarriers and Q OFDM symbols (where the values for P and Q are greater than or equal to 1). The precoder in each resource block may take same or different values, which span the two dimensional time-frequency grid. The precoder is chosen as a function of either logical frequency index or physical frequency index of the RB.
US09083398B2	Base transceiver station and associated method for communication between base transceiver station and user equipments The invention relates to a base transceiver station (BTS) for communicating with a plurality of user equipments (UE1, UE2, UE3, UE4, UE5) divided in at least two groups, said base station comprises: an antenna element arrangement generating at least two shifted static beams (Bi, Bo) with respective down tilts for reaching the user equipments (UE1, UE2, UE3, UE4, UE5) a processing unit (25) connected to said transceiver chains (9) and having means for performing at least two linear complex combinations of up-link digital signals—means for receiving said up-link signals and for selecting per user equipment the appropriate beam based on the quality of said up-link signals in the beam flows (Fi,FO).
US09083396B2	OFDMA-based operation of a wireless subscriber terminal in a plurality of cells A method for carrying out concurrent communications between a subscriber device and two base stations is disclosed. At least one OFDM/OFDMA sub-channel is selected for each of the two base stations which is associated with a communications sector belonging to one of the two base stations and comprises OFDM/OFDMA sub-carriers that are substantially different from sub-carries comprised in the OFDM/OFDMA sub-channel associated with a communications sector belonging to the other base station; establishing a communication path between the subscriber device and each of the two base stations along the respective sub-channel selected; receiving/transmitting control messages exchanged between the subscriber device and the two base stations, wherein at least one control message is exchanged between the subscriber device and one of the two base stations concurrently with at least one control message exchanged between the subscriber device and the other base station, and wherein the control messages are exchanged along different sub-channels comprised in the communication paths.
US09083395B2	Multiple-mode broadband wireless communication device and method Provided is a multi-mode ultra broadband wireless communication apparatus and method, and a multi-mode ultra broadband transmitting apparatus may include a baseband outputting unit to parallelly output multiple digital signals, a mid-frequency processing unit to up-convert the outputted parallel digital signals to mid-frequencies, and the up-conversion is performed in a range where the outputted parallel digital signals do not cause interference with each other, a parallel-to-serial converter to convert, to a serial digital signal, the converted parallel digital signals that are up-converted to the mid-frequencies, a digital-to-analog converter to convert the serial digital signal to an analog signal, and a radio frequency processing unit to up-convert the analog signal to multiple transmission frequencies respectively corresponding to desired communication services.
US09083389B1	Communication circuit In a communication circuit, an RFIC includes an IO terminal and a control IC includes an IO terminal. A variable capacitance element includes control terminals, a capacitance element with a capacitance value that is determined according to a control voltage, and a resistance voltage divider circuit configured to generate the control voltage by dividing a voltage inputted to the control terminals. One of the RFIC and the control IC supplies control data to the variable capacitance element via a signal line. The variable capacitance element, along with an antenna coil, constitutes an antenna circuit of an LC parallel resonance circuit, and sets a resonant frequency of the antenna circuit to be a predetermined frequency.
US09083387B2	Communication system with compound coding mechanism and method of operation thereof A communication system includes: an antenna for receiving a receiver signal for communicating a transmitter signal corresponding to the receiver signal over transmission channels according to a polar coding scheme; a communication unit including: an arrangement module for generating a sequenced-signal based on the receiver signal according to a permutation mechanism; and a decoder module for determining a communication content based on the sequenced-signal for communicating the communication content intended by the transmitter signal with a device.The communication system includes: a communication unit including an encoder module for determining a coded-message for representing a communication content according to a polar coding scheme, permutation module for generating a message-channel map for mapping the coded-message to transmission channels; and an antenna for transmitting a transmitter signal based on the coded-message according to the message-channel map for communicating the transmitter signal through the transmission channels with a device.
US09083386B2	Electronic apparatus, receiving apparatus, and error correction method In an electronic apparatus, a soft decision likelihood value is generated and subject to a decoding process supporting a convolutional code; and a data series is interleaved, subjected to an error correction process, and decoded data is generated. A detecting unit, based on information concerning the position of a symbol for which an error has been corrected successfully by the error correction process, estimates whether an error occurs in a symbol for which the error correction process failed and detects the position of a symbol estimated to have an error. A setting unit sets based on the decoded data and information concerning the position of the symbol estimated to have an error, a correction value of the soft decision likelihood value. The electronic device interleaves the order of a correction value series of the soft decision likelihood value and feeds the resulting correction value series back to the decoding process.
US09083383B1	Parity check matrix An apparatus is disclosed. In this apparatus, at least one coder block has a parity check matrix. The parity check matrix comprises each element of an H matrix expanded by a Progressive Edge Growth (“PEG”) expansion factor and an Approximate Cycle Extrinsic Message Degree (“ACE”) expansion factor.
US09083382B2	Memory with on-chip error correction A memory device is configured to correct errors in codewords written to a memory array. Errors, if any, in a first codeword are corrected and a codeword corrector output is generated including a corrected first codeword. A data buffer receives the codeword corrector output and a first user data associated with the addressed page and generates a data buffer output including the corrected first codeword, as modified by the first user data, defined as a first codeword output. A codeword encoder receives the data buffer output and encodes the first codeword output to generate an encoded first codeword output included in a codeword encoder output. A write buffer receives the codeword encoder output and saves the same for writing to the memory array. Writing to the memory array is performed while receiving a second user data, which has a second codeword associated therewith, and correcting the second codeword.
US09083380B2	Dual-string digital-to-analog converters (DACs), and related circuits, systems, and methods Dual-string digital-to-analog converters (DACs), and related circuits, systems, and methods are disclosed. In embodiments disclosed herein, a primary voltage divider of the dual string-DAC is comprised of at least one adjusting circuit. The adjusting circuit is configured to maintain the ideal voltage of a selected resistor node pair across a secondary voltage divider circuit in response to a primary switch unit selecting a selected resistor node pair. In this manner, impedance isolation is not required between a primary voltage divider and the secondary voltage divider circuit of the dual-string DAC. As a result, as non-limiting examples, the area on an integrated circuit (IC) for a dual-string DAC may be decreased, power consumption of the DAC may be decreased, and/or the dual-string DAC may have increased performance by not requiring a settling time.
US09083377B2	Analog-to-digital converter A technique includes receiving an analog signal and generating at least one second signal that has a timing indicative of a magnitude of the analog signal. The technique includes acquiring a plurality of measurements of the timing, where the measurements vary according to a stochastic distribution; and providing a digital representation of the analog signal based at least in part on the measurements.
US09083376B2	Successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter Aspects of a method and apparatus for converting an analog input value to a digital output code are provided. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a digital-to-analog converter, a comparator, and control logic circuitry. The digital-to-analog converter is configured to generate an analog reference value based on a received digital reference value. The comparator is configured to compare an analog input value to the analog reference value after expiration of an allotted settling time for the digital-to-analog converter and generate a comparison result indicative a relationship between the analog input value and the analog reference value. The control logic circuitry is configured to select the allotted settling time for the digital-to-analog converter based on a bit position of a digital output code to be determined, and update the bit position of the digital output code based on the comparison result.
US09083368B2	Image sensor using offset code for counting An image sensor includes multiple counters and a counter controller. Each counter of the multiple counters is configured to perform counting of a comparison result signal and to generate a count result, the comparison result signal being obtained by comparing a ramp signal and a pixel signal of a column of multiple columns. The counter controller is configured to generate and transmit a counter clock signal and (n−1) delay clock signals to the counters, respectively, “n” being a natural number equal to or greater than two. Each delay clock signal of the (n−1) delay clock signals is obtained by delaying the counter clock signal by a corresponding offset code.
US09083365B1	Thermometer-code-to-binary encoders An encoder is provided for converting thermometer code data with bubbles to binary format. An integrated circuit may have circuitry such as digital phase-locked loop circuitry. A thermometer code data word may be used as a control signal for the circuitry. It may be desirable to monitor the thermometer code data word for testing or for downstream processing by control logic on the integrated circuit. The encoder performs thermometer code to binary encoding without requiring that the thermometer code be error corrected to remove bubbles. A bubble detection circuit may be used to detect when the thermometer code data contains bubbles. The encoder may use carry look-ahead adders and pipeline stages.
US09083363B2	Systems and methods for a cold atom frequency standard Systems and methods for a cold atom frequency standard are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a cold atom microwave frequency standard includes a vacuum cell, the vacuum cell comprising a central cylinder, the central cylinder being hollow and having a first open end and a second open end; a first end portion joined to the first open end; and a second end portion joined to the second open end, wherein the first end portion, the central cylinder, and the second end portion enclose a hollow volume containing atoms, the first end portion and the second end portion configured to allow light to enter into the hollow volume. The cold atom microwave frequency standard also includes a cylindrically symmetric resonator encircling the central cylinder, wherein the resonator generates a microwave field in the hollow volume at the resonant frequency of the atoms.
US09083360B2	Lock detecter and clock generator having the same A lock detector and a clock generator including the same are disclosed. A lock detector includes a counter unit which counts a non-matching section of a first signal and a second signal to provide a count value, the first signal and the second signal being comparison result signals obtained by comparing a phase of a reference signal with a phase of a comparison signal, and a lock detection unit which outputs a lock detection signal based on a result of comparing the count value with the reference value. Accordingly, a lock state of the phase-locked loop can be detected rapidly and exactly.
US09083359B2	Lock detector based on charge pump A phase lock loop having a lock detector is provided. The lock detector is based on a replica charge pump and includes: a charge pump, a filter and a comparing circuit. The charge pump is arranged for providing an output according to a phase difference between an output signal and a reference signal. The filter is coupled to the charge pump, and is arranged for filtering the output of the charge pump to generate a filtered output voltage. The comparing circuit is coupled to the filter, and is arranged for comparing the filtered output voltage with a threshold setting to generate a lock indication signal to indicate whether the output signal is locked to the reference signal.
US09083346B2	Touch control system and sensing method thereof A touch control system and a sensing method thereof. Wherein, a plurality of sensor units are connected respectively to a control electrode line and a detection electrode line. Each sensor unit includes: a first switching element and a second switching element connected in parallel, and a sensing electrode connected to the second switching element. A common electrode provides a trigger signal to each sensing electrode to form coupling. The control electrode line is used to selectively output a turn-off signal in sequence to each of the first switching elements, so that the detection electrode line acts in cooperation with the sensor unit, in response to the turn-off signal. When a touch action occurs, the sensing electrode utilizes the detection electrode line to detect variations of current signal passing through the sensor unit, based on turn-on extent of the second switching element, hereby obtaining at least a touch message.
US09083343B1	Cascode switching circuit Disclosed herein are cascode switching circuits that include a normally-on semiconductor device, a normally-off semiconductor device, and a gate driver. The normally-on semiconductor device and said normally-off semiconductor device each has a gate terminal, a drain terminal and a source terminal. The gate driver has a first output and a second output, the first output of said gate driver is coupled to said gate terminal of said normally-on semiconductor device, the second output of said gate driver is coupled to said gate terminal of said normally-off semiconductor device, and the drain terminal of said normally-off semiconductor device is coupled to said source terminal of said normally-on semiconductor device so that a current path is formed through said normally-on semiconductor device and said normally-off semiconductor device. Methods of making and using such circuits, and other various aspects of such circuits are also disclosed.
US09083337B2	Multi-threshold sleep convention logic without nsleep A Static Sleep Convention Logic (SSCL) circuit. The circuit improves upon Multi-Threshold NULL Convention Logic (MTNCL), disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 7,977,972, by utilizing the SECRII architecture along with the Bit-Wise MTNCL technique, to produce a new SSCL gate without an nsleep input, which yields a smaller and faster circuit that utilizes less energy per operation than the patented SMTNCL gate design, while only very slightly increasing leakage power during sleep mode.
US09083336B2	Non-volatile logic operation device A non-volatile logic operation device includes an operation unit that is connected to a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal, includes an operation layer, a first non-magnetic layer, and a reference layer, and outputs from the output terminal a result of a logic operation on signals applied at the first input terminal and the second input terminal, and a control unit that is connected to a third input terminal, and includes a control layer. The control unit is arranged in the vicinity of the operation unit.
US09083335B2	Semiconductor device with switch and logic circuit A semiconductor device is provided, which includes a switch having a first transistor and a logic circuit having an output terminal. The logic circuit includes a bootstrap circuit having at least one second transistor. The bootstrap circuit is electrically connected to the output terminal. The first transistor and the second transistor have the same conductivity type. Each of the first transistor and the second transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel formation region and a pair of gate electrodes with the oxide semiconductor layer provided therebetween.
US09083325B2	Low overhead hold-violation fixing solution using metal-programable cells Techniques for fixing hold violations using metal-programmable cells are described herein. In one embodiment, a system comprises a first flip-flop, a second flip-flop, and a data path between the first and second flip-flops. The system further comprises a metal-programmable cell connected to the data path, wherein the metal-programmable cell is programmed to implement at least one capacitor to add a capacitive load to the data path. The capacitive load adds delay to the data path that prevents a hold violation at one of the first and second flip-flops.
US09083323B2	Integrated circuit identification and dependability verification using ring oscillator based physical unclonable function and age detection circuitry One feature pertains to an integrated circuit (IC) that includes a first plurality of ring oscillators configured to implement, in part, a physically unclonable function (PUF). The IC further includes a second plurality of ring oscillators configured to implement, in part, an age sensor circuit, and also a ring oscillator selection circuit that is coupled to the first plurality of ring oscillators and the second plurality of ring oscillators. The ring oscillator selection circuit is adapted to select at least two ring oscillator outputs from at least one of the first plurality of ring oscillators and/or the second plurality of ring oscillators. Notably, the ring oscillator selection circuit is commonly shared by the PUF and the age sensor circuit. Also, the IC may further include an output function circuit adapted to receive and compare the two ring oscillator outputs and generate an output signal.
US09083322B2	Subsonic test signal generation technique An apparatus includes a capacitor, a current generating circuit communicatively coupled to the capacitor, and a current pulse timing circuit communicatively coupled to the current source circuit. The current timing pulse circuit is configured to time durations of a first plurality of current pulses from the current generating circuit for charging the capacitor and a second plurality of current pulses for discharging the capacitor, and step the durations of the current pulses between a minimum duty cycle and a maximum duty cycle. A cycle of providing the first plurality of current pulses and providing the second plurality of current pulses results in generation of a subsonic pseudo-sinusoidal pulse signal at the capacitor.
US09083317B2	Method for sensing and calibrating antenna tuner device performance in cellular handset Systems and methods for calibrating antenna tuner device parameters can involve measuring a first signal level of an antenna tuner device, adjusting a tuning setting of the antenna tuner device, measuring one or more adjusted signal levels of the antenna tuner device, determining a level change between the first signal level and the one or more adjusted signal levels, comparing the level change to a predefined reference level change, and adjusting a device setting of the antenna tuner device to compensate for a difference between the level change and the predefined reference level change.
US09083315B2	Circuit configuration for eliminating EMC interference A circuit configuration is disclosed for eliminating EMC interference, and a device includes such a circuit configuration, where a damping member is connected to at least one supply line leading to the consumer or consumers. In at least one embodiment optimal elimination of EMC interference of the electrical consumer or consumers is ensured, and overloading the power supply grid is avoided. To this end, in at least one embodiment the damping member is connected in series with a current-limiting element and can be connected to the consumer in parallel. It is thus possible to compensate for the effect of the current-limiting element and short-circuit said element for the operating state by way of a switch, whereby the element does not cause any loss of power outside of the power circuits and nevertheless has a current-limiting, that is, grid-friendly, effect during the power-up and charging process.
US09083312B1	Piezoelectric device mounted on integrated circuit chip An electronic filter circuit includes an electromechanical resonator that is mounted directly to the surface of a silicon integrated circuit, rather than being a surface mounted or leaded filter can on a circuit board. This filter circuit allows the integrated circuit electronic package to be significantly smaller than a conventional electromechanical resonator package. The electromechanical resonator may be protected during processing and during use with a protective cover that is made of a material such as titanium. The protective cover is attached to the integrated circuit chip.
US09083310B2	Laminated structural type balun A laminated structural type balun includes a low pass filter that is provided between an unbalanced terminal inputting and outputting unbalanced signals and a first balanced terminal inputting and outputting balanced signals and includes a first coil and a first capacitor; and a high pass filter that is provided between the unbalanced terminal and a second balanced terminal inputting and outputting balanced signals and includes a second capacitor and a second coil. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are arranged in a different area from the first coil and the second coil in a laminated direction.
US09083309B2	Microelectronic device and electronic apparatus A movable section located in a hollow portion covered with a wall and a first sealing layer which are on a substrate and the first sealing layer located in an area facing the movable section are provided, the movable section is located between the substrate and the first sealing layer, and at least part of the movable section and the first sealing layer is an electric conductor.
US09083307B2	Flexural vibrator element, electronic device, and method of manufacturing flexural vibrator element A flexural vibrator element has a vibrator arm extending from a base section and having a rectangular cross-sectional shape, the vibrator arm having first and second step sections composed of step surfaces intersecting respectively with a left side surface and a right side surface, and step side surfaces intersecting respectively with an upper surface and a lower surface, between the lower surface, the upper surface and the left side surface, the right side surface, and first and fourth detection electrodes on the left and right side surfaces and second and third detection electrodes on the step side surfaces are respectively separated in a thickness direction of the vibrator arm. The first through fourth detection electrodes are patterned with accuracy by exposure from the upper surface and the lower surface using a common exposure device by existing photo etching.
US09083306B2	Band-pass filter A band-pass filter that significantly reduces and prevents impedance mismatch without requiring special elements includes an input terminal, an output terminal, three LC parallel resonators arranged between the input terminal and the output terminal, and two trap resonators arranged between the three LC parallel resonators and the input terminal and the output terminal, respectively. Each of the two trap resonators is electromagnetically coupled to a respective one of the three LC parallel resonators.
US09083305B2	Acoustic wave filter Disclosed is a pass band type acoustic wave filter capable of obtaining an excellent attenuation characteristic in attenuation bands, in which an IDT electrode having a meander structure is used as at least one of the input-side electrode and the output-side electrode, and the attenuation band is provided over/under the pass band. An electrode having a meander structure in which a plurality of IDT blocks are connected to each other in series between the input port or the output port and the ground port is arranged as the input-side IDT electrode and the output-side IDT electrode, and the electrode finger between the neighboring IDT blocks is removed, so as to suppress excitation of an undesired acoustic wave.
US09083304B2	Laminated balanced filter A laminated balanced filter includes one unbalanced terminal, two balanced terminals, a ground terminal, an unbalanced-side LC parallel resonator, an intermediate LC parallel resonator, and a balanced-side inductor. The inductor electrode pattern of the balanced-side inductor includes a first portion extending from one end portion to a connection portion and a second portion extending from the other end portion to the connection portion. A direction of a current flowing through the first portion is opposite to a direction of a current flowing through the inductor electrode pattern of the intermediate LC parallel resonator. A direction of a current flowing through the second portion of the balanced-side inductor is the same as a direction of a current flowing through the inductor electrode pattern of the intermediate LC parallel resonator. The laminated balanced filter further includes a coupling capacitor connected between a balanced terminal connected to the first portion and an unbalanced terminal.
US09083303B2	Acoustic wave device An acoustic wave device includes a substrate, a dielectric film formed on the substrate and a pair of IDT electrodes opposing each other provided between the substrate and the dielectric film. At least one of the substrate and the dielectric film is piezoelectric. The IDT electrodes each include an electrode finger that extends in at least one direction. A film thickness of the dielectric film changes in a gap portion between a tip of the electrode finger of one of the IDT electrodes and the other opposing IDT electrode in the direction of extension of the electrode finger.
US09083299B2	Filter of adjustable frequency response and method thereof A filter of an adjustable frequency response comprises a plurality of filters having a plurality of distinct frequency responses, respectively. These filters receive a common input signal and generate a plurality of intermediate signals, respectively. A multiplexing circuit is used to select one of these intermediate signals as a filtered signal. The multiplexing circuit is controlled by a control signal that is related to a state of the filtered signal.
US09083297B2	Programmable-gain amplifier An integrated circuit (IC) includes a programmable gain amplifier. The programmable gain amplifier comprises a first-stage amplifier configured to operate with at least one relatively high power supply voltage in order to accommodate at the input of the first-stage amplifier a relatively large range of input signals, the first-stage amplifier having a gain setting that is adjustable from a set of predetermined gain settings separated in relatively coarse increments so as to minimize the number of analog switches that must be implemented with high-voltage active devices in order to set each gain setting. The programmable gain amplifier also includes a second-stage amplifier configured to operate with at least one relatively low power supply voltage, lower than the high power supply voltage in order to minimize the required IC area for the second-stage amplifier, wherein the gain of the second-stage amplifier is adjustable from a set of gain settings separated in relatively small increments between the coarse increments in order to achieve a combined predetermined gain resolution. The gain of the programmable gain amplifier is programmable by adjusting the gain of each of the first-stage and second-stage amplifiers.
US09083295B2	Current feedback output circuit The current feedback output circuit includes first and second transistors. The current feedback output circuit includes a current amplifier that has a non-inverting input terminal, an inverting input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal, an input impedance of the non-inverting input terminal being higher than an input impedance of the inverting input terminal, and flows a current obtained by amplifying the difference between a current of an input signal to the non-inverting input terminal and a current input to the inverting input terminal between the first output terminal and the second output terminal. The current feedback output circuit includes first to sixth current mirror circuits. The current feedback output circuit includes a current feedback circuit that supplies a current responsive to a voltage at the signal output terminal to the inverting input terminal.
US09083294B2	Apparatus and method for multilevel lossless outphasing power amplifier System and method embodiments are provided for a multilevel outphasing amplifier architecture with a non-isolating or lossless combiner. The multilevel outphasing amplifier with lossless combiner improves power efficiency in comparison to outphasing amplifiers with lossless combiners. The multilevel outphasing amplifier applies different voltage levels to the power amplifiers (PAs) of the circuit according to the input signal power range. Additionally, tunable reactive compensation is applied to the compensation components (capacitor and inductor) of the lossless combiner as a function of the multilevel voltage setting of the PAs. The efficiency at the back-off region is improved by varying the compensation elements of the lossless combiner along with the drain voltage to the PAs as a function of the input signal power or amplitude.
US09083291B2	Low voltage high efficiency gallium arsenide power amplifier A low voltage, switch mode PHEMT power amplifier with a 0.1 μm gate length and a low loss, lumped element, output matching circuit is disclosed that provides high performance over a frequency range of 1.4 GHz-2.5 GHz. The amplifier makes use of monolithic circuit technology for the first stage and output transistor, and uses a printed circuit board with surface mount components for the output matching network. The power output of the power amplifier is stable over a range of 60 degrees centigrade, has high power efficiencies of 44-53% with greater than 2 watts output power over the frequency range of 1.4 GHz and 2.5 GHz. In addition, through drain voltage control, the output power can be varied over a wide range between about 0.8 to 2.5 watts while still maintaining a high efficiency in the range of 50±3%.
US09083281B2	DC blocker for a high gain complex circuit An amplifying circuit comprises an analog amplifying circuit having an analog input for receiving an analog input signal to be amplified and an analog output for outputting an amplified analog signal, wherein the amplifying circuit comprises an implementation of a complex transfer function. A feedback circuit has a feedback circuit input and a feedback circuit output, wherein the feedback circuit comprises an implementation of an inverse transfer function that is an estimation of an inverse of at least a DC component of the complex transfer function of the analog amplifying circuit. The feedback circuit input is arranged for receiving a signal that is based on the amplified analog signal of the analog amplifying circuit. The analog circuit is arranged for receiving a bias signal that is based on the feedback circuit output.
US09083273B2	Position corrected pulse width modulation for brushless direct current motors A method of operating a brushless direct current motor is provided that generates a rotor position dependent pulse width modulation waveform. The waveform can improve motor efficiency and reduce torque variation.
US09083272B2	Motor control circuit, motor control system and motor control method According to an embodiment, a motor control circuit includes a rotational position decoding unit, a rotational position determining unit, and a motor drive signal generating unit. The rotational position decoding unit is configured to generate a rotational position signal representing a rotational position of a motor according to a sensor signal provided by a sensor. The rotational position determining unit is configured to store a current rotational position of the motor based on the rotational position signal. When the rotational position signal represents a subsequent rotational position of the stored current rotational position, the rotational position determining unit is configured to update the stored current rotational position with the subsequent rotational position, and generate a motor control signal representing the subsequent rotational position. The motor drive signal generating unit is configured to generate a motor drive signal for driving the motor according to the motor control signal.
US09083271B2	Motor control system and method for environmentally-friendly vehicle A motor control system and method are provided for a vehicle that reduces torque ripples due to motor system characteristics while the vehicle is running at ultra-low speed in an electric vehicle running mode. The system includes a current command generator that generates a current command based on a torque command, a motor speed, and a reference voltage. A current controller generates a voltage command based on the current command. A coordinate transformer transforms the voltage command into a 3-phase voltage command by a coordinate transformation and a PWM (pulse width modulation) signal generator generates a switch signal based on the 3-phase voltage command. A PWM inverter generates a 3-phase driving current to drive a motor based on the switch signal and a current control ripple compensator applies a reverse phase harmonic wave to the current controller to reduce a harmonic wave caused by errors generated from the current controller.
US09083270B2	Electric bicycle driving apparatus Disclosed is an electric-bicycle driving apparatus. The electric-bicycle driving apparatus includes a speed-change mode operator to output a low-speed or high-speed mode signal, a controller to receive the low-speed or high-speed mode signal from the speed-change mode operator and to output a first or second control-signal corresponding to the low-speed or high-speed mode signal, a generation-signal provider to provide a generation-signal output from a generator, and a motor-driver operating-signal regulator to receive the first or second control signal when the speed-change mode operator outputs the low-speed or high-speed mode signal, to regulate a level of the generation-signal output from the generation-signal provider and to provide the resulting signal to a motor driver that drives a motor, the motor-driver operating-signal regulator providing a lowered level of generation-signal to the motor driver that is operated upon receiving power of a battery, and cutting off an abnormal signal from the motor driver.
US09083269B2	Method for operating an electric machine A method and a circuit system for operating an electric machine are presented. The method is carried out in particular in a starting phase, a current being limited using a controllable resistor, the controllable resistor being implemented by at least one semiconductor switch, which is controlled using a clocked signal, and the signal being set in such a way that in shutdown phases, the at least one semiconductor switch is not completely shut down.
US09083268B2	Controlling circuit for fan A controlling circuit for a fan includes three comparators, a capacitor, and a thermistor. When the temperature around the thermistor changes, the resistance of the thermistor changes. The comparators control the charging and discharging time of the capacitor, thereby generating a corresponding pulse width modulation signal to the fan according to the temperature, to adjust the speed of the fan.
US09083265B1	Systems and methods for controlling and monitoring multiple fans in conjunction with a single fan controller Systems and methods for controlling and monitoring multiple fans in conjunction with a single fan controller are described. One such system includes the single fan controller, a plurality of fans, and a multi-fan monitor configured to receive a signal indicative of fan speed for each of the fans, (a) determine, for a selected fan of the fans, whether the respective received fan speed signal is within an expected fan speed range, if the respective received fan speed signal is not within the expected fan speed range transmit a signal to the single fan controller indicative of a fan failure, if the respective received fan speed signal is within the expected fan speed range transmit a signal to the single fan controller indicative of the fan speed for each of the fans, and return to (a) to test a next selected fan of the fans.
US09083263B2	Apparatus to provide a time reference Apparatus to provide a time reference are disclosed herein. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a resonator. A first cap is coupled to a first side of the resonator to define a first cavity, and a second cap is coupled to a second side of the resonator to define a second cavity. The first cavity and the second cavity provide a first vacuum in which the resonator is to resonate. The resonator, the first cap and the second cap have substantially identical thermal expansion coefficients. The example apparatus also includes a vacuum chamber surrounding the resonator, the first cap and the second cap. The vacuum chamber is to provide a second vacuum in which the resonator, the first cap and the second cap are disposed. A frequency of resonance of the resonator in the first vacuum is to provide a time reference.
US09083260B2	Inverter controller and method of controlling an inverter A method of controlling a switching frequency of an inverter, the method comprising the steps of: measuring a signal indicative of a temperature variable at a first switching frequency to determine a measured temperature variable; comparing the measured temperature variable to a first threshold; determining if the measured temperature variable is above the first threshold; if the measured temperature variable is not above the first threshold, calculating the temperature variable at a second switching frequency; if the temperature variable calculated at the second switching frequency is less than the first threshold, setting the switching frequency of the inverter to the second switching frequency.
US09083259B2	Bridgeless power factor correction circuit with improved critical mode (CRM) operation A power factor correction circuit includes: the first series circuit consisting of the first rectifier element and the first switching element; the second series circuit consisting of the second rectifier element and the second switching element; the first/second reactors; and the first/second current detectors. The first/second current detectors have each the first/second transformers, both primary parts of which consist of the first/second reactors. The first and the second switching elements are controllable based on the first output signal according to the reactor current from the secondary side of the first transformer and the second output signal according to the reactor current from the secondary side of the second transformer so as to apply a desired DC voltage to the load circuit.
US09083258B2	Device for improving power efficiency for power factor corrections A device for improving power efficiency for power factor correction is disclosed, which comprises a primary load, a power module, a power factor correction module, a current source module, and a secondary load. The power module rectifies an alternating current (AC) voltage to a pulsating direct current (DC) voltage. The power factor correction module filters the pulsating direct current (DC) voltage to a driving voltage. The current source module is connected to the power module, the primary load and a side of the power factor correction module that drives the primary load with the driving voltage. The secondary load is connected to another side of the power factor correction module, and is driven by the power factor correction module.
US09083256B2	Capacitor charger system, power modulator and resonant power converter A capacitor charger system has a resonant power converter to connect to a capacitor via a rectifier. The resonant power converter has a switch-based bridge network, an internal transformer, a resonant circuit, and an amplitude stabilization circuit. The switch-based bridge network comprises at least one pair of switches. The resonant circuit includes a series-resonant branch with capacitive and inductive components, and the resonant circuit is connected in the circuit path to a midpoint between a pair of switches of the switch-based bridge network. The amplitude stabilization circuit provides stabilization of the resonant amplitude of the resonant circuit, and the amplitude stabilization circuit includes one-way conducting circuitry connected between an unrestricted node defined by a junction and a connection point of the resonant power converter having a predefined voltage level at operation. The resonant power converter connects to the output rectifier via the secondary winding of the internal transformer.
US09083254B1	Primary side sampled feedback control in power converters A primary-side sampled feedback system includes a sample acquisition phase during which the voltage across the clamp capacitor is sensed as a measure of the primary-reflect output voltage. One end of the clamp capacitor is ground-referenced during the sample acquisition phase. The sample circuitry, which may include a transformer-coupled input for receiving the gate drive of the secondary switch, may use primary side, secondary-side, or primary and secondary side signals to generate the sample acquisition control pulse and clamp switch drive signal. The sample acquisition control pulse occurs when the secondary current reaches its minimum or zero.
US09083253B2	Control circuit for power converting circuit A control circuit for a power converting circuit includes a multifunctional pin, a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) signal generating circuit, a voltage detecting circuit and a zero current detecting circuit. The voltage detecting circuit detects a signal on the multifunctional pin. When the signal on the multifunctional pin is greater than a predetermined value, the voltage detecting circuit configures the PWM signal generating circuit to intermittently conduct a current switch of the power converting circuit. The zero current detecting circuit detects the signal of the multifunctional pin to determine the conduction status of the current switch. When the signal of the multifunctional pin is less than the predetermined value, the voltage detecting circuit configures the PWM signal generating circuit to turn off the current switch.
US09083249B2	Mixed control method for resonant converter, resonant converter system and mixed controller The present application provides a mixed control method for a resonant converter, a resonant converter system and a mixed controller. When the resonant converter operates in a case where a voltage gain is less than a predetermined value, the method includes: setting a mixed control start frequency, a mixed control stop frequency and a slope of a phase-shifting angle; detecting an operating frequency of the converter; calculating a time delay of phase shifting according to the slope, the mixed control start frequency, the mixed control stop frequency and a resonant frequency of the resonant converter; and according to the time delay, the mixed control start and stop frequencies, generating a control signal to adjust the operating frequency and the phase-shifting angle of the resonant converter. The present application can realize a relatively low voltage gain and a small circuit loss, thereby the circuit efficiency may be improved.
US09083246B2	Control circuit for primary side control of switching power supply A switched mode power supply (SMPS) includes a transformer with a primary winding, a secondary winding, an auxiliary winding, and a power switch coupled to the primary winding. During one switching cycle, the auxiliary winding provides a feedback signal which includes a first voltage pulse that is induced after the power switch is turned on and a second voltage pulse that is induced after the power switch is turned off. A control circuit includes a circuit for generating a sampling signal for sampling the second voltage pulse in a switching cycle at a time that is determined based on the first voltage pulse in the same switching cycle. A sample-and-hold circuit is configured for sampling and storing the second voltage pulse in response to the sampling signal. A switching signal generating circuit is configured to generate a switching signal for controlling the power switch based on an output of the sample-and-hold circuit.
US09083241B2	Power factor correction circuit for providing protection against overvoltage Provided is a power factor correction circuit capable of reducing ringing sound of a transformer produced when an overshoot protection is effected. An output voltage control circuit performs constant voltage-control such that capacitor charge voltage of an output capacitor corresponds to a first voltage value, and when the capacitor charge voltage of the output capacitor reaches a second voltage value higher than the first voltage value, an overvoltage detecting unit detects the second voltage value. Further, a current limiting unit detects a value of a switching current through a switching element, and determines a limiting value of the level of the switching current. Then, the switching current is limited to the limiting value, and when an overvoltage detecting unit detects the second voltage value, a limiting value changing unit causes the current limiting unit to change the limiting value to decrease the value of the switching current.
US09083239B2	System and method for providing an active current assist with analog bypass for a switcher circuit A system and method are disclosed for providing an active current assist with analog bypass for a switcher circuit. An active current assist circuit is coupled to a buck regulator circuit, which includes a switcher circuit, an inductor circuit and a capacitor circuit. The active current assist circuit includes an active current analog bypass control circuit and a current source. The active current analog bypass control circuit receives and uses current limit information, voltage error information, and drop out information to determine a value of assist current that is appropriate for a current operational state of the buck regulator circuit. The active current analog bypass control circuit causes the current source to provide the appropriate value of assist current to the buck regulator circuit.
US09083237B2	Circuits and methods for controlling a DC/DC converter A converter circuit includes a converter and a controller. The converter converts an input voltage to an output voltage. The controller receives a reference voltage, generates a slew voltage having a substantially constant first slew rate if the reference voltage changes from a first level to a second level, and controls the converter based on the slew voltage to cause the output voltage to change from a third level to a fourth level at a substantially constant second slew rate.
US09083233B2	Dynamic break and distortion filter Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing a dynamic break and distortion filter. In one embodiment, an apparatus can include an inverter providing alternating current (AC) power at one of a first and second chopping frequency and a filter. The filter can include an input port receiving the AC power and an output port providing output power by selectively passing the AC power from the input port to the output port. The filter may further include an inductor electrically connected to one of the input port and output port and a capacitor electrically connected to the inductor and to a resistor, wherein current does not substantially flow through the inductor and capacitor at the first chopping frequency and does substantially flow through the inductor and capacitor at the second chopping frequency, and wherein the AC power with the second chopping frequency is dissipated in the resistor.
US09083227B2	Linear motor and lithography arrangement including linear motor A lithographic apparatus including a uniformity correction system is disclosed. The lithographic apparatus comprises an illumination system configured to condition a beam of radiation. The illumination system comprises a uniformity correction system located at a plane configured to receive a substantially constant pupil when illuminated with the beam of radiation. The uniformity correction system includes fingers configured to be movable into and out of intersection with a radiation beam so as to correct an intensity of respective portions of the radiation beam. A linear motor actuator arrangement drives the fingers to their respective appropriate positions to compensate for non-uniform illumination. Control is provided by a control system that precisely manipulates carriers of the fingers.
US09083219B2	Rotor and motor A rotor and a motor are provided in which the q-axis inductance is increased and the leakage of magnetic flux is prevented to ensure high power operation at high level driving speeds. The rotor includes a rotor core, which is formed at the center thereof with a hole coupled to a shaft, and a module configured to be coupled to the rotor core and comprises a pair of first permanent magnets, which are space apart from each other, and a first connection part connecting ends of the first permanent magnets to each other.
US09083217B2	Rotor for electric motor A rotor core is provided in which a plurality of poles each composed of a pair of first permanent magnets arranged in a V-shape open toward an outer peripheral side and a second permanent magnet arranged in parallel to a circumferential direction in an open part of the V-shape are arranged in the circumferential direction while alternately changing the polarities thereof. A groove is formed which has a groove center in a range between an electrical angle position shifted by ¼ cycle of a harmonic component of an induced voltage toward a d-axis and an electrical angle position shifted by ⅛ cycle of the harmonic component toward a q-axis from a base point located between a line connecting a rotor outer peripheral side corner portion of the second permanent magnet and a rotor shaft center and the q-axis out of a plurality of dividing lines connecting a plurality of dividing points set at an electrical angle interval corresponding to one cycle of the harmonic component from the d-axis to the q-axis on the rotor core outer periphery and the rotor shaft center.
US09083215B2	Power generation apparatus A power generation apparatus according to the present invention includes: an inlet which is provided at a location on an opposite side of an expander rotor with respect to a power generator stator in a power generator housing and which is capable of leading a working medium into the power generator housing, a cooling flow passage which supplies the inlet from a circulation pump with the working medium without interposition of an evaporator, a communication opening which is capable of leading the working medium out of the power generator housing so as to lead the working medium to a condenser, and a throttle valve which depressurizes the working medium led via the cooling flow passage from the circulation pump into the power generator housing.
US09083214B2	Motor A motor includes: a rotor including an output shaft; a stator provided with a coil wound around the stator; and a casing configured to accommodate the rotor and the stator and to contain a coolant liquid therein, wherein skews are formed in at least one of the rotor and the stator. A hollow portion extending an axial direction is formed in the output shaft. The hollow portion includes an opening that opens in the casing at an end surface of the output shaft where a liquid surface of the coolant liquid is relatively higher due to rotation of the rotor and that communicates with the casing near an end opposite to the end surface.
US09083211B2	Axial gap type generator There is provided an axial gap type generator. The an axial gap type generator includes: generator cases are fixed to a crank case of an engine; a rotor yoke housed inside the generator cases and fixed to a crankshaft of the engine; a first stator core and a second stator core fixed to inner faces of the generator cases and disposed flanking the rotor yoke in a rotation axis direction; generator case supports for supporting the generator case in such a manner that a surface section of the generator case opposing the crank case has a spacing between the surface section and the crank case.
US09083210B2	Silicon steel assembly and assembling method thereof A silicon steel assembly includes a first cover, a second cover, plural tooth members and an outer ring. The second cover has plural recesses. The tooth members are accommodated within respective recesses of the second cover. The first cover, the tooth members and the second cover are combined together to form a combination structure. The outer ring is sheathed around an outer periphery of the combination structure.
US09083209B2	Drain structure of electric rotating machine An electric rotating machine includes a casing having a through-hole and a drain member for draining water from the casing. The drain member has a mounting portion that includes hooks each having a proximal part and a distal part. The proximal part extends in the penetration direction of the through-hole. The distal part has a distal end that makes up an insertion end. The mounting portion is mounted to the through-hole by inserting the hooks into the through-hole from the insertion ends. The proximal parts of the hooks have flexibility so as to flex in a flexural direction perpendicular to the penetration direction during the insertion of the hooks into the through-hole. Each of the hooks also has a protrusion that protrudes from the outer surface of the proximal part toward the inner wall of the through-hole to restrict movement of the hook with respect to the through-hole.
US09083208B2	Ball bearing supported electromagnetic microgenerator Methods and apparatus for forming an electromechanical device are disclosed. In some embodiments, an electromechanical device includes a first substrate; a second substrate; a rotor movably disposed in the first and second substrates and having a plurality of first turbine blades disposed on a first side of the rotor and a plurality of permanent magnets disposed on a second side of the rotor, wherein the plurality of permanent magnets are arranged about a central axis of the rotor, wherein adjacent permanent magnets have opposing magnetic poles; a channel disposed between the first and second substrates and a peripheral edge of the rotor; a plurality of microballs disposed in the channel to provide a bearing for the rotor; a third substrate disposed proximate the second side of the rotor and having a plurality of coils disposed therein such that rotation of the rotor induces current the plurality of coils.
US09083206B2	Device and method for damped, non-contact support of a coolant feed line for superconducting machines A superconducting machine for supporting a coolant feed line for superconducting machines includes a hollow shaft that can be connected to the superconducting machine in a first region, the coolant feed line being disposed in the interior thereof for feeding the coolant from the refrigeration unit to the superconducting machine. A magnetic support is disposed in the first region of the hollow shaft so that a radial and thus motion-damping, centering force is exerted on the coolant feed line. The magnetic support has a first and a second magnetic cylinder, wherein the first magnetic cylinder is disposed on the outer jacket of the coolant feed line and the second magnetic cylinder is disposed on the inner face of the hollow shaft. The first magnetic cylinder is a cylinder made of highly electrically conductive material having ohmic resistance.
US09083203B2	Beam power with multiple power zones A beam power source transmits a signal indicating power availability, receives a request for power in response, and beams power in response to the request.
US09083202B2	Alternator control for battery charging In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, an electrical system for an automotive vehicle has an electrical generating machine and a battery. A set point voltage, which sets an output voltage of the electrical generating machine, is set by an electronic control unit (ECU). The ECU selects one of a plurality of control modes for controlling the alternator based on an operating state of the vehicle as determined from vehicle operating parameters. The ECU selects a range for the set point voltage based on the selected control mode and then sets the set point voltage within the range based on feedback parameters for that control mode. In an aspect, the control modes include a trickle charge mode and battery charge current is the feedback parameter and the ECU controls the set point voltage within the range to maintain a predetermined battery charge current.
US09083201B2	Load shedding circuit for RAM air turbines A power generation/distribution system includes a RAM air turbine (RAT) generator and an emergency integrated control center (EICC) that selectively applies either primary power provided by a primary power source or emergency power developed by the RAT generator to an alternating current essential bus (AC ESS bus) for distribution to one or more essential loads. The EICC monitors the primary power and in response to a loss of primary power selectively disables the supply of power from the AC ESS bus to the essential loads and manages subsequent loading of the RAT generator by the essential loads.
US09083200B2	Uninterruptible power supply Disclosed is an uninterruptible power supply, including a rectifier for generating a DC voltage; an energy storage unit; an inverter for converting the DC voltage into a three-phase modulating voltage; a filter; a bypass switch circuit for selectively outputting a three-phase AC voltage or the three-phase modulating voltage as a three-phase load voltage; and a control circuit for controlling the operation of the uninterruptible power supply. The control circuit may use a flux compensation block with different operating modes to adjust the three-phase load voltage at the startup phase of a second inductive load and at the stable phase of the second inductive load, thereby compensating or correcting the flux of the second inductive load to prevent the flux distribution of the second inductive load from being saturated.
US09083199B2	Battery charger circuit and control schemes Described is a battery charger circuit for charging a battery. The battery charger circuit comprises a control element having a first input configured to receive an input from a reference source, a second input configured to receive an input from the battery and an output, said control element having an output current response characteristic which varies with respect to the battery input such that said control element implements a saturating function that causes the charging current of the battery to automatically transition between a constant current operating mode and a constant voltage operating mode or a constant voltage operating mode to a constant current operating mode.
US09083198B2	System and method for wirelessly charging a rechargeable battery A wireless charging system having a battery with at least one cell, a receiving coil wrapped around the at least one cell and a charger having a transmitting field designed to couple with the receiving coil of the battery. A battery is further described having at least one cell and having a receiving coil wrapped around at least one cell.
US09083192B2	Current selectable USB charger A current selectable USB charger includes a USB (universal serial bus) connector, a crossover switch, a pair of voltage dividers and a power supply. The power supply provides preferably a +5 volt DC voltage to the pair of voltage dividers. The pair of voltage dividers includes a first voltage divider and a second voltage divider, each being formed of a pair of series-connected resistors. The voltage on the junction of the series-connected resistors of the first voltage divider is selectively provided, through the crossover switch, to one of the D− pin and the D+ pin of the USB connector. The voltage on the junction of the series-connected resistors of the second voltage divider is selectively provided, through the crossover switch, to one of the D+ pin and the D− pin of the USB connector.
US09083187B2	Electric energy storage apparatus capable of AC output An electric energy storage apparatus can generate an AC output in a low-loss and low-noise manner without using a DC-DC converter or an inverter. The electric energy storage apparatus comprises: an electric energy storage module group formed by connecting in series electric energy storage modules each comprising one or more electric energy storage elements; a balancing circuit electrically connected to the electric energy storage module group and configured to adjust a voltage to be applied to each of the electric energy storage modules; a first switch group comprising switches each in a path connecting a first terminal and a terminal of one of the series-connected electric energy storage modules; and a second switch group comprising switches each in a path connecting a second terminal and a terminal of one of the series-connected electric energy storage modules. The electric energy storage apparatus may perform a switch changeover in the switch groups.
US09083185B2	Power source device, electronic device, image forming apparatus, and power source control method A power source device includes: a first voltage generating unit that includes a power storage unit storing power based on power supplied from a power source and generates a voltage to be supplied to a first load based on the power supplied from the power source; and a second voltage generating unit that generates a voltage to be supplied to a second load based on the power stored in the power storage unit when the first voltage generating unit is controlled to stop generation.
US09083183B2	Systems and methods for presenting contingency analysis results A method for use in monitoring a utility network includes identifying, via a computing device, at least one contingent performance violation associated with a first element of a plurality of transmission elements of a utility network. The method includes presenting by the computing device a risk indicator corresponding to the contingent performance violation around a graphical representation of the first element.
US09083182B2	Bypass capacitors for high voltage bias power in the mid frequency RF range A system for decoupling arcing RF signals in a plasma chamber including a top electrode, an electrostatic chuck for supporting a semiconductor wafer, and a capacitor coupled between the at least one of a plurality of clamping electrodes in the surface of the electrostatic chuck and a baseplate of the electrostatic chuck, the capacitor having a capacitance of greater than about 19 nanofarads, the capacitor disposed within an interior volume of the electrostatic chuck. A method of decoupling arcing RF signals in a plasma chamber is also disclosed.
US09083178B2	Apparatus for and method of protecting wireless-coupled power devices from overvoltage, overcurrent, and overtemperature using hysteresis An overvoltage protecting unit and an overcurrent protecting unit protect a power device from an overvoltage and an overcurrent using a comparator having hysteresis. An overtemperature protecting unit protects the power device from an overtemperature using a thermistor having a resistance that changes as a temperature of the thermistor changes.
US09083174B2	Thermal overload protection apparatus The object of the invention is a thermal overload protection device (22) for protecting an electric component (10), in particular an electronic component, wherein the overload protection device (22) has a short-circuit unit (24) for short-circuiting connections (12, 14) of the component (10), and an actuating member (26) actuating the short-circuit unit (24) in a temperature sensitive manner. According to the invention it is provided that the short-circuit unit (24) is attached to a circuit path support (16) in at least one area (28), and is supported in at least another area (30) on the component (10) disposed on the circuit path support (16) via the actuating unit (26), and/or at least one of the circuit paths (18, 20) contacting one of the connections (12, 14) to be short-circuited.The invention further relates to a respective arrangement (36) having a circuit path support (16), at least one component (10) disposed thereupon, and at least one assigned overload protection device (22).
US09083172B2	Portable lightning protection system A portable lightning protection system is described for placement adjacent structures requiring lightning protection. The system includes a base mast section with an upper end and a plurality of radially extending, axially aligned ribs; a top mast section; preferably at least one intermediate mast section attachable to the upper end of the base mast section and to the lower end of the top mast section, the mast sections being axially aligned when attached; an air terminal having a conductive rod insertable into the bore of the top mast section; a base including a plurality of radially extending horizontal beams having inner ends attachable to the base mast section ribs and a plurality of inclined beams having inner ends attachable to the base mast section ribs and outer ends attachable to the horizontal beams; and grounding cables connecting the mast to the ground.
US09083169B2	Self-indexing nut plate An aircraft comprises a secondary support structure, and a nut plate engaging the secondary support structure. The nut plate includes at least one locator protrusion engaging a mounting hole in the secondary support structure to constrain motion of the nut plate along the secondary support structure. The nut plate further includes means for additionally constraining motion of the nut plate away from the secondary support structure.
US09083168B2	Grommet A grommet 1, which is configured to be attached to a hole 10a in a panel 10, includes a cylindrical body 2 having along its entire periphery a locking recess 3 that is locked into the hole 10a. Also, on an outer surface of the body 2, there is provided two first ribs 8 spaced from each other and extending from one end of the body 2 to the other end of the body 2, and two second ribs 7. These first ribs 8 are provided on one side with reference to a virtual plane that includes a central axis P and an alternate long and two short dashes line Q. The second ribs 7 are provided on the other side with reference to the virtual plane. Also, a width of the first rib 8 is larger than that of the second rib 7.
US09083161B2	Electrical feedthrough in a metal wall of a housing of an active medical device and method of making the same A method for making an hermetic and electrically insulating feedthrough in the metal wall of a housing of a device, preferably of an active medical device, is disclosed. The method includes: a) forming electrically insulating layers (24, 26) on each of the internal and external sides of the wall (10), b) on the internal side of the wall, forming a non-through groove with a closed contour (30) defining in the wall a metal islet (28) that is physically and electrically isolated from the rest of the wall, by removing the entire thickness of the electrically insulating internal layer (26) and the wall (10), leaving intact a sufficient thickness of the electrically insulating external layer (24) so that the external layer mechanically supports the metal islet, and c) on the external and internal sides respectively, exposing pads (34, 36) for making an electrical contact to the metallic islet, by a localized removal of material of the electrically insulating external and internal layers (24, 26), respectively.
US09083160B2	Multi-function high voltage wire service handtool An example includes a hand tool for repairing high-voltage electric power transmission cable, the tool including a generally straight elongate bar extending from a proximal portion including a back end to a distal portion including a tip that is generally smaller in diameter than the proximal portion, the proximal portion including a hand-graspable handle, the bar defining a hollow extending into the handle, the hollow extending from an interior wall of the hollow to an opening in the handle, the bar including a shoulder encircling the bar defining a transition between an at least partially conical shape extending from the tip to the shoulder and a spreader portion extending from the shoulder to the handle, wherein the hollow is sized to receive the transmission cable, with the opening being larger in diameter than both the conductor of the transmission cable and an insulator of the transmission cable.
US09083158B2	Restricted breathing enclosure An electrical apparatus, comprises a restricted breathing enclosure having an interior cavity, and a temperature regulator having at least an interior sensing portion within the interior cavity, the temperature regulator including a processor responsive to the interior sensing portion to send control signals to a heat transfer portion of the temperature regulator.
US09083155B2	Spark plug with an improved separation resistance of a noble metal tip A spark plug where a predetermined cross section of a noble metal tip is divided by a vertical line into two half cross sections having a first half cross section and a second half cross section. The first half cross section satisfies h1/t≦0.2 and Rw1/Rt1≧1.03, and the second half cross section satisfies h2/t≦0.2 and Rw2/Rt2≧1.03. At a welding interface, an oxidation scale progresses in a direction away from an axis along side surfaces and changes the progressing direction at the end points so as to progress in a direction toward the axis along bottom surfaces. The progress of the oxidation scale is restrained. Since the noble metal tip is held by an engagement portion of a ground electrode, separation of the noble metal tip from the ground electrode 40 can be restrained.
US09083154B2	Spark plug A spark plug having a spark plug body, a center electrode, and a rod-shaped ground electrode that is attached to a front end of the spark plug body and has an electrode end section with an end surface and two side surfaces. The electrode end section is provided with a step onto which is attached a precious metal component with an ignition surface that, together with the center electrode, forms a spark air gap. The step formed in the electrode end section and the precious metal component attached thereto extend across the entire width (B) of the electrode end section so that the precious metal component is flush with the electrode end section on the two sides surfaces, as well as the end surface.
US09083151B2	Method for having laser light source in standby status When the laser light source is caused to standby, the temperatures of semiconductor lasers are changed by approximately 3° C. from the temperature when the laser light source is always being used. With a temperature change of approximately 3° C., the wavelengths of the laser light generated by the semiconductor lasers change approximately 0.3 nm. This change hardly has any effect at all on optical fiber amplifiers, but the conversion efficiencies at the respective wavelength conversion elements of the wavelength conversion optical system change, and, particularly, deep ultraviolet light is hardly generated at all any longer. Therefore, even while the laser light has been made incident to the wavelength conversion optical system, there is no longer damaging of the wavelength conversion elements. Therefore, it is possible to provide a laser light source standby method that is able to shorten the start up time of the laser light source.
US09083149B1	Nanoparticle doped hybrid photorefractives The present invention provides a photorefractive hybrid cell including a window and a gain media disposed adjacent the window. The gain media includes nanoparticles therein. The window includes a material that forms a space-charge field. The gain media includes a material having refractive index properties that depend on an electric field. The nanoparticles include a coating which may include birefringent or polar molecules, other nanoparticles, organic material, or inorganic material.
US09083148B2	Real time equivalent model, device and apparatus for control of master oscillator power amplifier laser The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a system and method for power control of lasers. The system includes a device's control signal fed into a laser. The laser can be a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) fiber laser. The device includes an equivalent model circuit representing at least one parameter of the laser, such as the gain fiber inversion in the power amplifier. The device measures the power at the equivalent model circuit. Then, the device uses its feedback signal to control and/or adjust the output power control signal fed into the laser based on the measured power. By controlling the power fed into the laser, the laser can be operated at much lower frequencies while keeping the laser power within acceptable limits.
US09083147B2	Distributed feedback (DFB) Brillouin fiber lasers A Brillouin fiber laser uses a distributed feedback (DFB) fiber Bragg grating with a discrete π-phase shift, which is offset from the physical center of the grating as a resonator. Lasing is achieved by using the SBS gain in the DFB from narrow-linewidth laser pump radiation with an optical frequency that is higher than the central pass band of the grating by an amount nominally equal to the Stokes's frequency shift, νB. The lasing occurs at a wavelength that corresponds to the first Stokes wave. The Brillouin DFB fiber laser has a low threshold, does not require any fiber optic couplers, does not require rare-earth doping, enables connection of many DFB lasers in series, pumping using a multi-wavelength or wavelength tunable laser sources, and the laser output can be delivered along the direction of the pump propagation or in the reverse direction.
US09083145B2	Method and apparatus for locking and scanning the output frequency from a laser cavity A system and method that can be employed to lock and scan the output of a laser cavity (2) is described. The system and method involves the use of a signal generator for generating an error signal between an output of the laser cavity (28) and the transmission (28) of the laser through a tunable external reference cavity (3). A dual piezo-actuated mirror (6b) permits processing of the error signal (26) with separate signal processing circuits (29a, 29b) used to provide an electrical feedback signal to the two piezo-electric crystals (22, 23b). When incorporated within a laser cavity the described system and methodology can be used to lock and scan the output of the laser cavity while providing the laser output with a reduced linewidth.
US09083144B2	Array comprising a plurality of adjustable optical devices An adjustable array includes a plurality of optical devices. Each adjustable array device has an optical light output therefrom and is configured whereby the corresponding optical lights of the plurality of optical devices have a predefined nonequivalent relationship relative to one another with respect to an output parameter. In response to a drive signal, the plurality of optical devices are further configured to adjust the corresponding optical lights with respect to the output parameter while substantially maintaining the predefined nonequivalent relationship.
US09083143B2	Laser light source module The present invention provides a laser light source module thereby providing better prevention against actions taken to use the laser light for purposes other than the intended purpose, and a laser light source module according to the present invention provides a laser light source module including a laser element that emits laser light, the laser light source module being formed by a combination of a plurality of members, the laser light source module including: a laser element drive circuit including a memory that stores a password, said laser element drive circuit making said laser element emit laser light if an input password that has been input matches the password stored in said memory; and a laser element destruction mechanism that, if the plurality of members are separated, destroys said laser element.
US09083140B2	High-power CW fiber-laser A CW fiber-laser includes a gain fiber having a reflector proximity-coupled to one end, with the other end left uncoated. A laser resonator is defined by the reflector and the uncoated end of the gain-fiber. Pump-radiation from two fast-axis diode-laser bar stacks is combined and focused into the uncoated end of the gain-fiber for energizing the fiber. Laser radiation resulting from the energizing is delivered from the uncoated end of the gain-fiber and separated from the pump-radiation by a dichroic mirror.
US09083137B2	Optical communication module Plural conductive plates extend from a transparent containing unit containing the photoelectric conversion device, plural electrical circuit components are connected to the conductive plate, and the conductive plate extending from the transparent containing unit is accommodated in a housing while the conductive plate is bent. At that time, the conductive plate extending from the transparent containing unit is coupled at two portions in an extending direction by coupled-fixing members made of non-conductive synthetic resin, the electrical circuit components are mounted between the coupled-fixing members and the conductive plate is bent at portions outside these two coupled-fixing members. In the case that the conductive plate must be cut to generate a floating point portion, a floating-point fixing member is provided for coupling and fixing the floating point portion to an adjacent conductive plate.
US09083131B2	Brush device and motor A brush holder extends substantially in a radial direction of a commutator. The brush holder includes a first inner side surface and a second inner side surface, which are separate from each other in the axial direction of the commutator. A torsion spring presses portions-to-be-pressed of a brush-rear end, thereby urging the brush toward the commutator. The portions-to-be-pressed are deviated from a brush-center line in the axial direction of the commutator. The brush is urged by the torsion spring, thereby bringing a brush-tip end into contact with the first inner side surface, and bringing the brush-rear end into contact with the second inner side surface.
US09083128B2	Low inductance bus bar connection In one aspect, a set of male and female bus bars is provided. The male bus bar includes first and second conductors and an insulation layer therebetween. The male bus bar has a male connecting portion with one or more fingers. The female bus bar third and fourth conductors and an insulation layer therebetween. The female bus bar has a female connecting portion with one or more receptacles, each having contact surfaces that are free of insulation and that are positioned to contact contact surfaces on an associated finger which are free of insulation so as to connect the first conductor and the third conductor and to connect the second conductor and the fourth conductor. Each finger has a width. A gap exists between the contact surfaces of an associated receptacle. The width and gap are sized to provide a press fit between the fingers and the receptacles.
US09083126B2	Configurable safety light receptacle An electrical receptacle provide outlets and a cavity for receiving an insert. The insert connects to the electrical main through the receptacle and can provide additional functionality through the insert including emergency lighting, night lighting, gas detectors and charging connections.
US09083120B2	Socket for electronic components A socket for electronic components configured to connect each electrode terminal of an electronic component to a wiring of a wiring board with a shield member having electrical conductivity and multiple openings being disposed on the wiring board, with a contact unit configured to electrically conduct the electrode terminal of the electronic component and the wiring of the wiring board PB being disposed in the openings, and with the contact unit including a ground contacting portion configured to electrically conduct with the shield member, and when the contact unit is for grounding, grounding is performed by the ground contacting portion and the shield member being brought into contact and electrically conducting.
US09083114B2	Connector A connector includes a connector housing that receives a terminal fitting, a spacer that is inserted into a spacer installation opening of the connector housing to prevent the terminal fitting received in the connector housing from being fallen out, a temporary locking mechanism that temporarily fixes the spacer to a temporary locking position where the spacer is not engaged with the terminal fitting, a main locking mechanism that locks the spacer pushed toward a more inner side of the housing than the temporary locking position to a main locking position where the spacer is engaged with the terminal fitting. The temporary locking mechanism allows the spacer to move from the temporary locking position to the main locking position.
US09083112B2	Magnetic coupling connector The magnetic coupling connector includes: first and second connector main bodies to be coupled with each other; a magnet member disposed in a coupling portion of the first connector main body and a mate-side magnetic material disposed in a coupling portion of the second connector main body, the magnet member in the first connector main body adsorbing onto the mate-side magnetic material in the second connector main body, thereby coupling the connector main bodies together; and a contact terminal disposed in the coupling portion of the first connector main body and a contact terminal disposed in the coupling portion of the second connector main body, the contact terminals being pressed against each other when coupled. In the magnetic coupling connector, the magnet member is held by the first connector main body so as to be allowed to swing.
US09083108B2	Waterproof electrical connector Provided is a connector capable of preventing an operator from touching a filler and reducing a filling amount of a filler to cut down the cost. A connector (1) includes a terminal fitting (3) provided at an end of a high-voltage electric wire (2), and a connector housing (4) that has a terminal accommodation part (14) that contains the terminal fitting (3). The connector (1) is waterproofed by a filler (A) with which a filling chamber (15) in the connector housing (4) is filled. The connector (1) includes a holder (5) that is fitted to the connector housing (4) and that engages with the high-voltage electric wire (2) which is drawn from the filling chamber (15). A rib (26) is integrally formed with the holder (5), and provided across an opening of the filling chamber (15) and a part of the rib (26) is partly immersed in the filler.
US09083104B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a terminal body having a case that forms an exterior of the terminal body and a slot portion formed in the case, a socket mounted in the terminal body, the socket being configured to receive an external device through the slot portion, a slide door arranged behind the slot portion, the slide door being configured to slide to expose and cover the socket and a first spring coupled to one side of the slide door. When the external device is connected to the socket, the external device maintains the slide door in an open position and, when the external device is removed from the socket, the first spring provides a restorative force to move the slide door into a closed position covering the socket.
US09083096B2	Telecommunication jack with contacts of multiple materials A telecommunications jack, and a method of manufacturing such a jack, are disclosed. In one aspect, the jack includes a housing having a socket sized to receive either a first telecommunications plug of a first type or a second telecommunications plug of a second type having a different arrangement of electrical contacts as compared to the first telecommunications plug. The telecommunications jack also includes a plurality of contact springs exposed within the socket and positioned for alignment with electrical contacts of the first telecommunications plug when the first telecommunications plug is inserted into the socket. At least one of the contact springs remains unaligned with any of the electrical contacts of the second telecommunications plug when the second telecommunications plug is inserted into the socket, and is a resilient conductive material, At least one other contact spring of the plurality of contact springs are a second material having a lower resiliency than the at least one of the contact springs.
US09083091B1	Electrical terminal connector for solderless connection of parts to electrical contact holes An electrical terminal connector for attaching electrical parts to printed circuit boards. The terminal connector may have a connecting conductor member with an insulator displacement contact at a first end and a press-fit contact at a second end. The conductor member may have one or more tabs extending outwardly from the longitudinal edges. The tabs may be formed in the shape of a triangle with a first surface sloped at an acute angle to intersect with a second surface extending outwardly approximately orthogonal to the longitudinal edge.
US09083087B2	Antenna system switching method and mobile terminal An antenna system switching method and a mobile terminal is described. The mobile terminal includes a first portion and a second portion, a first antenna system and a second antenna system. The mobile terminal has a first physical status and a second physical status according to the difference of the relative positions of the first portion and the second portion. The mobile terminal operates through the different first antenna system and second antenna system according to the difference of the physical statuses in which it is, so that an antenna ground unit and an antenna radiating unit can be located on different parts of the mobile terminal, the demand for the height of the antenna of the mobile terminal is satisfied while the light and thin of the mobile terminal is implemented.
US09083085B2	System for transmitting and receiving multi-input multi-output and method for transmitting and receiving multi-input multi-output using the same Provided is a method for transmitting and receiving multi-input multi-output in a wireless backhaul network, including: selecting at least one pair of dual-polarized transmitting antennas to be activated among pairs of dual-polarized transmitting antennas of a transmitter; transmitting a signal through the selected pairs of dual-polarized transmitting antennas; and receiving, by pairs of dual-polarized receiving antennas of a receiver, the signal transmitted from the transmitter.
US09083084B2	Passive electromagnetic wave reflector for measuring local strain in a structure on the Earth's surface A passive electromagnetic wave reflector for measuring, from a satellite, local strain in a structure located on the Earth's surface, characterized in that it comprises a substantially vertical, relative to the Earth's surface, planar element, the planar element having a rectilinear side making contact with the structure the strain of which is to be measured, said element being aligned with the axis of the Earth's poles, and, fixed to the planar element, a mechanical structure having a first part located on a first side of the planar element and a second part located on a second side of the planar element, opposite the first side, the mechanical structure forming a rectilinear edge that, in combination with the rectilinear side of the planar element, forms a means for holding in position the reflector on the structure the strain of which is to be measured.
US09083083B2	Radome attachment band clamp A band clamp for coupling a radome to a distal end of a reflector dish for improving the front to back ratio of a reflector antenna, is provided with an inward projecting proximal lip and an inward projecting distal lip. The distal lip is dimensioned with an inner diameter equal to or less than a reflector aperture of the reflector dish. The proximal lip may be provided with an inward bias dimensioned to engage the reflector dish in an interference fit and/or turnback region dimensioned to engage an outer surface of a signal area of the reflector dish in an interference fit. A variety of different configurations of protruding portions extending from the band clamp may be applied to further improve electrical performance.
US09083082B2	Evanescent electromagnetic wave conversion lenses III Apparatus, methods, and systems provide conversion of evanescent electromagnetic waves to non-evanescent electromagnetic waves and/or conversion of non-evanescent electromagnetic waves to evanescent electromagnetic waves. In some approaches the conversion includes propagation of electromagnetic waves within an indefinite electromagnetic medium, and the indefinite medium may include an artificially-structured material such as a layered structure or other metamaterial.
US09083078B2	Universal antenna mounting bracket An apparatus for fastening an antenna to several vehicles which have restrictive placement locations is disclosed. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a mounting bracket and a shelf bracket; where the mounting bracket is adapted to be securely attached to several vehicles. An antenna mounts on the shelf bracket and the shelf bracket is adapted to be oriented to a preferred antenna position and to be securely attached to the mounting bracket.
US09083075B2	First coupling transformer secondary winding coupling second transmitter to antenna A device includes multiple transceivers, a coupling block and an antenna. The transceivers operate according to time-division multiple access (TDMA) techniques. The coupling block is designed to enable the multiple transceivers to transmit or receive corresponding signals using the antenna. The multiple transceivers include a first transmitter and a second transmitter. The first transmitter is connected to the antenna via a first coupling network. The second transmitter is connected to the antenna via a series connection of a second coupling network and at least a portion of the first coupling network. Other transmitters are connected to the antenna via a series arrangement of at least a portion of the first coupling network and corresponding coupling networks.
US09083071B2	Microwave and millimeter-wave compact tunable cavity filter An electrical device that comprises a tunable cavity filter that includes a container and a post. The container encloses a cavity therein, wherein interior surfaces of the container are covered with a metal layer. The post is configured be movable through an opening in the container such that at least a portion of the post is locatable inside of the cavity.
US09083068B2	Ultra-wideband 180 degree hybrid for dual-band cellular basestation antenna Ultra-wideband 180° hybrids for feeding a radiator of one band of a dual-band dual-polarization cellular basestation antenna are disclosed. The hybrid comprises: metal plates configured in parallel as groundplanes, and a dielectric substrate disposed between plates. First and second metallizations are implemented on opposite exterior surfaces of substrate and are shorted together to keep metal tracks at same potential to form conductor. Plates and first and second metallizations form first stripline circuit implementing matched splitter with short-circuit shunt stub Sum input port is provided at one end and two output ports are provided at opposite ends. Branches of matched splitter narrow to provide gap between output tracks. Third metallization is disposed within substrate. First, second and third metallizations form second stripline circuit. Tracks of third metallization comprise quarter-length transformers of different widths. Difference input port is provided at one end of second stripline circuit and at short-circuit point of short-circuit shunt stub of first stripline circuit. Metal track extends across gap of first stripline circuit.
US09083067B2	Coaxial conductor structure A coaxial conductor structure for the interference-free transmission of a propagable TEM mode of an HF signal wave within at least one band of n frequency bands forming within a dispersion relation.
US09083064B2	Battery pack pressure monitoring system for thermal event detection A system for detecting thermal events, e.g., thermal runaway, within a sealed battery pack based on a characterization of monitored pressure variations within the pack is provided. The system includes at least one pressure sensor coupled to the battery pack and to a pressure monitoring system that outputs pressure data representative of the battery pack pressure over time; a system controller that analyzes the pressure data and outputs a control signal when the pressure data fits a specific curve shape; and a thermal event response subsystem that performs a preset response upon receipt of the control signal from the system controller. The system may include a secondary effect monitoring system, wherein the thermal event response subsystem performs the preset response when the pressure data fits a specific curve shape and the secondary effect is detected by the secondary effect monitoring system.
US09083063B2	Electrochemical cell including an integrated circuit An electrochemical cell has a housing. The housing has at least one open end and a sidewall. An anode; a cathode; a separator disposed between the anode and the cathode; and an electrolyte are included within the housing. A magnetic diverter is affixed to an external surface of the sidewall of the housing. The magnetic diverter includes a recess. An integrated circuit is positioned within the recess.
US09083059B2	Electrolyte and secondary battery A secondary battery capable of improving cycle characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode 21, an anode 22, and an electrolytic solution. A separator 23 provided between the cathode 21 and the anode 22 is impregnated with the electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution contains a solvent and an electrolyte salt. The solvent contains a cyclic compound having a disulfonic acid anhydride group (—S(═O)2—O—S(═O)2—) and succinonitrile. Compared to a case that the solvent does not contain both the cyclic compound having the disulfonic acid anhydride group and succinonitrile or a case that that the solvent contains at least one thereof, chemical stability of the electrolytic solution is improved. Thus, even if charge and discharge are repeated, electrolytic solution decomposition is inhibited.
US09083049B2	Additives for fuel cell layers A fuel cell comprising: a first layer comprising a first ionomer and an additive, the additive comprising a metal oxide comprising an oxide at least one of of Ce, Mn, V, Pt, Ru, Zr, Ni, Cr, W, Co, Mo, or Sn, and wherein the additive is present in at least 0.1 weight percent of the ionomer is disclosed as one embodiment of the invention, and performance and durability are advantaged wherein one or all of the metal oxide consists essentially nanoparticles.
US09083047B2	Binder composition for rechargeable battery, rechargeable battery employing the same and method of producing electrode for rechargeable battery In one aspect, a binder composition for a rechargeable battery, a rechargeable battery employing the same and a method of producing an electrode of the rechargeable battery is provided.
US09083045B2	Composite materials, production thereof and use thereof in electrical cells A composite material comprising a reaction product of (A) at least one organic polymer, (B) sulfur and (C) carbon in a polymorph which comprises at least 60% sp2-hybridized carbon atoms, and additionally particles or domains which comprise carbon (C) filled with sulfur (B).
US09083043B2	Iron-doped lithium titanate as a cathode material In order to increase the electrochemical stability of a cathode material for lithium cells, the cathode material includes an iron-doped lithium titanate. A method for manufacturing a lithium titanate includes: a) calcinating a mixture of starting materials to form an iron-doped lithium titanate; and b) at least one of electrochemical insertion and chemical insertion of lithium into the iron-doped lithium titanate.
US09083042B2	Negative electrode active material, electrode containing the same, and lithium ion secondary battery having the electrode A negative electrode active material mainly contains silicon and silicon oxide. In the negative electrode active material, an Ar-laser Raman spectrum thereof includes a peak A corresponding to 950±30 cm−1 and a peak B corresponding to 480±30 cm−1, and an intensity ratio of the peak B to the peak A (B/A) is in the range of 1 to 10.
US09083034B2	Treated battery separator In at least one embodiment, a rechargeable battery is provided comprising an electrolyte including an organic solvent and a solution-treated polyolefin separator. A contact angle of the electrolyte including the organic solvent upon the separator may be from 0 to 15 degrees. In one embodiment, the solution-treated polyolefin layer has an increased concentration of ionic functional groups at its surface compared to an untreated polyolefin layer. In another embodiment, the solution-treated polyolefin separator has been treated with a treatment solution having a pH of either at most 2 or at least 12. The separator may be treated with an acid or base solution for at least 30 seconds. The solution-treated separator may exhibit improved wetting with an electrolyte compared to an untreated separator.
US09083028B2	Secondary battery pack of novel structure Disclosed herein is a secondary battery pack including an anode and cathode terminal of a battery cell, the anode and cathode terminal being made of a plate-shaped conductive member, and being electrically connected to a PCM, a battery cell having the anode and cathode terminal formed at one end thereof, the battery cell being provided at the end thereof with a thermally welded surplus portion, and a PCM including a PCB having a protection circuit formed thereon, the PCB being provided at one side thereof with a cathode and an anode terminal connection portion and at the other side thereof with an external input and output terminal connection portion, an external input and output terminal electrically connected to the protection circuit of the PCB via the external input and output terminal connection portion of the PCB, and an electrically insulative PCM case.
US09083022B2	Electrode active material for lithium secondary battery Provided is an electrode active material comprising a nickel-based lithium transition metal oxide (LiMO2) wherein the nickel-based lithium transition metal oxide contains nickel (Ni) and at least one transition metal selected from the group consisting of manganese (Mn) and cobalt (Co), wherein the content of nickel is 50% or higher, based on the total weight of transition metals, and has a layered crystal structure and an average primary diameter of 3 μm or higher, wherein the amount of Ni2+ taking the lithium site in the layered crystal structure is 5.0 atom % or less.
US09083016B1	Solid oxide fuel cell power plant with an anode recycle loop turbocharger An anode exhaust recycle turbocharger (100) has a turbocharger turbine (102) secured in fluid communication with a compressed oxidant stream within an oxidant inlet line (218) downstream from a compressed oxidant supply (104), and the anode exhaust recycle turbocharger (100) also includes a turbocharger compressor (106) mechanically linked to the turbocharger turbine (102) and secured in fluid communication with a flow of anode exhaust passing through an anode exhaust recycle loop (238) of the solid oxide fuel cell power plant (200). All or a portion of compressed oxidant within an oxidant inlet line (218) drives the turbocharger turbine (102) to thereby compress the anode exhaust stream in the recycle loop (238). A high-temperature, automotive-type turbocharger (100) replaces a recycle loop blower-compressor (52).
US09083013B2	Electrochemical device In an electrochemical device having an element main body 1A enclosed in an exterior package 1B, a peripheral region of the exterior package 1B is provided with an elastic structure or a plurality of elastic structures R1, R2 having an elastic force in a thickness direction (Z-axis direction) of films. Each of the elastic structures R1, R2 has a first region of the exterior package 1B folded along a film outer edge, and a second region of the exterior package 1B opposed to the first region. Two ends R11, R13 (R21, R23) of the first region in a direction along the film outer edge are in contact with the second region, and between the two ends R11, R13 (R21, R23) there is a space (with a maximum height 2R) between the first region and the second region.
US09083009B2	Method for producing an energy storage device holder for a vehicle A method comprising a step of providing a cooling plate having at least one exposed cooling channel designed for guiding a cooling fluid. The method further comprises a step of providing a mounting unit designed for receiving and fixing at least one energy storage unit. The method finally comprises a step of connecting the cooling plate to the mounting unit, whereby the at least one cooling channel is closed.
US09083005B2	Reactor for atomic layer deposition (ALD), application to encapsulation of an OLED device by deposition of a transparent AI2O3 film The present invention relates to a reactor for atomic layer deposition (ALD), comprising a reaction chamber comprising a platen and bounded internally by surfaces; at least one inlet orifice and at least one outlet orifice, each emerging from one of the surfaces bounding the chamber. The reactor furthermore comprises, within it, at least one wall apertured with at least one orifice, the apertured wall extending around the platen and over at least most of the height between the lower surface and the upper surface, at least one orifice in at least one of the apertured walls not facing the inlet orifice so as to form chicanes in the flow of gaseous precursor from each inlet orifice to the platen.
US09083000B2	Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, and lighting device Disclosed is a light-emitting element with a microcavity structure which is capable of amplifying a plurality of wavelengths to give emission of a desired color. The light-emitting element includes a pair of electrodes and an EL layer having a light-emitting substance interposed between the pair of electrodes. One of the pair of electrodes gives a reflective surface and the other electrode gives a semi-reflective surface. The light-emitting element is arranged so that the emission of the light-emitting substance covers at least two wavelengths λ and an optical path length L between the reflective surface and the semi-reflective surface satisfies an equation L=nλ/2 where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
US09082999B2	Organic optoelectronic device and the encapsulation method thereof An organic optoelectronic device incorporating a hermetic thin-film encapsulation, and encapsulation method are provided. This device has a useful emission or absorption face and, behind this face, a substrate coated with an array of radiation-emitting or radiation-absorbing organic structures inserted between, and electrically contacting, electrodes that are respectively proximal and distal relative to the substrate. Separating beads between structures, composed of an insulating material, extend between the respective proximal electrodes of the structures from peripheral edges of these electrodes. The device includes a hermetic encapsulation that has at least one inorganic internal film surmounting the distal electrode, a photosensitive polymer layer covering this internal film, and a dielectric inorganic external film acting as a barrier covering the polymer layer. The polymer layer is etched with a discontinuous geometry formed of segments that respectively surmount the structures and end beyond the structures in line with the beads.
US09082997B2	Organic light emitting diode display An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a substrate, a light path guide layer formed on the substrate and having an inclined side wall, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) formed on the substrate and the light path guide layer, and a phase transition layer formed on the OLED and formed so as to correspond to the inclined side wall. Therefore, in the OLED display, the phase transition layer is formed in the light path guide layer so that it is possible to minimize external light reflectance increased by the light path guide layer.
US09082995B2	Organic EL element and organic EL material-containing solution An organic EL device (1) includes an anode (3), a cathode (4) and an organic thin-film layer (5) provided between the anode (3) and the cathode (4). The organic thin-film layer (5) includes a single-layered mixed-color emitting layer (51) for providing mixed-color emission. The mixed-color emitting layer (51) contains a host, a fluorescent dopant for blue fluorescent emission and a phosphorescent dopant for red or green phosphorescent emission.
US09082986B2	Organic electroluminescent element An organic electroluminescence device includes a first organic thin-film layer and a second organic thin-film layer between an anode and a cathode opposing the anode in this order from the anode side. The first organic thin-film layer includes a specific aromatic heterocyclic derivative A, and the second organic thin-film layer includes a specific aromatic heterocyclic derivative B. The aromatic heterocyclic derivative A and the aromatic heterocyclic derivative B are different from each other. The organic electroluminescence device is capable of driving at a low voltage and has a long lifetime.
US09082985B2	Arylsulfonic acid compound and use thereof as electron-acceptor material Disclosed is an arylsulfonic acid compound characterized by being represented by formula (1). By using this compound as an electron-acceptor material, highly uniform film formability can be achieved. By using a thin film containing the arylsulfonic acid compound in an OLED device or a PLED device, there can be obtained excellent EL device characteristics such as low driving voltage, high luminous efficiency and long life. (In the formula, X represents O, S or NH; Ar represents an aryl group; and n represents the number of sulfonic groups, which is an integer of 1-4.).
US09082983B1	Solution processable thin-film transistors A thin film transistor having a solution-processed n-type copolymer semiconductor material. A thin-film transistor (TFT) device including, an organic TFT device having at least one substrate, at least one gate electrode, at least one electrically-insulating dielectric material, at least one drain electrode, at least one source electrode, and at least one n-type solution-processable semiconductor material.
US09082980B2	Manufacturing method for electroluminescent element A method for manufacturing an electroluminescent element including: a first manufacturing step of layering on a substrate, in the following order, a first electroconductive layer, a dielectric layer in which plural contact holes are formed which pass therethrough in a direction orthogonal to the substrate, a second electroconductive layer which is electrically connected to the first electroconductive layer inside the contact holes and which fills the contact holes, a light-emitting layer, and a third electroconductive layer; a temperature distribution measurement step of applying a voltage to the first electroconductive layer and the third electroconductive layer, causing the light-emitting layer to emit light, and measuring the temperature distribution of the electroluminescent element to obtain temperature unevenness information for the electroluminescent element; and a second manufacturing step of adjusting, the basis of the temperature unevenness information, the density of the plural contact holes that pass through the dielectric layer.
US09082978B2	Piezoelectric film and method of manufacturing the piezoelectric film, ink jet head, method of forming image by the ink jet head, angular velocity sensor, method of measuring angular velocity by the angular velocity sensor, piezoelectric generating element, and method of generating electric power using the piezoelectric generating element In order to provide a non-lead piezoelectric film having high crystalline orientation, low dielectric loss, high polarization-disappear temperature, and high piezoelectric constant, the present invention is a piezoelectric film comprising: a NaxM1-x layer 13 having a (001) orientation only; and a (1-α) (Bi, Na, Ba) TiO3-αBiQO3 layer 15 having a (001) orientation only. The (1-α) (Bi, Na, Ba) TiO3-αBiQO3 layer 15 is formed on the NaxM1-x layer 13. M represents Pt, Ir, or PtIr. Q represents Fe, Co, Zn0.5Ti0.5, or Mg0.5Ti0.5. x represents a value of not less than 0.002 and not more than 0.02. α represents a value of not less than 0.20 and not more than 0.50.
US09082970B2	Phase-change memory and semiconductor recording/reproducing device A phase-change memory and a semiconductor recording reproducing device capable of reducing consumed power are provided. A SnxTe100-x/Sb2Te3 SL film obtained by depositing a SnxTe100-x film and a Sb2Te3 film layer by layer contains a SnTe/Sb2Te3 superlattice phase formed of SnTe and Sb2Te3, a SnSbTe alloy phase, and a Te phase. The SnTe/Sb2Te3 superlattice phase is diluted by the SnSbTe alloy phase and the Te phase. Here, X of the SnxTe100-x film is represented by 4 at. %≦X≦55 at. %.
US09082969B2	Keyhole-free sloped heater for phase change memory Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device, and more particularly to a method of fabricating a phase change memory device.
US09082967B2	Non-volatile memory device and manufacturing method thereof A non-volatile memory device of the present invention comprises a first electrode; a variable resistance layer formed on and above the first electrode; a second electrode formed on and above the variable resistance layer; a side wall protective layer having an insulativity and covering a side wall of the first electrode, a side wall of the variable resistance layer and a side wall of the second electrode; and an electrically-conductive layer which is in contact with the second electrode; wherein the electrically-conductive layer covers an entire of the second electrode and at least a portion of the side wall protective layer located outward relative to the second electrode, when viewed from a thickness direction; and the side wall protective layer extends across the second electrode to a position above an upper end of the second electrode such that an upper end of the side wall protective layer is located above the upper end of the second electrode, when viewed from a side.
US09082965B2	Memory device and CBRAM memory with improved reliability A memory device including: one inert electrode including an electrically conductive material, a part of at least one material of resistivity higher than that of the material of the inert electrode, positioned around the inert electrode, a solid electrolyte positioned on at least one part of the inert electrode and of the part of electrically insulating material, and including metal ions originating from an ionizable metal part positioned on the solid electrolyte. The ratio between the coefficient of electrical resistivity of the material of resistivity higher than that of the material of the inert electrode and the coefficient of electrical resistivity of the material of the inert electrode is equal to or higher than approximately 100, and the coefficient of thermal conductivity of the electrically insulating material is equal to or higher than approximately 10 W·m−1·K−1.
US09082963B2	Spin transfer torque cell for magnetic random access memory Embodiments are directed to STT MRAM devices. One embodiment of an STT MRAM device includes a reference layer, a tunnel barrier layer, a free layer and one or more conductive vias. The reference layer is configured to have a fixed magnetic moment. In addition, the tunnel barrier layer is configured to enable electrons to tunnel between the reference layer and the free layer through the tunnel barrier layer. The free layer is disposed beneath the tunnel barrier layer and is configured to have an adaptable magnetic moment for the storage of data. The conductive via is disposed beneath the free layer and is connected to an electrode. Further, the conductive via has a width that is smaller than a width of the free layer such that a width of an active STT area for the storage of data in the free layer is defined by the width of the conductive via.
US09082961B2	Method of manufacturing multilayer film According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a multilayer film, the method includes forming a first layer, forming a second layer on the first layer, and transcribing a crystal information of one of the first and second layers to the other one of the first and second layers by executing a GCIB-irradiation to the second layer.
US09082960B2	Fully compensated synthetic antiferromagnet for spintronics applications A synthetic antiferromagnet serving as a reference layer for a magnetic tunnel junction is a laminate with a plurality of “x+1” magnetic sub-layers and “x” non-magnetic spacers arranged in an alternating fashion, with a magnetic sub-layer at the top and bottom of the laminated stack. Each spacer has a top and bottom surfaces that interface with adjoining magnetic sub-layers generating antiferromagnetic coupling between the adjoining sub-layers. Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is induced in each magnetic sub-layer through an interface with a spacer. Thus the dipole field exerted on a free layer is substantially reduced compared with that produced by a conventional synthetic antiferromagnetic reference layer. Magnetic sub-layers are preferably Co while Ru, Rh, or Ir may serve as non-magnetic spacers.
US09082958B2	Tunneling magneto-resistive sensors with buffer layers In certain embodiments, a tunneling magneto-resistive (TMR) sensor includes a sensor stack positioned between a seed layer and a cap layer. The seed layer includes a first buffer layer that includes a non-magnetic nickel alloy. In certain embodiments, a sensor stack includes a top and bottom shield and a seed layer positioned adjacent to the bottom shield. The seed layer has a first buffer layer that includes a nickel alloy.
US09082957B2	Arrangements for an integrated sensor An integrated circuit can have a first substrate supporting a magnetic field sensing element and a second substrate supporting another magnetic field sensing element. The first and second substrates can be arranged in a variety of configurations. Another integrated circuit can have a first magnetic field sensing element and second different magnetic field sensing element disposed on surfaces thereof.
US09082955B2	Phase change memory device An object of the present invention is to provide a technique for suppressing thermal disturbance of a phase change memory device having a three-dimensional structure. In the phase change memory device having a three-dimensional structure, a material having a high thermal conductivity is used as a gate insulation film of a MOS transistor for selection, and causes heat transmitted to a Si channel layer from a phase change recording film to successfully diffuse to a gate electrode. In this way, since heat generated from a recording bit diffuses to a non-selected bit adjacent to it, it is possible to suppress thermal disturbance. BN, Al2O3, AlN, TiO2, Si3N4, ZnO and the like are useful as a gate insulation film having a high thermal conductivity.
US09082953B2	Atomic layer deposition encapsulation for acoustic wave devices Acoustic wave devices and methods of coating a protective film of alumina (Al2O3) on the acoustic wave devices are disclosed herein. The protective film is applied through an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The ALD process can deposit very thin layers of alumina on the surface of the acoustic wave devices in a precisely controlled manner. Thus, the uniform film does not significantly distort the operation of the acoustic wave device.
US09082951B2	Magnetic random access memory with perpendicular enhancement layer The present invention is directed to an MTJ memory element including a magnetic free layer structure which comprises one or more magnetic free layers that have a same variable magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to layer planes thereof; an insulating tunnel junction layer formed adjacent to the magnetic free layer structure; a magnetic reference layer structure comprising a first magnetic reference layer formed adjacent to the insulating tunnel junction layer and a second magnetic reference layer separated therefrom by a perpendicular enhancement layer with the first and second magnetic reference layers having a first fixed magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to layer planes thereof; an anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer formed adjacent to the second magnetic reference layer opposite the perpendicular enhancement layer; and a magnetic fixed layer comprising first and second magnetic fixed sublayers with the second magnetic fixed sublayer formed adjacent to the anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer opposite the second magnetic reference layer.
US09082950B2	Increased magnetoresistance in an inverted orthogonal spin transfer layer stack A magnetic device includes a pinned magnetic layer and a free magnetic layer including a first body-centered cubic material and having a variable magnetization vector that has a first stable state and a second stable state. The magnetic device also includes a first non-magnetic layer and a reference layer. The first non-magnetic layer spatially separates the pinned magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer and includes a second body-centered cubic material that interfaces with the first body-centered cubic material. The magnetic device includes a second non-magnetic layer spatially separating the free magnetic layer and the reference magnetic layer. A magnetic tunnel junction, located below the pinned magnetic layer, is formed by the free magnetic layer, the second non-magnetic layer, and the reference magnetic layer. Application of a current pulse through the magnetic device switches the variable magnetization vector.
US09082949B2	Magnetic memory and method of fabrication A method of forming a magnetic memory includes providing a layer stack comprising a plurality of magnetic layers and a plurality of electrically conducting layers on a base portion of a substrate; forming a first mask feature on an outer surface of the layer stack above a first protected region and a second mask feature on the outer surface of the layer stack above a second protected region, the first mask feature and second mask feature defining an exposed region of the layer stack in portions of the layer stack therebetween; and directing ions towards exposed the region of the layer stack in an ion exposure that is effective to magnetically isolate the first protected region from the second protected region and to electrically isolate the first protected region from the second protected region without removal of the exposed region of the layer stack.
US09082943B2	Optoelectronic package and method of manufacturing the same An optoelectronic package includes an optoelectronic chip, a transparent protection layer and a plurality of pads. The optoelectronic chip has an upper surface and an active area defined on the upper surface. The transparent protection layer is connected to the optoelectronic chip and covers the upper surface. The transparent protection layer touches and is entirely attached to the active area. The pads are electrically connected to the optoelectronic chip.
US09082942B2	Method and apparatus for packaging phosphor-coated LEDs The present disclosure involves a method of packaging light-emitting diodes (LEDs). According to the method, a plurality of LEDs is provided over an adhesive tape. The adhesive tape is disposed on a substrate. In some embodiments, the substrate may be a glass substrate, a silicon substrate, a ceramic substrate, and a gallium nitride substrate. A phosphor layer is coated over the plurality of LEDs. The phosphor layer is then cured. The tape and the substrate are removed after the curing of the phosphor layer. A replacement tape is then attached to the plurality of LEDs. A dicing process is then performed to the plurality of LEDs after the substrate has been removed. The removed substrate may then be reused for a future LED packaging process.
US09082939B2	White light source and white light source system including the same The present invention provides a white light source comprising: a light emitting diode (LED) having a light emission peak wavelength in a range of 350 or more and 420 nm or less; and a phosphor layer including four or more types of phosphors and resin, wherein the white light source satisfies a relational equation of: −0.2≦[(P(λ)×V(λ))/(P(λmax1)×V(λmax1))−(B(λ)×V(λ))/(B(λmax2)×V(λmax2))]≦+0.2, assuming that: a light emission spectrum of the white light source is P(λ); a light emission spectrum of black-body radiation having a same color temperature as that of the white light source is B(λ); a spectrum of a spectral luminous efficiency is V(λ); a wavelength at which P(λ)×V(λ) becomes largest is λmax1; and a wavelength at which B(λ)×V(λ) becomes largest is λmax2, and wherein an amount (difference) of chromaticity change on CIE chromaticity diagram from a time of initial lighting up of the white light source to a time after the white light source is continuously lighted up for 6000 hours is less than 0.010. According to the above white light source, there can be provided a white light source capable of reproducing the same light emission spectrum as that of natural light.
US09082935B2	Light-emitting element and the light-emitting array having the same A light-emitting element includes: a light-emitting structure; a plurality of first contact portions separately on the light-emitting structure; and a plurality of reflective portions disposed separately among the plurality of first contact portions.
US09082929B2	Light emitting device and light emitting device package Disclosed is a light emitting device including a substrate, a buffer layer on the substrate, and a light-emitting structure on the buffer layer. The buffer layer has a refractive index decreased toward the substrate from the light-emitting structure.
US09082925B2	Methods for wet chemistry polishing for improved low viscosity printing in solar cell fabrication A method of fabricating a solar cell is disclosed. The method includes forming a polished surface on a silicon substrate and forming a first flowable matrix in an interdigitated pattern on the polished surface, where the polished surface allows the first flowable matrix to form an interdigitated pattern comprising features of uniform thickness and width. In an embodiment, the method includes forming the silicon substrate using a method such as, but not limited to, of diamond wire or slurry wafering processes. In another embodiment, the method includes forming the polished surface on the silicon substrate using a chemical etchant such as, but not limited to, sulfuric acid (H2SO4), acetic acid (CH3COOH), nitric acid (HNO3), hydrofluoric acid (HF) or phosphoric acid (H3PO4). In still another embodiment, the etchant is an isotropic etchant. In yet another embodiment, the method includes providing a surface of the silicon substrate with at most 500 nanometer peak-to-valley roughness.
US09082923B2	Method and apparatus for enhancing vortex pinning by conformal crystal arrays Disclosed is a method and apparatus for strongly enhancing vortex pinning by conformal crystal arrays. The conformal crystal array is constructed by a conformal transformation of a hexagonal lattice, producing a non-uniform structure with a gradient where the local six-fold coordination of the pinning sites is preserved, and with an arching effect. The conformal pinning arrays produce significantly enhanced vortex pinning over a much wider range of field than that found for other vortex pinning geometries with an equivalent number of vortex pinning sites, such as random, square, and triangular.
US09082921B2	Multi-die LED package A light-emitting device comprising (a) a submount having front and back sides and including a ceramic layer; (b) an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on the front side; and (c) a lens overmolded on the submount and covering the LED array. In some embodiments, the submount comprises at least two electrically-conductive contact pads on the front side, and each LED in the array is secured with respect to one of the contact pads.
US09082918B2	Methods for making water soluble quantum dots A novel quantum dot containing two different metals at non-toxic levels which is capable of narrow bandwidth near infrared emissions at wavelengths of 600-1100 nm. The quantum dot is fabricated via an aqueous method which forms a structure having an inner region of one composition and an outer region of a different composition, wherein the inner region contains at least a first metal and the outer region contains at least a second metal. The quantum dots may be enabled for bioconjugation and may be used in a method for tissue imaging and analyte detection.
US09082917B2	Solar cell module In a solar cell module 100, the wiring member 11 is connected onto the connection electrode 40 through a resin adhesive 12; and the connection electrode 40 includes a plurality of projections 40a which are in direct contact with the wiring member.
US09082914B2	Photovoltaic module including high contact angle coating on one or more outer surfaces thereof, and/or methods of making the same Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to photovoltaic modules that include high contact angle coatings on one or more outermost major surfaces thereof, and/or associated methods. In certain example embodiments, the high contact angle coatings advantageously reduce the likelihood of electrical losses through parasitic leakage of the electrical current caused by moisture on surfaces of the photovoltaic modules, thereby potentially improving the efficiency of the photovoltaic devices. In certain example embodiments, the high contact angle coatings may be nitrides and/or oxides of or including Si, Ti, Ta, TaCr, NiCr, and/or Cr; hydrophobic DLC; and/or polymer-based coatings. The photovoltaic modules may be substrate-type modules or superstrate-type modules in different example embodiments.
US09082910B2	Solar cell and manufacturing method thereof A solar cell includes: a substrate; a plurality of first nanostructures provided on the substrate and arranged; and a plurality of second nanostructures provided on the substrate and arranged separate from the plurality of first nanostructures wherein an average diameter of a cross section of one of the plurality of first nanostructures that is incised in a direction that is in parallel to a substrate surface of the substrate is greater than an average diameter of a cross section of one of the plurality of second nanostructures that is incised in a direction that is in parallel to a substrate surface of the substrate.
US09082906B2	Photoluminescent compositions for spectrum converters with enhanced efficiency The present invention relates to a photoluminescent composition comprising an acene compound having general formula (I) or (Ia) and a benzothiadiazole compound having general formula (II), and the relative use as photoluminescent composition in a spectrum converter. A spectrum converter comprising the photoluminescent composition defined above, comprising the above compounds having general formula (I) or (Ia) and (II) and a solar device comprising said spectrum converter, are also described.
US09082905B2	Photodiode employing surface grating to enhance sensitivity A semiconductor device contains a photodiode formed in a substrate of the semiconductor device. At a top surface of the substrate, over the photodiode, a surface grating of periodic field oxide in a periodic configuration and/or gate structures in a periodic configuration is formed. The field oxide may be formed using an STI process or a LOCOS process. A semiconductor device with a surface grating including both field oxide and gate structures has the gate structures over the semiconductor substrate, between the field oxide. The surface grating has a pitch length up to 3 microns. The surface grating covers at least half of the photodiode.
US09082904B2	Solar cell module and solar photovoltaic system The present invention provides a solar cell module which has high design freedom and can be easily manufactured at low cost. A solar cell module (10) includes (i) a light guide plate (1), (ii) a fluorescence-dispersed film (2) in each of which a fluorescent substance is dispersed and which is adhered to respective at least one surface of the light guide plate (1), and (iii) a solar cell element (3) which is provided on another surface of the light guide plate (1) which another surface being perpendicular to the at least one surface. Therefore, it is not necessary to prepare a light guide plate in which a fluorescent substance is dispersed. Moreover, it is possible to arbitrarily pattern the fluorescence-dispersed film (2) or to stack the fluorescence-dispersed films (2).
US09082903B2	Photovoltaic device with a zinc magnesium oxide window layer Methods and devices are described for a photovoltaic device and substrate structure. In one embodiment, a photovoltaic device includes a substrate structure and a CdTe absorber layer, the substrate structure including a Zn1-xMgxO window layer and a low conductivity buffer layer. Another embodiment is directed to a process for manufacturing a photovoltaic device including forming a Zn1-xMgxO window layer over a substrate by at least one of sputtering, evaporation deposition, CVD, chemical bath deposition process and vapor transport deposition process. The process including forming a CdTe absorber layer above the Zn1-xMgxO window layer.
US09082902B2	Solar cell A solar cell is provided. The substrate of the solar cell has heavily-doped regions and lightly-doped regions. The anode and the cathode are disposed on the back surface of the substrate, and thus the amount of incident light on the front surface of the substrate is increased. The anode and the cathode are in contact with the heavily doped regions to form selective emitter structure, and thus the contact resistance is reduced. The lightly-doped regions, which are not in contact with the anode and the cathode, have lower saturation current, and thus recombination of hole-electron pairs is reduced, and absorption of infrared light is increased.
US09082900B2	Photovoltaic module and manufacturing method thereof Disclosed herein is a photovoltaic module including: a first electrode formed on a substrate; a photoelectric conversion layer formed on the first electrode; a second electrode formed on the photoelectric conversion layer; and a light transmitting back substrate disposed over the second electrode. The photovoltaic module has a color within a range of a: −25˜0, b: 10˜50, L*: 20˜50 in Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) LAB color coordinate.
US09082899B2	Electrically conductive polymeric compositions, contacts, assemblies, and methods Electrically conductive polymeric compositions adapted for use in forming electronic devices are disclosed. The compositions are thermally curable at temperatures less than about 250° C. Compositions are provided which may be solvent-free and so can be used in processing or manufacturing operations without solvent recovery concerns. The compositions utilize (i) fatty acid modified epoxy acrylate and/or methacrylate monomer(s) and/or oligomer(s), (ii) fatty acid modified polyester acrylate and/or methacrylate monomer(s) and/or oligomer(s), or combinations of (i) and (ii). Also described are electronic assemblies such as solar cells using the various compositions and related methods.
US09082897B2	Solar power storage module, and solar power storage system and solar power supply system having same A solar power supply system includes a power supply bus and a plurality of solar power storage systems. The power storage systems is electrically connected to each other in parallel via the power supply bus. Each of the solar power storage systems includes solar power storage modules and an inverter electrically connected to an external load and the solar power storage modules in series. Each of the solar power storage modules includes a lithium-ion battery unit, a solar cell unit, and a battery control unit. The solar cell unit charges the lithium-ion battery unit. The battery control unit is electrically connected to the lithium-ion battery unit and the solar cell unit, and controls the lithium-ion battery unit being charged or discharged.
US09082896B2	Small pixel for CMOS image sensors with vertically integrated set and reset diodes A pixel of an image sensor, the pixel includes a floating diffusion node to sense photo-generated charge, a reset diode to reset the floating diffusion node in response to a reset signal, and a set diode to set the floating diffusion node.
US09082894B2	Image pickup apparatus and image pickup system In a photoelectric conversion apparatus that adds signals of a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements included in photoelectric conversion units, each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type that collects signal carriers. The first semiconductor regions included in photoelectric conversion elements that are included in each of the photoelectric conversion units and that are arranged adjacent to each other sandwich a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type. A height of a potential barrier for the signal carriers generated in a certain region of the second semiconductor region is smaller than a height of a potential barrier for the signal carriers generated in a third semiconductor region between each of the first semiconductor regions and an overflow drain region of the first conductivity type.
US09082891B2	Methods for manufacturing isolated deep trench and high-voltage LED chip A method for manufacturing a deep isolation trench (221) and a method for manufacturing a high-voltage LED chip. Steps of the method for manufacturing a deep isolation trench (221) are as follows: forming a mask layer (202) on a substrate (200), and forming, in the mask layer, through etching, multiple windows (204) isolated from each other, the bottom of each window exposing the substrate; with epitaxial lateral overgrowth, forming an epitaxial structure (212) inside each window and a part of the mask layer around the window, respectively, each epitaxial structure having a trapezoidal cross section with a long bottom and a short top, and a gap between adjacent epitaxial structures forming a first deep trench (214); etching each epitaxial structure, forming a first shoulder (218) and a second shoulder (221) at both sides of each epitaxial structure, respectively, and forming a deep isolation trench above the mask layer between the adjacent epitaxial structures. The method for manufacturing a high-voltage LED chip is capable of decreasing preparation cost of the deep isolation trench in the high-voltage LED chip, and increasing continuity and compactness interconnection performance of an insulation isolation dielectric layer and an interconnection electrode layer between deep isolation trenches within a high-voltage LED chip.
US09082890B1	Group III nitride articles having nucleation layers, transitional layers, and bulk layers Group III (Al, Ga, In)N single crystals, articles and films useful for producing optoelectronic devices (such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes (LDs) and photodetectors) and electronic devices (such as high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs)) composed of III-V nitride compounds, and methods for fabricating such crystals, articles and films.
US09082888B2	Inverted orthogonal spin transfer layer stack A magnetic device includes a pinned magnetic layer having a first fixed magnetization vector with a first fixed magnetization direction. The magnetic device also includes a free magnetic layer having a variable magnetization vector having at least a first stable state and a second stable state. The magnetic device also has a first non-magnetic layer and a reference. The first non-magnetic layer spatially separates the pinned magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer. The magnetic device also includes a second non-magnetic layer spatially separating the free magnetic layer and the reference magnetic layer. A magnetic tunnel junction, located below the pinned magnetic layer, is formed by the free magnetic layer, the second non-magnetic layer, and the reference magnetic layer. Application of a current pulse, having either positive or negative polarity and a selected amplitude and duration, through the magnetic device switches the variable magnetization vector.
US09082887B1	Integrated circuit packaging system with posts and method of manufacture thereof A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a semiconductor wafer having a chip pad; attaching a wafer frame to the semiconductor wafer, the wafer frame having a horizontal cover integral to a protruding connector with the protruding connector on the chip pad; forming an underfill around the protruding connector and between the horizontal cover and the semiconductor wafer; removing the horizontal cover exposing the underfill and the protruding connector; and singulating an integrated circuit package from the semiconductor wafer.
US09082886B2	Adding decoupling function for tap cells A tap cell includes a well region and a well pickup region of the well region; a VDD power rail; and a VSS power rail. A MOS capacitor includes a gate electrode line acting as a first capacitor plate, and the well pickup region acting as a part of a second capacitor plate. A first one of the first and second capacitor plates is coupled to the VDD power rail, and a second one of the first and second capacitor plates is coupled to the VSS power rail.
US09082881B1	Semiconductor on polymer substrate Semiconductor On Polymer (SOP) is a flexible ultra-thin substrate that can be used as the starting material for CMOS, MEMS or Complex Interconnects such as an interposer. The described process results in a flexible SOP device with open bond pads. After deposition of a liquid polymer onto a semiconductor substrate, the polymer is converted to a solid, creating a new substrate that is temporarily bonded to a carrier wafer. The semiconductor layer is then etched to be ultra-thin and highly uniform, specifically, a single crystalline silicon layer. Following fabrication of devices and interconnects on the polymer substrate, the ultra thin wafer is released from the carrier wafer in substrate form to be used whole or tiled for subsequent assembly. Among other advantages, the flexible format of the SOP substrate enables low resistance 3-D interconnects, and provides for a significant increase in performance due to a reduction in parasitic capacitance.
US09082878B2	Method of fabricating a power semiconductor chip package A device includes a vertical power semiconductor chip having an epitaxial layer and a bulk semiconductor layer. A first contact pad is arranged on a first main face of the power semiconductor chip and a second contact pad is arranged on a second main face of the power semiconductor chip opposite to the first main face. The device further comprises an electrically conducting carrier attached to the second contact pad.
US09082875B2	Methods for normalizing strain in semicondcutor devices and strain normalized semiconductor devices A method of normalizing strain in semiconductor devices and normalized strain semiconductor devices. The method includes: forming first and second field effect transistors of an integrated circuit; forming a stress layer over the first and second field effect transistors, the stress layer inducing strain in channel regions of the first and second field effect transistors; and selectively thinning the stress layer over at least a portion of the second field effect transistor.
US09082874B2	Semiconductor device including transistor and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a gate pattern disposed on a semiconductor substrate, a bulk epitaxial pattern disposed in a recess region formed in the semiconductor substrate at a side of the gate pattern, an insert epitaxial pattern disposed on the bulk epitaxial pattern, and a capping epitaxial pattern disposed on the insert epitaxial pattern. The bulk epitaxial pattern has an upper inclined surface that is a {111} crystal plane, and the insert epitaxial pattern includes a specific element that promotes the growth rate of the insert epitaxial pattern on the upper inclined surface.

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