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US09265538B2	Dual pivot instrument for reduction of a fixation element and method of use A spinal fixation element fixation reduction system is provided herein. In general, the system can include a cap element with a bore having a central axis extending therethrough wherein the cap element is configured to releasably engage any type of surgical device (e.g., an access sleeve, a vertebral body rotator, etc.). Further, the system can include a driver configured to be slidably and removably positioned through the cap element. The system can also include an actuator configured to apply a force to the driver substantially along the central axis of the cap element thereby moving the driver in a distal direction so as to effect reduction of a spinal fixation element into a bone anchor. Additionally, a method of reducing a spinal fixation element into a bone anchor is also provided wherein the method can be performed as a minimally invasive surgical procedure or as an open procedure.
US09265536B2	System for implanting a rod implant along a spine of a patient A tool set for implanting a rod in a human spine in conjunction with bone screws. The tool set includes a pair of end guide tools that receive opposite ends of the rod in channels and under manipulation by a surgeon facilitate transport of the rod toward the bone screws attached to the guide tools. Intermediate guide tools having guiding pass through slots are utilized to guide intermediate locations along the rod toward associated bone screws. An attachment structure operably connects the guide tools to the bone screws. The guide tools each include a lower guide and advancement structure to allow a closure top with mating structure to be rotated and driven downward against the rod and to cooperate with similar structure in the bone screw to seat and lock the rod therein. A method utilizing the tool set allows a surgeon to percutaneously implant the rod in the patient.
US09265535B2	System for implanting a rod implant along a spine of a patient A tool set for implanting a rod in a human spine in conjunction with bone screws. The tool set includes a pair of end guide tools that receive opposite ends of the rod in channels and under manipulation by a surgeon facilitate transport of the rod toward the bone screws attached to the guide tools. Intermediate guide tools having guiding pass through slots are utilized to guide intermediate locations along the rod toward associated bone screws. An attachment structure operably connects the guide tools to the bone screws. The guide tools each include a lower guide and advancement structure to allow a closure top with mating structure to be rotated and driven downward against the rod and to cooperate with similar structure in the bone screw to seat and lock the rod therein. A method utilizing the tool set allows a surgeon to percutaneously implant the rod in the patient.
US09265530B2	Apparatus and methods for fixating a cranial bone flap with a cranial bone mass A fixation device for use in securing a cranial bone flap with a cranial bone mass at the location of a burr hole. In one implementation the fixation device includes a closure plate having a substrate with an outer surface and an inner surface and with at least a portion of the inner surface adapted to be applied against the outer face of the outer edges of the cranial bone mass and the cranial bone flap at the location of the burr hole. The closure plate is also adapted with a burr hole fitting coupled to and spaced a distance below the inner surface of the substrate and adapted for being inserted entirely into the burr hole. The fitting may include one or more peripheral portions adapted for being pressed against the inner wall of the burr hole when the fitting is inserted therein. The peripheral portions are endowed with a freedom of movement that enables the fitting to be inserted into the burr hole.
US09265529B2	Orthopedic fixation systems and methods Collapsible orthopedic fixation assemblies and related methods are disclosed. A collapsible fixation assembly includes end frames that are coupled with one or more cross beams. The fixation assembly is reconfigurable between a collapsed configuration in which the end frames are substantially aligned with the one or more cross beams and a deployed configuration in which the end frames are oriented transverse to the one or more cross beams and in which relative movement between the end frames and the one or more cross beams can be inhibited. The fixation assembly is configured to support at least one bone-interface component, which is configured to constrain a bone of a patient. In the collapsed configuration, the fixation assemblies is more compact than in the deployed configuration, thereby making it more easy to store and transport as compared to a comparable non-collapsible fixation assembly.
US09265528B2	Orthopedic fixation systems and methods The invention provides an orthopedic external fixation system for treatment of lower and upper extremities fractures. The system comprises an elongate base rail supported by a stand structure and a plurality of open rings slidably and removably coupled to the base rail along the base rail length. The ring members are connected to struts that support flag members, which support wires and pins that interact with the fractured bones for fixation of their positions relative to the rings during treatment. The system has means for combining the rings into separate modules that can be moved relative to each other. Through the use of the struts the rings can be bound into an integral system that can be disconnected from the base and the stand structure, while remains in a working position on the injured limb of the patient.
US09265524B2	Devices and methods for tissue graft delivery One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a cannula for passing a tissue graft through soft tissue. The cannula can comprise an elongated body including oppositely disposed first and second ends and an axis that extends between the first and second ends. The elongated body can further include a passage extending between the first and second ends. The second end can include a curved portion that terminates at a sharpened, pointed tip configured to pierce and/or cut soft tissue at the surgical repair site. The tip can be axially offset from the axis of the elongated body at an angle that is less than 180°.
US09265513B2	Tongue cleaning device A tongue cleaning device includes a debris retention feature that helps the user remove debris from the tongue. In one embodiment, the feature is a suction system that removes the debris from the working area of the device. In another embodiment, the feature is a recess positioned adjacent the working edge such that the debris will collect in the recess. Another embodiment of the invention provides a tongue cleaning device having a working edge that is concave with respect to the tongue. Other embodiments of the invention provide flexible handle and head designs.
US09265512B2	Transcarotid neurovascular catheter An interventional catheter for treating an artery includes an elongated body sized and shaped to be transcervically introduced into a common carotid artery at an access location in the neck. The elongated body has an overall length such that the distal most section can be positioned in an intracranial artery and at least a portion of the proximal most section is positioned in the common carotid artery during use.
US09265510B2	Cone lock quick connect mechanism An apparatus includes a cut guide including a locking area, an alignment guide, and a connect mechanism to connect the cut guide to the alignment guide, wherein the connect mechanism includes a cone lock connect mechanism configured to engage with the cut guide locking area.
US09265508B2	Surgical technique and instrumentation for minimal incision hip arthroplasty surgery Improved instruments for modifying a shape of a proximal femur of a patient for installation of a stem of a femoral component of a prosthetic hip during hip replacement surgery, comprising a handle including an elongated shaft extending downward approximately in a z-direction, a first offset extending from a bottom of the elongated shaft approximately in a y-direction, a second offset extending from the second offset approximately in an x-direction, and a shaping member elongated downward from the second offset approximately in the z-direction. Provided is an improved femoral broach and an improved osteotome. Also provided is a method of improving a patient's positioning during hip replacement surgery by using a variable configuration mattress for positioning the patient.
US09265505B2	Endoluminal surgical delivery system A system (1) for delivering a staple (9) to the locus of an artery (2) comprises a delivery conduit (5) for inserting into the lumen of an artery through which conduit a staple can be delivered to the locus, and an elongate element (6) such as a catheter for a balloon (7) for translating axial advancement of the delivery conduit through the artery into movement of the distal end of the delivery conduit away from the longitudinal axis of the artery and towards the artery wall.
US09265504B2	Vaso-occlusive coil delivery system An occlusive coil delivery device includes an occlusive coil having a plurality of open pitched windings at a proximal end thereof, and a delivery wire assembly having a proximal tubular portion, a distal coil portion and a lumen, and a delivery wire adapter having a proximal end and a distal end. The delivery wire assembly having a delivery wire forming a first conductive path and extending through the lumen from a proximal end of the delivery wire assembly to a location distal of the distal coil portion, and a second conductive path formed by the proximal tubular portion and distal coil portion. The distal end of the adapter comprising a plurality of fingers configured to interface between adjacent open pitched windings of the proximal end of the occlusive coil, with the proximal end of the delivery wire adapter secured to a distal portion of the delivery wire.
US09265500B2	Surgical staple A surgical staple, comprising a backspan, a first leg member extending from the backspan, a second leg member extending from the backspan, and at least one substantially continuous channel extending along at least one of an inner surface and an outer surface of the first leg member and the second leg member.
US09265498B2	Compact line locks and methods A line lock includes a body at least partially bounding two passageways that cooperate to receive a locking portion of a line such as a suture in such a manner that the locking portion can only be drawn through the passageways along one direction. A second suture locking portion may also be received by the passageways, or by one of the two passageways in combination with a third passageway. The body may have an elongated, compact shape that is easily implantable in the body.
US09265497B2	Tissue access site system and method A tissue access site system is provided. In one embodiments, the system includes a tissue cutting element designed for generating a tissue access site through a tissue, the tissue access site being surrounded by tissue edge portions of a predetermined geometry; and a tissue closure device being for attaching at least one closure element to the tissue at a region corresponding to at least one of the tissue edge portions.
US09265494B2	Knotless instability anchor Methods and devices are provided for anchoring suture to bone. In one exemplary embodiment, a suture anchor is provided that includes one or more bone-engaging surfaces features and an external sidewall. The external sidewall can allow a suture coupled to the suture anchor and located between the anchor and bone to be movable relative to the suture anchor, even when the suture anchor is partially or fully disposed within a bone hole. Suture threaders and suture anchor drivers are also provided that can be used with the various methods and devices disclosed herein, or with other methods and devices known in the art.
US09265491B2	Minimally-invasive portal methods for performing lumbar decompression, instrumented fusion/stabilization, and the like Minimally-invasive portal systems and methods for performing lumbar decompression, instrumented fusion/stabilization, and the like. In some implementations, an access tube defining a depth may be disposed at least partially within the body of a patient. A cross-sectional area of the access tube may be adjusted in one or more dimensions. One or more retractor devices may be positioned at least substantially concentrically within the access tube and then secured to the access tube in a fixed position.
US09265490B2	Detachable dilator blade A tissue retraction system includes a dilator and a first retractor member and a retraction assembly. The dilator is configured to be inserted into a tissue body and also includes at least one engagement member. The first retractor member includes a body and at least one engagement member that is configured to attach to the at least one engagement member of the dilator so as to removably attach the retractor member to the dilator body. The retraction assembly includes a retractor body and at least a second retractor member that is movably supported by the retractor body. The retractor body is configured to be attached to the first retractor member. The tissue protection system may also include a neuromonitoring member configured to determine a characteristics of the tissue.
US09265485B2	Biopsy device with integral vacuum assist and tissue sample and fluid capturing canister A biopsy device includes a body, a probe cannula, a cutter, a vacuum source, a tissue sample holder, and a flexible tube. The probe cannula extends distally from the body and defines an internal passage with a side aperture. The cutter is translatable relative to the probe cannula to sever a tissue sample received in the probe cannula. The vacuum source is in communication with the cutter. The tissue sample holder includes a vacuum port on the exterior surface to communicate with the vacuum source and a removable portion to hold solid tissue samples. The removable portion is selectively removable from the tissue sample holder and includes a straining member to separate fluids from solids. The flexible tube couples the tissue sample holder with the body such that the tissue sample holder is flexibly spaced away from the body.
US09265484B2	M-mode ultrasound imaging of arbitrary paths Systems and methods of M-mode ultrasound imaging allows for M-mode imaging along user-defined paths. In various embodiments, the user-defined path can be a non-linear path or a curved path. In some embodiments, a system for M-mode ultrasound imaging can comprise a multi-aperture probe with at least a first transmitting aperture and a second receiving aperture. The receiving aperture can be separate from the transmitting aperture. In some embodiments, the transmitting aperture can be configured to transmit an unfocused, spherical, ultrasound ping signal into a region of interest. The user-defined path can define a structure of interest within the region of interest.
US09265482B2	Ultrasound transducer connector A reversible transducer connector allows the connector to be inserted within the receptacle in more than one orientation. The electrical connections between the receptacle and connector are reprogrammed based on the orientation. The connector is inserted in two or more stages, such as using zero-insertion or magnetic retention in a first stage to identify the connector and using an automated engagement to engage remaining channel connections in a second stage for use. Doors for protecting the connector and/or receptacle may be opened and/or closed magnetically.
US09265481B2	System and method for equalizing received intravascular ultrasound echo signals A system and method are disclosed for providing an equalized ultrasound echo signal for the rendering intravascular images. The system includes an ultrasound catheter including an ultrasound transducer probe. An intravascular ultrasound console receives an ultrasound echo signal corresponding to reflections of an ultrasound signal by backscatterers. An ultrasound echo signal time-gain compensation equalizer compensates the ultrasound echo signal according to sub-bands within a frequency response spectrum of the ultrasound echo signal. After applying selective amplifier gains on the sub-bands, the sub-band signals are combined to create an equalized ultrasound echo signal.
US09265480B2	Cerebrovascular analyzer The present invention relates to a cerebrovascular analysis system which enables early diagnosis of various incurable cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral thrombosis by measuring an elastic coefficient, blood vessel compliance, blood flow resistance, and blood flow in each cerebrovascular branch. The measurement is achieved by biomechanically analyzing blood vessels in the brain using an electrocardiogram, phonocardiogram, electroencephalogram, pulse wave, and ultrasonic doppler signal as basic data in order to measure biomechanical properties and blood flow properties of blood vessels in the brain for the diagnosis of cerebrovascular diseases.
US09265479B2	Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus and ultrasonic image processing apparatus According to one embodiment, a ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus comprises an ultrasonic scanning unit configured to scan a region including at least part of a liver of an object with an ultrasonic wave and acquire an echo signal associated with the liver, an image generating unit configured to generate an ultrasonic image of the liver based on an echo signal associated with the liver, and a calculation unit configured to calculate at least one of a first index indicating an irregularity degree of the liver and a second index indicating an irregularity feature of the liver by using the ultrasonic image of the liver.
US09265475B2	Methods and apparatus for scatter correction for CBCT system and cone-beam image reconstruction Embodiments of methods and/or apparatus for 3-D volume image reconstruction of a subject, executed at least in part on a computer for use with a digital radiographic apparatus, can obtain image data for 2-D projection images over a range of scan angles. For each of the plurality of projection images, an enhanced projection image can be generated. In one embodiment, a first scatter intensity distribution through the plurality of projection images can be modulated based on a first scaling function and a SPR to generate a second scatter intensity distribution through the plurality of projection images, which can be combined with the original plurality of projection images.
US09265472B2	Methods, systems, services and circuits for generating rapid preliminary reports with bone mineral density measurements and/or osteoporosis risk assessments Methods, systems, services (Internet), computer programs and circuits provide rapid bone mineral density (BMD) measurements and/or osteoporosis information using an automated image analysis circuit that evaluates a hand X-ray of a patient from an X-ray device to generate a reliable bone density evaluation within about 15 minutes, typically within about 5 minutes with receipt of a hand X-ray, and more typically substantially instantaneous and under 1 minute. The automated image analysis circuit can reside on a remote preliminary review server.
US09265471B2	Determination of a multi-energy image A method is disclosed for determining a multi-energy image via an x-ray device, including an x-ray source and an x-ray detector. The method includes a temporal sequence of individual steps. A first contrast agent-assisted image of an object area is first recorded with a first energy. Then a second contrast agent-assisted image of an object area is recorded with a second energy. A third recording of a third contrast agent-assisted image of the object area is now made with the first energy. By taking the temporal change in the contrast agent signal into account between the first and the third image, a multi-energy image is finally determined by means of the three recordings.
US09265466B2	X-ray radiographic apparatus, method of measuring head tilt in taking radiograph, stand for X-ray radiographic apparatus, chair for X-ray radiographic apparatus, and head tilt setting device Provided is an X-ray radiographic apparatus that can take a lateral cephalometric radiograph, a posteroanterior cephalometric radiograph, etc. under the same state of the tilt in the front-rear direction of the head of a subject easily and with high reproducibility, and is free of risks associated with the use of an infraorbital point pointing bar. The X-ray radiographic apparatus includes: a pair of arms provided facing each other with a reference line therebetween; ear rods provided to mutually facing inside surfaces of the pair of arms; a head tilt setting device for setting the tilt in the front-rear direction of the head of the subject provided on one arm, and a horizontal plane verification mechanism provided on the head tilt setting device or outside of the head tilt setting device.
US09265463B1	Methods for determining spine instability and for eliminating the impact of patient effort on stability determinations The present disclosure describes a method for determining spinal instability, more particularly, a method for quantifying the type and extent of spinal instability in a standardized way. The disclosure also describes a method comprising measurement of the intervertebral rotation and intervertebral translation between a vertebrae pair using simple images, and from these measurements, determining if one or more vertebrae pair of the spine is unstable. Finally, the disclosure describes software that may be used to quantify the type and extent of spinal instability.
US09265460B2	Optical fiber probe arrangement for use with X-ray mammography An exemplary apparatus can be provided to determine information regarding a sample(s), which can include, for example an arrangement(s) composed of, at least partially, a particular material in a predetermined area thereof, and including a light facilitating device that can be configured to provide or receive a light radiation(s) to or from the sample(s). The particular material can have a characteristic which can facilitate a sufficient amount of X-ray radiation to pass therethrough so as to generate an X-ray image(s). An X-ray absorption of the material can be at most about 10 times that of a ¼″ acrylic plate. The light facilitating device can include a light transmitting configuration which can provide the light radiation(s) to the sample.
US09265459B2	Methods and systems for detection and thermal treatment of lower urinary tract conditions The invention relates generally to systems and methods for detecting and/or treating lower urinary tract conditions. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a medical device. The medical device includes an elongate member having a proximal end and a distal end and an end effector assembly that extends distally from the distal end of the elongate member. The end effector assembly includes a plurality of end effector units. Each end effector unit has a sensing element for detecting a location of abnormal organ function and a treatment element for treating the location of abnormal organ function.
US09265458B2	Application of smooth pursuit cognitive testing paradigms to clinical drug development The invention describes the process of applying smooth pursuit eye movement tests toward the detection of the efficacy and, or, toxicity of neuro-pharmaceutical compounds throughout the clinical drug development process. Several different paradigms in smooth pursuit tracking tests and several analysis methods and metrics may be used. Application of smooth pursuit tracking tests allows for a quantifiable measurement of a subject's cognitive behavior and function. This process provides a cost effective and objective test of efficacy of neuro-pharmaceutical drugs and increase the validity of the clinical drug development process.
US09265456B2	Device and method for determining vital signs of a subject A device for determining a vital sign of a subject comprises an interface for receiving a data stream derived from detected electromagnetic radiation reflected from a region of interest including a skin area of the subject, said data stream comprising a data signal per skin pixel area of one or more skin pixels for a plurality of skin pixel areas of said region of interest, a data signal representing the detected electromagnetic radiation reflected from the respective skin pixel area over time. An analyzer is provided for analyzing spatial and/or optical properties of one or more data signals in one or more wavelength ranges. A processor is provided for determining a vital sign information signal of the subject based on the data signals of skin pixel areas within the skin area, and a post-processor is provided for determining the desired vital sign from said vital sign information signal. The determined spatial and/or optical properties are used by the processor for determining the vital sign information signal and/or by the post-processor for determining the desired vital sign.
US09265454B2	Puncture needle and puncture device A puncture needle is constituted of a resin material. The puncture needle comprises: an elongated main body having a sharp needlepoint at a distal end thereof; and at least three cutting parts provided so as to project from the elongated main body to a direction perpendicular to a central axis of the elongated main body, extending along the central axis, and arranged around the central axis. Adjacent cutting parts in the three cutting parts are arranged so as to shift to each other in a direction of the central axis, so that the adjacent cutting parts make an incision on a biological surface in a time difference. Further, a height of a distal portion of each cutting part from the central axis is gradually decreased toward a distal direction.
US09265452B2	Phase-to-amplitude/slope mapping A method includes obtaining a signal that includes a plurality of cycles and generating a map that maps motion phases to the signal based on both an amplitude and a slope of the signal. A system includes a processor that identifies a set of motion signal timestamps, for a plurality of motion cycles in a motion signal indicative of cyclic motion of a moving object, based on a predetermined motion phase of interest and a phase-to-amplitude/slope mapping, wherein the set of motion signal timestamps correspond to a common signal amplitude. A method include identifying a peak of a plurality of peaks in a motion cycle of a noisy cyclic signal having irregular periodicity, wherein the peak corresponds to a point lying between two points with amplitudes below a predetermined threshold, comparing points before and after the peak with the peak, and identifying the peak as a local maximum when the peak is greater than the points.
US09265450B1	Proximity-based system for object tracking and automatic application initialization A system and method provides for one or more of tracking of an object and providing automatic access to applications or data. Depending upon the embodiment, the system includes a personal digital key (PDK), a reader, a computing device and one or more of an auto login server and a tracking server. The PDK stores one or more profiles in memory. A reader is configured to wirelessly communicate with the PDK. The computing device is coupled to the reader and one or more of the auto login server and tracking server. The auto login server is configured to communicate with the reader and launches one or more applications associated with a user name identified by a profile received from the PDK. The tracking server is configured to communicate with the reader and to track and log information received from the PDK associated with the object.
US09265448B2	System and method for detecting the walk of a person A system for detecting the walk of a person has a housing (BT) with at least a biaxial movement sensor (CM). The housing is attached to the upper portion of the body of the person, so that a first measurement axis of the sensor (CM) coincides with the anteroposterior axis (AP) or the vertical axis (VT) of the body and so a second measurement axis of said sensor (CM) coincides with the mediolateral axis (ML) of the body. An analysis means (MA) analyzes the measurements delivered by the sensor (CM). The analysis means includes a processing means (MT) for processing over a time window the measurement signals delivered by the sensor (CM), which includes means for searching for a dominant frequency (MRFD) in said signals. The analysis means also includes a detection means (MD) for detecting the walk of the person when a ratio between the dominant frequency of the signal of the first measurement axis and the dominant frequency of the second measurement axis, or between the dominant frequency of a Euclidian norm of the vector of measurements transmitted by the sensor (CM) and the dominant frequency of the signal of the second measurement axis, is substantially equal to two.
US09265443B2	Method of locating the tip of a central venous catheter Methods of locating a tip of a central venous catheter (“CVC”) relative to the superior vena cava, sino-atrial node, right atrium, and/or right ventricle using electrocardiogram data. The CVC includes at least one electrode. In particular embodiments, the CVC includes two or three pairs of electrodes. Further, depending upon the embodiment implemented, one or more electrodes may be attached to the patient's skin. The voltage across the electrodes is used to generate a P wave. A reference deflection value is determined for the P wave detected when the tip is within the proximal superior vena cava. Then, the tip is advanced and a new deflection value determined. A ratio of the new and reference deflection values is used to determine a tip location. The ratio may be used to instruct a user to advance or withdraw the tip.
US09265442B2	Method of calibrating combined field location and MRI tracking A method of calibrating field location tracking to magnetic resonance tracking is provided. The method of calibration field location tracking includes moving a medical device throughout a plurality of points within a patient volume; tracking the medical device with a field location tracking system and a magnetic resonance tracking system; calculating a plurality of magnetic resonance tracking locations; determining a plurality of field location parameters that correspond to the plurality of magnetic resonance tracking locations; and creating a transfer function that maps the field location parameters to the magnetic resonance tracking locations, wherein the transfer function registers a field location coordinate system to a magnetic resonance coordinate system.
US09265437B2	TWA measuring electrocardiograph, TWA measuring method, and TWA measurement system A TWA measuring electrocardiograph includes: a transformation coefficient storing section configured to store a transformation coefficient for deriving a Frank's vector electrocardiogram; an electrocardiograph controlling section configured to produce a scalar electrocardiogram from electrocardiographic signals of measurement electrodes adapted to be attached to a subject, and configured to derive the Frank's vector electrocardiogram from the scalar electrocardiogram by using the transformation coefficient; and a TWA measuring section configured to measure a presence of TWA based on the derived Frank's vector electrocardiogram.
US09265434B2	Dynamic feature rich anatomical reconstruction from a point cloud 3-dimensional cardiac reconstruction is carried out by catheterizing a heart using a probe with a mapping electrode, and acquiring electrical data from respective locations in regions of interest in the heart, representing the locations of the electrical data as a point cloud, reconstructing a model of the heart from the point cloud, applying a set of filters to the model to produce a filtered volume, segmenting the filtered volume to define components of the heart, and reporting the segmented filtered volume.
US09265429B2	Physiological parameter measuring platform device supporting multiple workflows A device obtains a series of measurements of a physiological parameter of a monitored patient when the device is operating within a monitoring workflow. The device displays a monitoring workflow home screen when the device is operating within the monitoring workflow. The monitoring workflow home screen contains a representation of the physiological parameter of the monitored patient. In addition, the device obtains a measurement of the physiological parameter of each patient in a series of patients when the device is operating within a non-monitoring workflow. The device displays a non-monitoring workflow home screen when the device is operating within the non-monitoring workflow. The non-monitoring workflow home screen contains a representation of the physiological parameter of a given patient in the series of patients. The monitoring workflow home screen is different than the non-monitoring workflow home screen.
US09265428B2	Implantable wireless sensor A wireless sensor for indicating a physical state within an environment includes a housing defining a hermetically sealed cavity. A structure located within the cavity of the housing has elements providing capacitance, the elements being arranged such that the distance and thereby the capacitance of the structure changes when a physical state of the environment changes. The structure has a resonant frequency based at least in part on the capacitance of the structure when in the presence of a fluctuating electromagnetic field. When the sensor is positioned within an environment and is subjected to a fluctuating electromagnetic field, the resonant frequency indicates the physical state of the environment.
US09265426B2	Sanitary cover sleeve for medical device with electrical contact A disposable cover sleeve serves is used to cover an electronic or optical medical device used for patient examination and/or treatment. The cover sleeve provides an environmental barrier for the medical device during patient examination to prevent environmental cross-contamination of different patients examined with the same medical device. The cover sleeve has an integrated device activation means such as a flexible contact bridge. The device activation means has an open and closed position. The open position is not in physical, electronic or magnetic contact with the control electronics of the medical device; whereas, the closed position closes a field or circuit between a first and second contact to selectively actuate or provide input to the control electronics that communicate with the radiation source.
US09265422B2	System and method for determining an adjustment to a gastric band based on satiety state data and weight loss data A system and method for determining an adjustment to a gastric band, and more specifically to determining an adjustment to a gastric band based on satiety state data and weight loss data. The gastric band information system can determine an adjustment of the gastric band using a gastric band adjustment algorithm. The gastric band information system can wirelessly transmit the adjustment to the gastric band. The gastric band information system can receive gastric band data, weight data, glucose data, and/or blood pressure data and display a gastric band chart, a weight chart, and/or a blood pressure chart. The gastric band information system can also receive gastric band implantation data, patient data, and/or any other medical data. The various data can be received from a computer or medical devices in a wired or wireless manner.
US09265421B2	Medical monitoring system A medical monitoring system includes: a plurality of biological information displaying devices connected to a network; and a portable terminal which can wirelessly communicate with the biological information displaying devices. The plurality of biological information displaying devices includes a first device and a second device. When a value of biological information is larger or smaller than a preset threshold, the first device transmits alarm information. In case where the first device transmits the alarm information, a receiving unit of the portable terminal receives the alarm information, and a transmitting unit of the portable terminal wirelessly transmits the received alarm information to the second device, and the second device receives the biological information through the network and the biological information is displayed on the second device.
US09265420B2	Method of auditory training and a hearing aid system A method of auditory training for hearing impaired persons, wherein a trainee is prompted to arrange a set of melodies based on a musical feature shared by some of the melodies, a hearing aid system (100), and a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions adapted to carry out a method of auditory training.
US09265418B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program Although a lamina cribrosa is deformed in glaucoma, in a method in a related art, a thickness of retinal layer or choroid is measured and a deformation of the lamina cribrosa is not detected. When glaucoma is diagnosed, it is desirable to analyze a shape of the lamina cribrosa and present its analysis result at a high visibility. An image processing apparatus is provided that comprises: an image obtaining unit that obtains a tomographic image of a subject's eye; an extracting unit that extracts a lamina cribrosa from the tomographic image; and a display control unit that controls a display means to display a display form showing a shape of the extracted lamina cribrosa.
US09265413B2	i-DDrOP: Interfacial dewetting and drainage optical platform An interfacial dewetting and drainage optical platform (i-DDrOP) is provided which is an instrument that can quantify drainage and dewetting processes of in vitro model tear films covering contact lenses.
US09265412B2	Means and method for demonstrating the effects of low cylinder astigmatism correction A new vision test, incorporating textual and non-textual elements in an image, is configured to demonstrate the effects of low cylinder astigmatism and other sources of blur on visual quality. The elements are designed to be noticeable, relevant, important and engaging. The new vision test may be utilized to supplement conventional vision testing.
US09265411B2	Anterior segment three-dimensional image processing apparatus, and anterior segment three-dimensional image processing method A processing apparatus is provided that receives and processes an anterior segment three-dimensional image of a subject's eye. The apparatus includes a first SS position specifying unit that accepts identification of at least three SS positions of the subject's eye, using at least two representative images from among two-dimensional tomographic images constituting the three-dimensional image, a true circle calculating unit that calculates a reference true circle passing through the at least three SS positions, and a second SS position specifying unit that identifies the SS positions in non-representative images other than the representative images, based on the reference true circle.
US09265410B2	Self-illuminated handheld lens for retinal examination and photography and related method thereof System and method directed towards providing full and even illumination of a patient's retina through lighting integrated into a handheld fundus lens. By integrating the lighting, the method and system reduces and even eliminate many lens artifacts and reflections. By increasing the accuracy, quality, and field of view afforded during clinical examination of the retina, the method and system will allow practitioners to make more accurate diagnoses and will increase safety during retinal surgical procedures.
US09265409B2	Capsule medical device and capsule medical system Radiation is captured without fail, and a sharp image of a region where radiation is generated is acquired. A capsule medical device (3) includes an excitation light source (7) that generates excitation light for irradiating an inner wall (4) of a body cavity, a CCD (9), having variable sensitivity, that captures fluorescence generated at the inner wall (4) of the body cavity by the excitation light emitted from the excitation light source (7) to acquire a two-dimensional fluorescence image, and a control unit (35) that performs control so as to reduce the sensitivity of the CCD (9) when the fluorescence intensity in at least part of the fluorescence image acquired by the CCD (9) exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US09265405B2	Endoscope system An insertion portion, a function portion, an operation portion, a universal cord, a connection connector, a drive member that generates a drive force for causing the function portion to act, a connection portion that is provided at the connection connector and has the drive member connected thereto, and a drive force transmitting member that is inserted through the universal cord, and transmits the drive force generated by the drive member connected to the connection portion to the function portion are included.
US09265402B2	Dishwasher rack assembly with support for large and small bowls A dishwasher appliance having a rack assembly that can provide support for both large and small bowls is provided. The rack assembly includes tines, referred to herein as vertical members, that can hold both large and small bowls in a vertical orientation. The rack assembly may be used in a dishwasher to provide the upper rack, lower rack, or both.
US09265398B2	Dishwasher with separate sump for concentrated fluid supply A dishwasher includes a main sump that holds the main wash fluid supply, and a separate sump formed in the bottom wall of the tub away from the main sump. The separate sump holds a concentrated wash fluid supply. The separate sump supplies wash fluid for washing periods in which a highly concentrated chemistry mixture is desired.
US09265389B2	Method and apparatus for controlling odors Methods and apparatus for controlling odors in an enclosed space, such as a pit latrine, include providing an oxidizer, such as a catalytic heater and an optional mechanical ventilation unit, such as an inline fan, both flow connected to a vault (pit) of the latrine. The heater is also connected to a source of fuel, for example, propane. Fresh air is drawn through vents in the latrine housing and thereafter through toilets in the latrine and through the vault, providing oxygen for the reaction. The fan and/or oxidation process draws both fresh air and accompanying odorous compounds directly from the latrine and into the oxidizer wherein the odorous components are substantially destroyed.
US09265386B2	Device for dispensing pre-cut wiping materials This machine includes a flap and a cover having a plurality of opposite-facing pairs of matching shapes comprising grooves and ribs capable of interlocking with each other after the cover has been closed. A strip of material is unwound between the flap and the internal wall of the cover without lateral deformation and projects from the matching shapes. The shapes are directly designed or have an additional element for reducing the space between certain portions of ribs and grooves in order to allow and encourage the separation of a piece of strip of material when it is pulled by the user.
US09265385B2	Adaptation device for production of foam The present invention relates to an adaptation device arranged to transform a pump not specific to the production of foam into a foam pump. The device comprises a supply conduit extending from the inlet of the pump as far as an elbow below the level of foaming liquid and rising above the level of the liquid to terminate in air added to the structure of a pump for fluids. The supply conduit comprises a suction hole enabling suction of liquid when air circulates before the hole. A filtering grate is added to a discharge conduit and connected to the pumping outlet. The foaming liquid comprises, in part, water to produce foam without additional water.
US09265381B2	Food processing device with an externally operated adjustment mechanism A food processor includes a base and a bowl with a removable lid. Food items are advanced into the bowl through a feed tube formed in the lid where they are cut by a cutting assembly driven by a motor. The cutting assembly is adjustable to vary the thickness of the cut food items. An adjustment assembly positioned in the base is operable to adjust the cutting thickness of the cutting assembly while the cutting assembly is driven by the motor.
US09265375B2	Brewer system including pervasive RFID sensing for servers An apparatus, system, and method for use with beverages and beverage making and dispensing equipment. The apparatus, system, and method of use monitors characteristics of the beverage, reports characteristics, or both and selectively affects the beverage and beverage making and dispensing equipment, a server containing the beverage, or both. The apparatus, system, and method of use employs an information vehicle device associated with each beverage server or dispenser and a reader which reads the information device. The reader communicates the information from the information device to a controller for use to individually or collectively display information, collect information, and/or selectively affect the condition of the beverage in response to the information.
US09265372B2	Multipurpose eating utensil A multipurpose eating utensil has a pair of side parts of thin but flexible sheet material having confronting adjacent edges interconnected by a unitary membrane hinge for movement of the side parts to move between a flattened position extending generally coplanar with each other and a folded use position extending at an acute angle or even parallel to each other from the hinge. A front utensil part is formed unitarily with the side parts and has an inner edge joined unitarily to ends of both of the side parts, an outer edge formed with a plurality of longitudinally projecting fork tines, and a longitudinally extending side edge formed as a cutting tool. A rear utensil part is formed unitarily with the side parts. A fastener on at least one of the side parts secures the side parts together in the folded use position.
US09265364B2	Single drawer dispenser rack A bag dispenser includes a platform having first support surface, a first side, a second side, a first end and a second end. A mounting spike or barrier pole fixture may be attached orthogonally adjacent the platform. A wall mounting plate has a series of apertures to attach the plate to a vertical surface with fasteners. The plate is attached orthogonally to the second end of the bag platform. At least one side support extends outwardly from the first and second sides of the bag platform and upwardly from the platform. The side support defines a space for at least one stack of bags. A dispenser cover is affixed over the dispenser and may have a service aperture. The dispenser accommodates conventional, t-shirt and header-style bags in various configurations. The bags are assembled in bag stacks. The stacks may be configured in packs with removable covers or loaded in boxes.
US09265360B2	Integrated shelf standard The present application provides a refrigerated display case. The refrigerated display case may include an aft wall, a number of shelf standards positioned about the aft wall, and a number of shelves positioned on the shelf standards. The shelf standards may include an integrated center shelf standard.
US09265357B2	Nursing and infant support pillow A nursing and infant support pillow having a cushion fastened to a pillow top. The cushion has a midsection, a first end section and a second end section, and the pillow top having a midsection, a first foldable end and a second foldable end. The first and second foldable end pivot about a first and second hinge, respectfully, such that in a folded position, the foldable end is disposed between the cushion and the pillow top to form at least one three layer portion.
US09265356B2	Apparatus for caring for infants An apparatus for caring for infants, having, an infant body support structure, an air nozzles mounted on infant body support structure, and located at the end or sides of infant body support structure, above the space designated to the head of the infant, to provide an air flow of disinfected air parallel to a part of the bottom designated to support the back and the head of the infant, to protect the infant from airborne infections.
US09265353B1	Bed rail having rotating seat for guard frame A bed rail having a guard frame that prevents a child from rolling off a bed and a pair of legs that extend between the mattress and box spring. The guard frame swings between up and down positions and is pivotally connected to the legs via a first junction. A second junction locks the guard frame to the legs. The second junction includes a rotatable seat that engages a pin extending from the guard frame. The bed rail further includes a strap that engages a proximal end of a leg, a distal end of the leg, and an anchor, which engages the side of the bed opposite of the bed rail.
US09265349B1	Multi-directional and side glider chair A multi-directional glider chair allowing for rotation of a seat in relation to a path of gliding action. In some embodiments, the multi-directional glider comprises a glider base including a glider mechanism supporting a gliding top, the glider mechanism providing for generally linear motion of the gliding top along at least a segment of a first axis, and a seat including at least a bottom element, the bottom element being rotatably coupled to the gliding top of the glider base by a rotatable coupler providing for rotation of the seat about a second axis, wherein an orientation of the seat in relation to the first axis may be selectively modified by rotation of the seat about the second axis. Thus, the multi-directional glider as described in this embodiment enables a user to modify an orientation of the seat in relation to a back-and-forth glide path allowed by the glider mechanism.
US09265348B2	Adjusting mechanism for setting a restoring force which acts on a backrest of a chair, and office chair having an adjusting mechanism of this type The adjusting mechanism serves for the weight-dependent setting of a restoring force which acts on a backrest (4) of an office chair which is configured with a synchronous mechanism. The synchronous mechanism comprises a support (12), a seat support (10) and a backrest support (8) which are connected to one another via joint pins (A1-A4), the restoring force being exerted via a spring element (18). In order to achieve as flat a design as possible, the restoring force is transmitted with the aid of a pivotable lever (16) via a front bearing pin (L1) to a first front joint pin (A1), an active lever length (h) which can be varied with the aid of an adjusting element (20) being defined by the spacing between the bearing pin (L1) and the second front joint pin (A2). A weight setting is made possible by the variation of the active lever length (h).
US09265336B2	Rotatable roll brush A rotatable roll brush that despite combing tangled hair, the hair does not get removed due to the rotation of the brush body part, and when a combing action is required without the rotation of the body part, the brush can be converted and used as a regular brush.
US09265334B1	Bottle brush A bottle brush cleaning device includes a container cleaning element, a nipple cleaning element, and one or more additional cleaning elements. Each cleaning element extends from an ergonomically shaped base that is easy to grasp with one hand and manipulate use of each of the cleaning elements. In one embodiment, the ergonomically shaped base is configured to be placed upright on a supporting surface such that each of the cleaning elements is at least semi-vertically positioned away from the supporting surface in order to air dry without contamination from contact with other objects or surfaces. In a preferred embodiment, two additional cleaning elements extend from the base, wherein the additional cleaning elements each include brushes having dissimilarly sized diameters in order to allow for cleaning of varyingly sized articles, such as a straw or other tubular-shaped article.
US09265333B2	Anti-loose interdental brush An anti-loose interdental brush includes a plurality of fixing portions formed on a bristle stem of an interdental brush. Each fixing portion includes a bottom wall, a side wall formed laterally from the bottom wall, and a capacity area surrounded by the bottom wall and the side wall. The adjacent bottom walls of the adjacent fixing portions are orientated in different directions. Thus, the adjacent capacity areas are set in different directions to contact the handle. An outer diameter of the bottom wall can be preferably larger than or equal to an outer diameter of the bristle stem. Accordingly, a dual engaging and fixing effect between the bristle stem and the handle is attained to prevent the bristle stem from loosening and rotating due to an external force and to enhance safety in using.
US09265331B1	Wearable carrying case A case for enclosing an electric device, such as a personal voltage detector is provided. Embodiments of the case can increase safety and convenience to wearers operating near high-voltage electric lines, and combine (i) the ability to wear the case in either an open or closed position around a user's neck, (ii) the ability to adjust the position of the case, when either open or closed, to an appropriate mid-chest or mid-torso position, (iii) the ability to use the device when the case is open and worn around a user's neck and the device is inside the case, and (iv) an electrically shielded enclosure. When closed, the case can disable the electric device, allowing the device to be always on.
US09265329B1	Hammock A hammock without spreader bars comprises a plurality of fabric panels. The fabric panels consist of cutout sections of a micromesh fabric of substantially biconvex form, which are attached to one another at their edges to form a bed. The biconvex fabric panels are joined, preferably sewn, to one another in a pretensioning position along the line at which the individual sections of fabric are joined, whereby in its suspended state the bed of the hammock is substantially open, i.e. laterally extended.
US09265328B2	Applicator device An applicator device for applying a mass in the form of a stick (1) extending longitudinally along a longitudinal axis (M), comprising a rotatable part (10) through which the stick (1) is guided and which has an exit opening (12) for the stick (1), a hollow shaft (41) coupled to the rotatable part (10) via an axially fixed rotatable connection for axially advancing the stick (1), a body (20) fixedly connected to the hollow shaft (41), and a cap (30) for the rotatable part (10), which is detachably connected to the hollow shaft (41), the axially fixed rotatable connection being formed by a coupling portion of the rotatable part (K.2) and a complementary counterpart coupling portion (K.1) of the hollow shaft (41) in a coupling portion (K) in which the hollow shaft (41) and the rotatable part (10) engage with each other.
US09265324B2	Comb A comb having an elongate spine, a plurality of tines extending from the spine, and a guide for use in association with a scissors or a clippers. The guide has a shelf that is tapered in three dimensions from a first end towards a second end and has a widest point closer to the second end than the first end. The guide extends along a portion of the length of the spine and extends from the surface which is generally transverse to the longitudinal axis of the spine such that the scissors or clippers may be supported on the shelf as the scissors or clippers are moved in a horizontal direction.
US09265318B1	Insulated bag Insulated bags having at least three unitary layers of durable material are provided. In one embodiment, a first set of unitary layers of durable material forms a front wall, a bottom wall, and a rear wall. Two additional sets of unitary layers of durable material form side-walls. Edges of the two additional sets are joined to side and bottom edges of the first set by adding webbing and stitching together the joined edges and webbing. Disposed within the two inner most layers of the first set and the two additional sets is at least one layer of insulation. The first set and the second set are sealed at their top edge to secure the insulation. Horizontal webbing is attached to the bag via stitching through the horizontal webbing, each of the layers of the first set and the second set, and the at least one layer of insulation. Vertical straps are integrated into the bag between the horizontal webbing and the outer most layer of durable material of the first set. On the top of the bag is a mini-flap. Hook/loop fasteners are strategically positioned on the bag to secure access points on the bag. Optional features can be incorporated into the bag (e.g., side handles, a top handle, a durable bottom, a grommet, and a liner). Other embodiments of insulated bags are described herein (e.g., a bag that has the outer layer of the first set and the second set sandwiched between two layers of horizontal webbing).
US09265315B1	Insert and method for preserving a portable receptacle An insert can be used to preserve a portable, flexible receptacle such as a handbag. The insert has a filler contained in a flexible enclosure. The filler has a volume and a shape-altering capability that can non-destructively accommodate and support the receptacle internally, without misshaping it. The desiccating pack is held by the enclosure and is positioned inside the receptacle to reduce moisture and the risk of damage to the receptacle.
US09265314B2	Full automatic opening and closing straight bone umbrella A full automatic opening and closing straight bone umbrella includes a middle bar set and an opening and closing umbrella drive mechanism in the middle bar set, an umbrella frame, an umbrella cloth, an upper nest, a middle nest, an umbrella handle, and a power source in the umbrella handle. The opening and closing umbrella drive mechanism includes a lead screw connected to the power source and an ejector sleeve driven by the lead screw. The middle bar set includes a middle pipe and an outer pipe. The ejector sleeve passes through the middle pipe and is connected to the outer pipe. When the power source is operated to drive the lead screw to turn clockwise or counterclockwise, the ejector sleeve brings the outer pipe to move up or down relative to the middle pipe to provide a full automatic opening and closing function to the umbrella.
US09265313B1	Member structure for umbrella framework An upper nest and a lower nest of an umbrella framework each comprise a nest body and a plurality of pins around the nest body. Each pin is integrally connected with the nest body via a connecting section. Each middle disk comprises a pin, which is disposed on an outer wall of a sleeve and integrally connected with the sleeve. Each long bone has an upper end thereof coupled with a pin of the upper nest, and the sleeve of each middle disk is fitted over a middle part of the long bone. Each short bone has an upper end thereof coupled with the pin of the middle disk, and a lower end thereof coupled with a pin of the lower nest. Thereby, an improved member structure for an umbrella framework is formed.
US09265311B2	Cushion cut gemstone with excellent optical brilliance A gemstone including a substantially rectangular girdle with rounded corners, a crown extending in a first direction from the girdle, and a pavilion extending in a second direction from the girdle opposite the first direction. The gemstone has 69 uniquely arranged and angled facets, 41 of which are in the crown, and 28 of which are in the pavilion. The height of the crown is preferably between 12 to 19½% of the width of the stone, the total depth of the stone is preferably between 58-68% of the width of the stone, and the width of the table is preferably between 55-65% of the width of the stone.
US09265307B2	Strap guide insert A strap guide used in connection with a container having at least one opening for receiving a strap. The strap guide can include a boss defining a strap slot. The boss can have a periphery and two sides. A lip on the one of the two sides can extend outward relative to the boss, and a flange on the other of the two sides can also extend outward relative to the boss. At least a strap protector and a container for use with strap guide inserts can also be provided.
US09265306B2	Detachable cover for a button The invention relates to a device for securing a detachable cover for trimming or decorating at least one part of a button, which has a front side, a back side and, on its periphery, an edge side, said button being arranged on a base, e.g. a shirt. The cover has a front side and a back side and at least one wall side enclosing the edge side of the button, wholly or partially, said wall side has diameters of different lengths between its opposing inner sides or on the front side/back side of the cover, the longer diameter of which, at least two opposing points, is longer than the diameter of the button, wherein, when a pressure is applied radially from the outside towards the periphery of the cover at the points, the enclosing wall side and/or the cover is deformed at the same time as at least a second point located on a shorter diameter, and the enclosing wall side can be folded outwards in a direction from the center of the cover to create space for enclosing the edge side, whereupon, when the pressure is released, at least part of the inner side springs back against the edge side to secure the cover.
US09265300B2	Base for a ski boot and ski boot incorporating such a base A base (1) is provided for a ski boot (2) and comprises a sole (4) and an outsole element (8, 9) that is positioned in a predetermined position relative to a longitudinal axis (L). The outsole element (8, 9) is positioned on the sole (4) by using two projections (25, 26) that are carried by one or other of the sole (4) and the outsole element (8, 9) and that locate in holes or cavities (22, 23) defined by the other. Preferably, the projections (25, 26) are carried by the outsole element (8, 9) and locate in holes or cavities (22, 23) defined by the sole (4). The projections (25, 26) may be integrally formed with the outsole element (8, 9) or the sole (4). Alternatively, they may be formed by injected pins, rivets, fasteners, t-nuts, or screws.
US09265299B2	Internally illuminated footwear component The sole section of a shoe includes a midsole and an outsole which form a translucent sole section. The translucent midsole and translucent outsole are integrally molded with a translucent upper to create a fully translucent jelly footwear. An illumination system is located inside the translucent sole section, causing the jelly footwear to be internally illuminated when the illumination system is active. Due to the translucent nature of the midsole light from the illumination system reflects internally throughout the midsole, increasing illumination. The light will also illuminate the adjacent translucent outsole and translucent upper. Light from the illumination system can be blocked, such as by a colored mold injection, creating an illuminated design or logo. By blacking out or covering sections of the translucent outsole, shapes and letters of visible light can be created in the resulting negative space. This allows illuminated designs to easily be incorporated into footwear.
US09265296B2	Balancing system for the head of a passenger of a vehicle, in particular a helicopter A balancing system for the head of a passenger of a vehicle, in particular a helicopter, comprising a helmet (4) fixed on the head of the passenger and suspension means (100) for the helmet (4) adapted to be connected to a stationary part of the vehicle and to the helmet (4) so as to balance an imbalance of weights on the musculoskeletal system of the neck of the passenger wearing said helmet (4). The system allows maximum freedom without hindering any type of movement to the head of the passenger.
US09265294B2	Methods and apparatus for affixing hardware to garments Methods and apparatus are provided for affixing hardware components to garments. Hardware components are provided with an operative component and an adhesive surface. The operative component interacts with one or more other operative components and/or with one or more other features of the garment (e.g. with cords, straps or the like connected to the garment and/or with the fabric of the garment) and/or with one or more external devices. The adhesive surface is bonded to a corresponding surface of a fabric layer of the garment using an adhesive located between the adhesive surface and the corresponding surface of the fabric layer.
US09265289B1	Long sleeve to short sleeve on piece childs garment A one-piece children's garment that fastens in the pelvic region configured such that the long sleeves detach from the short sleeves. The invention relates to an improvement to the one-piece children's garment whereby the long sleeves are removably attached to the short sleeves with one or more fasteners. The fastener can be colored according to the color of the garment. The short sleeves contain extra material to achieve a unique fold over, allowing the user the comfort and convenience of a short sleeved garment at will. Once the long sleeves are removed from the short sleeves, a folding process is completed by the user which discretely covers exposed snap fasteners to avoid further chaffing on an infant's skin.
US09265286B2	Filtration agents and methods of use thereof Provided herein are compositions for removal of contaminants from an air stream. The composition contains a filtration agent having one or more components that can adsorb tar or other contaminants from smoke. Also provided is a method for removing a contaminant from an air stream. Also provided are a system and a kit employing the filtration agent.
US09265284B2	Process for producing flavorants and related materials A process for producing flavorants made or derived from tobacco or, more generally, made or derived from any biomass derived from any one or more species of genus Nicotiana, or that otherwise incorporate tobacco, is provided. Provided are flavorants obtained or derived from plants or portions of plants from the Nicotiana species, such as from one or more flowers from one or more Nicotiana species, and products comprising one or more such flavorants.
US09265279B2	Motorized conveyor for moving a flow of harvest from a fruit harvesting machine A motorized conveyor has a plurality of rollers spaced longitudinally, the rollers being driven in rotation to move the flow of harvest on the rollers in a longitudinal direction between upstream and downstream transverse axes, each roller having a surface of revolution comprising grooves that extend transversely and continuously over its entire length, so as to enable transverse routing of the flow of harvest while it is being conveyed.
US09265278B2	Methods for decarbonating fermented liquids A method of decarbonating fermented liquids in-line may include directing a carbonated malt-based liquid through a nozzle, and directing the carbonated malt-based liquid from the nozzle into a space maintained at a partial vacuum pressure. The method may further include maintaining the carbonated malt-based beverage in the space until substantially all of the carbon dioxide dissolved within the carbonated malt-based beverage has been removed to provide a non-carbonated liquid, and removing the non-carbonated liquid from the space at substantially the same rate that the carbonated malt-based liquid is directed into the space.
US09265277B2	Multicarotenoid beadlets and related method A controlled release beadlet that sequentially releases carotenoids over time within the gastrointestinal tract of a subject, as well as a method of administering the carotenoids. The beadlet provides a specific ratio of carotenoids which release from the beadlet at preselected times during passage through the gastrointestinal tract. The method includes releasing the carotenoids in preselected ratios at specific time intervals in the gastrointestinal tract to mitigate competition between the carotenoids for their uptake, and/or to potentially maximize the uptake of individual carotenoids within a mixed carotenoid formulation.
US09265271B2	Method for decorating a cake with a cake coating A method for decorating a cake: providing a solid edible figure contour having an open top face and an open bottom face, and at least one void; providing a solid edible frame; placing the contour and the frame on a pan; filling the at least one void of the solid edible figure contour and a void between the solid frame and the solid edible figure contour with a decorative layer of edible pourable substance comprising multiple colors of candies, and the like; pouring a solidifying binding edible substance onto the solid contour, frame and the decorative layer; turning the hardened solid coating upside down, such that the lid is under the hardened solid coating; and placing the hardened solid coating having the colorful figure on a cake by sliding the figure off of the lid and removing the pan, thereby providing a cake coating having an edible colorful figure.
US09265264B2	Clipping machine with improved handling of suspension elements A clipping machine for producing sausage-shaped products (S), like sausages, by filing a flowable filling material into a tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing (M) and closing said packaging casing (M) by a closure means, like a closure clip (C). The clipping machine (1) comprises a feeding device (50) for suspension elements configured to feed suspension elements (E) attached to a carrier strip (B) to a delivery position and to place a first section of a suspension element (E) within the closure means (C) positioned on the die (25) of the second closing tool (24). The feeding device (50) further comprises a guiding device (51) configured to hold down the suspension element (E) close to the carrier strip (B) while the suspension element (E) is pulled off and detached from the carrier strip (B) by a relative movement between the second clipping tool (24) and the feeding device (50). A holding device (60) attached to the second clipping tool (24) is configured to releasably receive and hold a second section of the suspension element (E) when detached from the carrier strip (B).
US09265262B1	Hand held deer de-hide tool A tool having a first and second handle, pivotally coupled between a tool open position and a tool closed position, each handle having a working end and a gripping end. A jaw is positioned on each working end, and each handle has a cutout positioned between the working end and the jaw, where the cutouts are aligned to create an opening in the tool when closed. The tool has a first cutting blade having a first cutting surface, where the first cutting blade is removably attached to one of the handles. One of said handles also has a rearward fixed projecting finger, positioned intermediary the jaws and the pivot point of the tool handle.
US09265261B2	Oven transfer apparatus with laterally displaceable conveyor belt A method and an apparatus are provided for transporting shaped bodies such as, for example, substantially non-rigid, biscuit dough shaped bodies, from a receiving region into a transfer region, and for transferring the shaped bodies onto a transport surface such as, for example, a heated baking belt of a baking machine. The apparatus for transporting the shaped bodies includes a revolving driven conveyor belt which is guided over at least one deflecting roller, over a drive roller and around a transfer body in the region of the transport surface. The conveyor belt is laterally displaceable by a positioning apparatus at least over a section of its longitudinal extension.
US09265260B1	Systems and methods for using light energy to facilitate penetration of substances in plants Systems and methods are disclosed for delivering a substance into a plant. The systems and methods include a light energy that is applied to a first area on the plant to create a first indentation. The first indentation can be a minor incision or a rupture of a portion of the first area. Once the first indentation is created, a first dosage of the substance is applied to the first area in an amount effective to promote a biological response of the plant. It is contemplated that at least a portion of the substance is absorbed by the plant via the first indentation.
US09265259B2	Use of sulfamic acid or its salts as stabilizers especially in combination with ammonium salt and/or ammine for bleach or other halogen containing biocides in the paper area The invention is directed to compositions and methods of their use as effective biocidal agents for water streams. The composition comprises a halogen source, halogen stabilizers containing a sulfur bearing species and ammonium salts/urea, and an alkali. The sulfur bearing species includes sulfamic acid or its salt equivalent. By having optimized mixing ratio of halogen to stabilizer and that of ammonium salts to sulfamic acid or sulfamate, a synergistic effect occurs which both increases the efficacy of the composition as a biocide and it avoids adverse impacts on other chemicals that are present in the water stream. Best of all the composition is easy to form and easy to introduce into a water stream of concern. Its introduction can be as simple as mixing two containers of reagent prior to introduction to the water process stream.
US09265252B2	Active compound combinations comprising specific tetramic acid derivatives The invention provides combinations of insecticides/acaricides and herbicides comprising an effective amount of components (A) and (B), where component (A) is one or more of the tetramic acid derivatives listed in the description, and (B) one or more herbicides from the group of the herbicides likewise listed in the description, where the combinations may optionally additionally comprise crop plant compatibility-increasing substances (safeners).The invention also relates to the use of the combinations for controlling animal pests and unwanted vegetation and to the corresponding methods.
US09265248B2	Water soluble antimicrobial composition The present invention provides for antimicrobial compositions, methods of preparing the antimicrobial compositions, methods of using the antimicrobial compositions, and/or kits that include the antimicrobial compositions. The antimicrobial compositions can be in a dry, solid (e.g., powdered) form, or can be in a liquid (e.g., aqueous) form.
US09265244B2	Kit for converting a climbing tree stand into a cart A kit for converting a climbing tree stand into a cart includes a bracket having a first side and a second side. The first side is shaped to attach to a top part of a climbing tree stand. The second side is shaped to attach to a bottom part of the climbing tree stand. At least one wheel with an axle is positioned on the bracket. The bracket converts the climbing tree stand into a cart by attaching the top part of the climbing tree stand to the first side and attaching the bottom part of the climbing tree stand to the second side.
US09265240B2	Fishing device inserts A fishing mechanism for selectively attaching a fishing device to a line is provided. In one example, the fishing mechanism comprises an elongated outer insert mechanism having a line path channel formed therein, the line path channel extending from one end of the elongated outer insert mechanism to its other end, and wherein the elongated outer insert mechanism further comprises an elongated opening that extends from said one to said other end, the elongated opening being configured such that the line may be placed through the elongated opening and into the line path channel without having to guide an end of the line through the line path channel from said one end to said other end.
US09265238B2	MMTV-SV40-Spy1A and Spy1A-pTRE transgenic mouse models In one aspect, the invention provides a transgenic non-human animal model having germ cells and somatic cells containing an endogenous MMTV-SV40-Spy1A gene sequence introduced into said animal model or an ancestor of said animal model at an embryonic stage, wherein said gene sequence comprises a mouse mammary tumor virus gene (MMTV), a functionally disrupted SV40 gene (SV40) and a human Spy1A gene. In another aspect, the present invention provides a transgenic non-human animal model whose germ cells and somatic cells contain an endogenous Spy1A-pTRE-Tight gene sequence introduced into said animal model or an ancestor of said animal model at an embryonic stage. Preferably, the Spy1A-pTRE-Tight animal model expresses the Spy1A gene and develop cancer, preferably breast cancer, when administered with tetracycline, preferably doxycycline.
US09265237B2	Bird feeder with moveable shield A bird feeder which comprises a seed container, a cover, a seed tray below the seed container to receive seeds therefrom, and a shield which is secured to the seed container, the shield being spaced above said seed tray a distance sized to restrict access of certain sized birds to the seed tray.
US09265236B2	Two-in-one finch bird feeder A bird feeder is provided having a seed reservoir with a side wall that has at least one seed access opening and an adjustable feed port assembly. The feed port assembly includes a base mounted to the side wall in a fixed relationship thereto and having a central opening in communication with the seed in the reservoir. Fitted to the base is a rotatable insert having a perch coupled thereto in fixed relationship so that the perch and insert rotate as a unit. The insert is rotatable between two positions, an upright position in which the perch is below the base central opening enabling birds to feed while standing on the perch, and an upside down position in which the perch is above the base central opening, requiring birds to hang upside down from the perch to feed.
US09265232B2	Ear tag assembly and method of manufacture A plurality of ear tags is provided and may include a panel portion and a relatively narrow neck portion extending from the panel portion. The plurality of ear tags may be arranged so that the panel portions of adjacent ear tags are at least partially overlapped and edges of the neck portions of adjacent ear tags are juxtaposed and attached to one another at an attachment location at the edges of the neck portions of the adjacent ear tags.
US09265226B1	Lettuce variety winter heart The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Winter Heart and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom.
US09265225B2	Lettuce variety 45-149 RZ The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 45-149 RZ, which exhibits resistance to downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races Bl:1-28 Ca-I to Ca-VIII, and strains F837 and USA927, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri), moderately glossy leaves, and a medium head size. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 45-149 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 45-149 RZ.
US09265224B1	Soybean cultivar S130065 A soybean cultivar designated S130065 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S130065, to the plants of soybean cultivar S130065, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S130065, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S130065. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S130065. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S130065, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S130065 with another soybean cultivar.
US09265222B1	Maize inbred PH1TWS A novel maize variety designated PH1TWS and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1TWS with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1TWS through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1TWS or a locus conversion of PH1TWS with another maize variety.
US09265220B2	Wheat cultivar WB9507 The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated WB9507. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar WB9507. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar WB9507 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar WB9507 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
US09265211B2	Inbred corn line SHY 084-5055 The invention provides seed and plants of sweet corn line SHY 084-5055. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of sweet corn line SHY 084-5055, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another sweet corn plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the parts of such plants.
US09265210B2	Pepper hybrid SV8066HJ The invention provides seed and plants of pepper hybrid SV8066HJ and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SV8066HJ and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US09265209B2	Pepper hybrid SV7017HJ The invention provides seed and plants of pepper hybrid SV7017HJ and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SV7017HJ and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US09265202B2	Plant cage kit A plant cage kit includes a wire grid, a bottom ring, and a top ring. The wire grid has a plurality of first and second spaced-apart wires. Each of the second wires is coupled to each of the first wires to form the wire grid. The first end of each second wire is formed into a loop and the second end of each second wire is formed into a hook. The hook of each second wire engages the loop of the same second wire when the plant cage kit is in the assembled configuration. When the plant cage kit is in the shipping configuration, the plurality of first wires is generally positioned in a first plane such that wire grid has a generally flat shape. The bottom and top rings have a generally U-shaped cross-section portion forming respective channels.
US09265200B2	Modular vegetated roof system Described herein is a module for covering a surface with vegetation. The module comprises a drainage board having an upper surface for supporting a growth medium. The drainage board has a plurality of moisture receptacles extending downwardly from the upper surface for collecting moisture. The module also comprises a plurality of sidewalls having a multiplicity of apertures therethrough. Each sidewall is coupled to the drainage board and extends upwardly therefrom. The sidewalls cooperate with each other so as to provide a perimeter for surrounding the growth medium. The module may also include other features. For example, the sidewalls may be pivotally coupled to the drainage board (e.g. along a living hinge), the module may include couplers for securing adjacent modules together, the sidewalls may include a reinforcing rib, the drainage board may include an opening for receiving an irrigation nozzle therein, and there may be edging for covering the sidewalls.
US09265197B2	Rotary cutting head using wire-shaped flexible cutting elements, and cutting devices comprising such a cutting head A rotary cutting head adapted to allow a flexible strand of cutting wire to be inserted therein has a coupler for coupling the cutting head to a driveshaft of the motor, a support, and a clamping mechanism supported by the support in the rotary cutting head. The clamping mechanism is adapted to clamp the strand within the exterior housing. The clamping mechanism includes squeezing cams mounted so as to pivot in parallel planes therebetween and relative to the rotation axis of the cutting head. The support is axially translatable in the exterior housing. An application of actual movement in a direction opposite to the housing and the support causes a raising of the squeezing cams or a lowering of the squeezing cams.
US09265195B2	Engine mounting system A rotary lawn mower includes an internal combustion engine, a blade, and a deck. The internal combustion engine includes an engine block having a crankcase and a cover. The crankcase surrounds a crankshaft, which powers the blade. The blade spins below the deck during operation of the rotary lawn mower. The deck is integrally formed with the cover.
US09265191B2	Seed disc with seed aperture path having interspersed agitation cavities A seed meter for an agricultural planter in which the seed disc is rotatably mounted within a seed meter housing. As the seed disc rotates, the apertures in the disc rotate along a seed aperture path through a horizontally adjacent seed pool area. The seed disc includes cavities disposed along the seed aperture path to agitate the seeds in the seed pool area. A singulator having multiple co-planar singulator surfaces is biased against the seed side surface of the seed disc.
US09265189B2	Method for reducing damage by harmful organisms in corn cultivation Provided is a method for reducing damage by harmful organisms in corn cultivation. Damage by harmful organisms in corn cultivation can be reduced by carrying out the steps of A) ditching a cultivated land; B) seeding with corn a furrow formed in the foregoing step; C) applying to the furrow an aqueous dispersion or aqueous solution of one or more selected from the below-mentioned compound group (I); and D) closing the furrow. Compound group (I): clothianidin, thiamethoxam, imidacloprid or thiacloprid.
US09265187B2	Robotic platform and method for performing multiple functions in agricultural systems An autonomous vehicle platform and system for selectively performing an in-season management task in an agricultural field while self-navigating between rows of planted crops, the autonomous vehicle platform having a vehicle base with a width so dimensioned as to be insertable through the space between two rows of planted crops, the vehicle base having an in-season task management structure configured to perform various tasks, including selectively applying fertilizer, mapping growth zones and seeding cover crop within an agricultural field.
US09271436B2	Electronic packaged device and manufacturing method thereof A manufacturing method of electronic packaged device includes the following. A plurality of electronic components is disposed on a substrate carrier. An encapsulating member is disposed on the substrate carrier and covers the electronic components. The substrate carrier is separated from the encapsulating member. A plurality of first trenches is arranged on a first surface of the encapsulating member. Conductive material is disposed onto the first surface and into the first trenches to form a conductive layer. The conductive layer is patterned on the first surface to form a circuit layer. The circuit layer includes at least one grounding pad. A plurality of second trenches is arranged on a second surface of the encapsulating member. At least one shielding structure is formed in the first trenches and the second trenches. An electromagnetic shielding layer is connected to the grounding pad.
US09271435B2	Miniature microphone, protection frame thereof and method for manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a protection frame used in a miniature microphone is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: (1) preparing a substrate made of an insulating material with a prescribed thickness and a prescribed area; (2) forming a plurality of holes at prescribed intervals on the substrate; (3) forming a first metal shielding layer on the inner surface of each of the plurality of holes formed on the substrate; (4) filling an insulating material in the plurality of holes; (5) forming a plurality of extended portions on the surfaces of both sides of the substrate, each extended portion covering a part of the end face of the insulating material and the whole end face of the first metal shielding layer of a hole; (6) forming a cavity in each insulating material-filled hole, the caliber of each cavity being slightly smaller than the inner caliber of the corresponding extended portion formed in the above mentioned step (5); and (7) cutting the plurality of holes from the substrate to produce a collection of protection frames.
US09271431B2	Electronic device having connector with integrated shielding An electronic device may have a housing in which electrical components on a printed circuit board are mounted. A connector may be mounted to the edge of the printed circuit board using solder. The connector may have a threaded portion that protrudes through the housing. A threadless portion of the connector may be aligned with the housing. The connector may have a metal body member covered with a metal shell. The metal shell may have a portion that covers the electrical components and serves as an electromagnetic interference shield for the electrical components. The connector may have a threaded barrel. The threaded barrel may have a threaded outer portion with a diameter that is larger than a threaded inner portion. The threadless portion of the connector may lie between the threaded outer and inner portions.
US09271430B2	Flexible electronic circuit enclosure assembly A flexible enclosure assembly for an electronic device for vehicular application is virtually “fastenerless” and includes a preform blank of conductive sheet material such as wire screen mesh or the like which defines upper, lower and a plurality of side wall portions flexibly interconnected by living hinges. A framework of resilient elastomeric material is insert molded to the preform blank to provide three-dimensional case details to accept one or more electronic devices such as circuit boards required for electrical control and display of vehicle based systems. The conductive sheet material is preferably a wire mesh which provides shielding from electrical anomalies and grounding of the circuit boards via exposed wire mesh pads and adjacent ground clips. Major components and subassemblies are self-fixturing during the final assembly process, eliminating the need for dedicated tools, fixtures and assembly equipment.
US09271428B2	Cooling host module A cooling host module is operable for providing cooling gas flow in a substantially isolated closed loop for a computing device. The computing device comprises a substantially vertical first face having an inlet portion comprising no more than about a lower third of a height of the first face for inlet gas flow and a substantially vertical second face opposite the first face for outlet gas flow. The cooling host module comprises: a heat exchanger adjacent to the second face of the computing device for cooling outlet gas flow; a gas flow path directing air exiting the heat exchanger beneath the computing unit; a gas moving device for moving gas in the gas flow path; and a vent towards distal end of the gas flow path for providing gas flow to the inlet portion of the first face of the computing device.
US09271426B2	Radiator, electronic apparatus and cooling apparatus A radiator includes a header including a supply chamber for a coolant to cool an electronic part mounted on a circuit board and a discharge chamber partitioned from the supply chamber, and a plurality of tubes stacked in a heightwise direction of the header, one end of each of the plurality of tubes being connected to the supply chamber and the other end of each of the plurality of tubes being connected to the discharge chamber, and the coolant flowing from the one end to the other end. The plurality of tubes include a first tube at least including a lowermost tube, and a second tube provided over the first tube and having a surface area greater than that of the first tube.
US09271425B1	Industrial server system The present invention relates to an industrial server system, comprising a housing, a backplane, at least one rear board, a first front board, a second front board, and a power supply, wherein the backplane and the power supply are disposed in the housing, and the rear board, the first front board, and the second front board are coupled and configured to the backplane. Four connected blocks are disposed on the backplane, which makes that at least one rear board, the first front board, and the second front board are able to communicate to each other by a plurality of data connecting units disposed on the backplane. The rear board, the first front board, and the second front board of the present invention can achieve a great transmission efficiency by a specific configuration of connected block on the backplane.
US09271420B1	Modular power device A modular power device is used for mounting on a main plate. The modular power device includes a first substrate, a driving module, and a converting module. The first substrate has a first axial direction and a second axial direction perpendicular to the first axial direction. The driving module is located on one side of the first substrate, the converting module is located on the other side of the first substrate, and includes a second substrate parallel to the main plate, wherein two opposite sides of the first substrate are inserted into the main plate and the second substrate. A length of the converting module is equal to that of the first substrate in the first axial direction, and a width of the converting module is smaller than a length of the first substrate in the first axial direction.
US09271419B1	Modular power device A modular power device is used for mounting on a main plate. The modular power device includes a first substrate, a driving module, and a converting module. The first substrate having a first axial direction and a second axial direction perpendicular to the first axial direction is inserted into the main plate to make the second axial direction be perpendicular to the main plate. The driving module is located on one side of the first substrate, and the converting module is located on the other side of the first substrate and includes a second substrate, wherein the second substrate is inserted into the main plate. A length of the converting module is substantially equal to that of the first substrate in the first axial direction, and a width of the converting module is smaller than a length of the first substrate in the first axial direction.
US09271411B2	Housing assembly A housing assembly includes a first housing, a second housing, two first bolts, two second bolts, two first guiding rails and two second guiding rails. The first housing has a top board and two side boards. The second housing has a bottom board. The two first bolts and two second bolts are formed on the two side boards of the first housing. The two first guiding rails and two second guiding rails are formed on two sides of the bottom board of the second housing. Each first guiding rail has a first guiding groove, which includes a first vertical section, a first horizontal section, a first opening and a first fixing node. Each second guiding rail has a second guiding groove, which includes a second vertical section, a second horizontal section, a second opening and a second fixing node.
US09271408B2	Power supply device A power supply device includes a circuit board that has an arrangement surface and a rear surface opposite to the arrangement surface and that has a through hole. An insertion mounted circuit component, a connector and a surface mounted light emitting component that is provided for confirming an operation of the power supply device are assembled on the arrangement surface. A chassis holds the circuit board from the sides and the rear surface of the circuit board and has an opening to expose the connector. The surface mounted light emitting component is surface mounted on the rear surface of the circuit board. The through hole is provided near the surface mounted light emitting component so as to guide light emitted from the surface mounted light emitting component toward the opening of the chassis.
US09271407B2	Display module A display module having an improved assembly structure is provided. The display module includes a frame, a display panel, and a glue. The frame has a side wall and a supporting part, wherein the supporting part has a supporting surface and the side wall is formed on the periphery of the supporting surface. A groove is formed on the supporting surface adjacent to the side wall and is distributed along the side wall. The display panel is disposed within the frame and has a bottom face and a side face. The bottom face is supported by the supporting surface of the supporting part. The side face faces the side wall and forms a gap with the side wall. The glue is filled in the gap and adheres the side wall to the side face.
US09271404B2	Circuit board and manufacturing method thereof A circuit board includes a circuit board plate, a conductive ring, a solder mask and at least one insulating pad. The circuit board plate includes a surface and a conductive through hole passing through the surface and the circuit board plate, wherein the conductive through hole have a conductive layer disposed on a wall thereof. The conductive ring on the surface surrounds an opening of the conductive through hole on the surface and electrically connects to the conductive layer. The solder mask is disposed on the surface. The conductive ring is exposed outside of the solder mask. The insulating pad has a thickness. The first surface of the insulating pad is adapted to contact the solder mask or the surface and sited at periphery of the conductive ring. The second surface of the insulating pad is adapted for spacing a distance between a solder coating tool and the solder mask.
US09271396B2	Conductive sheet and touch panel Provided are a conductive sheet and a touch panel having a high detection accuracy of touching with a finger. A conductive sheet includes: a first electrode pattern including first conductive patterns; and a second electrode pattern including second conductive patterns. The first conductive patterns and the second conductive patterns are placed so as to be orthogonal to each other. Each first conductive pattern includes slit-like sub-nonconduction patterns inside thereof.
US09271389B2	Device mounting board, semiconductor module, and method for fabricating the device mounting board A device mounting board includes a metallic substrate, an oxide film formed such that the surfaces of the metallic form are oxidized, an insulating resin layer disposed on the oxide film facing one main surface of the metallic layer, and a wiring layer disposed on the insulating resin layer. The film thickness of a certain partial region of the oxide film disposed below a first semiconductor device is greater than that of the other regions surrounding the partial region of the oxide film. Conversely, the film thickness of the insulating resin layer underneath a second semiconductor device is less than that of the insulating resin layer underneath the first semiconductor device.
US09271387B2	Circuit board structure manufacturing method A circuit board structure manufacturing method includes the following steps. A circuit substrate is provided including an insulating layer, a first metal layer, and a second metal layer. The insulating layer is disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The first metal layer has a first cavity. The insulating layer has a second cavity and a provisional region. A width of the first cavity is larger than a width of the second cavity. The provisional region is defined between a sidewall of the first metal layer defining the first cavity and another sidewall of the first metal layer defining the second cavity. A first masking layer is formed to cover the first metal layer and provisional region. The second cavity is exposed from the first masking layer. A heat-dissipating metal member is formed in the second cavity. Furthermore, the first masking layer is removed.
US09271385B2	Magnetic structure for circular ion accelerator A magnet structure for use in a circular ion accelerator, such as e.g. a synchrocyclotron comprises a cold-mass structure including superconducting magnetic coils (20, 25), at least one dry cryocooler unit (10, 11, 12, 13) coupled with the cold-mass structure for cooling the latter and a magnetic yoke structure (30) with a return yoke (35) configured radially around said coils (20, 25). The return yoke (35) comprises an opening in which said dry cryocooler unit (10, 11, 12, 13) is received so as to be in thermal contact with said cold-mass structure.
US09271384B2	Plasma processing apparatus The present invention provides a plasma processing apparatus. The apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a plasma reactor arranged in the vacuum chamber for plasma processing, an RF power source for providing RF signals to the plasma reactor and an RF power transmission unit for transmitting RF signals from the RF power source to the plasma reactor inside the vacuum chamber. The RF power transmission unit includes a transmission line for transmitting RF signals and an outer conductor for shielding the electromagnetic field around the transmission line. The invention can effectively avoid the problem of electric discharge when RF signals transmit in a vacuum chamber, resulting in more security and less transmission power loss.
US09271378B2	Portable electric lamp having a current limitation device Portable electric lamp including a lighting module, and a compact case containing a power supply for supplying the lighting module and a limitation device for a current delivered by the power supply, the limitation device including a controlled limitation switch coupled between a reference terminal of the power supply and an output terminal of the lighting module, the limitation device being configured so as to determine a supply voltage between an output terminal of the limitation switch and the reference terminal, and to control the limitation switch so that it is in a closed state when the supply voltage is lower than or equal to a desired voltage.
US09271377B2	Wireless controller for lighting system The present invention provides a system and method for controlling at least one lighting system by means of a portable wireless remote control device. The system comprises a portable wireless remote control device, a lighting system controller, and at least one lighting system coupled to the lighting system controller. Each lighting system comprises one or more lighting modules (e.g., light emitting diodes (LEDs), incandescent bulbs, etc.). The portable wireless remote control device comprises a wireless transceiver, processor, memory, light control logic, user interface (UI), and an antenna. The lighting system controller-comprises a wireless transceiver, processor, memory, light control logic, and an antenna. Each lighting system coupled (e.g., wired) to the lighting system controller may be wirelessly controlled via the remote control device.
US09271374B2	Illumination system, illumination method and lighting controller The invention relates to an illumination system comprising a luminaire which is configured to provide light according to a plurality of preset combinations of illumination level and color temperature, controlled via a control protocol. The system further comprises a user interface comprising means to (manually) select the illumination level and color temperature from said plurality of preset combinations. The number of preset combinations is at least three. The control protocol comprises transition times for transitions between said preset combinations, said transition times being in the range of about 2 seconds to about 5 minutes. The invention further relates to an illumination method using the illumination system and to a controller uploaded with said preset lighting settings. The use of the system in dependence on the activity, time of day or atmosphere in the classroom has been proven to improve the learning behavior of children. It therefore is a learning tool for teachers.
US09271373B2	Remotely distributed power network for an LED lighting system The present disclosure is directed to a light emitting diode (LED) lighting system. In one embodiment, the LED lighting system includes an LED light source deployed in a first location and a power supply for powering the LED light source, wherein the power supply is remotely located from the LED light source in a second location and designed to power the LED light source to minimize a power loss along a length of an electrical connection coupled between the LED light source and the power supply.
US09271370B2	Method of characterising an LED device A method of characterizing an LED, as well as an integrated circuit using this method, based on a so-called characteristic resistance, in which the LED is operated at a first, relatively low, operating current and then at a second, relatively high, operating current. From the ratio between the difference between the forward voltages at these two operating currents, and the difference between the operating current, the characteristic resistance is determined. The characteristic resistance is measured at two or more moments during the operational lifetime of the device, and a prediction or estimate is made in relation to the total operational lifetime of the devices, from the evolution or change of the characteristic resistance.
US09271364B2	Method and apparatus for integrated lighting control according to power reserve stage Disclosed is a method and apparatus for integrally controlling lighting according to the status of power reserve stages. The apparatus for integrally controlling lighting according to power reserve stage, comprises: a lighting control result receiver for receiving lighting control result data generated by integrating a lighting identification number and control result information of the LED light source the brightness of which is controlled according to power reserve stage-based lighting control information; a power reserve stage determination unit for determining a power reserve stage based on the received lighting control result data; and a power reserve stage issuer for transmitting the determined power reserve stage to the lighting controller in real time.
US09271361B2	Backlight driving circuit, LCD device, and method for driving the backlight driving circuit A backlight driving circuit includes a light emitting diode (LED) lightbar, a power supply driving the LED lightbar, a constant current driving chip controlling the power supply and the LED lightbar, and a control unit monitoring a voltage of a cathode of the LED lightbar. The constant current driving chip includes a main control unit that drives the power supply, and an adjusting unit that adjusts brightness of the LED lightbar. An input end of the adjusting unit is coupled to the cathode of the LED lightbar, and an output end of the adjusting unit is coupled to a load unit, a resistance value of the load unit may be adjusted. When the voltage of the cathode of the LED lightbar is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, the control unit controls the load unit to reduce the resistance value of the load unit.
US09271360B2	LED driving circuit, LED driving device and driving method A LED driving circuit applied to a LED module includes a read address generating unit, a memory cell and a driving unit. The read address generating unit receives a clock signal and outputs a reading signal. The memory cell is coupled to the read address generating unit and generates an output signal in accordance with the reading signal. The driving unit is coupled to the memory cell, receives the output signal and the clock signal and outputs a driving signal to the LED module. A LED driving device and a driving method are also disclosed.
US09271359B2	Three-terminal LED and drive circuit thereof A three-terminal LED and drive circuit thereof. The three-terminal LED (1) has an anode, a cathode and a gate. The three-terminal LED (1) includes a LED group (3) formed by connecting at least one LED in series and a gate circuit (2), the first end (21) of the gate circuit (2) and the anode of the LED group (3) are connected with the anode of the three-terminal LED (1), the second end (22) of the gate circuit (2) and the cathode of the LED group (3) are connected with the cathode of the three-terminal LED (1), the third end (23) of the gate circuit (2) is connected with the gate of the three-terminal LED (1).
US09271357B2	Driving circuit and illumination device having light-emitting elements The present invention discloses a driving circuit including a rectifying circuit and a first current-controlling circuit. Input terminals of the rectifying circuit are connected to output terminals of an AC power source. The first current-controlling circuit and a plurality of light-emitting elements be driven are connected in series, and then are connected between two output terminals of the rectifying circuit. The driving circuit further includes a plurality of switches and a switch-controlling circuit; the switches are connected in parallel with two terminals of one or some light-emitting elements connected in series to form many light-emitting element subunits. Control-signal output terminals of the switch-controlling circuit are connected to control terminals of the switches respectively, to control the switches in an ON-OFF state according to an instantaneous value of a DC voltage outputted from the rectifying circuit, for controlling an amount of light-emitting elements which should be lighten.
US09271355B2	Switching power supply controller In an example embodiment, a controller generates a switch signal for controlling a switch to convert an input signal from a phase cut dimmer into a driving signal for a solid state lighting element. The controller determines a conduction period of the input signal from the phase cut dimmer within a half cycle period of the input signal, determines a burst period within the conduction period is a period of time less than the conduction period, and generates a switch signal comprising a plurality of switching cycles over the burst period. The switch signal has first and second subsets of switching cycles. The controller controls the switching cycles of the second subset such that the average energy transferred per switching cycle to the driving signal is less than the average energy transferred per switching cycle to the driving signal for the switching cycles of the first subset.
US09271354B2	Lighting source and lighting apparatus A straight tube LED lamp according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a first LED array including first LED elements connected in series; a second LED array that includes second LED elements connected in series, and emits light having a different emission color from an emission color of the first LED array; a FET switch provided in a path through which current flows to the second LED array; and a constant power output circuit that outputs power without changing a total value of the power, wherein the number of the first LED elements connected in series is greater than the number of the second LED elements connected in series, a total forward voltage of the first LED array is greater than a total forward voltage of the second LED array, and the first LED elements are in alignment with the second LED elements.
US09271349B2	Device and method for controlling current to solid state lighting circuit A device for controlling current to a solid state lighting load includes a capacitor (241, 341) and a current source (245, 345). The capacitor is connected in a parallel arrangement with the solid state lighting load (260, 360). The current source is connected in series with the parallel arrangement of the capacitor and the solid state lighting load. The current source is configured to modulate dynamically an amplitude of an input current provided to the parallel arrangement of the capacitor and the solid state lighting load based on an input voltage.
US09271345B2	LED based lighting application The present invention relates to a lighting application, the lighting application comprises an LED assembly comprising a serial connection of two or more LED units, each LED unit comprising one or more LEDs, each LED unit being provided with a controllable switch for substantially short-circuiting the LED unit. The lighting application further comprises a control unit for controlling a drive unit and arranged to receive a signal representing a voltage level of the supply voltage, and control the switches in accordance with the signal. The invention further provides for an LED driver that enables to operate a TRIAC based dimmer at an optimal holding current and an LED driver comprising a switchable buffer, e.g. a capacitor.
US09271343B2	Head lamp A head lamp assembly wearable by a user or attachable to an object comprising a substrate, a first light source, a second light source, and a sensor. The sensor can turn the first and second light sources ON when light striking the sensor falls below a predetermined intensity level. The sensor can turn the first and second light sources OFF when light striking the sensor exceeds a predetermined intensity level. An override switch can allow user to keep the light sources either completely illuminated or obfuscated, irrespective of the sensor.
US09271332B2	Heating device A heating device includes a heater (2) having a heating portion (6) which generates heat by energization; a housing (4) which contains the heating portion and forms a passage (18) for a heating medium between the housing and the heating portion; a temperature sensor (26) for detecting the temperature of the heating medium in the passage; and an inverter for interrupting energization of, that is, the carrying of current to, the heater depending on the temperature of the heating medium detected by the temperature sensor. The temperature sensor is brought into contact with the heating portion.
US09271331B2	Conditional execution of commands Method for controlling terminations of a media gateway, wherein a command from a media gateway controller is received containing a condition under which the command is executed. After having identified the terminations addressed by the command, it is verified whether the condition is met, and if the condition is met, the command is executed.
US09271327B2	Wireless network throughput enhancement through channel aware scheduling A channel aware scheduler (CAS) is disclosed that takes advantage of changing wireless channel conditions in order to maximize aggregated system throughput. The CAS is aware of the different channel conditions for one or more stations and adjusts its scheduling of packet transmissions in light of the same. A related CAS algorithm may take advantage of that knowledge in order to increase aggregated system throughput while concurrently addressing other potential fairness constraints.
US09271326B2	Radio resource control dormancy timer based on traffic type A device may be configured to determine a type of traffic, received by the device from a user device; identify a radio resource control (“RRC”) timeout value associated with the type; start an RRC dormancy timer based on the RRC timeout value; and modify, based on expiration of the RRC dormancy timer, an RRC channel between the device and the user device.
US09271325B2	Detection and reporting of keepalive messages for optimization of keepalive traffic in a mobile network Detection of network transactions or keepalives for maintaining long lived connections are disclosed. A keepalive detector can detect keepalive traffic based on keepalive parameters determined from an analysis of socket level network communication log data that record data transfer events including data sent from mobile applications or clients on a mobile device and data received by the mobile applications or clients on the mobile device, timing characteristics, protocol types, etc. Various statistical analyses can be performed on the network communication data to detect keepalives, taking into account variability in intervals of the data transfer events and sizes of data sent and received on each event. The keepalive detector can also detect keepalives from stream data on a mobile device by analyzing socket level communication messages including timing characteristics and amount of data transferred to detect keepalives and report keepalives using a data structure.
US09271323B2	Apparatus and method for originating call by substitute communication network when originating call is barred A portable terminal and a method for originating a call through a substituted network when originating a call is barred due to overload of a first network is disclosed herein. A call may be originated by automatically switching the communication mode of the portable terminal from the first network such as an LTE network to a second network such as a 3G network or a 2G network, when originating a call is barred in the first network. The information of the cell of the second network is searched from a second network database stored in advance, which allows the time to search for a cell and time to register in the second network decrease. The searched cell with the highest power level may be selected and the call is originated through the selected cell of the second network.
US09271321B2	Providing device-to-device connectivity by determining communication preferences in real-time A device may determine a condition for providing customer information to a mobile device. The device may detect the mobile device, and may request, from the mobile device and based on detecting the mobile device, information that identifies a user communication preference associated with providing the customer information to the mobile device. The device may receive, from the mobile device and based on the request, the information that identifies the user communication preference. The device may determine whether the customer information is to be provided to the mobile device based on the user communication preference and the condition, and may selectively provide the customer information and an instruction to the mobile device based on determining whether the customer information is to be provided to the mobile device. The instruction may cause the mobile device to relay the customer information to a network storage device.
US09271318B2	Internet protocol address registration A computer program product implemented in an Internet Protocol (IP) edge node positioned in a fixed access network, the computer program product comprising computer executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium such that when executed by a processor cause the IP edge node to receive an address registration request from a residential gateway (RG), wherein the address registration request comprises an IP version six (IPv6) address of a third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) visiting mobile host connected to a local fixed network associated with the RG and a host identifier (ID) assigned to the visiting host and not to any other host in the local fixed network; establish an IP Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) session for the visiting host; and manage quality of service (QoS) for the visiting host independently of other hosts in the local fixed network by managing the visiting host IP-CAN session.
US09271314B2	Bluetooth communication method and system A Bluetooth communication method and system for enabling one Bluetooth device to rapidly connect to another Bluetooth device using an audio signal, and also enabling them to transmit data to each other are provided. The system includes first and second Bluetooth devices. The first Bluetooth device transforms authentication information required to establish a Bluetooth communication connection into an audio signal, and broadcasts the audio signal. The second Bluetooth device receives the audio signal and extracts the authentication information from the received audio signal. The second Bluetooth device establishes a Bluetooth communication channel with the first Bluetooth device, using the extracted authentication information.
US09271313B2	Service frequency based 3GDT A method for reducing the signaling load of a GPRS core network system is provided. The GPRS core network system comprises a first UE, a first RNC, a first SGSN, a first core network node, and a first IP network, where the first UE is arranged to be in communication with the first RNC, where the first RNC is arranged to be in communication with the SGSN for non-3GDT communication of the GPRS core network system or the core network node for 3GDT communication of the GPRS core network system, where the first SGSN is arranged to be in communication with the first core network node, where the first core network node is arranged to be in contact with the first IP network, where one or more service requests originates from the first UE to the SGSN, where the number of service requests to the SGSN is measured.
US09271312B2	Communication apparatus, processing method thereof, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and communication system A communication apparatus detects one or a plurality of apparatuses which have been instructed to start communication-parameter setting processing using identification information and, moreover, in which this identification information has already been set, outputs terminal identification information, and executes the communication-parameter setting processing with an apparatus, which is other than an apparatus detected before the terminal identification information is output, from among detected apparatuses.
US09271310B2	Method and apparatus for a smart random access procedure in a telecommunication network Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a method and an apparatus for wireless communications using an intelligent Random Access Channel (RACH) procedure that may increase the probability of obtaining an available E-DCH resource quickly in a Universal Mobile Telecommunication System.
US09271308B2	Wireless communication apparatus A wireless communication apparatus supports at least a second wireless communication scheme between a first wireless communication scheme and the second wireless communication scheme. The first wireless communication scheme requires that a wireless medium is determined to be busy when a reception level is equal to or greater than a minimum reception sensitivity level of a physical scheme. The apparatus includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The first processing unit is configured to set a value lower than a maximum transmission power of the first wireless communication scheme, for a maximum transmission power of the second wireless communication scheme and set a value greater than the minimum reception sensitivity level of the physical scheme, for a carrier sense level, when the second wireless communication scheme is used. The second processing unit is configured to carry out carrier sense using the carrier sense level.
US09271305B2	Method and apparatus for controlling serving grant of user terminal of neighboring cell Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for controlling a serving grant of a user terminal (UE) of a neighboring cell. The method is used for controlling a UE in a CELL-FACH state or in an idle state of a neighboring cell through a common E-RGCH. The method includes: obtaining a control command by monitoring the common E-RGCH of the neighboring cell; determining whether the UE satisfies at least one further configured controlled condition; and when the UE satisfies the at least one controlled condition, adjusting the serving grant of the UE based on the obtained control command. Through the method and the apparatus according to the embodiments of the present invention, throughput of the UE may be prevented from being reduced excessively, thereby improving communication performance.
US09271303B2	Method and arrangement in a wireless communication system Method and arrangement in base station (110) for estimating the amount of data to be received from a terminal (120). The base station (110) and the terminal (120) are comprised within a wireless communication system (110). The terminal (120) comprises a buffer arranged to buffer frames comprising data. The method comprises determining (401) a service requested by the terminal (120), estimating (403) the arrival time of data to be received from the terminal (120), based on the determined service, and setting (404) a buffer estimate, comprising an estimation of the amount of data to be received, based on an estimated frame size for the determined service.
US09271302B2	Network-managed direct device to device communications Systems, apparatuses, and methods for network-managed direct device to device communications are provided. Certain aspects of the disclosure involve receiving, at a first UE, UE1 configuration information for an inter-device session (IDS) between the first UE and a second UE, UE1 configuration information including a radio network identifier. A control message configured with the radio network identifier and a radio resource identifier for the IDS can be received. The radio resource identifier corresponds to a radio resource for transmitting data directly from the first UE to the second UE during the IDS.
US09271301B2	Method and arrangement for interference variance reduction in a wireless communication system In a mobile communication network, a radio node and related method for reducing a signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio (SINR) requirement for a transmission in a scheduling interval. The node estimates a frequency resource utilization in the scheduling interval and compares the estimated utilization with a first threshold. When the estimated utilization is equal to or below the first threshold, the node increases the frequency resource utilization for the transmission, and adjusts a link adaptation for the transmission based on the increased frequency resource utilization. Optionally, the node may decrease the transmit power for the scheduling interval based on the adjusted link adaptation.
US09271299B2	Allocation of frequency spectrum in spectrum-on-demand systems Disclosed herein is a method and a Radio Resource Management arrangement in a wireless communication system for allocating communication of one or several services to at least one of several available frequency spectrum resources. The method comprises the steps of categorizing said available frequency spectrum resources with respect to volatility, and categorizing said one or several services with respect to compressibility, and assigning said one or several services to the available spectrum resources such that compressible services are assigned to volatile spectrum resources.
US09271298B1	Systems and methods for dynamically configuring femtocell pilot beacon based on macro-network loading Disclosed herein are systems and methods for dynamically configuring femtocell pilot beacon based on macro-network load. An embodiment takes the form of a method of operating a wireless network system that includes a first base station operating on a first frequency and one or more second base stations operating on a plurality of second frequencies. The method includes transmitting a frequency-hopping pilot beacon among the plurality of second frequencies. The method further includes determining loading on each of the second frequencies and in particular that a given one of the second frequencies is more heavily loaded than at least one other, and responsively prioritizing transmission of the frequency-hopping pilot beacon on the given frequency as compared to the at least one other frequency.
US09271295B2	Method and device for generating reference signal in cellular mobile communication system A method of transmitting a reference signal in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes determining at least three scrambling variables comprising a first scrambling variable, a second scrambling variable, and a third scrambling variable, wherein the first scrambling variable, the second scrambling variable, and the third scrambling variable are different from each other, determining whether a demodulation reference signal is for more than or equal to 3-layer transmission, generating, if the demodulation reference signal is for more than or equal to 3-layer transmission, the demodulation reference signal sequence using the third scrambling variable and transmitting the demodulation reference signal sequence through a corresponding antenna port.
US09271293B2	Bidirectional iterative beam forming Bidirectional iterative beam forming techniques are described. An apparatus may include a wireless device having an antenna control module operative to initiate beam formation operations using an iterative training scheme to form a pair of communications channels for a wireless network, the antenna control module to communicate training signals and feedback information with a peer device via the transceiver and phased antenna array using partially or fully formed high rate channels, and iteratively determine antenna-array weight vectors for a directional transmit beam pattern for the phased antenna array using feedback information from the peer device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09271292B2	Interference process of interference signal This invention relates to wireless signal process, and discloses a method for interference process of an interference signal in an OFDM based wireless communication system, comprising: receiving an interference signal; performing time domain and frequency domain analyses on the interference signal to obtain interference characteristics of the interference signal; determining an interference category of the interference signal according to the interference characteristics of the interference signal; and performing interference process on the interference signal in view of the interference category of the interference signal. The method for interference signal process of this invention is effective to both homogeneous network interference and heterogeneous network interference, so that frequency spectrum sharing of homogeneous networks and existing heterogeneous networks can be realized.
US09271286B2	Method and apparatus for performing muting coordination and for testing of coordinating communication A method and apparatus can be configured to transmit a physical-resource-block muting request to a neighboring network entity. The method can also include transmitting at least one muting priority level for at least one physical-resource-block of the physical-resource-block muting request.
US09271284B2	Terminal and response signal transmission method This invention is related to a terminal apparatus that can normally transmit an upstream response signal. A response signal generating unit (212); generates response signals on the basis of a setting rule in which pattern candidates of success or failure in the reception of downstream allocation control information and downstream data are associated with the phase points of response signals and further in which the phase point of one response signal associated with an arbitrary pattern of success or failure in the reception during the second communication has been set to be identical with the phase points of two response signals associated with pattern candidates for which the pattern of success or failure in the reception at PCC during the first communication is identical with the arbitrary pattern and for which all of the receptions of downstream allocation control information have been failed at SCC.
US09271282B2	Method of control signaling transmission and reception for user equipment in a LTE communication system A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), an indication of a type of enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) transmission, where the type of ePDCCH transmission comprises either localized transmission or distributed transmission, and transmitting, to the UE, an indication of the number of physical resource block (PRB) pairs allocated for the ePDCCH transmission, where the indication of the number of PRB pairs allocated for the ePDCCH transmission is conveyed in 2 or 3 bits. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed.
US09271277B2	Method and apparatus for relaying data in wireless communication system based on TDD The present invention provides a method and an apparatus of relaying data in a wireless communication system based on Time Division Duplex (TDD). A relay station receives downlink data from a base station in an uplink subframe and relays the downlink data to at least one mobile station. Accordingly, the efficiency of resource allocation for a relay station can be improved.
US09271276B2	Method for UL data transmission in wireless communication system The present invention provides a UL data transmission method in a wireless communication system, including determining, by the UE, UL virtual resources allocated to the UE by the eNB according to Downlink Control Information (DCI) used for scheduling UL physical resources sent from the eNB to the UE; determining, by the UE, the UL physical resources used for transmitting the UL data after frequency hopping processing in a preset frequency domain when determining that the UL data needs to be processed with frequency hopping processing according to the DCI, if the UL virtual resources allocated to the UE locate at UL sub-frames in a non-aggregation K of any wireless frame, and locate at the preset frequency domain; bearing, by the UE, the UL data and feeding the UL data back to the eNB utilizing the determined UL physical resources which are processed with the frequency hopping processing and used for transmitting the UL data. With the present invention, the PUSCH channel resource collision may be avoided, the frequency diversity gain may be maximized, and the PUSCH performances may be enhanced.
US09271274B2	Method and base station for informing power message A method for informing about power information and a base station are disclosed in the present document. The method includes: a base station informing a user equipment of at least one of the following types of power ratio information through signalings: ratio information of transmission power for transmitting a second category of control signaling information to transmission power for transmitting dedicated demodulation pilots; and ratio information of transmission power for transmitting data information to transmission power for transmitting dedicated demodulation pilots in a subframe where data transmission occupies only one slot. In the example of the present document, when the second category of control signalings and the data are sent, different transmission layers and transmission powers can be selected, which solves the problem resulted from an inconsistency of Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) powers and avoids a demodulation error.
US09271273B2	Base station, method for radio communication, program, radio communication system, and radio terminal A base station includes a control signal generator that generates a control signal which includes resource information identified by a group identifier assigned to a plurality of radio terminals, and also includes a transmitter that transmits the control signal generated by the control signal generating section.
US09271270B2	Downlink control channel signaling in wireless communication systems A method in a wireless communication device may include receiving a plurality of sub-frames, each sub-frame having time-frequency resource elements, at least one of the sub-frames having a control channel. In some implementations, the plurality of sub-frames forms a continuum of concatenated sub-frames. Each of the plurality of resource allocation fields of the control channel may indicate a resource assignment to the wireless communication device based on a channel quality report, as well as resource assignments in sub-frames of the continuum of concatenated sub-frames. At least one sub-frame of the continuum of concatenated sub-frames may include information indicating that at least some of the resource assignments are frequency diverse.
US09271269B2	Method and system for assigning slot reservations to subscriber radios in a telecommunications system A method for assigning slot reservations to subscriber radios in a TDMA communications system, where data is arranged into a series of superframes, includes an inbound signaling protocol having a plurality of inbound transmission slots. An outbound signaling protocol includes an inbound reservation scheduling slot, which includes a plurality of subscriber access code fields. Each subscriber access code field corresponds to at least one of the inbound transmission slots. Each subscriber access code field may store a subscriber access code associated with a subscriber radio. The inbound reservation scheduling message includes a subscriber access code in at least one of the subscriber access code fields. As such, the subscriber radio associated with the subscriber access code may transmit data during the inbound transmission slot corresponding to the subscriber access code in which the subscriber access code field is stored.
US09271268B2	Wireless transmission device, wireless reception device, and bandwidth allocation method for setting a band where other bands indicated by continuous band allocation information do not overlap Provided are a wireless transmission device, a wireless reception device, and a bandwidth allocation method for, when non-contiguous bands allocation is performed, improving the frequency resource use efficiency of a system and thereby improving the system performance. RIV decoding unit (106) decodes start RBG# and end RBG# that are indicated by each RIV output from scheduling information decoding unit (104). Allocation boundary setting unit (107) previously adds a predetermined offset to the boundary of each RIV so that the boundaries of the allocations of respective RIVs are different from each other. Based on the start RBG# and end RBG# output from RIV decoding unit (106) and the boundaries of the allocations of respective RIVs output from allocation boundary setting unit (107), transmission bandwidth determination unit (108) determines, as allocated bandwidths, the bandwidths that are indicated by a plurality of RIVs and are not overlapped with each other.
US09271267B2	Detection and control of resource congestion by a number of processors In an embodiment, a system includes a resource. The system also includes a first processor having a load/store functional unit. The load/store functional unit is to attempt to access the resource based on access requests. The first processor includes a congestion detection logic to detect congestion of access of the resource based on a consecutive number of negative acknowledgements received in response to the access requests prior to receipt of a positive acknowledgment in response to one of the access requests within a first time period.
US09271264B2	Base station for allocating downlink radio resource for directivity transmission When a scheduling executing section allocates a use downlink radio resource including in a frequency direction a frequency band, in which a known signal is not received by an uplink radio resource for known signal, from a downlink radio resource associated with the uplink radio resource for known signal to a communication terminal, a communication section generates a known signal to be received from the communication terminal in a frequency band of the use downlink radio resource in a pseudo manner when performing downlink communication with the communication terminal using the use downlink radio resource. The communication section controls transmission directivity in a plurality of antennas based on a new reception signal obtained by adding the pseudo known signal as a desired wave component to a reception signal that is received in the frequency band of the use downlink radio resource in the uplink radio resource for known signal.
US09271263B2	Method of error recovery in transmitting and receiving voice service in packet based mobile communication systems Provided is a method of transmitting and receiving data using a persistent allocation scheme in order to effectively support a voice service between a base station and a mobile terminal in a packet based mobile communication system. When an error occurs in transmitting a control information that indicates whether to use a radio resource using the persistent allocation scheme, the base station may retransmit the control information and thereby maintain a communication quality.
US09271260B2	Enabling receive diversity during paging channel timeline operation Enabling receive diversity based on detecting incorrect paging message length. A paging channel may be monitored. An indication of a paging message may be received on the paging channel. The paging message may include a message length field indicating a message length of the paging message. The message length field of the paging message may be received on the paging channel and decoded. It may be determined that the message length indicated in the message length field is incorrect. Receive diversity may be enabled for at least one subsequent paging occasion in response to determining that the message length indicated in the message length field is incorrect.
US09271259B2	Method and device for testing moving speed of terminal Provided are a method and device for testing the moving speed of a terminal, which are used for testing the moving speed of a terminal according to the pilot and noise power, thereby improving measurement accuracy. The method comprises: a receiving end receiving a signal which comprises a pilot sequence and is sent by a sending end; according to the known pilot sequence and the signal comprising the pilot sequence, the receiving end determining an estimated value of a time-domain channel corresponding to each pilot symbol of the pilot sequence in a transmission process, and selecting a time-delay path according to the estimated value of the time-domain channel; and according to the time-delay path selected in a preset time length, the receiving end determining the moving speed of a terminal.
US09271256B2	Verifying generic broadcast of location assistance data Various techniques are provided for Location Services (LCS) Assistance Data broadcast, for example for implementation in LTE and LTE-A systems. The embodiments described herein may use the LPP/LPPe positioning protocol, by making use of existing unsolicited Provide Assistance Data (PAD) messages. Embodiments avoid the need to define and implement a separate broadcast Assistance Data protocol. Additional exemplary embodiments for scheduling and verifying of the broadcast Assistance Data messages are described herein.
US09271251B2	Enhanced registration messages in internet protocol multimedia subsystems An enhanced Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”) registration message having extended header information that is used by an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (“IMS”) core to determine the registration status of a mobile device and the physical location of the mobile device. The extended header information includes hardware and subscriber identifiers, such as an International Mobile Equipment Identity (“IMEI”) and International Mobile Subscriber Identity (“IMSI”). The IMS core queries an equipment identity register to validate IMEI/IMSI identifiers in the header to determine whether to deny registration to a mobile device. The IMS core also queries a capability database using an IMEI to determine which location determination techniques are supported by or suitable for the associated mobile device.
US09271250B2	Method and communication system for storing address of network anchor point to network server A method, apparatus and communication system for registering address information of a network anchor point to a network server are disclosed. A network apparatus, such as a mobility management entity, determines whether to register address information of a network anchor point to a network server, and registers the address information of the network anchor point to the network server when determining to do so.
US09271249B2	Association biasing for a heterogeneous network (HetNet) A method for association biasing at a mobile device in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is disclosed. The method can include the mobile device receiving coordination set information from a macro node in the HetNet. The coordination set information can include at least one low power node (LPN) identifier of at least one LPN. The mobile device can receive a request from the macro node to apply a specified reference signal (RS) biasing. The mobile device can apply the specified RS biasing to an LPN RS measurement derived from a LPN RS received from an LPN having an LPN identifier in the received coordination set information. The mobile device can associate the mobile device with the LPN when the LPN RS measurement with the specified RS biasing exceeds an association threshold.
US09271237B2	Optimizing keepalive and other background traffic in a wireless network Systems and methods of optimizing network transaction traffic originating at a mobile device are provided. The systems and methods includes identifying network transaction parameters corresponding to an application and utilizing the network transaction parameters to execute a network transaction in advance of an expected schedule or after a delay to optimize the network transaction traffic.
US09271236B2	ET system with adjustment for noise An envelope tracking transceiver dynamically adjusts envelope tracking parameters to achieve the desired tradeoff between noise performance and power efficiency. When higher levels of noise are acceptable, the envelope tracking transceiver dynamically adjusts transmitter parameters to achieve better power efficiency while sacrificing noise performance. When lower levels of noise are desired, the envelope tracking transceiver dynamically adjusts parameters to achieve better noise performance while sacrificing efficiency.
US09271234B2	Terminal requested base station controlled terminal transmission throttling A method for terminal requested base station controlled terminal transmission throttling includes determining whether terminal power consumption is to be reduced, if the terminal power consumption is to be reduced, transmitting a throttling request signal to the base station, the throttling request signal including data indicating to the base station to issue a discontinuous uplink transmission grant to the terminal, and receiving from the base station a discontinuous uplink transmission grant.
US09271233B2	Communication system, communication method, and child station of communication system A child station (3) of a communication system performs communication while synchronizing the reference time of a parent station (2) with the local time (RT) of the child station (3). When the child station (3) is switched from a normal mode to a power saving mode in accordance with a mode change instruction from the parent station (2), correction is performed for one or both of a stop period in which the apparatus of the child station (3) is stopped and a non-stop period in the power saving mode using an error (Δt) generated during the time between the reference time of the parent station (2) and the local time (RT) of the child station (3). This makes it possible to synchronize the parent station (2) with the child station (3) and reliably and efficiently transfer a control frame (CF) from the parent station (2) to the child station (3).
US09271228B2	Paging and power management schemes for local network access Paging and power consumption are managed in conjunction with providing local breakout in a wireless wide area network. In some aspects, if a packet destined for an access terminal is received at an access point that provides local breakout, the access point may inform the network so that the network will cause the access point to page the access terminal. Alternatively, in some aspects an access point that provides local breakout may maintain idle context of the access terminal, whereby the access point may autonomously page the access terminal (i.e., without involving the core network). In some aspects local breakout traffic is filtered at an access point to reduce the number of pages or packets sent to an access terminal. In some aspects an indication of a packet type is provided with a page message to enable an access terminal to determine whether to receive the packet. In some aspects a local link interface may be selectively disabled or enabled to limit traffic at an access terminal.
US09271226B2	Methods and apparatus to discover network capabilities available via wireless networks An example method for network selection involves discovering network capabilities by performing an Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) query at a wireless terminal, and receiving a subsequent ANQP response from an access point of a wireless local area network. The network capabilities are indicated in the subsequent ANQP response. The example method also involves comparing the network capabilities with configured capabilities, finding a match between at least a portion of the network capabilities and at least a portion of the configured capabilities, and joining the wireless terminal with the access point based on the at least the portion of the network capabilities matching the at least the portion of the configured capabilities.
US09271221B2	Closed loop MIMO systems and methods Systems and methods for closed loop MIMO (multiple input and multiple output) wireless communication are provided. Various transmit formats including spatial multiplexing and STTD are defined in which vector or matrix weighting is employed using information fed back from receivers. The feedback information may include channel matrix or SVD-based feedback.
US09271220B2	Policy control method and system A policy control method and system are disclosed. The method includes: a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network entity sending outer Internet Protocol (IP) packet header information to a Broadband Forum (BBF) access network entity; and the BBF access network entity scheduling a data packet matching the outer IP packet header information according to a Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) of the data packet. With the above technical scheme, service data flows without going through admission control will not occupy resources of other service data flows going through the admission control.
US09271218B2	Proxy mechanism for mesh-type networks The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for connecting a mesh type network via an access device (C) to another network. A proxy mechanism is provided in the mesh type network, that allows for interconnection and range extension of legacy access point based mesh type networks.
US09271215B2	Pico cell-selection/handover for TDM eICIC heterogenous networks It is checked if a first CRE from a first cell is larger than 0 and if a second CRE from a second cell is larger than 0. If both the first and the second CRE are larger than 0, a first modified CRE is set based on the first CRE and a second modified CRE is set based on the second CRE. If the first CRE and/or the second CRE is equal to 0, the first modified CRE is set the first CRE and the second modified CRE is set to the second CRE. One of the first and second cell is selected for cell selection and/or handover based on a comparison of a sum of a signal strength indicator from the first cell and the first modified CRE and a sum of a signal strength indicator from the second cell and the second modified CRE.
US09271212B1	Managing access node selection for a wireless device In systems and methods of managing access node selection for a wireless device, a first handover of a wireless device from a first access node to a second access node is performed based on a traffic load of the first access node meeting a traffic load threshold, and a first signal level of the first access node and a second signal level of the second access node are monitored. During a predetermined time period, the performance of a second handover of the wireless device from the second access node to the first access node is prevented when the second signal level meets a first signal level criteria, but the second handover of the wireless device is performed from the second access node to the first access node when the second signal level meets a second signal level criteria and the first signal level meets a third signal level criteria.
US09271207B1	Wireless network transition by a wireless communication device Examples disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and software for transitioning between wireless communication networks. In one example, a method of operating a wireless communication device to transition between wireless communication networks includes exchanging first wireless communication signals with a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network for an application in the wireless communication device. The method further includes transitioning from exchanging the first wireless communication signals with the LTE network, to exchanging second wireless communication signals with at least one non-LTE base station for the application in the wireless communication device, and identifying LTE network status data to estimate an LTE network data rate. Based at least on the LTE network data rate, the method provides identifying an eNodeB sector and frequency carrier. Upon identifying the eNodeB sector and frequency carrier, the wireless communication device will drop to an idle mode before returning to an active mode connected to the LTE communication network.
US09271203B2	Alternate transmission scheme for high speed packet access (HSPA) Post-hard handover processing in a Time Division—Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) network may be improved to allow operation of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) in hard handover. For example, uplink synchronization may be completed concurrent with HSPA to quickly resume HSPA operation in hard handovers. User Equipment (UE) may receive downlink data while completing uplink synchronization. In another example, a unique SYNC_UL code may be assigned to a UE for hard handover. The unique SYNC_UL code allows Node Bs of the TD-SCDMA network to know which UE is performing hard handover. When a Node B is receiving the unique SYNC_UL, the Node B may begin to allocate UL data grants. After receiving UL data from the UE, the Node B may resume High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA).
US09271198B2	Handover from circuit switched domain to circuit switched service over packet switched domain A method for initiating handover of a circuit switched service using a circuit switched bearer of a mobile station from a circuit switched to a packet switched domain in a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network comprising a radio network and a core network, the radio network comprising a controlling node, the mobile station being o allocated an IP address and access port, said method comprising the controlling node communicating to the core network a relocation/handover required message; said relocation/handover required message comprising an indication of the IP address and access port allocated to the mobile station.
US09271197B2	System and method for distributed evolved packet core architecture An embodiment method for session handling for a connection between an UE and a network includes establishing, at a first distributed EPC, user and IP sessions over the connection through the first distributed EPC. The first distributed EPC includes a first PGW at which the IP session is anchored. The method also includes holding original IP resources and releasing original connection resources for the sessions at the first distributed EPC when the UE moves beyond the first distributed EPC to a second distributed EPC. The method then establishes a tunnel between the first PGW and a second PGW for the second distributed EPC. The tunnel utilizes the original IP resources and new connection resources at the second distributed EPC. The method then routes data from the tunnel, through the first PGW, and to the network.
US09271195B2	Radio communication system, base station, gateway, and radio communication method The radio communication system of the present invention includes a base station (10), a mobility management node (20), and a gateway (30). The base station (10) transmits to the mobility management node (20) information of the origination addresses of neighboring base stations of the base station (10). The mobility management node (20) receives information of the origination addresses of the neighboring base stations from the base station (10) and transmits the information of the origination addresses of the neighboring base stations to the gateway (30). The gateway (30) receives information of the origination addresses of the neighboring base stations from the mobility management node (20).
US09271193B2	Care-of-address handover Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide care-of-address handover. In one implementation, a message is sent to a server in a point-to-point communication session. The message includes a care-of-address of a first network interface (e.g., wireless network interface) and a care-of-address of a second network interface (e.g., wireline network interface). The care-of-address of the first network interface is a current care-of-address being used in the communication session and the care-of-address of the second network interface is a new care-of-address that a device (e.g., a mobile node) is going to transition to (e.g., handover). The message may also include the server's IP address and TCP (Transfer Control Protocol) port. Furthermore, the message may include the mobile node's TCP port.
US09271190B2	Remotely managed data radios including remote management capabilities Systems and methods for remotely managed data radios in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. In one embodiment of the invention, a remotely managed data radio includes first and second data radio modules, wherein the first data radio module configured to communicate on a first network including an amount of bandwidth and a latency for a given frequency channel, wherein the second data radio module is configured to communicate on a second network, and wherein the remotely managed data radio is configured to communicate mission-critical data utilizing the first data radio module, measure the performance of the first network using the first data radio module, generate non-mission-critical data using the second data radio module, where the non-mission-critical data includes the measured performance data, and communicate the non-mission-critical data utilizing the second data radio module, thereby preserving the bandwidth and latency of the primary network for communicating mission-critical data.
US09271189B2	Method and apparatus for planning radio frequency spectrum in a fixed wireless network A method and apparatus for selecting a bandwidth option for a cell in a network are disclosed. For example, the method obtains, for the cell, network traffic data for a geographical area for mobility traffic and fixed wireless traffic, a physical characteristic of an antenna in the geographical area, and a type of connectivity at a customer premise, determines a busy time data traffic from the network traffic data for both the fixed wireless traffic and the mobility traffic, determines, for the cell, a cell range from the physical characteristic of the antenna and the type of connectivity at the customer premise, selects a bandwidth option from a plurality of bandwidth options, and determines an average throughput in accordance with the bandwidth option that is selected and the cell range, wherein the average throughput comprises a throughput for serving both the mobility traffic and the fixed wireless traffic.
US09271186B2	Throughput estimation device A throughput estimation device 500 includes a wireless link quality information acquisition portion 501 acquiring wireless link quality information denoting a quality of a wireless link established between a mobile station and a base station on a mobile communication network, and a throughput estimation portion 502 estimating a throughput which is the amount for the mobile station to receive per unit time a data sent by a transmitting device connected communicably with the mobile station via the wireless link, based on the acquired wireless link quality information.
US09271183B1	Managing access channel resources by buffering service requests A method for managing access channel traffic during congested network conditions is disclosed. A wireless connection device (WCD) sends a service request to a particular base station for a particular quantity of network resources. Upon the particular base station determining that it is too loaded with network traffic to accommodate the service request, the base station saves an indication of the WCD's connection request, and responds with a communication to instruct the WCD to idle and wait for a page from the base station. The WCD, upon receiving the communication, does not send a service request for a greater quantity of network resources than the particular quantity until the WCD receives a page. Once the base station determines it has sufficient network resources to allocate to the WCD, the base station sends a page to the WCD, which causes the WCD to send another service request.
US09271178B2	Topology aware MANET for mobile networks Systems and methods provide adaptability in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), based on an existing protocol, such as adaptive hybrid domain routing (AHDR). The systems and methods are especially suited for fast changing topologies that may change after a reactive route discovery has been completed.
US09271177B2	Base station device and signal transmitting method thereof The present invention relates to a base station device and a signal transmitting method thereof. The base station device according to the present invention includes a digital signal processing device configured to separate transmission data into a first data area and a second data area, to verify whether first data detected from the first data area is pre-transmitted data, to compress any one of the first data and second data detected from the second data area based on a result of the verifying, and to transmit the compressed data via an interface, and a radio signal processing device configured to combine the first data and the second data and wirelessly transmit the transmission data when the second data is received from the digital signal processing device in a state in which the first data is received via the interface connected to the digital signal processing device and stored.
US09271169B2	Method of reporting link failure If a new link is established between a user equipment and a serving base station after a previous link failure, the user equipment is configured to report information associated with the previous link failure, including UE mobility information during the previous link, information related to transmitting/receiving the RRC connection reconfiguration, or information related to radio link failure. The serving base station is configured to perform mobility optimization in the minimization of drive test accordingly for improving handover success rate and overall network efficiency.
US09271163B1	Sampling threshold detector for direct monitoring of RF signals The peak level of a high frequency analog signal in an RF receiver is detected by a system which samples the signal and compares it against a static threshold, generating an above/below status. The system is implemented with a sampler of sufficient aperture bandwidth to capture the signal in question, operated at a clock frequency, dynamically chosen as a function of fLO (local oscillator frequency) and the desired fIF (intermediate frequency), to minimize in-band intermodulation products. The sampler produces kickback intermodulation products that are positioned out-of-band, or are of low enough power in-band so as to be inconsequential. Samples are taken for a statistically significant period of time, and the status is used to adapt the threshold to systematically determine the peak amplitude of the signal being observed.
US09271162B2	Mobile communication method and mobile station A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A of generating and storing, by a mobile station UE in a standby state, a MDT log including predetermined information in a period defined by a “Logged MDT measurement period”, a step B of generating and storing, by the mobile station UE, the MDT log when a standby cell is changed, and a step C of transmitting, by the mobile station UE, the stored MDT log to a radio base station eNB after the mobile station UE is changed to an active state.
US09271161B2	Mobile station, radio base station and communication control method A mobile station UE of the present invention is a mobile station that communicates with a radio base station using equal to or greater than two carriers, wherein the equal to or greater than two carriers include a first carrier and a second carrier, the mobile station including: a first communicating unit configured to perform communication with the first carrier; and a second carrier measuring unit configured to perform measurement of the second carrier, wherein, in a case where a measurement gap for measuring the second carrier is set, the first communicating unit is configured to perform communication with the first carrier without considering the measurement gap when the second carrier is activated, and not to perform communication with the first carrier in the measurement gap when the second carrier is not activated.
US09271160B2	Matching devices based on information communicated over an audio channel A first device periodically transmits a first audio signal that encodes a first code over an audio channel that is shared between the first device and a second device, and the second device periodically transmits a second audio signal that encodes a second code over the audio channel. When the first device receives the second audio signal over the audio channel, the first device extracts the second code from the second audio signal and sends the second code to a server. When the second device receives the first audio signal over the audio channel, the second device extracts the first code from the first audio signal and sends the first code to the server. If the server receives the first code from the second device and/or the second code from the first device, the server can conclude that the first device is in proximity to the second device.
US09271155B2	Wireless communication system using hybrid cooperative and noncooperative sensing A combination of cooperative and non-cooperative sensing methods improves spectrum utilization by switching network nodes not interfering with both primary system and cooperative secondary users to non-cooperative mode. The method then keeps record of the number of times the result of spectrum sensing of a network node matches or differs from the result of cooperative sensing. Also, the method sets thresholds to shift register values to determine when to switch back and forth between cooperative and non cooperative sensing modes, and sending control messages to let a non cooperative user access the spectrum. In the present disclosure two antenna are considered for each network node to separate the two types of control messages or broadcast and reply messages.
US09271149B2	Managing hidden security features in user equipment A device determines whether a PTT application is authenticated to access a first API and a second API, and prevents the PTT application from accessing the first and second APIs when the PTT application is not authenticated. The device permits the PTT application to access the first and second APIs when the PTT application is authenticated, and modifies, via the first API, a timer that dictates when the device checks for traffic received from a network. The device establishes, via the second API, a data connection with the network, and determines, based on the data connection, a QoS framework for the network. The device utilizes the PTT application and the timer to establish a PTT session with another device via the network, and prioritizes, based on the QoS framework, PTT traffic provided in the PTT session with the other device.
US09271148B2	Authentication in a wireless telecommunications network To facilitate authentication over a wireless access network, it is proposed to provide a hub device having an authentication storage means (i.e. a (U)SIM) to which one or more machine devices are connected. Each machine devices connects to a wireless access network and in order to authenticate with that network requests authentication information from the hub device. The core network of the wireless access network, authenticates each machine device and provides the machine devices with parallel access to the access network in accordance with authentication information obtained from the hub device. The authentication information is unique to the respective machine device but also associated with information stored on the authentication storage means of the hub device.
US09271142B1	Rule based mobile device management delegation Rule-based mobile device management delegation is disclosed. A set of rules are applied to attributes associated with a mobile device to assign the mobile device to one of a plurality of management partitions. The mobile device is managed according to a policy associated with the assigned management partition.
US09271141B1	Method and apparatus for controlling home appliances over LTE A computer includes a processor, a network communication interface controlled by the processor, and a memory accessible by the processor. Programming is stored in the memory which configures the computer as a network server to support configuration of a user interface on a mobile device for control of an appliance. The network server: 1) receives and stores registration information from the appliance, which includes an identification of the appliance and information for configuring the user interface to control the appliance, 2) receives, over a cellular network, a request from a mobile device which includes the identification of the appliance, and 3) transmits, over the cellular network, the configuration information to the mobile device which is used to configure the mobile device to display the user interface for wirelessly controlling the appliance on the mobile device.
US09271139B2	Session management method and system based on M2M application, and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention disclose a session management method and system based on an M2M application and an apparatus. In one embodiment, a session management method is based on a machine-to-machine application. Gateway equipment information and group number information of a group user device are acquired and it is determined that group information of the group user device has changed. A gateway equipment is instructed to execute bearer change processing on the group user device. The instructing is based on the gateway equipment information and the group number information of the group user device. The bearer change processing is executed on the group user device.
US09271137B2	Orchestrating user devices to form images at venue events A method, performed by one or more computer devices, may include generating a sequence script for a venue event, wherein the sequence script is configured to synchronize a plurality of user devices located at the venue during the venue event to form one or more images discernable when the devices are viewed collectively. The method may further include obtaining user registration information associated with the venue event, wherein the user registration information identifies user devices registered to participate in the generation of the one or more images; detecting a trigger event associated with the sequence script; and orchestrating the plurality of user devices to form the one or more images, in response to detecting the trigger event.
US09271135B2	Local network alert system for mobile devices using an IMS session and Wi-Fi access point A wireless emergency alert system (also known as a wireless emergency alert system, or “WEA,” and formerly known as a commercial mobile alert system, or “CMAS”) receives a geotargeted federal alert that is to be delivered to mobile devices within a defined geographic region. A database of locations of access points is utilized by the system to identify those access points that are likely present in the defined region. The system identifies mobile devices that have an ongoing connection (e.g. IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) session) with the identified access points, in part by maintaining and accessing a look-up table containing location information for the access point and connected mobile devices. In addition, the system tracks mobile devices that no longer have an ongoing session and deregisters the appropriate mobile devices in the look-up table. For mobile devices that have an ongoing session, the system delivers the received alert to the mobile devices in the targeted region via the identified access points.
US09271130B2	Systems and methods for managing communications across multiple identities Electronic communications are managed across multiple identities. A user is able to create an account as well as any desired, required, or appropriate number of profiles under the account. Text messages are exchanged between users using specific profiles. For example, some text messages can be exchanged using a personal profile while other text messages need to be exchanged using a professional profile. In some instances, exchanged text messages are saved to a centralized archive. As such, one or both of the users involved in an exchange can request to retrieve some or all of the exchanged messages at a later time.
US09271129B2	Mobile messaging hub enabling enterprise office telephone numbers A messaging hub provides communication services for user devices associated with an enterprise office telephone number. The messaging hub establishes a secure connection between the messaging hub local SMSC/MMSC and a data adapter of a unified communications service, provision the enterprise office telephone number for use in a global SMS/MMS network and delivers messages addressed to the enterprise office telephone number to selected user devices.
US09271127B2	Automatic switching and failover method and system for messages and voice calls between cellular and IP networks A communication method for automatically switching between cellular networks and IP networks includes following steps. A mobile phone number is used as an user account. A sending user inputs or selects the user account or the mobile phone number of a receiving user on a sending client to send a message to the receiving user. If there is an user account corresponding to the mobile phone number of the receiving user registered on a server and the user account is on line, the sending client sends a message to the server via the IP networks, and the server transfers the message to a receiving client via the IP networks. If there is no user account corresponding to the mobile phone number of the receiving user registered on the server, the sending client directly sends a short message to the mobile phone number of the receiving user via the cellular networks.
US09271123B2	Wireless reliability architecture and methods using network coding Network-coding-enabled reliability architectures and techniques are provided that are capable of enhancing data transfer reliability and efficiency in next generation wireless networks. In some embodiments, the techniques and architectures utilize a flexible thread-based coding approach to implement network coding. The techniques and architectures may also, or alternatively, utilize systematic intra-session random linear network coding as a packet erasure code to support reliable data transfer.
US09271121B1	Associating requests for content with a confirmed location Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A first confirmation is received of a location associated with a user identifier. A confirmed location identifies a physical address of a user device associated with the user identifier. Subsequent to the first confirmation, location data associated with a user device associated with the user identifier is processed, including determining that the user device is near the confirmed location. A second confirmation confirms that sufficient occurrences have identified of a presence of a device associated with the user identifier near the confirmed location. Characteristics of an environment accessed by the user are determined and stored in association with the confirmed location. Requests are received from other users. Characteristics of a given request are compared with stored characteristics. When comparing indicates a match, the confirmed location is associated with the subsequent request.
US09271117B2	Computing system with configuration update mechanism and method of operation thereof A computing system includes: a context module configured to determine a contextual information for representing the contextual information relative to a device; a zone module, coupled to the context module, configured to determine a proximity zone for identifying further devices within the proximity zone relative to the device; a proximate-device module, coupled to the zone module, configured to determine proximate-device identities for identifying the further devices relative to the device; and a configuration transfer module, coupled to the proximate-device module, configured to communicate a transferable configuration setting with a communication unit using the proximate-device identities for updating the device based on the transferable configuration setting and the contextual information for displaying on the device.
US09271116B1	Location-based telephone calls over a wireless local area network (WLAN) A request to access a location-based service is received via a wireless access point (WAP). A WAP identifier associated with the WAP may be identified based on the request and a particular geographic location associated with the WAP may be determined based on the identifier. For example, a WAP information service (WIS) may store data associating geographic locations and WAP identifiers corresponding to a plurality of WAPs that include the WAP, and the particular geographic location may be determined by querying the WIS, based on the particular WAP identifier, to identify the particular geographic location. A communication may be established between the user device and location-based service based on the particular geographic location associated with the WAP.
US09271115B2	Method and system for providing a social music service using an LBS, and recording medium for recording a program for executing the method Provided are a method and system for providing a social music service using a location based service (LBS), and a recording medium in which a program for executing the method is recorded. The method includes: an uploading step of receiving data on a location at which music is to be posted and corresponding music data from a user terminal and then storing the data in a server; a tracking step of tracking the location of the user terminal using the LBS in the server and detecting whether or not the user terminal has come within a predetermined distance from the posting location; and a playing step of transmitting, from the server to the user terminal, music data matched with the corresponding location when the user terminal has come within the predetermined distance from the posting location.
US09271107B2	Connection establishment method and apparatus for MTC UE A connection establishment method for a Machine Type Communication (MTC) User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. A MTC UE receives system information from at least one neighbor Base Station (BS). The system information includes information regarding whether or not the at least one BS supports MTC UE. The MTC UE determines at least one candidate BS based on the system information. The at least one candidate BS supports the MTC UE. The MTC UE determines a last BS based on an intensity of a signal from the at least one candidate BS. The MTC UE sends a random access preamble to the last BS.
US09271105B2	Systems and methods for facilitating the acquisition of content The present invention provides systems and methods for acquiring content (e.g., a ring tone or a ring view) for a communication device.
US09271104B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic device pairing A communication system, method, and components are described. Specifically, a communication system that supports dynamic device pairing of communication devices is described. Such pairing is accomplished using a feature or pairing server, without requiring modification to associated communication endpoints. Moreover, sequenced applications can be applied for all communication endpoints when pairing is in effect.
US09271103B2	Audio control based on orientation A device may be configured to sense its own orientation with respect to a coordinate system, and to also sense the orientation of a user's head with respect to the device. The device may then determine whether the device orientation has changed with respect to the coordinate system and/or whether the head orientation has changed with respect to the device. Audio signal generation in the device may then be controlled based on the determination. For example, the position of a simulated sound source may be changed in a 3-D audio field based on determined changes in device and/or head orientation. The audio signal may then be transmitted from the device to an apparatus configured to generate sound based on the audio signal (e.g., headphones).
US09271100B2	Sound field spatial stabilizer with spectral coherence compensation In a system and method for maintaining the spatial stability of a sound field a balance gain may be calculated for two or more microphone signals. The balance gain may be associated with a spatial image in the sound field. Signal values may be calculated for each of the microphone. The signal values may be signal estimates or signal gains calculated to improve a characteristic of the microphone signals. The differences between the signal values associated with each microphone signal may be limited although some difference between signal values may be allowable. One or more microphone signals are adjusted responsive to the two or more balance gains and the signal gains to maintain the spatial stability of the sound field. The adjustments of one or more microphone signals may include mixing of two or more microphone. The signal gains are applied to the two or more microphone signals.
US09271096B2	Delay unit for a conference audio system, method for delaying audio input signals, computer program and conference audio system A delay unit (16) for a conference audio system (1) adapted to delay audio input signals for an adjustable time delay, thereby generating audio output signals, is proposed. The delay unit (16) comprising a circular buffer (17); a write pointer (W) to write a sample (S1) of a first input signal to the circular buffer (17) at a first write position; a read pointer (R) to read a sample from the circular buffer (17) at a first read position as a sample of a first output signal, whereby the distance between the first write position and the first read position determines a first time delay dold; a buffer control module adapted to move the write pointer W to a next position after writing and to move the read pointer (R) to a next position after reading; characterized in that the buffer control module is adapted to adjust a second time delay dnew by moving the write pointer (W) to a second write position, whereby the distance between the first read position and the second write position determines the second time delay dnew.
US09271095B2	Hearing aid device and a method of manufacturing a hearing aid device A hearing aid device and a method of manufacturing the hearing aid device provide a housing and a first conductive layer. The housing has a first non-conductive layer and a second non-conductive layer. The first conductive layer is disposed between the first non-conductive layer and the second non-conductive layer.
US09271093B2	Hearing instrument with an integral injection-molding casing A hearing instrument has an integral injection-molding casing. The hearing instrument fixes the internal components in an integral casing that is simple in design, production, and assembly; requires few components; and is easy to handle. Accordingly the hearing instrument contains an integral casing and a frame arranged within the casing. The casing has an assembly opening through which the frame is pushed into the casing. Additionally, the casing has a fixation opening oriented perpendicular to the insertion direction, which fixation opening interacts with a fixation device arranged on the frame in order to fix the frame in the casing. This provides a simple fixation mechanism. The fixation opening can be applied as a bore after the production of the casing, and so the casing has no undercuts and can therefore be produced in an injection-molding method. The fixation device can be embodied as a bolt. The bolt can be integrally molded onto the frame. The bolt can be inserted into the fixation opening by a spring force. In one embodiment, a microphone to be assembled after the frame has been inserted into the casing serves as a bolt.
US09271090B2	Entrainment resistant feedback cancellation This invention concerns a method, and a device, for feedback cancellation. This invention also concerns a computer program product comprising computer program code means to make a computer execute a procedure for feedback cancellation. The method comprises providing an adaptive feedback cancellation filter which adapts under the control of a control module, and filtering at least one input of the control module to suppress correlated signals from the input prior to the control module operating upon the input. The device comprises an adaptive feedback cancellation filter, a control module and at least one filter. The control module controls adaptation of the adaptive feedback cancellation filter. The filter suppresses correlated signals from an input to the control module prior to the control module operating upon the input.
US09271087B1	Microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microphone package device and MEMS packaging method thereof A MEMS microphone package device includes a MEMS microphone chip as an integrated circuit chip. An acoustic sensing structure is embedded in the integrated circuit chip. An adhesive structure adheres on outer sidewall of the microphone chip. A bottom portion of the adhesive structure protrudes out from first surface of the microphone chip and adheres on a surface of a substrate, having interconnection structure, to form a first seal ring. A space between the acoustic sensing structure and the substrate and sealed by the first seal ring forms a second chamber. A cover adheres to top portion of the adhesive structure, covering over the cavity on the second surface of the microphone chip. The top portion of the adhesive structure forms as a second seal ring. A space between the cover and the second surface of the microphone chip and sealed by the second seal ring forms a first chamber.
US09271082B2	Surrounds for audio drivers A ring-shaped surround for a loudspeaker is disclosed, in the form of a membrane formed in a shape that, when relaxed (i.e. when not being driven), has a cross sectional shape with a first portion extending in a radial direction for a first distance, a second portion extending in an axial direction for a second distance, and a third portion extending in a radial direction for a third distance, the first and second portions being connected by a first flexible join, and the second and third portions being connected by a second flexible join, the first join having a first radius of curvature that is shorter than at least one of said first and second distances, the second join having a second radius of curvature that is shorter than at least one of said second and third distances. Thus, the surround has a Z-shape, with a first radially extending portion, and a relatively sharp bend leading to an axially-extending portion. The radially outwardly extending portion can have a surface which undulates around its circumference, to provide a stiffening effect to the otherwise planar surface and inhibit resonances. One or more tabs can be provided, extending from a surface of the second portion, in a direction transverse to the local orientation of the second portion. These will adjust the dynamic properties of the surround as required. Typically, the surround will be circular, to fit around a circular driver. However, other shapes are possible.
US09271081B2	Method and device for enhanced sound field reproduction of spatially encoded audio input signals A method for sound field reproduction into a listening area of spatially encoded first audio input signals according to sound field description data using an ensemble of physical loudspeakers. The method includes computing reproduction subspace description data from loudspeaker positioning data describing the subspace in which virtual sources can be reproduced with the physically available setup. Then, second and third audio input signals with associated sound field description data, in which second audio input signals include spatial components of the first audio input signals located within the reproducible subspace and third audio input signals include spatial components of the first audio input signals located outside of the reproducible subspace. A spatial analysis is performed on second audio input signals to extract fourth audio input signals corresponding to localizable sources within the reproducible subspace with associated source positioning data. Components of second audio input signals after spatial analysis are merged with third audio input signals into fifth audio input signals with associated sound field description data for reproduction within the reproducible subspace. Loud-speaker alimentation signals are computed from fourth and fifth audio input signals.
US09271079B2	Data processing method and electronic device The present invention discloses a data processing method applied in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a codec, at least two audio output devices, an identification module, a communication module and at least two players. The method comprises the steps of: decoding, by the at least two players, at least two paths of coded multi-media data containing audio data to generate at least two channels of code streams corresponding to the at least two paths of multi-media data when the electronic device is in an operating state; assigning, by the identification module, an identifier to each of the at least two channels of code streams and transmitting at least two identifiers to the communication module, the at least two identifiers being provided to the codec such that the codec can receive the at least two channels of code streams based on the at least two identifiers; and establishing, by the codec, a channel corresponding to each of the at least two channels of code streams based on the at least two identifiers, such that each channel of code stream can be output to one of the at least two audio output devices via its corresponding channel.
US09271078B2	Audio output device capable of switching a sound field An audio output device includes a housing, a speaker, a switching unit, a fixing component and a control unit. An opening is formed on the housing. The speaker is for outputting sound. The switching unit is installed inside the housing. The fixing component is fixed in the opening of the housing for triggering the switching unit so that the switching unit outputs a switching signal. The control unit is electrically connected to the switching unit and the speaker, and the control unit controls the speaker to output sound in a corresponding sound field as the control unit receives the switching signal.
US09271074B2	System and method for measuring sound A system and method for measuring sound is described. In one embodiment frequency-banded-noise samples, which collectively cover at least a portion of a spectrum, are sequentially generated at different points in time, and a baseline sound-pressure-level reading for each of the frequency banded noise samples is received. Using data received from a microphone, a sound pressure level reading is generated for each of the frequency banded noise samples. Calibration data is then produced for the microphone as a function of a difference between each of the baseline sound-pressure-level readings and a corresponding one of each of the generated sound pressure level readings for each of the frequency banded noise samples.
US09271073B2	Method for controlling an extended-range electric vehicle including an electronic sound enhancement system A method for controlling an extended-range electric vehicle including an internal combustion engine and an electronic sound enhancement system includes selecting a preferred engine order equalization, said preferred engine order equalization achieving a desired engine sound in a passenger compartment of the vehicle responsive to an operator input to an accelerator pedal and decoupled from actual engine operation responsive to a state of charge (SOC) of a propulsion battery. Sound is generated in the passenger compartment by the electronic sound enhancement system responsive to the preferred engine order equalization.
US09271072B2	Analog input module An analog input module includes an activation unit, an analog/digital converter, an input circuit with a first input and a second input and a voltage divider disposed between the first input and the second input. The activation unit is connected to the first input and the second input and is connected upstream of the analog/digital converter. The voltage divider has center tap which is connected to a first comparator input of a comparator of a closed-loop control unit. The closed-loop control unit has a switching device disposed between the second input and a reference point. The comparator includes a second comparator input which is connected to a reference source. The comparator has a control output which is connected to a control input of the switching device. The closed-loop control unit is configured such that the switching device enables or disables a current path to the reference point.
US09271071B2	Loudspeaker A magnetic assembly and a loudspeaker a magnetic assembly. The magnetic assembly has a pole piece that is designed to form an outer air gap and an inner air gap for coaxial voice coils of the loudspeaker. The same magnet is used for the magnetic circuits of the two voice coils. The pole piece is shaped to split the magnetic circuits into a low frequency magnetic circuit and a high frequency magnetic circuit. A convex dome is attached to the high frequency voice coil.
US09271070B2	Waterproof sound transmitting member A waterproof sound transmitting member according to the present invention includes: a waterproof sound transmitting membrane having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a first adhesive sheet and a second adhesive sheet that are disposed on the first surface. When viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first surface, the first adhesive sheet has a closed frame shape, and the second adhesive sheet is disposed within the frame formed by the first adhesive sheet and is spaced from the first adhesive sheet. This waterproof sound transmitting member has a structure suitable for preventing deterioration in sound quality due to sagging of the waterproof sound transmitting membrane.
US09271059B2	Verification of path integrity in optical switch network To verify the integrity of optical paths through and among optical switches, optical signals are provided with co-propagating supplemental signals. The supplemental signals preferably have at least one characteristic which allows distinguishing one supplemental signal from another. Associated with a port of a switch, means are provided for detecting a supplemental signal and determining if the supplemental signal indicates that a desired optical signal is passing through the port as expected and desired. Means for imparting or changing the distinguishing characteristic of a supplemental signal may also be employed to facilitate verifying the passage of optical signals.
US09271058B2	Communications network A communications network wherein first and second optical signals can be launched into an optical fiber in respective first and second regions of a transmission window such that controllable filters can be used to selectively recover the first and second optical signals. This partitioning of the transmission window allows two incompatible optical signals to coexist in the same optical fiber.
US09271056B2	Systems and methods for communicating and validating adcopy instructions Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a system and method for validating adcopy instructions. A user selection of an advertising client may be received. One or more advertising orders associated with the advertising client are identified in an order management system. A selection of an advertising order is received from the user. A set of adcopy instructions to be associated with the selected advertising contract is received from the user. The set of adcopy instructions are validated based on one or more rules associated with each of the order management system and a traffic and billing system. When the adcopy instructions are validated, the adcopy instructions are stored in a database associated with the traffic and billing system.
US09271051B1	System and method for call placement using a television set-top box A call-placement service is provided for a cable television set top box (STB). The STB is interconnected to a television display and via a cable link to a server at a cable television provider head end. The STB includes an onboard application that presents a menu to the subscriber allowing access to a list of telephone numbers and downloadable content providers. The head end includes a service application that selects an appropriate telephone provider and transmits the telephone numbers to the provider. The telephone provider connects to the subscriber and detects whether the subscriber can receive an SMS message. If so, the provider connects to the target and detects whether the target can accept the call or send an SMS message. If so, the telephone system connects the call between the subscriber and the target of passes an SMS message to the user's that may contain a link for content download.
US09271039B2	Live television application setup behavior An intelligent television and methods for user interaction between the intelligent television and the user are provided. In general, a user is provided with navigation, notification, and setup options which enable one or more functions associated with the intelligent television. The presentation of options is based on input received by the intelligent television. As a user provides input to the intelligent television via a remote control or other input device, the intelligent television is configured to interpret the input and provide interactive functionality in the form of content presented to the display of the intelligent television.
US09271038B2	Receiving device, receiving method, providing device, providing method, programs, and broadcasting system This technique relates to a receiving device, a receiving method, a providing device, a providing method, a program and a broadcasting system that can notify the receiving side of control information such as the timing to synchronize an application program with progress of a show without using a television broadcast signal.When the application control type written in the application control descriptor is 3, the receiving device acquires application control data from a server, and, for example, acquires and starts a new information service application in accordance with the segment data forming the application control data. When an external device is designated as the command destination device, the receiving device generates a command for the external device, and outputs the command to the external device. In accordance with the command from the receiving device, the external device, for example, acquires and starts the new information service application. This disclosure can be applied in a case where the receiving device is controlled from the broadcasting side.
US09271037B2	Playing device and playing method A playing device and a play method are provided. The playing device includes a playing module configured to play a first media stream currently being received; a first monitoring module configured to monitor whether the first media stream contains a content a user does not want to watch and generate a monitor result; and a first controlling module configured to control the playing module to play a second media stream in response to the monitor result indicating that the first media stream contains the content the user does not want to watch, the second media stream being different from the first media stream and containing a content the user wants to watch.
US09271036B1	Location-based movie identification systems and methods The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for movie identification based on a location. In the embodiment, a method includes locating a mobile communication device associated with a user to form location data, accessing a location database to determine a geographic location of the mobile communication device based on the location data, and identifying a set of movies related to the geographic location by accessing a movie database. Each of the set of movies in the movie database is associated with one or more respective geographic locations. The method also includes presenting a set of movie results corresponding to the set of movies on a graphical user interface of the mobile communication device. In another embodiment, the method may also validate an object photographed by a camera of the mobile communication device, and use the recognized object to identify the set of movies.
US09271034B2	Adding content during data stream acquisition A device is provided for use with extended content data on a first data stream and second content data on a second data stream. The device includes a processing portion, an acquisition portion and a buffer. The acquisition portion is in communication with the processing portion. The acquisition portion can acquire the first data stream, can transition to the second data stream to receive the second content data and can provide the second content data to the processing portion. The buffer can receive the extended content data. The processing portion can instruct the acquisition portion to transition from the first data stream to the second data stream to receive the second content data. The buffer can further provide the extended content data to the processing portion based on the acquisition portion transitioning from the first data stream to the second data stream. The processing portion can further process the extended content data portion as received from the buffer.
US09271032B2	System and method for saving and recalling state data for media and home appliances A set of media playback and device settings data from each home appliance of a first set of home appliances is stored on a central server and/or sent to a remote control device upon initiation of a suspend command by a user. The stored media and devices states may be used at a later time to control the first set of home appliances, or a user may, after relocating to a second set of home appliances, initiate a resume state command whereupon media playback and device settings data from the central server and/or remote control device controls each home appliance in the second set of home appliances to bring about the same or substantially similar media and device states as in the first set of home appliances.
US09271029B2	Method and input-output device for rendering at least one of audio, video and computer graphics content and servicing device for delivering at least one of pre-rendered audio, pre-rendered video and pre-rendered computer graphics content A method and an input-output device are proposed for rendering content. Further, a servicing device is proposed for delivering pre-rendered content.For rendering, a portion of processing or memorizing resources of said input-output device is allocated such that remaining resources of said input-output device are sufficient for maintaining the input-output capability of the device. Then, it is determined that an amount of resources required for rendering exceeds the allocated resources and a corresponding degree of pre-rendering is determined, too. On the serving device, pre-rendering of the content according to the determined degree is performed and the pre-rendered content is delivered from the serving device to the input-output device.Since server-side rendering is limited to a required degree, bandwidth constraints can be met more easily. Furthermore, rendering occurs more distributed and can be adjusted dynamically, thus, response time can be reduced.
US09271024B2	Targeted television advertising based on profiles linked to multiple online devices A profile provider: (i) associates a primary online device (OD1) with a set-top box (STB); (ii) a location of OD1 at some point in time is estimated to be “near” the STB, thereby establishing a STB proxy location; (iii) one or more secondary online devices (OD2s) are observed to be located “near” the STB proxy location and are associated with the STB; and (iv) a television advertisement is selected to be directed to the STB, which selection is based at least in part on profile information linked to one of the associated OD2s. The method can be particularly advantageous in situations wherein: the STB is not connected to any computer network; the STB is not ever connected to the same local area network as OD1 or OD2; or television service (used by the STB) and online access (used by OD1 and OD2s) are provided by different service providers.
US09271022B2	Internet content subscription service via multiple devices Subscribing to channels and playing content, including: selecting an available subscription channel with an application on a second device; modifying a user's, subscription list based on the selected subscription-channel; and executing commands on any of the subscription channels of the user's subscription list. Keywords include: media, internet content, BIVL subscription and device infrastructure.
US09271021B2	Delivery of streaming media content A device includes a communication interface and one or more processors. The communication interface may receive media guide data, from a media guide server via a network, including information relating to a number of available media items and playlist information relating to at least one available playlist file associated with a particular media item. The one or more processors may receive a user selection of the particular media item and may request the playlist file from a playlist server via the network based on the playlist information via the interface. The interface may receive the playlist file from the playlist server, the playlist file including locations of stream segments corresponding to the selected playlist. The one or more processors may request the stream segments from a content server via the network based on the received playlist file.
US09271020B2	Socially networked television experience In one embodiment, a system for providing social interaction opportunities for people watching television is presented. The system includes: a television data source which transmits television data streams for reception by end devices, each end device being represented by an equipment code; a plurality of end devices, including a first user's end device and a second user's end device, each end device configured to receive a television data streams, and each user represented by an identifier code; and an interactive-information server configured to: store, at the first user's behest, the identifier code of the second user; monitor which of the television data streams is being received by the first end device; monitor which of the television data streams is being received by the second end device; and notify the first user when the first end device and the second end device are receiving the same television data stream.
US09271007B2	System and method for adaptively allocating resources in a transcoder An adaptive transcoder is provided that includes a shared memory containing a plurality of decoder buffers to store incoming data packets, a plurality of decoder instances to control a decoding process to generate image raw data based on the incoming data packets, and a plurality of encoder instances configured to control an encoding process to generate outgoing packets based on the image raw data; and a data processing element containing a plurality of processing cores, and a core controller. Each decoder instance is paired with an encoder instance; and each decoder buffer is associated with a decoder instance. Each decoder buffer includes a monitoring element to monitor a respective decoder buffer, and provide buffer data corresponding to the status of the decoder buffer. Each encoder instance is associated with a processing core; and the core controller uses the buffer data to associate each decoder instance with a processing core.
US09271006B2	Coding and decoding method for images or videos A coding and decoding method for images or videos is provided by embodiments of the present invention to improve coding and decoding efficiency. The method includes: establishing a visual dictionary, wherein, the visual dictionary includes one or more visual words; extracting features from a specific object in an image; determining whether there is a visual word in the visual dictionary matching the specific object by using a feature matching method; obtaining the index of the visual word matched and a geometric relationship between the specific object and the visual word matched, wherein, the geometric relationship is represented by a project parameter; entropy coding the index of the visual word matched and the project parameter instead of entropy coding the specific object.
US09271003B2	Real-time audio or video transcoding A system and a method are disclosed for transcoding video files on a server such that they can be streamed to a client device in substantially real-time. The server receives a video file a uses a prediction algorithm to predict each video frame's size based on encoding and streaming parameters associated with the input file and an output stream and transcoding each video frame. If a transcoded frame is too large, it is compressed further, if it is too small, the video file is padded. As such, each video frame transcoded or padded until the encoded frame is the same size as a predicted size. The transcoded frames are streamed to a client device to enable the client to device to playback the video after requesting it from the server.
US09271002B2	Coding method and coding apparatus The image decoding method includes: determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic decoding on a bit sequence corresponding to the current block, using the determined context, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of neighboring blocks of the current block are used, when the signal type is a first type, the neighboring blocks being a left block and an upper block of the current block; and the context is determined under a condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used, when the signal type is a second type, and the second type is “inter_pred_flag”.
US09271000B2	Image-encoding apparatus and method, transform-encoding apparatus and method, apparatus and method for generating a transform base, and image-decoding apparatus and method used in same A video encoding apparatus includes an intra prediction error collector; a transform base generator; an intra predictor; and a transform encoder, the intra prediction error collector collecting prediction errors of blocks having an equal intra prediction mode from macroblocks in a regular unit, which are encoded prior to a current macroblock, the transform base generator generating transform bases for respective intra prediction modes based on the prediction errors collected by the intra prediction error collector. Accordingly, the intra prediction encoding performance can be significantly improved with adding no addition information by adaptively generating a transform base according to an image characteristic change and transform-encoding an intra prediction error. As a result, the compression efficiency of a video compression apparatus or the picture quality of a reconstructed image can be greatly improved.
US09270998B2	Image decoding device and method thereof using inter-coded predictive encoding code An image encoding device and corresponding decoding device are disclosed for achieving a high rate of compression. The encoding device includes an image conversion module that converts the direction of the images using right-left symmetry mode convention or up-down symmetry mode conversion. Encoding modules are used to encode both the unconverted and converted images. A mode selector module compares the quantity of codes in the encoded unconverted images and the quantity of codes in the encoded converted images, and selects codes that are smaller in the quantity of codes for output.
US09270996B2	Method and apparatus for generating encoded motion information/recovering motion information using motion information integration, and image encoding/decoding method and apparatus using same A video encoding apparatus, a video decoding apparatus and a method for generating coded motion information before reconstructing by using motion information merge, the video encoding apparatus includes an inter prediction unit configured to generate a prediction block of a current block by using motion compensation, decide whether to encode motion information by merging and generate coded motion information of the current block depending on the decision; a subtraction unit configured to generate a residual block by subtracting the prediction block generated from the current block; a transform and quantization unit configured to transform and quantize the residual block to thereby generate a quantized frequency residual block; and an encoding unit configured to encode the quantized frequency residual block and the coded motion information to thereby generate a bitstream.
US09270994B2	Video encoder/decoder, method and computer program product that process tiles of video data A video decoder, method and computer program product allow for processing of a video frame encoded in rectangular tiles. An interface receives a bit stream in tile order within a video frame that was encoded into rectangular tiles. A processor decodes the video frame while respecting dependency breaks at tile boundaries; the rectangular tiles include an integer number of two-dimensional blocks of pixels. A tile shape is defined by N×M two-dimensional blocks of pixels, respective values of N and M need not be identical for each of the rectangular tiles, and information regarding tile shape for each tile being conveyed from an encoder to the decoder. The decoder determines N and M for each tile from the information, and tiles have dependency breaks therebetween.
US09270993B2	Video deblocking filter strength derivation Codecs may be modified to consider weighting and/or illumination compensation parameters when determining a deblocking filter strength that is to be applied. These parameters may be useful for recording illumination changes, such as fades, cross-fades, flashes, or light source changes, which allows these illumination changes to displayed during playback using the same reference frame data which different weighting and/or illumination compensation parameters applied. In different instances, the parameters may be considered when setting a deblocking filter strength to ensure that these effects are properly displaying during playback while minimizing the appearance of blocking artifacts.
US09270990B2	Method for encoding and decoding images based on constrained offset compensation and loop filter, and apparatus therefor Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding images based on constrained offset compensation and a loop filter. The image decoding apparatus: receives, from an encoder, a first indicator indicating whether a sequence, a picture, a frame, a slice, a coding unit (CU), a prediction unit (PU), and/or a transform unit (TU) supports constrained offset compensation; receives, from the encoder, a second indicator indicating whether constrained sample adaptive offset (SAO) compensation or an adaptive loop filter (ALF) is applied; receives a parameter from the encoder; and applies the SAO compensation or the ALF to pixels of a restored image on the basis of the second indicator and the parameter.
US09270985B2	Method and apparatus for selecting a coding mode A method and apparatus for selecting a coding mode are described. For example, the method receives at least one block of a signal to be encoded. The method determines a frame vertical pixel difference in the at least one block and determines a field vertical pixel difference in the at least one block. The method then compares the frame vertical pixel difference with the field vertical pixel difference to determine a first coding mode for the at least one block.
US09270984B2	Camera with dust checking function A camera includes a photo-sensitive element and a controller. The controller is electrically connected to the photo-sensitive element. The photo-sensitive element is configured to capture an image of an object. The controller is configured to convert a color level value of each of pixels of the image into an image gray level value, and the controller is configured to generate an alarm message to display on a screen of the camera when one of the image gray level values is higher than a predetermined gray level threshold value.
US09270982B2	Stereoscopic image display control device, imaging apparatus including the same, and stereoscopic image display control method A system control unit 11 includes a first step of causing a stereoscopic image to be displayed in an enlarged scale according to an instruction on a display device 23, and a second step of determining, when the stereoscopic image is enlarged at a magnification according to the instruction, whether or not a parallax amount of the enlarged stereoscopic image displayed on the display device 23 is greater than a threshold value, in which in the first step, when the instruction for enlarging the stereoscopic image at the magnification at which the parallax amount is greater than the threshold value is made, the enlarged stereoscopic image to be displayed on the display device 23 after the instruction is finished becomes the enlarged stereoscopic image in the enlarged scale at the magnification at which the parallax amount is not greater than the threshold value.
US09270979B2	Apparatus and method for measuring 3-dimensional interocular crosstalk An apparatus and method for measuring 3-dimensional (3D) interocular crosstalk is disclosed. A light sensor detects luminance of a stereoscopic image displayed in a display and outputs a luminance value indicating the detected luminance. A controller calculates 3D interocular crosstalk based on a gray difference and a residual luminance ratio.
US09270977B2	3D photo creation system and method The present application is directed to a 3D photo creation system and method, wherein the 3D photo creation system including: a stereo image input module configurated to input a stereo image; wherein the stereo image comprises a left eye image and a right eye image; a depth estimation module configurated to estimate a depth information of the stereo image and create a depthmap; a multi-view angle image reconstructing module configurated to create a multi-view angle image according to the depthmap and the stereo image; and an image spaced scanning module configurated to adjust the multi-view angle image and form a mixed image. The system and method outstandingly simplified the process of 3D photo creation and enhanced the quality of 3D photo. The system and method can be widely used in various theme parks, tourists attraction spots and photo galleries and bring about pleasure to more consumers with the 3D photos.
US09270976B2	Multi-user stereoscopic 3-D panoramic vision system and method A panoramic camera system includes a plurality of camera units mounted in a common, e.g., horizontal, plane and arranged in a circumferential array. Each camera unit includes one or more lenses for focusing light from a field of view onto an array of light-sensitive elements. A panoramic image generator combines electronic image data from the multiplicity of the fields of view to generate electronic image data representative of a first 360-degree panoramic view and a second 360-degree panoramic view, wherein the first and second panoramic views are angularly displaced. A stereographic display system is provided to retrieve operator-selectable portions of the first and second panoramic views and to display the user selectable portions in human viewable form. In a further aspect, a video display method is provided.
US09270974B2	Calibration between depth and color sensors for depth cameras A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a first digital image from a color camera, wherein the first digital image comprises a planar object, and a second digital image from a depth sensor, wherein the second digital image comprises the planar object. The system also includes a calibrator component that jointly calibrates the color camera and the depth sensor based at least in part upon the first digital image and the second digital image.
US09270971B1	Systems and methods for 2D-to-3D conversion Systems and methods can facilitate identifying 2D content in media that is suitable for conversion into 3D content, and converting the suitable 2D content into 3D content. The identifying can be based on quality criteria applied to the 2D content. For 2D content converted into 3D content, a user can be offered a choice between viewing the content in its original 2D form, or viewing the content in its converted, 3D form. The systems and methods can thereby provide users with greater choice of content and an enhanced viewing experience.
US09270969B2	3D video processing A method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for performing 2D to 3D conversion are presented. A 2D input source is extracted into left and right 3D images. Motion vectors are calculated for the left and right 3D images. Frame rate conversion is performed on the left 3D image and the right 3D image, using the respective calculated motion vectors, to produce motion compensated left and right 3D images. The left and right 3D images and the motion compensated left and right 3D images are reordered for display.
US09270967B2	Display control apparatus and display control method A display control apparatus comprises a recording unit which records a still image and a moving image associated with the still image on a recording medium; a setting unit which sets whether to set the associated moving image as a start image to be displayed first at a start of image reproduction; and a control unit which controls to, when the associated moving image has been set as the start image, display the associated moving image from images recorded on the recording medium at the start of image reproduction, and controls to, when the associated moving image has not been set as the start image, display an image based on another condition irrelevant to whether the image is the associated moving image, from images recorded on the recording medium at the start of image reproduction.
US09270962B2	Method of eliminating color cast of image in photographic device A method of eliminating a color cast of image in photographic device includes: obtaining a color cast image; determining a color temperature of the color cast image; analyzing a brightness ratio among a first primary color, a second primary color, and a third primary color of the color cast image; choosing one parameter group from a plurality of color cast calibration parameter groups according to the color temperature; calibrating the brightness ratio among the first primary color, the second primary color, and the third primary color of the color cast image via the chosen color cast calibration parameter group.
US09270960B1	System and method for green imbalance compensation in images A method and imaging device are provided. A pixel output signal is obtained for each green pixel in a group of pixels of an image. The group of pixels includes a plurality of pixel arrays, where each pixel array of the plurality of pixel arrays includes a first green pixel and a second green pixel. A green imbalance value is determined for the group of pixels based on the obtained pixel output signals. For each pixel array, a difference between the pixel output signal for the first green pixel and the pixel output signal for the second green pixel is calculated. An average of the calculated differences is determined. The pixel output signal of at least one of the green pixels in the group of pixels is adjusted based on the green imbalance value.
US09270959B2	Dynamic color shading correction Certain embodiments relate to systems and methods for dynamic color shading correction, which can estimate the color shading in a captured image on the fly. The color shading may be estimated from the scene statistics of the captured image, and the estimated shading may be used for color shading correction. The color shading estimation method may separate out the color shading component from the actual image content by its unique characteristic in the gradient domain.
US09270954B2	Imaging device An imaging device has an intra-plane pixel summation unit and an inter-plane pixel summation unit. In the frame of interest, the intra-plane pixel summation unit sums the signals of the pixel of interest and selected highly correlated neighboring pixels to generate an intra-plane sensitized signal and a code indicating the pattern formed by the pixel of interest and the selected pixels. The inter-plane pixel summation unit selects pixels for summation from among the pixels positioned identically to the pixel of interest and pixels in the neighborhood of the identically positioned pixels in one or more frames neighboring the frame of interest on the basis of the agreement or disagreement of their pixel summing pattern codes and correlation of their intra-plane sensitized signals. In a Bayer array imaging device, enhanced sensitivity is obtained without causing color mixing.
US09270953B2	Wafer level camera having movable color filter grouping An image capture unit includes an image sensor and a lens structure disposed proximate to the image sensor to focus an image onto the image sensor. A movable color filter grouping is disposed over the lens structure. The movable color filter grouping includes a plurality of N color filters arranged therein such that all light that is incident upon the image sensor through the lens structure is directed through only one of the plurality of N color filters of the movable color filter grouping per each exposure of the image sensor. A positioning device is attached to the movable color filter grouping to reposition the movable color filter grouping such that substantially all of the light that is incident upon the image sensor through the lens structure is directed through a different one of the plurality of N color filters for each successive exposure of the image sensor.
US09270952B2	Target localization utilizing wireless and camera sensor fusion According to some implementations, an estimate of a target's location can be calculated by correlating Wi-Fi and video location measurements. This spatio-temporal correlation combines the Wi-Fi and video measurements to determine an identity and location of an object. The accuracy of the video localization and the identity from the Wi-Fi network provide an accurate location of the Wi-Fi identified object.
US09270950B2	Identifying a locale for controlling capture of data by a digital life recorder based on location The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product controlling a capture of data. In one embodiment, the process identifies a location from locale identifier data to form an identified location in response to receiving the locale identifier data. The locale identifier data is associated with a location of the digital life recorder. In addition, the identified location is associated with a set of usage policies. The process then determines whether the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data by the digital life recorder at the identified location or whether the set of usage policies restricts playback of the data by a playback system. Thereafter, the process disables a set of sensors while the digital life recorder is in the presence of the locale identifier in response to determining that the set of usage policies restricts the capture of data.
US09270949B2	Image monitoring system and image monitoring program Disclosed herein is an image monitoring system including: a camera connected to a network; display means for displaying an image captured by the camera; and display control means for controlling display such that, in displaying images by the display means, an image is displayed in a window having a predetermined layout; wherein, the display control means presets an allocation database containing a correlation between the window having a predetermined layout and a camera identification code and, when the camera is connected to the network, automatically sets a correlation between the camera identification code in the allocation database and the camera, thereby controlling image display into the window on the basis of the allocation database.
US09270939B2	System and method for providing error resilience, random access and rate control in scalable video communications Systems and methods for error resilient transmission, rate control, and random access in video communication systems that use scalable video coding are provided. Error resilience is obtained by using information from low resolution layers to conceal or compensate loss of high resolution layer information. The same mechanism is used for rate control by selectively eliminating high resolution layer information from transmitted signals, which elimination can be compensated at the receiver using information from low resolution layers. Further, random access or switching between low and high resolutions is also achieved by using information from low resolution layers to compensate for high resolution spatial layer packets that may have not been received prior to the switching time.
US09270936B2	Functionality for indicating direction of attention A communication system is described herein which provides an indicator that helps hub participants of a meeting (or other environmental setting) determine a direction of attention of a satellite participant (who is not physically present at the meeting). The indicator can be implemented as a mechanical pointer, a solid-state display mechanism, a rotating display mechanism, a display mechanism which presents visual information that reflects directionality, and so on. The communication system can assess the directionality of the satellite participant based on any combination of control inputs from explicit input mechanism(s) and/or implicit input mechanism(s). The communication system can also choose between explicit and/or implicit control of the indicator based on at least one selection criterion.
US09270935B2	Data presentation in multiple zones using a wireless entertainment hub A wireless entertainment hub may receive an indication of user relocation. The wireless entertainment hub may analyze a profile with a history of program content requested by and presented to the user. The wireless entertainment hub may cause, based on the indication and the analysis, presentation of the program content from a registered source device to a plurality of sink devices.
US09270933B1	System and method for face-to-face video communication The present invention relates to a system for video communication comprising a display having a reflective surface facing to a local user and a video camera mounted on a supporting structure and aimed toward the display; wherein said display displays dark screen images periodically; said camera captures of the local user's image reflected off from the surface during the dark screen image period. The captured reflective images of the local user are used to form a video stream for a remote user to view.
US09270932B2	Video call set up in an established audio call Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for establishing communications between endpoints. In one aspect, a method includes initiating, by a first endpoint and through a call server, a call with a second endpoint. After the call is established, the first endpoint transmits, independent of the call server, first information specifying a video communication capability of the first endpoint that the call server did not setup in the established call. The first endpoint receives second information specifying that the second endpoint has the video communication capability. The first endpoint establishes, independent of the call server, video communication between the first endpoint and the second endpoint based on the first information and second information.
US09270930B2	Image system An image system includes image signal generating apparatuses; display apparatuses; and intervention apparatuses. The intervention apparatuses are interconnected between the image signal generating apparatuses and the display apparatuses, convert the image signals from the image signal generating apparatuses to image signals of a first format, add identification information regarding the image signal generating apparatuses to the image signals of the first format, and output the image signals of the first format and the identification information, respectively.
US09270926B2	System and method for distributed media personalization A system for generating edited video, the system comprises a storage module configured to store a plurality of video tags; a network interface configured to receive an unedited video clip and a video tag selection from a user device and automatically transmit and edited video to a video sharing website; and a transformer module configured to generate an edited video based on the unedited video clip and the video tag selection.
US09270925B2	Image output apparatus, image output system, and image output control program Provided are an image output apparatus, an image output system, and an image output control program. Each of the image output apparatus, the image output system, and the image output control program outputs an image based on a video signal generated from data, detects a storage medium having available data stored therein, obtains the data stored in the newly detected storage medium in response to the detection, switches, from an input path of the image to be output to an input path associated with the newly detected storage medium, and outputs a video signal generated from the obtained data after the switching of the input path is complete.
US09270917B2	Apparatus and method for controlling home network devices An apparatus and method for controlling home network devices is provided. The apparatus includes a display unit that displays a list of items corresponding to a plurality controlled devices arranged in a predetermined space, a receiving unit that receives a first image containing the controlled devices, the list, and information on light reflected from a controlled device of the controlled devices and the device list, and a control unit that maps the controlled devices and the items in the list according to the light information detected from the received image.
US09270914B2	Solid-state imaging apparatus and imaging system A solid-state imaging apparatus wherein pixels have same color filter in a same row, and have different color filters in different rows; and a color selecting unit selects and outputs, in an order of colors, the signals held by the plurality of holding units, to meet: y=ax+(b/c−d)x, wherein the pixels are arranged at a pitch “x” in a same row direction, and arranged at a pitch “y” in a same column direction, the “a” is a first coefficient equal to or larger than 1, the “b” is a shift of a charge accumulation period of the pixels in one row from a charge accumulation period of the pixels in a row adjacent to the one row, the “c” is a period of outputting the signals from the selecting unit, the signals generated by the plurality of pixels and the “d” is a second coefficient that is equal to or larger than 0 and equal to or less than 0.15.
US09270910B2	Image sensor, imaging device, imaging method and information processing apparatus There is provided an image sensor including a plurality of sensors for autofocus. The sensors are divided into a plurality of groups. Clock signals for drive in different timings for each group are supplied to the sensors.
US09270903B2	Imaging apparatus, radiation imaging system, and method for manufacturing imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes: a plurality of pixels each of which includes a conversion element and a first transistor of which one of a source and a drain is connected to the conversion element; and a second transistor which is shared by the plurality of pixels and has a gate connected respectively to the other of the source and the drain of the first transistor of each of the plurality of pixels. At least one among the gate, a source, a drain and a channel portion of the second transistor is formed to be extended over the plurality of pixels, and the conversion element is arranged over the first and second transistors.
US09270900B2	Movie processing apparatus and control method therefor A movie processing apparatus includes an input unit that inputs an input image. A memory control unit stores, in a memory, a deformation image obtained by executing an image deformation process for the input image using a deformation parameter. A determination unit determines, from a memory region in which the deformation image is stored, a readout region to be accessed for obtaining an output image, on the basis of a size of the input image, a size of the output image, and the deformation parameter. A readout unit configured to access the readout region reads out pixel data included in the deformation image. An output unit outputs the image based on the pixel data readout by the readout unit.
US09270897B2	Apparatus, method, and program for processing image An image processing apparatus includes a correction parameter calculation unit for calculating a motion blur correction parameter for motion blur correction on the basis of motion information indicating a motion of an image between unit images, the unit images forming image data, and shutter speed information obtained at the image capturing of the image data, and a motion blur correction processing unit for correcting a motion blur quantity contained in the image data by performing at least a process of reducing a motion blur in accordance with the motion blur correction parameter.
US09270893B2	Monitoring method and camera A monitoring camera arranged to monitor a scene and a method of controlling camera settings for a monitoring camera arranged to monitor a scene wherein images are captured of different parts of the scene by altering a field of view of the camera, wherein data defining a camera settings control area within the scene is accessed, and it is determined if there is an overlapping region between a current field of view of the camera and the camera settings control area, and if there is an overlapping region, camera settings are controlled based on the overlapping region.
US09270892B2	Optoelectronic device and method for brightness correction An optoelectronic device (10) is provided having an image sensor (20) for generating pixel images of a detection area (12) and a brightness correction unit (28) configured to modify brightness values of the pixels with a correction factor (Hmul) to obtain a more homogeneously illuminated image. A respective correction factor (Hmul) is calculated for individual pixels or groups of pixels from a perspective transformation (M) which converts geometries of an object plane (34) in the detection area (12) into geometries of the image plane (32).
US09270890B2	Apparatus for managing medicine administering process, and control program therefor An apparatus for managing a medicine administering process to enable inspection of the medicine administering process, includes a video recording unit that generates video recorded image data by video recording the medicine administering process, and a data addition unit that adds controlling data that enables the recorded video of the medicine administering process to be displayed with display elements that depict transition events of the medicine administering process.
US09270888B2	Image processing apparatus and control method thereof An image processing apparatus comprises a recording image generation unit which generates recording image data from image data input by an image input unit, based on a first gamma characteristic; a display image generation unit which generates display image data from the image data based on a second gamma characteristic in correspondence with a characteristic of a display unit; a determination unit which determines whether or not the recording image data includes a portion of luminance levels which are not less than a predetermined threshold; a display data generation unit which generates display data for indicating the portion of the luminance levels which are not less than the predetermined threshold; and a display control unit which superimposes the display data on the display image data.
US09270882B2	System and method for contextual digital photography mode selection A digital camera having a plurality of photography modes, comprising: an image sensor; an optical system for imaging a scene onto the image sensor; an image capture control for initiating an image capture operation; a photography mode user interface for selecting between a plurality of photography modes, the photography modes having associated image capture and image processing settings; a power control for turning the digital camera on or off, wherein when the camera is in an off state and the power control is activated with a first activation pattern the digital camera is turned on and set to operate in a default photography mode and when the power control is activated with a second activation pattern the digital camera is turned on and set to operate in a previously selected photography mode.
US09270881B2	Image processing device, image processing method and recording medium capable of generating a wide-range image An image acquisition unit 52 acquires images consecutively captured while an image capture range is moved in a predetermined direction. A face detection unit 53 detects same subject images from the images acquired. A facial expression determination unit 55 calculates evaluation values of each of the same subject images detected. A facial expression decision unit 56 decides, as a combination target, a specific subject image from the same subject images, based on the evaluation values calculated. A combination unit 58 generates a wide-range image by combining the subject image decided as the combination target with the images sequentially acquired by the image acquisition unit 52.
US09270880B2	Radial FPA based electro-optic imager A radial FPA based electro-optic imager, rather than the conventional rectilinear approach, would have basic overall system design advantages. Those system design advantages would apply to the components and the entire system implementation and include approaches to objective optical design, focal plane array FPA with fill factor, FPA layout and associated read-out integrated circuit ROIC, support electronics architecture and associated memory requirements, image processing IP algorithms, display layout and format, and eyepiece optics. A radial based approach to EO imagers would yield a device/system with attributes requiring less complicated optical components, with potentially fewer elements, for both the objective and eyepiece lenses. In addition, alternative objective optics could be more easily employed, such as holographic or wave front coded, due to reduced complexity of implementing correction algorithms as a result of referencing the system around its optical axis. The radial readout EO system would have pixel ‘one’ at the center and be ‘read out and displayed’ like the rings of a tree rather than words on a page.
US09270872B2	Apparatus, systems, and methods for removing shading effect from image The disclosed subject matter includes an apparatus configured to remove a shading effect from an image. The apparatus can include one or more interfaces configured to provide communication with an imaging module that is configured to capture the image, and a processor, in communication with the one or more interfaces, configured to run a module stored in memory. The module is configured to receive the image captured by the imaging module under a first lighting spectrum, receive a per-unit correction mesh for adjusting images captured by the imaging module under a second lighting spectrum, determine a correction mesh for the image captured under the first lighting spectrum based on the per-unit correction mesh for the second lighting spectrum, and operate the correction mesh on the image to remove the shading effect from the image.
US09270871B2	Optimized filter selection for reference picture processing Reference processing may be used in a video encoder or decoder to derive reference pictures that are better correlated with a source image to be encoded or decoded, which generally yields better coding efficiency. Methods for filter selection for a reference processing unit adapted for use in a video codec system are discussed. Specifically, methods for filter selection based on performing motion estimation and obtaining distortion/cost information by comparing reference pictures, either processed or non-processed, with the source image to be encoded are discussed.
US09270870B2	Motion estimation with variable spatial resolution A motion estimator has a spatial sub-sampler to receive input images; at least one motion estimator determining motion vectors between input images and sub-sampled motion vectors between sub-sampled images; an up-sampler for up-sampling the sub-sampled motion vectors; and a selector for providing a motion vector output by selecting between the motion vectors and the (up-sampled) sub-sampled motion vectors, according to motion vector confidence.
US09270865B2	Recording device and recording control method, reproduction device and reproduction control method, output device and output control method, and programs A recording device includes a color gamut conversion control unit, a color gamut conversion unit, and a recording unit. The color gamut conversion control unit controls a method of converting the color gamut of content data, on the basis of a user-specified condition specified by a user. The color gamut conversion unit converts the color gamut of the content data in accordance with the control of the color gamut conversion control unit. The recording unit records, on a recording medium, the content data, the color gamut of which has been converted by the color gamut conversion unit in accordance with the control of the color gamut conversion control unit, or the content data, the color gamut of which has not been converted by the color gamut conversion unit in accordance with the control of the color gamut conversion control unit.
US09270862B2	Non-transitory storage medium storing scan program and information processing device A non-transitory storage medium storing a scan program executable by a computer of an image processing device including a communication portion communicable with a scanning device and a storage portion storing a certain program, the scan program, when executed by the computer, causing the image processing device to execute: determining processing in which it is determined whether a pseudo image file is read by the certain program; scan-command transmission processing in which, when the image processing device determines that the pseudo image file is read by the certain program, a scan command is transmitted to the scanning device via the communication portion; scanned-data receiving processing in which the image processing device receives scanned data from the scanning device via the communication portion as a reply to the scan command; and scanned-data writing processing in which the received scanned data is written to the pseudo image file.
US09270861B2	Method for printing inks on a substrate The present invention relates to a method for printing inks on a substrate, and also to a substrate obtained by using such a method, which method comprises the following steps: i) creating a digital file of an original image, ii) processing said digital file to obtain a processed digital file, which processed digital file is made up of a number of compositions of the original image, iii) presenting the processed digital file to a printing unit, iv) printing the substrate by means of said printing unit, wherein the processed file is printed on the substrate by the printing unit as a processed image of the original image, using inks, wherein the original dimension of the original image used in step i) is smaller than the dimension of the processed image being printed on the substrate by the printing unit.
US09270860B2	Data processing method, image forming apparatus and computer-readable storage medium for storing data in a plurality of boxes assigned as storage areas An object of this invention is to improve user friendliness of the box function. In a system having a storage means capable of storing data in a plurality of data storage boxes including first and second boxes, when the first job data transmitted without performing any predetermined operation by the user in the data generation apparatus is stored in the storage means, acceptance of a process request for the first job data from the first user via the first display associated with the first box on a user interface is permitted. When the second job data transmitted after performing the predetermined operation by the user is stored in the storage means, acceptance of a process request for the second job data from the first user via the first display associated with the first box on the user interface is permitted. In addition, acceptance of a process request for the second job data from the second user via the second display associated with the second box on the user interface is permitted.
US09270845B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program An apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage a device that provides a plurality of functions, and a utilization unit configured to utilize one function among the plurality of functions. In the apparatus, the management unit confirms whether a function different from the one function, among the plurality of functions, is available according to management and control data that includes information for constructing a management screen, which management screen being a screen configured to manage the device, and a setting unit sets an argument to an object indicating a link to the utilization unit according to a result of the confirmation. In the apparatus, the utilization unit is configured, if the object, which is displayed on the management screen, is designated, to set the device according to the argument.
US09270841B2	Interactive image capture, marketing and distribution Automated systems and methods for capturing digital images of a customer with multiple high-definition video cameras mounted in a venue such as a stadium, interactively communicating with venue customers to receive customer requests for images and information regarding customer locations in the venue and in response identify camera images containing the requested images and pixel groups therein containing images requested by customers, processing the requests to generate preview and send to customers for approval and ordering, and generating and sending final images in response to purchase requests and calculating and automatically applying charges to customers and third parties for promotional material sent to customers and making payments to third parties having rights in image content sent to customers. Variations of embodiments are suitable for venues such as a museum, a garden, a zoo, a religious institution, a theme park, or any other venue where imaging is possible and practical, or in a defined time period, such as a trip or vacation. The systems and methods can be essentially fully automated, using automated cameras and essentially only electronic communications between a customer and a computerized central facility, or can include a human representative or contractor for some of the operations. The souvenir can include other customer-related elements, such as “stock” images, composited images that include the customer or customer-related people or objects, and text and sound.
US09270839B2	Image processing apparatus having user login function, control method therefore, and storage medium An image processing apparatus which is capable of improving ease of operation for users and also improving security when destinations are made public. The image processing apparatus is shared by a plurality of users and capable of selecting a destination from a plurality of address books and carrying out file transmission to the destination. It is determined whether or not a user has logged in, and when it is determined that the user has logged in, only personal addresses for the logged-in user are displayed on a display unit. The personal destinations displayed on the display unit are switched to destinations other than the personal destinations according to selection by the user. When it is determined that the user has not logged in, all destinations which are registered in the plurality of address books are displayed on the display unit.
US09270838B2	Verifying accuracy of a scanned document A document scanner (10) includes an input tray (30) for holding documents (20) and an input image capture device (40) for capturing images of the documents (20) in the input tray (30) prior to transporting the document for imaging; an output tray (150) for holding documents (20) after the documents (20) exit the scanner; an output image capture device (140) for capturing images of the output tray; an image processor for determining characteristics of the output tray or characteristic of the documents (20) before imaging and after the documents (20) exit the scanner; and scanner functions are modified based on the output tray characteristics or the document characteristics.
US09270837B1	System for calibrating a stationary image capture module of an optical scanner A system for calibrating a scan module of an automatic document feed (ADF) scanner. The system includes a rotatable frame disposed on a position opposite to an imaging surface of the ADF scanner. An image backer and a calibration surface portion formed along longitudinal portions of the frame extend substantially parallel to the imaging surface. The image backer and calibration surface portion have top surfaces of different reflectivity that respectively does not contact and contacts the imaging surface when the frame is rotated to position the image backer and the calibration surface portion in a field of view of the scan module. A drive mechanism coupled to the frame is controlled by a controller to rotate the frame and selectively position within the field of view of the image capture module the image backer during a scanning operation and the calibration surface portion during a calibration operation.
US09270835B1	Method and system for decrementing account balance based on air-interface resource information One embodiment takes the form of a method carried out by a gateway. The method includes the gateway receiving a message that was originated by a wireless communication device (WCD) being served by an access network. Next, the gateway may identify a given air-interface resource on which the access network is serving the WCD. After receiving the message, the gateway may use the given air-interface resource to determine one or more rules for decrementing an account balance associated with the WCD. The gateway may then decrement the account balance associated with the WCD in accordance with the determined one or more rules.
US09270834B2	Method and apparatus for cost-saving telephone service The present invention provides a method for a cost-saving telephone service, comprising: receiving a request for telephoning a third party client device from a communication resources using device, wherein the communication resources using device and the third party client device are connected to a first and a second telephone service networks respectively; selecting a communication resources providing device from a plurality of client devices registered to the cost-saving telephone service and connected to the second telephone service network; and having the communication resources providing device telephone the third party client device through the second telephone service network such that the communication resources using device communicates with the third party client device via the communication resources providing device.
US09270832B2	Destination device billing according to call recipient A method, system, and program for billing for service provided to destination device according to the calling plan of the individual receiving the call. An authenticated identity for a callee answering a call placed to a destination device is received at an intermediary device. The intermediary device then accesses a billing plan for the authenticated identity of the callee and loads the billing plan for specifying charges for the call, such that telephone service billed to the callee is accessible at multiple destination devices.
US09270831B2	Systems and methods for G.vector initialization Methods, apparatuses (e.g., DSL system hardware, DSL systems, vectoring control entities), techniques, systems, etc. are used for initializing one or more DSL lines joining a vectored DSL line group operating in Showtime. A super-periodic orthogonal pilot sequence from a set of super-periodic orthogonal pilot sequences is assigned to each joining DSL line, wherein each such super-periodic orthogonal pilot sequence in the set has length L and is orthogonal to other sequences in the set over length T. These super-periodic orthogonal pilot sequences are used on the joining DSL lines to generate at least T sync-symbols worth of initialization data, which is processed to generate initialization data and FEXT mitigation coefficients for use when the joining DSL lines become part of the vectored DSL line group.
US09270826B2	System for automatically routing a communication A method for automatically routing a telephonic communication to at least one of a plurality of communication destination addresses is provided. The method is implemented by a computer readable medium having a plurality of code segments. The method comprises the step of receiving customer identifier and communicating with a customer history database configured to store historic data. The method also includes determining whether the received customer identifier corresponds to a stored customer identifier in the customer history database, wherein the customer profile included in the stored historic data is based on one or more components of a customer's demographic identity. Historic data corresponding to the stored customer number is identified based on the comparison of the received customer identifier and the stored customer identifier. The telephonic communication is associated with a predetermined communication destination based on the identified historic data. The associated communication data is transmitted to a switching signal.
US09270824B2	Emergency 9-1-1 portal and application A computer aided prioritization (CAP) system may receive, from the emergency event reporter device, an emergency event including a priority selected from a set of event priorities and a type of event selected from a set of event types associated with the selected event priority; determine, based on the emergency event and without querying the emergency event reporter device for additional information, whether the emergency event indicates a higher priority emergency event to be handled by a computer aided dispatch (CAD) system or a lower priority emergency event to be handled automatically by a computer aided event module (CAEM); and selectively route the emergency event report to at least one of the CAD system and the CAEM according to the determination.
US09270816B2	Redirecting telephone call to packet-switched data call via voicemail In embodiments of the disclosed technology, devices and methods for redirecting a telephone call from a public-switched telephone to a packet-switched data network. The phone call is initially received via the public-switched telephone network having a dialed number associated with a hand-held wireless device of a called party. Upon initialization of the phone call, a route is determined from the telecommunications switch to the hand-held wireless device of the called party via a packet-switched network. The bandwidth of the packet-switched network is then detected to determine the ability of the network to handle the call. If the packet-switched network is determined to be capable of handling the call, the call is forwarded over the packet-switched data, thereby reducing or eliminating charges for wireless minutes.
US09270814B2	Attaching multiple phone lines to a single mobile or landline phone Agencies issue multiple devices to personnel for maintaining distinct identities over the course of assigned investigations. To provide flexible capabilities to agencies, a phone is converted for use with multiple attached telephone numbers. Accordingly, a single phone may be used to manage multiple identities over the course of one or more investigations. Using a multiple attached number, a given device can place and receive calls over the network to and from contacts. In addition to providing multiple attached numbers, calls using the multiple attached numbers may be monitored live and recorded to establish evidence.
US09270812B2	Apparatus and method for providing incoming and outgoing call information in a mobile communication terminal Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing information. Phone numbers are stored in an address book in a memory of the portable electronic device. Call history information for a phone number is displayed on a display of the portable electronic device together with a first option for editing of information associated with the phone number if the phone number is in the address book.
US09270811B1	Visual options for audio menu Aspects of the disclosure provide replacement and/or augmentation of automated audio menus of automated communication platforms with interactive digital menus. A digital menu of options associated with an automated communication platform may be provided in response to a call from a communication device to the automated communication platform having an automated audio menu for interaction with such a platform. The digital menu can include options that correspond to options in the automated audio menu, and can be displayed at the communication device via interactive buttons or other actionable indicia. The digital menu also can include options representing shortcuts for specific responses to the automated communication platform and/or options for responses customized to the communication device and the automated communication platform. Shortcuts and/or customized options can be displayed at the communication device with indicia distinctive from other options corresponding to the automated audio menu.
US09270809B2	Device function disablement during vehicle motion A method and system for disabling functions of a movement detection enabled device is provided. The method includes monitoring a movement detection signal of the movement detection enabled device in a vehicle and determining that the vehicle is currently in motion. An electronic tag in the vehicle is detected and instructions associated with the movement detection enabled device are retrieved. It is determined that the movement detection enabled device is located within a specified proximity to a driver location of the vehicle and that a user of the device is a driver of the vehicle. In response, specified functions of the movement detection enabled device are disabled.
US09270804B2	Method, wireless device and wireless communications system to guide a user of a wireless device to establish an optimal wireless direct link to another wireless device A system, method and protocol for guiding a user to establish an optimal wireless link. The method provides a first device (550) to communicate with a second device (500) in a wireless network, the method including: receiving, by the first device (550), location information of at least one antenna (510, 520) in the second device (500); providing, by the first device (550), an audio, visual, or audiovisual representation of the location of the at least one antenna (510, 520) in the second device (500).
US09270800B2	Systems and methods for providing alternate line selection information on a mobile device A system and method for providing a user interface that allows users to change the active line on which an outgoing call may be placed. In example embodiments, upon detecting call screen interaction a line selection menu is displayed. The line selection menu contains a plurality of line identifiers, each line identifier uniquely identifying a corresponding one of the multiple communication lines accessible at the mobile device. A system and method is also presented for providing a call log for identifying call activity associated with a plurality of communication lines.
US09270799B2	Using indirect communication to provide a solution to use international dialing convention and incorporating phone numbers for non-phone devices An indirect communication system and a method of indirect communication include a mobile phone as either a calling device or receiving device. The mobile phone calls another device to set up a prospective communication, and then uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to communicate with the other device over the Internet. The receiving device receives a generated signal notifying the receiving device of a proposed communication with the calling device. A server sets up a meeting point channel after the calling device has connected to the server. The server receives outgoing VoIP packets from the calling device and redirects the outgoing VoIP packets to the receiving device.
US09270791B2	Discovery and configuration of network devices via data link layer communications A method includes discovering a network device that has connected to a data link layer of a network based on a discovery packet broadcast by the network device via the data link layer. The method further includes configuring the network device based on a response packet transmitted to the network device via the data link layer in response to discovering the network device.
US09270787B2	Electronic apparatus and control method thereof and system for inspecting application An electronic apparatus including: a display unit; a communication unit which communicates with a server to which at least one emulating device is connected locally, through a network; a storage unit which stores therein a predetermined application; and a controller which is connected to the server and transmits the application stored in the storage unit to the emulating device, and receives from the emulating device an execution image of the application processed and executed by the emulating device and displays the execution image on the display unit.
US09270784B2	Peer-to-peer communications A peer-to-peer (p2p) communication system is provided. One or both of audio and video can be transferred among a number of user terminals in the p2p system. The user terminals include at least one master terminal. The master terminal is identified, based on a determined topology, using obtained information provided in a data parameters table. Each user terminal includes a control for processing video and/or audio that is sent and/or received by the user terminal. The master terminal control can process the same video and/or audio and generate different video and/or audio data to be provided to different user terminals. Such different video data is a function of the communication paths between the master terminal and the different user terminals. Such different audio data can be a function of virtual relative positions associated with the user terminals. Audio volumes can also be separately controlled by each user terminal. Video and/or audio can be transferred in an aggregate manner, such as when the master terminal sends audio originating from a number of user terminals to another user terminal. This p2p system can be utilized with online game playing.
US09270782B2	System and method for managing network communications between server plug-ins and clients A communication protocol and system is disclosed for network communications between a data service residing on a client that provides network communications between one or more mobile applications on a mobile computing device and a network based on a process number. The shared data service communicates with a data service plug-in on the server side associated with the process number, in order to handle requests from the mobile applications that access a plug-in associated with the process number through the data service. The communication connection between the mobile application and the data plug may be managed by a set of rules defined for that network communication.
US09270775B2	Content engine for mobile communications systems An exemplary content engine includes a content gateway configured to analyze and route content requests to a content server. The content server can be a cache server or a mobile content server. The cache server can be configured to receive and store cacheable web content from a controller that is configured to receive the cacheable web content from at least one cacheable web content provider, such as a web server, and route the content to the cache server. The mobile content server can be configured to receive, from the controller, and store the digital media content. The controller can be further configured to receive the digital media content from at least one external content server and route the content to the mobile content server. The content gateway can be further configured to receive non-cacheable web content from at least one non-cacheable web content provider.
US09270773B2	Method and electronic device for receiving, viewing and forwarding information published on network A method and electronic device for receiving, viewing, and forwarding information published on the network enables a user to view in real time information update content on a network information platform without having to log on the network information platform. The method of receiving information published on the network includes, according to a previous subscription of a second electronic device, receiving information related to content update sent by a first electronic device and when a network information platform on the first electronic device updates content; saving the information related to content update in a first part of a contact object record that is located in a contact list saved by the second electronic device, and there being saved in a second part of the contact object record contact object information of the contact object record, the network information platform corresponding to the contact object record through the contact object information.
US09270770B2	System and method for optimizing publication of operating states A system and method for optimizing publication operating states includes sending a first publication message to provide an operating state of a mobile unit. The operating state of the mobile unit is stored in a data session slot associated with the mobile unit. A second publication message is sent to update the operating state of the mobile unit. An entity tag value is derived from identifiers in accounting information of the second publication message to identify data in the data session slot associated with the mobile unit.
US09270767B2	Method and system for discovery of user unknown interests based on supplemental content The present teaching relates to discovery of user unknown interests. In one example, information related to a user is retrieved from a user profile. The information indicates one or more known interests of the user. At least one known interest of the user is identified based on the information. One or more supplemental interests with respect to each identified at least one known interest of the user are identified. The one or more supplemental interests do not overlap with the one or more known interests of the user. Supplemental content associated with the one or more supplemental interests are identified. Each piece of content in the supplemental content is ranked. At least one piece of content in the supplemental content is selected based on the ranking. The selected at least one piece of supplemental content is used to discover unknown interest of the user.
US09270766B2	Methods for identifying network traffic characteristics to correlate and manage one or more subsequent flows and devices thereof A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and device that identifies network traffic characteristics to correlate and manage one or more subsequent flows includes transmitting a monitoring request comprising one or more attributes extracted from an HTTP request received from a client computing device and a timestamp to a monitoring server to correlate one or more subsequent flows associated with the HTTP request. The HTTP request is transmitted to an application server after receiving an acknowledgement response to the monitoring request from the monitoring server. An HTTP response to the HTTP request is received from the application server. An operation with respect to the HTTP response is performed.
US09270765B2	Security for network delivered services A computer-implemented method for accessing a hosted service on client devices is described. The client devices include client software that uses a remotely delivered policy to redirect network requests for hosted services to a server to enforce visibility, policy and data security for network delivered services. The method can be used in conjunction with existing VPN and proxy solutions, but provides distinct additional functionality, particularly suited to corporate needs. Policies allow entities to centralize enforcement of service-specific restrictions across networks and communication channels, e.g. only certain users can download client records from a service—irrespective of the network used to access the service.
US09270764B2	Methods for transmitting multimedia files and advertisements In one implementation a process is provided that upon a server determining that the playing of all or part of an obligatory advertising portion is attempting to be avoided by a multimedia player, the server sends to the multimedia player a message with data storage medium control information for the purpose of inhibiting advertising-sponsored content stored in a data storage medium from being played by multimedia player.
US09270759B2	Method and system for distributing one or more server-based services Presented are systems and methods for distributing server-based services using a service development platform. The service development platform acquires server-based service data associated with a first server-based service, and parses the server-based service data. The service development platform catalogs the parsed server-based service data into a server-based service catalog that contains one or more server-based services different from the first server-based service. Additionally, the service development platform receives a request from a client device for the first server-based service indexed in the server-based service catalog, and provides the first server-based service to the client device.
US09270757B1	System and method for application isolation A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing application isolation to one or more applications. The system may include an isolated environment including application files and executables, and an interception layer intercepting access to system resources and interfaces. The system may further include an interception database maintaining mapping between the system resources inside the isolated environment and outside, and a host operating system, wherein the isolated environments are saved on at least one of a local and remote storage.
US09270756B2	Enhancing active link utilization in serial attached SCSI topologies Methods and systems are provided for enhanced link utilization in attached SCSI (SAS) topologies. A SAS expander may be configured to monitor link utilization within a SAS topology, and may manage connection requests received thereby based on the monitoring of link utilization. The monitoring may comprise determining availability of links for at least one node within the SAS topology with respect to other nodes in the SAS topology. This may be done based on pending connection requests, and/or responses thereto received by the SAS expander. It may also be done based on shared link utilization data. The managing may comprise determining for each received connection request when link unavailability in other nodes within the SAS topology prevents connectivity to a destination node corresponding to the connection request. When this situation occurs, the SAS expander may handle the connection request directly.
US09270750B1	Distributed cloud computing platform and content delivery network Various embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for providing a distributed computing platform. Tasks for execution are received from a remote computer and a set of computation users are identified to execute the set of computation task segments. The tasks are distributed to the set of computation users a solution segment is received from each computation user in the set of computation users to generate a set of solution segments, which are combined into a solution.
US09270745B2	Method and system for client-side scaling of web server farm architectures in a cloud data center A novel web server farm architecture is provided that combines various cloud components and innovatively maximizes their strengths to achieve a scalable, adaptable, load balanced computing architecture. In one embodiment, this architecture includes a storage host for static content hosting, a cluster of virtual machines (operating as web servers) for dynamic content hosting, and a dedicated application engine for monitoring the load of the virtual machines. A browser or end-application user of a web application is first routed to a static anchor page hosted on the storage host. The browser is subsequently presented with a list of virtual machines and data corresponding to their respective current loads. To access dynamic content, the browser is able to select from the virtual machines based in large part on the reported current loads of the virtual machines. Once a virtual machine is selected, the browser may communicate directly with the selected web server.
US09270742B2	Computer system and control method of computer system A computer system includes a plurality of processing computers which switches an execution time of a main function processing and a management function processing in a given time, and a management computer which has a schedule table showing a schedule in which each processing computer may execute the management function processing, and which is capable of instructing the execution of the management function processing to each processing computer, wherein the processing computer notifies a start time an end time of the management function processing to the management computer before starting the management function processing, and the management computer updates the schedule table with the notification, an decides the processing computer that may execute the management function processing, by referring to the schedule table, upon instructing the management function processing to the processing computer.
US09270741B2	Namespace and storage management application infrastructure for use in management of resources in a storage system environment A namespace and storage management (NSM) application includes an infrastructure configured to enable efficient management of resources in a storage system environment. The NSM application executes on a NSM console and interacts with an NSM server to integrate namespace management and storage management in the storage system environment. The NSM server, in turn, interacts with one or more remote agents installed on host machines in the environment to convey application programming interface (API) function calls that enable remote management of the resources.
US09270735B2	Systems and methods for improved multisite management and reporting of converged communication systems and computer systems The present invention discloses improved systems and methods for multisite management of computer server systems and in particular converged communication systems based on a decentralized architecture. Certain and various aspects relating to atomic error handling, transaction-based authentication/security, intelligent bandwidth management, decoupled data/configuration messaging, improved scalability, auto-detection functions, business metrics, etc., also are disclosed. A console is disclosed that communicates with each of a plurality of converged communications systems, e.g., preferably through the use of sockets. The actual traffic load is decentralized among the computer server systems, as each one uses direct connections (e.g., via an enhanced file transfer protocol) to access update/configuration data as needed. In addition, an improved communication protocol is disclosed that is optimized for the multisite management architecture of the present invention. An improved set of graphical user interface (GUI) features are described that improve the efficiency of the management of multiple systems.
US09270731B2	Topic-based messaging using consumer address and pool In a multicast publisher-subscriber environment, a configurator machine manages a consumer pool of multiple receiver machines. The consumer pool is dedicated to a topic. Each receiver machine has a unique consumer address within the consumer pool allocated by the configurator machine. The configurator machine receives registration data from a receiver machine to be added to the consumer pool and provides a consumer address to the receiver machine. The receiver machine transmits a multicast communication to advertise its availability to receive messages on the topic. The multicast communication includes the consumer address. A transmitter machine may publish a message on the topic. The message may be a multicast communication directed to any receiver machine in to the consumer pool, or the message may be a point-to-point communication directed to the receiver machine with the consumer address.
US09270729B2	Projector, projection display system, and corresponding method and recording medium A method includes sending image related working status information representing image-related working status of a projector that projects images, to a client over a network in response to a request to provide the image-related working status of the projector. The image-related working status is related to display characteristic of the projected image. The method includes controlling the image-related working status of the projector based on the control information received from the client over the network in response to the sent image-related working status information. The image-related working status information is sent to the client with screen information from which the client can display a user interface that includes the image-related working status information.
US09270728B2	Creation, sharing and embedding of interactive charts Systems and methods for generating and sharing interactive charts are described. The interactive charts are generated in an online portal that allows users to customize the interactive features of the chart. An online portal may also be provided to allow users to automatically embed interactive chart(s) in another website without reprogramming the code of the website each time the interactive chart(s) are changed or new interactive chart(s) are added.
US09270725B2	Method and apparatus for capacity dimensioning in a communication network A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for calculating a capacity for high speed packet access data in a link in a communications network are disclosed. For example, the method initializes parameters associated with streaming data, long elastic data and short elastic data, determines, via a processor, a capacity value such that a quality of service metric is met for the streaming data, the long elastic data and the short elastic data and provisions the link with the capacity value if the quality of service metric is met.
US09270724B1	System and method for content streaming with feature detection A system and method for audio content streaming with feature detection, comprising determining a streaming format compatibility criteria of a remote web browser, determining an audio selection from a list of one or more audio selections, receiving at the content server a streaming request, streaming the audio selection, the streaming including dividing the source audio content into a plurality of segment files, encrypting the plurality of segment files, sending a manifest file from the content server to the remote web browser, receiving requests at the content server for each of the plurality of segment files and a decryption key, sending from the content server each one of the requested plurality of segment files and the decryption key, and selecting the next audio selection in the list until the last audio selection is selected and streamed to the user device.
US09270723B2	Communication method and apparatus using hypertext transfer protocol A communication method for implementing a real-time streaming using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) in a network is provided. Chunked encoding of HTTP is applied so that information can be exchanged between a server and a client while an HTTP request is being progressed. Therefore, bidirectional communication between the client and the server using HTTP is possible without modifying an existing HTTP protocol, and real-time transmission can be implemented.
US09270722B2	Method for concatenating frames in communication system A method for concatenating a first frame of samples and a subsequent second frame of samples, the method comprising applying a phase filter adapted to minimizing a discontinuity at a boundary between the first and second frames of samples.
US09270720B2	Systems and methods for automatically generating top level index files Systems and methods for automatically generating top level index files for use in adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment of the method of the invention includes receiving a request from a playback device at a playback server, where the request identifies a piece of content, retrieving a list of assets associated with the identified piece of content using the playback server, filtering the list of assets using at least one predetermined criterion using the playback server, generating a top level index file describing each asset in the filtered list of assets using the playback server, and sending the top level index file to the playback device using the playback server.
US09270718B2	Internet streaming and the presentation of dynamic content Internet streaming from broadcast radio or television stations is described wherein triggers for dynamic content from internal or external systems cause an encoder system to generate command messages, and to synchronize those command messages with any delays associated with the triggering events. Command messages are delivered through a streaming media distribution system to client media players which obtain or present the dynamic content, in association with any desired configuration changes to the appearance of the media player or the method or manner in which the dynamic content is presented.
US09270717B1	Wireless multimedia content brokerage service for real time selective content provisioning A wireless multimedia content brokerage service can provide for real time selective content extraction in a manner that allows users to easily obtain, at a mobile device, one or more portions of a real time multimedia composite content presentation. The brokerage service ensures that the experience is transparent from the point of view of the user, and additionally does not require any specific interaction between the user and the display, or interaction between the user and the content service provider (or providers). Instead, the brokerage service handles the transactional details involved in subscribing to content and in obtaining, formatting, and forwarding content to the mobile device. Additionally, since the content of interest is not forwarded from the display itself and since some embodiments of the system do not rely on any interactivity at the display to identify the display device or content, relatively unsophisticated display devices can be used.
US09270715B2	System and method for coordinating display of shared video data A system and method for coordinating multiple-user edits of shared digital data. A coordinating device may receive commands to edit shared digital data from multiple independently operated user computers. The coordinating device may determine that two or more of the commands from respective user computers are mutually exclusive, redundant or otherwise conflict. The coordinating device may incorporate one of the multiple commands into a global command queue and may annul the other(s). The coordinating device may transmit the global commands to all user computers to be executed locally for implemented the same shared digital data thereon.
US09270712B2	Managing moderation of user-contributed edits A geographic information system allows users to access a map database and to contribute map data to the database. Proposed edits to the map are queued for review by a reviewer users. Reviewing users can subscribe to review edits in regions and/or to types of map features. Reviewers can share their subscriptions with other reviewers. In the moderation queue, the proposed edits are ranked and those edits proposed by users who also review are optionally ranked higher and thus reviewed sooner than edits proposed by users who do not review or review less. The history of reviewers is analyzed to identify those with expertise in a particular region and/or type of map feature. One embodiment of the system includes a database containing geographic data, an inference module, a spam prevention module, a reviewing module and a publishing module.
US09270705B1	Applying security policy to an application session Applying a security policy to an application session, includes: recognizing the application session between a network and an application via a security gateway; determining by the security gateway a user identity of the application session using information about the application session; obtaining by the security gateway the security policy comprising network parameters mapped to the user identity; and applying the security policy to the application session by the security gateway. The user identity may be a network user identity or an application user identity recognized from packets of the application session. The security policy may comprise a network traffic policy mapped and/or a document access policy mapped to the user identity, where the network traffic policy is applied to the application session. The security gateway may further generate a security report concerning the application of the security policy to the application session.
US09270696B2	Systems and method for identifying and mitigating information security risks Methods and systems for Sustained Testing and Awareness Refresh against Phishing threats (STAR*Phish™) are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method assigns schemes and unique identifiers to target e-mail addresses associated with a user accounts. The method delivers e-mail messages to the targeted e-mail addresses, the e-mail messages comprising an HTTP request and a unique identifier associated with each of the user accounts. The method then receives, at a Phishing Metric Tool (PMT), a response including the unique identifier. The PMT logs training requirements for the user accounts, tracks response metrics for the training requirements, and redirects the respective HTTP requests to a phishing training tool (PTT). The PTT sends a notification of the user account identities and the unique identifiers to the PMT and returns a status for the training requirements for the user accounts. Upon completion of the training, the PMT sends completion notifications for the user accounts.
US09270693B2	Detection of infected network devices and fast-flux networks by tracking URL and DNS resolution changes A system and method for detecting Fast-Flux malware are presented. Domain name system (DNS) lookup requests to DNS servers from a local area network (LAN) to a wide area network (WAN) are monitored. The DNS lookup requests comprise requests to resolve uniform resource locators (URLs) to network addresses. The network addresses (IP) received from the DNS servers for the DNS lookup requests are monitored provide a URL-to-IP associations list. The DNS servers used for the DNS lookup requests for the URLs are monitored to provide a DNS Domain-to-DNS server associations list. A suspicious URL log based on the URL-to-IP associations list, and a suspicious DNS log based on the DNS Domain-to-DNS server associations list are generated.
US09270691B2	Web based remote malware detection A method for detecting HTML-modifying malware present in a computer includes providing a server which serves a web page (HTML) to a browser. A determination is made whether a modified string exists in the page received by the browser and if a modifying element is found, determining the malware is present in the computer.
US09270690B2	Network protection system and method Systems and methods for protecting at least one client from becoming part of at least one botnet. The system may comprise virtual machines deliberately infected with malicious content and operable to record botnet communications to and from criminal servers. The virtual machines are in communication with a processing unit configured to index data collected. Data related to the prevalence of cyber threats may be presented to users in response to queries.
US09270683B2	Storage device authentication Systems and methods authenticate storage devices. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for authenticating a storage device. According to the method, a manifest that identifies a destination is receive. A transfer station reads a digital signature from the storage device. The digital signature is validated and, based on the validation of the digital signature, a transfer of one or more files from the storage device via the transfer station is authorized to the destination identified in the manifest.
US09270682B2	Administration of policies for wireless devices in a wireless communication system Systems and methods are described for providing a administration mechanism for wireless systems. In an embodiment, a mobile wireless server including a plurality of parameters that may be set to configure a mobile wireless client. The mobile wireless server also includes at least one computer program to set one or more of the parameters. The computer programs permit a user of at least one of the wireless clients to select a desired mode of operation for one or more of the wireless clients. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09270679B2	Dynamic access control lists Disclosed are methods and apparatus for creating and managing dynamic access control lists (ACL's). In a specific embodiment, a method of creating or modifying a dynamic access control policy (ACP) is disclosed. A current ACP for one or more specified resources is defined based on one or more membership rules for specifying users who can access the one or more specified resources based on user information that was or will be collected for a plurality of users. The collected user information includes at least user presence information or user communication data. The current ACP is retained for the one or more specified resources, wherein the current ACP is accessibly usable so as to dynamically allow a selected set of users, who each have corresponding collected user information which meets the one or more membership rules of the current ACP, to access the one or more specified resources. The selected set of users is changeable over time as different user information is collected over time.
US09270678B2	Mediating resource access based on a physical location of a mobile device One or more techniques are provided for causing a location of a screen image associated with a resource to be adjusted on a display device. The adjustment may be based at least in part on determining that a control element receives focus. The resource may be associated with an application, such as an email application that may be hosted remotely from a client device. Access to one or more resources may be controlled or mediated. Access rights may be based at least in part on a determination of a geographic location of a client device. When the client device is located in a safe area, the client device may be provided access to the resource. When the client device is not located in a safe area, the client device might not be provided access to the resource or might not be provided full access to the resource.
US09270676B2	Method and system for securing user identities and creating virtual users to enhance privacy on a communication network A method of enabling a real entity to access a service on a communication network using a virtual entity, the method including the steps of establishing a user account including at least first data corresponding to the identity of the real entity and second data corresponding to the virtual entity and not identifying the real entity, storing the first and second data in a first database, linking between the first and second data in the first database, storing the second data at a second database, associating the second database with a communication network site, connecting the communication network site to the communication network, receiving the second data from an unidentified user on the communication network site, identifying the unidentified user as the virtual entity based on receiving the second data, and allowing the virtual entity to access the service.
US09270669B2	Managing sharing of wireless network login passwords Managing sharing of wireless network login passwords is disclosed, including: receiving from a terminal an authentication request to authenticate a wireless network, wherein the authentication request includes a first identifying information; sending an authentication code to the terminal, wherein the authentication code is to be configured as a newly configured login password associated with the wireless network; receiving a feedback response from the terminal, wherein the feedback response includes a second identifying information and the newly configured login password associated with the wireless network; in the event that the first identifying information matches the second identifying information and the authentication code matches the newly configured login password, determining that the terminal is an administrative terminal associated with the wireless network; and storing at least one of the first identifying information and the second identifying information as authentication identifying information with the newly configured login password.
US09270668B2	Method and apparatus for verifying anti-counterfeiting information A method and apparatus for verifying anti-counterfeiting information are provided so as to improve an anti-counterfeiting effect, to lower an anti-counterfeiting cost, to extend the scope of population to which anti-counterfeiting effect is applicable and to guarantee the stability of anti-counterfeiting means. The method includes: a terminal obtains and parses encrypted address information of an object; the terminal connects to a network address corresponding to the parsed encrypted address information; the terminal determines that the encrypted address information is valid upon successful connection and sending verification information of the object to the network address corresponding to the encrypted address information; and the terminal receives feedback information about whether the verification information is valid.
US09270667B2	Utilizing X.509 authentication for single sign-on between disparate servers An authentication scheme may be utilized for a single sign-on operation between servers. One or more servers receive a data request directed to a disparate server. A root certificate (e.g., an X.509 root certificate) is loaded for accessing the disparate server. A user certificate is dynamically generated for identifying a logged-in user. The user certificate is signed with the root certificate and sent to the disparate server for binding with the data request. The data request is sent to the disparate server for authentication using the user certificate. The disparate server accesses a mapping table to map a subject name in the user certificate. When an entry for the logged-in user is found in the mapping table, data operations are enabled between the servers. An open web protocol response containing the requested data is then received from the disparate server.
US09270664B2	System and method for secure reciprocal exchange of data A system for transmission of data between a first device operated by a first user and a second device operated by a second user includes a database that is in network communication with the first device and the second device. The database receives a first set of data input by the first user and a second set of data input by the second user. The database allows the second user to access a first portion of the first set of data only after the second user authorizes the first user via the database to access a first portion of the second set of data. Additionally, the database can allow the second user to have access to the first portion of the first set of data from the database only after the first user authorizes the second user via the database to access the first portion of the first set of data from the database. At least one of the first portion of the first set of data and the first portion of the second set of data includes video data, audio data, geographic location information, visual data and/or textual data. At least one of the first device and the second device can be a mobile phone.
US09270663B2	System and method to enable PKI- and PMI-based distributed locking of content and distributed unlocking of protected content and/or scoring of users and/or scoring of end-entity access means—added A central server configured with an Attribute Authority (“AA”) acting as a Trusted Third Party mediating service provider and using X.509-compatible PKI and PMI, VPN technology, device-side thin client applications, security hardware (HSM, Network), cloud hosting, authentication, Active Directory and other solutions. This ecosystem results in real time management of credentials, identity profiles, communication lines, and keys. It is not centrally managed, rather distributes rights to users. Using its Inviter-Invitee protocol suite, Inviters vouch for the identity of Invitees who successfully complete the protocol establishing communication lines. Users establish and respond to authorization requests and other real-time verifications pertaining to accessing each communication line (not end point) and sharing encrypted digital files. These are auditable, brokered, trusted-relationships where such relationships/digital agreements can each stand-alone (for privacy) or can leverage build-up of identity confidence levels across relationships. The service is agnostic to how encrypted user content is transported or stored.
US09270652B2	Wireless communication authentication A replay attack from an unauthorized user is easily avoided by wireless communication authentication. A mobile node acquires an inherent identification number owned by a base station connected to the mobile node, and sends authentication packet data including the identification number and information providing transfer route information for packet data sent to the mobile node through a wireless link. A router holds an inherent identification number owned by a base station connected to the router, and, if the identification number held by the router agrees with the identification number included in the authentication packet data sent from the mobile node, registers the transfer route information in a route table based on the authentication packet data.
US09270647B2	Client/server security by an intermediary rendering modified in-memory objects In an embodiment, a method comprises intercepting, from a server computer, a first set of instructions that define one or more objects and one or more operations that are based, at least in part, on the one or more objects; generating, in memory, one or more data structures that correspond to the one or more objects; performing the one or more operations on the one or more data structures; updating the one or more data structures, in response to performing the one or more operations, to produce one or more updated data structures; rendering a second set of instructions, which when executed by a remote client computer cause the remote client computer to generate the updated data structures in memory on the remote client computer, wherein the second set of instructions are different than the first set of instructions; sending the second set of instructions to the remote client computer.
US09270645B2	Wireless internet product system Low resource internet devices such as consumer electronics products connect to web service by means of a proxy method where the connected device does not need to maintain the expensive and fragile web service interface itself, but rather uses simple low level protocols to communicate through a gateway that executes software to translate a low level proprietary wireless protocol to a proprietary low level internet protocol that can pass through a firewall to proxy servers that translate the low level protocols thus presenting an interface that makes the internet device appear to have a full web service interface to enable communication between the internet devices and the web server.
US09270644B2	Thwarting keyloggers using proxies Techniques for using a proxy server are described herein. In response to a request received from a client for accessing a Web page provided from a remote Web server over a network, a proxy server retrieves the Web page from the remote Web server and presents the Web page to the client. The proxy server presents an input interface to the client to allow a user of the client to log into the proxy server without having to type at the client. The proxy server causes one or more keys in an input field of the Web page to be entered without a user having to type at the client. Thereafter, the proxy server intercepts traffic between the client and the remote Web server over the network.
US09270641B1	Methods and systems for using keywords preprocessing, Boyer-Moore analysis, and hybrids thereof, for processing regular expressions in intrusion-prevention systems Methods and systems are provided for using keyword preprocessing, Boyer-Moore analysis, and hybrids thereof, in intrusion-prevention systems. In one embodiment, a state-transition table representative of a data pattern is provided. The table has a plurality of states, each having egress events that define transitions to other states. The data pattern is parsed to identify character strings. A subject is received for evaluation, and preprocessed to find any instances of those character strings. A keyword table is populated with the character strings found during preprocessing. While using the table to evaluate the subject, a first state having a first one of the character strings as an egress event is transitioned into. The keyword table is checked for the first character string, and, responsive to finding the first character string in the keyword table, a transition is taken from the first state to the second state.
US09270639B2	Load balancing among a cluster of firewall security devices A method for balancing load among firewall security devices in a network is disclosed. Firewall security devices are arranged in multiple clusters. A switching device is configured with the firewall security devices by communicating control messages and heartbeat signals. Information regarding the configured firewall security devices is then included in a load balancing table. A load balancing function is configured for enabling the distribution of data traffic received by the switching device. A received data packet by the switching device is forwarded to one of the firewall security devices in a cluster based on the load balancing function, the load balancing table and the address contained in the data packet.
US09270637B2	Method, apparatus, and multimode terminal for implementing network switching A method, an apparatus, and a multimode terminal for implementing network switching. The method includes: sending a network access request to a second modem module and receiving a network parameter including at least an IP (Internet Protocol) address fed back by the second modem module, where the IP address fed back by the second modem module is the same as an IP address acquired by a first modem module that has accessed a network; disconnecting a communication connection between a NAT (Network Address Translation) module performing address translation and the first modem module; and updating network configuration of the second modem module and establishing a communication connection between the NAT module and the second modem module. The method, apparatus, and multimode terminal disclosed herein can ensure that a service is not interrupted during network switching, thereby improving the user experience and satisfaction.
US09270635B2	Loading an operating system of a diskless compute node using a single virtual protocol interconnect (‘VPI’) adapter Loading an operating system of a diskless compute node using a single Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) adapter, including: setting, by a VPI firmware module during startup of the compute node, an operational mode of the VPI adapter to operate in accordance with a first data communications protocol, the VPI adapter including a preboot execution environment module that supports the first data communications protocol prior to loading an operating system and a driver for the first data communications protocol; retrieving, by the VPI firmware module from a network source via the VPI adapter in accordance with the first data communications protocol, the operating system and a driver for the second data communications protocol; and responsive to loading the operating system and the driver for the second data communications protocol, switching the operational mode of the VPI adapter to operate in accordance with the second data communications protocol.
US09270634B1	Building a proximate social networking database based on relative distance profiling of two or more operably coupled computers Computer systems and methods for generating a social network of users based on the users' devices being operably coupled are discussed herein. Specifically, techniques are described herein to determine the types of relationships between a plurality of users based on telemetry data collected at one or more server computers from the users' operably coupled client devices. The telemetry data describes, among other things, protocol(s) and network interface(s) used to operably couple the client devices, network operations performed by the client devices, and sensory data recorded by the client devices while the devices are operably coupled.
US09270631B2	Communicating via a virtual community using outside contact information A device is provided that creates an account for a first member of a virtual community. The account includes a contact identifier used for communicating with the first member outside of the virtual community. The device receives a message via the virtual community from a second member of the virtual community. A recipient of the message being selected by the second member using outside contact information for a contact, and the outside contact information corresponding to contact information used to communicate with the contact outside of the virtual community. Additionally, the device identifies the first member of the virtual community as the recipient of the message based on the contact identifier included in the account and the outside contact information indicated by the message. Furthermore, the device transmits the message to the first member via the virtual community.
US09270630B1	Integrating communication modes in persistent conversations Systems, methods and computer readable media for persistent conversations are described. In some implementations, a method can include receiving a communication message sent from a first user to at least one other user and generating a persistent conversation object having a conversation content section and conversation state information. The method can also include storing the communication message in the conversation content section of the persistent conversation object and forwarding the communication message to the at least one other user. The method can further include updating the conversation state information to reflect the receiving, storing and forwarding of the communication message.
US09270629B2	Personalised dynamic email addresses in enterprise environments Companies provide a set of default personalized dynamic email addresses for both individuals and groups. The embodiments may be implemented as an extension to existing email servers, which are coupled to an existing enterprise information system. When receiving an email sent to a personalized dynamic email address, an address resolver component is used to access the definition of the email address, query for the respective recipient(s), and replace the recipient(s) in the email message. Users have the possibility to define further personalized dynamic email addresses using, for example, a web interface. The embodiments may be smoothly integrated into an existing communication infrastructure of companies without the need to change existing systems.
US09270620B2	Memory transfer optimization of network adapter data placement when performing header-data split operations Mechanisms are provided, in a data processing system comprising a host system and a network adapter, for processing received frames of data over a network connection. The mechanisms receive, in the host system from the network adapter, a plurality of frames of data. The mechanisms record, by the host system, for each frame in the plurality of frames, a header size associated with the frame over a current predetermined interval. The mechanisms determine, by the host system, a receive buffer address offset for receive buffers in the host system for a next predetermined interval based on the recorded header sizes of the plurality of frames over the current predetermined interval. In addition, the mechanisms configure, by the host system, the network adapter to utilize the receive buffer address offset to perform data transfers with the host system.
US09270617B2	Load controller framework The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for controlling service load in a cloud-based system. An example method includes receiving a first request for the network service from a client, evaluating a load condition associated with the network service, the load condition indicating an availability of the network service to receive requests, returning a unique token associated with the first request to the client in response to the load condition indicating that the network service is not available to receive the requests, receiving a second request for the network service from the client, the second request including at least a portion of the first request and the unique token, evaluating the load condition associated with the network service, and prioritizing the second request based on the unique token in response to the load condition indicating that the network service is available to receive the requests.
US09270614B1	Quality of service for SIP-based data A method and system for providing Quality of Service (QoS) for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based signaling and traffic are disclosed. The method can facilitate the management of Quality of Service in a Session Initiation Protocol-based communication on a cable network by using a built-in Dynamic Service feature to set up, enforce, modify, and tear down Quality of Service enabled service flows for SIP-based signaling and multimedia traffic over the cable system. The system can include a cable modem that is configured to recognize SIP-based signaling and traffic on a CM/Multimedia Terminal Adapter interface. The disclosed method and system can facilitate the provision of SIP-based services utilizing the inherent features of a cable network.
US09270613B2	Cluster-free techniques for enabling a directory protocol-based domain name system (DNS) service for high availability Cluster-free techniques for enabling a directory protocol-based Domain Name System (DNS) service for high availability are presented. A DNS service monitors a node for wild-carded IP address that migrate to the node when a primary node fails to service DNS requests for a directory of the network. The DNS service forwards the wild-carded IP address to a distributed directory service for resolution and uses the distributed directory service to dynamically configure the DNS service for directly handling subsequent DNS requests made to the directory over the network while the primary node remains inoperable over the network.
US09270612B2	Software-defined networking interface between multiple platform managers Embodiments relate to a software-defined networking (SDN) interface between multiple platform managers. An aspect is a computer-implemented method for receiving, at an SDN controller of a network, provisioning data from a first network provisioning application associated with a first platform manager of a first computing platform. Provisioning data are received at the SDN controller from a second network provisioning application associated with a second platform manager of a second computing platform. The SDN controller compares the provisioning data from the first network provisioning application to the provisioning data from the second network provisioning application to identify provisioning issues. The SDN controller determines a modified provisioning that resolves the provisioning issues. The SDN controller configures the network to comply with the modified provisioning. The modified provisioning is reported to the first and second network provisioning applications.
US09270609B2	Transmission control protocol window size adjustment for out-of-order protocol data unit removal A system and method for sharing a WAN TCP tunnel between multiple flows without having head of the line blocking problem is disclosed. When a complete but out of order PDU is stuck behind an incomplete PDU in a TCP tunnel, the complete but out of order PDU is removed from the tunnel. To do that, first the boundaries of the PDUs of the different flows are preserved and the TCP receive window advertisement is increased. The receive window is opened when initially receiving out-of-order data. As out-of-order complete PDUs are pulled out of the receive queue, to address double counting, place holders are used in the receive queue to indicate data that was in the queue. As out-of-order data PDUs are pulled out of the queue the window advertisement is increased. This keeps the sending side from running out of TX window and stopping transmission of new data.
US09270608B2	Multi-stage large send offload A network stack sends very large packets with large segment offload (LSO) by performing multi-pass LSO. A first-stage LSO filter is inserted between the network stack and the physical NIC. The first-stage filter splits very large LSO packets into LSO packets that are small enough for the NIC. The NIC then performs a second pass of LSO by splitting these sub-packets into standard MTU-sized networking packets for transmission on the network.
US09270604B2	Bus system and router In an NoC bus system, data is transmitted between first and second nodes through a router. The data includes performance-ensuring data which guarantees throughput and/or a permitted time delay. The first node generates packets, each including the data to be transmitted and classification information that indicates the class of that data to be determined according to its required performance, and controls transmission of the packets. The router includes a buffer section configured to store the received packets separately after having classified the packets according to their required performance by reference to the classification information, and a relay controller configured to control transmission of the packets stored in the buffer section at a transmission rate which is equal to or higher than the sum of transmission rates to be guaranteed for every first node associated with the classification information by reference to each piece of the classification information.
US09270601B2	Path resolution for hierarchical load distribution Network devices perform multiple stage path resolution. The path resolution may be ECMP resolution. Any particular stage of the multiple stage path resolution may be skipped under certain conditions. Further, the network device facilitate redistribution of traffic when a next hop goes down in a fast, efficient manner, and without reassigning traffic that was going to other unaffected next hops, using multiple stage ECMP resolution.
US09270600B2	Low-latency lossless switch fabric for use in a data center In one embodiment, a switch includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor, the logic being configured to cause the processor to receive a packet at an ingress port of the switch, forward the packet to a buffered switch when at least one congestion condition is met, where the buffered switch is configured to evaluate congestion conditions of a fabric network, and forward the packet to a low-latency switch when the at least one congestion condition is not met, where the low-latency switch includes an additional policy table provided with forwarding decisions based on the congestion conditions of the fabric network. Other switches, systems, methods, and computer program products for providing low latency packet forwarding with guaranteed delivery are described according to more embodiments.
US09270598B1	Congestion control using congestion prefix information in a named data networking environment An example method for congestion control using congestion prefix information in a Named Data Networking (NDN) environment is provided and includes sensing, at a first node, congestion preventing an interest packet from being forwarded over a link to a second node, generating a prefix marker associated with a class of traffic to which the interest packet belongs, generating a negative acknowledgement (NACK) packet that includes the prefix marker, the NACK packet being indicative of congestion for any interest packet in the class of traffic indicated by the prefix marker over any path that includes the link, and transmitting the NACK packet over the NDN environment towards a sender of the interest packet.
US09270591B2	Method and system for routing data traffic Method and media gateway (4) for providing network connectivity functionality in a combination of a first network connection formed by the media gateway (4) and a second network connection formed by a generic gateway (2). A first group of IP clients (5) is connected to the media gateway (4), and a second group of IP clients (3) is connected to the generic gateway (2). The media gateway (4) is arranged to receive from the generic gateway (2) local IP addresses associated with the first group of IP clients (5). An attachment link (6) is provided between the media gateway (4) and the generic gateway (2).
US09270589B2	Transparent RBridge A transparent edge Routing Bridge (RBridge) including a first communication unit configured to receive a data packet from an access segment of a network, the data packet including an egress device nickname and at least one Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tag, a TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) header constructing unit configured to construct a TRILL header based on the VLAN tag, and a second communication unit that transmits the data packet, including the TRILL header, to an egress device corresponding to the egress device nickname via a TRILL compliant interconnection layer.
US09270586B2	Method for abstracting datapath hardware elements A table based abstraction layer is interposed between applications and the packet forwarding hardware driver layer. All behavior and configuration of packet forwarding to be implemented in the hardware layer is articulated as fields in tables of the table based abstraction layer, and the higher level application software interacts with the hardware through the creation of and insertion and deletion of elements in these tables. The structure of the tables in the abstraction layer has no direct functional meaning to the hardware, but rather the tables of the table based abstraction layer simply exist to receive data to be inserted by the applications into the forwarding hardware. Information from the tables is extracted by the packet forwarding hardware driver layer and used to populate physical offset tables that may then be installed into the registers and physical tables utilized by the hardware to perform packet forwarding operations.
US09270584B2	Diverse paths using a single source route in computer networks In one embodiment, a source device determines a source route from itself to a destination device in a computer network, and forwards a first packet on the source route with the source route included within the first packet. In addition, the source device generates a second packet with the source route included within the second packet, the second packet also including an indication to cause one or more of a plurality of transit devices to forward the second packet to a reachable 1-hop neighbor of a device in the source route two hops away from the respective transit device. The source device may then forward the second packet itself, as do one the one or more transit devices on a diverse path based on the source route, to a particular reachable 1-hop neighbor of a particular device in the source route two hops away from the source (or transit) device.
US09270578B2	Management of multiple network routes Managing network communications between network hosts that have multiple physical network ports coupled to the network. A first host broadcasts address resolution requests from first physical network ports of the first host and receives responses to the address resolution requests from second physical network ports of a second host. The responses include respective connection bandwidths of the second physical network ports. The first host generates connectivity information describing a plurality of available communication routes in the network between first physical network ports of the first host and second physical network ports of the second host based on the responses, from which a subset of available communication routes can be selected for data transfer.
US09270573B2	Node apparatus, data relay method and computer-readable recording medium A node apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a data frame from one of adjacent nodes apparatuses; a storing unit storing an identification information management table in which frame identification information with which the data frame may be uniquely identified, and overlapped data identification information; a processor which performs a process including: judging whether or not a final destination of the received data frame is the node apparatus itself; judging whether or not a registration that matches the frame identification information of the received data frame exists in the identification information management table; judging whether or not the overlapped data identification information of the received data frame and the overlapped data identification information corresponding to the registration match; and discarding the received data frame; and performing a retransmission of the received data frame to another adjacent node that has not been a transmission destination of the data frame.
US09270572B2	Layer-3 support in TRILL networks One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes an IP header processor and a forwarding mechanism. The IP header processor identifies a destination IP address in a packet encapsulated with an inner Ethernet header, a TRILL header, and an outer Ethernet header. The forwarding mechanism determines an output port and constructs a new header for the packet based on the destination IP address. The switch also includes a packet processor which determines whether (1) an inner destination media access control (MAC) address corresponds to a local MAC address assigned to the switch; (2) a destination RBridge identifier corresponds to a local RBridge identifier assigned to the switch; and (3) an outer destination MAC address corresponds to the local MAC address.
US09270570B2	Remote message routing device and methods thereof A message routing method includes receiving a plurality of messages at a routing node. The routing node is configured to route each received message based on the message type. Accordingly, the routing node is able to establish a peer-to-peer connection between the message source and a destination node for a designated message type, while establishing a server-client connection between the message source and a server for other message types. The routing node can also route messages to different groups of destination nodes depending on the message type, thereby providing a flexible way to route messages over a network.
US09270567B2	Shared terminal identification system using a network packet and processing method thereof The present invention relates to a system and method for authenticating, monitoring, and managing all terminals connected to a wireless/wired network to use Internet. A shared terminal management system comprises a management server, a charging server, a central server, a central authentication G/W server, and a proxy server, and assigns a terminal identification value for every terminal that uses Internet, authenticates terminals by reading and analyzing the assigned terminal identification value, monitors and manages shared terminals used as being connected to one line to classify lines into a basic line and an additional line, and charges for the additional line. The shared terminal identification system for identifying and managing terminals connected to one Internet line comprises a subscriber line authentication unit, a packet collecting unit, a first packet analyzing unit, an element packet transmission unit, a data management unit and a terminal determining unit.
US09270565B2	System for estimating download speed from passive measurements A system for passive estimation of throughput in an electronic network is disclosed. The system may include an plurality of mobile devices configured to operate in the network and may further include an electronic data processor. The processor may be configured to access flow records for data flows associated with the mobile devices during a predetermined time interval. Additionally, the processor may be configured to annotate the flow records with an application field and a content provider field. The processor may also be configured to determine a flow type of each data flow based on the application field and the content provider field of the flow records. Furthermore, the processor may be configured to generate a throughput index that only includes non-rate-limited flow types. Moreover, the processor may be configured to estimate maximum throughput for each data flow having non-rate-limited flow types in the throughput index.
US09270562B2	Session-based server transaction storm controls Transaction storm detection includes receiving a series of transactions in a data stream for an authenticated network session. A detection engine determines whether the transactions form a transaction storm. In response to determining that the transactions are a transaction storm, metrics associated with the transaction storm are presented. One or more actions may be specified to be applied in a subsequently detected transaction storm.
US09270560B2	Session layer for monitoring utility application traffic Techniques are provided to facilitate monitoring of utility application traffic streams. At a network device that routes utility application traffic for utility devices, control information is received, where the control information is configured to cause the network device to monitor utility application traffic that passes through the network device. The network device monitors a header inserted into utility application traffic messages based on the control information.
US09270556B2	Flow control in packet processing systems Flow control in a packet processing system includes obtaining metric data measuring utilization of at least one resource in the packet processing system over intervals of a time period. A value of a flow control load parameter is adjusted during each of the intervals based on comparing the metric data with at least one condition that indicates depletion of the at least one resource. A value of a packet flow budget is established for the packet processing system in each of the intervals based on the respective value of the flow control load parameter in each of the intervals.
US09270553B1	Dynamic service debugging in a virtual environment A service oriented architecture (SOA) provides on-demand service call debugging and call stack tracing. The service call (e.g., an API) includes a new field and optional signature value. The field is a ‘debug-requested’ field, and the optional field is a unique call-id signature. The service provider can enable debugging in accordance with the debug-requested field for this service call, and tag all debugged data with the unique call-id. If it is necessary to call other services to fulfill the request, then the service can pass the ‘debug-requested’ field and the ‘unique id’ in the call to that service. Using this mechanism, detailed debugging can be supported across an entire stack for only those requests that need it and the performance/latency impact of having debugging enabled only applies to the subset of calls which need debugging.
US09270544B2	Method and system to identify a network device associated with poor QoS A method and apparatus to analyze real-time data transmissions across a network is described. The method may comprise transmitting a sample data stream between source and destination endpoints across a test data path which includes network devices. The method may then compare a measured quality of the received sample data stream with pre-defined quality criteria associated with the network. If the measured quality fails to meet the pre-defined quality criteria, the network devices in the test data path may be identified, device performance data may be obtained, and a network report may be generated based on the device performance data. The device performance data may comprise processor utilization, memory utilization, bandwidth over subscription, buffer over run, and/or a number of non-error packets that are discarded at the network device.
US09270542B2	Apparatus and methods for forwarding data packets captured from a network In one embodiment, packet forwarding apparatus includes a data packet receiving interface, a data packet forwarding interface, and a configuration interface. The apparatus also includes circuitry that defines a plurality of data packet forwarding paths between the data packet receiving interface and the data packet forwarding interface. The circuitry defines at least one of the plurality of data packet forwarding paths in response to input received via the configuration interface, and the circuitry adaptively reconfigures at least one of the plurality of data packet forwarding paths i) in response to input received via the configuration interface, and ii) while data packets are being received by the packet forwarding apparatus.
US09270537B2	Connection distribution within a connectional parallelism architecture Example embodiments provide various techniques for distributing connections within a connectional parallelism architecture. In one embodiment, a method is provided where resource utilizations of connection groups are measured. Here, each connection group is assigned to one of multiple processors. A probability distribution is accessed that maps probabilities assigned to relative resource utilizations. A relative resource utilization of one of the connection groups is determined based on a resource utilization of the one connection group relative to other resource utilizations of other connection groups. A probability from the probability distribution is identified based on the determined relative resource utilization, and based on the identified probability, a connection is assigned to this connection group for execution by one of the processors assigned to this connection group.
US09270535B2	Inferred discovery of a data communications device Methods, apparatus, and products for inferred discovery of a data communications device connected to a router, unreachable by a management module, and characterized by a device address are disclosed that include querying, by the management module, the router for connection data and identifying, by the management module in dependence upon the connection data, the device address.
US09270534B2	Dynamic point to point mobile network including origination device aspects system and method A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: obtain information at least in part regarding one or more first aspects of one or more intermediate electronic communication devices for serving as one or more nodes of one or more standby point-to-point communication networks upon activation thereof for use by an origination electronic communication device to communicate at least in part with a destination electronic communication device, the one or more intermediate electronic communication devices having one or more second aspects as one or more mobile electronic communication devices. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US09270533B2	Fast network discovery using SNMP multi-cast A network management device sends an SNMP multi-cast GET on a network to discover all the network devices on the network or subnet. The network management device builds a Management Information Base (MIB) based on the responses received from the SNMP multi-cast GET. The MIB information is then sent to a Network Management System (NMS).The SNMP multi-cast GET can be sent based on a command to discover network devices on the network or can be sent based on a polling algorithm. The system and method also include the ability to send an SNMP multi-cast SET to set the same parameter(s) on all the devices on the network/subnet.
US09270522B2	Replica deployment method and relay apparatus A first information processing apparatus transmits a message storing a replica of data stored in the first information processing apparatus. The message has an unspecified destination. A first relay apparatus detects a second information processing apparatus provided in a network to which the first relay apparatus belongs. The first relay apparatus selects, as a transfer destination of the message, the second information processing apparatus or a second relay apparatus upon receiving the message. The first relay apparatus transfers the message to the selected transfer destination. The second information processing apparatus stores the replica therein upon receiving the message.
US09270519B2	Address translation device, address translation method, and computer product An address translation device includes a receiver that receives a packet that is from a communication apparatus on a private network to a communication apparatus on a global network; an address determiner that determines whether a destination address of a first packet received by the receiver matches a destination address of a second packet that was received before the first packet; a translator that when the address determiner makes a determination of no matching, translates a source private address of the first packet to a source global address that has been allocated to the second packet; and a transmitter that transmits the first packet that has been translated by the translator.
US09270517B1	Tuple construction from data packets In one approach for processing a data packet, in at least one stage of a plurality of stages of a pipeline circuit, a respective packet field value is extracted from the data packet. In each stage of the plurality of stages, a respective tuple field value is inserted into a respective tuple register of the stage at a respective offset. The respective tuple field value in the at least one stage is based on the respective packet field value. In each stage of the plurality of stages except a last one of the stages, the contents of the respective tuple register of the stage are provided as input to a next one of the stages.
US09270516B2	Peer-to-peer interconnection between service providers Embodiments of methods and systems for peer-to-peer interconnection between service providers are presented. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a session controller, a request for access to a target communication device, the target communication device being communicatively coupled to a foreign service provider network. The method may also include referencing a list of available routes for peer-to-peer communication with the target communication device on the foreign service provider network from a database of available routes. Additionally, the method may include identifying, in a peer-to-peer interconnect controller, a path for communication with the target communication device in response to the list of available routes. In one embodiment, the method also includes establishing a peer-to-peer communication session from a peering point to the target communication device over the path.
US09270514B2	Method and apparatus for data recording multimedia data A multimedia event recording apparatus, and more particularly, a multimedia event recording method by which multimedia data and multimedia event contents are related and then stored, and an apparatus suitable for the method are provided. The multimedia recording method includes: detecting an occurrence of a control event in relation to multimedia data; closing a file in which an audio and/or video (A/V) stream is being recorded if the control event occurs, before the control event occurs is recorded; recording a position of data at which the control event corresponding to the closed file occurs and file information of the closed file in a mark table; and opening a new file and storing an A/V stream after the control event occurs.
US09270506B2	Methods for bypassing faulty connections Apparatus are disclosed, such as those involving a 3-D integrated circuit. One such apparatus includes a first die including a plurality of vertical connectors formed therethrough. The apparatus also includes a first circuit configured to encode multiple data bits into a multi-bit symbol, and provide the multi-bit symbol to two or more of the vertical connectors. The apparatus further includes a second circuit configured to receive the multi-bit symbol from at least one of the two or more vertical connectors, and decode the multi-bit symbol into the multiple data bits. The apparatus provides enhanced repairability with no or less redundant vertical connectors, thus avoiding the need for “on the fly” or field repair of defective vertical connectors.
US09270493B2	Scalable estimation ring Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating impulse responses of multiple channels, e.g., multiple antenna sub-array paths of a base station, in a distributed manner. In one embodiment, a method of operation of a Scalable Estimation Ring (SER) processing component in a SER that operates to estimate impulse responses of corresponding channels is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes, during a first iteration of the SER, receiving a feedback signal for the SER processing component and computing an initial estimate of an impulse response of a corresponding channel based on the feedback signal, removing a contribution of the corresponding channel from the feedback signal based on the initial estimate of the impulse response of the corresponding channel to thereby provide a feedback signal for a next SER processing component in the SER, and outputting the feedback signal for the next SER processing component in the SER.
US09270492B2	System and method for providing network support services and premises gateway support infrastructure A service management system communicates via wide area network with gateway devices located at respective user premises. The service management system remotely manages delivery of application services by the gateway device(s), e.g. by selectively activating or deactivating service logic modules in the gateway devices. The service management system also may selectively provide secure communications and exchange of information among gateway devices and among associated endpoint devices. An exemplary service management system includes a router connected to the network and one or more computer platforms, for implementing management functions. Examples of the functions include a connection manager for controlling system communications with the gateway devices, an authentication manager for authenticating each gateway device and controlling the connection manager and a subscription manager for managing applications services and/or features offered by the gateway devices. A service manager, controlled by the subscription manager, distributes service specific configuration data to authenticated gateway devices.
US09270490B2	Contextual presence system and associated methods Systems and methods dynamically form a context group that has a plurality of members and propagate payload data between the members. A database associates a context identifier (ID) of the context group with a user ID of each member. A context manager, communicatively coupled with the database, receives a join context request containing the context ID and a user ID from each said member, creates the context group, if not existing, within the database in response to the join request, and adds the user ID, if not existing, of each said member to the database in association with the context ID. A payload handler receives payload data from one of said members and propagates the payload data to other said members of the context group.
US09270489B1	Explicit congestion notification in mixed fabric networks Systems and methods are provided for congestion notification in mixed-fabric InfiniBand networks. In one aspect, a system and apparatus is provided wherein a receiving endpoint receives, from a sending endpoint, InfiniBand messages over a mixed-fabric network. The mixed-fabric network may include an InfiniBand transport layer and a non-InfiniBand messaging fabric. The non-InfiniBand massaging fabric may be any type of non-InfiniBand data-link-layer and network-layer network (e.g. Ethernet, IP). For example, the receiving endpoint may receive a non-InfiniBand protocol data unit (PDU) that contains at least a part of a first InfiniBand PDU as payload. The receiving endpoint may extract signaling from the received non-InfiniBand PDU that indicates whether congestion has been detected in the non-InfiniBand layers of the mixed-fabric network. The receiving endpoint may include the same or similar signaling in the header portion of a second InfiniBand PDU, and transmit the second InfiniBand PDU to the sending endpoint.
US09270486B2	Name services for virtual cluster switching One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch that facilitates name services in a virtual cluster switch. The switch includes a name service database indicating at least one media access control (MAC) address learned at a second switch. The switch also includes a control mechanism. During operation, the control mechanism distributes information on a locally learned MAC address to the second switch. In addition, the control mechanism receives information on a MAC address learned at the second switch.
US09270480B1	Systems and methods for Ethernet-based management of optical networks using OMCI The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for Ethernet-based management of optical networks using ONT management interface (OMCI). In one exemplary embodiment, an Ethernet-based protocol, such as Active Ethernet, is used to implement an ONT management interface (OMCI) between an optical line terminal (OLT) and a plurality of ONTs of a MON. Further, virtual local area networks (VLANs) are used to separate the traffic carried by the MON. Various techniques are described that permit ONT registration and creation of VLANs for the MON without requiring the use of gigabit PON (GPON) constructs, such as traffic containers (TCONTs) and dedicated GPON encapsulation method (GEM) ports.
US09270477B2	Method and apparatus of measuring and reporting data gap from within an analysis tool Network data gap is determined and reported to enable a user to validate that all the traffic that was intended to be monitored is being monitored in monitoring and/or troubleshooting tools for observation of network traffic and network installation and maintenance. Span port oversubscription, incomplete span configuration, incorrectly placed network taps and monitoring device packet drop may thereby be detected and reported as data gap.
US09270475B2	Network-based service for the repair of IP multicast sessions A system and method are disclosed for the repair of IP multicast sessions. A repair server polls multiple transmit servers to accumulate as many of the packets missing from the multicast session as possible. A network includes a source of multicast packets in a multicast session and a plurality of multicast recipients in that session. A repair server in the network provides the packets it receives to the recipients. The repair server includes a missing packet detector. There is a plurality of retransmit servers in the network buffering portions of the packets they respectively receive during the session. The repair server maintains an ordered list of the retransmit servers that are most likely to have buffered copies of packets missing from the session. When the repair server detects that there are packets missing from the session it has received, it uses the ordered list to sequentially request the missing packets from respective ones of the plurality of retransmit servers.
US09270471B2	Client-client-server authentication Described is a technology by which machines of a (typically small) network have associated public key-based certificates for use in authentication with a server and validation of other machines in the network. This provides an inexpensive and straightforward mechanism to control, manage and maintain client machines, as well as to allow valid client machines to securely communicate with one another and recognize machines that are not valid on the network. Certificates are maintained on the server and checked for validity as needed.
US09270469B2	Authentication using public keys and session keys One approach for authenticating data includes storing a plurality of combinations of representations of public keys and session key IDs in a non-volatile memory. A payload and accompanying public key, session key ID, and signature of the payload are input. The signature is a function of the payload and a private key of a key pair that includes the accompanying public key and the private key. Authenticity of the payload is determined based on the accompanying public key and session key ID and the combinations stored in the non-volatile memory, and from the signature and the payload. In response to determining that the payload is authentic, the payload is processed, and in response to determining that the payload is not authentic, processing of the payload is disabled.
US09270468B2	Methods to improve secure flash programming Methods are provided for securely loading software objects into an electronic control unit. The methods include receiving a first software object comprising a second level public key certificate, a first encryption signature and a first set of software. Once the first software object is received, validating the first second level public key is validated with the embedded root public key, the first encryption signature with the first second level public key certificate, and the first set of software with the first encryption signature. When the first set of software is valid, then the first second level public key certificate and the first set of software are stored to non-volatile memory. Once stored, a consecutive software object is received comprising only a consecutive encryption signature and a consecutive set of software from the programming source. The consecutive encryption signature is validated with the stored second level public key certificate, and the consecutive set of software is validated with the consecutive encryption signature.
US09270466B2	System and method for temporary secure boot of an electronic device The invention discloses system and method of temporary secure boot process of an electronic device. The method comprises: generating a first token according to an identification data of the electronic device; sending a request along with the first token to a service provider, the request corresponding to a boot package; receiving a second token and a boot package from the service provider; verifying the second token and the boot package; and executing the boot package according to verification result.
US09270464B2	Methods for secure enrollment and backup of personal identity credentials into electronic devices A method and system for securely enrolling personal identity credentials into personal identification devices. The system of the invention comprises the manufacturer of the device and an enrollment authority. The manufacturer is responsible for recording serial numbers or another unique identifier for each device that it produces, along with a self-generated public key for each device. The enrollment authority is recognized by the manufacturer or another suitable institution as capable of validating an individual before enrolling him into the device. The enrollment authority maintains and operates the appropriate equipment for enrollment, and provides its approval of the enrollment. The methods described herein discuss post-manufacturing, enrollment, backup, and recovery processes for the device.
US09270454B2	Public key generation utilizing media access control address In some embodiments, in a registration process where a user device is registering for access to a network, a public/private key pair may be generated based on a media access control (MAC) address of a user device. The generated public/private key pair may be transmitted to the user device for future access to the network. In some embodiments, where a user device is requesting access to a network, a MAC address embedded in a public key may be utilized to determine whether access to the network should be granted.
US09270453B2	Local security key generation A calling device may obtain a first calling security parameter by registering with a network and obtain a second calling security parameter in response to causing an application authentication architecture of the network to verify that that the calling device is authorized to access a network service corresponding to a communication application stored by the calling device. The calling device may communicate the first and second calling security parameters to a called device and receive first and second called security parameters from the called device in response to communicating the first and second calling security parameters. The calling device may generate a security key based on the first calling security parameter, the second calling security parameter, first called security parameter, and the second called security parameter, and use the security key to encrypt or decrypt communication between the calling device and the called device.
US09270451B2	Privacy enhanced spatial analytics Method, system, and computer program products, implementing and using techniques for processing data representing observations of entities. An anonymized key is generated. The anonymized key represents a spacetime region with which an entity is associated. The spacetime region represents a spatial region and a time interval. The entity is associated with the spacetime region based on spacetime coordinates for the entity.
US09270446B2	Privacy-enhancing technologies for medical tests using genomic data In this invention, we propose privacy-enhancing technologies for medical tests and personalized medicine methods, which utilize patients' genomic data. Assuming the whole genome sequencing is done by a certified institution, we propose to store patients' genomic data encrypted by a patient's public keys at a Storage and Processing Unit (SPU). A part of the corresponding private key is also stored on the SPU. At the time of the test by a Medical Unit (MU), the patient provides the second part of the private key to the MU. A test with its associated markers is determined by the MU and sent to the SPU. The test is carried out on the encrypted values thanks to homomorphic operation and returned back to the MU. The latter uses the second part of the private key to access the result.
US09270433B2	Sounding mechanism and configuration under carrier aggregation A method of multi-set RRC signaling for ap-SRS configuration is provided to enhance ap-SRS flexibility. An eNB transmits a plurality of sets of UE-specific SRS parameters to a UE via upper layer messaging in a multi-carrier wireless communication system. The eNB also determines triggering information of a selected set of UE-specific SRS parameters and an indicated carrier for the UE. The eNB then transmits an uplink or downlink grant over a primary carrier, the grant comprises triggering information for the UE to send an ap-SRS over the indicated carrier using the selected set of UE-specific SRS parameters. In one embodiment of joint signaling, the plurality of sets of UE-specific SRS parameters are signaled together in a single RRC transmission. In another embodiment of separate signaling, each set of UE-specific SRS parameters is signaled independently.
US09270430B2	Method and apparatus for power headroom reporting A method for performing Power Headroom Reporting (PHR) in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The wireless communication system supports Carrier Aggregation (CA), which enables the UE to perform transmission through multiple carriers. The method includes steps of configuring a plurality of uplink carriers, and generating at least one PHR values, each corresponding to one of the plurality of uplink carriers.
US09270427B2	System and method for multiplexing control and data channels in a multiple input, multiple output communications system A system and method for system and method for multiplexing control and data channels in a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) communications system are provided. A method for transmitting control symbols and data symbols on multiple MIMO layers includes selecting a first set of codewords from Ncw codewords, distributing control symbols onto the first set of layers, placing data symbols of the first set of codewords onto the first set of layers, placing data symbols of the (Ncw-Ncw1) remaining codewords to remaining layers if Ncw>Ncw1, and transmitting the multiple MIMO layers. The first set of codewords is associated with a first set of layers from the multiple MIMO layers, and the Ncw codewords are to be transmitted simultaneously and the first set of codewords comprises Ncw1 MIMO codewords, where Ncw and Ncw1 are integers greater than or equal to 1. The remaining layers are MIMO layers from the multiple MIMO layers not in the first set of layers.
US09270425B2	Coordinated interference mitigation and cancelation A method includes receiving at user equipment an indication of a subset of scheduling constraints for interference mitigation and cancelation and performing interference mitigation and cancelation utilizing the subset of scheduling constraints.
US09270418B1	Identifying a code for signal decoding In some aspects, techniques for wireless signal decoding are described. In some instances, a number of superposition codes are computed based on a set of orthogonal binary codes. The set of orthogonal binary codes includes multiple subsets; each superposition code corresponds to one of the subsets and includes a combination of the binary codes in the corresponding subset. One of the subsets is selected based on a correlation between a wireless signal and the superposition code that corresponds to the subset. One of the binary codes is then selected from the selected subset based on a correlation between the wireless signal and the binary code. The wireless signal is decoded based on the selected binary code.
US09270417B2	Devices and methods for facilitating data inversion to limit both instantaneous current and signal transitions Electronic devices are adapted to facilitate data encoding for simultaneously limiting both instantaneous current and signal transitions. According to one example, an electronic device may perform a first encoding scheme on a group of data bits to be transmitted on a data bus. The first encoding scheme may be performed based on a number of transitions within the group of data bits for each data channel. A second encoding scheme may also be performed on the group of data bits. The second encoding scheme may be performed based on a number of data bits within the group of data bits for each data channel exhibiting a predetermined state (e.g., a one or a zero). After both encoding scheme are performed on the group of data bits, the encoded data bits may be transmitted over respective data channels of the data bus. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US09270416B2	Multi-mode transmitter for highly-spectrally-efficient communications A transmitter may comprise a symbol mapping circuit that is configurable to operate in at least two configurations, wherein a first of the configurations of the symbol mapping circuit uses a first symbol constellation and a second of the configurations of the symbol mapping circuit uses a second symbol constellation. The transmitter may also comprise a pulse shaping circuit that is configurable to operate in at least two configurations, wherein a first of the configurations of the pulse shaping circuit uses a first set of filter taps and a second of the configurations of the pulse shaping circuit uses a second set of filter taps. The first set of filter taps may correspond to a root raised cosine (RRC) filter and the second set of filter taps corresponds to a partial response filter.
US09270415B2	Encoding payloads according to data types while maintaining running disparity Methods and systems for encoding frames while maintaining bounded running disparity, including: encoding the headers of the frames utilizing a first line-code; selecting the first line-code and a second line code for encoding first and second payloads of first and second frames, respectively, based on first and second data types of first and second data comprised in the first and second payloads, respectively; encoding the first and second payloads utilizing the first and second line-codes, respectively; and transmitting the first and second frames over a communication channel characterized by first and second channel conditions, respectively. The second line-code has a minimal Hamming distance lower than that of the first line-code, and the differences between the first and second channel conditions are not enough for selecting the second line-code instead of the first line-code for encoding the second payload.
US09270414B2	Multiple-field based code generator and decoder for communications systems A method of encoding data for transmission from a source to a destination over a communications channel is provided. The method operates on an ordered set of input symbols and includes generating a plurality of redundant symbols from the input symbols based on linear constraints. The method also includes generating a plurality of output symbols from a combined set of symbols including the input symbols and the redundant symbols based on linear combinations, wherein at least one of the linear constraints or combinations is over a first finite field and at least one other of the linear constraints or combinations is over a different second finite field, and such that the ordered set of input symbols can be regenerated to a desired degree of accuracy from any predetermined number of the output symbols.
US09270412B2	Permute codes, iterative ensembles, graphical hash codes, and puncturing optimization Described herein are new error-correction (channel) codes: permute codes, iterative ensembles of permute and spinal codes, and graphical hash codes. In one aspect, a wireless system includes an encoder configured to encode data using one of the aforementioned channel codes. The wireless system also includes a decoder configured to decode the encoded data.
US09270411B2	Indicating end of idle sequence by replacing certain code words with alternative code words Methods and systems for indicating an end of an idle sequence, including: encoding a first frame, encoding a basic idle sequence including code words, producing an idle sequence by replacing certain M code words of the idle sequence with M alternative code words, and encoding a second frame. Each one of the M alternative code words appears in the basic idle sequence. And a second communication node, which is unable to determine a starting point of the second frame based only on a received idle sequence, is able to determine a start of the second frame based on a difference between the received idle sequence and the basic idle sequence.
US09270406B2	Communication method, optical communication system, station-side optical-line terminal apparatus, and user-side optical-line terminal apparatus A communication method of an optical communication system in which a user-side optical-line terminal apparatus (ONU) is connected to a station-side optical-line terminal apparatus (OLT) by an optical fiber includes allocating by the OLT to the ONY a transmission bandwidth for transmitting a response signal in a tentative wake-up period in a sleep mode in which a transmission function of the ONU is activated in the tentative wake-up period and deactivated in a sleep period. The method also includes transmitting a transmission bandwidth notification to the ONU, and transmitting, to the ONU, a notification of the sleep period in which deactivation of the transmission function is allowed.
US09270404B2	Dynamic scheduling using PON bandwidth allocation on lower aggregation levels The present invention relates transmission network, which involves Passive Optical Network and thereto connected units, e.g. Optical Network Units. It is an object of the present invention to provide a solution to the upstream data packet traffic congestion problem in transmission networks that comprises a PON system. Said problem is solved by providing adapted node devices and methods for such scheduling control that within the prescribed standard requirements, e.g. QoS, for passive optical network systems eliminate the congestion problem.
US09270401B2	Method and apparatus for asynchronous orthogonal frequency division multiple access A method of transmitting orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signals includes transmitting, at a first transmitter of a network, a first stream of data having a first number of symbols over a first time interval using a first set of one or more OFDMA subcarriers. At a second transmitter of the network, a second stream of data is transmitted having a second number of symbols over a second time interval, different in duration than the first time interval and overlapping the first time interval. The second burst of data is transmitted using a second set of one or more OFDMA subcarriers. The first time interval and first set of subcarriers define a first time-frequency grant, the second time interval and second set of subcarriers define a second time-frequency grant, and the first and second time-frequency grants are granted by a network coordinator node of the network.
US09270398B2	Methods and devices for transmission of signals in a telecommunication system Methods and devices for generating and receiving a training sequence in a radio communication network for a user sharing the same transmission slot with other users is provided where multiple users are multiplexed in the same time slot.A first, original, bit sequence, is repeated and a cyclic prefix and a cyclic postfix is added to the repeated bit sequence thereby forming the training sequence for the user.
US09270396B2	Method and apparatus for providing timing analysis for packet streams over packet carriers A network device such as a router or switch, in one embodiment, includes a timing analyzer which is capable of providing timing analysis over one or more network circuits. The timing analyzer, in one aspect, receives a data packet traveling across a circuit emulation service (“CES”) circuit such as T1 or E1 circuit. Upon obtaining an arrival timestamp associated with the data packet, the arrival timestamp is stored in a timestamp buffer in accordance with a first-in first-out (“FIFO”) storage sequence. After identifying the oldest arrival timestamp in the timestamp buffer, an offset is generated based on the result of comparison between the arrival timestamp and the oldest timestamp. The timing analyzer can also be configured to generate timing reports on-demand based on generated offset(s).
US09270394B2	Transmission device and transmission method thereof, and reception device of connected transmission channels in a 13-segment format The present invention relates to a transmission device that enables transmission and reception of connected transmission channels in a 13-segment format and a transmission method of the transmission device, and to a reception device.The transmission device transmits connected transmission information that indicates that connected transmission of a plurality of transmission channels is being performed, and includes a field indicating that a 13-segment format is at least one segment format among the transmission channels being subjected to the connected transmission. The reception device receives the connected transmission information transmitted by the transmission device. The present invention can be applied to transmission devices that transmit terrestrial digital broadcast signals, for example.
US09270393B2	Method and system for reducing amplitude modulation (AM) noise in AM broadcast signals A computer-implemented method for reducing a noise signal added to an amplitude modulated (AM) broadcast signal while travelling from a broadcasting antenna to a receiving antenna is provided. The method includes capturing a signal representative of the AM broadcast signal corrupted by the noise signal via the receiving antenna, inverting the captured signal, and determining a carrying frequency of the AM broadcast signal and delaying the inverted waveform by a fraction of a cycle of the carrying frequency. The method further includes generating a difference signal by subtractively combining the captured signal and the delayed inverted signal, generating an estimate noise signal by reducing an amplitude of the generated difference signal using a noise-reduction control multiplier, and minimizing the corrupting noise signal component of the captured signal by subtractively combining the captured signal and the generated estimate noise signal.
US09270392B2	Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data A digital broadcasting system and method of processing data are disclosed. Herein, a method of processing data in a transmitting system includes creating a data group including a plurality of mobile service data packets, re-adjusting a relative position of at least one main service data packet of a main service data section, the main service data section including a plurality of main service data packets, and multiplexing the mobile service data of the data group and the main service data of the main service data section in burst units. Herein, a position of an audio data packet among the main service data packets of the main service data section may be re-adjusted. Also, a position of an audio data packet included in the main service data section may be re-adjusted based upon a multiplexing position of the main service data section.
US09270390B2	Frequency and phase offset compensation of modulated signals with symbol timing recovery Systems and methods are provided in which a wireless receiver can be configured to compensate frequency and phase offsets with joint symbol timing recovery of modulated signals transmitted across a channel, and it can include a transformation module configured to generate an error signal for an information signal representing the modulated signal received by the receiver. The transformation module can include a squaring module configured to square the information signal, thereby generating a squared signal, and a mixer configured to perform a complex multiplication of the squared signal by the local reference signal, and a downsampler. The transformation module can also be configured to extract and compensate frequency and phase offsets with joint symbol timing recovery.
US09270389B2	Measurement method for analysing the propagation of eletromagnetic navigation signals A measuring method for analyzing the propagation of electromagnetic navigation signals, wherein at least one representative transmitting unit, having a chronological signal feed scheme unambiguously assigned to the navigation signal, is assigned to each of the navigation signals.The representative transmitting units are at least intermittently operated offset in time. A characteristic transmission-free leader pause duration and transmission-free trailer pause duration or a characteristic transmitting duration is assigned to each representative transmitting unit.An analysis unit is coupled to a receiving unit and a time-dependent amplitude detection is carried out, wherein the time curve of the received amplitude values is analyzed by the analysis unit to assign the representative transmitting unit to timeslots of the received amplitude values. The pause durations and/or the transmitting durations in the time curve are analyzed and the origin transmitting units of the signal are ascertained on the basis of these items of information.
US09270380B2	Chip-based advanced modulation format transmitter In various embodiments, a monolithic integrated transmitter, comprising an on-chip laser source and a modulator structure capable of generating advanced modulation format signals based on amplitude and phase modulation are described.
US09270377B2	High-speed optical transceiver for infiniband and ethernet The present invention provides a high-speed 100 G optical transceiver for InfiniBand and Ethernet with associated mapping to frame InfiniBand and Ethernet into GFP-T. The optical transceiver utilizes an architecture which relies on standards-compliant (i.e., multi-sourced) physical client interfaces. These client interfaces are back-ended with flexible, programmable Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) modules to accomplish either InfiniBand or Ethernet protocol control, processing, re-framing, and the like. Next, signals are encoded with Forward Error Correction (FEC) and can include additional Optical Transport Unit (OTU) compliant framing structures. The resulting data is processed appropriately for the subsequent optical re-transmission, such as, for example, with differential encoding, Gray encoding, I/Q Quadrature encoding, and the like. The data is sent to an optical transmitter block and modulated onto an optical carrier. Also, the same process proceeds in reverse on the receive side.
US09270374B2	Providing digital data services in optical fiber-based distributed radio frequency (RF) communications systems, and related components and methods Optical fiber-based distributed communications systems that provide and support both RF communication services and digital data services are disclosed herein. The RF communication services and digital data services can be distributed over optical fiber to client devices, such as remote antenna units for example. In certain embodiments, digital data services can be distributed over optical fiber separate from optical fiber distributing RF communication services. In other embodiments, digital data services can be distributed over common optical fiber with RF communication services. For example, digital data services can be distributed over common optical fiber with RF communication services at different wavelengths through wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) and/or at different frequencies through frequency-division multiplexing (FDM). Power distributed in the optical fiber-based distributed communications system to provide power to remote antenna units can also be accessed to provide power to digital data service components.
US09270371B2	Radio frequency signal transceiving device and method thereof, self-optimizing optical transmission device and method thereof A radio frequency signal transceiving method and device thereof are proposed. The method is configured for a radio equipment controller (REC) of a radio frequency signal transceiving device to exchange radio signals between a plurality of Baseband Units (BBUs) and a plurality of Radio Equipments (REs) that respectively connected to a plurality of Remote Radio Units (RRUs), and the method includes but not limited to the step of: receiving a first radio downlink signal at least, generating a first downlink control signal, modulating the first radio downlink signal at least into a first analog downlink signal at a first frequency according to the first downlink control signal, multiplexing the first analog downlink signal and the first downlink control signal into an integrated analog downlink signal, converting the integrated analog downlink signal into an optical downlink signal, and transmitting the optical downlink signal.
US09270370B2	System and method for pilot tone modulation by data bias Embodiments are provided for applying pilot tone modulations to optical signals by introducing bias bits to data frames carried on the optical signals. Since the modulation is done by modifying data, the modulation depth is accurate, and there is no need for calibration or feedback control, which can improve power monitoring accuracy and simplify implementation. In an embodiment, a transmitter determines a period of a pilot tone modulation for tracking or identifying an optical channel. The transmitter inserts a sequence of bias bits, periodically according to the determined period, in a plurality of frames comprising original data bits. The amplitudes of the optical signals carrying the frames are modulated at a higher frequency than the pilot tone modulation. The optical signals are then transmitted including the bias bits within the frames.
US09270366B2	Impairment aware path computation element method and system The disclosure includes an apparatus comprising: a path computation element (PCE) comprising a processor configured to: receive a path computation element protocol (PCEP) path computation request from a path computation client (PCC), wherein the path computation request comprises an impairment validation request that directs the PCE to perform an impairment validation of a network path; after receiving the path computation request, compute a network path; and perform an impairment validation of the network path specified by the impairment validation request. In another embodiment, the disclosure includes a method comprising: sending, by a PCC a PCEP path computation request to a PCE, wherein the request directs the PCE to perform routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) and a first impairment validation of a network path, wherein the request comprises a type of signal quality of the network path which indicates the first type of impairment validation to be performed.
US09270363B1	System and method for continuous broadcast service from non-geostationary orbits A method, apparatus for providing at least near continuous broadcast services to one or more terrestrial receiver stations is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of satellites, each satellite in an inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbit, each satellite providing a portion of the at least near continuous broadcast service to the terrestrial receiver. In one embodiment, the system also comprises a receiver station having a legacy antenna modified so as to include a sensitivity pattern substantially matched to the track of the apparent position of the satellites actively broadcasting information to the receiver stations. The present invention is also embodied in a method for receiving at least near continuous broadcast service from at least one of a plurality of satellites at a time, each satellite in an inclined, elliptical, geosynchronous orbit.
US09270362B2	Statistical multiplexing in satellite communication networks A single, large-scale satellite access communication network may be configured as infrastructure for many small-scale subnets, wherein each subnet may be configured to serve a different organization (e.g. an SME) as a private network. Each subnet may be configured as a small star and/or mesh satellite data access network from the end-user perspective, yet all subnets may be configured to be part of the total large-scale network and share satellite bandwidth resources. Such configuration may yield significantly higher bandwidth efficiency, lower operation and equipment costs, minimized latency and ease of network operations for each of the small organizations sharing the large-scale network.
US09270358B2	Multi-mode wireless communication link A communication system includes first and second transmitters, which are coupled to transmit respective first and second Radio Frequency (RF) signals carrying first and second data over a wireless communication channel. The transmitters are coupled to select an operational mode from a group of operational modes and to operate in the selected operational mode. The group of the operational modes includes at least two of a protection mode, wherein the second transmitter serves as backup to the first transmitter, a spatial multiplexing mode, in which the first data is different from the second data and the first and second transmitters transmit simultaneously, and a beam-forming mode, in which the first data is identical to the second data, the second RF signal includes a phase-shifted replica of the first RF signal, and the first and second transmitters transmit simultaneously.
US09270355B2	Control method of radio communication system, radio communication system, and radio communication apparatus A communication device 1 (transceivers 400) transmits a training signal from its own transmitting antenna while performing beam scanning, and a communication device 2 (transceivers 500) receives this training signal in a state where a quasi-omni pattern is generated in its own receiving antenna. Further, the device 1 transmits a training signal in a state where a quasi-omni pattern is generated in the transmitting antenna, and the device 2 receives this training signal by the receiving antenna while performing beam scanning. The device 1 and 2 detects, from respective reception results, transmitting-antenna-setting candidates of the device 1 and receiving-antenna-setting candidates of the device 2, and determines antenna-setting pairs (combinations of antenna-setting candidates). The above-described processes are also performed for a receiving antenna of the device 1 and a transmitting antenna of the device 2. The device 1 and 2 communicates by using the obtained antenna-setting pairs. In this way, when radio communication is performed by using beam forming, the time necessary for finding and setting a beam direction is reduced, thereby reducing the transmission-disconnected time.
US09270345B2	Efficient signaling of common reference signal shifts and physical downlink control channel region mismatch in coordinated multipoint transmission Information about a set of cells potentially taking part in coordinated multipoint transmission is obtained, information about at least one of reference signal configuration and data region size configuration for each of the set of cells is obtained, further an indication of which of the reference signals configuration and the data region size configuration should be assumed in resource mapping for data is obtained, and data according to the resource mapping is received. Information about at least one of reference signal configuration and data region size configuration for each cell of a set of cells potentially taking part in coordinated multipoint transmission is provided, and an indication of which of the reference signals configuration and the data region size configuration should be assumed in resource mapping for data is provided.
US09270341B2	Wireless power and data connector An apparatus for non-galvanic connection between two electrical circuits is described. A base-unit has an RF power source, a data link and an authentication controller. A contactless unit for communication with a base unit has an RF power receiver, a data link and an authentication controller. The base unit and contactless unit can form a non-galvanic connection to replace conventional connectors, for example in a USB wired bus connection.
US09270337B2	Mobile wireless communications device including NFC antenna matching control circuit and associated methods A mobile wireless communications device includes a near-field communications (NFC) transceiver, NFC antennas and an NFC control circuit. The NFC transceiver generates a received signal strength based on a received signal from an adjacent NFC device. The NFC control circuit includes an antenna switch circuit coupled between the NFC transceiver and the NFC antennas. A capacitance sensing circuit is coupled to the NFC antennas to determine capacitance values thereof. A processor operates the antenna switch circuit based upon the received signal strength and the capacitance values.
US09270336B2	Provisioning user attributes for use with mobile computing device A mobile computing device hosts an operating system and mobile applications. A provisioning application communicates with a secure element and near field communication (NFC) subsystem. It causes display of an interface for users to enter personal attributes for storage in the secure element. Users discriminately select items from their personal attributes for transmission to a third party recipient so only attributes relative to the third party are sent. Software, interfaces, methods, and apparatus typify the embodiments.
US09270335B2	Receive attenuation system for trainline communication networks A receive attenuation system for a trainline communication system utilizing an intra-consist electrical cable has an analog front end amplifier, a trainline communication processor, an adjustable attenuator, and a gain controller. The trainline communication processor is configured to generate a receive gain control signal configured to control receive gain of the analog front end amplifier. The adjustable attenuator is capable of being coupled to the intra-consist electrical cable and configured to variably attenuate signals received from the intra-consist electrical cable before transmitting the signals to the analog front end amplifier. The gain controller is coupled to the adjustable attenuator and configured to detect the receive gain control signal generated by the trainline communication processor, determine a supplemental attenuation control value based on the detected receive gain control signal, and control the adjustable attenuator according to the supplemental attenuation control signal.
US09270334B2	Advanced switch node selection for power line communications network An algorithm for the promotion of terminal nodes to switch nodes in a PLC network reduces overall network overhead and collisions, while ensuring the appropriate selection of a switch node and minimizing the number of levels in a PLC network. It also ensures that the terminal nodes with appropriate signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) are promoted. It is desirable to have a network with fewer levels. The disclosed approach favors the nodes that are closer to the DC to promote them as switch nodes. This is achieved by waiting for a smaller number of PNPDUs for a node that is closer to the DC in comparison to a node that is farther away from the DC.
US09270326B2	Adaptive clock spreading for platform RFI mitigation An apparatus, system, and method, the method including receiving clock frequency parameter information for at least one clock source; receiving radio parameter information for at least one radio receiver; determining one or more spread spectrum clocking (SSC) profiles for the at least one clock source and the at least one radio receiver, each SSC profile to reduce radio frequency interference between the clock and radio receivers; and storing the SSC profiles.

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