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US09326726B2	Wireless system for epilepsy monitoring and measurement A wireless system for brain monitoring/mapping of neurological-disorder patients includes a plurality of electrodes each configured for surface abutment of brain tissue and main circuitry for placement outside a body of a patient and configured to transmit power at radio frequencies and send and receive data using infrared energy. Remote circuitry is provided for subcutaneous implantation in a head of the patient. The remote circuitry is connected to the plurality of electrodes and includes a multiplexer sampling signals from the plurality of electrodes. The multiplexer outputs electrode signals to an amplifier and A/D converter for transmission to the main circuitry. The remote circuitry is configured to (a) receive transmitted power at radio frequencies from the main circuitry, (b) capture and digitize full-bandwidth EEG signals from each of the electrodes, and (c) send data to and receive data from the main circuitry using infrared energy.
US09326725B2	Apparatus and method for human algometry An apparatus and method for performing human algometry are disclosed. They include a stimulator configured to apply electrical stimulation of variable intensity to an area of a patient's body, a monitoring device configured to measure a level of cortical activity in one or more regions of the patient's brain, and a microprocessor connected to the stimulator and the monitoring device that is configured to correlate the intensity of the electrical stimulation with the level of activity in the one or more regions of the patient's brain and to determine at least one of a measurement of pain intensity, a measurement of a sensory detection threshold (SDT), a measurement of a drug's analgesic impact, an indication of an onset of tolerance to a drug, an indication of an onset of analgesic-induced hyperalgesia, an indication of conditions of allodynia, a measurement of dose-response characteristics of pain management drugs, and a characterization of a pain condition.
US09326714B2	Analyte monitoring device and methods of use An analyte monitor includes a sensor, a sensor control unit, and a display unit. The sensor has, for example, a substrate, a recessed channel formed in the substrate, and conductive material disposed in the recessed channel to form a working electrode. The sensor control unit typically has a housing adapted for placement on skin and is adapted to receive a portion of an electrochemical sensor. The sensor control unit also includes two or more conductive contacts disposed on the housing and configured for coupling to two or more contact pads on the sensor. A transmitter is disposed in the housing and coupled to the plurality of conductive contacts for transmitting data obtained using the sensor. The display unit has a receiver for receiving data transmitted by the transmitter of the sensor control unit and a display coupled to the receiver for displaying an indication of a level of an analyte. The analyte monitor may also be part of a drug delivery system to alter the level of the analyte based on the data obtained using the sensor.
US09326713B2	System and method for detecting and measuring ethyl alcohol in the blood of a motorized vehicle driver transdermally and non-invasively in the presence of interferents This invention relates to a system and method that can quickly and accurately detect and measure ethyl alcohol in the blood of a motorized vehicle driver transdermally and non-invasively within minutes of ethanol consumption and in the presence of interferents. The system includes an array of sensors embedded into the steering mechanism of a motorized vehicle, a data base of patterns produced through empirical testing of various analytes in various combinations and concentrations, neural net based pattern recognition algorithms to ascertain the driver's transdermal alcohol concentration and a database derived from human testing, correlating the driver's transdermal alcohol concentration with the driver's blood alcohol concentration. The detection system is integrated with a motor vehicle decision module which can prevent the operation of a motorized vehicle by a driver whose BAC exceeds a preset limit.
US09326709B2	Systems, devices and methods for managing glucose levels Systems, devices and methods for the management of glucose levels in the body of patient featuring user interface input mechanisms configured to provide haptic feedback to the user are provided.
US09326704B2	Method and apparatus for determining sportsman jumps using fuzzy logic A method and apparatus for detecting a jump of a moving sportsman and separating the jump from other sportsman motion is described. Accelerometer data generated by a sportsman's motion is received in a computing device. The computing device is used to apply fuzzy logic membership functions to a plurality of parameters associated with the accelerometer data to detect a pattern associated with jumps. A subset of the data is identified as representing a jump based upon the detection of the pattern. The determination is used in the computing device to transform data, whereby jumps are separated from other sportsman motion.
US09326703B2	Therapeutic manipulation device A manipulation device is programmable with different parameters associated with different manipulation exercises for different types of simulated patients. A measuring system determines the success or failure for any of the programmable manipulation exercises and tracks specific results that precisely track how close a student comes to specific target force values. This allows a student to more accurately track performance improvements and more effectively focus practice sessions on problem manipulation techniques. The measurement system not only measures the time and force values associated with the manipulation exercises but also measures angular displacement of the manipulation apparatus during the manipulation exercise. This allows the student to not only determine if a proper amount of force was applied during the manipulation exercise but also to determine if the force was maintained in the same direction and angle.
US09326702B2	Medical device navigation system A system for navigating a medical device is provided. In one embodiment, a magnetic field generator assembly generates a magnetic field. Position sensors on the medical device, on an imaging system and on the body generate signals indicative of the positions within the magnetic field. The generator assembly and reference sensors are arranged such that a correlation exists between them and the positions of the body and of a radiation emitter and a radiation detector of the imaging system. An electronic control unit (ECU) determines, responsive to signals generated by the sensors, a position of the medical device, a position of one of the radiation emitter and detector and a distance between the emitter and detector. Using this information, the ECU can, for example, register images from the imaging system in a coordinate system and superimpose an image of the device on the image from the imaging system.
US09326698B2	Method for automatic, unsupervised classification of high-frequency oscillations in physiological recordings Oscillatory signals may be used to determine a region of a patient's body that is associated with a medical condition. As described herein, oscillatory signals may be detected using a high sensitivity, low specificity detector. The oscillatory signals may be representative of discrete events in a patient's body. The detected signals may be tested in the context of surrounding background activity to identify anomalous discrete physiologic events that are sufficiently different from the surrounding background activity. The anomalous discrete physiologic events having correlative morphological, time, or location characteristics may be automatically clustered and clusters of anomalous physiologic events may be determined that are indicative of at least one region of the patient's body that is associated with a medical condition.
US09326694B2	Mobile terminal for measuring biological signal A mobile terminal for measuring a biological signal is disclosed. The mobile terminal for measuring a biological signal includes an electrocardiogram electrode unit having a first electrode provided in a front surface of a body of the mobile terminal and a second electrode provided in a first side surface of the mobile terminal body for measuring an electrocardiogram signal through the first electrode and the second electrode, a sensor unit provided in a second side surface of the mobile terminal body for measuring a pulse wave signal, a controller provided within the mobile terminal for analyzing the electrocardiogram signal received from the electrocardiogram electrode unit and the pulse wave signal received from the sensor unit and a radio frequency unit for transmitting an analyzed result by the control of the controller.
US09326693B2	Placement of electrodes in proximity to the heart A method, consisting of receiving respective electrocardiograph (ECG) signals from body-surface electrodes at respective locations in proximity to a heart of a subject. The ECG signals may be processed to generate respective signal parameters characteristic of positions of the body-surface electrodes with respect to the heart, and the respective locations may be adjusted so as to achieve a specified geometrical relationship between the body-surface electrodes and the heart in response to the respective signal parameters.
US09326690B2	Patient monitor with visual reliability indicator A patient monitor configured to display patient information in a display area. The patient information is indicative of at least one physiological parameter of a patient and includes at least one unitary display element in the display area that indicates simultaneously both a quantitative value and a reliability indication of the physiological parameter. An appearance of the display element transitions so as to represent a plurality of different reliability levels, including at least a first reliability level, a second reliability level, and at least one intermediary reliability level between the first and second reliability levels.
US09326686B2	System and method for mitigating the effects of tissue blood volume changes to aid in diagnosing infiltration or extravasation in animalia tissue A system including a sensor and a device coupled to the sensor. The sensor is configured to detect in Animalia tissue (i) a first electromagnetic radiation extinction dominated by absorption of a first wavelength and (ii) a second electromagnetic radiation extinction dominated by scattering of a second wavelength. The device is configured to aid in diagnosing at least one of infiltration and extravasation in the Animalia tissue based on the first and second electromagnetic radiation extinctions detected by the sensor.
US09326684B2	Magnetic enhancement in determination of physiological blood parameters Systems and methods for measuring a physiological parameter of blood in a patient are provided herein. An example method includes establishing with a magnetic array, an first magnetic field along tissue of the patient inserted into the magnetic array and a second magnetic field perpendicular to the tissue, emitting optical signals into further tissue of the patient during at least a first alignment of the magnetic array around the tissue, detecting characteristics of the optical signals, and identifying a value of a physiological parameter based on at least the characteristics of the optical signals.
US09326675B2	Virtual vision correction for video display The virtual vision correction technique described herein pertains to a technique for determining a user's vision characteristics and/or adjusting a display to a user's vision characteristics. The virtual vision correction technique described herein provides vision correction for people with vision problems by making the video displayed adapt to the person's vision correction needs. In one embodiment of the technique, the user can state their vision prescription needs and the video displayed is processed to appear “20/20” to that person. Alternatively, the video display, for example, video display glasses, can “auto-tune” a representative image (such as an eye chart) to determine the appropriate video processing for that person.
US09326668B1	Otoscope providing improved ear canal access An otoscope provides an extremely narrow tip holding an electronic camera sized to allow the space of the ear canal to be shared between the otoscope and a tool such as a curette for removing foreign objects. The tip may be flexible for increased patient comfort when using a compact tip design.
US09326665B2	Surgical instrument, system, and method for biofilm removal Systems and methods for removal of bacterial biofilm from a target site of a human patient includes a surgical instrument having an introducer for bodily insertion and maintaining an irrigation duct and a nozzle. A distal portion of the introducer is transitionable between a plurality of bend angles relative to a proximal portion thereof. In particular, the instrument is adapted to independently maintain the distal portion at each of the plurality of bend angles relative to the proximal portion. The nozzle is maintained relative to the distal portion of the introducer and is adapted to dispense pressurized irrigant from the irrigation duct toward a layer of bacterial biofilm.
US09326663B2	Endoluminal crawler An endoluminal crawler used in endoscopic procedures includes a body and an actuation unit. The body includes a tubular portion. The actuation unit includes an actuator providing a rotational output and a traction belt. The traction belt includes a traction portion and an engaging portion. The traction portion protrudes out of a slot defined in the tubular portion and the engaging portion operatively engages the actuator.
US09326661B2	Line of sight wireless endoscopy Endoscope imaging apparatus, including an endoscope, which is configured to be inserted into a body cavity of a patient and an image sensor configured by means of the endoscope to form an image of the body cavity, and to transmit image signals in response to the image formed. The apparatus further includes an optical transmitter, physically connected to the endoscope, and configured to receive the image signals, to encode the image signals, and to transmit optical radiation comprising the encoded image signals. An optical receiver with a mounting fixture is configured for connection to a light boom, and is also configured to receive the optical radiation, to decode the optical radiation to recover the image signals, and to transmit the recovered image signals. A camera control unit is configured to receive the recovered image signals and in response to display the image on a screen.
US09326660B2	Endoscope system with insertion support apparatus An endoscope system includes: an image storage section that stores image information associated with position information of a luminal organ of a subject; a virtual endoscopic image generating section that generates a virtual endoscopic image endoscopically depicted; an image pickup section that picks up an image in the luminal organ; a position registration processing section that compares the virtual endoscopic image and an endoscopic image, and extracts an virtual endoscopic image similar to the endoscopic image; a position estimation section that estimates a distal end position of an endoscope insertion portion; a feature region determination section that determines whether or not the distal end position exists in a feature region; a storage section that stores information for presentation; and a candidate information presentation control section that presents the virtual endoscopic image based on the information in the storage section, to a display section as candidate information.
US09326657B2	Dual direction, double tier spray arm assembly for a dishwashing appliance A spray arm assembly for a dishwashing appliance is provided. The assembly can provide for sprays of fluid at different angles against the articles to be cleaned. For example, the spray arm assembly can have at least two spray bodies rotatable in opposite directions. Because the fluid is sprayed from the spray bodies at different angles and from different directions, more efficient and effective cleaning can be accomplished. In certain embodiments of the invention, one or both spray bodies may be operated at any one time and/or at different flow rates.
US09326656B2	Dishwasher having two water connections and corresponding control method A dishwasher includes a water intake device having a hot water intake which receives hot water from an external hot water supply fed, at least partially, by a thermal solar system, and a cold water intake which receives cold water from an external cold water supply. A program control device stores at least one wash program for controlling a wash cycle for cleaning dishes. The at least one wash program has a program step for washing dishes using hot water from the hot water supply and another program step for washing dishes using cold water from the cold water supply.
US09326655B2	Multi-function cleaning apparatus A cleaning device includes a refillable handle, a scrubbing member, a plurality of bristles, and a squeegee. The refillable handle includes first and second end portions and a hollow interior configured to hold a cleaning fluid. The scrubbing member is positioned at the first end portion of the handle and arranged in flow communication with the hollow interior. The plurality of bristles are mounted to the handle. The squeegee is mounted to the second end portion of the handle.
US09326653B2	Surface treating appliance A surface treating appliance includes a surface treating head rotatably connected to a yoke, and a main body pivotably moveable relative to the yoke about a pivot axis between an upright position and a reclined position. A retaining mechanism is provided for inhibiting rotation of the head relative to the yoke when the main body is in the upright position. The retaining mechanism includes a locking member which is moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position for inhibiting rotation of the head relative to the yoke, and an actuator for urging the locking member towards its deployed position. To provide a compact appliance, the actuator moves with the main body about the pivot axis to urge the locking member towards its deployed position as the main body is moved to the upright position.
US09326649B1	Toilet seat lifter-toilet foot pedal systems A specially designed toilet seat accessory that is operated via hydraulics and an integrated, electronic foot pedal to provide consumers a sanitary and convenient hands-free method of lifting and lowering the toilet seat.
US09326647B2	Apparatus for dispensing absorbent sheet material from a roll An object of the present disclosure is to provide an apparatus for dispensing absorbent sheet material from a roll. The apparatus includes a roll holder for rotatably supporting said roll, and a roll fill level indicator arrangement. The roll fill level indicator arrangement includes a pivoting arm and a moveable first indicator device. The pivoting arm includes roll engagement device for engagement with an outer peripheral surface of said roll. A position of said first indicator device is continuously responsive to an angular position of said pivoting arm, such that said roll fill level indicator arrangement is able to provide a gradual roll fill level indication.
US09326644B2	Implement for cleaning areas surrounding the eyes An implement for the cleaning of areas around the human eye, especially the upper and lower lids and the eye lashes, includes a reusable cleaning implement having at least one low absorbency pad of a soft looped material for cleaning areas adjacent the eye orb wherein the loops of the material capture and remove oils, debris, crusts and cosmetics such as eye liner and mascara. Once laid on a surface, the pad of the article is elevated away from the surface to prevent soiling. The looped material of the pad is cleanable with at least soap and water, and dries rapidly.
US09326642B1	Soap dispensing scrub brush for the back The handheld scrubbing assembly for selectively dispensing a detergent includes a reservoir that may contain a detergent. A brush is operationally coupled to the reservoir. The detergent is dispensed onto the brush. A tubular handle is operationally coupled to the reservoir. The tubular handle may be gripped. A cap is operationally coupled to the tubular handle. The cap is removed so the detergent is poured into the tubular handle. The detergent is stored in the reservoir.
US09326640B2	Food processor feed tube assembly A food processor feed tube assembly includes a first feed tube extension and a second feed tube extension telescopically and slidably received in the first feed tube extension. The second feed tube extension is configured to be movable from a retracted position in which the second feed tube extension is substantially entirely nested within the first feed tube extension, and an extended position in which the second feed tube extension is extended from the first feed tube extension.
US09326637B2	Milk emulsifying container for a coffee machine and machine comprising said container A container includes an emulsifying device having a milk suction pipe, a nozzle for supplying hot or emulsified milk with a discharge end outside the container, a steam inlet and an air inlet. The container is thermally insulated so as to better preserve the milk.
US09326636B2	Machine and method for preparing beverages A machine for preparing beverages is described. The machine has a support structure which defines a first area for receiving a capsule that contains a beverage preparation and a second area for beverage delivery. The machine has support means for supporting the capsule containing a beverage preparation at the first area and means for directing a localized hot air jet to a predetermined localized portion of an enclosure of the capsule to form a first through opening in the predetermined localized portion thereby allowing the beverage preparation to come out therefrom.
US09326635B2	Beverage brewing package A beverage brewing package includes a cup and a filter bag. The filter bag is supported in an interior region formed in the cup.
US09326630B1	Shoe horn apparatus and method A shoe horn apparatus comprising: a handle at one end, a shoe horn at the other end and a shaft mounted between the handle and the shoe horn, wherein the shaft is attached at its upper end to the handle and at its lower end to the shoe horn; a spring loaded actuating member mounted near the handle, such that it can be actuated by a user with the same hand the user holds the handle with; a spring loaded grip member mounted near the shoe horn such that it can grip the back of a shoe between the back of the shoe horn and the grip member upon actuation or release of the actuating member by a user; and, a transmission mechanism mounted between the actuating member and the grip member.
US09326629B2	Boot hanger systems and methods The present invention is directed to a boot hanger and a boot hanger system and methods that provide for storage of boots. In an example, a boot hanger apparatus comprises an upper suspension portion and a boot support leg, wherein the upper suspension portion and boot support leg are connected by a counterbalance. The counterbalance is provided to control rotation and preferably to maintain a target slope angle Θ when a suspended boot hanger contains boots in a loaded condition. Further provided are coupler apparatus for forming a series of connected boot hangers suspended along a common vertical axis. In some examples, the boot hanger includes a hook-shaped suspension portion for attachment to a suspension apparatus such as a rod or a coupler within a series of connected boot hangers.
US09326628B2	Configurable coaster for holding a mobile device A method and an article of manufacture are disclosed for making and using a configurable coaster to support a drink cup on a table and also to use as a stand for a smartphone. In various embodiments, a sheet material, such as cardboard, plastic, laminates, and the like is used to create a flat plate having partially perforated or grooved lines in a pattern that defines various flaps configured to allow transformation of the flat plate into a smartphone stand by bending the flaps to create a three-dimensional stand. Before transformation, the flat plate may be used as a coaster for placing under cups and glasses. After transformation, the flat plate may be used as a stand for cellphones, books, small electronic devices, pictures, or any other object or device that may stand for display, presentation, or operation.
US09326627B1	Drink glass holder for a chair A drink glass holder attached to a chair to removably receive and retain a drink glass (e.g., a wine glass) that is filled with a drink when an individual seated in the chair wishes to lay his glass down or exit the chair while leaving his glass behind. The drink glass holder is connected to the chair by a connecting rod that extends between a side wall which turns upwardly from the chair seat to be joined to a chair arm and a hole formed in the body of the holder. The drink glass holder is positioned at the intersection of adjoining ends of the chair arm and the adjacent side wall of the chair seat. The drink glass is seated against and suspended from a bevel that surrounds an opening which extends longitudinally through the body of the drink glass holder within which the glass is received.
US09326625B1	Fliptop mateable plates apparatus The present fliptop plates apparatus relates generally to a mateable plate apparatus and more particularly to an improved plate apparatus comprising a working surface of a first plate which complimentarily and lockingly can be mated with a working surface of a companion plate to form a receptacle, wherein preferably both plates have identical working surfaces, the plates may provide tactile feedback to users of the mateable plate apparatus, and the plates may be easily and optimally both stacked and unstacked.
US09326621B1	Food shield A food shield has shield panels that are location adjustable and angularly adjustable in respect of support structures (posts) that are coupled to a mounting surface, such as a surface of a buffet table or cart. For vertical or location adjustment of a shield panel in relation to a post, a bracket assembly includes outer and inner collar portions, a grip element positioned between the outer and inner collar portions, and a tightening element that tightens the connection of the assembled collar against support posts. For angular adjustment, each bracket assembly includes an indexing base, a rotatable arm assembly with an indexing hub, and a removable or retractable coupling element.
US09326613B2	Upholstered seat with flexible pelvic support An upholstered seat with flexible pelvic support having a seat bottom with a seat pan, upholstery, and resiliently deflectable pelvic support structures retained at least partially within the central area of the seat pan. Plural resiliently deflectable fingers can project to within a left portion of the central area and plural resiliently deflectable fingers can project to within a right portion of the central area. The resiliently deflectable fingers can have different deflection resistances to permit hyper-localized control over the resilient support provided. A U-shaped rigidifying member secured to the seat pan establishes rigidified lateral and posterior portions of the seat pan. A resiliently compressible foam structure can have a U-shaped outer portion and a softer inner portion to facilitate a cradling of a seat occupant. A support and positioning member can be retained by a seat back in a fixed angular orientation relative to the seat bottom.
US09326606B2	Furniture member power mechanism with zero gravity and rear tilt positions A furniture member having a tilt position mechanism includes a base frame positioned on a floor surface. A first operating mechanism is connected to the base frame defining a tilt mechanism. The tilt mechanism includes a tilt motor connected to a rear member of the base frame. A torque tube positioned forward of the tilt motor is displaced by operation of the tilt motor. First and second rotation links are rotatably connected to the base frame and fixed to the torque tube. A pivot tube is positioned rearward of the torque tube and connected by first and second journal links to the support frame. The journal links are shorter than the rotation links such that torque tube forward and upward displacement forwardly rotates the journal links and displaces the pivot tube, creating a furniture member rear tilt position having the torque tube elevated above the pivot tube.
US09326605B2	Bumper for a merchandiser A merchandiser including a case that has a base and side walls extending upward from the base to at least partially define a product display area. The merchandiser also includes a bracket that is coupled to the base, and a bumper assembly that is coupled to an exterior surface of the base. The bumper assembly includes a shock absorber that has at least one end removably coupled to the base by a quick release mechanism engaged with the bracket and the shock absorber, and a bumper coupled only to an outermost portion of the shock absorber.
US09326601B2	Modular storage and display system The present invention provides a modular system for at least one of displaying and storing at least one article. The modular system includes at least a pair of elongated support brackets having magnetic protrusions; at least one elongated cross member having downwardly facing end stops and means for positioning each of the at least one elongated cross member and the at least said pair of elongated support brackets in a generally horizontal plane during use of the modular system. The at least a pair of elongated support brackets are disposed in a spaced apart parallel relationship with each other. The at least one elongated cross member is sized to at least span a distance between the at least pair of elongated support brackets. Additionally, the at least one elongated cross member may at least rest on a top edge of each of the at least the pair of elongated support brackets during use of said modular system.
US09326600B1	Shelving and method Shelving is provided which is easy to assemble and will fit a variety of spaces. Lateral members of various lengths and widths are connected to elongated extruded stanchions to form different shelving configurations. While bracing and adjustable feet make the shelving suitable for many applications such as with uneven floors, walls and ceiling heights.
US09326599B1	Cabinet storage unit with rotating carousel shelf system A chain-driven rotating shelf carousel formed by a plurality of pivoting shelves rotating within a continuous track disposed vertically within an upright cabinet storage unit is provided. Each shelf is attached to a chassis with leading and trailing arms terminating in cams positioned in the track which are driven by a series of sprockets. The shelves include engagement channels that enclose corresponding projections when the shelf moves into an access position generally aligned with an exterior door, such that when the exterior door is opened, the shelf can be accessed by a user.
US09326594B2	Position sensing toothbrush The toothbrush includes a handle portion (12 or 55) and a brushhead portion (14 or 57) with a bristle set (20 or 53) at one end of the brushhead. At least one sensor (16 or 56 is located either on the handle of the toothbrush or on the bristle set back plate (54) of the toothbrush. When the sensor is located on the handle of the toothbrush, the position of the brushhead is determined by a processor (44 or 58) relative to the inside or outside surfaces of the teeth on the basis of the temperature detected by the sensor, either the outside environmental temperature or the skin temperature of the user. When the sensor is located on the bristle set back plate, the determination is made on the basis of the position of the bristle set relative to the cheek of the user.
US09326593B2	Fountain toothbrush A toothbrush includes a housing having a handle and a toothbrush head, a pump having a pump chamber and a pump impeller or pump gear arranged in the pump chamber, and a motor driving the impeller or pump gear. An input port and an output port are connected to the chamber, the impeller causing a flow of a working fluid through the output port when the impeller is driven by the motor and the working fluid is supplied through the input port. The pump chamber has a circumferential wall defining a transverse cross section, the output port being connected to the pump chamber through the circumferential wall.
US09326591B2	Hair brush Hair brushes are disclosed that include a brush head having a front face, a back face, and a central aperture extending though the brush head from the front face to the back face. The brush head has a length L and a width W. The central aperture has a length ranging from about 0.2 L to about 0.9 L and a width ranging from about 0.2 W to about 0.9 W.
US09326589B2	Brush for powder cosmetics A brush for powder cosmetics has S strands and Z strands of synthetic fiber hair materials at its tip. The brush for powder cosmetics is characterized in that the twisting pitches of S strands and Z strands at the brush tip part are 10 mm to 30 mm and when the tip of the brush is deflected to trap a cheek color, face powder, powder foundation or other powder cosmetic to be contained in the brush tip part, the powder can be trapped evenly over nearly the entire surfaces at the ends of brush hair materials.
US09326585B2	Hair coloring process Present invention relates to a hair coloring process which allows visualization of the color to be achieved prior to coloring hair using a sheet (1) comprising two or more areas (2) having each different natural hair color.
US09326582B2	Heating application device for a cosmetic product An application device for a cosmetic product comprising a holding member, an application member having a surface for application of the product, and a heating electric element. The heating electric element is formed of at least one resistor mounted on a printed circuit positioned, at least in part, facing or in contact with the application member, and the surface area of the orthogonal projection of the resistor on a plane defined by the printed circuit is less than or equal to 10 mm2.
US09326580B2	Shaving assembly dispenser Containers are described herein for the transportation and distribution of replaceable consumer products, e.g. interchangeable shaving assemblies. The containers described herein include a mechanism to securely hold the container in predetermined open and closed positions. The interior of the container may provided features which serve to hold and protect the shaving assemblies when not in use, e.g., during transport or storage.
US09326577B1	Storage, transport, and display carrier for fine jewelry A fine jewelry holder adapted for storing, displaying, and transporting fine jewelry and especially for necklaces and bracelets. The jewelry holder having a plurality of snap-strips, with at least two snap-strips having male type snaps arranged thereon and a plurality of the snap-strips having female type snaps arranged thereon. The two male type snap-strips stitched to a base in mutually parallel positions spaced apart and with male snaps facing away from the base. A plurality of parallel, spaced apart female type snap-strips stitched to each said male snap-strip with one end of each female snap-strip stitched under one of the male snap-strips and positioned orthogonal thereto; and pairs of the female snap-strips extending from the opposing male snap strips in mutual collinear convergence and with female snaps facing away from the base.
US09326575B2	Mobile office A mobile office comprising a wheeled luggage with telescoping handle; a top surface comprising an integrated seat; multiple internal and external storage compartments; a removable organizer drawer; and a removable table with extendable legs.
US09326573B1	Portable shade assembly with clamping system An umbrella clamping system for clamping an umbrella to a chair includes an umbrella having a canopy, selectively movable between an extended configuration and a collapsed configuration, and a vertical shaft supports the canopy and has a base attachment member at a bottom end thereof. A clamp assembly securely receives the umbrella base attachment member and is configured for attachment to an external horizontal structural element. The clamp assembly includes a body, an upper clamp affixed to an upper end of the body for receiving the umbrella base attachment member and is selectively adjustable between an opened release position and a closed gripping position. A lower clamp is affixed to a bottom end of the body and has opposed first and second jaws defining a horizontally oriented gripping opening therebetween and adjustable one with respect to the other for attachment to the external horizontal structural element.
US09326571B2	Jewelry with changeable and addable mobile decorative elements The present invention relates to a jewelry (100) having decorative elements (90) in the jewelry (100) that are mobile and can be changed allowing the personalization of the jewelry (100). The plurality of decorative elements (90) is mounted and un-mounted into/from the main frame (10) through the lock system (40) provided at the main frame (10). The main frame (10) forms a track for the elements to oscillate freely. The lock system (40) allows the decorative elements (90) to be secured into the main frame (10). A secondary frame (20) provides firmness to jewelry (100). A flip-over safety lock (70) is provided to further secure the decorative elements (90) and at the same time to hide the mechanical arrangements.
US09326570B2	Decagonal shaped diamond which displays hearts and arrows pattern A decagonal shaped diamond, adapted to display a hearts and arrows pattern when exposed to light comparable to the hearts and arrows pattern in a round diamond. The decagonal shaped diamond should be cut to form ten main crown facets of substantially equal size symmetrically arranged relative to one another surrounding a table facet twenty star facets with two star facets polished on every main crown facet, ten main pavilion facets, an equal number of crown half facets as pavilion half facets, ten subsidiary pavilion half facets, twenty subsidiary pavilion facets and ten main girdle facets with the girdle facets polished at a given angle relative to one another for forming the decagonal shape of the diamond.
US09326567B2	Multi-adaptable power automated traction apparatus Systems for producing traction, wherein each traction system is an apparatus that provides traction on snow and ice covered surfaces.A pair of Back Country skis each are mounted with an apparatus; having DC powered controls, tilt switch, pressurized carbon dioxide (CO2) gas powered pneumatic actuators operating gripping parts; controlled by a servo unit. A pair of foot wear (hiking boots) having a DC powered servo-solenoid-valve units controlling pressurized CO2, gas powering pneumatic rotors, operating, hydraulic pumps, actuators with gripping parts. A pair of snowmobile skis each having an assembly of parts; driven by an hydraulic rotor that pivots the skis, adjusting their position when cornering, providing traction, according to a snowmobile steering system. And is powered and controlled by at least one of: hydraulic steering system, an electro-hydraulic steering system; an electric power steering system using an electric motor instead of hydraulic rotor.
US09326564B2	Tethered fluid-filled chambers An article of footwear may incorporate a chamber with an outer barrier and a tether element. The barrier may be formed from a polymer material that defines an interior cavity, and tether element may be located within the interior cavity and joined to opposite sides of the barrier. Upon pressurization of the chamber, the tether element may extend across the interior cavity and be placed in tension by the outward force of a pressurized fluid within the interior cavity. The tether element may have a variety of configurations. For example, the tether element may have a diagonal orientation, or different tether elements may have different lengths. A tether element may also have plates or tie pieces secured to opposite sides of the chamber, with one or more tethers extending between. Also, the tether element may include one of more sheets that extend across the interior cavity.
US09326559B2	Hooded garment A garment is provided, having a hood for covering a head while exposing a face of a hooded user through a front periphery. The hood includes a collar portion which is circumferentially extending and is capable of wrapping about a neck of a user. The collar portion includes a neck periphery, which is circumferentially extending about a portion of the collar portion and is where the hood terminates, the neck periphery being capable of laying proximate to a nape of a user's neck. The collar portion includes a first circumferential end and an opposing second circumferential end. Extending downwardly from the first end of the neck periphery is a first panel and extending downwardly from the second end of the neck periphery is a second panel. The first and second panels are long and soft enough to lay on a torso and be selectively maneuvered about a user's face.
US09326556B2	Personal cooling assembly A personal cooling assembly includes a housing. A distal edge of a perimeter wall of the housing relative to the back wall of the housing defines an opening into the housing. The housing may insertably receive an electronic device. A plurality of intakes extends through the back wall. The housing includes a plurality of ducts. The plurality of ducts each has a first end and a second end. Each of the ducts extends through the perimeter wall. The first end of each of the ducts is in fluid communication with at least one of the intakes. The second end of each of the ducts is directed outwardly from the housing. A motor is coupled to the housing. A fan is coupled to the motor. The motor rotates the fan. The fan urges air inwardly through the plurality of intakes and outwardly through the second end of the plurality of ducts.
US09326555B1	Worker knee pads with tool pockets such as for roofers and flooring installers A knee pad assembly for work tasks requiring kneeling, including a knee pad, a method of attaching the knee pad to a user's leg, and a tool or accessory receiver attached or integrated to the knee pad. The tool or accessory receiver provides easy and convenient access to tools or accessories at the knee of the worker.
US09326552B2	Abdominal-restraint garment and methods of assembling the same Disclosed herein are abdominal-restraint garments comprising an outer garment layer and an inner abdominal-restraint layer. The inner abdominal-restraint layer can be attached to the outer garment layer. In some embodiments, a front bottom and/or back bottom of the inner abdominal-restraint layer are attached to an inner side of the outer garment layer. The front top of the inner abdominal-restraint layer can be configured to be even with the front rise of the outer garment layer or extend above the front rise of the outer garment layer. The inner abdominal-restraint layer can be configured to extend across a garment-wearer's abdominal region. In some embodiments, the abdominal-restraint garment is a pair of pants, jeans, a pair of shorts, a skirt, leggings, or tights. Also disclosed herein are methods of assembling the abdominal-restraint garments disclosed herein.
US09326551B2	Electronic cigarette An electronic cigarette includes a battery assembly, an atomizer assembly and a cigarette bottle assembly. An external thread electrode is located in one end of battery assembly. An internal thread electrode is located in one end of atomizer assembly. The battery assembly and the atomizer assembly are connected by the screwthread electrode. The cigarette bottle assembly is inserted into the other end of the atomizer assembly and both form a cigarette type or cigar type body.
US09326550B2	Electronic cigarette An electronic cigarette includes a battery assembly, an atomizer assembly and a cigarette bottle assembly. An external thread electrode is located in one end of battery assembly. An internal thread electrode is located in one end of atomizer assembly. The battery assembly and the atomizer assembly are connected by the screwthread electrode. The cigarette bottle assembly is inserted into the other end of the atomizer assembly and both form a cigarette type or cigar type body.
US09326549B2	Electronic cigarette An electronic cigarette includes a shell and a mouthpiece. The external wall of the shell has an air inlet. An atomizer and a liquid-supply are in contact with each other. The air inlet, atomizer, and an aerosol passage are interconnected.
US09326548B2	Electronic cigarette An electronic cigarette includes a battery assembly and an atomizer assembly within a housing with the battery assembly electrically connected to the atomizer assembly. The housing has one or more air inlets. A liquid storage component is in contact with a porous component of the atomizer assembly, with the porous component having a run-through hole. A heating wire is in an air flow path through the run-through hole.
US09326545B2	Coating composition of low ignition propensity cigarette paper and cigarette using the same The coating composition of a low ignition propensity cigarette paper according to an exemplary embodiment includes pregelatinized starch, maltodextrin, resistant maltodextrin and ethanol.
US09326544B2	System and method for dispensing toppings One variation of a method for dispensing toppings onto topping vehicles includes: indexing a first topping vehicle to a first position adjacent a first topping module, the first topping module comprising a first hopper containing a first topping of a first topping type; indexing a second topping vehicle to a second position adjacent a second topping module comprising a second hopper containing a second topping of a second topping type; retracting a first blade of the first topping module; advancing the first blade through the first topping; retracting a first retaining plate to dispense a topping slice from the first topping onto the first topping vehicle according to a first topping order for the first topping vehicle specifying the first topping type, the first retaining plate offset from the first blade opposite the first hopper; advancing the first retaining plate; and indexing the first topping vehicle to the second position.
US09326541B2	Pet treat Provided are treats having an outer portion and an inner portion which contains a filing. The filling may include ground or diced meat and further includes additional ingredients for health benefits or palatability. The treats are highly palatable to pets and therefore very well-suited to delivery of health ingredients.
US09326539B2	Compositions comprising dietary fat complexers and methods for their use This invention relates to fat containing consumable food products comprising α-cyclodextrin. The food products have reduced levels of bioavailable fat but have substantially the same fat, cholesterol and caloric content as a like food without α-cyclodextrin. The invention also relates to methods for reducing the bioavailability of fats in fat containing food products without reducing caloric intake as determined by bomb calorimetry and to methods for increasing high density lipoproteins in a subject and reducing or controlling weight by administering the food products of this invention.
US09326537B2	Microwaveable coated food product, and method and apparatus for the manufacture thereof A frozen, microwaveable, coated food product comprising: a core of cooked edible material having a weight equal to 15-95 wt. % of the food product; a fried coating that envelops the core of edible material and has a weight equal to 5-85 wt. % of the total weight of the food product, said coating comprising at least three coating layers, including an inner crumb layer, an outer crumb layer and a batter layer that separates the inner crumb layer from the outer crumb layer; wherein both the inner crumb layer and the outer crumb layer comprise a milled farinaceous dough extrudate containing 0.05-5 wt. % of added hydrocolloid.
US09326535B2	Methods and compositions for reducing the environmental impact of animal waste Methods for reducing the environmental impact of animal waste are described. In particular embodiments, the methods comprise administering to an animal an enzyme, such as alkaline phosphatase, that is effective to reduce the amount of a detrimental compound, such as ammonia or phosphorous, that is present in or released from animal waste. Also provided is a method for increasing phosphorus digestion in an animal. Compositions suitable for use in such methods are also described.
US09326528B2	Heater/mixer for manufacturing a flavored product An apparatus for heating a flavored coating and mixing the heated flavored coating with an edible substrate is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a frame adapted to support a kettle, the kettle for containing the flavored coating and the substrate to be mixed, a first heater box operative as a heat source, and a second heater box operative as a heat source. The first heater box is removably secured to the frame to permit removal of the first heater box and substitution therefore with the second heater box.
US09326525B2	Kneading device The present invention provides a kneading device including a hopper having a hopper body that stores raw powder, and a mixer that kneads material to be kneaded, which contains the raw powder, wherein the hopper includes a stirring device that stirs the raw powder in the hopper body, and a temperature-controlled air supply device 6 that supplies temperature-controlled air into the hopper body. This kneading device can stably prepare high-quality kneaded dough.
US09326524B1	Insect repellent compositions The present invention generally includes a blend of a blend of cedar oil, geranium oil, peppermint oil, rosemary oil, and lavender oil together with inert ingredients including water, vegetable glycerin, and isopropyl alcohol. The general mixture is enhanced for use on humans with the addition of clove oil, lemongrass oil, citronella oil, and lemon eucalyptus oil. It is, alternatively enhanced for use on dogs with the addition of soybean oil and thyme oil. Zinc oxide and/or titanium dioxide may also be added to the mixture.
US09326523B2	Class I and II lantibiotics from geobacillus thermodenitrificans The disclosure provides lantibiotics geobacillin I and geobacillin II from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans, compositions comprising the lantibiotics, and methods of use of the lantibiotics. Further disclosed are the sequences of lantibiotics geobacillin I and geobacillin I, and alternative structures of geobacillin I and geobacillin II comprising amino acid substitutions. Antimicrobial compositions comprising one or more isolated geobacillins and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and methods of reducing reproduction of bacteria comprising administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of the antimicrobial composition are also provided.
US09326522B2	Microbial pesticidal composition [Problem]A microbial pesticidal composition containing viable spores of a bacterium belonging to the genus Bacillus and a chemical pesticide, in which the spores can be preserved stably in a living state for a long period of time, and a method for preserving the spores stably in a living state for a long period of time, are provided.[Dissolution Means]Viable spores of Bacillus subtilis and/or Bacillus amyloliquefaciens are blended with at least one member selected from a metal oxide, a metal hydroxide, a metal oxide silicic acid salt, and a metal hydroxide silicic acid salt.
US09326516B2	Molecules having certain pesticidal utilities, and intermediates, compositions, and processes related thereto This disclosure relates to the field of molecules having pesticidal utility against pests in Phyla Nematoda, Arthropoda, and/or Mollusca, processes to produce such molecules and intermediates used in such processes, compositions containing such molecules, and processes of using such molecules against such pests. These molecules may be used, for example, as nematicides, acaricides, insecticides, miticides, and/or molluscicides. This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”).
US09326506B2	Preparation method, agricultural composition and applications of natural brassinolide analogs The present invention provides extraction methods and uses of brassinolide analogs extracted from a plant, including the uses for the promotion of growth, resistance to low temperature and salt tolerance of a plant. Furthermore, the present invention also provides agricultural compositions comprising the brassinolide analogs.
US09326497B2	Solar powered insect trap A device for trapping insects that includes a roof or cover and a trap or cage that are disposed at opposite ends of a housing. One or more solar cell(s) that convert UV rays into solar energy for powering one or more trap components is/are attached to the cover. The cover preferably has two panels that adjustably cooperate with the housing to improve capture of UV rays by the solar cell(s). A fan is disposed in the housing and oriented to direct an airstream through the housing and toward the trap. A damper is disposed in the airstream proximate the trap and includes two independently operable doors. Each door is biased toward a closed position and opens during operation of the fan. The trap removably cooperates with the housing to facilitate disposal of insects captured therein.
US09326496B2	Adjustable tubular holding apparatus particularly useful in fishing An adjustable holding assembly is provided to support a tubular member and includes a base assembly adapted to be mounted to a support surface. The base assembly includes a vertical shaft defining a vertical pivot axis, and a horizontal shaft rotatable about the vertical shaft and defining a horizontal pivot axis. A holder is adapted to receive the tubular member and is pivotally mounted to the base assembly so that the holder is simultaneously rotatable about the vertical pivot axis and the horizontal pivot axis. A single latching arrangement is carried by the horizontal shaft and is configured for selective engagement and disengagement with the base assembly to permit a one-handed adjustment of the holder simultaneously about the vertical pivot axis and the horizontal pivot axis or separately about either the vertical pivot axis or the horizontal pivot axis to multiple angular locked positions with respect to the base assembly.
US09326493B2	Automatic feeding system for underwater fish farm Disclosed is an automatic feeding system for an underwater fish farm, which includes a marine base facility standing vertically in the sea; an underwater fish farm installed on an outer surface of the marine base facility; a storage tank installed inside the marine base facility to store feed to be supplied to the underwater fish farm; a feed transfer device transferring the feed discharged through an outlet of the storage tank; a feed supply device mixing seawater with the feed transferred by the feed transfer device and supplying the mixture to the underwater fish farm; a controller installed inside the marine base facility to control operations of the feed transfer device and the feed supply device; and an illumination device installed in the underwater fish farm to illuminate an inside of the underwater fish farm.
US09326492B2	Device for cleaning aquariums A cleaning device for aquariums comprises a water-tight enclosure configured to be submerged under water and a water pump comprising an inlet for receiving water and an outlet pipe for expelling water. The outlet pipe comprises a central axis. A power source is disposed within the water-tight enclosure for powering the water pump. An adjustable nozzle comprises a nozzle outlet in fluid communication with the outlet pipe, and the adjustable nozzle is configured to be rotated about the central axis of the outlet pipe to selectively adjust a position of the nozzle outlet. In one example, water volume flow or water velocity flow expelled from the nozzle outlet can be selectively adjusted via rotational adjustment of the adjustable nozzle relative to the outlet pipe.
US09326490B2	Traction switching device A traction switching device, comprising a push-pull button, a manual button, an upper casing, a pulley, a lower casing, a reset spring, wherein the lower casing is provided with a first slot; the push-pull button is imbedded in and sliding back and forth along the first slot; the manual button is sleeved on the hole corresponding to the push-pull button and simultaneously is installed at the position corresponding to the lower casing and the upper casing; the pulley is installed at the central axis of the lower casing; the reset spring is installed in the manual button. The traction switching device is featured with manual, flexible and easy operation, applicable to all domestic pets. By pulling the push-pull button while pressing the manual button, the traction switching device is fully locked; conversely, the traction switching device is unlocked by the push-pull button.
US09326486B2	Method and apparatus for blocking unwanted canine interactions A method and apparatus for blocking unwanted canine interactions during a canine deployment at a public-safety incident scene is provided herein. During operation all radios associated with a public-safety incident scene will be provided a notification of canine deployment. The radios will then generate a tone to deter or repel any approaching canine.
US09326482B2	Cat litter mat A cat litter mat and use of the cat litter mat for capturing and disposing of cat litter. The cat litter mat is composed of silicone rubber having a substantially planar central portion and a perimeter, at least a portion of the perimeter having an upturned edge. The cat litter mat is provided with a cat litter box receiving region devoid of the upturned edge, the planar central portion having a plurality of nubs for capturing litter in planar central region of the cat litter mat.
US09326479B2	Lettuce variety 45-114 RZ The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 45-114 RZ, which exhibits resistance to downy mildew races Bl:1 to Bl:28, CA-I, CA-IIA, CA-IIB, CA-III, CA-IV, CA-V, CA-VI, CA-VII, CA-VIII (Bremia lactucae Regel), currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri) biotype Nr:0, lettuce mosaic virus (LMV) race LMV:1, and root aphids (Pemphigus bursarius). The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 45-114 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 45-114 RZ.
US09326478B2	Soybean cultivar UA 5414RR A soybean cultivar designated UA 5414RR is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar UA 5414RR, to the plants of soybean cultivar UA 5414RR, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar UA 5414RR, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar UA 5414RR. 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 UA 5414RR. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar UA 5414RR, 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 UA 5414RR with another soybean cultivar.
US09326473B1	Maize hybrid X90D287 A novel maize variety designated X90D287 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X90D287 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X90D287 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X90D287, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X90D287. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X90D287.
US09326469B2	Celery cultivar ADS-25 A celery cultivar, designated ADS-25, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of celery cultivar ADS-25, to the plants of celery cultivar ADS-25 and to methods for producing a celery plant by crossing the cultivar ADS-25 with itself or another celery cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a celery plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic celery plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to celery cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from celery cultivar ADS-25, to methods for producing other celery cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from celery cultivar ADS-25 and to the celery plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid celery seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar ADS-25 with another celery cultivar.
US09326467B1	Tagetes patula variety ‘PAS1077390’ The invention provides seed and plants of Tagetes patula variety ‘PAS1077390’. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of Tagetes patula variety ‘PAS1077390’, and to methods for producing a marigold plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another marigold 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 gametes of such plants.
US09326465B1	Tagetes patula variety ‘PAS1077396’ The invention provides seed and plants of Tagetes patula variety ‘PAS1077396’. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of Tagetes patula variety ‘PAS1077396’, and to methods for producing a marigold plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another marigold 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 gametes of such plants.
US09326463B2	Near reverse breeding Provided is a method for producing a homozygous non-human organism from a heterozygous non-human organism, which homozygous organism can be crossed to obtain a hybrid, comprising providing a heterozygous starting organism; allowing the organism to produce SDR-0 cells through meiosis, which cells originate from second division restitution; regenerating SDR-0 organisms from the SDR-0 cells; and producing the homozygous organism from the SDR-0 organisms thus obtained. Further provided is a method for producing a hybrid, comprising crossing a first homozygous organism that is produced according to the above method with a second homozygous organism. Also provided is a homozygous non-human organism and hybrid non-human organisms obtainable by these methods. In a preferred embodiment, the organisms are plants.
US09326461B2	System and method for irrigation management An irrigation management system includes a water pump, at least one mobile irrigation system, and a pump controller. The mobile irrigation system includes a water pressure sensor for generating water pressure data indicating water pressure in the irrigation system. The pump controller is configured to receive the water pressure data generated by the water pressure sensor, to compare a target water pressure with the sensed water pressure data to determine a difference between the target water pressure and the sensed water pressure, and to adjust operation of the water pump to increase or decrease water pressure to the irrigation system in a manner that resolves the difference between the target water pressure and the sensed water pressure.
US09326458B1	Tree trunk snail shield and method of preventing snails from accessing the upper portions of a tree A device attaches to the trunks of plants and trees to prevent snails from reaching the upper portion of the plant or tree which has leaves and fruit subject to attack from the snails. Embodiments of the device have an inner funnel-shaped sleeve which biases against the tree trunk to provide a sufficiently tight closure to prevent snails from climbing between the trunk and the device. Embodiments of the device have a downward facing surface having a plurality of closely-spaced downwardly facing spike members. These spike members are sufficiently closely spaced so as to substantially or completely prevent snails, including small-sized young snails, from moving across the downwardly facing surface to crawl around the outside of the device to gain access to the upper portion of the tree.
US09326457B2	Micro layering pest control solution A micro layering pest control system that includes combining generally immiscible ingredients in a container, maintaining the ingredients in a combined state by substantially continuously agitating and homogenizing the combined ingredients under pressure, and discharging the combined ingredients in one or more applications. The system further includes selecting an insecticide for controlling certain insects and selecting an oil, based on predetermined conditions, for mixing and applying to animals via the micro layering pest control system.
US09326456B2	Agricultural wrap and method of making the same An agricultural wrap includes a continuous planar main body formed of a flexible and permeable material, an amount of growing matter, and at least one irrigation tube. The body has first and second sides, first and second ends, an inner surface, an outer surface disposed against a base surface, and at least one aperture. With the growing matter disposed against the inner surface, the first and second sides are positioned around the growing matter to define a holding pocket. An irrigation tube being disposed against the main body and above the base surface leaks water that permeates through the main body and saturates the growing matter.
US09326455B2	Plant container cover and insulation The present invention provides an apparatus for plants, said apparatus that features a planter with a closed bottom, sidewalls, and an open top, wherein a protruding lip is defined on an exterior surface of the sidewalls in proximity to the open top; and a first cover with an open bottom, sidewalls, and a closed top, wherein a set of clasping mechanisms are located on two opposing sidewalls in proximity to the open bottom, and wherein the clasping mechanism reversibly attaches the cover to the lip of the planter. The invention further provides a second, insulating cover with an open bottom, sidewalls, and a closed top, wherein the second cover is received by the first cover after the first cover is reversibly attached to the planter.
US09326454B2	Method for cultivating plant A plant-cultivating method is provided which comprises a red light irradiation step (A) and a blue light irradiation step (B), wherein the step (A) and the step (B) are independently carried out for a predetermined period of time under cultivation conditions such that amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium as fertilizer ingredients as used at the step (B) are smaller than amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium as fertilizer ingredients, respectively, as used at the step (A). Preferably, fertilizer ingredients are applied in amounts such that a growth medium at the step (B) contains 10-15 me/L of nitrogen, 1-4 me/L of phosphorus and 2-6 me/L of potassium, and a growth medium at the step (A) contains 15-20 me/L of nitrogen, 3-6 me/L of phosphorus and 6-9 me/L of potassium.
US09326444B2	Method and stereo vision system for facilitating the unloading of agricultural material from a vehicle A spout is pivotally mounted to a transferring material for transferring the agricultural material to the receiving vehicle. An imaging device faces towards the storage portion of the receiving vehicle and collects image data. A container module is adapted to determine a container position of the storage portion, or its container perimeter. An alignment module determines the relative position of the spout and the container perimeter and for generating command data to shift a relative longitudinal alignment between the vehicles in or against a direction of travel of the vehicles when the discharge end of the spout is in misalignment state. An angle sensor is associated with the spout for measuring an observed rotational angle of the spout, wherein the misalignment state means the observed rotational angle is equal to or greater than a rotational angle limit.
US09332682B2	Method of mounting electronic parts In an electronic component mounting method, electronic components are picked up from a component supply unit in which first and second tray supply mechanisms are arranged, and mounted on substrates. In the method, a first substrate and a second substrate different in type from the first substrate are transported by first and second substrate transport lanes, respectively, and a first component to be mounted on the first substrate and a second component to be mounted on the second substrate are supplied by the first and second tray supply mechanisms, respectively. If use stop setting indicating that the pickup of the electronic components is no longer conducted is enabled in one tray supply mechanism, the controller prohibits an access of a mounting head to the one tray supply mechanism, and permits an operation access of an operator to a tray housing unit of the one tray supply mechanism.
US09332681B2	Electronic component mounting system In a case where a solder amount of a solder portion printed on an electrode does not meet a reference amount, solder is additionally applied to a center position of the electrode by a control section. With respect to a component mounting position to which the solder is not additionally applied, correction from a component mounting position of a substrate to a corrected mounting position is performed and an electronic component is mounted at the corrected mounting position. The electronic component corresponding to another component mounting position with the solder additionally applied thereto is mounted at the design component mounting position in the positioned substrate.
US09332677B2	Electronic device In an electronic device, a substrate mounting unit is provided at a front side inside a housing, and contains a plurality of electronic substrates under a state where faces of any two mutually adjacent ones of the plurality of electronic substrates are opposite to each other. A power supply unit is provided at a position which is located at a rear side inside the housing and is located behind the substrate mounting unit, and supplies the plurality of electronic substrates with electric power. A power-supply fan unit, which is provided at a rear side of the power supply unit, takes in air outside the housing from the power-supply air intake opening, and discharges the taken-in air to an outside of a rear side of the housing via the substrate mounting unit and the power supply unit.
US09332674B2	Field-replaceable bank of immersion-cooled electronic components A cooled electronic system and cooling method are provided, wherein a field-replaceable bank of electronic components is cooled by an apparatus which includes an enclosure at least partially surrounding and forming a compartment about the electronic components, a fluid disposed within the compartment, and a heat sink associated with the enclosure. The field-replaceable bank extends, in part, through the enclosure to facilitate operative docking of the electronic components into one or more respective receiving sockets of the electronic system. The electronic components of the field-replaceable bank are, at least partially, immersed within the fluid to facilitate immersion-cooling of the components, and the heat sink facilitates rejection of heat from the fluid disposed within the compartment. In one embodiment, multiple thermal conductors project from an inner surface of the enclosure into the compartment to facilitate transfer of heat from the fluid to the heat sink.
US09332673B2	Surface modification of hoses to reduce depletion of corrosion inhibitor An inside surface of a hose for use with liquid-cooled cooling plate assemblies and other applications that contain copper (Cu) components is pre-treated with a passivating agent to reduce depletion of a copper corrosion inhibitor (e.g., benzotriazole (BTA)) dissolved in a liquid coolant (e.g., deionized water) that flows through the hose. Exemplary passivating agents include, but are not limited to, aliphatic alcohols (e.g., 1-hexanol), alkoxysilanes (e.g., (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane), and multidentate polymers (e.g., polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)). In one embodiment, a solution of pre-hydrolyzed (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane and deionized water is passed through a multilayer hose to form a pre-treated multilayer hose. In some embodiments, one or more pre-treated hoses interconnect liquid-coolant cooling system components (e.g., cold plates, headers, manifolds, pumps, reservoirs, and heat exchangers) of a cooling apparatus that removes heat from one or more electronic components.
US09332668B2	Electronic circuit unit capable of external connection An electronic circuit unit includes a circuit board (10) with conductors for connection (14) on an edge (12), a case (20) for housing the circuit board (10) and a connector (C). The case (20) includes an opening (21) that allows the circuit board (10) to be inserted in a board inserting direction and holds the circuit board (10) at a specific board holding position. The connector (C) includes connector terminals (30) to be mounted on ends of wires (W), and a housing (40) for holding the connector terminals (30) so that the connector terminals (30) can simultaneously contact the conductors for connection (14). The housing (40) includes a lid (48) for closing the opening (21). The case (20) locks the housing (40) at a position where the connector terminals (30) contact the conductors for connection (14) of the circuit board (10) at the board holding position.
US09332667B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes: a panel having at least one of an input section and a display section; a main body configured to retain the panel rotatably; and a retention mechanism configured to retain the panel at a predetermined rotation angle. The retention mechanism includes: a retaining member provided in the main body; a retained member provided on the panel and configured to be retained by the retaining member; an elastic deformation member configured to be connected to the retained member and changeable between a first state in which the elastic deformation member is not elastically deformed and a second state in which the elastic deformation member is elastically deformed; a contact member configured to contact with the elastic deformation member and change the state of the elastic deformation member; and an operating member configured to receive an operation for making the elastic deformation member contact with the contact member.
US09332666B2	Electrical connector having an improved stiffener An electrical connector for electrically connecting an IC package to a substrate, includes an insulating housing (21), a stiffener (20) located on one side of the insulating housing (21) and a load plate (22) assembled to the stiffener (20) and being rotated between an opened position and a closed position, the stiffener (20) includes a first end (203) and an extending portion (208) extending upwardly and then horizontally in a direction far away from the insulating housing (21) from the first end (203), the extending portion (208) includes a receiving hole (209), the load plate (22) includes a body portion (220) and a hook (223) extending from on end of the body portion (220), the hook (223) is assembled to the receiving hole (209) and interlocks with the extending portion (208) to position the load plate (22) on the stiffener (20).
US09332661B2	Recording device A printer includes a body case and an interface connector unit that is movable between a hidden position where the interface connector unit is hidden by the body case and an exposed position where the interface connector unit is exposed from the body case.
US09332658B2	Wiring board, semiconductor device, and method for manufacturing wiring board A wiring board includes first and second insulating layers, first and second through holes, a via, a plane layer, and signal wirings. The first insulating layer covers a first wiring layer. The first through hole opens on a surface of the first insulating layer and exposes a surface of the first wiring layer. The via fills the first through hole. The plane layer is connected to the via and is stacked on the first insulating layer. The second through hole opens on a surface of the plane layer and exposes the surface of the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer at least partially fills the second through hole and covers the plane layer. The signal wirings are stacked on the second insulating layer. The first through hole overlaps the signal wirings in a plan view. The second through hole does not overlap the signal wirings in a plan view.
US09332656B2	Interposer and method for manufacturing same An interposer includes an insulating substrate, a photosensitive dielectric film, a conductive layer, and a conductive via. The insulating substrate includes a bottom surface and a top surface, and defines a receiving through hole extending through the bottom surface and the top surface. The photosensitive dielectric film is mounted on the bottom surface. The photosensitive dielectric film defines a through hole spatially corresponding to and communicating with the receiving through hole. The conductive layer is mounted on an end of the photosensitive dielectric film away from the insulating substrate. The conductive layer covers an end of the through hole. The conductive via is received in the receiving through hole and the through hole. The conductive via contacts and electrically connects to the conductive layer.
US09332655B2	Electronic circuit, light source device, and method of manufacturing electronic circuit An electronic circuit having an electronic component mounted on a substrate, a light source device having the electronic circuit, and a method of manufacturing the electronic circuit on which the electronic component is mounted on the substrate are described. The electronic component has a plurality of lead pins to be electrically connected to wirings on the substrate. The substrate is formed with a hole having a larger dimension than a maximum distance between at least two lead pins of the lead pins. The lead pins are inserted into the hole from sides of tips of the lead pins while being bent at a plurality of bending portions, and fixed to the substrate by a solder.
US09332652B2	Process for etching a recessed structure filled with tin or a tin alloy A process for etching excess tin or tin alloy deposits including the steps of providing a substrate having recessed structures filled with tin or a tin alloy and an excess layer of tin or tin alloy, providing an aqueous etching solution consisting of a source of hydroxide ions and a nitro-substituted aromatic sulfonic acid and having a pH value greater than 7, and contacting said substrate with said aqueous etching solution for removing said excess tin or tin alloy layer on top of the recessed structures filled with tin or a tin alloy.
US09332650B2	Method of producing multilayer circuit board The present invention relates to a method of producing a multilayer circuit board including: a film-forming step of forming a swellable resin film on the surface of an insulative substrate, a circuit groove-forming step of forming circuit grooves having a depth equal to or greater than the thickness of the swellable resin film on the external surface of the film, a catalyst-depositing step of depositing a plating catalyst or the precursor thereof on the surface of the circuit grooves and the surface of the swellable resin film, a film-separating step of swelling the swellable resin film with a particular liquid and then separating the swollen resin film from the insulative substrate surface, and a plating processing step of forming an electrolessly plated film only in the region where the plating catalyst or the plating catalyst formed from the plating catalyst precursor remains unseparated after separation of the film.
US09332647B2	Etching method A solution is characteristic in being an etching method that processes a surface of a target object by corroding the surface by a corrosive, and the etching method includes: a resist forming step of forming a resist on the surface using resist liquid by ink jet printing the resist liquid on the surface; a surface corroding step of corroding a portion of the surface where the resist is not formed by bringing the corrosive into contact with a surface side of the target object where the resist has been formed in the resist forming step; and a resist detaching step of detaching the resist from the surface after the surface corroding step, wherein the resist forming step is a step of forming the resist by the resist liquid containing monofunctional monomers or monofunctional oligomers, and polyfunctional monomers or polyfunctional oligomers.
US09332646B2	Electronic package module and method of manufacturing the same An electronic package module includes a circuit board having a supporting surface, at least one first electronic component, at least one second electronic component, and at least one molding compound. The first and second electronic components are mounted on the supporting surface. The molding compound is disposed on the supporting surface and covers the supporting surface partially. The molding compound encapsulates the first electronic component yet not the second electronic component.
US09332645B2	Electronic part and electronic control unit A main body of an electronic part has multiple electrodes, to which multiple terminals are respectively connected. The terminals include a fuse terminal and a normal terminal, each of which extends from the main body to a printed board so that the main body is supported at a position above and separated from a board surface of the printed board. The fuse terminal has an intermediate portion between an electrode-connected portion and a land-connected portion. The intermediate portion has a cut-off portion having a smaller width than other portions of the fuse terminal, so that the cut-off portion is melted down when excess current flows in the fuse terminal. The intermediate portion extends in a direction parallel to the board surface or in a direction inclined to the board surface at an angle smaller than 90 degrees.
US09332642B2	Circuit board One aspect of the present invention relates to a circuit board including an insulating base substrate; and a circuit layer that is formed of a conductor and that is provided on the surface of the insulating base substrate, wherein the insulating base substrate has a smooth surface having a surface roughness Ra of 0.5 μm or less, and the conductor is at least partially embedded in a wiring groove formed in the surface of the insulating base substrate.
US09332635B2	Display panel integrating a driving circuit A display panel includes a periphery area, an active display area adjacent to the periphery, a driving chip disposed out of the active display area for driving the active display area, and a plurality of wires electrically connecting the driving chip and the active display area. The width of at least one wire at a portion adjacent to the driving chip is smaller than the width of the at least one wire at the other portion adjacent to the active display area.
US09332628B2	Microelectronic structure including air gap A microelectronic structure and a method for fabricating the microelectronic structure provide a plurality of voids interposed between a plurality of conductor layers. The plurality of voids is also located between a liner layer and an inter-level dielectric layer. The voids provide for enhanced electrical performance of the microelectronic structure.
US09332627B2	Thermal dissipating module A thermal dissipating module suitable for removing heat from a heating element disposed on a circuit board is provided. The thermal dissipating module includes a heat conductive structure, an adhesive layer and an elastic member. The heat conductive structure is suitable for being disposed on the heating element. The adhesive layer is suitable for being disposed on the circuit board and adjacent to the heating element. The elastic member is glued to the circuit board by the adhesive layer, and the elastic member applies a force to make the heat conductive structure to be attached to the heating element.
US09332624B2	Gantry scanner systems A gantry scanner system comprises a radiation source, a plurality of detectors and a support frame supporting the detectors. The support frame includes an elongate support member arranged to support the detectors, cable support means arranged to support power cables or signal cables connected to the detectors, and cover means arranged to cover the support member, the cable support means and the detectors.
US09332621B2	LED lamps with enhanced wireless communication An LED lighting device includes a light emitting assembly including at least one LED and a wireless network interface connecting the LED lighting device to a network. The wireless network interface includes a RF transceiver. An antenna is in electrical communication with the RF transceiver. A thermally conductive housing receives the light emitting assembly, the thermally conductive housing in thermal communication with the at least one LED. In one aspect the thermally conductive housing is formed of a thermally conductive and electrically nonconductive material. In another aspect, the thermally conductive housing includes a first portion attached to a second portion, wherein the first portion is formed of a first, thermally conductive material and defines an interior cavity receiving the wireless network interface. The second portion is formed of a second, electrically nonconductive material and defines an aperture allowing optical output of the at least one LED to pass therethrough.
US09332619B2	Solid-state luminaire with modular light sources and electronically adjustable light beam distribution A luminaire having a plurality of power sockets arranged over its housing is disclosed. In some embodiments, the luminaire includes a driver operatively coupled with all (or some sub-set) of the power sockets and configured to control the light output of a modular solid-state light source operatively interfaced therewith. In some such embodiments, the luminaire also includes a power-line communication (PLC) module configured to output a PLC signal utilized by the driver in controlling the modular light source's output. In some other embodiments, the modular light source includes the driver, which may utilize a PLC signal, a command signal received from a remote source, or both, in controlling light output. In some cases, the modular solid-state light sources may allow the luminaire to produce a target light beam distribution utilizing a minimal or otherwise reduced quantity of such light sources, reducing cost and difficulty of installation and commissioning.
US09332616B1	Path light feedback compensation A path light that utilizes an ambient light sensor to determine the lighting conditions may experience feedback from its light source if it determines that the lighting conditions are appropriate to illuminate the path light's light source. The path light, as disclosed herein, may compute an offset value to ascertain the amount of feedback from the light source. Upon learning the offset value, the path light may subtract the offset value from a detected amount of light to determine whether the lighting conditions of its surroundings still meet a threshold level of darkness for the path light to illuminate.
US09332612B1	System and method for rapidly generating color models for LED-based lamps Some embodiments include a model builder system that generates a color model to facilitate a color tunable lamp to mix the right amount of light from various color channels to reproduce a target color characteristic of a reference lamp. The model builder system can perform pre-computations that characterize the perceived characteristic of individual color channels and the reference lamp. The model builder system can divide the color channels of the color tunable lamp into floating channels and non-floating channels. Holding the operating points of the non-floating channels constant, the model builder system inverse solves for the necessary flux values of the color channels to reproduce the target color characteristic and to optimize color metrics.
US09332605B2	Lighting system A lighting system includes a switch configured so that when the switch is in a first state, current from a supply flows to a light emitter, and when the switch is in a second state, current from the supply flows through the switch bypassing the light emitter. A capacitor in parallel with the light emitter provides current to the light emitter sufficient to cause the light emitter to emit light when the switch is in the second state.
US09332604B2	LED converter with adaptive PFC and resonant converter The invention provides an LED converter for operating a load comprising at least one LED series with at least one LED, preferably with multiple LEDs, wherein the LED converter on the primary side comprises a resonant converter supplied with a direct current voltage. Said converter has a half-bridge constructed of two reciprocally clocked switches and providing a supply voltage for the LED series through a serial/parallel resonance circuit connected to the midpoint of said bridge. The LED converter has a control unit that is arranged for adjusting the clocking frequency of the half bridge. To control or regulate the power transferred by the LED converter to the LED series, the control unit is arranged to vary the frequency of the clocking in a frequency corridor that is delimited on at least one side, and to vary the amplitude of the direct current voltage supplying the resonant converter if a change of the load and/or the change of a setpoint value for the power would lead to a frequency operating point outside the frequency corridor.
US09332596B2	Microwave oven A microwave oven has an oven chamber, a door hinged to the chamber, and at least one door position switch. The switch provides a signal on door position to a central process unit of the oven. A door position switch assembly includes the switch mounted on the door and adjacent a sliding cover element that is adapted to protect the switch in an open configuration of the door and a first protruding element adapted to move the sliding cover element when the door is closed on the oven chamber in order to make the switch accessible. Additionally, a second protruding element may be included that is adapted to actuate the switch in its accessible configuration.
US09332595B2	Microwaveable heat retentive container The present invention is directed to a portable and microwaveable container into which a vessel may be inserted, and which assists in preserving or prolonging elevated temperatures of the contents of the vessel for an extended period of time. The container includes a receptacle area, or opening, into which the vessel is inserted. The container of the present invention may be heated, such as in a microwave oven, and once heated, a vessel containing a warmed food product, typically an elevated temperature liquid, may be inserted. The container of the present invention internally contains a microwaveable absorbing material which retains thermal energy. Once heated, the container passively improves the heat retention of the contents of the inserted vessel.
US09332584B2	Discontinuous reception cycle scaling in a wireless device Connected-mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) cycle scaling by a wireless user equipment (UE) device. The UE may establish a connection with a network via a wireless link, which may operate according to LTE. The UE may communicate with the network via the wireless link using C-DRX over a plurality of C-DRX cycles. Each C-DRX cycle may include a period of time during which the UE operates in a reduced-power state and a scheduled on-duration period of time. An indication may be received to remain in the reduced-power state during the scheduled on-duration period of time of at least one C-DRX cycle. The UE may remain in the reduced-power state during the scheduled on-duration period of time of at least one C-DRX cycle in response to the indication.
US09332580B2	Methods and apparatus for forming ad-hoc networks among headset computers sharing an identifier The invention is a mobile device collaboration framework (MDCF)—a form of communications framework, which enables devices to discover other devices that support the framework, access applications and services on those devices and exchange a variety of media and application-specific data. It is not tied to any one communications medium or protocol. It supports access restriction and data security at many levels. Sessions can involve multiple devices, creating subnets of devices, each with a shared purpose or task.
US09332577B2	Method and system for implementing smart card remote operation A method and system for implementing a smart card remote operation are provided. A mobile phone gateway, used for communication between a remote management server and a smart card, is set up in advance on a mobile phone. The mobile phone gateway communicates with a UICC by using a BIP protocol, sets up/closes a channel according to an instruction of the UICC, receives/transmits data, and is capable of synchronizing channel states. The remote management server monitors, in a sever mode, a local port by using a TCP/IP data stack, and provides an HTTP/HTTPS protocol access service. The remote management server transmits, as a client, a command and data to the local port. After a data packet is forwarded by the gateway to the UICC and is processed by an SCWS, the gateway carries out data inspection of a certain level and control encapsulation on a response of the UICC.
US09332573B2	Method and apparatus for bearer control in a group call A method and service network element are provided that provide for bearer control in a group call. The method and service network element receive a trigger to adjust a quality of service (QoS) level of an uplink bearer established for a group call, identify, based on a profile associated with each user device of multiple user devices participating in the group call, one or more user devices of the multiple participating user devices as candidates for a quality of service (QoS) adjustment of an uplink bearer, and adjust a QoS level of an uplink bearer, of the multiple uplink bearers, of a participating user device of the multiple participating user devices identified as a candidate for a QoS adjustment.
US09332570B2	Access response signaling in a cellular communication system A network node that serves a cell in a cellular communication system is operated. An air interface of the cellular communication system is divided up into sequentially occurring frames, each of the frames comprising a plurality of sequentially occurring sub-frames, each of the sub-frames comprising a plurality of sequentially occurring symbols. Operation includes receiving and detecting a request signal transmitted by a device within the cell. Based at least in part on a characteristic of the request signal that is indicative of one or more device capabilities of the device, an associated time/frequency position for transmitting a response signal is ascertained. The response signal is transmitted at the ascertained time/frequency position.
US09332568B2	Base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, and transmission method A base station able to maintain backward compatibility with an LTE mobile station while minimizing the amount of increase in uplink scheduling information reception and demodulation/decoding processing in independent uplink/downlink cell data transmission. A wireless communication system includes a cell #1, a cell #2, and an LTE-A mobile station, and supports independent uplink/downlink cell data transmission. The base station of the cell #2 arranges a PDCCH+, which includes uplink scheduling information from the LTE-A mobile station to the base station of the cell #2, in a downlink data region in the downlink connection of the base station of the cell #1.
US09332567B1	System for recovering unresponsive common public radio interface (CPRI) nodes An integrated circuit (IC) in an unresponsive radio equipment (RE) node includes a common public radio interface (CPRI) controller, a processor, and a system reset controller that includes an L1 (Layer 1) reset controller. The CPRI controller generates a reset request signal based on a CPRI reset request received from an RE controller (REC). The L1 reset controller generates a traffic stop signal based on the reset request signal. The CPRI controller generates a traffic idle signal based on the traffic stop signal. The L1 reset controller receives the traffic idle signal before a predetermined time period and generates a system reset signal for resetting the processor, thereby recovering the unresponsive RE node without disrupting the network topology of a communication system that includes the REC and multiple RE nodes including the unresponsive RE node connected via a CPRI link.
US09332564B2	Method, apparatus and system to manage distributed channel access with time reservation A method, apparatus and system to manage distributed channel access with time reservation are generally presented. In this regard, a reservation agent is introduced to reserve access to a wireless network channel for an amount of time greater than necessary to transmit to another station(s) and to transmit to the other station(s).
US09332563B2	Wireless communication device, memory device, wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and computer program product A wireless communication includes: a communication unit; a storage unit; a transmission buffer; and a controller. The communication unit wirelessly communicates with a reception terminal. The storage unit stores information relating to a timing at which the reception terminal changes from a first state to a second state. The first state is a state of being able to receive data and continues for a first period. The second state is a state of being unable to receive data and continues for a second period. The first period is extended by a fixed duration when the reception terminal in the first state receives data. The transmission buffer temporarily stores segmented data constituting transmission data to be transmitted to the reception terminal. The controller controls the communication unit to wirelessly transmit dummy data to the reception terminal by the timing if the segmented data is not stored in the storage unit.
US09332560B2	Method of performing measurement at UE in wireless communication system and apparatus thereof A method of performing measurement at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving channel status information-reference signals (CSI-RSs) for channel status information feedback from a plurality of transmission points (TPs), performing radio resource management (RRM) measurement based on the CSI-RSs, and selecting one or more TPs for receiving a signal from among the plurality of TPs based on the result of measurement.
US09332559B2	Method and channel selector for selecting an operation channel, and wireless network connecting apparatus including the channel selector In a method for selecting an operation channel, a wireless network connecting apparatus is configured to: identify at least one preoccupied channel; determine a plurality of available channels; evaluate a channel quality of each of the available channels; select one of the available channels based on the channel quality thereof as the operation channel, and to switch to the operation channel; transmit an evaluation packet through the operation channel; determine whether the operation channel needs to be replaced, based on a number of data retransmissions; and exclude the operation channel from the available channels when the determination is affirmative.
US09332551B2	Opportunistic resource sharing between devices Techniques for opportunistic resource sharing between mobile devices are described. A method comprises identifying a set of homogeneous device resources implemented by multiple devices based in part on resource configuration information received by a wireless transceiver, selecting a shared homogeneous device resource of one of the multiple devices to share between the multiple devices, and sending shared configuration information to identify the shared homogeneous device resource and a share role for each of the multiple devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09332547B1	Frequency band selection for wireless device communication In systems and methods of frequency band selection for wireless device communication, a first frequency band comprising a first channel bandwidth is associated with a first application type and a second frequency band comprising a second channel bandwidth is associated with a second application type. When a request to establish a communication session is received at an access node from a wireless device, an application type associated with the request, a frequency band for the communication session with the wireless device based on the application type from among the first frequency band and the second frequency band, and the communication session is established between the access node and the wireless device using the selected frequency band.
US09332537B2	System and method for signaling control information in a mobile communication network A method of decoding encoded information communicated over a radio channel includes receiving a vector of encoded information transmitted by a wireless terminal. The encoded information includes an encoded representation of unencoded information bits that have been encoded using a first order Reed-Muller code. The method also includes generating a vector of transform values by performing a Hadamard Transform on the received vector and identifying a subset of the transform values based on scheduling information associated with the wireless terminal. Additionally, the method includes selecting, from the subset of transform values, one of the transform values based on a magnitude of the selected transform value and determining an estimate of the unencoded information bits based on a bit sequence associated with the selected transform value. In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatus is operable to implement this method.
US09332535B2	CQI transmission power control method and apparatus for wireless communication system supporting multi-cell HSDPA A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving control information in a wireless communication system supporting multi-cell transmission. A method includes receiving a first pilot signal from a first cell and a second pilot signal from a second cell; generating first control information indicating channel quality for the first cell and second control information indicating channel quality for the second cell, based on the first pilot signal and the second pilot signal, respectively; separately encoding the first control information and the second control information; separately power controlling the encoded first control information and the encoded second control information; transmitting, on the first cell, the power controlled, encoded first control information on a first control channel; and transmitting, on the first cell, the power controlled, encoded second control information on a second control channel.
US09332532B2	Radio transmission apparatus, radio receiving apparatus, radio communication apparatus, radio transmission method, and radio receiving method Instead of adding control information that should be passed on to two or more RLC entities or two or more PDCP entities on the counterpart side to data respectively in two or more RLC entities or two or more PDCP entities at the sending end, control information is added in MAC entity and then distributed to two or more RLC entities in MAC entity on the counterpart side.
US09332531B2	Universal connectivity for non-universal devices A system includes at least one data collection device, each connected to a corresponding data terminal via a primary communication channel; and a central connectivity point connected to each data collection device via a wireless secondary communication channel so as to communicate with the at least one data collection device without disrupting communication between the at least data collection device and the corresponding data terminal via the primary communication channel and to permit remote administration of each data collection device.
US09332530B2	Mobile communication method and mobile station A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: a step A of broadcasting, by a radio base station eNB, “ac-Barring For TYPE x” for barring an access by each type of an EPS bearer in a subordinate cell; and a step B of determining, by a mobile station UE, whether an originating call request is transmitted or not depending on whether the “ac-Barring For TYPE x” corresponding to a type of the EPS bearer set to a destination APN of the originating call request in a standby cell is broadcasted or not.
US09332522B2	Audiolocation system combining use of audio fingerprinting and audio watermarking An audio-based navigation system for determining a present location or position of a mobile device such as a smartphone within a venue. The system includes a sound system with a first speaker playing first audio content and a second speaker playing second audio content. The first speaker is positioned in a first space in a venue, and the second speaker is positioned in a second space of the venue. The navigation system also includes a mobile device with memory storing a database of fingerprints of a plurality of differing audio content. The mobile device includes a microphone for receiving an audio signal associated with the first audio content or with the second audio content. The mobile device includes a processor(s) selectively running software to determine the mobile device location in the first or second space using either fingerprinting or watermarking module by processing the received audio signal.
US09332517B2	Method and device for transmitting a synchronization signal in a wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method and device for an access point to transmit a signal in a wireless communication system. A method for an access point to transmit a synchronization signal includes: generating a frame for synchronizing a timer of a station connected to an access point; and transmitting the frame for synchronization. The frame for synchronization may be transmitted before/after all Target Beacon Transmission Times.
US09332516B2	Method and system for signaling in a heterogeneous network A method at a network element operating in a wireless network, wherein the network element is configured to transmit a default cell search signal at a default position in one or more subframes, the method comprising transmitting, by the network element, an auxiliary cell search signal in addition to the default cell search signal.
US09332515B2	Mapping schemes for secondary synchronization signal scrambling Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter includes a synchronization unit configured to provide a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal having first and second segments. The transmitter also includes a secondary scrambling unit configured to provide a scrambled secondary synchronization signal, wherein scrambling agents for the first and second segments are derived from a primary synchronization sequence of the primary synchronization signal. The secondary scrambling unit is further configured to provide an additional scrambling of one of the first and second segments, wherein a second scrambling agent is derived from the remaining segment of a secondary synchronization sequence of the secondary synchronization signal. The transmitter further includes a transmit unit configured to transmit the primary synchronization signal and the scrambled secondary synchronization signal.
US09332507B2	Thermal noise floor estimation robustness via multi-carrier combining The present invention provides methods and arrangements 300 which are configured to determine a noise rise estimates in a radio access node of a Radio Network System 100 supporting Multi-Carrier High-Speed Packet Access transmission of user radio traffic between a radio access node and one or more User Equipments. The arrangement is provided with a combiner combining the estimated thermal noise power floors of all carriers of a set of carriers sharing the same antenna branch, into a single thermal noise power floor estimate, valid for all carriers in said set of carriers sharing the same analogue signal path. A noise rise determiner computes noise rise estimates as a quotient of the momentary received total wideband power of a carrier related to an analogue signal path, and said combined thermal noise power floor for said analogue signal path.
US09332505B2	Methods and apparatus for performing measurements in adaptive downlink power transmission A wireless device, and a method therein, for performing a measurement on a first type of radio signal. The wireless device is comprised in a communications network. The wireless device receives at least two resource specific parameters for the first type of radio signal. The at least two resource specific parameters indicate different transmit power levels of the first type of radio signal and the different transmit power levels relate to two different resources in two different time periods for the first type of radio signal. Further, the wireless device receives a first type of radio signal transmitted at two different transmit power levels, and performs at least one measurement on the received first type of radio signal using the at least two resource specific parameters.
US09332504B2	System and method for self-optimized uplink power control in a fixed wireless backhaul network A system and method of uplink power control in a fixed wireless backhaul network, wherein determining an uplink transmit power of each remote backhaul module (RBM) comprises obtaining an interference-over-thermal (IoT) noise value of each hub, determining a target IoT noise value for each RBM, determining a total path loss from each RBM to its serving hub, determining a target uplink carrier to interference and noise ratio (CINR) for the RBM, and computing the RBM uplink transmit power for each RBM by summing the target IoT noise value for the RBM, the total path loss of the RBM to its serving hub, and the target uplink CINR. Computationally expensive parameter sweeps are avoided. The method can be implemented using a centralized processing unit or distributed processing at each node. The method is self-optimizing, and initial hub and RBM transmit powers and other data may be estimated using pre-deployment tools.
US09332499B2	Apparatus and methods for enhanced user equipment power management via controlled cell change notifications Apparatus and methods for power management in a wireless communication device include detecting a change in a serving cell for data communication from a first cell to a second cell; determining whether a terminal equipment (TE) is in a low power state; detecting a first technology type of the first cell and a second technology type of the second cell; determining whether the second technology type is a different technology mode than the first technology type; sending a cell change notification to a data processor associated with the TE when the second technology type is in the different technology mode than the first technology type and the TE is not in a low power state; and suppressing the sending of the cell change notification when the second technology type is not in the different technology mode and the TE is in the low power state.
US09332495B2	Method and device of supporting arbitrary replacement of multiple data units The disclosure discloses a method of supporting arbitrary replacement of multiple data units, which includes: configuring patterns for arbitrary position replacement of N data units; and during a process of data unit replacement, performing a replacement operation on the N data units according to the configured patterns. The disclosure further discloses a device of supporting arbitrary replacement of multiple data units. By means of the method and device, an occupied area of a data unit replacement circuit in a chip can be decreased, and power consumption can be reduced.
US09332483B2	Mobile station and radio base station To suppress increase in the amount of signals due to repetition of transition to a “Preservation state” and return to an “Active state,” a mobile station UE according to the present invention includes: a receiving unit 13 configured to receive access restriction information against communication satisfying a predetermined condition during the “Preservation state,” from a radio access network; and a transmitting unit 12 configured to transmit an “RRC CONNECTION REQUEST” to the radio access network in a case where the mobile station UE transitions from the “Preservation state” to the “Active state.” The transmitting unit 12 is configured to decide whether or not to transmit an “RRC CONNECTION REQUEST” for the communication satisfying the predetermined condition, on the basis of the access restriction information.
US09332482B2	Method for communication of base station, terminal and relay station A method for communication of a base station includes: receiving first data from a first terminal; transmitting the first data to a second terminal by local forwarding without passing through an access service network (ASN); receiving second data from the second terminal; and transmitting the second data to the first terminal without passing through the ASN.
US09332481B2	Wireless communication system, wireless communication method, transmitting terminal, and receiving terminal A wireless communication system constitutes a wireless ad hoc network. A plurality of wireless terminals include a receiving terminal and a plurality of the transmitting terminals. Each of the transmitting terminals executes direct communication or indirect communication. The wireless communication system includes a first obtainer that obtains a reception side terminal number which is the number of the wireless terminals with which the receiving terminal is able to communicate directly, a second obtainer that obtains a transmission side terminal number which is the number of the wireless terminals with which a target transmitting terminal, which is one of the plurality of transmitting terminals, is able to communicate directly, and a setter that selects one of the direct communication and the indirect communication based on the reception side terminal number and the transmission side terminal number, and sets the target transmitting terminal so as to execute the selected communication.
US09332479B2	Network site for wireless communications A wireless network site comprises a base station and a cell site gateway. The cell site gateway comprises a first interface connected to the base station, a second interface connected to a packet network gateway, a label forwarding layer, and a third interface connected to a signaling peer to exchange control plane information to program the forwarding layer. The label forwarding layer transmits and receive packets. The control plane information comprises at least one first label value for transmitting a first plurality of packets to the base station and at least one second label value for transmitting a second plurality of packets to the packet network gateway.
US09332476B2	Method and apparatus to correct indoor positioning by utilizing Wi-Fi handovers A system and method may dynamically correct the dead reckoning (DR) position of a mobile device. An indoor or outdoor venue may have Access Points (APs) dispersed around its interior. Each time that a mobile device experiences a handover from one AP to a new AP, the mobile device and/or the local network associated with the venue may determine whether or not the mobile device's DR position corresponds to the location of the new AP. If the mobile device's DR position does not correspond to the location of the new AP within a predetermined threshold, then the mobile device's DR position may be updated to a position associated with the new AP. As a result, the DR position of the mobile device may be continuously checked, and if need be, corrected at each AP handover associated with the venue. The APs may be Wi-Fi/WLAN APs, eNodeB's, or other APs.
US09332474B2	Signaling support for multi sector deployment in cellular communications A method in a controller for a first cell in a mobile cellular network for making a decision to handover a user equipment to a second cell of the mobile cellular network is described. The method may include obtaining a first measurement of an uplink signal from a user equipment at the first cell, obtaining a second measurement of an uplink signal from the user equipment at the second cell, and making a decision to handover the user equipment from the first cell to the second cell using the obtained first and second measurements.
US09332471B2	Cell selection or handover in wireless networks Network device selection or handover schemes enable higher network capacity based on partially-observable Markov decision processes. Unavailable cell loading information is observed and/or predicted from non-serving base stations and actions are taken to maintain an active base station set or network device candidate data for selection in routing communications of a mobile device in a mobile device cell selection or handover procedure. A reward function is considered in the selection based on various parameters comprising system capacity, handover times, and mobility of a mobile device or mobile station.
US09332467B2	SRVCC handover of calls between access networks with efficient media gateway selection A mechanism is presented for performing a session transfer with Single Radio Voice Call Continuity, SRVCC, from a Packet Switched, PS, access to a Circuit Switched, CS, access of a telecommunications session that has been established over the PS access via an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network. The method includes receiving a request for the transfer of the session to the CS access. An indication of an already-seized media gateway, MGW, that has been established for use in one or more other sessions over the CS access is obtained from the IMS network. A MGW is selected as a Mobile-Media Gateway, M-MGW, for the session based on the obtained indication. Allocation of resources for the session in the CS access network is initiated, including specifying the MGW to be used as the Mobile-Media Gateway, M-MGW. Transfer of the session to the CS access is then initiated.
US09332465B2	Long term evolution interference management in unlicensed bands for wi-fi operation Systems and methods for improved interference management by Wi-Fi devices are disclosed. The interference management may be achieved by monitoring, by the Wi-Fi device, signaling energy on a communication channel in a frequency band associated with the Wi-Fi device, comparing the monitored signal energy with a known waveform signature corresponding to Long Term Evolution (LTE) operation, and identifying a presence of an LTE interferer on the communication channel in the frequency band associated with the Wi-Fi device based on the comparison.
US09332462B2	Camping in an exclusive cell In a mobile communications system exclusive location areas comprising exclusive cells are defined in order to separate cells from the mobile stations not belonging to the user group allowed to camp in the cell and still to allow emergency calls for all mobile stations in these cells. During location update it is checked whether the cell belongs to an exclusive location area (202) and if it does, it is determined whether or not the subscriber is allowed to camp in the cell.
US09332458B2	System and method for optimizing performance of a communication network A communication apparatus and method are provided for predicting effects of changes in at least one radio network parameter on a cellular network which comprises a processor which is adapted to: (a) select a source cell in a cellular network; (b) select from among a first plurality of cells being neighbors of that source cell, a second plurality of neighboring cells and define a reference cluster that includes the source cell and the second plurality of cells; and (c) use the reference cluster to predict the effects of carrying out one or more changes in at least one radio network parameter on at least one network performance indicator of the reference cluster, and based on that prediction, establishing an expected impact of the one or more changes in the at least one radio network parameter on a cellular network performance.
US09332454B2	Method, system and program product for detecting, quantifying and localizing of wireless interferers A method, system and program product comprise receiving spectrum data from one or more WiFi communication devices being configured to be operable as observers of transmissions within a frequency band associated with a WiFi communication system. The spectrum data at least comprises signal levels and timing information for WiFi communication signals and non-WiFi signals observed within the frequency band. WiFi interferers are distinguished using at least the signal levels and timing information for the non-WiFi signals. A real-time interference impact on the observed WiFi communication signals for each of the distinguished WIFi interferers is determined.
US09332453B2	WWAN almanac integrity monitoring system Method, apparatus and computer program product for monitoring wireless wide area network almanac integrity in a wireless wide area network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving crowdsourcing data from a plurality of mobile devices, determining a change to a wireless wide area network almanac using the crowdsourcing data, and updating a database in accordance with the change to the wireless wide area network almanac.
US09332451B2	Method and apparatus of requesting a beacon report A beacon signal may be provided with data extensions. The data extensions permit additional information to be provided by the beacon signal, thereby reducing the traffic overhead of the network. The data extensions further permit handoffs and handoffs based on offset values. A Measurement Request field corresponding to a beacon request contains a measurement duration value and channel number for which the request applies. The beacon request permits a scan mode. In Active Scan mode, the measuring station (STA) transmits a probe request with a broadcast SSID. In Passive Scan mode, the measuring STA passively receives on the specified channel and return a beacon report containing one information element for each STA from which it detects a beacon or probe response. In Beacon Table mode, the measuring STA returns a beacon report containing the current contents of its beacon table without performing additional measurements.
US09332449B2	Method and apparatus for feedback of channel state information Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for feed back of channel state information. The method for transmitting channel state information comprises the steps of: receiving a null data packet (NDP) frame; calculating signal to noise ratio (SNR) information based on subcarrier information of at least one spatial stream via which the NDP frame is transmitted; and calculating a compressed beamforming feedback matrix including channel state information based on the information on the subcarrier used in transmitting the spatial stream. Thus, accurate feedback information is calculated from a frequency selective channel and utilized to enable the efficient utilization of frequency resources.
US09332444B2	Communication system and base station apparatus There is provided an invention whose object is to efficiently perform exchange of control information, for example, in the case where a plurality of cells cooperate to moderate inter-cell interference, like the IA technology.There is provided a communication system in which there is a plurality of communication areas in which a base station apparatus and at least one terminal apparatus perform wireless communication, and the plurality of communication areas are adjacent to or overlap one another, wherein, in each communication area, in a case of performing cooperative control that performs communication while taking into consideration communication conditions in at least one another communication area, a base station apparatus in one communication area among the plurality of communication areas notifies a base station apparatus in another communication area of information for starting the cooperative control.
US09332443B2	Method and apparatus for positioning user equipment Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for positioning a user equipment. The method includes receiving positioning measurement information sent by a base station. The positioning configuration information includes a sum of a difference between receiving time and sending time on the UE and a difference between receiving time and sending time on the base station. A round trip time between the intermediate node that sends the CRS and the UE is calculated according to the positing in formation. A position of the UE is determined using position coordinates of the intermediate node that sends the CRS and the round trip time.
US09332442B2	Apparatus and method of a configurable network A mobile device which is moved within this network can stay connected to the network. The network routes signals from client to client and from the Internet to client using transceivers. The transceivers in the relay can be a software radio and can be software controlled. Streams of bits are transferred from a source to a destination in a wireless network. Portions of these streams of bits can be transferred between these software radios to distribute signals in the network. In addition, servers can be located within the network to provide local and immediate high bandwidth information. As the bandwidth increases, the range of the wireless signal typically decreases. Thus, inserting relays or multiple transceivers can be used to maintain high bandwidth coverage over a large networking range.
US09332439B2	Coexistence of white space devices and wireless narrowband devices Architecture that enables wireless narrowband devices (e.g., wireless microphones) and white space devices to efficiently coexist on the same telecommunications channels, while not interfering with the usability of the wireless narrowband device. The architecture provides interference detection, strobe generation and detection and, power ramping and suppression (interference-free coexistence with spectrum efficiency). The architecture provides the ability of the white space device to learn about the presence of the microphone. This can be accomplished i using a geolocation database, reactively via a strober device, and/or proactively via the strober device. The strober device can be positioned close to the microphone receiver and signals the presence of a microphone to white space devices on demand. The strober device takes into consideration the microphone's characteristics as well as the relative signal strength from the microphone transmitter versus the white space device, in order to enable maximum use of the available white space spectrum.
US09332436B2	Network access control methods and apparatus Methods and apparatus that provide user access control within wireless networks such as those having both fixed and portable nodes. In one embodiment, the network comprises a 3G cellular network or Interworking WLAN (iWLAN), and the portable nodes comprise Home Node B (HNB) base stations. The HNB is configured to authenticate new users, and provide network access while still maintaining user privacy. The portable nodes also may operate in a number of different operating modes which provide different functional control over user access. In one variant, an easy-to-use owner-assigned ID based access control mechanism with a reliable unambiguous user ID is utilized. Methods for providing access control across differing network architectures and protocols, such the aforementioned iWLAN, and business methods, are also described.
US09332435B2	Device, system and method using EAP for external authentication A User Equipment (UE), network-side device, system and method are disclosed for external authentication using an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). The method includes, when the UE is initially attached to an Evolved Packet System (EPS) network via an Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN), the UE transmitting EAP authentication information required for the EAP authentication to a packet data network gateway and, after receiving EAP request, the UE transmitting a bearing resource modification request message carrying EAP response to the packet data network gateway. With the method, the UE can use the EAP authentication to implement authentication and authorization by an external authentication and authorization server via a GGSN/PDN GW in a process of connecting the UE to the EPS via a 3GPP access.
US09332433B1	Distributing access and identification tokens in a mobile environment A technique performs authentication before delivering a token to a client device. The technique involves receiving a first message from a first application on the client device, the first message including a token request and a first set of authentication factors. The technique further involves receiving a second message from a second application on the client device, the second message including an authentication request and a second set of authentication factors. The technique further involves generating a result message which (i) provides access to a token for use by the client device when the first set of authentication factors is consistent with the second set of authentication factors, and (ii) rejects the token request when the first set of authentication factors is inconsistent with the second set of authentication factors. The client device may be a mobile device, and the first and second messages may be received via wireless communications.
US09332432B2	Methods and system for device authentication A request is received to access a user account. A geolocation of a mobile device registered with the user account is obtained directly from the mobile device. Authentication credentials for the user account are verified for correctness. A mobile device geolocation verification request is transmitted to a cellular data provider. The cellular data provider is equipped to independently determine a true geolocation region of the mobile device for comparison with the geolocation of the mobile device as obtained directly from the mobile device. A verification response to the mobile device geolocation verification request is received from the cellular data provider. The verification response indicates whether or not the geolocation of the mobile device as obtained directly from the mobile device corresponds to the true geolocation region of the mobile device. A response to the access request based on the verification response is transmitted.
US09332427B2	Location proofs A wireless computing device includes an antenna that is configured to transmit and receive wireless signals. The wireless computing device comprises a transmitter component that causes a first wireless signal to be transmitted to a wireless access point via the antenna, wherein the first wireless signal comprises a request for a location proof, wherein the request for the location proof comprises data that identifies the wireless computing device, and wherein the location proof comprises data that is indicative of a geographic location of the wireless access point. The system also includes a receiver component that receives, via the antenna, a second wireless signal from the wireless access point, wherein the second wireless signal is received by the receiver component subsequent to the transmitter component causing the first wireless signal to be transmitted to the wireless access point.
US09332426B2	Communication system, communication method, and communication program Provided is a communication system capable of releasing a tunnel while securing mobility without securing resources in an SGW or the like. A first node provided in a communication system that provides mobility of packet data using tunneling includes: a tunnel control unit that releases a tunnel and deletes tunnel information; and a management unit that associates and manages an IP address allocated to a terminal to which the tunnel is established and subscriber identification information of the terminal when the tunnel is released and the tunnel information is deleted.
US09332420B2	Method and apparatus for managing user equipment history information in wireless communication network A method and an apparatus for managing User Equipment (UE) history information are provided. The method for managing user equipment history information in a wireless communication network includes determining if a recording event occurs when the user equipment enters into an idle mode; recording information about the recording event in idle mode user equipment history information when the recording event occurs; and transmitting the recorded idle mode user equipment history information to a base station when the user equipment accesses the base station.
US09332418B2	Method of switching data network for network apparatus, network apparatus, and network system A network apparatus and a method of switching a data network for a network apparatus are provided. The network apparatus includes a plurality of User Identity Modules (UIMs), a transceiver module, and a switching unit. The UIMs are used to provide a plurality of network service plans, wherein the network apparatus operates in a first network service plan corresponding to a first UIM of the UIMs. The transceiver module is arranged to receive a plurality of network packets corresponding to the network service plans. The switching unit is arranged to obtain a plurality of corresponding network connection information from the network packets, performing an information-matching operation upon the plurality of corresponding network connection information to generate a matching result by referring to a profile database, and determining if the network apparatus is required to be switched to operate in a second network service plan according to the matching result.
US09332417B2	Apparatuses and methods for coordinating operations of multiple wireless communications modules with multiple subscriber numbers A wireless communications device is provided with a plurality of card slots, a first wireless communications module, and a second wireless communications module. The card slots are inserted with at least one subscriber identity card. The first wireless communications module performs wireless transceiving in compliance with at least a first wireless technology. The second wireless communications module determines at least a first subscriber number and a second subscriber number from the at least one subscriber identity card, and enables the wireless transceiving of the first wireless communications module using the first subscriber number. Also, the second wireless communications module performs wireless transceiving in compliance with at least a second wireless technology using the second subscriber number.
US09332416B2	System, server and mobile terminal for backing up and recovering data The present disclosure provides a system for backing up and recovering data, which comprises a mobile terminal and a server. The mobile terminal comprises: a parameter backup module, being configured to receive a backup request for backing up system setting parameters of the mobile terminal, and enable the mobile terminal to transmit the system setting parameters to a network server according to the backup request so that the system setting parameters are backed up by the network server; a request-for-recovery module, being configured to receive a recovery request for recovering the system setting parameters to the mobile terminal and enable the mobile terminal to transmit the recovery request to the network server; and a recovery control module, being configured to receive the system setting parameters that are transmitted by the network server according to the recovery request and control to recover a system state of the mobile terminal to a state that is set by the system setting parameters. In this way, the present disclosure can back up the system setting parameters of the mobile terminal to the server, and recover the system setting parameters from the server to the mobile terminal during a data recovery. Thus, the present disclosure brings great convenience and a new experience to users.
US09332411B2	User interruptibility aware notifications Various technologies described herein pertain to detection of an opportune time period to deliver a notification. Responsive to receipt of the notification (e.g., at a user device), analysis of an attention state of a user can be initialized. Further, the opportune time period to deliver the notification can be detected based on the analysis of the attention state of the user. The opportune time period can be during a breakpoint or an influential context. The breakpoint is when the user has switched between tasks and lacks engagement with the tasks. The influential context is a particular context in which the user is available to attend to the notification. Moreover, the notification can be delivered during the opportune time period.
US09332408B2	System and method for provision of a second line service to a telecommunications device A method for routing calls between a third party telecommunications device (“TD”) and a subscriber TD associated with a primary service and a second line service (“SLS”) involves associating the SLS number of the subscriber, the primary number of the subscriber and the primary number of a third party via a common relationship number. Calls directed from a third party to the SLS number of a subscriber are routed to an SLS platform and redirected to the subscriber TD. Calls directed from the subscriber TD to the third party use the relationship number to route the call to the SLS platform. The combination of the SLS number and the relationship number identifies the third party calling number for call completion. Calls can be directed to and from an SLS number of a subscriber TD without having to coordinate the provisioning of a call through the subscriber's primary service provider.
US09332405B2	Short message backup method, mobile terminal, and server The present invention discloses a short message backup method, mobile terminal, server, and system, and belongs to the field of communications. The method includes: obtaining a local short message of a mobile terminal, and storing the local short message of the mobile terminal in a local short message backup database file according to a preset format supported by a remote server; and sending the short message backup database file to the server, so that the server stores the short message backup database file and a user account, so as to complete short message backup. In the present invention, by storing a short message of a mobile terminal of a user as a short message backup database file of a preset format supported by a remote server, and sending it to the server for storage, the reliability and compatibility of short message backup are improved, and an operation is simple.
US09332403B2	Systems and methods for generating a calling list for a conference call Systems and methods are described that facilitate the generation of calling lists for use in planning or setting up conference calls. The system may include a communications module and a contact database comprising a plurality of contact records, each contact record corresponding to a different contact. Each contact record may include at least one contact address and at least one descriptor. For example, the descriptor may include a job title and/or expertise for the contact. The system may also include a selection module configured to select at least one of the contacts and also configured to compare the at least one descriptor to at least one qualifier criteria. The method may include: providing a contact database comprising a plurality of contact records, each contact record corresponding to a different contact; wherein each contact record comprises at least one contact address and at least one descriptor; determining at least one qualifier criteria; comparing the qualifier criteria to the at least one descriptor; determining a calling list corresponding to at least one contact.
US09332402B2	Point-to-multipoint digital radio frequency transport One embodiment is directed to a system for use with a coverage area in which one or more wireless units wirelessly transmit using a wireless radio frequency spectrum. The system comprises a first unit, and a plurality of second units communicatively coupled to the first unit using at least one communication medium. Each of the plurality of second units generates respective digital RF samples indicative of a respective analog wireless signal received at that second unit. Each of the plurality of second units communicates the respective digital RF samples generated by that second unit to the first unit using the at least one communication medium. The first unit digitally sums corresponding digital RF samples received from the plurality of second units to produce summed digital RF samples. The system is configured so that an input used for base station processing is derived from the resulting summed digital RF samples.
US09332400B2	Multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) frequency prioritization An indicator indicates whether Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) Service Area Identifier (SAI) frequency information broadcast from a wireless communication network to a wireless communication device is being updated dynamically. Based on the indicator, the wireless communication device may apply different procedures for acquiring an MBMS service.
US09332398B2	Provision of positioning data based on device capability Disclosed are processes, systems and apparatuses for providing positioning data, such as assistance data, to a mobile device for use in performing positioning or navigation operations. In particular implementations, the positioning data is based, at least in part, on particular capabilities of the mobile device, for example a processing platform of the mobile device. In other implementations, positioning data provided to a mobile device may be tailored according to a cost function.
US09332395B2	Method for fine location of a mobile user equipment that is the recipient of a call in a telecommunication network implementing open-mode femtocells The present invention relates to a mobile network (10) organized into a plurality of location areas and service areas gathering a geographically homogeneous set of cells of the mobile network, with gathering of the femtocells into specific additional service areas. The arrival of a received phone call intended to a user equipment (14) coupled to a femtocell (30) triggers a location step, with communication to the switching center of a rough location comprising the service area codes SAC and location area codes LAC corresponding to the femtocell, and of a fine location comprising unique data, such as IP address and INSEE code, of identification of the Internet box (20) associated to the femtocell. The femtocells may hence operate in open mode, each femtocell being able to be coupled to any user equipment registered with the mobile network operator.
US09332391B2	Method and apparatus for location based services Systems and methods for providing location estimates of user equipment to be used in location based services are provided. Data collected from users in a local radio access network (RAN), such as an Enterprise RAN (E-RAN), as well as configuration information of the local RAN/E-RAN is siphoned from the system and utilized in conjunction with a location engine to provide a high accuracy location estimate for users in an indoor environment. The siphoned data is provided in a real-time location stream to the location engine.
US09332390B1	Mobile device utilizing time of flight for personal security and localization A mobile device case for functional connection and physical attachment to a mobile device, the mobile device case comprises an application adapted to run in the mobile device and a cradle configured for removable attachment with the mobile device, the cradle comprising a controller capable of functional connection with the application, where the cradle is adapted to protect the mobile device while attached to the mobile device and the cradle is adapted to functionally pair with the application to create at least a portion of a mesh network.
US09332389B1	Indoor-outdoor detector for estimating the location of a wireless terminal A disclosed detector estimates the wireless terminal as being indoors or outdoors by utilizing information that includes measurement report data from previous calls involving both i) wireless terminals that are known to have been indoors and ii) wireless terminals that are known to have been outdoors while the measurement report data was collected. Based on this call data, one or more classification features are computed in accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention. Then, for a wireless terminal that is to be classified during a call and with respect to the terminal being either indoors or outdoors, features that are representative of that wireless terminal for the call are evaluated against a characterization that is a composite of one or more previously-computed classification features. The features that are representative of the wireless terminal can be derived from the measurement reports received from the wireless terminal during the call.
US09332386B2	Method and system for providing enhanced location based information for wireless handsets Methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced location information on or about a mobile device may include hybrid lateration and/or trilateration solutions in which the mobile device determines whether information obtained via a geospatial system of the mobile device is accurate, collects location information from a plurality of mobile devices in a communication group in response to determining that the information obtained via the geospatial system of the mobile device is not accurate, computes computing more precise location information (including three-dimensional location and position information) based on the location information collected from the plurality of mobile devices, and using the generated location and position information to provide an enhanced location based service, such as an emergency location service, a commercial location service, an internal location service and/or a lawful intercept location service.
US09332385B1	Selectively providing content to users located within a virtual perimeter Based on wireless communication between a mobile device and at least one beacon, a present physical location of a mobile device can be identified. Responsive to determining that the mobile device is located at a particular physical location, at least a first message can be communicated to the mobile device. The first message can specify at least one application to be disabled while the mobile device is present at the physical location. Responsive to receiving from the mobile device a response to the first message indicating that the at least one application is disabled, the mobile device can be authorized to establish presence on a network maintained for the physical location.
US09332384B2	Obtaining a geographical position of a mobile device A method obtains a geographical position of a mobile device, which comprises a Bluetooth transceiver and a storage unit for storing an offline map. The mobile device establishes Bluetooth capability in order to enable a Bluetooth connection with the mobile device. The mobile device, via the Bluetooth connection, requests geographical coordinates using two bits of a Frequency Hopping Synchronization data packet of the Bluetooth protocol. The mobile device, via the Bluetooth connection, receives geographical coordinates, and maps the received geographical coordinates to the offline map in order to obtain the geographical position of the mobile device in the offline map.
US09332383B2	Time of arrival based positioning system A TOA positioning system can be implemented that employs a calculated initial location of a wireless network device. For each of a plurality of reference wireless network devices, a distance between the wireless network device and the reference wireless network device is determined based, at least in part, on a round trip transit time between the wireless network device and the reference wireless network device. An initial location of the wireless network device can be calculated based, at least in part, on a location of each of the plurality of reference wireless network devices. A location of the wireless network device can be estimated based, at least in part, on the calculated initial location, the distance to each of the reference wireless network devices, and an initial distance calibration constant.
US09332380B2	Method and apparatus of recommending candidate terms based on geographical location The disclosure provides a method and device for recommending a candidate word according to a geographic position. The method may include receiving a coded character string of a user by a computing device. The computing device may collect geographic position information corresponding to the coded character string, and then determine a geographic area in which the geographic position information is located. The computing device may obtain a geographic candidate word corresponding to the coded character string according to a geographic word stock of the determined geographic area. The geographic word stock of the geographic area may store the coded character strings and a corresponding geographic word according to the geographic area. As compared to current technologies, complexity of input can be reduced and intelligence of an input method can be improved.
US09332375B2	Image forming apparatus, printing system, and electronic device An image forming apparatus includes a communication unit, a radio wave intensity measurement unit, and a communication control unit. The radio wave intensity measurement unit measures a radio wave intensity of radio waves received by the communication unit. The communication control unit performs control associated with communication disruption between the portable terminal and the communication unit when the measured result is lower than a predetermined first radio wave intensity and continuously decreases for a predetermined reference time.
US09332371B2	Estimation of loudspeaker positions A system for determining loudspeaker position estimates comprises motion sensors (201,203) and a movement processor (205) arranged to determine motion data for a user movable unit where the motion data characterizes movement of the user moveable unit. A user input interface (207) receives user inputs and a user processor (209) processes them into user activations which indicate that at least one of a current position and orientation of the user movable unit is associated with a loudspeaker position. An analyzing processor (211) then generates loudspeaker position estimates in response to the motion data and the user activations. The system thus performs speaker position estimations based on (i) the motion data of the user moveable unit being pointed towards or positioned on a speaker and (ii) the user activations.
US09332368B1	Accelerometer or transducer on a device A device is provided that includes a microphone, a surface, an accelerometer or transducer, and a processor. The surface may be substantially transparent and have a side that is exposed to an external environment. The accelerometer or transducer may be coupled to the side of the surface that is exposed to the external environment and it may be utilized to obtain at least one measurement of acceleration of the surface based on an acoustic vibration. The processor may receive the accelerometer's or transducer's measurement and an input from the microphone. The processor may generate an output based on the accelerometer or transducer measurement and microphone input.
US09332362B2	Acoustic diagnosis and correction system An acoustic monitoring system includes a portable acoustic detection device, a sound analysis device and a confidence level device. The portable acoustic detection device is capable of receiving sound at one or more locations near a sound-producing device. The sound analysis device receives the sound from the portable sound detection device, determines a diagnosis based on a comparison between the sound and pre-recorded sound data, and outputs the diagnosis to the portable acoustic detection device. The sound analysis device also determines a corrective action for inhibiting the sound, which is also output to the portable sound detection device. The confidence level device determines a confidence level of the diagnosis indicating a likelihood that the diagnosis is successfully diagnosed.
US09332361B2	Filter member A replaceable filter member for a hearing aid device is disclosed. The filter member comprising an unit with a housing configured to be inserted into the ear canal of a user of the hearing aid device. The filter member is configured to prevent ear wax from entering an opening in the housing. The filter member is a one-piece body that is configured to cover several openings in the unit while being attached to the unit.
US09332360B2	Compression and mixing for hearing assistance devices This application relates to a system for compression and mixing for hearing assistance devices by application of compression to individual sound sources before mixing, according to one example. Variations of the present system using surround sound provide separate signals from a surround sound synthesizer which are compressed prior to mixing of the signals.
US09332358B2	Method for monitoring usage of a hearing device Monitoring usage of a hearing device includes: c) checking whether a message has been received within a time period (dt) shorter than a pre-defined time period (Dt) via a long-distance communication network in a remote device; and d) generating usage status data dependent on the result of the checking addressed in step c). The usage status data are indicative of the usage of the hearing device, indicating “use” if the time period (dt) is smaller than or equal to the pre-defined time period (Dt) and indicating “non-use” if the time period (dt) is larger than the pre-defined time period (Dt). The message includes identification data for identifying the hearing device or a user of said hearing device. The remote device is located remote from the hearing device and connected to the long-distance communication network. The time period (dt) starts from a start event.
US09332357B2	Uncomfortable sound pressure estimation system, uncomfortable sound pressure estimation apparatus, uncomfortable sound pressure estimation method, and computer program thereof An exemplary uncomfortable sound pressure estimation system includes: a sound stimulation scheduling section configured to determine points in time of outputting a group of sound stimulations so that times of measurement for event-related potentials in response to the second sound and third sound arrive after a predetermined noise-lingering time has elapsed since a next point of occurrence of periodic noise; an event-related potential characteristic amount extraction section configured to receive the points in time of outputting the sound stimulation group, and extract a characteristic amount of an event-related potential of the electroencephalogram signal based on each point of outputting the group of sound stimulations as a starting point; and an uncomfortable sound pressure determination section configured to determine an uncomfortable sound pressure for the frequency of the sound stimulation group.
US09332355B2	Electro-acoustic transducer In an electro-acoustic transducer including a needle electrode and a counter electrode facing the needle electrode and inducing electric discharge between the needle electrode and the counter electrode for electro-acoustic conversion by an RF voltage applied across the needle electrode and the counter electrode, the counter electrode has a cylindrical surface surrounding plasma extending from the needle electrode and has a cutout in a part of the cylindrical surface. This configuration prevents a short circuit between the needle electrode and the counter electrode due to plasma.
US09332354B2	Micromechanical detection structure for a MEMS acoustic transducer and corresponding manufacturing process A micromechanical structure for a MEMS capacitive acoustic transducer, has: a substrate made of semiconductor material, having a front surface lying in a horizontal plane; a membrane, coupled to the substrate and designed to undergo deformation in the presence of incident acoustic-pressure waves; a fixed electrode, which is rigid with respect to the acoustic-pressure waves and is coupled to the substrate by means of an anchorage structure, in a suspended position facing the membrane to form a detection capacitor. The anchorage structure has at least one pillar element, which is at least in part distinct from the fixed electrode and supports the fixed electrode in a position parallel to the horizontal plane.
US09332353B2	Plane-type speaker and AV apparatus A plane-type speaker where, on one of the main surfaces of an exciter film, there are placed piezoelectric films which are expanded and contracted by sound-releasing driving signals applied thereto. An oscillation plate is secured to the excited film through frame members. The oscillation plate has a flat-plate shape and is secured to the exciter film while having a warped shape such that it is gradually spaced further away from the exciter film, with decreasing distance from the secured ends to a center area, when viewed at a side surface. This realizes a state where the exciter film is pulled outwardly with respect to the secured ends due to bending stresses therein. If sound-releasing driving signals are applied to the piezoelectric films in this state, the exciter film contracts and expands along with the expansion and contraction of the piezoelectric films, thereby causing the oscillation plate to oscillate.
US09332351B2	Long-throw acoustic transducer An acoustic transducer includes a housing, which may be a circular cylinder or may have a rectangular cross-section. Two permanent magnets that closely fit the inside of the housing are joined by a linkage having a high magnetic permeability to form a piston that is inserted into the housing. Two pole coils surround the housing with each coil adjacent one of the permanent magnets. The coils are arranged to cause the piston to oscillate within the housing and emit sound waves when coupled to an electrical signal. One end of the housing may be closed except for a barometric leak. A third permanent magnet or a spring may provide a restoring force that centers the piston between the coils when the piston is not subjected to other forces. One of the permanent magnets on the piston may include a vent passage.
US09332348B2	Media content request including zone name In an example implementation, a media playback system receives input data indicating selection of a particular zone, where the media playback system includes one or more zones, and where the one or more zones include respective playback devices. The media playback system sends, to a service provider, (i) zone data that identifies the particular zone of the media playback system, wherein the zone data indicates that the particular zone is selected and (ii) a request to identify audio content based on the zone data and receives, from the service provider, an indication of audio content identified based on the zone data.
US09332347B2	Control of a loudspeaker output A loudspeaker control system is disclosed. The loudspeaker control system includes a loudspeaker, a sensor for measuring a voltage and current and a processor. The processor is adapted to calculate an input-voltage-to-excursion transfer function over time from an admittance function, blocked electrical impedance and force factor, use the input-voltage-to-excursion transfer function over time to predict an excursion and use the excursion to control audio processing of the loudspeaker.
US09332346B2	Processing of multi-device audio capture It is inter alia disclosed to select, by a first apparatus (21), one or more recording devices (20) to obtain a set of selected recording devices, or to receive, at the first apparatus (21), information on a set of one or more selected recording devices. The selected recording devices in the set of selected recording devices are selected from a set of recording devices at least based on relevance levels determined for the recording devices of the set of recording devices. A combination of audio signals recorded by the selected recording devices of the set of selected recording devices in an audio scene to obtain one or more combined audio signals for rendering is performed or caused by the first apparatus (21).
US09332345B1	Use of microphone capacitance as a switched capacitor in an input network of a delta-sigma modulator In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method and apparatus for providing a digitized microphone signal to a digital processing device may include an analog signal path portion, a digital signal path portion, and a control circuit. The analog signal path portion may have an audio input configured to receive an analog input signal indicative of audio sounds incident upon an audio transducer. The digital signal path portion may have an analog-to-digital converter for converting the analog microphone signal to the digitized microphone signal. The control circuit may be configured to control a magnitude of the analog input signal or a derivative thereof in order to reduce audio distortion occurring in either or both of the analog signal path portion and the digital signal path portion.
US09332344B2	Self-bias emitter circuit A emitter circuit for providing a bias voltage is disclosed. The emitter circuit can comprise an emitter. The emitter circuit can comprise a transductor that includes a primary winding and a secondary winding. The secondary winding can be operable to receive an alternating current (AC) carrier signal. The emitter circuit can comprise a voltage multiplier operable to receive the AC carrier signal from the secondary winding and generate a DC bias voltage. The emitter circuit can comprise a zener diode to limit an amplitude of the DC bias voltage applied across the emitter. The emitter circuit can comprise a filter capacitor operable to smooth the DC bias voltage applied across the emitter.
US09332343B2	Multi-channel audio system having a shared current sense element for estimating individual speaker impedances using test signals A programmed data processor obtains a number of input voltage measurements for a number of speaker drivers, respectively, and a sensed shared current being a measure of current in a single power supply rail that is feeding power to each of a number of audio amplifiers while the audio amplifiers are driving the speaker drivers in accordance with a number of audio channel test signals, respectively. The programmed data processor computes an estimate of electrical input impedance of each of the speaker drivers using the input voltage measurement for the speaker driver and using the sensed shared current. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09332340B2	Device for controlling and cleaning wired audio headsets A device for controlling and cleaning wired audio headsets, each audio headset including a headband, two earphones and an electrical cable connected to the earphones and ending in a plug, the device includes: impedance control elements; audio control elements; elements for cleaning the headsets; elements for winding up the cable of the headset.
US09332337B2	Headset with magnetically attached ear pad A headset (1) comprising at least one earphone (2, 3) with at a first earphone side (39) and earphone attachment means (14) for detachably attaching an ear pad (8) with co-operating ear pad attachment means (16) to the first earphone side (39). The headset (1) further comprising a wearing device (4) for attaching the headset (1) to the head of a user, such that the first earphone side (39) faces the ear. The earphone attachment means comprise magnetic elements (14), such that an ear pad (8) with co-operating magnetic ear pad attachment means (15) can be magnetically attached to the earphone (2, 3). The invention also relates to such an ear pad (8).
US09332336B2	Headphone device [Problem] To provide a headphone device that outputs an audio signal output from a playback device, such that the headphone device has a more compact housing while being capable of highly sensitive acoustic output of an audio signal having high sound quality, and is capable of consuming less power during highly sensitive acoustic output of an audio signal having high sound quality. [Solution] In a headphone device that outputs an input audio signal, the headphone device is provided with: a housing shaped with a hollow interior, said housing being provided with a projection on the front thereof, said projection being provided with a hole passing therethrough in the front-to-back direction; and a first driver unit and second driver unit each affixed to the inner wall of the housing, and each having a diaphragm that acoustically outputs the input audio signal. The first driver unit and the second driver unit have been given a parallel arrangement, such that the diaphragms thereof are in mutual opposition.
US09332333B2	Microphone and wind screen A simple microphone which can vary the direction of the light beams emitted from a ring lamp is provided. A microphone includes a ring lamp; and a light guide that receives incident light beams emitted from the ring lamp. The light guide includes a plurality of light-guiding portions that receive the light beams. The light guide is movable relative to the ring lamp. The light guide moves for selection of the light-guiding portion to receive the light beams and vary the direction of the light beams.
US09332324B2	Method and apparatus for efficient and transparent network management and application coordination for software defined optical switched data center networks Application actions are optimized by receiving actions from one or more distributed applications, translating the received actions into one or more network operation primitives, processing the network operation primitives to determine an optimized set of network operation primitives, determining an optimal execution sequence for the optimized set of network operation primitives, and executing the optimized set of network operation primitives based on the optimal execution sequence.
US09332319B2	Amalgamating multimedia transcripts for closed captioning from a plurality of text to speech conversions Methods and systems for converting speech to text are disclosed. One method includes analyzing multimedia content to determine the presence of closed captioning data. The method includes, upon detecting closed captioning data, indexing the closed captioning data as associated with the multimedia content. The method also includes, upon failure to detect closed captioning data in the multimedia content, extracting audio data from multimedia content, the audio data including speech data, performing a plurality of speech to text conversions on the speech data to create a plurality of transcripts of the speech data, selecting text from one or more of the plurality of transcripts to form an amalgamated transcript, and indexing the amalgamated transcript as associated with the multimedia content.
US09332318B2	Extra rich content MetaData generator In one embodiment, a method includes receiving content metadata related to content items provided by a content provider; retrieving additional metadata from one or more external sources, the additional metadata including language variations of the content metadata; storing the content metadata with the additional metadata in a storage device, wherein the content metadata is stored in association with the additional metadata; receiving a search request from a user, the search request including one or more search terms expressed in a first language variation; identifying, among the content metadata or the additional metadata, relevant metadata matching the one or more search terms; identifying additional relevant metadata stored in association with the relevant metadata, the additional relevant metadata including language variations of the relevant metadata; and adding one or more additional search terms to the search request, the one or more additional search terms corresponding to the additional relevant metadata.
US09332310B2	System and method of selecting a multimedia stream A method includes receiving, at a server, channel change request data from a media device. The channel change request data specifies a requested channel that is associated with a plurality of multimedia streams. Each multimedia stream of the plurality of multimedia streams has a corresponding content format. The method includes determining, at the server, an available bandwidth of a service to a premises associated with the media device. The method includes selecting, at the server, a particular content format based on the available bandwidth and a multimedia stream of the plurality of multimedia streams that has the particular content format. The method also includes sending an identification of the multimedia stream from the server to the media device.
US09332302B2	Interactive product placement system and method therefor A method for presenting advertisements for commercial products in video productions, whereby the commercial product is placed in the video production as an element of the video production. A viewer is enabled to interact with the video production to select the product. Information is then displayed about the selected product; and the viewer is enabled to purchase the selected product.
US09332301B2	Multimedia device and method for displaying advertisement broadcasting thereof Disclosed are a multimedia device that may simultaneously display advertisement broadcasting of a current viewing channel and another channel broadcasting when advertisement broadcasting starts in the current viewing channel, and a method for displaying advertisement broadcasting thereof. The multimedia device, which includes a display screen of a predetermined picture ratio, comprises a receiver receiving a digital broadcast signal that includes a broadcasting program and an advertising program; a decoder decoding the digital broadcast signal; and an advertising/broadcasting program switching module splitting the display screen into a first screen and a second screen if the advertising program is detected from a current channel, displaying the advertising program of the current channel on the split second screen and at the same time displaying a predetermined content on the first screen, incorporating the split first and second screens into one screen if the advertising program ends from the current channel, and displaying the broadcasting program of the current channel on the one screen.
US09332298B2	Image display apparatus and method for operating the same A multifunctional display device includes a processor to control display of at least one of a broadcast signal, data packets or signals from the remote controller. Also, a home screen includes a first area displaying a program, a second area displaying one or more card objects, and a third area having a prescribed number of applications. The home screen may be changed to display additional applications when an icon is selected using a remote controller.
US09332288B2	Video processing system with conditional access module and methods for use therewith A video processing system includes a video device that generates a request corresponding to video content. A conditional access module generates a video signal for transmission to the video device during a first time period, and terminates transmission of the video signal when the request is not authenticated during the first time period. In a further embodiment, the conditional access module generates a video signal for unscrambled transmission to the video device during a first time period, terminates the unscrambled transmission of the video signal at the expiration of the first time period, and continues with scrambled transmission of the video signal after the first time period.
US09332282B2	Image encoder and decoder using undirectional prediction The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique, and more particularly, to an image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction. The image encoder includes a dividing unit to divide a macro block into a plurality of sub-blocks, a unidirectional application determining unit to determine whether an identical prediction mode is applied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and a prediction mode determining unit to determine a prediction mode with respect to each of the plurality of sub-blocks based on a determined result of the unidirectional application determining unit.
US09332278B2	Video compression using an adaptive loop filter A method including: obtaining video information at a video decoder apparatus, the video information including largest coding units of video data and filtering information, each of the largest coding units having a common size; obtaining, at the video decoder apparatus, an adaptive loop filter on/off indicator for each of the largest coding units, wherein each of the largest coding units includes a respective adaptive loop filter on/off indicator; and performing, by the video decoder apparatus, adaptive loop filtering to the largest coding units if the respective adaptive on/off indicators are on.
US09332273B2	Method and apparatus for motion vector determination in video encoding or decoding Provided are motion vector determining method and apparatus for determining a motion vector via motion vector prediction. The motion vector determining method involves determining a candidate motion vector list comprising motion vectors of a plurality of candidate blocks referred so as to predict a motion vector of a current block, when a reference image of a first candidate block from among the plurality of candidate blocks is different from a reference image of the current block, determining whether or not to use a motion vector of the first candidate block from the candidate motion vector list, based on whether each of the reference image of the current block and the reference image of the first candidate block is a short-term reference image or a long-term reference image, and determining the motion vector of the current block by using a candidate motion vector selected from among the motion vectors comprised in the candidate motion vector list.
US09332267B2	Method and terminal for video encoding in multi-party video communication According to an example, after a terminal X joins in a multi-party video communication, a number of important video encoders in use and a number of common video encoders in use of the terminal are respectively determined; according to a processing capability of the terminal and a newest determining result, an encoding parameter is respectively determined for an important video and a common video, and each important video encoder in use and each common video encoder in use are informed to perform video encoding according to the newly determined encoding parameters.
US09332262B2	Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for same According to the present invention, an image encoding/decoding method comprises the steps of: performing an intra prediction on a current block so as to generate a prediction block; performing filtering on a filtering target pixel in the prediction block on the basis of the intra prediction mode of the current block so as to generate a final prediction block; and generating a reconstructed block on the basis of a reconstructed differential block corresponding to the current block and on the final prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be improved.
US09332257B2	Coded black flag coding for 4:2:2 sample format in video coding Systems, methods, and devices for video coding that may obtain a rectangular chroma block having first and second square sub-blocks are disclosed. These systems, methods, and devices may also decode a first coded block flag (CBF) for the first square sub-block to indicate whether the first square sub-block includes at least one nonzero transform coefficient. These systems, methods, and devices may also decode a second CBF for the second square sub-block to indicate whether the second square sub-block includes at least one nonzero transform coefficient and not decoding a CBF for the rectangular chroma block.
US09332253B2	Image coding method including selecting a context for performing arithmetic coding on a parameter indicating a coding-target coefficient included in a sub-block An image coding method for coding an image on a block-by-block basis, includes: selecting, for each of a plurality of sub-blocks included in a coding-target block and each including a plurality of coefficients, a context for performing arithmetic coding on a parameter indicating a coding-target coefficient included in the sub-block from a context set corresponding to the sub-block, based on at least one reference coefficient located around the coding-target coefficient, the coding-target block being a transform unit; and performing arithmetic coding on the parameter indicating the coding-target coefficient using probability information about the selected context, wherein, in the selecting, the context is selected from the context set, the context set corresponding to a sum of (i) a value indicating a position in a horizontal direction of the sub-block in the coding-target block and (ii) a value indicating a position in a vertical direction of the sub-block in the coding-target block.
US09332252B2	Automatic test system for digital display systems The present invention relates to an automatic test system for a digital display system, which digital display system comprises display electronics configured to output a digital video stream, and a display screen connected to the display electronics to receive the digital video stream generated thereby and to display at least one image based on the received digital video stream. The automatic test system is designed to be connected to the digital display system to receive the digital video stream generated by the display electronics, and is configured to: reconstruct in memory an image based on the received digital video stream; compute a signature of the reconstructed-in-memory image; and test the digital display system by comparing the computed signature with a reference signature so as to thereby check whether the reconstructed-in-memory image completely matches an expected good display behavior, wherein said reference signature is indicative of said expected good display behavior.
US09332251B2	Systems and methods for optically projecting three-dimensional text, images and/or symbols onto three-dimensional objects The present invention provides a method whereby the spatial relationship and orientations of one or more three-dimensional objects being illuminated by an optical projector, and the optical projector itself, can be very accurately defined both quickly and easily. The present invention also provides a novel computerized optical projection system whereby three-dimensional data when viewed by the human eye projected onto three-dimensional objects is not deformed as a result of the non-planar projection surface. In one embodiment, the invention provides computerized optical assembly or manufacturing guidance systems, and related methods, that provide step-by-step assembly or manufacturing instructions for instructing technicians how to assemble or manufacture three-dimensional objects or systems. The assembly instructions are in the form of calibrated three-dimensional text, images and/or symbols, and are projected by one or a plurality of optical projectors that are in operable communication with one or a plurality of computers onto the three-dimensional objects or systems, or component parts or skins thereof.
US09332245B2	Stereoscopic image display device, stereoscopic image display method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium A stereoscopic image display device comprising: a parallax information acquisition device configured to acquire parallax information for each of a plurality of face regions present in different view point images; a display method selection device configured to select a display method of the plurality of face regions; a face region selection device configured to select a specific face region out of the plurality of face regions according to the display method selected by the display method selection device; a parallax adjustment device configured to adjust a parallax amount of the specific face region in the view point image based on the parallax information of the specific face region selected by the face region selection device; and a display controller displaying a stereoscopic image on a predetermined display device based on the view point image in which the parallax amount of the specific face region is adjusted by the parallax adjustment device.
US09332244B2	Information processing apparatus, control method for the same and storage medium An information processing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit configured to output a maximum tone value for each tone point at which exposure exceeds a saturation light amount; a calculation unit configured to calculate individual tone intersections by interpolating tone distributions of a first and second luminance pattern lights that were output by the image capturing unit; and a light quantity adjustment unit configured to adjust the quantity of light that enters the image sensor such that the tone values of tone points that are adjacent to the tone intersections and are used in calculation of the individual tone intersections are lower than the maximum tone value, and the tone value of at least one tone point other than the adjacent tone points is equal to the maximum tone value.
US09332243B2	Handheld portable optical scanner and method of using A system and methods for real-time or near-real time processing and post-processing of RGB-D image data using a handheld portable device and using the results for a variety of applications. The disclosure is based on the combination of off-the-shelf equipment (e.g. an RGB-D camera and a smartphone/tablet computer) in a self-contained unit capable of performing complex spatial reasoning tasks using highly optimized computer vision algorithms. New applications are disclosed using the instantaneous results obtained and the wireless connectivity of the host device for remote collaboration. One method includes steps of projecting a dot pattern from a light source onto a plurality of points on a scene, measuring distances to the points, and digitally reconstructing an image or images of the scene, such as a 3D view of the scene. A plurality of images may also be stitched together to re-position an orientation of the view of the scene.
US09332242B2	Dual sensor imaging system Medical apparatus consisting of a first imaging device including a first image sensor having a first field of view, and a second imaging device including a second image sensor having a second field of view smaller than the first field of view. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to process a first image acquired by the first image sensor so as to generate a first processed image having a first image magnification, and to process a second image acquired by the second image sensor so as to generate a second processed image having a second image magnification. The processor is also configured to adjust the first image magnification to be equal to the second image magnification so as to form an adjusted first image, and to generate a stereoscopic image based on the adjusted first image and the processed second image.
US09332240B1	Methods, devices, and mediums associated with controlling media content delivery to a remote device A method, device, and/or medium may be associated with controlling media content delivery to a remote device by generating and transmitting a request to schedule media content for recording. An identification of a remote device that is prohibited from accessing the scheduled media content may be generated and included in the request. A request to transmit the recorded media content may be denied based, at least in part, on the identification of the prohibited device.
US09332234B2	Trail camera with interchangeable hardware modules A multipurpose trail camera having expandable and replaceable hardware modules automatically detects and captures one or more images of wildlife in outdoor or other natural environments. The multipurpose trail camera is compatible with various hardware modules that may be attached to its imaging device to provide various functionality. Each hardware module may include various hardware features including image storage, power supply, communication, and image processing capabilities. This allows a user to select one or more hardware modules he or she desires to suit particular needs, a particular environment of use, or the like.
US09332233B2	Image processing device for processing a plurality of data formats corresponding to different image qualities Provided is an image processing device which includes a storage unit and a selection unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of data formats corresponding to different image qualities, as data formats specifying at least two elements from among resolution, color expression, update cycle, and gradation which are elements relating to the image quality of an image displayed by a display device which continuously subjects frame image data to display processing and displays images. Furthermore, the storage unit stores importance information indicating the importance of an element. If a detection unit detects that the communication environment has degraded, the selection unit selects, for an element selected based on the importance information stored in the storage unit, a data format having a lower quality specified format than the format specified by the data format currently selected.
US09332230B2	Electronic component mounting apparatus and electronic component mounting method A component imaging unit of an electronic component mounting apparatus has three area cameras, and each of visual fields are common to each other regardless of the area cameras. When the imaging form of the component imaging unit is set to a first mode, a component recognition unit recognizes the electronic components held by the holding unit, based on an image imaged by one area camera. Meanwhile, when the imaging form is set to a second mode, in the component imaging unit, the component recognition unit recognizes the electronic component held by the holding unit, based on each of images, each of which is imaged by three area cameras.
US09332229B2	Surrounding area monitoring device for monitoring area around work machine A surrounding area monitoring device for monitoring an area around a work machine displays an immediate range display image as a bird's eye view image indicating the immediate area surrounding the work machine from above the work machine and a wide range display image indicating a wide area including a predetermined range outside the immediate area, selectively. The wide range display image is displayed if a position of a worker is not located within a monitoring area. The immediate range display image is displayed if the position of the worker is located within the monitoring area. The immediate range display image is the bird's eye view image set around the schematic graphic image of the work machine. The wide range display image is an image including a reduced immediate range display image and an image showing the conditions outside the immediate area in the schematic graphic representation.
US09332222B2	Controlled three-dimensional communication endpoint A controlled three-dimensional (3D) communication endpoint system and method for simulating an in-person communication between participants in an online meeting or conference and providing easy scaling of a virtual environment when additional participants join. This gives the participants the illusion that the other participants are in the same room and sitting around the same table with the viewer. The controlled communication endpoint includes a plurality of camera pods that capture video of a participant from 360 degrees around the participant. The controlled communication endpoint also includes a display device configuration containing display devices placed at least 180 degrees around the participant and display the virtual environment containing geometric proxies of the other participants. Placing the participants at a round virtual table and increasing the diameter of the virtual table as additional participants are added easily achieves scalability.
US09332221B1	Enhancing awareness of video conference participant expertise In enhancing awareness of video conference participant expertise, a live transcript of a video conference with a plurality of video conference participants is created. The live transcript is analyzed during the video conference using an ontology system. In analyzing the live transcript, one or more topics being discussed during the video conference are identified using the live transcript and the ontology system. The one or more topics are mapped to expertise of one or more video conference participants using participant expertise information. A video of each video conference participant mapped to the one or more topics is displayed with one or more visual indicators assigned to the one or more topics.
US09332220B2	Apparatus, system, and method of managing data, and recording medium A transmission management system stores association information that associates, for each one of a plurality of starting terminals, starting terminal identification information for identifying the starting terminal capable of requesting to start communication with one or more candidate counterpart terminals, and candidate counterpart terminal identification information for identifying each one of the one or more candidate counterpart terminals. In response to receiving a request for deleting at least one candidate counterpart terminal selected from the one or more candidate counterpart terminals, for at least one starting terminal selected from the plurality of starting terminals, the management system specifies candidate counterpart terminal identification information of the selected candidate counterpart terminal using the association information, and deletes the candidate counterpart terminal identification information of the selected candidate counterpart terminal from one or more candidate counterpart terminals being associated with the selected starting terminal.
US09332217B2	Method and apparatus for communicating data via a cable card Embodiments of the disclosed invention include a method and apparatus for communicating data via a cable card having a network interface. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for playing an external media content file routed through the network interface of the cable card. In another embodiment, a method is disclosed for utilizing a single cable card on multiple media devices for enabling access to protected media content on the multiple media devices.
US09332215B1	System and method for displaying to airborne personnel mission critical high dynamic range video on a low resolution display A method and system for displaying to a pilot, or other airborne personnel, high resolution video signal content on a lower resolution display, by providing a plurality of pilot selectable aspects of the high resolution video signals, which are predetermined to accentuate a particular characteristic of said high resolution video signals, where the aspects are non-linear mappings of the high resolution signals (x) to (y) on said lower resolution display, where the non-linear mapping has y determined by a constant with an exponent which includes x and a logarithmic constant.
US09332212B2	Imaging apparatus with improved pre-processing The imaging apparatus include a solid-state imaging device which has a plurality of pixels and outputs a pixel signal corresponding to a formed image of a subject as an image data; an image-capturing processing unit which outputs a pre-processed image data that is obtained by performing pre-processing on a part of the image data input from the solid-state imaging device, and an un-processed image data except the part of the image data from the image data input from the solid-state imaging device; and a storage unit which stores the pre-processed image data and the un-processed image data.
US09332211B2	Mobile terminal and audio zooming method thereof The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and an audio zooming method thereof capable of effectively capturing audio based on an image while capturing and reproducing video. According to the present disclosure, if an event for changing the capture location or range or capture mode of a subject occurs when capturing the subject while capturing the sound of the subject in a predetermined sound capture range, the sound of the subject may be captured by changing a sound capture angle and automatically controlling a sound capture range according to the relevant event, and if an event for changing the capture location or range or capture mode of a subject occurs, the sound of the subject may be captured by automatically controlling a sound capture range according to the event.
US09332210B2	Combining multiple images in bracketed photography Embodiments provide a unified method for combining images such as high dynamic range images, flash-no-flash image pairs, and/or other images. Weight masks are defined for each of the plurality of images by calculating coefficients for each of the weight masks. Calculating the coefficients includes, at least, performing histogram alignment between a reference image and each of the other input images and by applying a mismatch bias to the coefficients as a function of the histogram alignment. After applying the weight masks to the corresponding images, the images are combined to produce a final image.
US09332204B2	AD conversion circuit and solid-state imaging device According to one embodiment, in an AD conversion circuit of a single slope type, a counter is configured to count number of clocks, in a state where a potential level of a first slope voltage and a potential level of a second slope voltage concurrently change, until an output signal of either one of a first comparator and a second comparator is inverted. A reference counter is configured to constantly output a full count value. A generation circuit is configured to generate and output a digital value corresponding to a count value of the counter when an output signal of the first comparator is inverted, and to generate and output a digital value corresponding to a value obtained by subtracting a count value of the counter from the full count value of the reference counter when an output signal of the second comparator is inverted.
US09332201B2	Curved image sensor for a curved focal surface This document describes curved image sensors capable of sensing light from a monocentric lens. This curved image sensor receives light focused at a curved focal surface and then provides electric signals from this curved image sensor to a planar computing chip, such as a CMOS chip. By so doing, the higher image quality, smaller size, and often smaller weight of monocentric lenses can be gained while using generally high-quality, low-cost planar chips.
US09332194B2	Imaging apparatus for obtaining a user-intended image when orientation of the imaging apparatus changes in applying a special effect that changes the image quality in a set direction An imaging apparatus includes a display unit capable of performing through display for displaying in real time a captured image, a control unit configured to cause, while the through display is being performed, the imaging unit to capture a still image in response to an instruction for a shooting preparation and a subsequent instruction for a shooting operation, an image processing unit configured to apply a special effect for changing image quality in a set direction to the captured image subjected to through display, a detection unit configured to detect an orientation of the imaging apparatus, and a setting unit configured to set the direction of the special effect according to the detected orientation, wherein, during a period for which an operation input for the shooting preparation continues, the setting unit retains the setting of the direction of the special effect even when the detected orientation changes.
US09332190B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes: an imaging characteristic acquisition unit that acquires, on the basis of information that designates a depth of field for second image data to be generated, imaging characteristics of a virtual optical system having the designated depth of field; a selection unit that determines, on the basis of the imaging characteristics acquired, an influence range in which an influence exerted onto an image by an object that is spaced apart from the focal position in the optical axis direction is greater than a predetermined condition, and that selects first image data of which focal position is contained within the influence range, from among a plurality of first image data items; and a generation unit that generates the second image data using the first image data selected by the selection unit.
US09332187B2	Optical image stabilization (OIS) unit of a camera module A camera module according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a first Printed Circuit Board (PCB) configured to have an image sensor mounted thereon; a housing unit disposed over the first PCB; a holder module spaced apart from a bottom surface within the housing unit at a specific interval and configured to have first coils wound on its outer circumferential face and to include at least lens therein; a second PCB combined with the bottom surface of the holder module; a third PCB disposed over the holder module; a plurality of wire springs each configured to have one end connected to the second PCB and the other end connected to the third PCB; and buffer units provided at the connection units of the wire springs and the third PCB and configured to surround the connection units of the wire springs and the third PCB.
US09332184B2	Image-shake correction apparatus and imaging apparatus incorporating the same The image-shake correction apparatus 1 of the invention comprises a base part 10 including a permanent magnet 20 and a moving part 30 having a coil 40 located in a position opposite to the permanent magnet 20, wherein the permanent magnet 20 and coil 40 form together a voice coil motor 70, and the permanent magnet 20 includes cutouts 101, 102 and 103.
US09332182B2	Image recording and playback device, and image recording and playback method An image processing device of the present invention comprises a storage section for storing first image data obtained by imaging in front of the imaging device body or using a telephoto lens, and second image data obtained by imaging behind the imaging device body or using a wide-angle lens; a movement pattern detection section for processing the first image data to detect a movement pattern of the first image represented by the first image data; a movement pattern determination section determining whether or not the movement pattern of the first image is unstable movement; and an image processing section for rewriting a part of the first image data, for which it has been determined by the movement pattern determination section that the movement pattern of the first image is unstable, using the second image data.
US09332178B2	Methods of image acquiring and electronic devices Disclosed is a method of image acquiring and an electronic device. The method comprises: obtaining first image purpose information, wherein the first image purpose information corresponds to a first application; determining a first algorithm corresponding to the first image purpose information from at least two algorithms which are different from each other, based on the first image purpose information; and acquiring a first image data for the use of the first application based on the first algorithm.
US09332171B2	Method for transmitting video data and haptic data and video acquisition device A method for transmitting video data and haptic data between a mobile video acquisition device and a remote computer through a communication network, and a video acquisition device. A server capable of direct communication exists in the communication network. The video data can be presented on a screen of the remote computer for a user to view, and the haptic data can be used to control a motion state of the video acquisition device acting as an avatar of the user. In the present invention, a first channel for transmitting video data and a second channel for transmitting haptic data are established between a computer having access to the Internet and a video acquisition device having access to the Internet by using a server and through a P2P technology. The present invention enables forming of a low-cost long-distance avatar network of multiple users versus multiple avatars, thereby greatly reducing travel of people, and contributing to low carbon environmental protection.
US09332166B2	Imaging apparatus equipped with illumination optical system having a plurality of optical integrators that guide light An imaging apparatus (1) includes an illumination optical system (100) that includes a light source (110) and is configured to guide light from the light source to a target(B), an imaging optical system configured to capture an image of the target, and a plurality of image sensors (430) arranged on an image plane of the imaging optical system. The illumination optical system includes a plurality of integrators (121,122). Light flux exits from one of the plurality of integrators illuminates at least one of the plurality of image sensors, and light exits from the other integrators illuminates at least one of the plurality of image sensors other than the image sensor illuminated by the light exits from the one of the plurality of integrators.
US09332162B2	System and method for video frame sequence control A video sequence control system comprising: a video frame sequence component for providing video frames for display by a projector, the video frames having a sequence of at least one crosstalk reduction frame followed an image frames; and a synchronization control component, the synchronization control component communicatively coupled to an image capture device the synchronization control component providing a timing signal to synchronize image capture with the occurrence of the at least one crosstalk reduction frame in the video frame sequence.
US09332161B2	Moving image region determination device and method thereof A rectangular moving region is properly determined. A retainer retains an outputted moving region of time t and, at time t+1, provides it to a specified region feature detector. At time t+1, the specified region feature detector applies the moving coordinates of time t provided by the judgment unit to respective images of times t and t+1 to calculate feature data d(t) around the moving coordinates of time t and feature data d(t+1) around the moving coordinates of time t+1 and then provides the calculated data to a judgment unit. The judgment unit judges whether there is a box, based on the feature data d(t+1).
US09332159B2	Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus An image reading apparatus including: two image reading devices which are different from each other, read out a same surface of a same sheet after image formation on a sheet conveyance path and read out a plurality of common color patches formed in the same surface of the same sheet, one of the image reading devices being a first image reading device which reads out only a partial region in a main scanning direction and the other of the image reading devices being a second image reading device which reads out over an image formation width in the main scanning direction; and a calculation section which estimates a value equivalent to reading information of the first image reading device from reading information of the second image reading device on the basis of reading information obtained by reading out the common color patches.
US09332154B2	Image binarization using dynamic sub-image division Image binarization method and device for converting a grayscale image into a black and white binary image are provided. The grayscale image is divided into sub-images dynamically created from pixel to pixel containing a given pixel as well as neighboring pixels. A threshold for each pixel is determined based on the color values of all the pixels in the sub-image. Therefore, at a certain color value, this given pixel is converted to white and at another color value the pixel is converted black. The foregoing is effectuated pixel by pixel in a dynamic fashion evaluating each pixel relative to its neighboring pixels in order to produce a binary image.
US09332151B2	Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same and storage medium An image processing apparatus, having a reconstruction circuit for which reconstruction based on construction data is possible, comprises a first storage unit configured to store the construction data; a writing unit configured to, when the image processing apparatus transitions to a power saving state, write the construction data, which is stored in a first storage unit, in a second storage unit which is different to the first storage unit; and a reconstruction unit configured to, when the image processing apparatus returns from the power saving state, reconstruct the reconstruction circuit based on the construction data stored in the second storage unit.
US09332148B2	Reading device A reader device includes a mounting surface on which a passport with a page to be read is placed, a light source for illuminating the page to be read, and a camera for picking up an image of the page to be read. The light source is arranged outside a front area of the page to be read. The page to be read contains a near-edge code positioned close to an edge of the page to be read. The light source includes an infrared LED array and a white LED array. An infrared LED and a white LED included in the infrared LED array and the white LED array, respectively, and located at a near-edge code position corresponding to the near-edge code are arranged closer to the page to be read than the other infrared LEDs and white LEDs in a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface.
US09332147B2	Image forming apparatus and method of booting image forming apparatus having hibernation function A method of booting an image forming apparatus having a hibernation function. In the method, when booting of the image forming apparatus starts, whether a storage device has a defect is checked based on a flag indicating whether the hibernation function is activated, and a system of the image forming apparatus is booted using a stored boot image.
US09332142B2	Cooperation system, image forming apparatus, portable information device, remote control method, and remote operation method A portable information device includes a first display portion in which a parameter that defines a color for displaying an image is set, and a remote operation portion to display a remote operation screen on the first display portion and transmit a remote operation to an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus-side display control portion to display an operation screen on a second display portion, and a remote control portion to transmit a remote operation screen to the portable information device and execute a process in accordance with a remote operation. One of the portable information device and the image forming apparatus acquires a distance between the image forming apparatus and the portable information device and determines an update parameter based on the acquired distance. The remote operation portion updates the parameter set in the first display portion with the update parameter.
US09332139B2	Information processing apparatus and method An information processing apparatus for causing an image forming apparatus to perform printing, the image forming apparatus being able to perform calibration in order to correct an output color to a target color indicated by target information, includes a storing unit configured to, when printing processing is executed for a print job by the image forming apparatus, store the target information in association with the print job.
US09332136B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing system, control method of image processing apparatus, and storage medium An image processing apparatus and method includes inputting user information, setting folder information about a specified user based on the user information as a destination of image data, registering the set folder information, and performing control so as not to register folder information corresponding to a transmission protocol set to be disable from among a plurality of transmission protocols.
US09332131B2	Information processing device, usage charge calculation method and program Provided is an information processing device including a calculation unit which calculates a usage charge to be imposed by a first provider on a second provider which provides a radio communications service using a physical network possessed by the first provider. The calculation unit calculates the usage charge based on a value of a parameter depending on efficiency of use of radio resources in the radio communications service.
US09332127B1	Mobile device user interface notification management A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device comprises a processor, a memory, a display, and a first application stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, receives indications of a plurality of events. The application also stores event information associated with the events in the memory, and when a user interface of a second application that is presented on the display is navigated away from, presents an announcement about one of the stored event information on the display.
US09332122B2	System and method for identifying E-911 calls and notifying family members/friends of the caller In one embodiment of the present invention, a method and system may be provided for providing notification that an emergency call is being placed. The system and method includes identifying a telephone call as being an emergency call, identifying a calling party of the telephone call, locating a notification list associated with the identified calling party, and sending a notification to members on the notification list.
US09332114B2	Method for reproducing music file of mobile communication terminal and mobile terminal implementing the same Mobile communication terminals and methods are provided. A mobile communication terminal includes a transceiver, audio processing unit, speaker, connecting unit, display unit, input unit, and control unit. The control unit is configured to control to display, while in a silent mode, a user interface for reproduction of a music file, in response to a user input while in the silent mode, control to reproduce the music file and to output audio signals corresponding thereto through the speaker, in response to receiving an incoming call in the silent mode, stop reproduction of a music file, and output an indication of the reception of the incoming call by vibration or without sound according to a setting of the silent mode, and while in the silent mode, control reproduction of a music file depending upon detection of a change of a connection state of an external audio output device.
US09332111B2	Data transferring method using direction information and mobile device using the same A method of transferring data between a first mobile terminal and a second terminal, the method includes displaying an object on a display unit of the first mobile terminal; receiving an input of a directional gesture on the displayed object; and transmitting the object to the second mobile terminal based on the input gesture, when the first mobile terminal and the second terminal are in a predetermined directional range with respect to each other.
US09332108B2	Apparatus and method for controlling application in wireless terminal An apparatus and method for controlling an application in a wireless terminal to automatically download an application on a home screen classified on a category basis. The apparatus preferably includes a display unit for displaying home screens set to categories and a controller for automatically matching and setting the home screens of the wireless terminal to categories received from a server in a home screen category setting mode and downloading an application on a home screen set to a category of the application.
US09332107B1	Handset application interruption avoidance A wireless handset for avoiding application interruption is disclosed that comprises a processor, a first component, and a second component. The first component, when executed by the processor, supports an application interruption avoidance feature that promotes preventing an incoming voice call from interrupting an application and forwarding the voice call to a voice mail server. Optionally, the first component also supports alerting a user without interrupting the in-progress application with one of a voice mail notification and an incoming call notification. The second component, when executed by the processor, is configured to receive control inputs to activate the application interruption avoidance feature and to deactivate the application interruption avoidance feature to allow a new voice call to come to the handset. The second component is also configured to select incoming call indicators and to activate/deactivate an incoming call alert to allow/prevent display of the incoming call indicators on the handset.
US09332102B2	Mobile terminal device, storage medium and sound output control method A mobile terminal device includes: a telephone communication speaker and a control module. The telephone communication speaker includes: a first speaker which releases sound waves corresponding to sounds to be output and vibration waves generated by vibrations of one surface of a housing according to vibrations corresponding to the sounds to be output, thereby to transfer the sounds to a user; and a second speaker which releases sound waves corresponding to sounds to be output. In case of execution of a function to output sounds from the telephone communication speaker, when a predetermined trigger action is not made, the control module executes first control in which the first speaker outputs sounds but the second speaker does not output sounds, and when the trigger action is made, the control module executes second control in which at least the second speaker outputs sounds.
US09332099B2	Wireless device networks with smoke detection capabilities An electronic device may include a smoke detector. The electronic device may use the smoke detector to monitor for the presence of smoke. In response to detecting smoke with the smoke detector, the electronic device may issue an alert or take other suitable action. The electronic device may transmit alerts to nearby electronic devices and to remote electronic devices such as electronic devices at emergency services facilities. Alerts may contain maps and graphical representations of buildings in which smoke has been detected. Motion detectors and other sensors and circuitry may be used in determining whether electronic devices are being used by users and may be used in determining where the electronic devices are located. Alerts may contain information on the location of detected smoke and building occupants.
US09332098B2	Electronic device with piezoelectric vibration element An electronic device includes a cover panel, a piezoelectric vibration element, and a drive section. The cover panel is provided on a front surface of the electronic device. The piezoelectric vibration element is provided on an inner main surface of the cover panel. The drive section causes the piezoelectric vibration element to vibrate based on a sound signal. The cover panel has no earpiece hole.
US09332095B2	Portable electronic apparatus A portable electronic device is provided, in which a region for joining a body to a member-to-be-fixed is designed to be narrow, and the body and the member-to-be-fixed are strongly joined together. The portable electronic device is provided with a body 2A and a member-to-be-fixed 3a, which is bonded and fixed to the body 2A by way of an adhesive 231. The body 2A has: a first face 22, on which the member-to-be-fixed 3a is mounted; and a second face 23, which is bonded to the member-to-be-fixed 3a, in a state where the second face 23 is at a distance from the member-to-be-fixed 3a by interposing the adhesive 231, and the second face 23 is in an intersecting positional relationship with the first face 22.
US09332094B2	Communication system and method A modem is disclosed. An embodiment thereof includes: a first interface arranged to connect to a network, a second interface arranged to connect to a host processor on the terminal, an audio interface arranged to connect to an audio processing means and a processing unit arranged to receive a plurality of parameters from the terminal via the second interface. The plurality of parameters are associated with a call established by the host processor to at least one further terminal connected to the network; wherein the processing unit is further arranged to receive input voice data from the audio processing means, process the input voice data in dependence on at least one of said parameters; and transmit the processed input voice data via the first interface to the at least one further terminal over said network during the call in dependence on a further at least one of said parameters.
US09332093B2	Method and device for establishing path between electronic devices A method and a device for connecting electronic devices are provided. The method includes: sending a first communication connection request to a second electronic device and establishing a first path based on a first protocol by a first electronic device; receiving a response message, determining whether the content of the response message satisfies a first preset condition; if the content of the response message satisfies the first preset condition, sending a second communication connection request to the second electronic device through the first path and establishing a second path based on a second protocol; where the first protocol is different from the second protocol and the first path correlates with the second path. With this method, different data is transmitted between two electronic devices through the first path and the second path simultaneously and data interaction and sharing are achieved in a simple way.
US09332092B2	Method and system for processing data record packet A method for processing a Data Record Packet includes: a General Packet Radio Service Supported Node (GSN) sends a Data Record Packet to a Charging Gateway Function (CGF), wherein the Data Record Packet is a normal packet or a possibly duplicated packet, and the message header of a message for sending Data Record Packet includes a sequence number and the message body includes packaging time; and the CGF sends a response message of receiving the Data Record Packet to the GSN, wherein the Packet Transfer Response Command information element in the response message is used to indicate whether the response message is for the normal packet or the possibly duplicated packet. Therefore, the problem that possibly duplicated packets occupy sequence number resources is solved without limiting the network transmission speed.
US09332091B2	Address manipulation to provide for the use of network tools even when transaction acceleration is in use over a network In address-manipulation enabled transaction accelerators, the transaction accelerators include outer-connection addressing information in packets emitted over an inner connection between transaction accelerators and inner-connection addressing information is added in packets sent over the inner connection. The inner-connection addressing information can be carried in TCP option fields, directly in other fields, or indirectly through data structures maintained by the endpoints processing the connection. Address information can be encoded into header fields originally intended for other purposes but that are unused or encoded into used fields, overlaid in combination with other data that is being carried in those used fields. The existence of inner-connection addressing information in a packet can be signaled by a flag in the packet, by a bit or other designated encoding. The flag can be in an unused header field or overlaid. Where replacement and option addition is needed, swappers and unswappers might be used.
US09332088B2	Systems and methods for updating computing programs A process transmission system comprises a process transmission server and a client device configured to communicate with the process transmission server. The process transmission server receives program request information from the client device, packs a process of a program to generate a process package comprising a central processing unit (CPU) register value associated with the program, and transmits the process package to the client device. The client device transmits program request information to the process transmission server, receives a process package corresponding to the program request information from the process transmission server, and executes a process by performing data processing on the received process package. The data processing comprises storing the process in a main memory device of the client device based on the process package and transmitting the CPU register value to a CPU of the client device.
US09332086B2	Identifying properties of a communication device A method (300) of generating information for use in identifying a property of a communication device (10) includes identifying (304) one or more substrings within a character string that identifies the communication device. For each substring, an entry is added (306) to a respective one of a plurality of data structures (800), each data structure being designated for storing substrings that occur at a particular character position within the character string. Each entry is associated (310) with a profile that includes a value of at least one property of the communication device. Also disclosed is a method (1000) of identifying the properties of a communication device based on such previously-generated information.
US09332085B2	Method and system for realizing rest interface of cloud cache in Nginx The present invention provides a method for realizing a REST (Representational State Transfer) interface of a cloud cache in an Nginx. The method includes: receiving a Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP) message transmitted from a client, and parsing out key information and an operation type corresponding to the HTTP message according to a preset configuration file; converting the key information and the operation type into a parameter required by a cloud cache operation and a cloud cache operation type, and transmitting the parameter to a cloud cache apparatus, so that the cloud cache apparatus performs the cloud cache operation according to the parameter and the cloud cache operation type; receiving a cloud cache operation result returned by the cloud cache apparatus, processing the cloud cache operation result, and returning the processed result to the client. The present invention also provides a corresponding system. The present invention enables a larger cache capacity and better saves CPU resources, thereby enabling a more powerful cache function of the Nginx.
US09332072B2	Maintaining distribution-network-wide time synchronization in smart grid devices In one embodiment, an alternating circuit (AC) power connected node in a shared-media communication network (with knowledge of a current time) determines a time value of a particular zero-crossing event of the AC power, and sends a message to a neighbor node indicating the time value of the particular zero-crossing event to allow the neighbor node to synchronize its time by coordinating the time value to its detection of the particular zero-crossing event. In another embodiment, the neighboring node determines one or more local zero-crossing events of the AC power, such that upon receiving the message indicating a correct time value of the particular zero-crossing event, the neighboring node can synchronize its local time a current time by matching one of the one or more local zero-crossing events to the particular zero-crossing event and assigning the correct time value to the matched local zero-crossing event.
US09332071B2	Data stage-in for network nodes A method is described of downloading a data item from a source to each node of a plurality of nodes of a data center, wherein the data item is split in a plurality of disjoint chunks. The method includes receiving each chunk of the plurality of chunks from the source by only one node of the plurality of nodes; and distributing the plurality of chunks among the plurality of nodes within the data center until each node of the plurality of nodes has the plurality of chunks forming the data item.
US09332070B2	Methods and apparatus for synchronizing notifications for service events The communications method for synchronization of service event related communications at an event management platform, may include receiving a notification transmitted from a service event source including event information related to at least one service offered by the service event source and for a mobile wireless device associated with a given service user, and including a synchronization value associated with a service instance. The method may further include storing the synchronization value, and receiving a subsequent notification transmitted from the service event source including a subsequent synchronization value associated with the service instance. The subsequent synchronization value is compared with the stored synchronization value and based thereon a request is generated and sent to the service event source for event information associated with notifications having synchronization values between the subsequent synchronization value with the stored synchronization value. The notifications are provided to the mobile wireless device associated with the given service user.
US09332061B2	Master device, integrated service management system, and integrated service management method A device information acquisition unit acquires device information from a peripheral device via an ad hoc network. An integrated service determination unit determines an integrated service to be executed from among the integrated services defined by integrated service information based on an instruction from a user. A distribution script determination unit cross checks device information related to a client device and a specification requirement of the integrated service to be executed, and determines a client UI of the client device. A script distribution unit distributes, to each client device, the client UI that has been determined by the distribution script determination unit.
US09332060B2	Methods, secure element, server, computer programs and computer program products for improved application management It presented a method, performed in a secure element, the secure element being arranged to enable user applications of the secure element to verify authenticity of incoming user application commands. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a command from a secure element reader for a user application on the secure element, the command comprising an application identifier of the user application; determining whether there is a matching user application in the secure element; invoking the matching user application; and establishing, when there is an absence of any matching user applications, a communication channel with a remote application manager server and sending an absent user application message to the application manager server indicating that the user application has been requested on the secure element. A corresponding secure element, method for an application manager server and application manager server are also presented.
US09332059B2	Method of file sharing A method of file sharing based on a file server is intended to share specific data and enable data constraints for automatic deletion of specific shared data which has been downloaded by a downloader device.
US09332058B2	Local agent for remote file access system Systems and methods for remote file access are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a local agent polls a server for a task request at a polling interval scheduled by a schedule timer in accordance with a set of local agent and remote client preferences. The local agent is responsible for executing a task from the task request and causing a file to be uploaded to the server. The local agent uses a task processor for polling a server, a schedule timer for controlling polling, and one or more protocol stacks, such as TCP/IP and SOAP, for communicating with the server. The local agent can also interface with a MAPI database for message delivery.
US09332054B2	Captive portal redirection using display layout information According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for controlling access to a network by a network device comprises returning a message prompting connectivity to a captive portal that is different from a HTTP Source Code redirect. The message is an HTML document such as a frameset.
US09332053B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for load balancing stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) messages According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for load balancing SCTP messages. The method includes receiving an SCTP message containing an address, a port identifier, and a verification tag. The method includes determining, using the verification tag, an associated application server from a plurality of application servers. The method includes sending the SCTP message to the application server for processing.
US09332048B2	Key frame detection and synchronization Mechanisms are provided for allowing a streaming server to efficiently provide frames associated with a media stream to a client device. A streaming server receives multiple media streams and determines which frames in the multiple media streams are key frames. When a connection request is received from a client device, a key frame is selected and provided to the client device. A client device receiving a key frame does not have to drop any predictive frames prior to playing a media stream.
US09332046B2	Rate-adapted delivery of virtual desktop image elements by an edge server in a computer network environment An edge server communicates with a client in a local network. The client displays a remote desktop image representative of a virtual desk image generated by a virtual desktop server (VDS). The edge server receives from the VDS a desktop image to be displayed on the remote desktop. The desktop image includes an incomplete window in which graphic media, such as video, is to be displayed. The edge server determines communication link conditions in the local network and a corresponding transmit data rate at which to transmit data to the client device and a suitable encoding rate at which the graphic media is encoded. The edge server downloads the graphic media from the content server, merges the downloaded graphic media into the incomplete area to produce a completed desktop image, and transmits the completed desktop image at the determined transmit data rate for display on the remote desktop.
US09332042B2	Providing user metrics for an unknown dimension to an external system A social networking system may provide user metrics for unknown dimensions to an external system using received hash codes from user devices performing actions on the external system. Embodiments of the invention receive hash codes generated by external systems that are embedded in redirect Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that are executed by user devices. The social networking system may match the received hash codes to identifying information about users, e.g., user identifiers. The user profile information may be reported to external systems based on hash codes in an aggregated format without disclosing identifying information about users. In one embodiment, a hash code may include identifying information of an administrator of an external system to enable the administrator to merge information about users of the social networking system with other unknown dimensions of information about the users that is known by the external system.
US09332041B2	System and method for providing a circuit switched domain number A method is provided for identifying a device during an emergency for callback. The method includes storing an address of a user agent (UA) during initiation of an emergency call by the UA, associating an E.164 number with the stored address of the UA that placed the emergency call, and routing the emergency call containing the E.164 number.
US09332040B2	Hazard detection unit facilitating convenient setup of plural instances thereof in the smart home include using an application on a mobile device to establish first wireless communications with a first hazard detector that was previously paired with the user account. The method may also include transmitting, to the first hazard detector and using the first wireless protocol, a transmission that instructs the first hazard detector to establish second wireless communications with a second hazard detector, where the second wireless communications use a second wireless protocol. The method may additionally include transmitting network credentials to the first hazard detector using the first wireless protocol, where the credentials are then sent from the first hazard detector to the second hazard detector using the second wireless protocol, such that the second hazard detector can pair with the user account using the first wireless protocol.
US09332038B2	Remote procedure call with call-by-reference semantics using remote direct memory access Embodiments relate to providing remote procedure calls (RPC) with call-by-reference semantics using remote direct memory access (RDMA). An aspect includes establishing a session between a client and a server. A client session heap memory and a server session heap memory are initialized with a RDMA provider. A parameter is then stored in the session heap memory. A handle for the parameter is passed to the server which permits access to the parameter responsive to an on-demand request from the server.
US09332036B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing user receptivity driven policy in a communications network Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing user receptivity driven policy in a communications network are disclosed. The method includes storing subscriber preference information indicating a willingness of a subscriber to receive a first type of content as well as policy and charging enhancement information associated with the subscriber preference information. Content is received from a content provider. Based on the subscriber preference information, it is determined whether the subscriber is willing to receive the content. In response to determining that the subscriber is willing to receive the content, the content is communicated to the subscriber and a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) is communicated with for temporarily enhancing a network or charging policy of the subscriber based on the policy charging enhancement information.
US09332035B2	Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example method includes detecting an ID3 tag associated with streaming media presented at a client device. A first request is sent from the client device to a first internet domain, the first request identifying the streaming media. A redirection message is received from the first internet domain. In response to the redirection message, a second request is sent to a second internet domain specified by the redirection message. A cookie is provided identifying the client device to the second internet domain.
US09332033B2	Methods and systems for enabling community-tested security features for legacy applications A computer-implemented method for enabling community-tested security features for legacy applications may include: 1) identifying a plurality of client systems, 2) identifying a legacy application on a client system within the plurality of client systems, 3) identifying a security-feature-enablement rule for the legacy application, 4) enabling at least one security feature for the legacy application by executing the security-feature-enablement rule, 5) determining the impact of the security-feature-enablement rule on the health of the legacy application, and then 6) relaying the impact of the security-feature-enablement rule on the health of the legacy application to a server. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09332031B1	Categorizing accounts based on associated images Categorizing accounts based on associated images is described, including identifying information associated with an account associated with a user, the information includes an image associated with the user; producing data associated with the image; computing a threshold value associated with the account based at least on the data associated with the image, the threshold value is associated with a category of accounts; and performing an operation associated with the account based on the threshold value.
US09332027B1	Data communication using media files A web browser may implement a single origin policy that makes an exception for media files such as markup language image files. In cases where the delivery of data to a browser may be blocked by a single origin policy, such as where the data originates from a domain other than the domain that originates the initially presented content, the data may be encoded in one or more media files, such as images, to circumvent the single origin policy. The data may be encoded using height and width dimensions, pixel colors, transparencies, or other characteristics of the media file(s). The media file(s) may be sent to the browser and decoded to access the data.
US09332026B2	Real-time network attack detection and mitigation infrastructure The invention features systems and methods for detecting and mitigating network attacks in a Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) network. A server is configured to receive information related to a mitigation action for a call. The information can include a complexity level for administering an audio challenge-response test to the call and an identification of the call. The server also generates i) a routing label based on the identification of the call, and ii) a script defining a plurality of variables that store identifications of a plurality of altered sound files for the audio challenge-response test. Each altered sound file is randomly selected by the server subject to one or more constraints associated with the complexity level. The server is further configured to transmit the script to a guardian module and the routing label to a gateway.
US09332025B1	Systems and methods for detecting suspicious files A computer-implemented method for detecting suspicious files may include (1) detecting a file within incoming file traffic directed to a file recipient, (2) identifying a type of the file within the incoming file traffic directed to the file recipient, (3) determining a frequency with which the type of the file appears within the incoming file traffic directed to the file recipient, and (4) performing a security action on the file in response to the frequency of the type of the file within the incoming file traffic falling below a predetermined threshold. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09332024B1	Utilizing digital linear recursive filters to estimate statistics for anomaly detection A method is provided to estimate statistics of user interaction with a computing system. For example, the method includes tracking the interaction of a plurality of users with the computing system to collect statistical data associated with the user interaction, wherein the statistical data is collected in each of a plurality of sampling intervals. The collected statistical data is applied to a digital linear recursive filter that is configured to combine and filter the collected statistical data based on at least one cyclical function. The filtered statistical data generated by the digital linear recursive filter is then utilized to compute final statistics indicative of the user interaction with the computing system. The final statistics are utilized to identify anomalous activity involving the computing system.
US09332020B2	Method for tracking machines on a network using multivariable fingerprinting of passively available information A method for tracking machines on a network of computers includes determining one or more assertions to be monitored by a first web site which is coupled to a network of computers. The method monitors traffic flowing to the web site through the network of computers and identifies the one or more assertions from the traffic coupled to the network of computers to determine a malicious host coupled to the network of computers. The method includes associating a first IP address and first hardware finger print to the assertions of the malicious host and storing information associated with the malicious host in one or more memories of a database. The method also includes identifying an unknown host from a second web site, determining a second IP address and second hardware finger print with the unknown host, and determining if the unknown host is the malicious host.
US09332018B2	Method and system for secure authentication A method and system for accessing a resource associated with a resource control entity that includes receiving, by a ledger, a request, corresponding to a user, to access the resource; obtaining, in response to the request, user metadata; sending to the user a ledger authentication token, which a credential application uses to verify that the ledger is a valid ledger; receiving, from the credential application, a public key encrypted payload including signature entries; decrypting, by the ledger, the encrypted payload using a payload secret key to obtain the signature entries and other user data; obtaining results of a verification by successively verifying each of the signature entries until a scoring threshold associated with the resource is met, and transmitting, to the resource control entity, a notification including the results of the verification, which the resource control entity uses to determine whether to grant the user access to the resource.
US09332010B2	Methods and systems for token-based application management Disclosed herein are methods and systems for token-based application management. In an embodiment, requests are received from applications for tokens that can be active or inactive. A token-interaction-directive pool is maintained in data storage, each directive having a triggering token, a target token, and one or both of triggering-token actions and target-token actions. Responsive to receiving a token request from an application, any directives having their triggering token equal the requested token and having their target token active are identified. A response plan that includes the actions in the identified directives is generated. Any triggering-token actions in the response plan are communicated to the requesting application, and any target-token actions in the response plan are communicated to each application that is authorized to access the corresponding target token.
US09332005B2	System and method for providing switch based subnet management packet (SMP) traffic protection in a middleware machine environment A system and method can provide switch based subnet management packet (SMP) traffic protection in a middleware machine environment. The middleware machine environment includes a network switch that operates to receive at least one SMP destined for a subnet management agent (SMA). The network switch can check whether the at least one SMP includes a correct management key, and prevent the at least one SMP from being forwarded to the destined SMA when at least one SMP does not include the correct management key. Furthermore, the network switch can specify a different management key for each external port and can enforce separate restrictions on ingress and egress SMP traffic at a particular external port.
US09331996B2	Systems and methods for identifying devices by a trusted service manager Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for identifying devices by a trusted service manager. According to one example embodiments of the disclosure, a method for identifying communications is provided. The method can include receiving, by a service provider from a device, a message comprising card production life cycle (CPLC) information associated with a secure element incorporated into the device; and evaluating, by the service provider, the received CPLC information in order to identify the secure element.
US09331994B2	User authentication based on historical transaction data Embodiments are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for providing user authentication based on transaction data. Embodiments receive from a user, a request to execute a user action associated with an application, wherein execution of the user action requires validation of authentication credentials; collect a transaction set of data comprising information related to transactions conducted by the user; collect a location set of data comprising information related to a physical location of the user; determine a transaction proximity score associated with the user and the transactions; determine a level of authentication associated with the determined transaction proximity score; determine which authentication types are associated with the level of authentication; request authentication credentials; receive authentication credentials from the user; validate the authentication credentials, thereby resulting in a successful validation of the authentication credentials; and, in response to the successful validation of the authentication credentials, execute the user action.
US09331992B2	Access control A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.
US09331990B2	Trusted and unsupervised digital certificate generation using a security token A method, system and computer program product for ensuring PKI key pairs are operatively installed within a secure domain of a security token prior to generating a digital certificate. The public key component of the PKI key pair is incorporated into a digital certificate which is returned to the security token for storage. The arrangement included herein incorporates the use of a critical security parameter to ensure a chain of trust with an issuing entity such as a registration authority. Furthermore, the arrangement does not require security officer or system administrator oversight during digital certificate generation as the critical security parameter provides a sufficient level of trust to ensure that digital certificate generation is being performed in conjunction with a designated security token rather than a rogue application. Lastly, separate inventive embodiments allow alternate communications and verification arrangements to be implemented.
US09331989B2	Secure shared key sharing systems and methods Systems and methods used to securely communicate a shared key to devices. One embodiment describes a method to securely communicate a shared key to a first device and a second device that includes receiving, using the first device, a shared key and unique identifier pairing associated with the first device from a key generator; receiving, using a trusted third party, the shared key and unique identifier pairing from the key generator; generating, using the first device, a signature using the unique identifier and the shared key; transmitting, using the first device, the signature and the unique identifier to the trusted third party; verifying, using the trusted third party, the unique identifier based on the signature; determining, using the trusted third party, the shared key when the unique identifier is verified; and transmitting, using the trusted third party, the shared key to the second device to enable the first device and the second device to communicate securely by encoding and decoding communicated data using the shared key.
US09331988B2	System and method for provisioning secrets to an application (TA) on a device A system and method can support device management. An authorization entity can pass one or more secrets that are wrapped with a first key to a communication entity. Furthermore, the communication entity can use a second key to establish a secure channel with an application on a device, and pass the one or more secrets that are wrapped with the first key to the application on the device using the secure channel. Then, the device can use the first key to unwrap the received wrapped secret.
US09331987B2	Virtual storage system and file encryption methods A virtual storage system in data communication with a user computing device via a communication network and file encryption methods for encrypting electronic documents to be uploaded into a virtual storage system where the virtual storage system includes at least one processor which captures a data stream corresponding to an electronic document retrieved from an external system, to be uploaded to the virtual storage system, and creates at least one encryption parameter and encrypts the data stream captured using the at least one encryption parameter created. The virtual storage system further includes a plurality of redundant physical storage devices in data communication with the at least one processor and each configured to store the encrypted data stream corresponding to the electronic document.
US09331983B2	Content-based billing A method and apparatus for content-based billing is provided. Techniques are provided for intercepting, modifying, and retransmitting a request between various entities engaged in content-based billing in the context of the World Wide Web. Various techniques such as HTTP proxy servers, wireless protocol gateways, routers, and level 41 switches may be used for intercepting the request. The request maybe modified based on numerous factors such as profile information, levels of service, and requested content. The entities that engage in content-based billing include but are not limited to users (including mobile users), content providers, access providers (including HTTP proxy servers).
US09331982B2	System and method for filtering received data units A system for filtering received data units comprises a memory structure adapted to store a plurality of P tables, each table comprising a plurality of filter-keys and corresponding indices, each filter-key comprising one or more key-bits each corresponding to a filter configurable by a corresponding filter configuration value; and at least one processing element connected to the memory structure and comprising a digesting module adapted to generate the one or more key-bits of each of the filter-keys of the tables by splitting the corresponding filter configuration value into P configuration-pieces each having a number of bits, and to use each configuration-piece as a first index for setting a corresponding key-bit in the corresponding table; and a filtering module adapted to receive and split the data units into P data-pieces each having the number of bits, for each data-piece use the data-piece as a second index for reading the corresponding filter-key from the corresponding table, and generate a pass-indication key from a bitwise logical conjunction between the read filter-keys.
US09331981B2	Method and apparatus for filtering URL A method and an apparatus for filtering a uniform resource locator (URL). According to the method, a first category corresponding to a URL connection request can be found in a pre-stored category information table; when the first category conforms to a predetermined URL passing through policy, the URL connection request is allowed to pass through; the URL connection request is forwarded to a corresponding server; a second category corresponding to a URL is determined according to web page content returned by the server; if the second category conforms to the predetermined URL passing through policy, the web page content is sent to a client; if the second category does not conform to the predetermined URL passing through policy, the web page content is blocked. A category to which a URL belongs can be determined in real time, and implementing a function of accurate category filtration.
US09331980B2	Secure in-band signaling method for mobility management crossing firewalls An in-band signaling method that enables secure updates of a care-of-IP address for a mobile host that roams between access networks. In the illustrative embodiment described herein, a mobile host includes an intelligent interface that handles IP networking functions and tunnels IP packets between the mobile host and the mobile host's home agent/remote access server (HA/RAS) transparently, as if the mobile host established a connection to a communicating or destination host (DST) from the home network (where the HA/RAS resides). In accordance with an aspect of the invention, there is provided an in-band signaling method that employs encrypted three-way handshake signaling messages that are embedded in encapsulated IP packets to enable care-of IP address updates. This method can effectively protect mobile hosts from denial-of-service attacks and is transparent to NAT/NAPT firewalls. The signaling messages are communicated between the home agent and the mobile host, in a manner transparent to any NAT/NAPT firewall in the network.
US09331978B2	Method for continuous, frame-specific click-stream recording A method for tracking a user's movements between network addresses can include, subsequent to a request for a (current) network address from a user, receiving the network address and an identifier for a region associated with the network address. The method can also include locating a record that contains the identifier for the region and a time that immediately precedes the request for the network address from the user. The record may further contain a prior network address. The method can further include generating an entry for a table that includes the identifier for the region, the current network address, and the prior network address. A server computer or a client computer can generate the entry. Improved accountability and improved user profile accuracy can be obtained with the method. A data processing system readable medium can comprise code that includes instructions for carrying out the method.
US09331977B2	High availability for cloud-based services High availability mechanisms are described for cloud-based services such as voice-over-IP (VoIP) services.
US09331971B2	Message subscription based on message aggregate characteristics A method for message subscription based on a message aggregate characteristic is described. The method includes receiving a message subscription from a user. The message subscription is based on the message aggregate characteristic including an aspect other than textual content and bibliographic content. The method also includes determining a published message in response to receiving the message subscription. The published message satisfies the message aggregate characteristic. The method also includes providing an indication of the published message to the user.
US09331970B2	Replacing typed emoticon with user photo In one embodiment, a computing device receives input from a user participating in a message session. The computing device detects an emoticon in the received input and identifies an image corresponding to the emoticon. The computing device accesses the image corresponding to the emoticon and replaces the emoticon with the image in the message session.
US09331968B2	Using content based routing to scale cast iron like appliances Routing messages to message queues may be provided. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a message may be routed to a message queue based on topic of the message, content of the message, application for which the message was intended, and/or a set of rules such as a rule based on queue length and queue balancing. A template integration process may subscribe to one or more topic queues, from which input parameters are obtained for invoking a service request from an application.
US09331966B2	Processing connection request in online service Disclosed is a system and method for processing a connection request in an online service by a server corresponding to the online service. A connection request message that originates from a personalized account for a first user is sent to a personalized account for a second user and a certain threshold of access to posts related to the personalized account for the first user is provided to the personalized account for the second user for a certain period of time. An access to the posts related to the personalized account for the first user is otherwise accorded to authorized contacts of the personalized account for the first user on the online service.
US09331965B2	Automatically generating email subject lines Systems and methods for automatically generating e-mail subject lines are provided. A method for automatic generation of subject lines for electronic mail (email), comprises extracting topics from an email message, computing a sender relevance score for each topic, computing a receiver relevance score for each topic, ranking the topics based on the sender and receiver relevance scores, extracting syntactic units from the email message, ranking the extracted syntactic units from the email message based on the topic ranking, and assigning one or more subject lines to the email message based on the ranking of the syntactic units.
US09331963B2	Wireless host I/O using virtualized I/O controllers Mechanisms provide hosts such as servers and mobile devices with access to virtualized I/O resources including virtual Host Bus Adapters (vHBAs) and virtual Network Interface Cards (vNICs) over a wireless I/O interconnect. Host applications access virtualized I/O resources using virtual device drivers that communicate with virtualized I/O resources on an I/O director using a reliable communication protocol running over a wireless network. I/O data is throttled if necessary based on wireless network considerations.
US09331958B2	Distributed packet switching in a source routed cluster server A cluster compute server includes nodes coupled in a network topology via a fabric that source routes packets based on location identifiers assigned to the nodes, the location identifiers representing the locations in the network topology. Host interfaces at the nodes may be associated with link layer addresses that do not reflect the location identifier associated with the nodes. The nodes therefore implement locally cached link layer address translations that map link layer addresses to corresponding location identifiers in the network topology. In response to originating a packet directed to one of these host interfaces, the node accesses the local translation cache to obtain a link layer address translation for a destination link layer address of the packet. When a node experiences a cache miss, the node queries a management node to obtain the specified link layer address translation from a master translation table maintained by the management node.
US09331956B2	Processing method for stateful path computation element and stateful path computation element The disclosure discloses a processing method for a stateful Path Computation Element (PCE) and a stateful PCE. The method includes: the stateful PCE completes path computation of the stateful PCE, and reserves or locks resources needed by a computed path; the stateful PCE receives a first notification message, wherein the first notification message is used for notifying the stateful PCE of a path which is unsuccessfully established during a Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) signalling procedure or a path which is successfully deleted during an RSVP signalling procedure; and the stateful PCE releases resources needed by the path notified by the first notification message. The disclosure improves the real-time property and accuracy of the resource information which the stateful PCE is aware of, and the accuracy of the path computation of the PCE, so as to avoid resource conflict.
US09331955B2	Transporting operations of arbitrary size over remote direct memory access The embodiments described herein generally relate to a protocol for implementing data operations, e.g., a version of SMB, atop RDMA transports. In embodiments, systems and methods use the protocol definition, which specifies new messages for negotiating an RDMA connection and for transferring SMB2 data using the negotiated communication. A new protocol message may include new header information to determine message size, number of messages, and other information for sending the SMB2 data over RDMA. The header information is used to accommodate differences in message size requirements between RDMA and SMB2. The SMB Direct protocol allows SMB2 data to be fragmented into multiple individual RDMA messages that a receiver may then logically concatenate into a single SMB2 request or SMB2 response. The SMB Direct protocol also may allow SMB2 to transfer application data via efficient RDMA direct placement and to signal the application data's availability when the transfer is complete.
US09331953B2	Device management method, middleware, and machine-to-machine communications platform, device, and system Example embodiments of the present invention disclose a device management method, middleware, computer-program products, system, and apparatuses. The method includes: a resource access request is received by using a resource access interface, where the resource access request includes: a URI that is used to indicate a storage location of an accessed management object MO data resource; according to pre-created mapping between the resource access request of the MO data resource and a DM command, the resource access request of the MO data resource is converted into corresponding DM command, and according to pre-created mapping between the MO data resource and MO information, the MO information corresponding to accessed MO data is determined; and the DM command is sent to a target device corresponding to the URI to manage the MO information corresponding to the accessed MO data, so that the M2M applications may access different M2M platforms to manage devices, implementing end-to-end device management and related service applications.
US09331952B2	Modifying an assignment of nodes to roles in a computing environment Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for modifying an assignment of nodes to roles in a computing environment. There are a plurality of resource thresholds for each of a plurality of roles, wherein each role defines a type of operations and node resource usage for the nodes, and a measurement of node resource usage for the nodes. For at least one of the node, operations are performed comprising: determining at least one of the roles assigned to the node; determining a role resource threshold for each role assigned to the node; determining whether the measured node resource usage at the node exceeds the determined role resource thresholds for each role assigned to the node, wherein the role having the determined resource threshold exceeded by the node resource usage comprises a role to adjust; and determining a modification of the assignment of nodes to the role to adjust.
US09331948B2	System and method for provisioning flows in a mobile network environment An example method is provided and includes receiving a request from a mobile node for an Internet protocol (IP) address and establishing a point-to-point (PPP) link for the mobile node. The method also includes provisioning a first tunnel associated with a first communication flow for the mobile node, and provisioning a sub-tunnel with the first tunnel for a second communication flow. The second communication flow is associated with a high priority type of data to be transported on the sub-tunnel. In more specific embodiments, a call admission control (CAC) mechanism is used to establish the sub-tunnel with the first tunnel for the second communication flow. Additionally, an inner label is installed in a header of a packet associated with the second communication flow in order to identify the sub-tunnel.
US09331944B2	Real-time network monitoring and subscriber identification with an on-demand appliance A system and a method are disclosed for selectively monitoring traffic in a service provider network. The system receives a notice for a beginning of a network data flow, which responds to a request from a user device for content at an origin server. The system then determines whether to monitor the data flow from the origin server to the user device. If so determined, the system collects statistic information of the data flow and stores the statistic information to a flow record in a database. The system also maps the flow record to a subscriber of the service provider network by analyzing the statistic information of the data flow and estimates bandwidth provided to the data flow by the service provider's network based on the analysis of the statistic information of the data flow.
US09331942B2	Apparatus and method for processing alternately configured longest prefix match tables A network switch includes a memory configurable to store alternate table representations of an individual trie in a hierarchy of tries. A prefix table processor accesses in parallel, using an input network address, the alternate table representations of the individual trie and searches for a longest prefix match in each alternate table representation to obtain local prefix matches. The longest prefix match from the local prefix matches is selected. The longest prefix match has an associated next hop index base address and offset value. A next hop index processor accesses a next hop index table in the memory utilizing the next hop index base address and offset value to obtain a next hop table pointer. A next hop processor accesses a next hop table in the memory using the next hop table pointer to obtain a destination network address.
US09331939B2	Message forwarding method, system, and relay agent device The present disclosure provides a message forwarding method and system, and a relay agent device. The forwarding method includes: receiving a first DHCPv6 message from a DHCPv6 client through a layer-3 interface; generating a Relay-forward message, where the first DHCPv6 message is encapsulated into the Relay-forward message and an identifier of the layer-3 interface is added therein; and sending the Relay-forward message to a DHCPv6 server.
US09331938B2	Extension of logical networks across layer 3 virtual private networks A method of manages a set of managed forwarding elements that forward data between machines. The method configures (1) a first managed forwarding element to operate in a first network that uses first and second address spaces that at least partially overlap with each other, (2) a second managed forwarding element to operate in a second network that uses the first address space, and (3) a third managed forwarding element to operate in a third network that uses the second address space. A machine in the second network and a machine in the third network have an identical address that belongs to both the first and second address spaces. The method directs the first managed forwarding element to connect to the second and third managed forwarding elements in a manner that enables the first managed forwarding element to forward data from a machine in the first network to the machine in the second network via the second managed forwarding element.
US09331937B2	Exchange of network state information between forwarding elements Some embodiments provide a network control system that includes a network controller and a set of hosts on which a set of managed forwarding elements operate. The network controller computes forwarding state information and pushes the computed forwarding state information to a set of managed forwarding elements to define forwarding behaviors of the managed forwarding elements. The managed forwarding elements receive the forwarding state information from the network controller and directly exchange with each other updates to the forwarding state information. The updates are exchanged between the managed forwarding elements without a network controller relaying the updates.
US09331936B2	Switch fabric support for overlay network features A method for communication in a packet data network including a subnet containing multiple nodes having respective ports. The method includes assigning respective local identifiers to the ports in the subnet, such that each port receives a respective local identifier that is unique within the subnet to serve as an address for traffic within the subnet that is directed to the port. In addition to the local identifiers, respective port identifiers are assigned to the ports, such that at least one of the port identifiers is shared by a plurality of the ports, but not by all the ports, in the subnet. The plurality of the ports are addressed collectively using the at least one of the port identifiers.
US09331935B2	Network device selection An embodiment may include circuitry that may be capable of selecting, from network devices, at least one network device to which at least one packet is to be transmitted. The network devices may be associated, at least in part, with each other in at least one link aggregation. The circuitry may select the at least one network device based at least in part upon a relative degree of affinity that the at least one network device may have with respect to at least one central processing unit (CPU) socket that may be associated, at least in part, with at least one flow to which the at least one packet may belong. The relative degree of affinity may be relative to respective degrees of affinity that one or more others of the network devices may have with respect to the at least one CPU socket. Many modifications are possible.
US09331933B2	Method and system for redirecting networked traffic A method of redirecting network traffic from a first, uncontrolled network to a second, controlled network by rewriting the Type of Service field in the header information of an Internet Protocol (IP) packet so as to include a service code indicating that the IP packet cannot access the uncontrolled network, thereby redirecting the network traffic to a second network element.
US09331932B2	Network system After sensor nodes are deployed, when an edge node accommodating individual sensor nodes has entered a high-load state, the load is distributed to a low-load edge node receiving the same semantic information.A sensor network system comprises a sensor node for generating semantic information by applying sensed numerical data to a defined information format, a broker node for transferring the semantic information generated by the sensor node, and the server node for registering a filter condition for semantic information to be acquired, and, when the broker node accommodating the sensor node has entered a high-load state, searches for another broker node which is in a low-load state and is capable of transferring the semantic information which has been transferred by the high-load broker node, and switches the accommodating relationship of the sensor node from the high-load broker node to the low-load broker node.
US09331928B2	Diagnostic agent in device that retrieves key performance indicators One disclosed embodiment of an electronic device includes an electronic device comprising an interface for communicating with at least one remote server, and one or more processors operably coupled to the interface and to memory, the one or more processors operable to, at least, create at least one device management object in a device management tree in memory of the electronic device, wherein a value of the at least one device management object is representative of a level of performance of a layer of a data communication protocol, establish a session of communication between the electronic device and a second location using the data communication protocol, receive, during the communication session, a device management message according to a device management protocol standard from the at least one remote server, the device management message accessing the value of the at least one device management object, and send the value of the at least one device management object to the at least one remote server.
US09331923B2	DS-Lite with BFD support A network node for detecting failures in a Dual Stack Lite (DS-Lite) tunnel, comprising a processor configured to obtain a domain name that identifies a first node, create the DS-Lite tunnel to the first node using the domain name, initiate a first bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) session to the first node, transmit a plurality of BFD data packets within the DS-Lite tunnel, and detect a failure within the DS-Lite tunnel using the BFD data packets.
US09331919B2	Method for summarizing flow information of network devices A method for organizing network flow information within a relational database relates to minimizing contention for the network flow information. In particular, data is generally aggregated at certain time intervals and separately organized. In this way, contention is decreased as analysis can occur on the separated existing flow records, which are optionally aggregated, while new raw flow records are stored. In another embodiment, the aggregated data can be re-aggregated at second, larger time intervals.
US09331913B2	Methods and devices for packet data network gateway suspension for accurate charging in an evolved packet system A method is implemented in a first node for charging of a mobile device in communication with the first node in a communications network. The method includes determining a number of data packets lost between the first node and the mobile device within a predetermined period. The method includes determining a packet loss rate using the number of data packets determined to be lost. The method includes determining whether a first predetermined condition is met based on an evaluation of the determined packet loss rate. The method also includes transmitting, by the first node after determination that the first predetermined condition is met, a notification to a second node causing the second node to stop charging the mobile device for packets sent to the mobile device.
US09331912B2	Violation sign condition setting supporting system, violation sign condition setting supporting method, and violation sign condition setting supporting program It is an object of the present invention to reduce a work load in setting a violation sign condition. A violation sign condition setting supporting system includes a violation-condition-similarity calculating unit 11 configured to calculate similarity between a violation condition for a set monitoring target system and a violation condition for another monitoring target system, a monitoring-data-similarity calculating unit 13 configured to calculate similarity between monitoring data of the set monitoring target system and monitoring data of the other monitoring target system, a first similarity determining unit 12 and a second similarity determining unit 14 configured to determine, on the basis of the similarity calculated by the violation-condition-similarity calculating unit 11 and the similarity calculated by the monitoring-data-similarity calculating unit 13, whether the violation sign condition for the other monitoring target system can be applied to setting of the violation sign condition for the set monitoring target system, and a screen generating and displaying unit 15 configured to cause a monitoring apparatus 3 to display the violation sign condition for the other monitoring target system determined as being able to be applied to the setting of the violation sign condition for the set monitoring target system.
US09331903B2	Systems and methods providing a mobile zero client The disclosure relates to a portable computing device configured to selectably switch between a wired zero client mode in which the portable computing device operates as a terminal for a host computer via a wired communication channel, a wireless zero client mode in which the portable computing device operates as a terminal for the host computer via a wireless communication channel, and a local mode in which the portable computing device operates independently from the host computer. The portable computing device may include one or more zero client processors that facilitate operation in the wired or wireless zero client mode and one or more local control processors that facilitate operation in the local mode. The portable computing device may include input devices used to receive inputs for the host computer during the wireless or wired zero client modes or for the local control processors during the local mode.
US09331902B2	Apparatus and method providing unified network management A unified network management framework enables a network operator to manage an entire network as if the operator is managing a single device.
US09331897B2	Recovery from multiple faults in a communications network A method of recovery from multiple faults in a communications network comprising: a. receiving an alarm signal from each of a plurality of faults in the communications network, each alarm signal comprising a respective alarm descriptor; b. for each alarm signal: i. analyzing the respective alarm descriptor to identify a possible root cause of the alarm signal; ii. providing a root cause metric for the identified possible root cause, the metric being indicative of a difficulty of repairing the respective fault; iii. determining a service impact caused to the communications network by the respective fault; iv. providing a service impact metric indicative of the service impact; v. combining the root cause metric and the service impact metric to generate an alarm metric; c. ranking the alarm signals in dependence on their respective alarm metrics; and d. causing the fault having the highest ranked alarm metric to be repaired first.
US09331895B2	Electronic apparatus and method for controlling electronic device thereof A method for controlling an electronic device and an electronic apparatus are provided. A position of the electronic apparatus in a spatial area is obtained. A scene of the spatial area where the electronic apparatus is located is displayed in a display unit. A position of a controllable target apparatus included in the scene is obtained by using the position of the electronic apparatus and searching in a target apparatus distribution database of the spatial area, and a relative position of the controllable target apparatus and the electronic apparatus is obtained. According to the obtained position of the controllable target apparatus, an apparatus image layer corresponding to the controllable target apparatus is displayed at a corresponding position of the scene. When the apparatus image layer receives an enabling signal, a controlling command is transmitted to the controllable target apparatus corresponding to the apparatus image layer.
US09331886B2	Magnetic field data modem A magnetic field modem (26) includes an electro-magnetic radiation shielded (90) transmitter section (34) and a receiver section (36). The electro-magnetic radiation shielded (90) transmitter section (34) modulates data and transmits the data via a magnetic field through a radio frequency shield (20). The receiver section (34) receives the magnetic field through the radio frequency shield (20) and demodulates the data. The transmitter section includes an oscillator (40), a modulator (50), an amplifier (70), a magnetic transducer (80), and a non-ferrous magnetic shield (90). The oscillator (40) generates a carrier signal. The modulator (50) connects to the oscillator (40) and modulates the carrier signal with the data. The amplifier (70) connects to the modulator (50) and amplifies the modulated carrier signal. The magnetic transducer (80) connects to the amplifier (70) and converts the modulated carrier signal into a modulated magnetic signal. The non-ferrous magnetic shield (90) shields the magnetic transducer (80) and blocks emitted electro-magnetic radiation.
US09331880B2	Methods and systems for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple zone partitioning Aspects of the invention include methods and devices for inserting data and pilot symbols into Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) frames having a time domain and a frequency domain. A method involves inserting in at least one zone of a first type a two dimensional array of data and pilot symbols in time and frequency and inserting in at least one zone of a second type a two dimensional array of data and pilot symbols in time and frequency. In some implementations the zone of the first type comprises common pilot symbols that can be detected by all receivers receiving the OFDM frame. In some implementations the zone of the second type comprises dedicated pilot symbols that are only detectable by a receiver that is aware of pre-processing used to encode the dedicated pilot symbols.
US09331877B2	Receiver of semiconductor apparatus and semiconductor system including the same A receiver of a semiconductor apparatus includes a first buffer unit configured to buffer a first positive input signal and a first negative input signal having a phase opposite the phase of the first positive input signal and to output the buffered first positive input signal as a first positive transmission signal and to output the buffered first negative input signal as a first negative transmission signal in response to a first enable signal, a second buffer unit configured to buffer a second positive input signal and a second negative input signal having a phase opposite the phase of the second positive input signal and to output the buffered second positive input signal as a second positive transmission signal and to output the buffered second negative input signal as a second negative transmission signal in response to a second enable signal, is and an output unit configured to invert one of the first and second positive transmission signals and to output the inverted one of the first and second positive transmission signals as a positive output signal, and to invert one of the first and second negative transmission signals and to output the inverted one of the first and second negative transmission signals as a negative output signal.
US09331876B2	Method, apparatus and system for controlling carrier power amplifier of base station A method, an apparatus, and a system for controlling a carrier Power Amplifier (PA) of a Base Station (BS) in a network communication field are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining power control information of the carrier PA at a next timeslot; and adjusting working voltage of the carrier PA at the next timeslot according to the power control information. An apparatus and a system for controlling a carrier PA of a BS are also disclosed. The method, apparatus, and system can reduce energy consumption of the BS and improve energy efficiency of the BS.
US09331874B2	Wireless communication system and wireless communication method A wireless communication system including a base station and a plurality of terminals, the wireless communication system uses a frame including a plurality of sub-frames, the sub-frames including a plurality of data symbols and guard intervals between the data symbols, each sub-frame being transmitted every frame period, and a different guard interval length being available for each sub-frame; configured to insert a guard interval of a fixed length between each of the data symbols in a specified sub-frame of the frame; a placement information determination section configured to determine placement information pertaining to a placement of a sub-frame to which guard intervals different in length from the guard interval of the fixed length are to be applied; and configured to multiplex the placement information determined by the placement information determination section into a transmission; wherein the plurality of terminals is notified of information containing the placement information.
US09331872B2	Implementing PVLANs in a large-scale distributed virtual switch In one embodiment, a list of source identifiers is maintained at a virtual switch. These source identifiers are allowed to send packets through the virtual switch to ports in a private virtual local area network (PVLAN). When a packet is received at the virtual switch from a particular source destined for a particular port in the PVLAN, the virtual switch determines whether a particular identifier associated with the particular source matches one of the source identifiers in the list. If that particular source identifier is not on the list, the packet is prevented from being forwarded to the particular port in the PVLAN.
US09331868B2	Method of bus virtualization in computing machine intercommunications To reduce performance losses and costs associated with serializing parallel communications when communicating with other computing devices over a local area network (“LAN”) or a wide area network (“WAN”), bus virtualization is provided to maintain parallelization for inter machine communications over a network. Control lines and data lines associated with a parallel bus communication can be received by a network adapter, and instead of serializing the communications, the network adapter can map each of the control and data lines to respective virtual local area networks (“VLAN”). Multiple VLANs can exist together on a LAN or WAN while logically segmented, allowing the respective VLANs to facilitate communications for the control and data lines over the network.
US09331860B2	Virtual world integration with a collaborative application Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for virtual world integration with a collaborative computing application. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for virtual world and collaborative computing application integration can be provided. The method can include loading a virtual world, detecting a posting in a collaborative application, and creating an object with the posting in the virtual world. The method further can include detecting a creation of an object in the virtual world including content, and creating a posting in the collaborative application with the content from the object in the virtual world. In one aspect of the embodiment, creating an object with the posting in the virtual world can include determining a topic for the posting, identifying a place in the virtual world corresponding to the topic, and creating the object in the identified place.
US09331858B2	Persistent party rooms Using persistent party rooms, including: initializing, via a computing device, a global array according to a hierarchical server architecture; determining, via the computing device, whether or not to create a new persistent party room or to join a previously bookmarked persistent party room; creating, via the computing device, the new persistent party room within a position indexed in the global array; and joining, via the computing device, the previously bookmarked persistent party room by searching for the previously bookmarked party room utilizing the global array.
US09331855B2	Apparatus, system, and method for providing attribute identity control associated with a processor Described herein are an apparatus, system, and method for attribute identity control in a processor. The apparatus comprises a logic unit including a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag comprising a non-volatile memory; and a processor operable to access the non-volatile memory, wherein the non-volatile memory for storing an attribute identity associated with a group of processors, the attribute identity being different from an identity of the processor.
US09331850B2	System and method for secure communication of components inside self-service automats Method to secure the communication of components within self-service automats that are linked to each other by a bus system, having a transmitter and a receiver, characterized in that data are exchanged as tupels (C,A,R,N,Z) on the transport layer of the bus system where C are the message data M encrypted with an encryption key, A are the message data M authenticated with an authentication key, R represents the role of a component on the bus system of active or passive participants, N represents a message counter, Z represents a session counter.
US09331849B2	Information setting method and wireless communication system An information setting method for a setting device includes the following processes. A first certificate and identification information are obtained from a wireless device to be caused to join a wireless network managed by a management device. The first certificate certifies that the wireless device is a formal wireless device and includes a first public key. The identification information is information that identifies the wireless device. A second certificate is obtained from the management device. The second certificate certifies that the management device is a formal management device and includes a second public key. Apparatus information required for the wireless device to join the wireless network is encoded using the first public key and is output to the wireless device. Management information including the apparatus information and the identification information associated with the apparatus information is encoded using the second public key and is output to the management device.
US09331842B2	Time synchronization and controlled asynchronization of remote trigger signals A mechanism is disclosed for transmitting pulses onto respective cables so that the pulses arrive at the remote ends of the respective cables in synchronized (or controllably asynchronized) fashion. First, the round-trip time of flight of each cable is measured using speedy delivery pulses, i.e., pulses whose leading edges have exponential shape. Second, a calculation is performed to determine the input delay(s) between the pulses that would produce desired output delay(s). For example, it may be desirable that the pulses arrive at the respective remote ends at the same time, in which case the desired output delay(s) is (are) zero. Third, the same speedy delivery pulses are transmitted onto the respective cables so that the interpulse delay(s) conform to the computed input delay(s). Thus, the desired output delay(s) are achieved at the remote ends of the cables.
US09331841B2	Data synchronization apparatus Provided is a data synchronization apparatus. The data synchronization apparatus includes a signal conversion block converting individual serial digital signals into parallel digital signals in response to a load signal and converting the parallel digital signals into synchronized serial digital signals in response to a synchronization load signal which does not overlap the load signal, a clock/load signal generator outputting a reference load signal for generating the synchronization load signal to the signal conversion block, a multiplexer multiplexing the synchronized serial digital signals, and a first serial-to-parallel (S/P) converting the multiplexed signal into parallel signals.
US09331826B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system The embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for transmitting control information by a base station in a wireless communication system, wherein the method comprises a step of transmitting a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The downlink control information of the PDCCH may include an indicator indicating whether or not a reference signal is transmitted in a time domain corresponding to the subframe in which the PDCCH is transmitted.
US09331823B2	Wireless communication apparatus and method A wireless communication method for a wireless communication apparatus having multiple transceivers is provided. The multiple transceivers correspond to multiple component carriers. At least one transceiver connects to at least one first base station via at least one of the component carriers. The wireless communication method includes: performing communication according to multiple component carriers corresponding to the multiple transceivers; and while performing communication by simultaneously utilizing the multiple transceivers, selecting a first transceiver from the multiple transceivers to receive information of at least one second base station.
US09331821B2	Data retransmission method, apparatus, and system The present invention discloses a data retransmission method, apparatus, and system, and relates to the field of communications. In a data retransmission method, a special codeword is determined according to a difference between a number of layers selected by a transmitter and the number of layers that need to be occupied for retransmitting a codeword. The number of layers that need to be occupied by the codeword to be retransmitted is smaller than the number of layers selected by the transmitter and no new data needs to be transmitted and wherein the number of transport blocks comprised in the special codeword is equal to the difference. The codeword that needs to be retransmitted and the special codeword are allocated to each transport layer through a layer mapping.
US09331817B2	Relay backhaul uplink HARQ protocol The present invention relates to a method for configuring a retransmission protocol on the uplink between a network node and a relay node in a mobile communication system, the configuration being performed at a network node or at a relay node, and to the corresponding relay node apparatus and network node apparatus capable of configuring the retransmission protocol. In particular, the number of transmission processes is determined based on the position of time intervals available for the transmission and may be selected in order to control the round trip time of the retransmission protocol. Once the number of transmission processes has been configured, the transmission processes are mapped on the available time intervals in a predefined order and repetitively.
US09331814B2	Hybrid automatic repeat-request combination for wireless transmissions In one embodiment, a method for data communication may include receiving a first set of soft bit values in a Hybrid Automatic Repeat-Request (HARQ) buffer using a first bit width. The method may also include soft combining the first set of soft bit values with a second set of soft bit values to obtain a set of combined soft bit values. The method may also include transforming the set of combined soft bit values from the first bit width to a decoder input bit width to obtain a set of transformed soft bit values.
US09331809B2	DWA control in an OLT with decrease in margin of bandwidth utilization caused by bandwidth reallocation minimized In a TDM/WDM-PON using cyclic sleep, a controller in an OLT calculates the total bandwidth in use for each OSU, and compares the total bandwidth with a threshold. If the calculated bandwidth exceeds the threshold, the controller determines the number of ONUs staying in sleep mode among the ONUs managed by the assignor OSU. If such an ONU exists, that ONU is selected as an ONU whose management is to be changed. From the total bandwidth in use of an assignor OSU from which the management is to be changed, a bandwidth allocated to the ONU which is in sleep mode is subtracted to thereby obtain a bandwidth, which will be compared with the threshold. If the calculated bandwidth exceeds the threshold, from among active ONUs managed by the assignor OSU an ONU whose management is to be changed is selected.
US09331808B2	Optical transmission apparatus and optical transmission method An optical transmission apparatus includes: an optical amplifier configured to amplify a wavelength multiplexing light to be transmitted, the wavelength multiplexing light being input thereto; a combining unit configured to combine a plurality of non-signal lights in such a way that angles formed between polarization planes of the plurality of non-signal lights of a wavelength of wavelengths belonging to an amplification band of the optical amplifier become equal, the wavelength being different from a wavelength of a polarization multiplexing signal light; and a wavelength multiplexer configured to generate the wavelength multiplexing light to be input to the optical amplifier by multiplexing the plurality of non-signal lights combined by the combining unit and the polarization multiplexing signal light.
US09331805B2	Network and method for implementing a high-availability grand master clock In a network based on IEEE 1588, comprising a plurality of nodes (201, 501) and a plurality of connections where each connection connects at least two nodes to allow communication between nodes including the exchange of messages according to a network protocol, the synchronization of IEEE 1588 is improved by allowing multiple grandmaster clocks (701) to operate simultaneously in the system. Thus, the re-election protocol of IEEE 1588 is made obsolete. For this, a multitude of nodes form a subsystem implementing a high-availability grand master clock (301) according to the IEEE 1588 Standard, wherein the subsystem is configured to tolerate the failure of at least one of said nodes forming said subsystem. Bi-directional communication link (401) are configured for physically connecting a IEEE 1588 Master clocks (201) and/or IEEE 1588 Slave clocks (201) to the subsystem implementing a high-availability grand master clock (301).
US09331802B2	Identifying scope ESG fragments and enabling hierarchy in the scope Provided are apparatuses and methods in a digital broadcast transmission system for identifying a desired ESG fragment in a list of ESG fragments. The list of ESG fragments or bootstrap ESG may be created by a designated service provider, operator or other apparatus or system. The bootstrap ESG may contain information on, or refer to, secondary ESG fragments. In addition, the secondary ESG fragments may contain information on, or refer to, other ESG fragments in a hierarchical arrangement. A mobile terminal may identify a desired ESG fragment from the bootstrap ESG by identifying criteria within the bootstrap ESG corresponding to a secondary ESG, for example.
US09331801B2	Operation panel structure and control method and control apparatus for mixing system As viewed from the front of an operation panel, adjustment sections for individual input channels are positioned on the operation panel close to a human operator, and a display, a control section for setting an equalizer process, compressor process etc. for one selected channel and a signal delivery control section for setting signal delivery to mixing buses for the selected channel are positioned in a horizontal row remotely from the human operator. Operators in the delivery control section are varied in function in accordance with a selected operation mode. For example, in a mix send mode, a plurality of rotary operators are set to function as send level adjustment operators for the respective input channels so as to adjust send levels to a given mixing bus, while, in a mix master mode, the rotary operators are set to function as output gain adjustment operators for the respective mixing buses.
US09331797B2	RF receiver with testing capability An RF receiver device includes a semiconductor chip in a chip package, and a test signal generator integrated in the chip. The test signal generator generates an RF test signal including first information. An RF receiver circuit integrated in the chip receives an RF input signal, down-converts the RF input signal into an intermediate frequency (IF) or base band, and digitizes the down-converted signal to obtain a digital signal. An RF receive channel includes a coupler having first and second input ports and an output port. The output port is coupled to the input of the RF receiver circuit, the first input port receives an antenna signal and the second input port receives the test signal from the test signal generator. A signal processor is integrated in the chip and determines, during a test cycle, whether the first information in the digital signal matches a predetermined criterion.
US09331796B2	Mobile user terminal, mobile communication system, base station, and communication method A mobile user terminal, which communicates with a base station in an intermittent fashion, the mobile user terminal includes a radio transmitter which transmits downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal to a base station in an intermittent fashion; and a transmit time controller which synchronizes transmit time of the downlink quality information and transmit time of the uplink pilot signal relative to each other, such that the downlink quality information and the uplink pilot signal are sent in adjacent different timings in a period corresponding to a state of intermittent communicate.
US09331795B2	Transmission arrangement and method for analyzing an amplified transmission signal A transmission arrangement is disclosed having an amplifier which is set up to amplify a transmission signal and to provide it as an amplified transmission signal in differential form, an analysis circuit for determining a property of the amplified transmission signal, and a differential feedback path which is set up to supply the amplified transmission signal to the analysis circuit in differential form.
US09331793B2	Controller for network having substantially fixed topology Automotive area networks (AAN) have a substantially fixed network topology, meaning that the physical media used for communications between devices included in the AAN is known. For example, the physical connections within an AAN, sometimes provided by wiring harnesses, can include fixed lengths of twisted pairs of wire (“twisted pairs”). Pre-compensation parameters related to characteristics of the twisted pairs can be determined at the factory, and loaded into the memory of devices connected to the AAN. These pre-compensation parameters are used to improve the fast wake up and link acquisition times of connected devices. Various characteristics of the physical communication channel are measured or estimated as a function of mechanical, ingress, climactic, and environmental variations (MICE), and used to update the pre-compensation parameters.
US09331791B2	Transfer of power and data Apparatus and methods are described, including a method for transmission of power and data during a plurality of consecutive time intervals. During a power-transmission portion of each of the plurality of consecutive time intervals, a power signal, in which no data is encoded, is transmitted. During a power-and-data-transmission portion of each of the plurality of consecutive time intervals, a power-and-data signal, in which is encoded a single bit, is transmitted. The power-and-data signal includes: (a) a high-level power-and-data signal portion, and (b) a low-level power-and-data signal portion. Other applications are also described.
US09331790B2	Fully digital CMOS based optical receiver A completely digital optical receiver is provided. The optical receiver includes a photodiode configured to provide a photodiode output responsive to an on-off keyed (OOK) optical input. Two or more digital inverters connected in series with each other are configured to receive the photodiode output and provide an amplified digital output. A digital clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit receives the amplified digital output and provides a clock output and a data output. A digital photodiode discharging circuit is connected to the photodiode and controlled by the clock output of the CDR circuit.
US09331788B2	Communication device and communication method A communication device includes a signal correcting unit that performs signal correction on an electric signal indicating information to be transmitted to reduce signal deterioration occurring in transmission of the electric signal; a conversion unit that converts the electric signal subjected to the signal correction into a digital signal on which information indicating the signal correction performed by the signal correcting unit is superimposed; and a light-emitting element that emits light in accordance with the digital signal converted by the conversion unit.
US09331785B2	Method and apparatus of building a coaxial convergence layer in ethernet passive optical network (PON) over coaxial network (EPoC) An apparatus comprising a data framer comprising a physical layer protocol stack comprising a coax convergence layer, a coax framing layer next to the convergence layer, wherein the coax framing layer is configured to decompose and assemble data packets in a coax network, a coax coding layer next to the coax frame layer, wherein the coax coding layer is configured to protect the coax transmissions from impairments, a coax modulation layer next to the coax coding layer, wherein the coax modulation layer is configured to modulate the data according to a coax physical layer (PHY), and a radio frequency layer next to the coax modulation layer and configured to interface to an electrical medium for a coaxial network.
US09331783B2	Method for compensating chromatic dispersion and associated equipment A method and device for compensating, within a node of an optical network, chromatic dispersion undergone by optical packets transmitted within time slots of wavelength division multiplexed channels along at least one link of the optical network, a time slot duration corresponding to the sum of a packet duration and an inter-packet gap duration. The method and device demultiplexes the wavelength division multiplexed channels into a plurality of bands, and transmits the bands, via a respective plurality of delay lines having predetermined delays, toward a respective plurality of packet add/drop structures comprising a coherent receiver.
US09331782B2	Optical transmission system An optical transmission system includes a lens wafer to couple light into an optical transmission medium. The lens wafer includes a set of collimating lenses on a first side of the lens wafer, the collimating lenses to collimate beams of light from a plurality of light sources. The lens wafer also includes a focusing element on a second side of the wafer opposing the first side. The focusing element is to focus the collimated beams of light into an optical transmission medium.
US09331779B2	Information communication method for obtaining information using ID list and bright line image An information communication method is provided for obtaining information from a subject. The information communication method includes transmitting position information indicating a position of an image sensor used to capture the subject, and receiving an ID list that is associated with the position indicated by the position information. The information communication method also includes setting an exposure time of the image sensor so that in a bright line corresponding to an exposure line included in the image sensor appears according to a change in luminance of the subject. The information communication method further includes obtaining a bright line image including the bright line, obtaining information by demodulating data specified by a cycle length or frequency of a stripe pattern of the bright line included in the obtained bright line image, and searching the ID list for identification information that includes the obtained information.
US09331778B2	Information provision system, server system, terminal device, information provision method, and recording medium A portable terminal sends to a second server sound contents request information comprising a tag ID corresponding to light received from an illumination device, the light-receiving position on the light-receiving surface, and the area ratio of the light-receiving range to the light-receiving surface in order to acquire sound contents. The second server 700 combines individual sound contents corresponding to the tag ID in the sound contents request information, first basic sound contents corresponding to the light-receiving position, and second basic sound contents corresponding to the area ratio. Then, the second server creates sound contents for giving information about the object present at the location where the illumination device emitting the light corresponding to the tag ID is installed and the direction and distance of the object when seen from the portable terminal and sends the sound contents to the portable terminal.
US09331776B2	Extended range electro-optic voltage accessory A test and measurement system including an electro-optical voltage accessory with an electro-optical sensor configured to output a modulated output signal, a device under test connected to the electro-optical voltage accessory with a variable input signal that exceeds a linear input range of the optical sensor, and a processor. The processor is configured to modify the modulated output signal from the electro-optical voltage accessory to reconstruct the variable input signal of the electro-optical voltage accessory that exceeds the linear input range of the optical sensor.
US09331774B2	Systems and methods for segmenting a satellite field of view for detecting radio frequency signals A satellite system for detecting radio frequency signals from space including at least two sensors, a processing unit and at least one receiver. Each sensor receives a plurality of radio frequency signals containing messages and outputs a sensor signal that is representative of the plurality of radio frequency signals. The processing unit selects a predetermined number of mathematical combinations of the sensor signals and combines the sensor signals into the predetermined number of mathematical combinations to produce a plurality of zone signals. The characteristics of each zone signal are undefined at the time the predetermined number of mathematical combinations is selected. The receiver extracts the messages contained in the zone signals.
US09331771B2	Systems and methods for wireless communication using polarization diversity According to various embodiments, systems and methods are provided for improving signal quality and signal reliability over wireless communication using polarization diversity. Some embodiments use polarization diversity on a wireless channel to address and compensate for fading conditions such as non-frequency selective fading (also referred to as power fading, attenuation fading, and flat fading) and frequency selective fading (also referred to as multipath fading and dispersive fading). For example, some embodiments utilize a horizontal signal and a vertical signal on the same wireless channel when wirelessly communicating data between a transmitter and a receiver to address a fading condition.
US09331770B2	Method and system for precoding open loop spatial multiplexing and precoding indication method The present document provides a precoding method and system for open loop spatial multiplexing and a precoding indication method. The method includes: in transmission resources, a base station precodes N-layer data to be sent by using w a = [ u a a · u a ] , wherein ua is a vector or matrix related to a transmission resource location i; α is a real number or a complex number related to the transmission resource location i; and N is an integer less than or equal to the number of base station transmission antennas.
US09331760B2	Method and apparatus for leveraging spatial/location/user interaction sensors to aid in transmit and receive-side beamforming in a directional wireless network A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus is embodied in a device that determines a first set of antenna weights for communicating a first communication ray, detects a change in a physical orientation of the device, determines a mapping between the first set of antenna weights, the detected change in the physical orientation, and a second set of antenna weights for communicating a second communication ray, communicates the second communication ray based on the second set of antenna weights.
US09331758B2	Method and apparatus for sub-sampling of a codebook in LTE-A system The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for sub-sampling of a codebook in the LTE-A system where a precoding matrix W is a product of two matrices W1 and W2, i.e. W=W1W2, codebooks for W, W1 and W2 are denoted as C, C1 and C2 respectively, and r indicates a rank. The method includes sub-sampling the codebook C such that the sub-sampled codebook C has a size of equal to or less than 4 bits. In the sub-sampling, codewords evenly distributed in the codebook C are extracted, where some or all of the codewords are in a form of discrete Fourier transform (DFT) vector to be suitable for evenly linear arrays, and the other codewords are suitable for cross-polarized linear arrays.
US09331756B2	Method and system for wireless communications, corresponding network and computer program product A multiple-user multiple input-multiple output wireless communication system uses a set of multiple subcarriers arranged in plural subsets or resource blocks. Precoding of signals transmitted from a base station to user terminals involves acquiring channel state information on the connection channel between the base station and user terminals in the plurality. Channel quality indicators are detected with user terminals for respective subsets of resource blocks to produce user/resource block pairs having associated channel quality indicators. The user/resource block pairs are subjected to selection as a function of the channel quality indicators associated therewith so that precoding is performed by acquiring channel state information exclusively for the user/resource block pairs surviving the selection as a function of the channel quality indicators and, possibly, other selection steps as a function of other parameters, such as, speed, maximum bit rate, and direction of arrival or angular spread in a multiple-stage selection process.
US09331755B2	Method and a device for transferring OFDM symbols representative of plural streams A method and device for transferring OFDM symbols representative of at least a first and a second stream from a source including a first number of antenna to at least one receiver. The source demultiplexes the first stream to extract at least one first pilot sequence and first data and the second stream to extract at least one second pilot sequence and second data, multiplies the at least one first pilot sequence and first data by a first coefficient, the at least one second pilot sequence and second data by a second coefficient different from the first coefficient, sums first multiplied data and second multiplied data, multiplexes the sum, the at least one first and second multiplied pilot sequences to form the OFDM symbols, and transfers the OFDM symbols.
US09331753B2	Terminal apparatus and method for transmitting a reference signal Provided are a radio communication terminal apparatus and a radio transmission method by which intersymbol interference of DM-RS of a CoMP terminal and a Non-CoMP terminal can be reduced. A CoMP set setting unit (102) sets the cell IDs of all cells in the CoMP set in a cell selection unit (104), and a serving cell setting unit (103) sets the cell ID of the serving cell in the cell selection unit (104). The cell selection unit (104) selects the cell ID having a number closest to the cell ID of the serving cell from the cells in the CoMP set. A sequence information calculation unit (106) derives a sequence group number from the selected cell ID, and the sequence information calculation unit (106) calculates a sequence number from the derived sequence group number and a transmission bandwidth of the DM-RS.
US09331751B2	Method and system for characterizing an array antenna using near-field measurements Described embodiments calibrate an array antenna using near-field antenna measurements individually for each antenna element in an antenna under test (AUT). A signal is received at a first AUT antenna element from an antenna probe assembly by transmitting from the antenna probe assembly at each of multiple known probe locations in a near-field of the AUT. A signal is received at each probe location by transmitting from the first antenna element of the AUT to the antenna probe assembly. The received signals are combined into a combined signal for the first antenna element that de-correlates multi-path in the combination result. The combined signal is processed to generate a calibration coefficient for the first AUT antenna element. Remote boundary condition (RBC) testing is performed to reduce temporal instability. The multiple known probe locations lie on one of the following: a planar surface, a cylindrical surface, and a spherical surface.
US09331748B2	Method and device for modulating an active load with damping of auto oscillation A method for sending data by inductive coupling includes: extracting an antenna signal from an antenna circuit, extracting from the antenna signal a first periodic signal, producing a second periodic signal by way of a synchronous oscillator, placing the oscillator in a free oscillation mode and applying to the antenna circuit the second periodic signal, modifying the impedance of the antenna circuit, restoring the amplitude of the antenna signal, then resynchronizing the oscillator on the first periodic signal.
US09331736B2	Method and apparatus for processing signals at time division duplex transceiver Provided is a time division duplex (TDD) transceiver. A receiver chain processing received signals and a transmitter chain processing signals to be transmitted share an electronic component used in a circuit, such as an amplifier, a mixer, a filter, etc., so that the size of a semiconductor die needed to manufacture a radio frequency (RF) chip can be reduced.
US09331735B1	GaN based active cancellation circuit for high power simultaneous transmit and receive systems A cancellation circuit for a simultaneous transmit and receive system includes a variable attenuator, a variable coarse true time delay a variable fine true time delay, the variable fine true time delay having a cancellation signal output, a circulator coupled to a transmit signal and having a receive signal input and having an output having a sum of the receive signal and a leakage signal, the leakage signal being a portion of the transmit signal leaking through the circulator, a 180° hybrid having a delta output having a difference between the sum of the receive signal and a leakage signal and the cancellation signal, and a control circuit coupled to the delta output and the variable attenuator, the variable coarse true time delay, and the variable fine true time delay to adjust an amplitude and phase of the cancellation signal.
US09331734B2	SoC transceiver with single ended/differential modes, tunable capacitor and latch A system on a chip (SoC) includes a transceiver comprising a transmitter and a receiver, wherein at least one of the transmitter and receiver has a configurable portion that can be configured to operate in a single ended mode and in a differential mode. Two interface pins are provided for coupling the transceiver to an antenna via a matching network, wherein the two interface pins are shareably coupled to the transmitter and to the receiver. A tunable capacitor is coupled to differential signal lines of the configurable portion, wherein the tunable capacitor is configured to be tuned to optimize impedance matching of the configurable portion for each mode of operation.
US09331731B2	Wireless charge wristband-type mobile communication device A wireless charge wristband-type mobile communication device includes a base. The base has an engaging trough. A power supply coil and a first charge coil are embedded in the base. The base is provided with two wristbands. Each wristband is provided with at least one first battery therein. The coil of the base is electrically connected with the first battery. The engaging trough is provided with a display. A second charge coil and a second battery electrically connected with the second charge coil are embedded in the display. The display is coupled by the engaging trough. The electrical energy can be transmitted in the way of electromagnetic induction to the display anytime and anywhere. During electrical energy transmission, the user can take the display along at will. Besides, through a wireless power supply device, the display can be charged wirelessly to enhance the convenience of the display.
US09331730B2	Wireless terminal with reduced SAR peak value and method for reducing SAR peak value by using the wireless terminal A wireless terminal with a reduced Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) peak value and a method for reducing an SAR peak value by using the wireless terminal are disclosed. The wireless terminal with a reduced SAR peak value includes a first antenna configured to receive or transmit a communication signal, and further includes: a second antenna configured to feed a coupling signal when the first antenna receives or transmits the communication signal, and a signal processing module configured to process the coupling signal to reduce an SAR peak value of the communication signal for a human body. The energy of a superposed signal in a human body orientation is reduced by superposing the coupling signal with the communication signal, so as to reduce the SAR peak value effectively.
US09331724B2	Lane-to-lane de-skew for transmitters In a method relating generally to starting a plurality of transmitters, a sequence is initiated for each of the plurality of transmitters having corresponding data buffers. Latency is set for each of the data buffers responsive to execution of the sequence. The sequence includes: obtaining a read address associated with a read clock signal; obtaining a write address associated with a write clock signal; determining a difference between the read address and the write address; asserting a flag signal associated with the difference; and adjusting the read clock signal to change the difference to locate a change of state location for the flag signal to set the latency for a data buffer of the data buffers.
US09331723B2	Perturbation-based dynamic measurement of antenna impedance in real-time Devices and methods are disclosed for real-time calibration of a tunable matching network that matches the dynamic impedance of an antenna in a receiver. Processing logic is operable to solve multiple non-linear equations to determine the reflection coefficient of the antenna. The tunable matching network is repeatedly perturbed and the power received by the antenna is measured after each perturbation at the same node in the matching network. The measured power values are used by an optimizer in converging to a solution that provides the reflection coefficient of the antenna. The reflection coefficient of the antenna may be used to determine the input impedance of the antenna. The elements of the matching circuit may then be adjusted to match the input impedance of the antenna.
US09331721B2	Systems, devices, and methods for continuous time signal processing The present disclosure shows new mechanisms for sampling an input signal. In particular, some embodiments of the present disclosure include a new type of a level-crossing sampling mechanism called a derivative level-crossing sampling (D-LCS). At a high level, D-LCS involves quantizing the derivative of an input signal when the derivative of the input signal crosses one of the quantization thresholds. For certain class of signals, the derivative of the input signal can vary at a slower speed compared to the amplitude of the input signal. Therefore, by sampling the derivative of the input signal, instead of the input signal itself, the number of samples per unit time can be reduced.
US09331719B2	Electronic device with antennas isolated using phase shifter An electronic device may be provided with a primary antenna that is used for transmitting and receiving signals and a secondary antenna that is used for receiving signals. The primary and secondary antennas may be used together in a diversity arrangement when receiving signals. The electronic device may have a transceiver. A phase shifter may be interposed between the transceiver and the secondary antenna. Control circuitry may select a communications band of interest for transmitting signals with the primary antenna. The control circuitry can adjust the phase shifter in real time based on which communications band of interest has been selected for transmission with the primary antenna. The phase shifter may impose a phase shift on signals carried between the secondary antenna and the transceiver that ensures that primary antenna efficiency degradation associated with the presence of the secondary antenna in the vicinity of the primary antenna is avoided.
US09331716B2	Systems and methods for area efficient data encoding The present inventions are related to systems and methods for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for data encoding.
US09331714B1	Circuit structure and method for high-speed forward error correction One embodiment relates a method of receiving data from a multi-lane data link. The data is encoded with an FEC code having a block length. The data is FEC decoded at a bus width which is specified within particular constraints. One constraint is that the FEC decoder bus width in bits is an exact multiple of a number of bits per symbol in the data. Another constraint may be that the FEC code block length is an exact multiple of the FEC decoder bus width. Another constraint may be that the FEC decoder bus width is an exact multiple of a number of serial lanes of the multi-lane interface. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed.
US09331712B1	Compressed caching in a virtual memory system Data compression systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed. For each successive input word of an input stream, it is determined whether the input word matches an entry in a lookback table. The lookback table is updated in response to the input word. Input words may be of a number of data types, including zero runs and full or partial matches with an entry in the lookback table. A codeword is generated by entropy encoding a data type corresponding to the input word. The lookback table may be indexed by the position of the input word in the input stream.
US09331708B2	Estimation of imperfections of a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter A method of operating a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter for conversion of an analog input signal to a digital output signal having a sample rate R comprises, for each of at least some activations of an array of constituent analog-to-digital converters, defining first and second sets of the constituent analog-to-digital converters, feeding the analog input of each analog-to-digital converter of the first set with a reference value for imperfection measurements and clocking each analog-to-digital converter of the first set with one of the timing signals, feeding the analog input of each of analog-to-digital converter of the second set with the analog input signal for generation of an intermediate constituent digital output signal at the digital output and clocking each analog-to-digital converter of the second set with one of the timing signals, wherein no timing signal is used to clock two or more of analog-to-digital converters of the second set.
US09331706B1	High-speed analog-to-digital conversion system with flash assisted parallel SAR architecture The present invention is directed to signal processing systems and methods thereof. In various embodiments, the present invention provides an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) system that includes a flash ADC portion and a time-interleaved parallel SAR portion. For an n-bit ADC process, the flash ADC portion converts k MSBs of the n bits during a single cycle, and the SAR portion converts n−k LSBs in m number of cycles. The SAR portion includes a number of SAR channels that perform A/D conversion in parallel, and the k MSB from the course flash converter is verified for errors by the SAR portion and allows a net saving of the power consumption by reducing the number of fine resolution SARs. There are other embodiments as well.
US09331701B1	Receivers and methods of enabling the calibration of circuits receiving input data A data interface enabling the calibration of input data comprises a first data receiver having a first plurality of input data lines coupled to receive a corresponding first plurality of data bits associated with a data bus, the first data receiver having a first control circuit enabling calibration of the first plurality of input data lines; and a second data receiver having a second plurality of input data lines coupled to receive a corresponding second plurality of data bits associated with the data bus, the second data receiver having a second control circuit enabling calibration of the second plurality of data lines. The first plurality of input data lines of the first data receiver are calibrated in parallel with the second plurality of input data lines of the second data receiver.
US09331700B2	Metal-insulator phase transition flip-flop A metal-insulator phase transition (MIT) flip-flop employs a selected one of a pair of bi-stable operating states to represent a logic state of the MIT flip-flop. The MIT flip-flop includes an MIT device having a current-controlled negative differential resistance (CC-NDR) to provide the pair of bi-stable operating states. A bi-stable operating state of the pair is capable of being selected by a programing voltage. Once the bi-stable operating state is selected, the bi-stable operating state is capable of being maintained by a bias voltage applied to the MIT device.
US09331696B2	Signal sensing circuit A signal sensing circuit is provided. The signal sensing circuit comprises a first current-to-voltage circuit, a second current-to-voltage circuit and an impedance shifting circuit. The first current-to-voltage circuit converts a first input current into a first voltage that is directly proportional to a first impedance. The second current-to-voltage circuit converts a second input current into a second voltage that is directly proportional to a second impedance. The impedance shifting circuit generates a third voltage according to the first voltage, wherein the first impedance/the second impedance=K(first voltage/third voltage), where K is a real number.
US09331695B2	Semiconductor device An object of the present invention is to realize an example of configuration that approximately represents a state of quantum spin in a semiconductor device where components as a basic configuration unit are arrayed so as to search a ground state of Ising model. There is disclosed a semiconductor device provided with plural units each of which is equipped with a first memory cell that stores a value which represents one spin of the Ising model by three or more states, a second memory cell that stores an interaction coefficient showing interaction from another spin which exerts interaction on the one spin and a logical circuit that determines the next state of the one spin on the basis of a function having a value which represents a state of the other spin and the interaction coefficient as a constant or a variable.
US09331691B2	Control unit, in particular for a vehicle component The control unit, in particular for a vehicle component, is provided with a manually actuable control element (12) for selecting and optionally for activating a control function, wherein the control element (12) can be moved manually into a selection and/or trigger position for selecting and optionally for activating a control function. In addition, the control unit has a capacitive tactile sensor (41) for identifying manual touching contact with the control element (12) and optionally identifying the event of a hand approaching the control element (12), wherein the tactile sensor (41) has a first and a second electrode (38, 40), which have electrode sides which substantially face one another and are spaced apart from one another. The first electrode (38) is arranged on the control element (12). The second electrode (40) is arranged immovably. The two electrodes (38, 40) extend with respect to one of the two dimensions thereof spanning the electrode sides parallel to the direction of the relative movement of the two electrodes (38, 40), said relative movement being performed as the control element (12) is moved manually into the selection and/or trigger position, wherein the size of the overlapping areas (34, 36) of the opposing electrode sides, which overlapping areas are provided during the relative movement of the two electrodes (38, 40), remains substantially the same.
US09331689B2	Power supply circuit and semiconductor device including the same A power supply circuit includes a first switch, a voltage regulator circuit connected to the first switch, and a control circuit for controlling the first switch. The control circuit includes a second switch, a third switch, and a voltage generation circuit. For controlling the first switch, first voltage output from the voltage generation circuit is applied to the first switch through the second switch, and second voltage output from the voltage generation circuit is applied to the first switch through the third switch. Power consumption of the power supply circuit can be reduced.
US09331686B2	Method and apparatus for reducing power bouncing of integrated circuits A circuit is provided having a core circuit for sinking a first current from a first internal power supply node, a power bouncing reduction circuit for receiving power from a second internal power supply node and sourcing a second current to the first internal power supply node in accordance with a change of voltage at the first internal power supply node, and a package for coupling the first internal power supply node and the second internal power supply node to a first external power supply node and a second external power supply node, respectively. A corresponding method is also provided.
US09331684B2	Semiconductor device for sensing physical quantity A semiconductor device 3 for sensing a physical quantity adjusts the output characteristic of a pressure sensor, for example, based on trimming data stored in an EPROM 34. A comparator 311 compares an input voltage given to a terminal 43 and a predetermined reference voltage, and delivers a write control signal for EPROM 34. When the comparator 311 delivers a Low signal for the EPROM 34, a first gate circuit 312 provided between the terminal 43 and a temperature sensor 32 connects the terminal 43 and the temperature sensor 32. A second gate circuit 313 provided between the terminal 43 and a pull-down resistor 314 disconnects the terminal 43 and the pull-down resistor 314. The operational voltage of the temperature sensor 32 is lower than the reference voltage, and the terminal 43 is used as an output terminal for the temperature sensor 32.
US09331679B1	High-speed flying-cap level shifter A flying cap, level shifter has a capacitor with an upper plate connected to (i) a hybrid power supply (VDDH-VDDL) by an n-type transistor and (ii) a relatively high-voltage power supply VDDH by a p-type transistor. Both of the transistors are controlled by a voltage at the level shifter's output node, which is driven to either VDDH or ground. As such, one of the two transistors will always be on, such that the flying capacitor will be continuously recharged to a voltage difference that ensures that the level shifter will operate properly.
US09331678B2	Local oscillator signal generation A local oscillator signal generation circuit for a frequency divider circuit is disclosed. The local oscillator signal generation circuit includes a delay device adapted to delay a data signal according to a control signal, a data flip-flop having the delayed data signal provided to its data input terminal and a reference clocking signal provided to its clock input terminal and a control circuit adapted to generate first and second partially overlapping pulse windows from the delayed data signal and to generate a control signal based on the first and second partially overlapping pulse windows and the reference clocking signal. The control signal is provided to the delay device to control the amount by which the data signal is delayed so that the data signal is stable when it is sampled by the data flip-flop. A local oscillator signal is derived from the output of the data flip-flop.
US09331677B2	Oscillator with adjustable frequency A circuit may include a delay element, a voltage adjust line, and a controllable capacitance. The delay element may have a delay and may include an input and an output. The input may be coupled to the output. The voltage adjust line may be configured to provide an adjusting voltage to the delay element to adjust the delay of the delay element. The controllable capacitance may be coupled to the output of the delay element and may be configured such that a change of the controllable capacitance adjusts the delay of the delay element.
US09331675B2	Transmission drive circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit device Provided is a transmission drive circuit which can reduce distortions of a transmission signal and transmission noise, and is isolable from a signal line. A transmission drive circuit 700 includes a drive transistor 10 and an isolation diode 31 connected between a node n1 coupled to a signal line SL commonly used to propagate a transmission signal and a reception signal and a power source line HVP, and further includes an isolation diode 32 and a drive transistor 20 connected between the node n1 and a voltage line HVM. Furthermore, the transmission drive circuit 700 includes a switch 41 connected between a node n2 between the drive transistor 10 and the isolation diode 31, and a node n4 of a ground voltage Vs, and a switch 43 connected between a node n3 between the drive transistor 20 and the isolation diode 32, and a node n4. When the transmission signal is propagated through the signal line SL, the switches 41 and 43 are turned off by the clamp switch control circuit 200 such that bias current flows through the drive transistor 10, the isolation diode 31, the isolation diode 32 and the drive transistor 20.
US09331670B1	Gamma boosting unit (GBU) for hybrid load and source pull A hybrid load pull tuner system uses a combination of a passive and active tuner system. A closed loop system means that the system is independent of the available power of the device under test (DUT). The proposed hybrid system is formed around a closed loop Gamma Boosting Unit (GBU) consisting of two back to back broadband directional couplers, broadband variable time-delay, broadband variable phase-shifter and a broadband microwave amplifier, all inserted in the coupled path of the couplers; the GBU is connected in cascade with a passive tuner and boosts its reflection factor; for this the amplifier must have enough linear power and gain to match the difference between the power reflected back to the DUT by the passive tuner and the desired total reflected power to reach the expected Gamma, considering coupling loss and insertion loss of the test fixture.
US09331665B2	Tunable diplexers in three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits (IC) (3DIC) and related components and methods Tunable diplexers in three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits (IC) (3DIC) are disclosed. In one embodiment, the tunable diplexer may be formed by providing one of either a varactor or a variable inductor in the diplexer. The variable nature of the varactor or the variable inductor allows a notch in the diplexer to be tuned so as to select a band stop to eliminate harmonics at a desired frequency as well as control the cutoff frequency of the pass band. By stacking the elements of the diplexer into three dimensions, space is conserved and a variety of varactors and inductors are able to be used.
US09331662B2	Adaptive voltage divider with corrected frequency characteristic for measuring high voltages An adaptive voltage divider for measuring a high voltage between a ground terminal (GND) and a measurement terminal (U). It comprises a first branch comprising a first set of impedance elements (Z, R) forming a voltage divider circuit connected between the ground terminals (GND) and the measurement terminal (U) and a voltage meter (AD2) configured to measure voltage on one of the impedance elements (Z, R) of the first branch. Furthermore, it comprises a second branch comprising a second set of impedance elements (Q, P) connected between the ground terminal (GND) and the measurement terminal (U) and switchable between a plurality of configurations, wherein in at least one configuration the second set of impedance elements (Q, P) forms a voltage divider circuit, and voltage meters (AD1, AD3) configured to measure voltage on at least one of the impedance elements (Q, P) of the second branch. Moreover, a control circuit (DCSS) is configured to consecutively switch the configuration of the second branch between the plurality of configurations thereof, such that the relationships between the values of impedance elements (Z, R) of the first branch and the values of impedance elements (Q, P) of the second branch can be determined for consecutive configurations of the second branch as a function of the outputs of the voltage meters (AD1, AD2, AD3) and the total transmittance of the voltage divider can be determined at any instance as a function of the outputs of the voltage meters (AD1, AD2, AD3).
US09331661B2	IC EMI filter with ESD protection incorporating LC resonance tanks for rejection enhancement An integrated circuit (IC) electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection incorporating inductor-capacitor (LC) resonance tanks is disclosed. The filter comprises at least one circuit composed of a diode and an inductor connected in series, wherein the diode induces a parasitic capacitance and the circuit is grounded. When a number of the circuit is two, a passive element is coupled between the two inductors and cooperates with them to induce two parasitic capacitances connected with the circuits. When a number of the circuit is one, two diodes respectively connect with the inductor through two passive elements. Each diode can induce a parasitic capacitance. The two passive elements and the inductor can induce a parasitic capacitance connected with the circuit.
US09331652B2	Auto gain adjusting device and method thereof An auto gain adjusting device and method is disclosed. The auto gain adjusting device comprises a predistorter, a gain unit, a power amplifier, a receiving unit and a calculation unit. The predistorter generates a plurality of test signals in a calibration mode, wherein the powers between a current test signal and a previous test signal includes a first difference value. The gain unit provides a substantially constant gain value to the current test signal and the previous test signal to generate a current amplified test signal and a previous amplified test signal. The power amplifier amplifies the current amplified test signal and the previous amplified test signal to generate a first transmitting signal and a second transmitting signal. The receiving unit converts the first transmitting signal and the second transmitting signal into a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal respectively. The calculation unit calculates a second difference value between powers of the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal, and compares the second difference value with the first difference value to determine whether the substantially constant gain value causes the plurality of test signals to be operated in a linear region and a compression region of the power amplifier.
US09331649B2	Feature-based level control A computer-implemented method comprising: determining one or more features of a subject signal; revising one or more control signals on the basis of the one or more features; modifying a level of the subject signals based on the control signals. At least one of the features is determined by: comparing a given one of the subject signals against a boundary signal to produce a corresponding given boundary comparison signal; and summarizing the behavior of the given boundary comparison signal over a time interval.
US09331647B2	Low-voltage amplifier and method thereof An amplifier is provided having a first mixed-length MOS device set for receiving an input signal and outputting an output signal, and a first load for providing termination for the output signal, wherein the first mixed-length MOS device set comprises a parallel connection of a plurality of MOS devices having different channel lengths including at least a short channel length MOS device and a long channel length MOS device. In one configuration, a threshold voltage of the short channel length MOS device is greater than a threshold voltage of the long channel length MOS device. A related method is also provided.
US09331642B2	Monolithic transistor circuits with tapered feedback resistors, RF amplifier devices, and methods of manufacture thereof Embodiments of an integrated resistor may be incorporated into monolithic transistor circuits and packaged RF amplifier devices. An embodiment of an integrated resistor includes a semiconductor substrate and a resistor formed over the top surface of the semiconductor substrate from resistive material. The resistor includes at least first and second resistive sections. The first resistive section is tapered so that the first resistive section widens toward an input end of the resistor. The second resistive section is coupled in series with the first resistive section. According to a further embodiment, the second resistive section also is tapered so that the second resistive section widens toward an output end of the resistor. According to another further embodiment, a third resistive section with one or more meanders is coupled in series between the first and second resistive sections.
US09331640B2	Amplifier An amplifier includes: a package which includes a pair of edge portions; an input terminal which is provided in the edge portion; output terminals which are provided in the edge portion; a first-stage FET chip which includes an input port directly connected to the input terminal by a bonding wire; a first-stage terminal which is provided in the edge portion and is directly connected to an output port of the first-stage FET chip by a bonding wire; a second-stage terminal which is provided in the edge portion; a second-stage FET chip which includes an output port directly connected to output terminals and by a bonding wire; and an impedance matching capacitor element of which one electrode is connected to the second-stage terminal and the input port of the second-stage FET chip.
US09331639B2	Power amplification circuit and power amplification module It is possible to increase linearity in a power amplification circuit. A power amplification circuit includes a first amplification element which amplifies and outputs an input signal with a gain according to the level of the input signal and the level of a bias voltage, a second amplification element which has the same gain characteristic as the first amplification element and amplifies and outputs the input signal, and a variable bias voltage generation circuit which generates a bias voltage decreasing with an increase in level of an output signal of the second amplification element.
US09331638B2	Doherty power amplifier apparatus Disclosed is a Doherty power amplifier apparatus, including: a drive amplifier circuit, a power splitter circuit and a power combiner circuit, wherein the power splittercircuit is connected to the drive amplifier circuit, the apparatus further comprising: a carrier amplifier circuit and a peak amplifier circuit connected in parallel between the power splitter circuit and the power combiner circuit, wherein the carrier amplifier circuit comprises one or more parallel carrier amplification branches, wherein each carrier amplification branch comprises a multi-stage carrier amplifier apparatus, the multi-stage carrier amplifier apparatus is used for achieving multi-stage carrier amplification; and the peak amplifier circuit comprises one or more parallel peak amplification branches, wherein each peak amplification branch comprises a multi-stage peak amplifier apparatus, the multi-stage peak amplifier apparatus is used for achieving multi-stage peak amplification.
US09331630B2	Outside wall cladding element and an outside wall provided with such an outside wall cladding element Disclosed is an outside wall cladding element for cladding an outside wall (6). The outside wall cladding element includes a structure (1) of a panel-shaped material and fastening elements to be mounted on the outside wall, in which the panel-shaped material includes a zigzag or wave-shaped element (1), and is provided with a bottom side (4) and a top side (5), in which the bottom side and the top side of the zigzag-shaped element make an angle δ (delta) with one another which is in a range between 50 to 130 degrees, and in which a side (4) includes a light-absorbing layer and another side (5) includes a light-reflecting layer.
US09331628B2	Motor control circuit In some preferred embodiments, a motor control circuit 1 for controlling driving of a plurality of motors 3 and 4 includes a serial communication circuit configured to perform serial communication with an outside, a received data storage 15 configured to store data from the serial communication circuit, a motor mode setting holding circuit 16 configured to store motor mode settings which decide operations of the motors, and a detection circuit 24 configured to detect changes in driving pulse of the motor. Depending on the detected result of the detection circuit 24, the data stored in the received data storage 15 is transferred to the motor mode setting holding circuit 16.
US09331626B2	Generating heat in a movable barrier operator A movable barrier operator apparatus having a motor and a control system is disclosed. The motor is configured to couple to a movable barrier. The control system is configured to cause the motor to move the movable barrier by supplying power to the motor. The control system is further configured to selectively supply nonoperational power to the motor to generate heat without moving the movable barrier.
US09331625B2	Electronic device An electronic device for controlling and/or regulating a drive unit includes a memory configured to make available at least two at least partially different control parameter sets which are each usable to at least one of control and regulate one of at least two drive units. The electronic device further includes a control unit which is configured to select one of the at least two parameter sets of the memory unit as a function of at least one operating parameter of the drive unit.
US09331622B2	Method and control system for suppression of vibration A method for suppression of vibration includes: adjusting a center frequency of a band-pass filter, and subjecting a to-be-detected signal to processing by the band-pass filter to result in a bandpass-filtered signal; performing signal processing upon the bandpass-filtered signal to obtain a converted result; determining whether a scanning process is completed, and repeating the previous two steps when a result is negative to obtain plural converted results; determining a maximum value among the converted results, and determining the corresponding center frequency to serve as an interference frequency; and setting the interference frequency as an operating frequency of a notch filter.
US09331620B2	Electric motor control device and electric motor control method An electric motor control device that performs a voltage phase control includes a voltage generator configured to calculate a d-q axis voltage command value, a stabilization filter having first to fourth filters determined based on a transfer characteristic from an applied voltage to an output electric current and configured to remove resonance characteristics in the d-q axis electric current, and a voltage application unit configured to apply an AC voltage to the electric motor based on the final d-q-axis voltage command value. The stabilization filter is configured to generate the final d-axis voltage command value based on a result obtained by using the first and second filters for each of the d-axis and the q-axis voltage command values and generate the final q-axis voltage command value based on a result obtained by using the third and fourth filters for each of the d-axis and the q-axis voltage command values.
US09331617B2	Circuit and method for speed monitoring of an electric motor A method for determining a phase angle between voltage applied to a winding of the electric motor and an electric current flowing through the winding may include receiving a signal from the electric motor, including a value of a voltage applied to a winding of the electric motor. The method may also include determining a value of an electric current flowing through the winding and determining a phase angle between the voltage applied to the winding and the electric current flowing through the winding. The method may also include determining a speed or a stall state of the electric motor.
US09331611B2	Method for controlling synchronous switch change in medium voltage inverter A method for controlling synchronous switching in a medium voltage inverter is disclosed. The method includes lighting on a first lamp to notify that a switching operation is ready by ascertaining that the medium voltage inverter is in a normal operation, lighting on a second lamp to notify that a switching operation is under way when receiving an input of switching action, and lighting on a third lamp to notify that the switching operation is completed when the switching action is completed.
US09331608B2	Actuator control circuit An actuator comprising a single actuator housing containing within it a motor, a controller, a memory, and a position sensor having an output, a user interface for causing a first threshold value to be stored in the memory, and the controller configured and arranged to stop the motor as a function of the position sensor output and the first threshold value.
US09331607B1	Large strain transparent magneto-active polymer nanocomposites A large strain polymer nanocomposite actuator is provided that upon subjected to an external stimulus, such as a magnetic field (static or electromagnetic field), an electric field, thermal energy, light, etc., will deform to thereby enable mechanical manipulations of structural components in a remote and wireless manner.
US09331600B2	Electronic power circuit, electric motor, and procedure for checking the operability of an electronic power circuit An electronic power circuit, electrical machine and a method for verifying the functionality of an electronic power circuit. The invention relates to an electronic power circuit, an electrical machine with the electronic power circuit and a method for verifying the functionality of the electronic power circuit. The electronic power circuit comprises a power unit with at least one power semi-conductor switch, which is equipped to generate a pulsed electrical voltage for an electrical consumer from an electrical voltage on the basis of an alternating powering on and off of the at least one power semiconductor switch, and control electronics equipped to control the power semiconductor switch for the alternating powering on and off.
US09331594B2	Conversion system for converting direct current into alternating current A method and apparatus for converting direct current into alternating current. An initial voltage level of an input voltage source is changed using a dual converter to form a plurality of voltage sources. Each of the plurality of voltage sources has voltage levels different from the initial voltage level. An inverter is supplied direct current from the plurality of voltage sources formed by the dual converter. The direct current is converted into a number of alternating currents using the inverter.
US09331592B2	Topology detection Driver circuits comprise power converters detecting automatically a topology used by the driver circuits. A controller controls a plurality of different types of power converters in accordance to a corresponding plurality of different operation modes. The controller comprises a measurement pin coupled to a first topology resistor of a first power converter of a type from the plurality of different types. The different types of power converters comprise topology resistors of corresponding different resistor values. The controller senses a voltage at the measurement pin wherein the voltage at the measurement pin is indicative of a voltage drop at the first topology resistor. Furthermore, the controller determines a type of the first power converter based on the sensed voltage, and selects an operation mode for controlling the first power converter.
US09331586B2	Sampling for dimmer edge detection in power converter A controller and a method for controlling a power converter includes a sample block coupled to generate a first, second, and third sample by sampling an input sense signal that is representative of an input voltage of the power converter. An enable signal is asserted when a first difference between the first sample and the second sample exceeds a first threshold. An edge signal is asserted when both the enable signal is asserted and a second difference between the first sample and the third sample exceeds a second threshold. A drive circuit is coupled to output a drive signal in response to the edge signal. The drive signal is for controlling a switch coupled to regulate an output of the power converter.
US09331583B2	Switch mode power supply, control circuit and associated control method A switch mode power supply having an output terminal configured to provide an output voltage, the switch mode power supply has a first switch and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to provide a switching control signal to control the first switch. The control circuit is configured to provide the switching control signal based on a first pulse signal having a first frequency and a second frequency for a light load condition, and the control circuit is configured to provide the switching control signal based on a second pulse signal for a non-light load condition.
US09331580B2	Switching power supply system and control circuit of the switching power supply system A switching power supply system includes a transformer having a primary winding, a secondary winding and a tertiary winding, a switching device inputted to the primary winding carrying out switching operation on the basis of a first control signal or a second control signal, an output voltage producing section rectifying and smoothing a voltage generated in the secondary winding to produce an output voltage, an output voltage detecting section producing an output voltage detection signal based on a voltage generated in the tertiary winding, a checking pulse generator generating pulses of the first control signal, and a switching controlling section producing the second control signal on the basis of the output voltage detection signal. The switching power supply system is capable of carrying out stable control of the output voltage on the secondary winding side of the transformer with a low power loss.
US09331578B2	Multi-phase buck DC converter A multi-phase buck DC converter comprise a plurality of storage inductors, a plurality of low-side switches, a first input capacitor, a second input capacitor, a plurality of high-side switches and at least one clamping capacitor. The storage inductors are used to drive a load. The low-side switches are connected to the storage inductors; respectively. The second input capacitor is connected to the first input capacitor in series. The contact of the first input capacitor and the second input capacitor is connected to one storage inductor. A part of the high-side switches are connected in series. One end of each clamping capacitor is connected to any two high-side switches connected in series and the other end is connected to the storage inductors.
US09331575B2	Phase adjustment circuit of power converter, power converter, and control method thereof A phase adjustment circuit of a power converter, the power converter, and a control method of the power converter are provided. The control method includes following steps. A delay signal is generated according to an error signal, and the error signal is associated with an output voltage of the power converter. A difference between the error signal and the delay signal is amplified. A control signal is provided according to the amplified difference and the error signal, and a phase of the control signal leads a phase of the error signal. The control signal serves to improve a response speed of the power converter.
US09331562B2	Power factor converter with nonlinear conversion ratio The present invention provides a power-factor converter with nonlinear conversion ratio, wherein the power-factor converter includes a first inductor, a second inductor, a rectifier circuit and a switch circuit. The switch circuit is arranged to be switched to form a circuit equivalent to a parallel connection of the first inductor and the second inductor during an inductor-charging-phase for charging the first inductor and the second inductor in parallel by an AC power source, and form a circuit equivalent to a series connection of the first inductor L1 and the second inductor L2 during an inductor-discharging-phase for discharging the first inductor and the second inductor to the rectifier circuit in series.
US09331557B2	Cleavage method, rotor manufacturing method, and cleavage apparatus A method for cleaving a plate-shaped workpiece formed with two or more linear recesses into three or more parts includes: a first positioning step of holding the workpiece by a positioning unit in place to position a first linear recess; a first clamping step of clamping one side of the first linear recess by a fixing clamp and the other side by a rotating clamp; a first cleaving step of moving back the positioning unit and rotationally separating the rotating clamp; a second positioning step of releasing the clamps and causing the positioning unit to position a second linear recess; a second clamping step of clamping one side of the second linear recess by the fixing clamp and the other side by the rotating clamp, and a second cleaving step of moving back the positioning unit and rotationally separating the rotating clamp.
US09331549B2	Thin-walled housing having force transmission elements that guide cooling fluid A double-walled cooling housing (1) for an electrical machine (13). The cooling housing (1) comprises an inner housing (3), an outer housing (5) and a force transmission element (7). The outer housing (5) surrounds the inner housing (3). The force transmission element (7) is arranged between the inner housing (3) and the outer housing (5) and the force transmission element transmits forces that act on the inner housing (3) to the outer housing (5). Moreover, the force transmission element (7) guides cooling fluid between the inner housing (3) and the outer housing (5).
US09331545B2	Rotation apparatus including motor and speed reducer In a rotation apparatus including a motor and a speed reducer, the speed reducer includes a casing, an internal gear integrated with the casing, a planetary gear internally engaged with the internal gear, and a carrier body arranged in an axial side portion of the planetary gear, the motor and the speed reducer are connected with each other via an adapter, the adapter includes a motor-fixed surface fixed to the motor, a carrier-fixed surface fixed to the carrier body, and an externally fixed surface that is not parallel with the carrier-fixed surface and is fixed to an external member, a driven member is connected to the casing, the driven member, the speed reducer, and the externally fixed surface are overlapped with each other when viewed from a radial direction, and the driven member is rotated within a range of 180 degrees.
US09331542B2	Electric motor The electric motor is the electric motor that includes a shaft part that rotates around a rotation shaft and a casing that accommodates at least part of the shaft part. A through hole is formed in the casing at a position that overlaps with the rotation shaft. A set screw is screwed into the through hole so as to close the through hole. An O-ring is interposed between the casing and the set screw so as to suppress intrusion of water and dust into the casing.
US09331540B2	End winding corona protection An end winding corona protection including a winding of a rotating electric machine, having a conductor and a groundwall insulation surrounding the conductor, an end winding corona protection arranged on the outer surface of the groundwall insulation, the end winding corona protection comprising a first layer characterized in that the surface resistance of the first layer is in the range of 10 Ohm to 80 Ohm, and in that the end winding corona protection further comprises a second layer arranged on the outer surface of the first layer, wherein the second layer is made of semiconductive material, and wherein third layer is arranged on the outer surface of the second layer and made of medium resistive material.
US09331539B2	Motor power distribution apparatus A motor power distribution apparatus includes first insulating holders and second insulating holders. The first insulating holders are disposed to retain every other one of a plurality of stacked power distribution members that are unified by insert molding. The second insulating holders are disposed to retain power distribution members other than the power distribution members retained by the first insulating holders.
US09331537B2	Motor and washing machine having the same A washing machine with a motor having a structure with improved performance. The washing machine includes a body, a tub disposed in the body, a drum rotatably disposed in the tub, and a motor including a stator coupled to a rear surface of the tub and a rotor rotatably disposed inside the stator. The stator includes a stator core including a core body and a plurality of core teeth extending inward from an inner circumferential surface of the core body in a radial direction of the core body, a first insulator and a second insulator covering both ends of the core body and the core teeth, a coil wound around the core teeth, and a plurality of insulation films disposed between the first insulator and the second insulator to electrically insulate the stator core and the coil.
US09331535B1	Radial flux alternator An energy conversion system includes rotor, stator and shell components configurations for increasing power efficiency and improving replacement and repair efficiency. The system harvests environmental energy for lower power generation and accounts for non-mechanical sources of rotational resistance within the generator.
US09331534B2	Modular micro wind turbine An improved magnetic generator has been developed that is particularly suitable for creating modular micro wind turbines, although other power generation applications are contemplated. The generator utilizes a series of rotors with axially aligned magnets on each side of the rotor face. As a drive shaft rotates the rotors in proximity to stators, a magnetic flux and electricity is generated. In certain embodiments, the rotors utilize magnet pockets to stabilize the magnets. In the preferred embodiments, layers of magnets are placed in each magnet pocket to achieve magnetic amplification by having multiple magnets, and their respective fluxes, influence the stators.
US09331527B2	System and method for transferring electric energy to a vehicle using segments of a conductor arrangement which can be operated independently A system and method for transferring electric energy to a vehicle includes at least one electric conductor arrangement for producing an alternating electromagnetic field and for transferring electromagnetic energy to the vehicle. The conductor arrangement includes a plurality of segments, each extending along a section of the path of travel of the vehicle and including one line for each phase of alternating current carried by the segment to produce the electromagnetic field. A plurality of source units connected in parallel provide the alternating current to the segment and a current supply conducts electrical energy to the plurality of source units. At least a first source unit is connectable to each segment of a first set of at least two segments of the at least one conductor arrangement. Each neighboring segment of the first set of segments is exclusively connectable to another source unit.
US09331524B1	Method, system and apparatus for monitoring and measuring power usage A system and method for remotely monitoring, measuring and controlling power to furniture having an electrically powered feature is disclosed herein. The furniture is preferably modular furniture (such as a cubicle) and the electrically powered feature is at least one of lighting or a power outlet. Alternatively, the furniture is a lectern and the electrically powered feature is at least one of lighting or a power outlet. Alternatively, the furniture is a charging cart and the electrically powered feature is at least one of lighting or a power outlet.
US09331519B2	Protecting device for electronic device A protecting device for an electronic device is provided. The protecting device includes a casing, an energy storage element, and a second accommodating part. The casing has a first accommodating part for accommodating the electronic device. The second accommodating part is disposed in the casing for accommodating a peripheral component. The energy storage element is disposed within the casing, and electrically connected with the first accommodating part and the second accommodating part. When the electronic device is accommodated within the first accommodating part, electric power is transmitted from the energy storage element to the electronic device. When the peripheral component is accommodated within the second accommodating part, electric power is transmitted from the energy storage element to the peripheral component.
US09331514B2	Charging apparatus A charging apparatus is provided, and relatively high charging efficiency is still maintained when a charging current changes. The charging apparatus includes: a voltage regulator; a charging power tube, where a source electrode of the charging power tube is connected to an output end of the voltage regulator and a drain electrode of the charging power tube is connected to a positive electrode of a battery, and the charging power tube is configured to generate a charging current; a charging controller, where an output end of the charging controller is connected to a gate electrode of the charging power tube, and the charging controller is configured to control the charging power tube to adjust the charging current; and a reference voltage module, configured to obtain the charging current and a battery voltage and output a reference voltage.
US09331513B2	Adaptive surface concentration battery charging Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that adaptively charges a battery, wherein the battery is a lithium-ion battery which includes a transport-limiting electrode, an electrolyte separator and a non-transport-limiting electrode. To charge the battery, the system first determines a lithium surface concentration at an interface between the transport-limiting electrode and the electrolyte separator. Next, the system uses the determined lithium surface concentration to control a charging process for the battery so that the charging process maintains the lithium surface concentration within set limits.
US09331512B2	Power control device and power control method for measuring open-circuit voltage of battery A power control device includes a relay switch, a controller, a sensor and a battery controller. The relay switch is configured to turn electricity on and off between a battery for supplying a load with electric power and the load. The controller predicts load power characteristics indicating characteristics of power consumed by the load over time, and predicts, based on the predicted load power characteristics, charge/discharge power characteristics indicating characteristics of charge/discharge power of the battery over time. The sensor detects voltage between the terminals of the battery. The controller specify a voltage detection period from the charge/discharge power characteristics that was predicted, over which the charge/discharge power of the battery is equal to or less than a prescribed power over a prescribed period. The battery controller turns off the relay switch and detects the voltage between the battery terminals during the voltage detection period.
US09331511B2	Method for controlling an energy storage system A method for controlling an energy storage system. The same battery system shall support multiple services at the same time. During a planning phase, the multiple services to be provided are determined, based on the market situation and the capabilities of the energy storage system, and prioritized according to predefined criteria. During an operation phase, the power and energy status of the energy storage system is periodically monitored, and compared against the power and energy demands of the multiple services, in order to determine whether at each time instance, the multiple services can indeed be supported at the same time. In case power and/or energy limits are exceeded by the multiple services, at least one service is interrupted to allow the operation of the energy storage system to be within power/energy limits again. The interrupted service(s) is resumed when the power/energy limits are met.
US09331509B2	Charger system, digital interface circuit and associated control method A charger system with a digital interface circuit, wherein the digital interface circuit has an N-bit control register, wherein N is a positive integer no less than 2, and wherein the N-bit register has a primary state machine, at a first portion of addresses of the control register, configured to instruct operation statuses of a system management bus host; and a secondary state machine, at a second portion of addresses of the control register, configured to instruct a data bit of transmission of a corresponding control instruction under each of the operation statuses of the system management bus host.
US09331508B2	Electronic device capable of testing USB cable and method for testing USB cable The present disclosure provides a method for testing a USB cable applied in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a battery charged by a charger via the USB cable. The method can include determining at least two different values of charging currents. The method can further include generating a first control signal according to the determined values of charging currents. Sending the first control signal to the charger via the USB cable, to inform the charger to respectively charge the battery by charging currents with the determined values. Detecting values of at least two voltages output to the battery. Comparing a calculated variation degree between the detected values of voltages with a preset variation degree. Generating a first type of message according to a compared result between the calculated variation degree and the preset variation degree.
US09331502B2	Charge/discharge instruction apparatus, charge/discharge system, charge/discharge management method and computer readable medium According to one embodiment, there is provided a charge/discharge instruction apparatus including: a communicating unit, a communication frequency deciding unit, an information collecting unit and a charge/discharge managing unit. The communicating unit communicates with a battery storage system. The communication frequency deciding unit decides a collection frequency of Information related to the battery storage system according to a state of the battery storage system. The information collecting unit collects the information from the battery storage system at the collection frequency decided in the communication frequency deciding unit. The charge/discharge managing unit controls at least one of charge and discharge of the battery storage system based on the information collected in the information collecting unit.
US09331500B2	Method for balancing ultracapacitor cells A method (200) of balancing ultracapacitor cells (102) is provided. The method may measure individual ultracapacitor cell voltages, select a balancing setpoint voltage, compare an actual voltage variation within each ultracapacitor cell (102) with a voltage variation threshold, and enable a balancing element (104) associated with the ultracapacitor cell (102) if the actual voltage variation exceeds the voltage variation threshold.
US09331494B2	Battery system A battery system includes a battery panel which includes a battery pack including a plurality of secondary battery cells, and a battery management unit to monitor at least one of a voltage, a temperature and a degradation level of the secondary battery cell; and a DC/DC conversion device. The DC/DC conversion device includes an interactive DC/DC converter which converts power discharged from the battery pack into a prescribed voltage to output converted power, and converts power supplied from outside into a prescribed voltage to output converted power; a control unit which controls the interactive DC/DC converter; a communication unit which communicates with the battery management unit and the control unit; a control source unit; and a battery connected to a power supply line of the control source unit through a switch.
US09331488B2	Enclosure and message system of smart and scalable power inverters An enclosure design is disclosed to accommodate and support the unique features and capabilities of the Smart and Scalable Power Inverters or Mini-Inverters that have multiple input channels to easily connect to multiple solar PV panels, invert the DC power to AC power, and daisy chain together to generate AC power to feed the power grid or supply power to electrical devices. Further disclosed is a message system using LEDs (light-emitting diodes) mounted on the enclosure to indicate the system status and the status of each input channel of the Smart and Scalable Mini-Inverters.
US09331482B2	Static synchronous compensator systems and related methods Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) systems and methods are disclosed. An example STATCOM system includes a reactive component configured for electrical connection to a power network. For example, the reactive component may be a capacitor bank. The system also includes an inductor electrically connected in series with the reactive component. Further, the system includes a converter electrically connected in series with the reactive component and the inductor. A method may include using the static synchronous compensator system to provide one of reactive power and active power to the power network.
US09331481B2	Systems and methods for power transmission with cable segment failover support A power transmission system is provided. The power transmission system includes at least one power substation for receiving power from a power source, and a Direct Current (DC) cable for transferring the power from the power source to the power substation. The DC cable includes a plurality of segments individually or in combination forming a path to route the power to the power substation. The system further includes at least one segment switch unit electrically coupled to each segment. At least one of the segment switch units includes a shorting switch element for providing a short circuit path to prevent the power from the power source to be routed to a respective segment in response to a shorting command, and a disconnect switch element for disconnecting the respective segment in response to a disconnect command.
US09331477B2	Power circuitry for a synthetic jet of a cooling system A cooling system includes a synthetic jet having a first synthetic jet lead and a second synthetic jet lead. The cooling system also includes a capacitor having a first capacitor lead and a second capacitor lead. The first capacitor lead is coupled to the first synthetic jet lead. The synthetic jet is configured to be powered via an alternating current (AC) power source coupled to the second capacitor lead and to the second synthetic jet lead.
US09331476B2	Solid state fault current limiter A solid-state fault current limiter including a current splitting reactor, comprising a system current input, a passive current output and a control current output. A voltage control reactor includes a first end and a second end, the first end coupled to the control current output and the second end coupled to the passive current output. A fault current trigger circuit coupled in parallel with the voltage control reactor and configured to open when a fault current, received by the system current input, exceeds a predefined trigger current. A transient voltage control circuit coupled in parallel with the voltage control reactor to receive the fault current.
US09331472B2	ESD protection circuit An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is provided. The ESD protection circuit includes an impedance device coupled between a pad and a power line and a clamp unit coupled between the pad and a ground line, wherein no ESD current flows through the impedance device when an ESD event occurs at the pad.
US09331465B2	Aerial marker assemblies, components and related methods Aerial markers are disclosed for hanging on overhead support cables at discrete spaced apart distances to warn passersby, such as airplanes, helicopters, hang gliders, hot air balloons, and the like of the presence of the cables. The aerial markers can be made in multiple parts, having various parting lines, including a vertical parting line, and can be hung in a spaced relationship to the support cables. To space the marker body from the support wire, a support frame is used to enable hanging the marker body via one or more external clamps. Direct connection is also possible.
US09331463B2	Wire fixture A wire fixture for fixing an electric wire in a wire mounting hole formed in a panel includes: a fixing member to be wound and fixed around the electric wire; a first cable bushing including a first main body portion to be attached to the electric wire from one side in a radial direction; and a second cable bushing including a second main body portion to be attached to the electric wire from the other side in the radial direction. The first and second cable bushings each include a locking member that extends in one direction from each of the first and second main body portions in a longitudinal direction of the electric wire to lock the fixing member.
US09331460B2	Exterior protection tube for electric wire An electric wire sheathing protection tube is formed from an insulation resin into a tubular shape, accommodates an electric wire in an interior thereof and is fixed to a predetermined position by a fixing member. Bendable portions which constitute bendable sections and non-bendable straight tube portions which constitute sections which are held into a straight tube shape are provided continuously and alternately along a longitudinal direction of the electric wire sheathing protection tube. A fixed attaching portion to which the fixing member is fixedly attached is provided integrally on at least one section in the non-bendable straight tube portions. A slidable attaching portion to which the fixing member is attached so as to slide in the longitudinal direction is provided integrally on at least one section in the non-bendable straight tube portions.
US09331455B1	Frequency locked diode laser devices exhibiting low power penalty A laser diode apparatus including a diode laser, optics efficiently collimate the diode laser beam, and a narrow band reflector to provide optical feedback for wavelength stabilization of the diode laser in an extended cavity configuration. The extended cavity laser diode assembly has a low reflectivity coating applied to the front facet, and a narrow-band reflectivity engineered to optimize the output power from the diode laser, leading to power penalty-free operation of the extended cavity laser diode assembly as compared to a free-running diode laser. The extended cavity laser diode assembly can equally applied to a plurality of laser diodes, with either a single or a plurality of optical feedback devices forming the extended cavity configuration.

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